Connecticut Bob generously offers a substitute real Connecticut sunset to the Lieberman campaign — turns out the footage they used in the icky Cialis/Summer’s Eve commercial was some stock sunset footage from Getty Images:
…Nice sunset, Lamont’s folks mocked when the ad first debuted.
"It’s actually a sunrise," Gerstein initially insisted. "It’s very much a sunrise."
Actually, it’s very much a sunset, as pro-Lamont bloggers gleefully pointed out. They even tracked down the video used in the ad on the Getty Images Web page. Clip 843-2: "Wide shot sun setting over ocean/ birds walking along water’s edge/ Santa Barbara."
"Wow," said Gazeena, the helpful customer rep at Getty Images. "That’s too bad."
There is a 30-day return policy, she offered. But it’s only good for half the purchase price, somewhere around $1,000, she said. "And if it’s already been used, I’m not sure that applies."
Apparently that’s not going to be an issue; Gerstein said they were going to continue to use the ad.
"Of course we will," he said. "Why in God’s name wouldn’t we, just because Ned Lamont’s people reflectively attack us? That’s just insane."
Good stuff, Dan, remember? Think about the good stuff …
Well, I’m sure Dan didn’t mean to lie outright to the journalist, hoping she wouldn’t actually follow-up on the facts or check any of the blogs who had. I mean, that would be incredibly smarmy, wouldn’t it? And unprofessional. I think that Dan is just under a lot of pressure…yeah, that’s it…pressure. (YouTube link.) And, personally, I like CTBob’s sunset photo better anyway.
…breathe, Dan, just breathe.
(Link to the Courant via LamontBlog.)
UPDATE: Okay — THIS is hilarious. (via ConnecticutBill — also a YouTube)
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Fitz!!
I got the zero. It pays to wake up early.
Morning Christy.
Olberman!
Morning Christy. Nice catch, great post.
Umm, shouldn’t that be ‘reflexively’?
Thanks Christy. Way to go CTBob. What a great spoof on Joe’s Cialis ad.
[Mod comment - it was that brand-name that landed you in comment jail…]
If you haven’t seen Gilliard’s post on what a sunrise looks like in CT, it’s well worth the journey.
sorry, I got epu’d and I surely don’t want this going unseen from the other thread
I’ll tell you what, the democrats NEED to schedule a campaign specifically around the presidents “tour” and rumsfelds’s speeches, and the democrats need to address the claims each and every stop the president and his opologists try to promote their lies and propaganda
I GUARANTEE that tour will come to a schreeching halt…I guarntee it
Nice catch HotFlash.
That’s something else for the press to ask Dan about.
Read the whole article in the Courant — it’s a hoot. I’ve been giggling for the last fifteen minutes. mwee heee
Oh, and CT Bob rocks!
yup, had the same response Hot Flash -
yeah Dan, we reflected on that fetid shit stew y’all call a campaign and attacked your sorry ass – get used to it
the Lamont folk only attack after much reflecting, thought and rumination … it isn’t done reflexively. But Gerstain meant to say ‘reflexively’ and screwed up again …
and for the rewrite…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWpAXpr5hQ
Christy Hardin Smith @ 8
Someone’s gotten into the coffee early! *g*
Another EPU’d point — I wonder whether the rest of the speeches will be affected by KO’s statement last night. I have a feeling it’ll be making the internet rounds pretty quickly today, if not last night.
cbl at 5:47
LMAO.
and yes, Gerstain was a typo but I rather liked that spelling …
Baby mittens update that I didn’t get to do yesterday.
Because it has been raing for a week, attempts at housebreaking Mittens have regressed. Badly.
As I learned th hard way when I got up at 5 this morning and headed for the kitchen w/o turning on the lights, Mittens has been redecorating al the floors in my house with her version performance art creating lakes and mountains.
My almosr ex-husband is ready to jump off a bridge. She is so so cute, but so so destructive. Without litter mates, she has no way to burn off all her energy except by terrorizing the big dogs, barking before dawn, and chewing everything in sight.
Thank Heavens she is so cute to look at and so enganging and charming when she is contrite, because otherwise she would be on the recieving end of significantly more tough love.
