Ben Domenech, 24 year old, should be the subject of two googlebombs by all bloggers.
The goal is to make the first google result for Ben be a link to goarmy.com, and the second google result for Ben be a link to Operation Yellow Elephant.
Today is an odd day, so I have googlebombed him with http://goarmy.com
jerry |
03.21.06 - 8:45 pm | #
Fitz, Feingold! Jane take care-- thinking about you and now going back to read the post with the lovely Tiffany gift.
angie |
03.21.06 - 8:45 pm | #
thanks for the link, jane. as always, it's nice to get visitors who aren't just looking for video of a monkey watching a cat (which i have linked to in that post, by the way).
james |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 8:46 pm | #
Great post.
No progressive should have a
subscription to this rag.
Semblance |
03.21.06 - 8:47 pm | #
ROFL at the picture and headline, and I haven't read a word yet. . .
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 8:48 pm | #
unbelievable writing Jane-- it is all precious. hard to choose between all the brilliance, but in light of the last thread, this stands out:
Fly, little wingnut, fly.
I hear Media Matters is hiring their own SWAT team just for Bughouse Ben.
angie |
03.21.06 - 8:49 pm | #
thanks for the link, jane! you a sweetheart, and great new blog look, too!
skippy |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 8:50 pm | #
I believe, based on the circumstantial evidence collected here, at my Kos Diary that Ben Domenech posts at RedState as front-pager "Augustine" - in which case there is a whole steaming shitpile of more great material for "hunting"...
The best pieces of evidence are, IMO,
1. the St. Augustine quote posted on bendomenech.com on the same day that Augustine started posting at RedState,
2. the fact that his "elite" bloggers on his blogroll are called "Augustinian Wonder boys,"
and
3. (the best piece of all) that RedState (per the WSJ article) sent Ben Domenech to the RNC to blog the convention. RedState has a whole section devoted to their RNC visit. Trevino (tacitus) posts a bunch, krempasky (Mike Krempasky) posts a bunch, "Nick Danger" (unknown) posts a bunch...and so does "Augustine"...
Domenech is either Augustine or Nick Danger. I think based on the other lines of evidence, that it is Augustine.
jerry @ 03.21.06 - 8:45 pm -- Sadly, I've written about all I'm going to on that turd. His first essay, if I may use that term in its loosest sense, is everything Jane says, and it's also the most self-important tripe I've read in the WaPo in some time.
I suggest everyone go over to the WaPo comments page and give them a piece of your mind. I already have.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 8:53 pm | #
Oh thank you Jane, this is hilarious.
Did you mean this as snark or inside joke for those of us who are HTML impaired...or was it a typoe? Looks like it should have registered as itals
lack of Red Dawn acumen
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 8:53 pm | #
Jane, the blogspot FDL links are redirected back here, such as the Ruffini link.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 8:54 pm | #
Methinks Turdblossom might have some very interesting pictures of Messieurs Hiatt and Brady.
Mark C |
03.21.06 - 8:55 pm | #
anyone else getting a blogger ad in the posts themselves? i'm using mozilla firefox. they're showing up right above the comments link.
sorry if this has been covered.
akgrrl |
03.21.06 - 8:55 pm | #
WaPo lays of 9% of workforce...could it be "folks" don't wanna read lies and spin and propoganda (all spelling from Webster's Bush Edition)....
Nah, keep up the good work FuckTards and ye'll be BK 'fore ye know what hit ya upside da head...
Just pathetic.
Hate Haloscan.
A. Citizen |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 8:55 pm | #
Well, heck. What I cut and pasted translated into itals in haloscan. I will put in spaces that this doesn't happen again:
lack of < i >Red Dawn< /i> acumen
Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 8:56 pm | #
Pithy with delightful overtones of snark-o-licious. Jane you are a goddess of snark and rant but you never fail to deliver substance by the bucketload.
Rubber Soul |
03.21.06 - 8:57 pm | #
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
District 6 Updated: 10:48 p.m.
62.4% of precincts reporting
Something being neglected, I think, is that redstate.org was created as a rightwing copy of DailyKos. Tacitus, one of the founders of redstate.org, was a DailyKos poster who has a bit of sense even if his politics are wrong. Seeing how successful DailyKos was becoming he and whomever else created redstate.org, literally duplicating what Kos had done.
Redstate.org, like all rightwing efforts, had to put in extra controls to censor content and suppress dissent. And Tacitus has since disowned redstate.org as just another wingnut echo chamber.
puppethead |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 8:59 pm | #
You know WaPo employees will be passing this link back and forth to each other from their yahoo accounts.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 8:59 pm | #
Hope you all will tolerate this repost from the last thread...
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I am sensing an EPU coming on but...
Sometimes when I get really frustrated with THings, I make graphics. Sometimes I send them to Jane, and sometimes she uses them. I bow to her wisdom.
However, during the travails of FDL moving house, I discovered that Blogger is free!! and quite easy to use for a tiny audience. So, I created a blog, and posted a few graphics this eve. If I were going to do serious blogging, I would blog about Bush's misuse of science, because that has impacted me directly.
But, in the meantime, here are some graphics for your amusement. Probably a sometime thing. Hope no one thinks I am blogwhoring!!!
Sizzzzzle! Wow, Jane is on fire! That is an amazing post, and Brady asked for it!
meta |
03.21.06 - 9:06 pm | #
Cujo359 | 03.21.06 - 9:02 pm
I thought so too. But I didn't see why it didn't translate into italics in the post. Looked right to me, but then I am HTML impaired. often
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:07 pm | #
I like that we have been using Rubber Stamp Republicans.
I have been trying to come up with a really snarky collective noun to precede Pet Rock Pundits.
Any suggestions?
Rubber Soul |
03.21.06 - 9:08 pm | #
I've had about 3 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours but I just couldn't let Brady down.
It's the least I could do.
jane hamsher | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 9:06 pm
MWAHAHAHA... geez, not only did you not let Brady down, you shoved him into the quicksand with the pole he was hoping to hold onto.
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:11 pm | #
Thanks, Jane, I've been waiting all day for this and it is super! I've written to the WaPo, the WaPoO, and Debbie and told them they gotta decide: it's either me or Ben. One of us is leaving. I've been a Post reader for longer than Ben's been alive. It's over. Him or me.
I won't miss the Post any more, and I hope (secretly!) that Ben stays because the amusement should be endless.
What a disaster. I guess they've decided at the Post to get swept out with the rest of the fascist trash. Katie Graham must be spinnin', simply spinnin'. And I gotta wonder when the stockholders are gonna call Donnie on his shit, because it's starting to hurt.
Valley Girl @ 03.21.06 - 9:07 pm -- I hope Jane wasn't trying to do that < > stuff we were discussing the other day ...
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 9:14 pm | #
TeddySanFran | 03.21.06 - 9:11 pm -- And I gotta wonder when the stockholders are gonna call Donnie on his shit, because it's starting to hurt.
I wonder how much they really care, sometimes. The newspaper business has fallen on hard times pretty much everywhere. The last time this discussion came up, I checked out the NYT and Gannett stocks and saw that they were doing a similar freefall. The only one that was doing well was Knight-Ridder, and that was when everyone figured they were about to be bought out by some winger consortium.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 9:18 pm | #
Valley Girl @ 03.21.06 - 9:07 pm -- I hope Jane wasn't trying to do that < > stuff we were discussing the other day ...
Cujo359 | 03.21.06 - 9:14 pm
Well, whatever, I just refreshed and it looks like Jane fixed it. Jane is so quick on the uptake!!!
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:20 pm | #
When you get around to working on the Blogroll, I noticed a couple of things that need fixing.
I clicked on "Larry Johnson" and got War and Piece. I clicked on "Glenn Greewald" and got a "can't find the server" post.
I've tried maybe half the others and they are working correctly.
Coyoteville |
03.21.06 - 9:23 pm | #
Great post, great links.
John Casper |
03.21.06 - 9:23 pm | #
Jane - Great post on the not-so-great Post. I wonder if Froomkin is insulted? He should be.
How do I get halo-scan to be small again? I'm using IE and haloscan now takes up most of my screen.
OhioBlue |
03.21.06 - 9:24 pm | #
Now this is writing.
Gotta flag this for best post nomination, next Koufax.
Margot |
03.21.06 - 9:24 pm | #
And these laugh are only matched by the source material uncovered across the blogosphere about our Little Wingnut.
I almost feel bad for this kid, but not enough to keep from him the education his home schooled nazi ass so richly deserves.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:24 pm | #
The Tiffany box is a lovely touch, Jane. But far too good for such tacky types.
Constant Reader |
03.21.06 - 9:25 pm | #
Ohio Blue: you can resize the window. It is doing the same for me all of the sudden.
MsAnnaNOLA |
03.21.06 - 9:27 pm | #
Coyoteville | 03.21.06 - 9:23 pm | #
Look at Jamie's post from earlier today titled Well It Has Been a Bumpy Ride.
You might want to leave your comment there as well.
RBG |
03.21.06 - 9:28 pm | #
From link on Atrios:
"Hopefully today's military action will be the first of a long campaign, though I've always preferred drop teams to smart bombs."
If Ben Domenech were a true journalist, he would know that the AP Stylebook (along with many grammarians) does not allow the use of "hopefully" in that manner, as a sentence modifier.
neurophius |
03.21.06 - 9:28 pm | #
overworking today ... so just dropping by
IL primaries today and interesting ... they've added "new voting systems" and are surprised that the vote is coming in so slowly - esp from Black neighborhoods? only 37% counted so far when normally the results would already be clear .
CBL yesterday was asking about a new Fisk column and I think the following is the one CBl was looking for ... thought for once I'd share the whole thing instead of simply linking since Fisk details the "no civil war" position and some other key background on Iraq that folks may not know - sorry for length (consider it a substitute for the multiple comments I would have left if I was drowning in work!)
The march of folly, that has led to a bloodbath
The Iraq War: Three Years On
By Robert Fisk
03/20/06 "The Independent" -- -- It is the march of folly. In 1914, the British, French, and Germans though they would be home by Christmas. On the 9th of April 2003, corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, 4th US Marine Regiment - the very first American to enter Baghdad - borrowed my satellite phone to call his home in Michigan. "Hi you guys, I'm in Baghdad," he told his mother. "I'm ringing to say 'Hi, I love you. I'm doing fine. I love you guys.' The war will be over in a few days. I'll see you all soon."
