Plame film in the works.
By on Mar 2nd, 2007 at 11:37 am
Plame film in the works.
“Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm. … WB has secured the life rights of Plame and Wilson. Studio also will use Plame’s memoir, ‘Fair Game,’ if the CIA permits her to publish it.” Co-producer Jerry Zucker: “The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government.”
UPDATE: Keith Olbermann set to interview Plame.
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The title will be : Pure Vanity, the Story of Al Qaeda Operative Valarie Plame.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 amWhy don’t y’all use the GOP to market the film, spread the word.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 amHow about “Treason at the Top: the Plame Affair”?
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 amYeah… They’re gonna call it either, “Diary of a Mad American” or, “Going Down in Plames”. “F* You Dick Cheney in The Ass, With Your Own Dick” might work, as well.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 amThe working title is: Iraq pursues nuclear weapons while Joe Wilson drinks tea.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:47 am“Ain’t No Mushroom Cloud”
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 amWell since her career is in the toilet because of a traitorous administration and no one seems to care, I hope they make millions. Good for them. Whatever it is, there couldn’t be half as much misleading propaganda as “The Path to 9-11″ had.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 amAlso, it is sure to get a lot of publicity from right wingers, that’s for sure!
#5- Give it a rest, fascist clown wanna-be. You’re obviously a GOP (God-damned old prick) troll in search of your identity. Forget it; you have none worth exploring.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 amLet’s see them try and blame Clinton for this one as well.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 amIt’ll be titled, “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.” Oh, wait….
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 amI think it’ll be titled:
The REAL terrorists are sitting in the White House!
Or maybe:
Treason: How Pres. Bush and the GOP continue to betray America!
How about:
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pmScrewing American security and getting political revenge, care of Karl Rove.
How about:
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm“Whack A Mole.”
There will sure as heck be…
…a whole lot of sequels to that one…
…what with all of the career civil servants who’ve jumped ship…
…since the criminal Bushites occupied the government…
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March 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 pmAnother could be: Moonbats in the CIA.
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I’m going to post this again until everyone gets it: it is a waste of time and energy to engage Patrick1. I demonstrated this the other day. He was whining and crying for a debate. I attempted to engage him with some facts to start things off. He ran back to his hole and didn’t show up for the rest of the day. Ignore him and maybe he’ll go somewhere else and annoy someone else.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pmDoes EVERYTHING have to be a movie?
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 pmZooey, it’s way past time for the public to know exactly what Valerie Plame was doing for all those years. The political destruction of her program is a treasonous outrage and right-wing liars have been able to lie with impunity about her and her job in the corporate media. Not many people will read her book and find out. Many more would see a movie.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmThe destruction of Valerie Plame’s covert operation to track illegal nuclear weapons is easily worthy of impeachment charges against both Cheney and Bush. Just add it to the already long list.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 pmThe Spy Who Never Was?
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 pmShucks Zooey – What’s one more movie? We’re all living in a horror flick now, produced by the Bush administration, with the wealth and lives stolen from Americans.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pmLarry Johnson, 25 year veteran of the CIA: “A few of my classmates, and Valerie was one of these, became a non-official cover officer. That meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. If caught in that status she would have been executed.”
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmHow about “The Many Crimes of Dick Cheney–Part 47″?
I have to agree with Zooey, too. Not everything needs a movie.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:40 pmDon’t let ABC show it.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pmMore from CIA agent Larry Johnson: “The lies by people like Victoria Toensing, Representative Peter King, and P. J. O’Rourke insist that Valerie was nothing, just a desk jockey. Yet, until Robert Novak betrayed her she was still undercover and the company that was her front was still a secret to the world. When Novak outed Valerie he also compromised her company and every individual overseas who had been in contact with that company and with her.”
It was also reported in the U.K. that on the day Novak published the name of her front company, Brewster-Jennings Consulting, a number of people around the world were rushing for airports to get out of the countries in which they were operating.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pmToo bad the title for the movie of the life of GW Bush is taken
“Lost”
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm#17- I’m sorry. I lost myself for a second. I’m all better, now. Whew!
