Bonus Peretz Blogging

Proclaims that it's "hard to believe" that Valerie and Joe Wilson "lived an undercover life" since, I guess, magazine editors are better-positioned than the CIA to know who is and is not a covert CIA asset. Also suggests that Scooter Libby should be allowed to get away with breaking the law because he believes Alberto Gonzalez was too soft on Sandy Berger.

Comments

I blame Peretz for the TB guy's insanity.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | June 7, 2007 9:52 AM

Has Peretz been listening to Sean Hannity's radio show, or do they just think alike?

Posted by K | June 7, 2007 10:04 AM

K,
If Peretz is a Dem, he's of the HoJo(Lieberman) variety. I'll leave it to MY to bust his stones further.

Posted by Joe Klein's conscience | June 7, 2007 10:42 AM

serious question: what percentage of spine visitors do you think come directly from this blog? does anyone ever quote peretz for any reason other than to call him out on his bullshit?

Posted by cyates | June 7, 2007 10:52 AM

> what percentage of spine visitors do you think
> come directly from this blog?

Know anyone in the TNR IT department?

Posted by goethean | June 7, 2007 10:55 AM

I don't care.

Posted by norbizness | June 7, 2007 11:03 AM

Another one for the category "careers less prestigious than using your wife's money to buy a magazine", btw:

[Joe Wilson, former ambassador to Gabon (pop. 1.7 million) and Sao Tome/Principe (pop. less than one tenth of Gabon), the second being two islands off western Equatorial Africa]

leaving out the small matter of his having been deputy chief of mission in Congo-Brazzaville and in Iraq.

Posted by dsquared | June 7, 2007 11:12 AM

Not to pile on, but -- oh, fuck it, let's go ahead and pile on -- there's this weird little gem: "Libby's case will now go to an appellate court where perhaps the sitting judges will finally examine whether US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald brought malice to the grand jury that he convened to look into the earthshaking matter of who outed Valerie."

Yeah, 'cuz we all know the appeal will circle around how Fitz "brings the malice" (along with 'da noise and 'da funk). Just to let you in on a little secret, appeals court, he keeps it in his briefcase next to his fountain pen.

Seriously, it's like Peretz tries to write *exclusively* about subjects on which he is completely ignorant.

Posted by jw | June 7, 2007 11:51 AM

1) Marti's upset with Joe Wilson because it was Joe Wilson who stuck out his foot and sent the Neocons tumbling down the stairs on their asses.
The discussion about the lies that got us into Iraq started with Joe.

2) What's really hilarious is that Omniscient Marti doesn't realize that:

a) In 2003, Joe Wilson worked at a place called Rock Creek Corporation
b) President of Rock Creek Corporation was a man named Elias Aburdene
c) Back in 1997, Elias Aburdene was Executive Vice Chairman of the National Association of Arab Americans
d) In the early 1990s, Elias also spent several years at the Palmer Bank. Yes, that Palmer Bank.
The CIA proprietary used by Ollie North for Iran Contra.

3) In other words, spook Elias Aburdene bounced a big rock off Peretz's head and Peretz thinks it was an accident. Hee hee hee

I wonder if Elias knows Mrs Peretz? Intimately, I mean.

4) Marti might also try Googling ""Mohammed Alamoudi" and "Rock Creek Corp".

Ha ha ha ha ha

Posted by Don Williams | June 7, 2007 12:20 PM

Everything said about Peretz's cavil showing him to be a dumbass is fair, but what about repeating the lie that Valerie Plame arranged for her husband's trip!

Posted by david b. | June 7, 2007 1:25 PM

it's hard to pick a perfect example of the right-wing's desire to invent reality, but certainly the continued belief that valerie plame wasn't undercover is a leading contender....

some of this arises from the fact that these brilliant bozos don't seem to have a clue what "under cover" means: they seem to think it means that no one knows you exist....

Posted by howard | June 7, 2007 2:01 PM

Gee, thanks for the bonus, Matt.

Buy one, get one free curbies next?

Posted by witless chum | June 7, 2007 3:19 PM

Nothing so gratifying as a righteous cornholing.

Posted by tiny tim | June 7, 2007 7:52 PM

As ive said before, it doesnt matter what the CIA says plame was. If the test of legal protection was just the CIA's say so it is obvious that the CIA would use such a provision to shield itself from all media scrutiny. The CIA has to prove it was actively trying to conceal plames identity. That the CIA immediately confirmed her employment in response to novak's query demonstrates pretty clearly that they were doing no such thing.

Posted by pimp hand strikes! | June 8, 2007 6:47 AM