Brit Hume is a Lying Douche-bag

Now I'm one to name-call, so you didn't hear this from me. It came from Brit's own lips.

Today on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume continued his campaign to smear Valerie Plame Wilson. Previously, he had falsely said that it was “unlikely she was” covert.

Instead of apologizing this morning, he launched a new attack against Plame, claiming that she had lied under oath when she testified on Friday about whether she recommended her husband be sent to Niger to investigate Iraq’s supposed nuclear ambitions.

Hume said Plame’s testimony “flies in the face of the evidence” adduced by the “bipartisan” Senate Intelligence Committee, which said that “she very much did have something to do with it, that she recommended him and that she put it in a memo.”

Well, you know what Brit ole buddy? The comments you're refereing to were not "bi-partisan".

Hume’s false claim originated from a statement attached to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq that was released in 2004. In an addendum to that report, Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Christopher Bond (R-MO), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote definitively, “The plan to send the former ambassador to Niger was suggested by the former ambassador’s wife, a CIA employee.” The right-wing, including columnist Bob Novak, have taken the statement written by three Republican senators and falsely attributed it as the “unanimous” conclusion of the Senate report.

Let's remember that Pat Roberts is the guy who did everything inhumanly possible to stall and delay the Senates Phase II investigation into how the intelligence was twisted, contorted and manipulated by the Bush Administration and led us directly into an inevitable pointless wrong-headed War.

Let's put it simply - they were wrong.

Valerie Wilson addressed this issue during her testimony.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: So, just so I understand, Mr. Chairman, if I could — so, there was a memo written by the [Counterproliferation Division] officer, upon whose alleged testimony the Senate wrote its report that contradicts the conclusions –

MS. PLAME WILSON: Absolutely.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: — contradicts the conclusions from that report.

MS. PLAME WILSON: Yes, sir.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that this committee should ask for that memo. And it bears directly on the credibility of the Senate report on this very, very important issue, which they’ve attempted to us to discredit Ambassador Wilson’s mission.

REP. WAXMAN: I think the gentleman makes an excellent point, and we will insist on getting that memo.

The CPD officer who had testified to the Robert's committee, later tearfully apologized to Valerie that his "words were distored" by the Report had tried to go back and set the record straight... only to be ignored and rebuffed.

What a surprise, eh?

And Hume is still a douchebag.

Vyan