We Know its Hot. Thank You

I'm not sure how they did it, but somehow Karl Rove and Valerie Plane are off the front page. Not even I buy the Chris Rock explanation this time:

"...Bush took those kids over to Michael Jackson's house, Bush killed Lacy Peterson..."

With all the resources at their disposal I don't think the administration made it hot.

But come on, it's summer and its hot. Not exactly breaking news. Another comic nailed this one:

"Let's go to the map. Lets go to the map? Let's go to the window!"

Thanks Richard Jeni. We all ought to take that advice, get our weather coverage from the window, or if there's something really weird happening from say, oh, The Weather Channel. The news people have dropped some fairly important stuff to tell us its hot.

We know it's hot. Thank You. Moving on...

Perhaps to do my part to remind everyone about what Air America is calling "TraitorGate." I just love how lazy we are and whenever there's a scandal we just add "-gate" to it. I wonder what they called scandals before Watergate? Or is it possible that back then it was just the "Water" hotel and the scandal got named Watergate because of something that had happened before?

Back to TraitorGate. The other day your friend and mine Mr. Limbaugh had posited that the current scandal wasn't when the cover was broken, but rather Ms. Wilson had done it herself when she made a donation to Al Gore's presidential campaign years before.

What a load of crap. Are there people that actually believe this sort of thing?

As someone working a cover for an front company that was in oil consulting it made perfect sense for a political donation to be made. It actually would have looked stranger had there not been a donation made. I don't know all the details here, we've heard about the Democratic donation, but I wouldn't be surprised to find there was also a Republican donation. Companies & Lobbyists often donate to both sides because its not about helping one or the other win as much as it is about insuring access to the winner.

When making that donation it was absolutely proper for her to list her cover employer. What was she supposed to put down, "CIA?" People backtracking the money trail would find that a petroleum consultant who works for a consulting company made a political donation. Not really even newsworthy.

It doesn't become a problem until someone spills the beans that the consultant is in fact a CIA agent.

Anyone that tries to spin it any other way is just full of it.