They were tough, those marines, big-boned men with muck on their faces and ferocity in their eyes - they had been fighting for days without sleep - but they too were on the same lonely journey of despair that the Old Contemptables and the Frenchpoilus and the Bavarian infantry embarked upon almost a century ago.
Was this because we no longer have leaders who have experienced war at first hand? When I grew up, Churchill and MacMillan were Prime Ministers, men who fought in the First World War and who led us through the Second World War. Eden had been in the wartime Cabinet with Churchill. Tito had been wounded by German shellfire in Yugoslavia, Jack Kennedy had commanded a torpedo boat in the Pacific, de Gaulle fought in the Great War, and later helped to liberate France from the Nazis, but Blair, however much he may claim to be a friend of God, has no such distinction; nor Bush, who dodged Vietnam; nor Cheney, who also dodged Vietnam; nor Gordon Brown, nor Condoleezza Rice; nor John Howard of Australia. Colin Powell was in Vietnam; but he has gone, trailing his ignominious February 2003 UN performance on weapons of mass destruction.
Instead, the little men dressed up in the clothes of dead titans. Bush and Blair thought they were Churchills or Roosevelts. They flaunted themselves along with Aznar of Spain as the Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin; though I never discovered which of them was supposed to play the Soviet mass-murderer, as they conspired in the Azores for war. They claimed that Saddam was the Hitler of Baghdad. My old, messianic friend Tom Friedman, a New York Times columnist, got it right when he described Saddam as part Donald Duck and part Don Corleone, but this was not the kind of reality that Bush or Blair were interested in.
They were the quick-fix men, the instant statesmen, the guys who had handle on war. Post-war control and reconstruction? Forget it, the Iraqis will do as we tell them after they have greeted us with roses and songs. Winston Churchill set up a British cabinet committee to organise the administration of post-war occupied Germany in 1941: four years before the end of the Second World War, and at a time when we still expected aWehrmacht invasion of Britain. The Churchill frauds had not even bothered to create such a committee fordays before their invasion of Iraq.
For this was to be an ideological war. From its creation by the loonies of the American right - as a pro-Israeli policy to aid Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu - and then foisted on Bush, to the hell-disaster that Iraq now represents, the real war had to be turned into myth; nightmares into dreams; destruction into hope; terrible truths into profound mendacity.
Even today the occupation powers tell awesome lies. Democracy is taking hold when the "Iraqi" government controls only a few acres of Baghdad greensward. The insurgency is being crushed when 40,000 armed Iraqis are ripping into the greatest army on Earth; freedom is taking hold when thousands of Iraqis are dying each month. "Operation Swarmer" is now supposedly targeting those who want a civil war in Iraq. Some of the men who are trying to provoke civil war however, work for the Iraqi Interior Ministry, and are paid, ultimately, by us.
For the truth, we should turn to a well-known analyst who warned us that in Iraq, the British have been "led into a trap from which it shall be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told. Our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows ... We are today not far from a disaster." This is the most concise and accurate account I have yet read of our present folly.
It was written about the British occupation of Iraq in 1920 by Lawrence of Arabia. In the long nights of 2003, when the dangers of each day under US bombardment were replaced by the insomnia of bomb-blasts in the Baghdad darkness outside. I would curl up like an animal in my bed and thumb through the predictions of this present folly.
I read a fearful prophecy by the evangelical preacher Pat Buchanan written five months before we illegally invaded Iraq. "This invasion will not be the cakewalk neo-conservatives predict," he said. "Terrorist attacks in liberated Iraq seem as certain as in liberated Afghanistan. For a militant Islam ... will never accept George Bush dictating the destiny of the Islamic world ... Pax Americana will reach apogee but then the tide recedes; for the one endeavour at which Islamic peoples excel is expelling imperial powers by terror and guerrilla warfare." There were the dreary precedents. Muslims drove the Brits out of Palestine and Aden; the French out of Algeria; the Russians out of Afghanistan; the Americans out of Somalia; and Beirut, the Israelis out of Lebanon. As Buchanan wrote, "we have started up the road to empire, and over the next hill we will meet those who went before." However, we shall not count the bodies.
What was it Bush told us a few weeks ago? That 30,000 Iraqis had been killed since the invasion, his very words a racist admission; for what he actually said was: "30,000 more or less". More or less, give or take a few hundred. Would he have dared to say that US casualties were "2,000 more or less"? Of course not. Our dead are precious; they are individuals with widows and children. The Iraqis? Well, they are lesser beings whose casualties cannot be revealed to us by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, on orders from the Americans and British; creatures whose suffering, far greater than our own, must be submerged in the democracy and freedom in which we are drowning them; whose casualties "More or less" are probably nearer to 150,000. After all, if 1,000 Iraqis could die by violence last July - in Baghdad alone; and if they are being killed at 60 or 70 a day, then we have a near genocidal bloodbath on our hands. Iraqis, however, are now ourUntermenschen for whom, frankly, we do not greatly care.
Civil war? There never was a civil war? It is a tribal, not a sectarian society. Some organisation wants a civil war; oddly, it was an occupation force's spokesman, a certain Dan Senor, who first warned of civil war in Iraq at an Anglo-American press-conference in 2003. Why? We talk of civil war far more than the Iraqis do. Why? Repeatedly, we are told that Iraqis and Westerners are kidnapped by "Men wearing police uniforms" or by "Men wearing army uniforms".
What is this nonsense? Are we really to believe that there is a vast warehouse in Fallujah containing 8,000 made-to-measure police uniforms for potential insurgents? No! The truth is that many of the policemen and soldiers or Iraq, upon whose loyalty and courage our retreat, according to Bush, depends, are themselves insurgents. So deeply have the nationalists/Islamists forces infiltrated these men that the Bush-Blair promises of withdrawal are the very opposite of the truth. We are on our own. We may persuade our ex-spooks, like the former "interim prime minister" Iyad Alawi, who obediently claimed yesterday that therewas a civil war in progress, to try to frighten Iraqis. The reality is that our armed presence in Iraq is destroying an entire people.
So we proceed down the crumbling staircase. Let us forget the weapons of mass destruction; the 45-minute warning; the links between Saddam and 11 September 2001; the dossiers; and the lies; and our torture - yes, torture, at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay; and the ever-widening chasm between Blair's tomfoolery and the truth. Bush told us yesterday that "More sacrifices will be required". You bet they will be if we continue this march of folly.
I googled "jejune truthiness" - no hits. Jane, you are so unique that you have boggled google. And who can forget picking "through the underwear drawers of Quakers?"
op99 |
03.21.06 - 9:28 pm | #
Pachacutec | 03.21.06 - 9:24 pm
Any speculation as to how long the Little Wingnut is gonna last at WaPooo? You do have a gift for seeing...
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:29 pm | #
Constant Reader: I think the Tiffany box is for Jane but she would have been happy with a card. he he
MsAnnaNOLA |
03.21.06 - 9:29 pm | #
Q. What's the difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times?
A. One is a rabidly right-wing piece of fishwrap stuffed to the gills with RNC talking points, and the other is owned by Rev. Moon.
al-Scooter |
03.21.06 - 9:29 pm | #
...tumescent little outpost of wingnuttia
His seamless absorption into your site...
...a full-on jingoistic feces flinger to feature on the Post...
Read that one over and over. Never seen anything hit so hard and so square as the WaPo was by that post.
BullGoose |
03.21.06 - 9:31 pm | #
al-Scooter | 03.21.06 - 9:29 pm
I haven't been keeping up, so I am confused. Which one is owned by Rev. Moon?
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:32 pm | #
Jane,
I thought that you were a producer, not a writer. You just about killed me. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breath. I can see it now. My roomie comes back in a week and finds me dead against my computer screen with your post up. Visualize my death certificate... Death by Snark.
lisadawn82 |
03.21.06 - 9:32 pm | #
Valley Girl
I don't know - how often is he scheduled to write for WaPo?
By the end of this week all concerned will be looking for a graceful exit. This kid is about to become famous, and not in a good way.
I expect the exit will be that he decides not to continue because all the nastiness and "death threats" from the evil left wing have placed so much stress on his family.
The Jim Guckert playbook.
Really, I feel bad about the hits this kids is gonna take, but then, he's an adult. His parents set him up for this with their wingnuttia, and little Ben is about to inherit the wind.
My god, what will Wolcott say? I think he'll take it easy on the kid, because with all the guy has written, it's just too easy. NOt sporting.
The real ones to hit are Brady and the whole Conservative Establishment Media (expect to be seeing that phrase a lot more).
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:35 pm | #
from the Chicago Sun-Times:
District 6 Updated: 11:23 p.m.
75.7% of precincts reporting
Still no projected winner, and this is the only Dem. primary that doesn't have one yet. Looks like it could go all night.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 9:35 pm | #
Moonie Times = Washington Times.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:35 pm | #
Valley Girl | 03.21.06 - 9:32 pm | #
It's getting hard to tell one sheet of bird cage liner from the other, no?
al-Scooter |
03.21.06 - 9:35 pm | #
Valley Girl | 03.21.06 - 9:29 pm
I have to think the WaPo is simply using him as a lightning rod. I think their theory is that he will draw our attention from Debbie, John WATB Harris, church lady, and everyone else. In addition, I think they want him to attack us. Perhaps they also want to see if they can draw consistent traffic away from Redstate. If they can, they might look into hiring other bloggers. They just forced eighty people into early retirement. I think they are trying to make the interactive side more profitable. WAG alert
John Casper |
03.21.06 - 9:37 pm | #
If I am not mistaken, when the Deborah Howell fracas was in full sway, Jay Rosen was defending Jim Brady as one of the truly decent and sensible guys in Big Media.
I think you give them more credit for deep thinking than they deserve. Not to say that it wouldn't be a "good" strategy- oh, wait... they might be reading... ;)
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:41 pm | #
siun @ 03.21.06 - 9:28 pm -- IL primaries today and interesting ... they've added "new voting systems"
Very new, it appears. They're made by Sequoia Voting Systems, which I'd not heard of before. Apparently, their president and chief engineer are in Illinois for this election.
Someday, I hope people wake up and realize that it takes a lot more than buying a some machines and going to a class to make something like this work.
And the 1914 analogy from that article is apt, as would be the Union's attitude at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 9:42 pm | #
Brady would do well right about now to take a powder and a lesson or two from Helen Thomas. The tide is turning... or maybe his handlers have not seen the polls or the wrath of Hamsher.
angie |
03.21.06 - 9:42 pm | #
Are denizens of this blog favoring one of the above? Which one?
neurophius |
03.21.06 - 9:43 pm | #
I want to know when the Little Wingnut will be at the WaPo offices.
