How Stupid Does The AP Think We Are?

I don't have a physical copy of the Des Moines Register today. They're kind of difficult to come by here in the Cow Town. Plus, this story came out last night so it might take another day to hit the papers even though it's on the wire services right now.

The story I'm referring to is Robert Novak's admission:

I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America

My guess is that the Register will run the Pete Yost version on the Associated Press wire. It goes starts off like this:

Columnist Robert Novak said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Surprisingly, there's no mention of Novak learning Plame's name from Who's Who in the Pete Yost/AP story.

Joseph Wilson's 1999 entry in Who's Who is pictured at the top of this post.

Rekha Basu has gone on about the "leaking" of Plame's name for years, as have countless Register letter to the editor writers.

My money is on the Register printing the Pete Yost/AP story.

Why bother running Novak's admission in full? It would make the moonbats and liars look bad, even though anybody has been able to walk into most larger libraries, request an older copy of Who's Who, turn the page to Joseph Wilson, and see Valerie Plame's name right there.

How stupid do they think we are?

Don't forget that Iowa-based Associated Press reporter Mike Glover, the guy who can't get his quotes straight before sending them out on the wire, wrote a propaganda piece about the "leak" issue with an Evan Bayh angle last October.


Update: The Political Forecast doesn't get it. Valerie Plame's name was in Who's Who under Joesph Wilson IV's entry as early as 1999. How do you get into Who's Who? You submit your biography or you nominate a collegue. To omit all of this, like Pete Yost, Mike Glover, and Evan Bayh-Curious do, is being disingenuous.