no one can honestly be this stupid!

Tom Tomorrow:Stupidest talking point ever

John Gibson to Bob Beckel, a few minutes ago (my transcription):

Were you ever in any of those receiving lines where Joe Wilson brought his CIA operative wife out into public view in front of cameras to meet the president and such? If he brings her out in public to be photographed by tv, hasn't he outed her?

Well, no, John, not unless he also hung a big 'CIA AGENT' sign around her neck. Look, I understand that Fox hires for ideology, not intelligence, so I'll try to explain this slowly: Karl Rove is not accused of exposing the fact that Joe Wilson has a wife. He stands accused of exposing Valerie Wilson's status as a clandestine CIA operative. I know it's complicated, but if you try really, really hard, you might be able to grasp the distinction.

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Stupid As Rocks

I know some conservatives throw this stuff out there just to try to confuse the issues, but I'm pretty sure John Pod honestly believes he has a real point here.

He was very excited about it yesterday at the Corner:

But Plame's undercover status at the time was and is a little questionable in any case. How undercover could she have been when her name was published at the time as part of Joseph Wilson's own biography online?

Very slowly for the very stupid people among us:

Valerie Plame's name was not secret. The fact that she was married to Wilson was not secret. The fact that she worked for the CIA was.

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Does anyone think this is a legitimate talking point?! If they can't do better than that, then rove will definitely be in jail!