I'd like to send him a singing drag-queen-o-gram, as a special welcome from us at FDL.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:43 pm | #
Josh Marshal on Domenech:
"Little did I know this Ben Domenech gambit from the Post was a secret plot to create the grist for more Abramoff blogging.
You see, it turns out the Domenech family came in for a number of Bush administration appointments. Not only Ben, but Ben's dad, Doug, who was White House liaison to the Department of Interior.
Or to put it more colloquially, White House guy to make sure Jack Abramoff got what he wanted with the Indians and the Pacific Island stuff.
Wayne Smith was the point man for Indian casino policy at the Department of Interior. He ended up having kind of a rough ride over at Interior. And, according to Smith, as reported last year in the Denver Post, Domenech told him "we had to pay attention to [Jack] Abramoff, because otherwise the religious right and (Ralph) Reed are going to come up and bite us, and our whole base will go crazy. They will light up our phones, shut down our phone lines."
According to Smith, Domenech was the conduit for Abramoff operative Italia Federici. "Doug would come down and say, 'Italia called and Jack wants this' That's how it all happened internally."
Probably not the last fun quote from these quarters."
hobo |
03.21.06 - 9:44 pm | #
They "might" be reading?
Trust me: they are reading.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:44 pm | #
Jane, two questions:
1) When are we going to have a
Ben Domenech worst-quote contest?
2) Would you be willing to comment every day on his latest?
neurophius |
03.21.06 - 9:46 pm | #
I'd like to send him a singing drag-queen-o-gram, as a special welcome from us at FDL.
Pachacutec | 03.21.06 - 9:43 pm | #
Please, please tell me when you plan to do this. I work one block over from the Washington Post. I wanna see the drag-queen-o-gram. I'll even throw in some dough to cover the cost.
lisadawn82 |
03.21.06 - 9:46 pm | #
Pachacutec | 03.21.06 - 9:43 pm
MWAHAHA... but the guy's a blooger, right? I mean, he can stay home all day in his PJs. Sadly, for the sake of your glorious purpose, I doubt that LW will ever appear at the WaPo offices. At least not without a lot of makeup...
Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:49 pm | #
Jeebus, I can't believe how hard I'm laughing!
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:49 pm | #
Hey, Rubber Soul, how about "passel"? A passel of Pet Rock Pundits.
Sandia Blanca |
03.21.06 - 9:50 pm | #
OT: but this over at crooks and Liars made me laugh out loud...
Pat Robertson making an ass of himself for the umpteenth time.
whats a drop team? I have never heard of that, but then I only did 7 years of service. And correct me if I am wrong but you need a team to paint the laser on the target for a smart bomb. so...
24? shit, I got boots older than that.
Hubris Sonic |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 9:52 pm | #
neurophius @ 03.21.06 - 9:43 pm -- Can't speak for all the denizens, but Christine Cegelis is a genuine progressive, and Tammy Duckworth is a carpetbagger brought in by Rahm Emanuel (sp?). You may be able to tell that I favor Cegelis :)
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 9:52 pm | #
Hubris Sonic @ 03.21.06 - 9:52 pm -- whats a drop team?
My guess is that it's an important element in paintball.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 9:54 pm | #
Pachacutec | 03.21.06 - 9:44 pm
I agree Pach.
Influential blogs, such as FDL, have become the quality control unit for the political writers at the WaPo and the NYT's. They know we're reading their stuff, so they are reading FDL.
John Casper |
03.21.06 - 9:54 pm | #
Trust me: they are reading.
Pachacutec | 03.21.06 - 9:44 pm | #
Then they might as well be advised that Milbank deadpanning in the orange getup on KO was the funniest thing on TV in freakin' decades.
For one brief, shining instant I actually regained some respect for the non-Froomkin, non-Pincus WaPoo. Can't believe that The Howler chewed his rear for that unforgettable humanization of current events.
al-Scooter |
03.21.06 - 9:54 pm | #
Great letter! And congratulations on your spanking new domain and design!
Madeleine Kane |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 9:55 pm | #
Given the Abramoff connection, would it be fair to ask Ben if his dad is still in the mafia? Is Ben the "Christopher Soprano" of the Post?
Maybe it would be more polite to ask Ben how often he got to go to Abramoff's house, or on a trip "sponsored" by Abramoff. Was the tee time appropriate to Benny's needs?
How about asking him why he was home-schooled? Is it that he failed the entrance exam to get into one of Abramoff's schools?
Enquiring minds and all that...
Jeff Boatright |
03.21.06 - 9:56 pm | #
Jane, two questions:
1) When are we going to have a
Ben Domenech worst-quote contest?
2) Would you be willing to comment every day on his latest?
neurophius | 03.21.06 - 9:46 pm
Frankly, I don't think that would be a good use of FDL bandwidth. After all, the guy's words pretty much speak for themselves. No point in giving this diva more attention than he deserves. But, Brady, the object and recipient of Jane's the aspholes are turning letter, does deserve another fly-by, as appropriate.
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Valley Girl |
03.21.06 - 9:58 pm | #
Abramoff's schools were Jewish.
Jews who don't convert will be left behind.
No, our Little Wingnut has all the right influences, and so he feels guilty as hell for all the jerking off he's doing.
Pachacutec |
03.21.06 - 9:59 pm | #
The Domanech thing -- how the mighty have fallen is all I have to say. Knuckledragger infiltrates the librul media at last, etc.
What bothers me more is the incredibly sycophantic editorial Mr. Bush Unvarnished which also appeared today. What planet are these folks on, anyway? WaPo has always sucked up to what it imagined elite opinion to be, but can the editors really be so stupid as to miss the fact that "George the decisive" is, at this point, so OVER?
William Timberman |
03.21.06 - 9:59 pm | #
pach - I think washingtonpost.com is located in Arlington. I wouldn't want the singing-drag-queen-o-gram to go to the wrong place.
OhioBlue |
03.21.06 - 10:00 pm | #
Hi Jane,
Just wanted to let you know that your rss feed hasn't been updated since the 15th - around the time you said you were about to move to the new site.
op99 | 03.21.06 - 9:28 pm
great catch!
lisadawn82 | 03.21.06 - 9:32 pm |
Please partake of the archives. It's not like this post is unusual. Your comment is very helpful, though, because too often we take Jane's extraordinarily rare gifts for granted.
John Casper |
03.21.06 - 10:01 pm | #
pach - I think washingtonpost.com is located in Arlington. I wouldn't want the singing-drag-queen-o-gram to go to the wrong place.
OhioBlue | 03.21.06 - 10:00 pm | #
The vast majority of WaPo journalists are people of common sense whom Brady, in pursuit of fairness, has found it necessary to counterbalance.
Tom |
03.21.06 - 10:01 pm | #
Thanks for the suggestion to leave my above post, and the following, at the earlier post. I was aware that Jane plans to work on the blogroll when she has time (alphabetizing seemed to be the most common request).
Anyway, Jane, I went through the entire blogroll and found the following:
"seeing the forest" goes to their old site.
"jay rosen" goes to his old site, but it is rapidly updated.
heretik, howie klein, world o' crap, agonist, roger ailes, brad delong, vinyl mine, and liberal oasis all go to a "can't be found" because they have a double "http:http//" address.
Earlier I posted that I clicked on "Larry Johnson" and got War and Piece. I clicked on "Glenn Greewald" and got a "can't find the server" post.
War and Piece deserves its own listing, IMHO.
Coyoteville |
03.21.06 - 10:06 pm | #
Cheap column inches.
Nothing more, or less.
Davis X. Machina |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 10:06 pm | #
"Red Dawn"?
More like, "Sunset at the Post."
Jeff Boatright |
03.21.06 - 10:07 pm | #
Valley Girl | 03.21.06 - 9:58 pm |
I agree. IMHO the real low hanging fruit is with the WaPo bestowing its "imprimatur" on kind of a nuanced David Duke.
John Casper |
03.21.06 - 10:07 pm | #
Cool Pool
Apparently they have a very nice pool that our tax dollars built in Iraq. I guess if there was any doubt in our minds we would be in Iraq forever (at least if Bush and gang are in charge) the presser with Bush and this pic/article put an end to that.
I actually really liked Red Dawn, but I have a soft spot for cheesy apocalyptic movies.
Interesting the difference worldview can make, though, isn't it? I always considered the pro-gun and commie themes to be satire. I honestly didn't know that anyone took them seriously.
seepeesate |
03.21.06 - 10:10 pm | #
Joe Scary Barrel had "Little Ralphie Reed" on tonight to spin the presser. First I've seen him since the Scandal Jack plea deal. He looked like he's spent the last 3 months in a Bangkok opium den.
Gyro Gear Lose |
03.21.06 - 10:11 pm | #
William Timmerman - I agree. That editorial made me gag. I think the entire WaPo editorial board has become closet born-arains in their zealous support of Bush. They have never apologized for their incessant drumbeat in favor of the war - I guess they're still praying they were right.
OhioBlue |
03.21.06 - 10:12 pm | #
drop team → when the soldiers are dropped off at stage by rappelling down from a helicopter, maybe? Anyway, given his apparent chickenhawk status, what right has he to speak of his “preference”? Bull-Run picnickers, indeed.
prostratedragon |
03.21.06 - 10:13 pm | #
That was freaking beautiful.
My fave Ben-o-gram is this:
>Yesterday, standing under the arched gazebo at Oatlands plantation, I asked Caroline to marry me. She said yes.
>When we first met, Caroline knew me more from what I wrote in a column in the college paper than from any conversations we had. Our interests and our tastes were different -- in people, in movies, in music. She was very Baptist, and I was very not Baptist. About the only things we seemed to share was agreement about faith, politics, Italian food, and quirky senses of humor.
>Yet two weeks ago, when I drove down to Roanoke to ask for her father’s blessing (the unbelievably kind man that he is, he asked me to watch the Redskins game with him afterwards), there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that she is and always was the right one for me. Not just because of what we have in common and what we don’t, because of the fun times and the hard times we've been through together over the past two years.
>But because I love her, and she loves me. In the end, that’s all that matters.
>Today is a beautiful day.
Ah, oh, this, today, this very moment, is a very special moment on a beautiful day.
Walking with Rovesaratops |
03.21.06 - 10:15 pm | #
Davis X. Machina @ 03.21.06 - 10:06 pm -- Cheap column inches. Nothing more, or less.
