Thursday, December 29, 2005

"News" about Plamegate

Tell me how this story belongs on "top stories" section on Reuters:
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Washington couple at the heart of the CIA leak investigation had their cover blown by their small son as they tried to sneak away on vacation on Thursday.

"My daddy's famous, my mommy's a secret spy," declared the 5-year-old of his parents, former diplomat Joe Wilson and retired CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Touching and all, but newsworthy? The only "news" here was that there wasn't any news. But, like the recent Time magazine picture of Valerie in her PJs in their "people who mattered" feature (was the pajamas thing some weird swipe at bloggers?) the MSM will continue to lionize this couple as great heroes, while largely ignoring real heroes fighting in the trenches of the war against terrorism.

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