Which is why it was so much fun seeing her take up the banner of Scooter Libby. Check out this piece complaining that no one's defending Libby in the media.
CONSERVATIVES often ask why so many Republicans go native when they get to Washington, D.C. The answer is: Because you don't defend them when they come under relentless attacks from liberal hatchet men.
Lewis Libby did what you wanted. He didn't place secret phone calls to reporters revealing classified intelligence programs. He supported the war on Islamic fascists. He didn't try to raise your taxes like James Baker III. And he has loyally served Dick Cheney, the man conservatives secretly wish were president.
And now he's on trial for - at worst - misremembering who first told him that future reality show contestant Joseph Wilson was sent on a boondoggle to Niger by his wife, Valerie Plame.
Not so much true, but there ya go -- you pretty much expect a Coulter column to get right to the lying. Last I checked, misremembering something isn't a crime that anyone could be charged with. Libby's charged with false statement, i.e., lying to federal investigators. It's basically the same crime that Martha Stewart was sent up for.
But the real fun here is that Coulter's complaining that conservatives aren't fighting this poor little Scooter's lynching by a liberal media and a federal prosecutor run amuck. Libby's trial began Jan. 16. On Jan. 17, Coulter's column was The Stripper Has No Clothes, about the Duke rape case -- a tabloid crime story of such earth-shattering importance that Scooter had to wait...
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