He coat is filling in where the wound is healing and I think it may completely obscure her scar.
She is growing very nicely and her conformation is deveoping such that it looks like she may end up being a show quality dog. As soon as the wound is completely obscured, my husband will probably take her to her first show. She moves like a dream. Perfect show dog walk, high forhand and a little “float” with hang time in the air.
She is very very smart and has figured out how the can comes off the tin where the dog biscuits are kept. She doesn’t have the strenght to pry it off yet, but I am amazed that she has figured out the mechanics. None of the big dogs have evercaught on.
She is also a master escapr/break in artist and has taken the dust cambric off the bottom of a couple of couches and chairs and manages to crawl up and hide inside the way a cat or ferret would do.
Yes, we are all (especailly littleprop who has lsot several shoes to puppy teeth) very exasperated by Babay Mittens, but also very entertained.
Well, I’m sure Dan didn’t mean to like outright to the journalist
Typo catch for y’all. Going on 3am here but I still saw this one through my bleary eyes.
Also, the YouTube of Keith Olbermann’s terrific commentary last night is up on YouTube. Follow my link.
[Moderator: that typo was caught and corrected by the time the 3rd comment was posted. Hit F5 and you’ll see the revision. But thanks!]
LHP, didja break much stuff while reading the Lance piece yesterday…….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..28270.html
Christy Hardin Smith @ 8
Yep, Christy, very well done. She captures the, the, the . . . ambiance perfectly
FishGuyDave @ 13
I just e-mailed the C&L link to about 50 of my “closest” friends. Hopefully they will love it too and spread it around.
Nate @ 18
Thanks Moderator. For some reason FDL was freezing up on me and wouldn’t let me refresh.
LHP
Baby Mittens sounds like she’s causing much fun around the house. Is it time for a photo update too?
OK finally on topic, sort of
The NYTimes had an editorial today about how there are no protests around rock and roll protest anthems. I t was premised on Neil Young’s Impreach the President song.
it made me think about Tommy Yum’s song and Howie Klein’s generic commercial idea. i think there is a nice theme in here somewhere for a good press hit.
Something along the lines of the “next generation” of political music, and how people don’t protest on college campuses anymore, they protest on the web.
What happened with the Keith Oberman speech last night is a great example. By 6 AM this morning my email was full of clips and hard text of obermann. It seems like everybody I know sent me a copy.
I think maybe there is a cultural trend here that is story in itself. Spontaneous grass roots uprisings/protests that happen via blogs and email.
It just neds a little framing.
Oh, and I really think that picture up there, is the very best of all “the kiss” pictures I have seen.
I called Gerstein out to meet me and my faithful dog Whiskers. He replied that he would send his granny in his place. Way to go, Dan!
I’ve added an update above — it’s a link to a YouTube done by a fellow named ConnecticutBill — entitled “Sunset Kiss.” hehehehe (Oh man, all this before I finish my first cuppa coffee…)
Er Um Santa Barbara is South facing, the sun does not set or rise on the water.
me to me (7), I hope someone is paying attention to what you are suggesting. It’s similar to what I e-mail Senator Reid whenever I have the chance. We need to KO the lies while they’re hot.
my puppy update: my little pitbull runt was emaciated on the edge of death but I nursed him back. He’s healthy and frisky and lost his puppy-look — now he looks and acts like a toy pit! His two older brothers Hugo and Evo are teaching him how to fight — Fidelito acts so fierce barking up a storm and nipping with his tiny but damn sharp teeth. The two older dogs love to have a baby brother to play with…
I am still chuckling over the Courant column – and I break out in actual laughter when I picture Danny-boy reading it…I can almost see the vein on his forehead pulsing, and the steam coming out of his ears.
Hahaha…ohhh – thanks for this, Christy. Gotta go get a kleenex for the tears of laughter.
Old Sow @ 18
Old Sow,
This guy Lance didn’t cheese me off so much. I saw the NAt’l Geo piece (which I loved and believe should be talked about much more and hope to see distributed viraly on the web) and I think the good guys got the last laugh.