Yep. They can hire two of him for the price of one real reporter.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 10:15 pm | #
MsAnnaNOLA | 03.21.06 - 10:09 pm
i am glad that my friends in Gulf War 1 never got to swim in that cess pool-- they were tired, hungry, afraid and dirty, but a lot came home to us. that is chilling to see-- a military base with an olympian sized pool. not for kids-- no water for them, nope, none for the poor, the elderly, the sick or the people in general, but a huge beautiful swimming pool.
angie |
03.21.06 - 10:16 pm | #
God Jane,
You give such a beautiful kiss off, to such a bottom dweller as Brady.
Brady would be a fool not to chafe under your domain.
To bad he's neutered already.
Gentleman Jim |
03.21.06 - 10:16 pm | #
Jane,I will have to be careful readin'your work,Took me 10 min. to cleanup the keyboard[please,please dont ever get mad at me
snuffy |
03.21.06 - 10:18 pm | #
"New Blog: Red America
"We've launched Red America, a new blog by Ben Domenech that will offer a daily mix of commentary, analysis and cultural criticism.
Domenech is a co-founder of RedState, a Republican community blog, and an editor at Regnery Press. He worked previously as a speechwriter for former HHS Secretary Tommie Thompson, as chief speechwriter for Texas Sen. John Cornyn and as a contributing editor to National Revew Online" http://blog.washingtonpost.com/
w...ed_america.html
All I could find in the WaPo about Ben. Perhaps hiring Ben was a way to tell Rover to STFU. I bet the WaPo is still pissed that after all the WaPo has done for this WH, DeadEye gave that "exclusive" to FOX news.
John Casper |
03.21.06 - 10:20 pm | #
Just wondering. Considering the reaction to the Post's hiring a conservative blogger, why is it any different that Time pays Sullivan to blog? Is the situation really any different?
Even though Andrew's a moderate republican, and has come out against many of Bush's policies, he is still a conservative, he influences people to vote Republican, and Time pays for him to do it.
Why don't they have a liberal blogger too?
sans-culotte |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 10:21 pm | #
Here's an interesting tidbit about Ben Domenech. Turns out Ben isn't the only Bush appointee in the family. His dad, Doug Domenech, former Loudon County Republican Committee Chairman, was appointed in January, 2002, as the White House Liaison for the Department of the Interior.
Nice catch TeddySanFran. These are the first three from the WaPo's blog.
"Disgusting. What is he supposed to be balancing? Once again, the Post falls victim to its own infantile insistence upon false equivalence. Did you ever notice how a conservative's idea of 'balance' is one conservative and one journalist? Dan Froomkin is not a liberal commentator. Dana Milbank is not a liberal commentator. By bringing on board a writer whose brief career has been dedicated to creating the divide in this country, you engage the machinery of the Post to sustain it. I urge you not to 'bring on a liberal blogger to balance,' but rather simply to terminate this new feature. It serves as no more than a merit badge on the way to full status as the Washington Times. I'll be letting my print subscription expire.
Posted by: Ben | March 21, 2006 04:36 PM
Now that you have a thread you can answer the questions...
1. Who is this supposedly "balancing", or can we anticipate you will be hiring Kos, Stoller, or another Liberal blogger for Balance?
2. No, Froomkin doesn't count. Froomkin, while adversarial, sources his material carefully. Ben is a full bore bloviator with little to no sourcing.
3. On Froomkin. Why is his sourced column give the warning label "OPINION:", while Ben's pure bloviation blog isn't?
4. Also on Froomkin. The minute he was hit with "liberal", Lovey Howell and the WH crew launched a published attack on him. The same for Milbank, because he wore a funny outfit on TV.
Now you go out of your way to hire a right-wing bloviator. Uh...institutional balance, much?
5. As a final question, related to #1...so are you admitting the Post is liberally biased, or do you simply not give a damn about balance? Can't have it both ways, kiddies. Either you now much hire a "Blue America" blogger (see #1 for examples) for balance, or you are tacitly admitting that the Post was biased to start. Which is it gonna be?
Otherwise, you're like Howie Kurtz on CNN, pterending that a panel with Milbank, Vandehei, and a wing-nut like Ingrahm is "balanced".
Posted by: That's fab | March 21, 2006 04:44 PM
What's up with the gutless "no comments" on "Red America". I realize almost all of the Conservative blogosphere has no cojones to allow them, but why the exemption by the Post? Was it a condition he required?
In any event, yet another special allowance.
Losing credibility real fast over there. Then again, I read that the Washington Times may go under soon, so maybe you're trying to shift into their market niche.
Great quotes, DoD. I'm sending them to wingers. I hope they choke on them.
Margot |
03.21.06 - 10:26 pm | #
John Casper | 03.21.06 - 10:20 pm |
The WaPo can only murmur,"whip me, chain me" to Ben, he knows no earthly bounds.
Ah! this society is false. One day, and soon, the true society will come. Then there will be no more lords; there will be free, living men. There will be no more wealth, there will be abundance for the poor. There will be no more masters, but there will be brothers. They that toil shall have. This is the future. No more prostration, no more abasement, no more ignorance, no more wealth, no more beasts of burden, no more courtiers, no more kings---but LIGHT!"
Or as Jon Stewart might say, "maybe not so much"
Gentleman Jim |
03.21.06 - 10:27 pm | #
sans - I think part of the problem is that Little Debbie attacked Froomkin and said that the WP should get a conservative blogger to balance Dan.
OhioBlue |
03.21.06 - 10:28 pm | #
well, as they say, it's not what you know, it's who you know, or something like that. the right wing media in full flight, clutching their pearls (and asses.) jar 33% and falling..........
angie |
03.21.06 - 10:28 pm | #
Just one other thing: it can't be about Domanech being 24 and home schooled. Jedidiah Purdy was 23 and home schooled when he published For Common Things, in my opinion, one of the best essays on modern culture written in the last fifty years.
William Timberman |
03.21.06 - 10:30 pm | #
Sorry it's off-topic, but I can't help it: there's a new filing from Fitzgerald, regarding the PDB material that Libby is going to get. There are a variety of things at issue, including that the CIA needs more time to pull the stuff together, but the really juicy bit is this on p. 5:
After reviewing the sample of documents and proposed topic overviews compiled by the CIA, the EOP and CIA determined that, while all of the responsive documents are protected by privilege, including executive privilege, and thus a blanket claim of privilege reasonably could be asserted, in light of the Court's ruling limiting production to redacted documents and topic overviews, and assuming that access to such redacted documents or topic overview would be limited to defendant and his attorneys in the SCIF as proposed by defendant (see R. 63 at 10), there is a reasonable prospect that the government could avoid a blanket assertion of privilege and instead be able to comply with the Court's Order while asserting executive privilege with respect to a discrete number of materials, if any.
Now, there are a lot of qualifications in there (it's only a reasonable prospect, not a done deal; the specific privilege claims could bulk large, or be a problem regardless). But so far, the shorter version seems to be: no greymail working here. Which strikes me as unexpected, coming from the EOP and considering we're dealing with PDBs.
Jeff |
03.21.06 - 10:32 pm | #
That's Jedediah. This late at night, even the preview function fails me.
William Timberman |
03.21.06 - 10:33 pm | #
I agree with seepeesate, I liked Red Dawn too. Serioulsy. Saw it on TV one night around 3 AM. It seemed OK. I don't think it's camp, and shame on rightwingers for dragging it through the mud by making it an icon of their stupidity. The Cuban invaders at the start was a bad move, totally unbelievable, but it got better when the Roooskies arrived. Almost as realistic as The Russians Are Coming.
I didn't know rightwingers got all inspired an' shit over it. But I'm a liberal and I get all weepy over great earnest liberal ideological icons of truth , like Marx Bros. Duck Soup (oops, did I give myself away?), and that timeless statement of liberal pieties, Coconuts and Horsefeathers. And then, Doc Strangelove.
Question is, at his young age and given his inexperience, can Mr. D compete with real juvenile lightweights like Tierney and Brooks at NYT? Can he lickspittle and fawn like Kondracke, garble twist brutalize and mislead like Krauthammer? Does he have the bad faith and hypocracy of a George Will. I am not sure he is ready, and like Pach, I am worried this will damage him.
The whole thing is surreal.
Valley Girl: I gagged at one of the pics on your bloglette. But the point was good.
wesgpc |
03.21.06 - 10:33 pm | #
Can you share a link to that Jeff?
sans-culotte |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 10:34 pm | #
Jeff | 03.21.06 - 10:32 pm | #
Great find Jeff. Would you share a link to the source?
RBG |
03.21.06 - 10:39 pm | #
angie:
re Iraq just found this jem about missing Billions in Iraq from guardian UK via truthout.org
I think this mismanagement needs to be publicised as much as the rest. Wholesale theft of the Iraqi rebuilding funds by BushCo cronies is unbelievable. Like you said no water for the children...
G-Night you guys it is late in central time! See you on the flip side. I am tickled that the new site is working now!
MsAnnaNOLA |
03.21.06 - 10:39 pm | #
sans-culotte: hello if you're still here. I guess we will get a little test run on how robust value of dollar is in foreign exchange market, what with UAE and Saudi Arabia threatening to dump some of their reserves. And I was behind the times when some here were right: Russia and Saudi Arabia now largest US dollar reserve holders behind PRC. It will be interesting to see what happens. I still don't think an oil exchange would do much one way or the other, though.
wesgpc |
03.21.06 - 10:40 pm | #
TeddySanFran @ 03.21.06 - 10:22 pm -- Thanks, Teddy, it just got a little snarkier.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 10:43 pm | #
ROFL...
On the WaPoo blog this excerpt by "dave", about things Bennie said about one of his heros:
* Claude Allen is as clearcut as a razor's edge. He's a stand-up, principled Virginian. [5/13/03] (Ben Domanech)
"Claude Allen, of course, was recently arrested for a felony theft scheme."
Oh yea we can hang that around his neck, he wuvs Claude. Mwahahahaa
Shez |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 10:45 pm | #
drop team → when the soldiers are dropped off at stage by rappelling down from a helicopter, maybe?
no. thats called an insertion.
Hubris Sonic |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 10:46 pm | #
I want to film a new version of the video, " i'm in love with a stripper",
Karl Rove peeking timidly from behind the curtains, in the wings, at the daily press briefing. Making brief eye contact with Jeff Gannon, then slinking back quickly to avoid the darting, knowing glances of Dick Gregory and Helen Thomas.
