You Have Got to be Kidding Me

Slate has the Plame photo. My word, how can anyone now take all of this seriously? I think that InstaP is dead-on in his write-up and various updates. I also concur with Timothy Noah:

Chatterbox spares Plame Whopper status, possibly on grounds of misplaced gallantry. But Plame's extended striptease, enthusiastically barked by her husband, now has Chatterbox wondering how much of Wilson's story to believe. (It also has Chatterbox wondering when the couple will start renting themselves out for birthday parties.) Regardless of the merits, this photograph will surely give the Bush Justice Department whatever slim justification it seeks in dropping its Plamegate investigation.

The pic does make it extremely difficult to take this whole situation seriously. Even if the argument is that "well her cover was already blown", the picture does not fit the post-Novak rhetoric by any stretch (and the Slate piece has plenty of examples of the rhetoric). Indeed, I would state that the photo trivializes that whole affair.