Valerie Plame: Hot or not? Depends on your news source

Last week we had the pleasure of seeing Valerie Plame testify in front of a congressional hearing to discuss the situation and aftermath of being exposed in retaliation of her husband’s critical piece about enriched uranium. Of course, coverage varies — from CNN putting the story on the front page of their website, to Fox News merily having a video on the side of the site — but the most interesting variations were seen in the pictures used on the various media outlets:

CNN (mmmm soo hot, you seducing me Ms. Plame????)

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Fox News (hey, where’d the make up and Mrs. Robinson look go?!)

Click here for the bigger Fox News picture

MSNBC (good looking but not boner enducing like in CNN)

Click here for MSNBC big picture 1 and MSNBC big picture 2

AOL News (Wombat lady!!! Aghhhh!)

All in all, it’s what we’d expect: on CNN, Valerie Plame is a sexual freak who I want to enrich my uranium all over; on MSNBC, she is as neutral as Keith Olbermann’s non-offensive PC haircut; on Fox News, she is an angry liberal scorpion; and inexplicably on AOL, she is medusa reincarnate.

7 Responses to “Valerie Plame: Hot or not? Depends on your news source”

Ron says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Great stuff. Well done

(By the way, great blog name!)

–Ron

http://revolttoday.blogspot.com/
tonymac says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:40 pm
she’s a knockout — compare her to that Coulter skank from New Canaan
greg says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
The prize has to go to Good Morning America(iirc) which referred to her testimony as “The most compelling testimony on the Hill since Fawn Hall” !! (Ollie North’s secretary.). My feeling is, focusing on her hot-or-notness is just another case of the Shiny Object Theory; it steals column inches and TV seconds from the content of her testimony.
ProseCameInSecond says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
“in lue of” (spelled lieu) means “instead of, in place of”, you probably meant “due to” or “because of”… better still “in retaliation for”….
alec says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Good call. This was written rather quick and without a second edit.
Kit says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:51 pm
quick should be quickly, Einstein
alec says:
March 24th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Words are like bullets, I just let them pass through me

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