He slumps, back against the wall, looks up to the presidential seal across from him and starts singing" I'm in luv wif a strippar..."
Exit stage left, Hadley and McClellan in full Adidas gear including headbands, with gold fronts and ropes, doing the runnin man. Doing the backing vocals, "and he rocks and he rolls.."
You get the point. Totally off subject, but where is Lorne Michael's when you need him...
wyonate |
03.21.06 - 10:47 pm | #
wesgpc @ 03.21.06 - 10:33 pm -- If you take it as just entertainment, it's not so bad. The problem is, many people don't, and there's enough of an undercurrent of chauvinism in it to leave me cold.
Oh, and thank goodness the Cubans showed up. Their commander was the only character I liked.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 10:53 pm | #
Thanks for the Fisk article, Siun
.
Griffon |
03.21.06 - 10:54 pm | #
The best thing about this upcoming Domenech fiasco is there is No. Way. In. Hell! that Brady is ever going to fire this kid. Domenech is his way of getting back at all those nasty ol' liberal bloggers, and come hell or high water, he's gonna keep him front and center, no matter what.
Tacitus has since disowned redstate.org as just another wingnut echo chamber.
Oh, good God.
Homeschoolers bad, Jane. How conventional of you!
Josh Trevino |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 10:55 pm | #
Like Lafayette, I'm in love with Jane too and not in a purely heterosexual kind of way either.
Gen. JC Christian, patriot |
03.21.06 - 10:58 pm | #
Oh, c'mon, it's not about being home-schooled. It's about being home-schooled and then agreeing to be interviewed when you're 15 about being home-schooled.
Cujo359: I think that there are large doses of juvenile male chauvinism in many Hollywood movies, so I don't even count that for regular Hollywood "product" -which is what I consider Red Dawn to be. And I agree that the Cuban commander was very good, even if Cubans leading the invasion seemed silly to me.
I did like a few sequences in that movie, and I really don't think it is bad enough to be campy, but my comment should be filed under dry snark. I had no idea that it had become a wingnut icon. I feel sad for them. I'll take Duck Soup and Doctor Strangelove any day.
wesgpc |
03.21.06 - 11:01 pm | #
RBG - It's up on the Pacer system, I don't think you can really link to the docket report for the case. But the case number is, more or less,
1:05cr00394
Different sites have been hosting the documents from the case. There's not much of real substance in the newest filing beyond what I cited and mentioned, best as I can see. There is also an attached item from the CIA, I believe, but I didn't pay the money to take a look.
Jeff |
03.21.06 - 11:02 pm | #
From Josh at TPM:
"Little did I know this Ben Domenech gambit from the Post was a secret plot to create the grist for more Abramoff blogging.
You see, it turns out the Domenech family came in for a number of Bush administration appointments. Not only Ben, but Ben's dad, Doug, who was White House liaison to the Department of Interior."……….
Today, when I read the Domenech Drivel, I kept thinking that the Colbert Report could do the sendup of wingnut idiocy far more effectively . . . except Colbert would have been funny.
LK |
03.21.06 - 11:03 pm | #
Thanks Dave! Your whole post was great over there.
And here is another post by a Steph:
"Ben Domenech on soldiers dying in the Iraq war (March 10, 2003):
This aversion to any sort of bodybag in the context of war is something my brother Ellis and I have mocked before, at length: we like to call it the "Contra 3 Syndrome." In Contra, one of the most popular arcade games ever (unrelated to the South American resistance), you play a soldier blasting away at baddies (in the 3rd installment, for the SNES, it's alien baddies) with oversized weaponry in a side-scrolling firefight. It's an entertaining game, but extremely short--Contra 3 is only 6 levels long. Besides, you really need all three of your lives to deal with the last boss--so a lot of people who play the game will restart the minute they lose their first life. Ellis and I are more likely to make it to the end with only one life left, but hey, that's the point of the game, not erasing/restarting every time anyone dies. Modern War isn't exactly like Contra, and it's a good deal longer than any 6-level game."
I'm not live linking to this frat boy wanna be gamer drivel, sorry. Now I understand the google bomb for goarmy quite well.
Shez |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 11:09 pm | #
Like the cloisters of the late middle ages, the mainstream media seem to be "useful receptacles for unemployable half-witted sons and unportionable daughters." e.g., Jonah Goldberg.
I have always assumed that David Brooks and Howard Kurtz were nepos; Ben (who consistently performs at 8.5 or higher on the Brooks-Kurtz Inanity Scale) is definitely one.
Remember, these answers have been kept hermetically sealed in a jar of mayonnaise on Funk and Wagnall's porch for a decade.
The unholy trinity "Red Dawn, Taps, and Toy Soldiers."
May the fleas from a thousand camels infest your crotch...
The question, What are the titles of the first three chapters of the autobiography of Jeff Gannon/preface by Karl Rove?
The Amazing Karnak |
03.21.06 - 11:09 pm | #
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Former Vice President Al Gore said Monday he's not planning to run for president in 2008 but hasn't ruled out a future in politics.
"I'm enjoying what I'm doing," Gore told an audience at Middle Tennessee State University, where he gave a lecture on global warming, one in a series.
"I'm not planning to be a candidate again. I haven't reached a stage in my life where I'm willing to say I will never consider something like this," he said. "But I'm not saying that to be coy; I'm just saying that to be honest -- that I haven't reached that point."...
punaise |
03.21.06 - 11:20 pm | #
It is written the Blog God, Tbogg, hath given notice and taken names, and that he hath foreseen the Domanech and given good warning.
Dick Durata |
03.21.06 - 11:23 pm | #
Al-Zaman reports that Shiite clerical leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is agitating again for provincial confederacies in the Shiite south. He instisted it wouldn't break up the country. He also advocates unleashing the Badr Corps (the Iran-trained paramilitary of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq) against the Sunni Islami radicals.
Those who see the Kurdish regions of Iraq as havens of relative peace and prosperity seldom reckon with its less savory characteristics. The regional government often functions as a police state.
http://www.time.com/time/world/
a...1175055,00.html
Why Iraq's Police Are A Menace
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has turned the U.S.-trained force into violent Shi'ite shock troops, critics say
By CHRISTOPHER ALLBRITTON/BAGHDAD
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060...n_re_mi_ea/
iraq
Gunmen Kill 20 in Breakout at Iraqi Jail
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - About 100 masked gunmen stormed a prison near the Iranian border Tuesday, cutting phone wires, freeing all the inmates and leaving behind a scene of devastation and carnage — 20 dead policemen, burned-out cars and a smoldering jailhouse.
wesgpc |
03.21.06 - 11:27 pm | #
punaise @ 03.21.06 - 11:26 pm -- Based on the turnout, looks the answer is 'no' ;-)
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 11:28 pm | #
punaise,
Gore's been saying that consistently but it's interesting he's kind of hinting maybe there at the end. Or maybe I'm just reading that into it because I have hope he'll come around.
IMO, as it stands now I'd definitely support Gore or Feingold, and maybe Clark or Warner. The rest of the flock I'm not so crazy about.
sans-culotte |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 11:29 pm | #
Hubris Sonic,
I've never heard of "drop teams" either, but then again I spent my twenties working in military intelligence and not watching
Red Dawn - Silly Me!
McGee |
03.21.06 - 11:31 pm | #
punaise @ 03.21.06 - 11:26 pm -- Based on the turnout, looks the answer is 'no' ;-)
Cujo359 | 03.21.06 - 11:28 pm | #
how deflating....
punaise |
03.21.06 - 11:33 pm | #
sans-culotte | Homepage | 03.21.06 - 11:29 pm | #
Gore/Feingold would do it for me. Come on, Al.
punaise |
03.21.06 - 11:35 pm | #
wesgpc @ 03.21.06 - 11:01 pm -- Just caught this one, sorry. Chauvinism is the irrational belief that one's country or people are better than the rest of the world. The word was misused in the late '60s to describe sexism and little misunderstandings like this one have happened ever since.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 11:36 pm | #
War isn't exactly like Contra, and it's a good deal longer than any 6-level game
up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-a-b-select-
start
it's just sound military strategy. everybody knows that.
a question: are ben and augustine at Red State the same person? important question b/c here's what "augustine" had to say about the coretta scott king's funeral: "The President visits the funeral of a Communist. And phones in a message to the March for Life. I think we can get a little pissed about this."
is this the style of substantive debate the post promised?
james |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 11:37 pm | #
McGee, I think Cujo359 is right, its some kind of paintball thing. or something with video games...
nice to see that shitbag trevino run over here to defend the other shitbag bughouse ben.
Dear Joshie,
Why havent you sucked that 9 yet?
Hubris Sonic |
Homepage |
03.21.06 - 11:42 pm | #
james @ 03.21.06 - 11:37 pm -- up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-a-b-select- start. it's just sound military strategy. everybody knows that.
Well, sure, unless someone in your LAN party knows the cheat codes. Then you give your drop team BFG2000s and you frag away.
Just like Bull Run.
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 11:42 pm | #
Cujo359: Oh, you were talking about that other kind of chauvinism in the movie. There were both. But, like other commenters here, I didn't take the nationalist chauvinism seriously. I saw the story as that of a band of plucky underdog teens fighting against a stronger oppressive invading force. The attempts to humanize the invaders made it not seem like simple minded propaganda, at least to me. The political propaganda angle didn't really hit me until the goopy ending with the monument to the valiant teens.
As I said, I had no idea that this very ordinary movie (saved by some good acting and a few interesting sequences) was some kind of ideological beacon to the reactionary wingnuts. Who wudda thunk? I guess it still doesn't register with me that much. Seems just as silly as making a bland Hollywood political liberal statement movie into some kind of ageless icon.
Those people need to get out more.We should take a collection and send him Doc Strangelove, or On The Beach
wesgpc |
03.21.06 - 11:46 pm | #
Or Full Metal Jacket. Or Paths of Glory. Or DUCK SOUP, the positively precognitive Marx Brothers movie, made some 70 years before GW Bush. Think about it.
wesgpc |
03.21.06 - 11:51 pm | #
wesgpc @ 03.21.06 - 11:46 pm -- Those people need to get out more.We should take a collection and send him Doc Strangelove, or On The Beach
Platoon, Big Red One, All Quiet On the Western Front, and maybe a copy of Up Front, or My War Gone By, I Miss It So.
Of course, the latter two are books, and might not go over real well ...
Cujo359 |
03.21.06 - 11:52 pm | #
Dear Benjie
Modern War isn't exactly like Contra, and it's a good deal longer than any 6-level game.
