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March 16, 2007

The Washington Post thinks that what Valerie Plame is wearing is very, very important

Currently front-page, top-story news at washingtonpost.com:

Plame: Hearing-Room Chic

Forget about her testimony. Let's talk about the fashion statement Valerie Plame made today when she went before Congress.

Plame showed up at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform decked out in Armani Collezioni. An undercover black-belt fashion consultant, who also knows the outed CIA agent and her husband, Joe Wilson, would bet the farm that Plame was wearing either the 2005 or 2006 collection of Armani, a fetching jacket and pants (even if too newly outdated to qualify as vintage.)....

As our black-belt fashion consultant says, "Hermes squeals style. Lanvin and Yves St. Laurent are for collectors. Armani is for the safe shopper looking to seem couture without taking risks, especially the lower-price line which [Valerie's outfit] came from."

Because Valerie Plame's testimony is funny.

And she's a girl.

I'm sure the author, Post gossip columnist Mary Ann Akers, would point out that this is all in good fun, and that all her critics (and 95% of the people on the Post blog are saying "What the hell is this crap?") should just, you know, lighten up.

And I'd suggest that when you're covering Congressional hearings, when the public's view of the press is somewhere between that of a meter maid and an IRS agent, when newspaper circs are plunging, you might want to, you know, serious up.

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What really aggravates me about this is that a WOMAN wrote it. I know she's not a hard news columnist, still . . .

Bev attired in cheap navy sweat pants and green top (for St. Patrick's Day)

Posted by: | March 17, 2007 at 01:52 PM

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