Lance is obviously jsut PO’d that he got booted off camera (poor baby) and has figured out the Coulter/O ‘ reilly trick of using smear and attack to sell his book.
I don’t hink he actually believed half of what he put in that article, it was just crass commercialism.
However, the WSJ and Invesator’s Business Daily Editorials yesterday, sent me into orbit.
I intend to drink champagne on the day they have to eat crow.
I think this is the sort of thing that makes professional politicians really, really hate bloggers. In the past they could lazily use stock footage from 3000 miles away. They didn’t “get away with it” because it didn’t occur to anyone it was wrong. But nowadays they have to be a lot more thorough. It sure was easier in the old days.
BTW, surely tracking down the exact source of the sunset is on par with LGF’s detection of a Photoshopped news photo. Where’s the congratulatory media coverage?
George — it might depend on the direction from which the crew was shooting, but that’s how Getty Images labeled the stock footage that was used. I’m thinking their video crew labeled it according to what they were doing.
EPU-ed from last thread:
Kudos to KO! Props to the SLC mayor and progressives! The full-Rove press will be on to try to bully us into shutting up. Not this time.
Time to find and broadcast everywhere that vidclip of Bush in spring 2001 saying he didn’t have a problem with dictatorships as long as he got to be dictator.
What part of democracy don’t you understand, Fartacus? And you, J-Lie?
Anne at 30 — you know, the most amusing part of the whole thing for me is that Gerstein has become the story, not Lieberman. As a campaign spokesperson (even as a lobbyist-turned-spokesperson), you never, EVER want to overshadow your boss. That’s NEVER a good thing.
And this story is the front page story on the Courant website. Oooooops…breathe, Dan, just breathe…
OT – cnn – armed man breached security at Brit Embassy in Tel Aviv
*ilson
How old are your puppies now? They are older than Mittens the Terror, aren’t they?
Oh, and photo update requires help from the man I am divorcing which is why There are so few photos. I’ll see if he is feeling helpful
Stuart Eugene Thiel @ 30
Surely you’re not suggesting that making pols and potential pols pay more attention to details is wrong, are you? While I would agree that the details occasionally overwhelm the substance of the message, it appears that in this specific case it all could’ve been avoided had someone taken a bit of time to check on the image before using it.
twolf1 at 35 — oh heavens, have they apprehended him, or is he at large in the building? (We’re watching Mary Poppins here this morning…)
Christy Hardin Smith @ 38
That’s all the info CNN had – they got it from the AP
Isn’t it ironic that political ads are intended to reach as many people as possible, but when they do, the millions of intelligent eyeballs catch all the nonsense, and the creators get snippy because we notice and refute their bullshit? It’s the dawn of a new age of truth in advertising – our way.
HoJo couldn’t possibly have put together a more feeble organization. His campaign is just the tip of the iceberg.
OK, here’s more – the man was threatening to kill himself. Large forces dispatched. Arab speaking man jumped fence and points gun at head – requests asylum. Israeli police couldn’t respond b/c it’s Brit territory. Sounds like the situation is not resolved.
twolf1 at 42 — thanks for the update. Doesn’t sound resolved, does it? That’s an enormously volatile situation for the embassy guards…sounds awfully desperate and dangerous. Never a good combination. Hope they can talk him down soon, and get this diffused somehow, with little to no injury for anyone. But that’s likely to take a bit of time.
the pup is about 90 days old — his siblings all have other homes by now. I’m conflicted about keeping Fidelito and bonding with him. I know I am getting over-dogged but he’s such a pleasant addition.
As I was typing, I noticed Fidelito attacking and the big dog made such a fierce fang-bearing grimace at him. So cute!
Apologies if this is redundant. Mother Jones has an Iraq War Lies timeline. Handy.
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
I just spoke with Friendly Dan Gerstein in his CT campaign office. He’d like to hear the opinions of more people on how he is doing in the Lieberman campaign.