Modern war is not in any goddamn way whatsoever comparable to Contra.
Of course if you got that, you wouldn't be, well, comparing modern warfare to Contra, now would you?
Dan |
03.21.06 - 11:52 pm | #
We're not worthy. We're not worthy. Jane, you're the best. Thanks!
Aint NoNo |
03.21.06 - 11:57 pm | #
Dan @ 03.21.06 - 11:52 pm -- Never played Contra, but I'm pretty sure you're right.
Though I saw an episode of Nova not too long ago that was devoted to remotely piloted vehicle technology. Kinda scary, because to the guy flying the plane, it is a lot like a video game.
It's probably a lot different to the folks on the ground, though.
Cujo359 |
03.22.06 - 12:00 am | #
No, send Ben real pictures of a fucking real war. Let him see what's he's so gleefully missing but sadistically backing. He looks and acts like a little boy.
Hey Ben, here's some little boys and girls that got caught in a real war game, they aren't playing, acting, or play acting... and won't ever again.
Show all the chicken hawks Johnny Got his Gun, and the Tom Cruise Vietnam movie -you know the one.
And another WWI film I saw on TV when I was a kid, I've forgotten the name. It started with a picture of rotting skeleton in a rotting British uniform lying out in no-man's land between the trenches. The skeleton starts talking, tells you how he got there. It gave me the shudders. For awhile after that, whenever I saw picture of WWI trench warfare, I would feel kind of queasy and unsettled.
Anyone know which movie that is?
Amazing to me how some people can resist outrage over Iraq. The day I realized BushCo was going to invade Iraq was the day that they lost 100% what little trust and respect that I ever had completely and forever, no going back one millimeter. I never had much faith in them, but hoped they wouldn't be a complete disaster.
wesgpc |
03.22.06 - 12:16 am | #
You're at the height of your powers, Jane. Remind me never to piss you off.
ralphbon |
03.22.06 - 12:27 am | #
wesgpc | 03.22.06 - 12:16 am -- Anyone know which movie that is?
I've played Contra.... oh wait, you mean the video game.
Hubris Sonic |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 12:29 am | #
As God is my witness, I thought wingnuts could fly...
kidlacan |
03.22.06 - 12:52 am | #
we had to pay attention to [Jack] Abramoff, because otherwise the religious right and (Ralph) Reed are going to come up and bite us, and our whole base will go crazy.
Somebody left their playbook on the plane.
prostratedragon |
03.22.06 - 1:50 am | #
wesgpc | 03.21.06 - 11:46 pm : I had no idea that this very ordinary movie (saved by some good acting and a few interesting sequences) was some kind of ideological beacon to the reactionary wingnuts. Who wudda thunk?
This was my reaction too. See? I guess this wingnut isn't completely useless. He taught me something new. Something slightly creepy, but I guess that goes with the territory.
Not that I was blind to the right-wing references in it or anything (how could you miss them?), but I took them as establishing an atmosphere. And that "pry it from my cold dead fingers" joke was funny.
seepeesate |
03.22.06 - 1:57 am | #
Jane,
You lost me (literally, as I quit reading) at "homeschooled freak." You may not be aware of it, but there is a strong progressive side to the homeschooling movement. We're not all fundie right-wingers. But you've apparently bought into the hype that we're all bushbots.
I truly enjoy your blog, but that was an overly broad generalization. You owe the left side of the homeschooling community an apology.
Daryl Cobracnhi |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 2:12 am | #
All About Ben. Howie may want to review his pension plan.
RJJ | 03.21.06 - 11:13 pm
‹hugefont›!‹/hugefont›
Maybe they can set something up where Ben stays in DC with the blog while Howie roams around among out-of-town bureaus. But, to what Lucifer does Ben have to say, “Why did you call me killer?”
prostratedragon |
03.22.06 - 2:18 am | #
Great post, Jane.
Just sent off this letter to the capitol of wingnuttia --
To the Publisher and Editors of the Washington Post:
Congratulations.
You've managed to snare the young conservative, Ben Domenech, for the Post before he could enlist in the Marines and fight for "democracy" in Iraq.
But exactly why doesn't he want to go and fight for a cause he (and your editorial board) apparently believes in? Isn't he of military age?
Well, I guess you wanted him to enlist in your courageous 101st Fighting Keyboarders for the more important duty of protecting President AWOL and Five-Deferment Dick from scurrilous attacks from the left.
How "fair and balanced" you've become since the glorious bygone days of Watergate. Always looking out for those woebegone Republicans, who only control all three branches of the government.
They need watchdogs like you to lick their hands and their... Nevermind. Good work. You deserve all of the praise you're getting for taking such a bold step. Richard Nixon would undoubtedly be proud of you.
Jane, I'm one of Steve Gilliard's communist preverts...
You rock, babe!
Got any dishes you need washed...floors swept?
L'es get 'em! :o) TB.
Tanbark |
03.22.06 - 2:54 am | #
hahaha, Jane this is hysterically funny. I suppose it's not polite to laugh at someone / some institution because they show their stupidity. But this is a real hoot.
Great piece, Lady Jane. Could it be a death wish from the Post?
If the wisdom of the "correct thinking" left side of the issues blogosphere really penetrates the conscious nous of the people in this country, these fakes, phonies and frauds will be off hiding in the hills in whatever is left of red state america.
And without the help of corporate media consciousness is on the rise. Hopefully it will get there before there is nothing left to save. The looting of america, its values, its treasure, its image, its people in now on at a feverish pace.
All my hope lies in the bloggers such as Jane who tell is like it is.
Right on sis!!!!!!!!!!
defjef |
03.22.06 - 3:22 am | #
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July?
Griffon |
03.22.06 - 3:36 am | #
"The GOP's Shrinking Middle"
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006; Page A17
Members of Congress retire all the time, but some retirements are leading indicators of the direction of our politics. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert's announcement last week to call it quits matters, and in a depressing way. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6032001418.html
John Casper |
03.22.06 - 3:54 am | #
It warms my heart to see another 'rock-ribbed' conservative who was more than happy to suckle at the government teet when it suited his own purpose. That - and the fact that he formerly worked for the shrub - will give him extra credibility when he puffs the Administration's collective member. Guess Karl Rove wasn't available for the gig.
The Dawg |
03.22.06 - 3:57 am | #
Term limits and national Elections on Saturday folks. Simple and idealistic, but would eliminate the need for half the conversations. Jane I love your tenacity and passion. Kiitos.
the Fly-Man |
03.22.06 - 4:02 am | #
OK, it's early and I don't have time to read the comments, all 199 of them so if this has been suggested then my apologies.
Jim Brady gives a fuck less what bloggers think or care about. Giving this job to Ben makes this apparant to me. What view of the world does a home schooled barely out of college have to offer to many of the discussions here? Sure everyone's POV brings something to the table whether it's fresh or not but Ben, as I see it, will be bringing a lot of stale, out of date crap that he's heard at the Domenach dinner table - his first post was a repeat of mom and dad's philosophy. What Ben needs more than our insults is an education. In the ranks of the progressive/liberal blog family are many conservative converts - if educated, reasonable people can see the errors of once held beliefs then so can Ben. Write him often with a careful well written response and argument, he's used to insults and invective it's what Brady and Debbie told him he would get and should expect so let's go to work on his "higher education" accept him in the liberal blogosphere's post graduate political/philosophy/government studies program. Who knows maybe he'll decide to continue down a PHD path. If Kevin Phillips saw the error in his ways then there's hope for Ben. His mind is young and is still empty - send him some Chomsky tapes. and then watch Brady's head explode.
der |
03.22.06 - 4:23 am | #
The part that blows my mind: he's 24 friggin' years old! What's the deal with all these GOPkids getting plum jobs? Who the hell does he know? I know I read that his dad is in the Admin, but seriously, how does someone that young get a prominent gig with one of the "premier" newspapers? What sort of wisdom/maturity/insight could he possibly have? I didn't exactly see genius in the writing samples posted out there. That, had there been any, might have explained it. He should be interning somewhere, getting someone's coffee, or covering the county fair, DC zoning meetings, writing the police blotter stories, all the stuff the young writers do so that they can learn the craft.
I suppose a big part of this can be explained by the Post thinking about how newspapers are bleeding readers, and that "the kids" don't read the paper anymore, but they sure do spend a lotta time on the internets. I suppose, in that way, it is balance, huh? It balances the Grumpy Ol' Pissers that otherwise write for the WaPo.
Blue UU |
03.22.06 - 4:25 am | #
Aw shit. Totally blog-crushed out on Jane.
Tommy Yum |
03.22.06 - 4:26 am | #
Red Dawn is dreadfully campy. Come on. Russians and Cubans preparing, launching a massive troop movement over the entire US with nobody noticing until they arrive in North Dakota? We have a hard enough time controlling Iraq, but this movie has us believe that the Russians and Cubans had enough troops, planes, and ability to avoid radar to make a sneak attack that was so massive that they committed divisions of troops to wasteland.
It truly is the stupidest jingoistic movie ever. Red Dawn was retarded.
trifecta |
03.22.06 - 4:27 am | #
I think that's a very nice letter Jane.
Everythingseemssoneat |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 4:35 am | #
It's pushback time by the commercial media against Bush's "you never report the GOOD news" whining. The Today Show had a long piece at the top of the show of a day in the life of Richard Engle (NBC's man in Iraq). Money quote: Iraqis he talks to don't think the coverage is fair either. They think it doesn't show things as BAD as they really are. Pass the popcorn, heh.
op99 |
03.22.06 - 4:39 am | #
Here I thought the post was banning profanity on their blogs.
anotherpawn |
03.22.06 - 4:42 am | #
"Jim Brady backs David Duke for '08"
anotherpawn |
03.22.06 - 4:50 am | #
Shut up libbies. Your bias is through. We are pushing back, demanding and getting the coverage we want, and you HATE IT! Just like you hate the USA.
Freedom Never Falters |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 4:53 am | #
It looks like the Wikipedia is going to delete the WATB or Whiny Ass Titty Baby" article unless somebody steps up to the plate and expands it. Anybody have time to take a stab? Unfortunately I'm on my way out the door...
The Liberal Avenger |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 4:54 am | #
Jumping the shark. FINALLY.
