Joe Wilson

"The most damning thing the White House could say about Wilson was that his wife got him the job. Yet that practice has been standard operating procedure in the Bush government from Day One.

Now, that's ironic."

Susan Tifft is a former writer for TIME magazine and is currently a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University.

Amen to that. And even that allegation is weak, as if the CIA didn't know Joe Wilson was the former US Ambassador to Iraq and married to one of their agents without her bird-dogging them to get her husband a weekend gig for Christ's sake. Duh.