As I wrote back in February about the press as Victorian Gentleman, the media frequently discards stories that don’t fit the narrative they’ve constructed, something that John Leo also spots:
In the orthodox narrative line, [Joe] Wilson is the truth-teller and the Bush is the liar. But Wilson was not speaking truthfully when he said his wife, Valerie Plame, had nothing to do with the CIA sending him to Niger. And it obviously wasn’t true, as Wilson claimed, that he had found nothing to support Bush’s charge about Niger when he (Wilson) had been told that the Iraqis were poking around in that uranium-rich nation.
Testifying before the Senate intelligence committee, Wilson said that the former prime minister of Niger told him he had been asked to meet with Iraqis to talk about “expanding commercial relations” between the two countries. Everybody knew what that meant; Niger has nothing much to trade other than uranium.
Hitch put it even more succinctly: “Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger”.
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