NBC's Today Show spent more than 7 minutes during its first half hour on the defensive after winger-witch-on-wheels Laura Ingraham accused the media of failing to cover the Good News! in Iraq [TM]. They went after her last night, and they went after her again this morning. They threw a phalanx at it -- starting with Gregory on lead in, Richard Engels in the field literally showing there is a dearth of good news as he is fired upon, to Katie asking Russert why the administration believes the media is misrepresenting the war in Iraq. (Yeah, note that CAREFULLY -- they respond first in the segment by saying the media is under fire by no group in particular, then move to Katie saying it's the administration...)
And Russert all but calls the administration a lying sack of elephant crap. (Nice pic yesterday, by the way...)
This is the FIRST time I've seen a real gloves off defense of the media's position in I don't know how long. Years. And they actually made the connection between Ingraham carrying water and the parties for whom she carried that water.
Anybody seeing similar coverage on the other majors?
Rayne |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 5:08 am | #
Just wasted a few mintues of my life reading Ben Domenech at the WaPo. He appears incapable of stating a thesis and then making an argument. He's just stringing together vague rhetoric, Republican leaders aren't listening to their constituents.
The WaPo is replacing eighty news people with this? There's no interactivity that I can see. Ben's supposed to be an alternative to Froomkin and Milbank? Reader's Digest wouldn't print his stuff. Jim "Church Lady" Brady, however, must be happy, Ben's diction was just fine.
John Casper |
03.22.06 - 5:09 am | #
Rayne | Homepage | 03.22.06 - 5:08 am Great catch Rayne of NBC.
No, I caught some of Imus' first hour. He had Col. Jack Jacobs as a guest. They criticized Bush a little, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and the joint chiefs a lot. As the segment progressed, however, they rounded off the criticism way too much for my taste. IMO Tweety has been much much tougher.
John Casper |
03.22.06 - 5:15 am | #
After reading Herr Domenech's writings, I was thinking to myself, "What is it with these nuts and St. Augustine?" Then I read the comments and his screenname is Augustine. Hmm.
I propose someone start generating an "Augustine Index" for wingnut posters. For instance, a google search could reveal the number of time a poster has used a reference to St. Augustine. (If only we could award double weight for references that clearly do not reflect having actually read St. Augustine!) It's just such a touchstone bit of pretentiousness for them.
Professor Foland |
03.22.06 - 5:16 am | #
op99 | 4:39 am --
Oops, I missed your comments about the Today Show, too. I missed that bit about the Iraqis' feedback on US media press coverage, had a kid talking at me during that part. I also noted they called Bush's speeches "selling the war"...
Damn, I might have to start taping NBC news coverage if they're going to swing the other way...I've been watching CNBC ever day, noting that the financial coverage is clearly not siding with Bush , may have been the driving force in televised coverage behind the Port story getting pickup across the rest of television. Does this suggest the financial dudes are the trend leaders to watch? Going to have to flip over to see if they cover Iraq in the same way...
Rayne |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 5:18 am | #
Thank you, Jane. thank you for keeping on these people. thank you for speaking plain truth. Don't stop!! You are the best. I could probably find words to comment, but why? You said it all!!!
Peter Jackson |
03.22.06 - 5:21 am | #
Great post. But since we are talking about these young, fresh out-of-college republicans, where most of our current crop of tyrants got their start (rove et al), the college republicans in MN are doing a bit of training here sending out lots of anti-gay material. Our MN congress (repub leadership) keeps trying to get anti-gay laws passed and the dem side of our gov't keeps denying them.
So the college republicans are stepping up to the plate to distribute awful pamphlets. They are learning in college and come out full fledged wingnuts.
GrandmaJ |
03.22.06 - 5:24 am | #
If Russert and Couric are "bailing" on Bush, that suggests to me that NBC thinks REPUBLICANs are bailing on Bush wrt Iraq. According to Newsweek, 20% of Republicans supported Feingold's Censure resolution.
John Casper |
03.22.06 - 5:28 am | #
Oh, someone asked why not be upset about Sullivan at Time. I don't know enough about Sullivan's arrangement there, so I can't comment directly on that. But the difference is instructive, whatever one thinks of their politics. First, Domanech has never run a magazine, written a book, or been repeatedly quoted in widely-read publications. So wapo could not even manage to snag someone of Sullivan's stature. That's a mighty admission of weakness.
More importantly, Sullivan can write sentences he hasn't heard before.
Professor Foland |
03.22.06 - 5:32 am | #
Jane, you are indeed evil.
Bruce/Crablaw |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 5:33 am | #
Jane- Just arrived at work and read this post. One of your best snark-filled entries, by far!
Especially this "And I would’ve been happy with a card."
bbwwwaaaaahhhhhhhhhgggggg
ccmask |
03.22.06 - 5:39 am | #
Hmm. If there's a strategy here to which I alluded last night -- the "media lost the Iraq War" strategy -- how does this new pajammie-wearing wingnut blogger fit in the picture?
I think the White House (Rover, is that you?) is going on another preemptive assault, this time to prepare for the shoes that are expected to drop in the next couple of weeks. NBC certainly sounds like they've gotten more pressure than winger-witch-on-wheels Ingraham's foamings yesterday morning if they are going to invest an entire crew and more than 7 minutes of coverage this morning as well as evening news time on the topic of media representation of the war.
Bet you dollars-to-donuts that WaPo has been getting the same pressure, and WaPo in turn made a two-fer. They cut staff while genuflecting to the White House. Now the White House can't claim misrepresentation since they've taken one of their stupid baby asps to the WaPo breast.
Who else will cave before the first shoe drops on the 29th? Who else will come out swinging?
Rayne |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 5:43 am | #
Admittedly I don't know much about RedState. But one thing I remember about The Confessions of St. Augustine is (and I am paraphrasing because I'm too lazy to look it up) his heartfelt prayer "Oh Lord make me chaste, but not yet!" I could see wingnuts relating to this.
MariaSquared |
03.22.06 - 5:44 am | #
Jane, this one was beyond beyond. I'll never look at a Tiffany box the same way again!
dannyboy |
03.22.06 - 5:47 am | #
Can we get an act-blue (would it be blue?) page for the drag-queen-o-gram?
Maybe if we donate enough, we can sponser the WaPo drag-queen drop team.
anotherpawn |
03.22.06 - 5:48 am | #
Just got this email from Barb. Nothing new but I thought I'd toot her horn since she's only one of a very short list, and we could use a good old-fashioned bucket of YES:
"Thank you for contacting me regarding Senator Russell Feingold's (D-WI) resolution to censure President Bush. I want to you know that I appreciate hearing from you, and I am a co-sponsor of this resolution.
On March 13, 2006, Senator Feingold introduced Senate Resolution 398, which would admonish President Bush for his unlawful authorization of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, his failure to keep Congress fully informed of this program as required by law, and his efforts to mislead the American people about the legality of the program and the legal authorities relied upon by his administration to conduct it.
The Feingold Resolution has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the request of Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), and Senator Feingold has called for the Committee to hold hearings, debate, and then vote on the resolution. I share Senator Feingold's strong objections to the administration's warrantless domestic wiretapping program, and I intend to vote for Senator Feingold's resolution should it come before the Senate.
Again, thank you for writing me.
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator"
meta |
03.22.06 - 5:51 am | #
Growing up in the D.C. 'burbs, I would look forward to the WaPo articles by Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson-etc....today they have the likes of this little RNC operative, Hiatt, VenDeHei etc...Goodbye WaPo, we hardly knew ye...
Dadhusker |
03.22.06 - 5:52 am | #
Heh. dannyboy, it's funny but Jane's Tiffany box only reinforces my GOoPer image.
Gift purveyor of choice by a GOoPer attorney for whom I once worked in the corporate world. Could be a piece of shite, but it must be okay if it came from Tiffany's in that Tiffany blue box...and of course, the GOoPer secretaries would ooh-ahh over the f*cking box, tell me what a lucky girl I was.
A tiny Swiss Army pen knife. That's what I got in that Tiffany blue box for putting up with all his BS. Wish now I'd have used that knife on the job...
Rayne |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 5:52 am | #
Jane,
I know the young man doesn't deserve all the attention he's getting, but he sure inspired a beautiful piece of writing from you.
His insertion into the Post's online ark will prove to be yet another poisonous mistake. It's nice to think that he will now be lobbing feces from an institution with attractively deep pockets.
Thank you for brightening my morning.
Chet |
03.22.06 - 5:53 am | #
Speaking of the hunt to extract every stupid thing he's ever said: he's a creationist.
I know. No surprise there.
PZ Myers |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 5:54 am | #
Dayum, Jane girl, you are very good at expressing yourself. This is SCATHING!!!
Debbie |
03.22.06 - 5:58 am | #
In response to Gyro's 9:21,
"The strontium - which can cause cancer in high doses - was found in a well dug in a search for the source of a leak of radioactive water at the Indian Point complex, about 30 miles north of Manhattan."..........snip
________________
This, from the hearing on the nomination of WAYTOGO BROWNIE:
Chairman LIEBERMAN: I appreciate that, obviously, from thepoint of view of Connecticut. I am not asking for what your re-sponse will be, but do you have any sense of how you will handlethis petition from New York about a review of the Indian Pointplant?
Mr. BROWN: In all honesty, I do not. I just received it yesterday.
Chairman Lieberman: You did?
Mr.Brown: When I got back into the States and I looked at it for the first time yesterday.
Chairman Lieberman: Understood...We will continue to want to be in dialogue with you on this, as well, and I appreciate the commitment you made to be involved in ongoing review of these palns because it is obviously critical
Jane, just like Pacha waay up thread, I was laughing my butt off when I saw the graphic and headline
and you did not disappoint - was expecting a nice sterling key fob, and you deliver a dazzling pillow cut gem - oh we are spoiled little bloggers . .
can't hit publish before seconding
what Dave says - Brady will dig in, no matter what - ahhh the gift that keeps on giving
cbl |
03.22.06 - 6:03 am | #
I tried posting Jane's beautiful rant en toto at the WaPo Blog but it didn't even get posted ... must have triggered the obscenity filters or sumtin'
Wilson46201 |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 6:07 am | #
"Apparently, this violent testosterone-fueled psychological imperitive [sic]..."
I gess he cain't spel.
Bruce/Crablaw |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 6:12 am | #
I agree that this rightist lunatic is not the sort of person one would hope would get a forum at a respectable, or once-respectable, paper, but his kind does speak for millions of Americans. I have never read a word he has written and do not expect I ever will except by accident. (I do faithfully read George Will, but that is as far right as I am prepared to go. Life is too short to read everything.)
This hire is not the problem. The problem is that television, the more powerful medium still, is totally dominated by the right and increasingly the internet is the only dissenting voice.