[CHS notes: Karen, I appreciate you taking some initiative on this, but I’d appreciate it if everyone would not call Dan Gerstein. There is too much potential for someone to say something untoward, and/or flood the office with calls that they will use as fodder against the Lamont campaign. Or any number of other things that I can think of that would just go wrong. This is one case where contacting the offending party could backfire, and I’d rather not give them any ammunition like that — especially where they are doing just fine screwing up all by themselves. And especially where Gerstein has managed to make his lobbyist-turned-spokesperson self the story, rather than his boss. That is NEVER good.]
looseheadprop @
2
lhp, you have to be quick, too! Before coffee, quick is not me.
Good morning, all. After Olberman’ and Anderson’s separate-but-equal words, I feel downright energized. And I think we do have our own Churchills, but the dark side is in control of most of the telegraph offices. Go back and read Al Gore’s MLK Day Speech. My Documents is full of the text of blood-stirring rhetoric that was only seen by those of us who are paying attention.
I gotta get going. I hope this day is full of actual good news. Take care, pups.
Gerstain (exxxcellent *ilson !)
Daniel In The Lyin’ Den
I think that in addition to having one of the worst advertising campaigns ever, and a “communications director” who is probably even worse, the Lieberman camp’s biggest problem is that Lieberman has no way to identify himself that does not just scream “I CAN’T FACE LOSING!!!”
karen allen, do tell! Is he kidding?
The sunset, though unintentional, is fitting. I’d like to replace the soundtrack with an updated version of Don’t Let the Sun go Down on Me (keep “don’t discard me just because you think I mean you harm…”).
BTW how hard is it to find shoreline in Connecticut and get your own real footage? These staffers must have been too lazy to get up that early in the morning.
Hi everybody!
Lieberman just gets more ridiculous.
Day Nine without cigarettes!
Lata!
Dru at 51 — oh man, I forgot about that line in the song. Hilarious. (Schadenfreude hotline, I need a rush delivery this morning…)
a major Hoosier blog, Taking Down Words , frontpages the Olbermann speech. The blogger specializes in Indiana politics but she says this TV rant is worth publicizing everywhere !
Sharkbabe at 52 — awesome! Keep that up, and you’ll be cig free for good! You go, girl!
a big phat congrats Sharkbabe !
Karen Allan,
Are you making mischief?
Mornin’, Christy, FirePups! Wow, that KO speech last night was PHENOMENAL!! Bawled after catching it on C&L; you know, I’m so used to tuning out the stink of this administration that it hadn’t sunk in that Rumsfeld — OUR employee, OUR SecDef — called ME and a majority of Americans morally and intellectually confused, inferred we were aiding fascism.
Maybe it’s the years of battering from these people; I’m rarely surprised anymore, become inured to the insults, wearing a thick emotional callus.
But Olbermann sets me right, by speaking truth to power.
Unfortunately, you all know that the hordes of SwiftBoaters are now advancing on him; they think the truth is an obscenity. We need to get his back, send him some gratitude, and tell his employer that KO is MUST-SEE-TV, as if his increasing numbers haven’t clued them in already.
Email addy’s in this DKos diary, or use the Spotlight feature from TRex’s Special Edition thread on KO below.
Remind them that while the numbers they see mounting in KO’s favor do not reflect the even greater numbers of viewers out here in the toobz. Moi, for example; I missed KO in his regular slot, but I caught him on the internet, and I’m far more likely to catch his next program in its slot for doing so.
Email away, FirePups!!!
OT, but Blumenthal has one of his best in Salon today:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/b…..1/katrina/
If anyone leaves a voicemail for Dan, make it polite. If not, he might use it to hurt Ned.
Gotta go to work. And send out some press releases for DFA.
Elliot Spitzer has given NY DFA a statement about the relative reliabilty of Paper Ballot Optical Scan voting machines (which are superior to) DRE”S (touch screen machines)
Gotta spread the news!
Maybe NYS will have verifiable voting despite the chaos that is HAVA
Organic George @
27
Actually George, SB faces South by Southwest and the Sun doesn’t actually set in the Due west but rather on a Southwestern Elipse. But this footage was actually shot at Point Conception on what is still referred to as the SB Coastline. If you know the area, you know Point Conception has a fantastic view scoping from full south up to full west.
What John Casper said.