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:53 pmZooey and D’lo, how would you suggest that the information about Plame’s career get to the people? Larry Johnson and a few other CIA agents have already defended her, but the mainstream media has been more interested in letting liars like Victoria Toensing spew their B.S. on television. Stories in the print media have been buried. Don’t you think the truth deserves a wider audience than what the mainstream media seems willing to give this story?
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 pmMainstream media bluedog? The deafening silence after Sy Hersh’s revelation that Chimpy and the Organ Grinder have been funding Sunni groups aligned with Al Qaeda without Congressional oversight tells me that the So-called-librul-media is obeying its paymasters….
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:10 pmIF the CIA permits?
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:13 pmWhoa, I just saw a giant sow gliding at about 1800 feet.
Right.
Why is it so difficult for everyone to realize that Richard Armitage was the one who outed Valerie Plame. This was admitted to in an interview of Armitage by Bob Woodward. I’ve included the link of the audio from CIA.
Bob Woodward has stated that this took place nearly a month before Bob Novak wrote his column.
So before anybody else tries to obscure the issue, is there anyone here who STILL doesn’t believe that it was Richard Armitage who outed Valerie Plame?
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm#32… oops, the link is from audio at CNN :-)
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 pmAnd my link has been removed. Nice, TP, nice.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:29 pm“The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government.”
That’s a joke! Wilson lied about who arranged to send him to Niger. I was his wife…at least that is what this Senate Intelligence reports said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:41 pmThe worst part of the whole affair is that Pres. HW Bush said that anyone who would voluntarily release the name of an undercover agent was guilty of treason.
Pres. Bush and VPres. Cheney are guilty of treason, but they’re members of the “we never take responsibility for our own actions” Republican party.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pmTracy, even if your cited WaPo article wasn’t filled with lies, and it was, it is besides the point. The point is that Valerie Plame’s career as an undercover operative was ruined by the Bush administration for political purposes. I’m not even sure why you conservatives keep bringing up this arcane detail of who sent Wilson where. He was, after all right. There were no nuclear programs operating in Iraq. They had no weapons of mass destruction. What in the hell is your point?
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:02 pmBush also said that if anybody in his administration were involved in this, they wouldn’t be part of the administration anymore. We now know that at least 10 members of his administration were involved. Tracy, did Bush lie to the American public????!!!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 pm#37 – “Bush also said that if anybody in his administration were involved in this, they wouldn’t be part of the administration anymore. ” Comment by Bluedog49 — March 2, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Yet another lie by Pres. Bush.
Is anyone surprised that Pres. Bush told another lie?
Anyone at all?
I guess when the cons are busy drinking the neo-con kool-aid they don’t have time to keep up with all the lies as the “trickle down”. ;-)
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 pm#34 – From the article that you reference: “(Joe Wilson) was specifically recommended for the mission by his wife,”
Does it matter who sent him on the mission? No, it doesn’t.
What matters about the mission? The RESULTS of that mission.
Pres. Bush LIED about the information. THE PRESIDENT LIED!
Why does everyone want to brush this fact under the rug faster than a GOP Republican trying to get an IM response from an underage page?!?
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:25 pmIn the Plame movie, I would cast Pat Butram (Mr. Haney in Green Acres) as Dick Cheney, Junior Samples (Hee Haw) as Karl Rove, and The Guy who plays “County Agent Kimball” (also Green Acres) as Lewis Scooter Libby. Any other ideas? Maybe Ron Jeremy as UN Secretary Bolton and Treat Williams as Ari Fleischer. Who will play Russert?
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:35 pmDamn….I had to run our side and look see if that evil old sow was reincarnated and flying over, RU….I was sure she had reincarnated to cheney…..Please don’t scare this old woman like that….Blessings
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:52 pmI guess my other post had too many bad words. Now we’re “free” to speak out, as long as it’s Sesame-Street acceptable – whatever.
