Meddlesome Prick
In a sign of his growing madness, Joe Wilson compared himself earlier this evening to Thomas à Becket, suggesting to the comparably self-important loon Keith Olbermann that he had been targeted for character assassination by the modern-day King Henry II, Dick Cheney.
And how does St. Joe know this? Because Cheney had written a note in the margin of Wilson’s notorious NYT op-ed piece, asking whether Wilson’s wife had sent the former ambassador on a “junket” when he went to investigate the Nigerien yellowcake connection to Iraq. (A subject Plame herself had characterized as “crazy” —that is, nothing worth sending an actual intelligence officer to look into, anyway.)
This, of course, is one of the many places where Mr. Restore Honesty’s pretzel-logic breaks down: why was Cheney’s question tantamount to assassinating his character? And what does that have to do with his wife? Are we really supposed to believe that the Vice President of the United States decided the most effective way of rebutting or even punishing this miserable wanker was to deliberately expose the said wanker’s wife’s professional identity?
It doesn’t even rise to the level of convolution. It’s just a heap of crapola.
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome prick?
