The public doesn't care about Valerie Plame?

Fox News: Out of Touch with America FOX ANCHOR JON SCOTT: Fred, I guess I don’t get the sense that Americans, you know, across this great country are outraged about the Valerie Plame incident. They have some vague sense that something is amiss at the White House. FRED BARNES: This is a pretty minor scandal, I believe, when it involves the chief of staff of the vice president, and merely a perjury charge and false statements… [BREAK] I think this is a scandal that elites across America and people who are really interested in politics and Washington are aware of, but most people don’t care about it, nor should they. O'REILLY: All right. My thesis is this story dies for the public, it dies for the public on Monday. The public doesn't care about it. As Nico Pitney at Think Progress notes, there's an abundance of polls concluding that the public does indeed find the leak case of importance. The non-partisan Pew Research Center puts it succinctly here, comparing it with Clinton lying about sex: In contrast, fully 79% of Americans say the recent indictment of I. Lewis Libby, formerly a top aide to Vice President Cheney, on perjury and other charges is a matter of at least some importance to the nation; that is greater than the percentage who said that in 1998 about charges that former President Clinton lied under oath about a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky (65%). through Al Franken