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Nov. 3, 2005
/ 1 Mar-Cheshvan, 5766
There's something eminently jestworthy about the Dems' wild indignation in wake of Libby indictment
By
Bob Tyrrell
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Historians eventually come to the rescue of truth.
Unfortunately they take their own sweet time. They pore over documents. They
interview the culprits. By the time they unveil their findings all the liars
are crepes suzettes for the worms, and the aggrieved are passé too.
With the indictment of the Vice President's chief of staff, L.
"Scooter" Libby, after a two-year investigation by Special Prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald, one would think calm might befall this great city as the
courts take over and the pols return to finish off a war, defend the
homeland from terrorists, and perhaps reform the tax code. Au
contraire , instead all hell broke loose, at least among the
Democratic leadership the rest of the country seems unconcerned.
Fitzgerald's indictment is contained to one man, Libby. He allegedly
unmasked to the press a covert CIA agent, who in recent years worked in
suburban northern Virginia. Then Libby allegedly lied about it under oath.
The Democratic leadership apparently believes the pretty female agent could
have been assassinated, presumably while shopping among the foreign agents
in nearby cosmopolitan Tysons Corner or right there in the produce section
at the Safeway, bashed by a coconut-hurling assassin.
Okay, okay, so I jest. Yet there is something eminently
jestworthy about the Democrats' wild indignation in the wake of this
indictment. Their leading blunderbuss, Senator Harry Reid, insists that the
suave President George W. Bush apologize. Said Reid, "He should apologize,
the Vice President should apologize. They should come clean with the
American people."
Oh yes, and the president's chief adviser, Karl Rove, who is
apparently innocent of any crime, should resign or be fired, Reid believes.
Perhaps the Democratic leadership would be kind enough to suggest a
replacement. How about John Podesta, President Bill Clinton's last chief of
staff? Podesta has had plenty of experience with scandals. Though there is a
difference between the scandals of Clinton and the scandal of Bush, namely,
Clinton's involved his willfully perpetrating a wide range of wrongdoing
from campaign finance violations, to abuse of power, to coitus
non-interruptus while in the office. Bush's scandal involves the
Kultursmog's criminalization of politics. An anti-Bush
adventurer, Joseph Wilson IV, smeared the administration's war effort with a
mélange of lies, half-truths and canards, provoking some White House aides
to "smear" Wilson, that is to say, to identify him accurately as a
politically-motivated antagonist.
The issue, say the Democrats, is this administration's
shockingly low "ethical standards." Well in light of the Democrats'
complicity in the Clinton Administration's scandals, cover-ups, and abuses
of power, I think they have picked the wrong issue. The historians will sort
this all out, but it takes time.
The other night here in Washington the historically-minded held
one of Washington's most amusing events, the 28th-Annual Pumpkin Papers
Irregulars dinner. It is a dinner that focuses on the most recent
revelations about one of modern America's most overwrought and unnecessary
controversies, the trial and perjury conviction of Alger Hiss, with special
attention devoted to the ongoing debate over one of American liberalism's
great heroes. Hiss fashioned what has become a reliable liberal tactic, to
wit, lie, lie despite all the evidence against you, lie brazenly, lie
heroically.
Hiss denied he ever was a Russian spy. He insisted that he told
the truth at his perjury trial. His conviction was a miscarriage of justice.
For years liberals argued on his behalf. At the dinner the other night,
Prof. G. Edward White, himself a liberal but one susceptible to historians'
revelations, talked of new findings about Hiss that make it clear Hiss was a
liar and a spy. For one, from the time of Hiss's conviction not one piece of
exculpatory evidence was unearthed. Yet as the years proceeded and Hiss lied
so heroically, the majority of the intelligentsia and the media came to
agree on Hiss's innocence. At least that was the common wisdom by the 1970s.
By the 1990s the Soviet archives had opened. Scholars such as
White and others discovered that Hiss was working with the Soviets up until
the time he was exposed. Moreover American intelligence from what we now
call the Venona intercepts knew all about his espionage connections. The
longstanding Hiss controversy was utterly unnecessary save for the fact that
liberals are easily duped and often very good liars.
I believe today's Democratic leadership contains some very good
liars. They know that whatever Libby's guilt, the president has nothing to
apologize for. Yet they want to create as much scandal as possible. Some say
it is payback time for the Clinton scandals. The difference, of course, is
that Clinton was caught and even admitted his guilt in an affidavit for the
independent counsel. Bush has had nothing to do with the present scandal,
and at this point it is unclear anyone committed a crime unless it is a
crime for an administration aide to defend the administration against
another of the liberals' liars, Joe Wilson IV. Historians will get to the
truth here, but by the time they do liberals will not care. They might not
even exist.
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