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Hurm.
"Let's stop shitting," indeed. I call a sit-down shit strike!
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JP, I love when he does that loud purring at the end.
Anyone read the link posted here yesterday about Miller, the one where someone responded that DC rumor suggests she may be CIA too?
Can't find it now, but it was an interesting tidbit with a good rationale.
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Karin : JP, I love when he does that loud purring at the end.
He knows no other way... I wasn't sure the mic would pick that up, but there ya go. Maybe it's because he's such a honkin' big cat -- 14 lbs. (certainly not a mutant farm cat, but pretty big for an young adult that isn't majorly obese).
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I remember that post fondly. It was my favorite Poorman post, and one of my favorites blog posts of all.
The last graph is what makes it:
…And, before you ask: no, I have no clue about how we can improve things in Iraq. I don’t have a single idea for how we can un-shit the bed, and I don’t hold out much hope that this whole bed-shitting episode is ever going to be brought to a lemony-fresh conclusion. I do, however, know who shit the bed, and have some sense of how frequently he shits there. Let’s stop shitting for a start.
Awesome.
Really, truly great "shit." Thanks for the re-view, Atrios.
I don't think Preznit Chimpy is able to stop shitting his bed. In fact he genuinely seems to enjoy shitting all over the place and flinging it all around the world.
I do, however, know who shit the bed, and have some sense of how frequently he shits there. Let’s stop shitting for a start.
So good it had to be repeated.
Bush likes to have Rove read My Pet Goat at bedtime.
I do, however, know who shit the bed, and have some sense of how frequently he shits there. Let’s stop shitting for a start.
Thing is, he shits *other* people's beds.
Never his own.
Some of the older Eschatoninans will remember as I do that at the end of Cronkite's newcasts during the Vietnam war, they would flash something like this on the screen....
Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed: 768
American casualties: 4 killed, 12 wounded.
This was later revealed to be complete fabrication.
As is anything anyone in the Administration or Pentagon says now about the "Insurgency".
I thought there was a "lump" in his bed.
Pete Schwetty:
Thing is, he shits *other* people's beds.
Never his own.
Maybe he shit his own this time, when he and his lackeys outed Valerie Plame.
Traitor.
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Ba'al -- and we will soon get some SERIOUS Shinola, what with the Truth Serum Tour, or whatever they're calling it.
Regarding the bogus casualty figures from the Vietnam war, I believed them when I was about 11 years old, pretty much knew they were bullshit by the time I was 15. I was not a particularly precocious child.
OK, now I get it. We're winning because we're shitting in their bed more than in our own!
If only that damn liberal media would report the true story about the shit in the beds, we'd all rally behind the Great Bed-Shitter.
(Jeb! made a teevee appearance about the hurricane preparedness, and managed not to blame the weather on Michael Schiavo. I think he's slipping.)
Non-human primates like to hurl their feces.
The problem is that our current press corps considers that to be high political discourse.
Maybe he shit his own this time, when he and his lackeys outed Valerie Plame.
The WH press corps would dearly love for that highly inconvenient story to vanish.
The WH press corps would dearly love for that highly inconvenient story to vanish.
Ba'al knows they're trying to help it do so.
OT-Thanks for the Judy Miller link last thread QuentinCompson. Very Interesting.
She relied especially heavily on the Office of Special Plans, an intelligence unit established beneath Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. The office was charged with uncovering evidence of Al Qaeda links to Saddam Hussein that the CIA might have missed.
Feith seems to be under every rock in the OSP. One of the many icky things that keep crawling around and then back under the same freaking rocks.
Left over from the last thread. By the time I finished reading the comments a new thread was up.
I think one aspect of media coverage for events like this is to set the tone for how we should be behaving under the circumstances. Great for ratings, prepares you for revenge...
Faux is great at this with its steady diet of at least one "outrage" piece a day.
Feith seems to be under every rock in the OSP.
Absolutely - Feith and whoever is working for Likud.
