The Plame game

It is heartwarming indeed to see the American media worked up over the "outing" of CIA poster girl Valarie Plame. But I wonder: Could this newfound "concern" be more of a Halloween trick-or-treat costume donned by Judith Miller and the rest of the media with the hope of frightening the Bush administration and collecting yet another handful of treats from the Democratic National Committee?

Perhaps my feelings of skepticism arise because of the media's long history of outing America's defense secrets and agents. Does anyone remember Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers? June 13, 1971 was the day the New York Times began publishing the top-secret documents stolen from the Department of Defense. The Washington Post jumped on the publication bandwagon on June 18.

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Or it might be my memory of the Philip Agee affair. Agee, whom George Bush Sr. still refers to as "a traitor to this country" and Agee's 1970's tome, "Inside the Company: CIA Diary," published the names and locations of as many CIA operatives as he could remember. The only part about that affair the media got worked up over was Congress' efforts to protect the remaining agents with the law we have today – which makes naming agents a crime.

Of course, don't look for the media tricksters to tell you that Valerie "Vanity Fair" Plame hasn't been assigned overseas during the past five years – and is therefore not likely even covered by the law. That would be an act of honest reporting, and is frowned upon by the media's DNC masters.

Likewise, don't expect the media's tricksters to recant their reporting of CIA wannabe Joe Wilson, his phony documents, and his "misspoken" lies, nicely detailed by the American Thinker in "A tardy and incomplete correction." But then, that's how they teach reporting in the Dan Rather fake-but-accurate school of journalism, isn't it? When the facts don't fit one's opinion, reality must be suitably altered. (Or as USA Today would say, "Thank Evolution for Photoshop!").

The American media has had this problem at least since the introduction of communism. They have never come to grips with the Rosenbergs' atomic treason, nor the long line of communist traitors who followed after them.

The reason is not difficult to understand: The American media has never come to grips with what America is. We are a land that promises equal opportunity – which guarantees unequal outcomes. Unequal outcomes violate the media's communist upbringing as espoused in our state-supported journalism schools. To run a successful and honest American newspaper, it would seem, one must hire reporters and editors from outside the J-school compound and well off the communist reservation, where so much of modern academia has put down roots.