Joe Wilson, Lying Gasbag

A special place in hell awaits Joe Wilson. How the man can rest his head on a pillow at night and live with himself escapes me, but I guess when you're a sociopath, living conscience-free is easy to do.

Emmett Tyrrell eviscerates this lowlife today in the Washington Times.

I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Richard Cheney's former chief of staff, has been found guilty of lying and faces many years in prison. Joseph C. Wilson IV, his tormentor, has been found guilty of lying, and out in Hollywood they are going to make a movie of his life. He is Hollywood's idea of a hero.

According to a Senate inquiry, this mellifluous gasbag lied about findings regarding the Iraqis' pursuit of uranium in Niger. He lied when he suggested he went on a mission there at the vice president's request. And he lied when he claimed his report on Niger was circulated at the highest levels of government. In all three lies he got caught. Yet, he emerged as a liberal icon. That sounds like a Hollywood movie to me. He also apparently lied when he said his wife was a covert CIA operative. If so, she was the CIA's station chief in Georgetown (As in D.C., not Guyana).

Then there is this lubricous whopper deposited in The Washington Post by the tireless Mr. Wilson: "If you take the time to look at the testimony, it makes very clear the extent to which senior officials within this administration embarked on a disinformation campaign, the justification of which was to cover up the lies they said in the first place." The testimony does nothing of the kind.

Read the rest.