I love mysteries, especially if they involve spies and grand conspiracies. So, here are some reference points.
http://www.tompaine.com/
articles...ak_squealed.php
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07...corps-silent-6/
I think a logical followup to the David Corn article cited by Luke - is why has Miller gone to jail, while Cooper and Novak have not. The answer, in line with Corn’s argument, is that her source has not given her permission and she feels the need to protect that source. So her source is not the same as Cooper’s and Novak’s.
It has long been rumored that Miller is CIA or with some intelligence group within the pentagon. It was rumored, during the invasion of Iraq, that her activities when she was embedded went far beyond reporting. She was identified as actually calling the shots at certain points so that some military within her group wondered who she really was.
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I think a logical followup to the David Corn article cited by Luke - is why has Miller gone to jail, while Cooper and Novak have not. The answer, in line with Corn’s argument, is that her source has not given her permission and she feels the need to protect that source. So her source is not the same as Cooper’s and Novak’s.
This rumor would dovetail with the notion that her source is someone other than Karl Rove. That her source is someone actually in intelligence.
The rumor is that Fitzgerald is pursuing a crime far more serious than just revealing the identity of a CIA covert operative.
Just some ruminations.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/
cock...rn08182003.html
If she is CIA, it indicates that the Plame outing was more than just political dirty tricks from Bushies - it was one faction within the intelligence community that was promoting the war outing another faction of the community that was against the war.
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There’s also Miller’s ties to the neo-cons. She wrote a book with Laurie Mylroie and was a speaker for Benador Associates.
I sent a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today in response to a particularly vapid editorial column by their public affairs editor who was arguing the tired "freedom of the press" and "whistleblower" defense of Judith Miller. (I'd link to it, but it requires a subscription and I don't know how to get past it). They may or may not print it, but I thought I'd share it here (letter-to-the-editor whore alert):
Angela Tuck, like many journalists, is making a fundamental mistake in casting the jailing of Judith Miller as a threat to freedom of the press. The exposure of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame was arguably an act of treason that made America more vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction. The anonymous source Miller is protecting is not some courageous whistleblower protecting the public interest. This was an act of petty political revenge meant to advance a political agenda. No ethical journalist should protect the perpetrator of such an act.
Journalism today faces many serious problems, exemplified by the uncritical acceptance of false information on Iraq’s WMD’s, the Armstrong Williams payoff case, and the hysterical over-hyping of stories like the “Runaway Bride”. Journalists would do more to improve their profession and serve the public interest by finding ethical ways to address those problems rather than defending the likes of Miller.
There's a 150-word limit, so it's hard to be pithy and erudite.
It was disgusting listening to NPR reporters yesterday. They were holding the British in contempt for not getting hysterical, not being willing to surrender their civil liberties, and for treating the event with the sort of practical calm that grows from experience.
It is very difficult to "unshit the bed". How did a bedshitter get there in the first place?
And, I'm still giggling about my "G" rating from Gravatar...
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Jeffraham--re: Loud Kitty.
I think Mikey and Curly were separated at birth 
I immolate myself in tribute to Ba'al!
Still delicious though!
A parable from today's news.
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who'd left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media say.
There's an insurgency? I thought it was going absolutely swimmingly over there. I was sure I heard that they had to bring in extra flowers so the Iraqis could throw them at the passing US troops...or maybe that was grenades, not sure.
There's a 150-word limit, so it's hard to be pithy and erudite.
Looks like you did good to me.
The person I like is Ted Olson, who sat on the board with Novak at the Spectator during the Arkansas Project, later argued Bush v. Gore, went on to become Solictor General and most recently, by gosh, represented Matt Cooper.
It could be nothing, but it sure it tantalizing.
A parable from today's news.
Diane, yep. Said the same thing.
Doc, great letter!
And, I'm still giggling about my "G" rating from Gravatar.
MisterX-Well I got a G for mine too, and it clearly deserves a triple X.
Oh, and JP, the noisy Curly clip really upset my big dog Mia. She immediately started hunting down her kitten who was peacefully asleep in my lap.