Cubed!
and let us not forget that HAVA legislation was carried by Bob Ney who was just hounded out of Congress because of corruption charges…
Yeah Sharkbabe! Congratulations! Pretty soon you’ll be losing track of the days.
CHS #53- my favorite line, esp. how Elton pronounces dis card!
Gosh, Lieberman’s commercial borrowed the look of a condoms box. My interpretation: He means to soothe the proletariat masses with some kind of new agey hypnotism. It looks like a BigPharma commercial. Proposal for a revised commercial: the names of pills like Paxil, Celexa, Nexium float across the screen, and in small print in the corner: paid for by BigPharma. And then: I’m Joe Lieberman and me and Karl Rove approve this message.*thumbs up*
[Moderator: you triggered the spam filters three ways to Sunday!]
cbl @ 48
LOL!
looseheadprop @ 57: Yes.
Karen at 46 — Karen, I appreciate you taking some initiative on this, but I’d appreciate it if everyone would not call Dan Gerstein. There is too much potential for someone to say something untoward, and/or flood the office with calls that they will use as fodder against the Lamont campaign. Or any number of other things that I can think of that would just go wrong. This is one case where contacting the offending party could backfire, and I’d rather not give them any ammunition like that — especially where they are doing just fine screwing up all by themselves. And especially where Gerstein has managed to make his lobbyist-turned-spokesperson self the story, rather than his boss. That is NEVER good. (I’ve appended this on your comment as well, just for people who haven’t read down far enough on the thread. If you have some questions about this, feel free to e-mail me.)
Good morning! Finally caught the KO thing this morning: a knockout punch.
Christy @ 68: I should have written at the end of my comment. Sorry for the omission.
Our Reminderer-in-Chief just offered up a reminder of why it matters that Joe goes down: he made five new nominations to the Federal bench. Well, actually they’re not all new ones . . .
I should have written at the end of my comment. Sorry for the omission.
Karen at 72 — no problem. :) I just didn’t want their office to get flooded with calls from all of us, when they’ll likely be getting lots of irritating press queries and constituent calls about the “Lieberman sunset years” today anyway. *g*
Tell me about Islamic fascism, it’s a word that just sort of popped up. So spake Soledad just now on CNN interviewing Anna Quindlen re her new novel…oh, the karma, Kyra.
Popped up, my ass. Give me a break, Soledad, this was so pushed by the BushCo spinners.
Spotlight to Soledad…facts, not spin!
Helen Ubinas [should have a tilde with that “n”] at the Courant . . . she wouldn’t happen to be related to a certain 50ft TRex, would she? The snark on that piece really sounds like our late night friend!
Tommy Yum,
so glad to see you with us, was thinking you might be getting ready for Ernesto
My boss, Homo Hippie that he is, has agreed to let us run Have You Had Enough (once an hour)on the 50 inch high def plasma – one of the twenty somethings is supposed to bring necessary cable/coupler thingy this morning – already called to remind him
looking forward to the response
Islamic Fascism just sorta popped up in Karl Rove’s zeitgeist …
Ooops, wasn’t Soledad, was Daryn Kagan.
tech question, *ilson or Jamie . . .
Before the great new toys – edit, quote, etc. – we used to be able to manually insert certain special characters like the spanish tilde (that should be in Helen’s name at 75), german umlauts, etc. They still work in preview, but they disappear when the comment is submitted.
Any suggestions for this?
Sharkbabe, please keep going. You know you can do it, and your new and improved sense of health will make you soar. Bravo!
cbl — one of my proudest political buttons that I wore upfront :: “Commie hippy fag” It fit me to a T …
LHP – there’s a plan afoot to do a little press work around Had Enough …in fact the press release is on the top of my to do list today.
And your note is helpful input for that! Thanks!
ooooh, Siun–do tell!
oh *ilson,
forgot about the commie part, will have to use it on him today – he’ll love it
“….especially where they are doing just fine screwing up all by themselves….”
LMAO.
Okay, backtrack, it was Soledad who made the comment that islamic fascism is a word that “just popped up.” I think it was Soledad–I’m getting just the sound, and me poor crud-laden head isn’t processing sound as well as words.
