A picture shows the effect of a thousand words

I found this great picture at Flopping Aces. He found it through Buck Sargent. I don't think I need to add any comment.

 UPDATE:  G-Raze left a comment pointing to what s/he (don't know which) thinks is a tremendous irony:  that I published this picture on the same day the NY Times screamed hysterically about Bush leaking information.  Well, whoa there, Baby.  Let's go for the real facts, rather than the NY Times facts:

If you'd told us earlier this week that the Valerie Plame kerfuffle was about to turn even sillier, we wouldn't have believed you. But it has. This story appears on the front page of today's New York Times:

President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003 to permit Mr. Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., to leak key portions of a classified prewar intelligence estimate on Iraq, according to Mr. Libby's grand jury testimony.

The testimony, cited in a court filing by the government late Wednesday, provides the first indication that Mr. Bush, who has long assailed leaks of classified information as a national security threat, played a direct role in the disclosure of the intelligence report on Iraq at a moment that the White House was trying to defend itself against charges that it had inflated the case against Saddam Hussein.

Well, here is how the filing (PDF) by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald describes what happened (page 23):

Defendant [Libby] testified that the Vice President later advised him that the President had authorized defendant to disclose the relevant portions of the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate]. Defendant testified that he also spoke to David Addington, then Counsel to the Vice President, whom defendant considered to be an expert in national security law, and Mr. Addington opined that Presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a declassification of the document.

In other words, this was an authorized disclosure of information, the opposite of a leak. Yet the Times, the Washington Post and even the New York Sun (albeit only in a headline) call it a "leak."

These reports have served as pornography for the Angry Left, which has constructed an elaborate fantasy world around the Plame kerfuffle.

I know this is going to come as something of a surprise to those on the Angry Left but, last I heard, Bush was still Commander in Chief.

Talking to Technorati: Leaks, Scooter Libby, Bush Derangement Syndrome, George Bush, New York Times, Media