Joseph C. Wilson, also known as liar Joe Wilson, is still relevant among the radical Left.
You'd think that the far Lefties would just let him fade away, and pretend all that Valerie pLAME stuff never happened, given what an embarrassment the Patrick Fitzgerald investigation turned out to be.
But no, the Left clings to Joe Wilson.
It's really pretty pathetic.
On The Huffington Post, Wilson writes:
I delivered the following remarks last night at the People for the American Way's Spirit of Liberty Awards.
I stand before you this evening as a proud American. Proud to have served my country for twenty- three years as a diplomat, including such glamorous postings as Niamey, Niger and Baghdad, Iraq during the Desert Shield portion of the first Gulf War.
Hardly boondoggle posts, whatever Dick Cheney might think.
I served not because I believe Americans are inherently better than others who inhabit this globe. We are not. We are all human beings with our respective virtues as well as vices. No, I served because I believed then, as I believe now, that the value system that has underpinned the contract between the governed and those who govern us for some 219 years provides the best guarantee of the commitment of our forefathers to the right of people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Our rights, privileges and responsibilities, enshrined in the constitution, are today all too often taken for granted by a docile citizenry or worse, undermined by a cynical political class in the name of security but, in fact, for the sake of power. We should never forget the prophetic words of Benjamin Franklin, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither," as we legalize torture and outlaw habeus corpus.
I sincerely think that Wilson is mentally unstable.
...Our personal fight, or at least the one to which our name is attached, is not, in fact a fight on behalf of Joe and Valerie Wilson. This is not about us and never has been. Indeed, whatever hardship we may have suffered in the past three years at the hands of our government is mere inconvenience compared to what this nation of ours, and in particular those brave men and women who wear the uniforms of the armed services, and their families have suffered.
"Not about us"?
Yeah, right.
Vanity Fair photo shoots are not about them.
Strolling around Cannes with the beautiful people is not about them.
A seven figure book deal is not about them.
Oh, the hardships they've suffered!
How can anyone worship at the altar of Wilson and Plame?
The article I wrote for the New York Times challenged sixteen words in the President's State of the Union address. The next day the White House spokesman acknowledged that those sixteen words did not quote rise to the inclusion in the State of the Union unquote. Why then, do we not know who put the lie in the President's mouth? Why instead do we know the name of a covert CIA officer who happens to be my wife?
George Orwell once wrote, "in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." This is a fight against universal deceit.
This is a fight against those who would use the enormous power conferred on them by public trust to exact personal revenge against citizens exercising their first amendment responsibility to "petition the government for the redress of a grievance."
This is a fight against those who would drive citizens from the public square not by virtue of their better arguments or policy prescriptions, but by a systematic campaign of character assassination, punctuated with lies, distortions, unfounded allegations and innuendo.
Someone needs to have a long talk with Wilson.
I think an intervention is in order.
He was the one who engaged in "a systematic campaign of character assassination, punctuated with lies, distortions, unfounded allegations and innuendo."
It is, in short, a fight for governance "of the people, by the people and for the people" against those for whom power and privilege is paramount. This is the vigilance that is the eternal price of liberty that Americans pay to remain free.
Former President, Teddy Roosevelt said it best almost 90 years ago.
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
Wilson has got to be kidding!
If Bush was the type of leader that Wilson makes him out to be, Wilson would no longer have a tongue.
This is still a nation where a citizen can get up every morning and shout at the top of his lungs that the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State are lying sons of bitches, and survive to see the sun go down. I know. I do it most days.
Don't take my word for it. Ask Valerie.
No wonder the radical Left embraces Wilson.
But we will only remain that free if we remain vigilant. We cannot, we will not, we must not compromise the constitution of our great country. It is not, Mr. President, as you call it, "just a goddamn piece of paper." The constitution is the promise of our society, of our people and of our way of life.
But People for the American Way knows all of this. You have been fighting this fight for a quarter century, as have the honorees here tonight. Valerie and I are humbled to be in your presence and to stand with you in this battle. It is one that we will not lose because we have the power of the greatest system of governance yet created behind us. It is one we cannot afford to lose. I have looked into the abyss of tyranny during a lifetime of living in authoritarian dictatorships from Franco's Spain to Eyadema's Togo to Saddam's Iraq. Together we will, we must, ensure that this country that we so love, and the fundamental values that have so protected us, do not slide into that same abyss. Thank you.
What a load!
Wilson is really nuts!
America under President Bush is not an authoritarian dictatorship.
There is no comparison between the U.S. today and Franco's Spain or Eyadema's Togo or Saddam's Iraq.
This stuff is so extreme you have to laugh.
Wilson and his comrades are so entertaining. However, it won't be so funny if the lib Dems gain power.
If that happens, this sort of crap will rule the day.
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