The Seattle Post-Intelligencer takes top spot on today’s “dishonor roll” (for an explanation see here and here) for its coverage of Joseph Wilson’s tour stop promoting his book, The Politics of Truth. Not only does this article repeat all the Wilson canards, it transforms the paper into a stage on which Pagliacci Wilson can cry his crocodile tears over current White House troubles. When asked what he thought of Cheney’s role, Wilson said, “I don’t know what to think of that, except to say it saddens me deeply. I get no satisfaction from that.”

Here are some other lowlights from the story:

In 2002, [Wilson] was asked to investigate claims that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapons program.
When his inquiry turned up nothing, Wilson said he reported to officials in Washington that the claims were unfounded.

But his inquiry didn’t turn up nothing. The prime minister of Niger reported that Iraq had sought expanded commercial relations with Niger, which he took to mean uranium sales. The prime minister turned Saddam’s men away. Joseph Wilson reported all this to the CIA.

Eight days later, in what Wilson and his supporters saw as raw personal payback, syndicated newspaper columnist Robert Novak published a column noting that he had been told by top administration officials that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA officer, may have played a major role in having Wilson sent to Niger.

But the Seattle P.I. doesn’t report that Wilson’s wife did play a major role in sending him to Niger. She recommended him for the job. His debriefing after the trip took place at their house! Yet he denied frequently that she had anything to do with it. The Senate Intelligence Committee report proved that Wilson was lying. And again, in this passage you see the canard that the White House leaks were “personal payback.” No. CIA officials were leaking to the press, trying to blame pre-war intelligence failures on the White House. The administration was trying to identify Wilson as part of the campaign.

Wilson called it a “a sad day for our country.” Indeed it is a sad day when the media incessantly reprint the lies of a thoroughly discredited figure like Wilson.