I’M DONE WITH TP – THERE’s PLENTY OF ACTION AT KOS, Newshounds, and others – I got out of school along goddamned time ago, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to be CENSORED, or given detentions, by the operators of some goddamned website.
I’d attempted to point out to the least intelligent among us (Patrick and old redneck) that they ought to think a little harder before slinging their poop around like dittomonkeys, which they are.
Plame and Wilson were life-long Republicans, before the radicals took over.
WAY TO GO TP – pretty soon it’ll just be you and the TROLLS, and you can turn the site over to the administrators of Free Republic – How does it feel to be run out of business by IDIOTS??????????????
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:03 pm#29 – Don’t you think the truth deserves a wider audience than what the mainstream media seems willing to give this story?
Comment by Bluedog49
I agree, Bluedog, but I’d like to see the trials out of the way before the movies are made and the books written. I apologize, I didn’t make that clear.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:03 pmTHIS HAS ALL THE MAKINGS OF ANOTHER OSCAR WINNER, LIKE “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH”!!!!! DOWN WITH Bushland Uber Allies!!!!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pmOoo, I just heard Keith Olbermann is going to interview Valerie Plame on March 17. Radar magazine said it. What a scoop.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pmOh, and I guess my last post could have answered your question, bluedog. And again, I’m with Zooey. It would be nice to have some accountability before they start making movies.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:01 pmD’Lo, what on earth makes you think there is going to be any accountability? It doesn’t matter if Libby is convicted. He’ll be pardoned. Dick Cheney will be gone before the end of the year. He’ll leave either for “health reasons” or “to spend more time with his family.” I just want as many people as possible to know what happened.
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pmFeb. 28, 2003 http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_wilson.html
MOYERS: So this is not just about weapons of mass destruction.
WILSON: Oh, no, I think it’s far more about re-growing the political map of the Middle East.
Joe Wilson – June 14, 2003
“The real agenda in all of this of course, was to redraw the political map of the Middle East. Now that is code, whether you like it or not, but it is code for putting into place the strategy memorandum that was done by Richard Perle and his study group in the mid-90’s which was called, “A Clean Break – A New Strategy for the Realm.” And what it is, cut to the quick, is if you take out some of these countries, some of these governments that are antagonistic to Israel then you provide the Israeli government with greater wherewithal to impose its terms and conditions upon the Palestinian people, whatever those terms and conditions might be. In other words, the road to peace in the Middle East goes through Baghdad and Damascus. Maybe Tehran. And maybe Cairo and maybe Tripoli if these guys actually have their way. Rather than going through Jerusalem.”
19:46: http://next.epic-usa.org/epicdev2/_media/2003forumaudio/28-lecture-wilson-32.mp3
“On the other ones, the geopolitical situation, I think there are a number of issues at play; there’s a number of competing agendas. One is the remaking of the map of the Middle East for Israeli security, and my fear is that when it becomes increasingly apparent that this was all done to make Sharon’s life easier and that American soldiers are dying in order to enable Sharon to impose his terms upon the Palestinians that people will wonder why it is American boys and girls are dying for Israel and that will undercut a strategic relationship and a moral obligation that we’ve had towards Israel for 55 years. I think it’s a terribly flawed strategy.”
13:33: http://next.epic-usa.org/epicdev2/_media/2003forumaudio/29-lecture-qa-32.mp3
The War Party – BBC
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March 3rd, 2007 at 1:14 pm#37
“Tracy, even if your cited WaPo article wasn’t filled with lies”
Where are the lies? Just because you say so doen’t make it so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511459/posts
“What in the hell is your point?”
Mr. Wilson is a liar. If he were to have been put under oath in the Libby trial he would need a pardon by Bush.
BTW I am not saying he wasn’t right about the WMD question, just the his memory seems to slip when it suited his political agenda.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pm#40
“Pres. Bush LIED about the information. THE PRESIDENT LIED!”
Fact? Where is your proof!!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:04 pm