Once she found Homie, she fixed me with a glare, as if I had done something wrong.
pie, Thanks for the kind words downstairs; I was away for a bit.
Oh, and sheets.
Doc, that's a great letter! You got the no-wmd's, Armstrong and the runaway bride, AND slammed Miller for protecting a traitor.
Very nice.
Yikes! I just skimmed Laurie Mylroie's pre-war interview for Frontline. It reads like something out of Dr. Strangelove.
You read this stuff in retrospect and the Anthrax attack, aimed exclusively at leading Democrats, takes on a whole new perspective.
Once I saw the names on those envelopes, there wasn't much doubt in my mind that they "weren't" of foreign origin, but jeesh. Read how they're parsed in the interview and they're bait for war.
You can't help but come away thinking someone, somewhere decided to try the "kill two birds with one stone" theory. Seed anthrax to Democratic Senate leadership (and the Dems controlled the senate then) and use that to promote war against Iraq, who has known stockpiles of anthrax (because we sold it to them).
Gimlet, I became put off with writer Tom Wolfe as he gradually ossified into a caricature of the socially conservative dandy-- come to think of it, an archetypal "fop" as Somerby has been calling media infotainers lately.
But Wolfe's characterization of the press and TV media in "The Right Stuff" was dead-on. In that book, a history of America's space program from the first Mach I flights to the end of the Mercury program, Wolfe has a field day describing how the media and especially LIFE Magazine handled the story.
I can't be bothered going into the basement and rooting through my boxes to locate the paperback, but IIRC, Wolfe sums up the media's role by personifying the media as a "Victorian Gent" whose prime directive is to discover and disseminate the correct tone of whatever they're reporting for the ostensible benefit of the public.
One may accurately substitue "spin" for "tone". Thus, LIFE (with its exclusive contracts) took the lead in characterizing the first astronauts as Heroes, relying on the atavistic meme of the Single-Combat hero who personifies the nation which he represents in battle. Any information that discredited this angle, this "tone", this spin, was discreetly ignored, suppressed, or disguised.
Reporting inconvenient facts such as the astronauts' occasional wild & crazy recreational activities and/or domestic troubles was simply Not Allowed, and so forth. Further, it would seem that the editorially-determined "correct tone" is always predicated on some simplistic, superficial, and suspect concept.
(Not-coincidentally, "It's US vs. THEM" is a common denominator.)
This insight remains fresh, trenchant, and noteworthy, in my opinion. The Victorian Gent is very much alive, and has in fact multiplied like a hydra. All this just to note that this "one aspect of media coverage" may be the main one!
Sallyh: I think Mikey and Curly were separated at birth
Twin brothers from separate mothers. From another planet. 
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Diane: Oh, and JP, the noisy Curly clip really upset my big dog Mia. She immediately started hunting down her kitten who was peacefully asleep in my lap.
Once she found Homie, she fixed me with a glare, as if I had done something wrong.
Hey, it's good that Mia is concerned about her housemate, though.
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BP--Mylroie's arguments have long since been discredited.
And then there's this, from Mylroie, "confirming" Saddam's role in 9/11 via the Czechs and Atta. It's dated 5/11/04, well after that Cheney argument was debunked. Of course, she blames Clinton in the article, but the propaganda element is striking.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Arti...le.asp?
ID=13323
BP--Mylroie's arguments have long since been discredited.
That may be, but her association with Miller hasn't, at least from what I've read. So, a review of her arguments in that context is revealing, particularly as they apply to speculation regarding Miller role in furthering war policy.
Oh, now I see the connection between the previous "crapped our pants" post and this one. Heh heh, I'm slow in the head.
Until the truth comes spilling out I gotta go with Chalabi as Millers source.He has been protected by the bush administration first as an ally,and then as an embarrassing double dealing power grabber.
He made too many enemies and knows too much about them for his name to surface in the investigation.
"Let's stop shitting for a start."
That's actually a pretty good slogan.
Shrub somehow managed to spend years in Texas without learning our First Rule of Holes:
When you're in one, stop digging!
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