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How can you hiss a villain named "Scooter"?

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Dave Barry, who grew rich and famous as a humor columnist by mining the real foibles of actual people, got the Valerie and Joe scandal calibrated in just the correct perspective in his year-end review of the news of '05:

"... the juiciest story by far in Washington is the riveting scandal involving New York Times reporter Judy Miller, who [was] jailed for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury called by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who is trying to find out whether the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame was leaked to columnist Robert Novak by an administration source such as presidential confidants Karl Rove or Ari Fleischer, or Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, chief of staff to vice president Dick 'Dick' Cheney, in an effort to discredit [Miss] Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in connection with the use of allegedly unreliable documents concerning ... Hey! Wake up! This is important."