But, somehow, a majority of Americans look to have figured it out at least for now. I live in hope that this fellow will just create more enemies of neo-conservatism by being a total idiot.
Robert Paehlke |
03.22.06 - 6:14 am | #
Jane, I'm sure you get unwanted proposals from gay men every day, but will you marry me? You are the MoDo of the liberal blogosphere.
Joel |
03.22.06 - 6:17 am | #
Who else will cave before the first shoe drops on the 29th? Who else will come out swinging?
Rayne | Homepage | 03.22.06 - 5:43 am | #
What's happening on the 29th?
Stephen Parrish, CPA |
03.22.06 - 6:22 am | #
I gess he cain't spel.
Bruce/Crablaw
extra chromosome + homeschooling = conservative.
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Grand Moff Texan |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 6:24 am | #
new thread
Wilson46201 |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 6:29 am | #
New thread from Christy!
Stephen Parrish, CPA |
03.22.06 - 6:29 am | #
Yeah, what's happening on the 29th?
cathy |
03.22.06 - 6:36 am | #
Is Jim Brady shorting WaPo stock?
anotherpawn |
03.22.06 - 6:47 am | #
Late to the party but have to say thank you for this precious gem of a post...sparkling with clarity, fire and brilliance; going to show it to all my friends...
Dru |
03.22.06 - 6:55 am | #
Just want to remind everyone that the last time the Post published something this far toward the right end of the spectrum, it was written by the Unabomber.
Brian C.B. |
03.22.06 - 7:03 am | #
I just went on the WaPo and can't find a direct link to the Red State blog. Not if I hit the "Opinions" link, or the little box with a cursor that leads you to all opinion pieces, not if I hit the "Opinions " box at the very top of the page, and not if I search "Red State" on the Washington Post, from the Post online.
Buried, so soon?
But if I go to the link in Jane's post I find that the Red Diaper Baby has posted today.
Wassup with that?
truth |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 7:06 am | #
Way to rock, Jane, way to rock.
'feces flinger' was a nice touch, but you had me at "home schooled freak".
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Dan Robinson |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 7:17 am | #
Well, if RedDan says it, it must be true. Not. It's been fun reading you midgets in your fury.
Charles Bird |
03.22.06 - 7:43 am | #
Is the 29th the day when Abramoff gets sentenced in the Florida case?
Devil's Advocate |
03.22.06 - 7:57 am | #
Wow!
The Bradys of the world not only have to fear Wolcott, they also have to fear Hamsher.
Alvord |
03.22.06 - 8:14 am | #
*LO-freakin-L* Thanks, Jane, for starting my day off with laughter.
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Blue Sun Girl |
03.22.06 - 8:47 am | #
It's so sad what they've done to this once-great paper. Truly sad. Boycott the Post. In honor of the magnificent paper they have destroyed.
Joel |
03.22.06 - 9:22 am | #
Great Post Jane made my morning :)
TexasLiberal |
03.22.06 - 9:28 am | #
C'mon, Fitz...you can do it! We know you can...:o)
Tanbark |
03.22.06 - 9:35 am | #
As God is my witness, I thought wingnuts could fly...
kidlacan |
03.22.06 - 9:45 am | #
that thar' is what you call snark.
nicely done.
there is a Koufax waiting in the wings for that letter next year.
whatinsname |
03.22.06 - 9:55 am | #
Well, if RedDan says it, it must be true. Not. It's been fun reading you midgets in your fury.
Charles Bird | 03.22.06 - 7:43 am | #
Well if it ain't Bird Dog!
Howzzit hangin' pahdner?
Except, ummm...BirdDog? It happens that it is, quite likely to be true.
I just made the connection first because I am so damned smart.
RedDan |
03.22.06 - 10:00 am | #
As I cruise the blogs it looks like the shark tank at lunchtime. The keepers threw some "red" meat into the tank. Perhaps with a little chianti.....
k |
03.22.06 - 10:01 am | #
Thank you, Jane - some days in clinic it takes a lot to raise a smile; this post had me laughing out loud.
A depressed patient came in and asked about the laughing (they'd heard it). I showed them the post - they laughed. First time I had seem them do so.
Thanks again.
Back to work.
kirk murphy |
03.22.06 - 10:13 am | #
How come a young man like Ben, so supportive of the War in Iraq isn't personally over there helping to implement the strategy that he thinks is so right. Oh, another chickenhawk, I see!!!
Come on Ben, your country needs you and don't worry about the intelligience standards, they've lowered them - you can probably slide through and go get you some ragheads and spread democracy.
theExile |
Homepage |
03.22.06 - 10:16 am | #
trifecta | 03.22.06 - 4:27 am: Red Dawn is dreadfully campy. Come on. Russians and Cubans preparing, launching a massive troop movement over the entire US with nobody noticing until they arrive in North Dakota?
They didn't sneak to North Dakota, the dirty pinko commies had nuked us and crippled our military, so they could walk through initially unopposed.
Of course, that makes it no less campy.
seepeesate |
03.22.06 - 10:27 am | #
I work at a private high school - we frequently get home schooled kids so they will have a transcript for college. The concensus of experienced teachers on home schooled kids is they are self centered and tend to be intolerant of the unfamiliar. If they stay for four years we usually manage to socialize them, but when they first show up it's a challenge.
powkat |
03.22.06 - 11:23 am | #
What I posted over at the Post, referencing an initial comment over at Jay Rosen's Pressthink:
What a coincidence to encounter "look at all the whiney liberals" post right after I posted this over at Jay Rosen's Pressthink blog:
[Off topic, I know, but you might find this interesting. Here's a head's up.
A lot of liberals, like Jane Hamsher, to name one, have blogged the hiring of Ben Domenich, and his history of comments deriding the poor and people of color, seems like the Post has some internal marketing surveys that indicate a much bigger audience for a blogger that denigrates African American culture and Coretta Scott King right after her funeral than for hiring someone with an association of the large, historic black community of DC.
If I were African American and lived in DC, I'd be tempted to organize a late night effort to spray paint every Post newspaper rack with RACISTS in bright red letters (get the pun? Domenich's blog is entitled RED STATE, and the racks would be painted RED . . . )
Indeed, being African American has nothing to do with it, I'd be tempted anyway. Where are the anarchists when you really need them? Domenich is one of the banes of American social life, that person who elevates himself by promoting bigotry towards people of color and the Post hires him. A great, great move.
Looking forward to his first efforts to malign African Americans, Asian Americans or Latinos on the Post site as soon as some prominent figure from one of these communities dies. Pandering to white racists is an apparently untapped market for a paper like the Post.
But, I digress, although you might consider addressing how such a decision by the Post is going to enable it to reach a broad, diverse audience by hiring someone who considers African Americans culturally deficient. Next time you see Brady, you might ask him. You might also ask him how this will help the Post in seeking to recruit journalists of color, a problem faced by most major newspapers in America.
Anyway, I know you focus on the technological transformation of the industry, and do it well, so this is what I really wanted to bring to your attention (from Domenich's blog):
[Comments About Comments
A few notes are in order after the impressive reaction to the premiere of this blog.
First off, a note of thanks to the liberal side of washingtonpost.com's readership, which has weighed in on Red America in this comment thread. I'm happy that no one's engaged in any ridiculous hyperbole, unfounded accusations or unintentionally hilarious name-calling. We can all agree that such things lower the quality of debate on the Internet, play to the worst side of our knee-jerk partisan nature and have no place in the modern public square. I look forward to engaging you in a serious, respectful discussion on the issues that matter most to the future of our nation.
To that last point, we'll be rolling out comments here shortly. Because this is an opinion blog, and not a work of unbiased journalism, it is sure to spark responses from a few fringe members of this Internet political community, who might be motivated to deluge comment systems with offtopic concerns (or perhaps go after other members of the Washington Post family, who have nothing to do with this blog - silly, I know, but I'm told it happens). Comments will be coming after the initial launch is finished, when I've gotten used to the rhythm of posting and you, gracious readers, have gotten used to it, too.
In the meantime, I'll be posting worthwhile reader reactions from the comment thread mentioned above and from email. It's great to be part of the washingtonpost.com Opinions section, and I hope this column proves to be an interesting and worthwhile read for all of you.]
I will not even dignify this bigot's request for "serious, respect discussion", except to say, that he's already demonstrated that it is a whites only endeavor.
For your purposes, however, it appears that Brady isn't quite that the proponent of openness for the Post blog, because people have to wait until they have proven that they can be nice before comments will be opened. In other words, Post management is well aware of the firestorm that this selection will ignite, and has preemptively shut down Domenich's blog.
One wonders, when will the blog open for comments, May 2007? I always thought that a blog without comments was kind of like a car without tires, but, maybe, an amateur like me doesn't understand new trends in the industry.
Whatever the Post website is, the Guardian it ain't.
Posted by: Richard Estes at March 22, 2006 02:02 PM | Permalink]
The funny thing is, other racists are starting to come out of the woodpile, and post on the PostM blog to back Domenich.
Also, Domenich apparently worked for Hugh Hewitt. Maybe Hewitt and Brady had a little conversation about before Brady went on the air for that lovefest with Brady about the Howell/Abramoff debacle?
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Thank YOU, Jane. I've never posted before but can no longer remain silent. Jane, you are the master (mistress?) at expressing my feelings and thoughts with more wit, earthy eloquence and accuracy than I ever could. I must bow to you. Your blog is my daily catharsis. Without it I might have to give up sanity when "feces flinger(s)" - LOL - like Ben Domanech are given legitimacy by a supposedly respected newspaper like the Washington Post.
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I'm no relativist when it comes to raising children; I believe that every mother and father has a responsibility to pass on a moral compass to their children. I have always believed that children -- and especially young teens -- enter the larger world as blank slates. They are students in their first class without any prior knowledge or experience. If you tell them, in your role as their earliest Teacher, that they have nothing to fear from sex at an early age, that they should expect other teens to be sexually mature, and that the whole stigma of "teen sex" is just a product of ignorant sociology -- you do them a profound disservice. There are many sources of advice that will mislead impressionable teens as they go through modern life, painting a happy picture over an unhappy truth, whitewashing tombs; a parent should never be a conscious participant in society's charade.
Benny's post today was just tremendous: he wails about doctors taking a child off a ventilator over the parent's objections, OBLIVIOUS to the fact that Bush signed the Texas law that lets the state take children off ventilators over their parents' objections!! VichyDems.
This guy's a maroon.
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