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BHDC 'Valerie Plame' File:

Friday October 26th, 2007 1:31 AM by BHDC Staff  
Filed under: Journalism, Scandals, Celebrities, Movies, Valerie Plame, Judith Miller

And its reporting, we hear, will be just as solid as that of the Washington Times. We kid, of course, since the Washington Capital Sun is a completely imaginary paper dreamed up by the creators of a new movie based on the outing of Valerie Plame and the wacky world of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. But that’s not the only trickery doing down! “[W]hile the real Judith Miller may be remembered as a stylish, slightly scary reporter of 59, headed off to jail in a quilted black jacket and tortoise-frame sunglasses, in the movie she is a sizzling Kate Beckinsale, 34, dressed in a, shall we say, form-fitting skirt,” reports WaPo. Miller has got to be flattered by that casting. Meanwhile, the editor of the Capital Sun is none other than Angela Bassett, most famous for her star turn as Tina Turner. Another bit of Hollywood magic, indeed, since diversity in real Washington newsrooms, especially at the top, is lean at best. As Anne Schroeder might say, “Not sayin’, just sayin’.”

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Wednesday October 24th, 2007 12:12 PM by BHDC Staff  
Filed under: Internet, Arianna Huffington, Valerie Plame

Sure, Valerie Plame can afford to blog for free at Huffington Post, but is potential exposure enough of a reason for most people to contribute to the site without pay? Arianna Huffington, is, after all, rich, and it’s suspected that the site is putting plenty more dimes in her pockets. Not that we think Candy Spelling deserves any extra bucks, but still.

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Thursday August 23rd, 2007 1:04 AM by BHDC Staff  
Filed under: Internet, Valerie Plame

It was explained on Wikipedia, that’s how. TNR’s Douglas Wokl has the full spread:

valerie_plame.JPGGraceful writing takes a distant second place to neutrality. The language of the “Plame affair” article, like a lot of Wikipedia, is flatly declarative, not particularly quotable and occasionally afflicted with wobbly construction. (A typical sentence: “It is the only indictment brought by the grand jury, and Fitzgerald has stated that he does not expect to be indicting anyone else, citing repeatedly Libby’s obstruction of justice as a main impediment to finding out what happened in investigating the leak of Valerie Wilson’s classified, covert CIA identity.” ) And so the entry is an obstacle course of little infelicities and colorless clots of subclauses, from the first paragraph’s factual but pace-dragging citation of Joe Wilson’s memoir The Politics of Truth to the concluding section, headlined “Other perspectives on the CIA leak scandal,” which reads (following a link to “Alternate theories regarding the CIA leak scandal” ) in its entirety: “Since the CIA leak scandal became public knowledge, commentators began presenting multiple and often highly-contested perspectives on it in various media.” You don’t say.

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Tuesday March 6th, 2007 8:15 PM by Big Head Rob  
Filed under: Law, Keith Olbermann, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, White House, Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, Joe Wilson

So said Joe Wilson in an exclusive interview on Keith Olbermann tonight regarding the noon hour Scooter Libby verdict. He said that he was in a restaurant in DC today when his wife, former covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, called him to tell him the news.

He added that he hopes that President will keep his word to fire anyone in the White House who was involved in the leak. Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, as a result of testimony presented during the trial, are known to have been involved.

“I would have appreciated the President showing some sadness for [Valerie],” Wilson said, noting that President Bush expressed such sentiments for Libby today. “We’re hoping that Valerie will be able to get her book out…but we may have to litigate that. She has a right to tell her story.”

Olbermann will interview Plame in NYC on March 17.

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Friday March 2nd, 2007 9:09 AM by Big Head Rob  
Filed under: Law, Keith Olbermann, Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby

There might even be a Scooter Libby verdict by the time this happens

Outed CIA operative Valerie Plame is coming in from the cold to speak with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on March 17, according to an announcement e-mailed to supporters of event sponsors People For the American Way. Plame, however, won’t be bumping Richard Lewis’s usual one-on-one shtick with Olbermann on Countdown, and she certainly isn’t filling Michael Musto’s regular slot. A select group of NPR tote baggers will get to see Olbermann and Plame face off live at Manhattan’s Tishman Auditorium.

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