Hilary Rosen: The Neighborhood Wilsons (HuffPost)

[marmar]

Hilary Rosen


03.07.2007

The Neighborhood Wilsons (3 comments )

I ran into Joe Wilson at Starbucks this morning. We hugged and thought neighborhood coffee was as good a way as any to celebrate Scooter Libby's guilty verdict yesterday. Seeing Joe looking happy and fresh made me realize that so many people outside of Washington see this verdict and the events of the past few years as just about politics, not about people.

Joe and Valerie are neighborhood parents. We both have boy-girl twins and our kids played together sometimes. Just like lots of my friends in the neighborhood, they are fun, friendly, smart, passionate and accomplished. Their kids are adorable and play well with others. They are certainly better behaved than my kids.

Joe was always a grand personality. If there is a room at the party that is louder than others, where the talk is frenzied and the opinions are flying, then Joe is sure to be in the middle of it. Valerie is more reserved but no less engaging when she is talking.

So here they were, a neighborhood family and then the most powerful men in the country decide that the Wilsons were getting in the way of their personal agenda of economic domination through warmongering. There lives were overturned. And after they were targeted and Valerie's CIA career was ruined, they were attacked and victimized all over again by the right wing defenders of the White House for having the temerity to stick up for themselves. ......(more)

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[Ignacio Upton]

1. I'd like to ask her about what the RIAA has been doing recently

Ranging from their suing/extortion of college students, to getting the Library of Congress's Copyright Board to set cost-prohibitive royalty rates against internet radio stations.

(For the record, I know she no longer works there, but being a former RIAA head, she should respond if she's asked what's going on.)

[shain from kane]

2. Go on record. Did she know Plame was CIAbefore Novak's column?