But here’s what matters: anchors/newspeople who mask the spin, the agenda-pushing, as though it just somehow appeared out of some neutral ether. And I’m truly sick of that.
waaay o/t before I go get ready -
any news out of the Florida Boulis trials – just dawned on me, have been so caught up in the good news of Ned, et al, haven’t been doing my usual Abramoff cruising
Peterr — bad news about that. You have to use the four-digit unicode numerical codes for such characters. For example იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი uses Georgian typeface — this is the enye .
It’s a WordPress thing…
the enye fucked up… I told ya it was hard!
Hey, *ilson @ 78, I’m guessing Frank Luntz’s focus groups. And to think MSNBC presented him as a “credible” pollster. Yet another piece of the crud the media’s gotten away with too long.
Long live the blogs.
Sharkbabe @
52
sharkbabe! Contratulations!
and Goebbels was quite a credible propagandist — one of the best. Frank Luntz does what he does quite well …
OfT Rove’s Silence Amid the Din
by emptywheel
*ilson46201 @ 88
Thanks! Got the codes . . . they’re the one thing I hadn’t tried!
To whom it may…
Lotus dropped in last thread and if this means what I think it means…
lotus @
128
Happy birthday, Lotus [[[[[HUG]]]]]]!!!
Prairie Sunshine; Kagan is the one that looks like Skeletor; this is Soledad:
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors…..ledad.html
By the way, ABC is putting out a hit piece blaming Clinton for the 9/11 attacks. Yes, right BEFORE the mid-term elections. It is called The Path to 9/11. Rush Limbaugh (the producer is a friend of his), Michael Barone, the free republic and a bunch of other right wing sites are already touting it. Your liberal media at work. Democratic Underground and diaries on the daily kos have mentioned contacting ABC about the inaccuracies and falsehoods in the movie.
Here is the show’s blog – http://blogs.abc.com/thepathto911/
and here is the contact information for ABC
http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551
(818) 460-7477*
Prairie Sunshine — Amen to finding that video clip of Bush saying that he liked dictatorships as long as he was the dictator. Surely we can at least locate where he was and when, couldn’t we?
That one clip would just destroy all of his mewings on T.V., which all the channels play over and over and over… they are sure they will help him out this time around.
Hey, Dru, I know the diff when I’m looking at ‘em, just happened to be in the next room to the tee-vee. Thought it was Soledad’s voice, then heard Daryn’s…but it was late in the Soledad hour when Daryn teases her hour, so that may be what confused me. I’m thinking Soledad would be the interviewer. I’ll listen if they replay.
And not to be lost in the kerfuffle, Quindlen had some great comments, and I definitely should listen again for those, because I really respect her column writing in Newsweek/newsweek.com
Thanks, HotFlash, but I’m still clamped onto 58 for a couple of weeks yet!
Wotta LOVELY morning’s worth of news — Dan in the Can, Baby Mittens, Sharkie’s ongoing defeat of the nicotine cabal:
We onna roll!
I remember a time when the Pugs marched lock step to the halls of domination. The Dems seemed to be in a fog, like we were under water, and our vision and message seemed to die at our eyes and lips. The Republican machine seemed invincable, unstoppable and they took the reins of power.
It doesn’t seem like that anymore. They fluently shoot their own feet, and have clearly showed that those who don’t believe in government cannot govern.
Dems and progressives are getting better at message delivery (thanks to the blogosphere). The fight is being taken to the pugs, and they are injured from us and themselves.
To those Republicans who are up for re-election this November; when two people agree 98% of the time–one of them is irrelelvant. And in this instance, both are wrong.
Tommy Yum … (sorry, on work conference call so distracted) … had a good chat with Howie and I’ll be working our media lists a bit to see if we can increase the attention to the awesome Had Enough! I’ll ask Howie to copy you when I get the press release, etc set up so you can see what we’re sending round.
(I *love* playing press secretary to the stars!)
“Of course we will [continue to use the ad],” [Gerstein] said. “Why in God’s name wouldn’t we?”
Uh, maybe because it will keep reminding everybody what a lying piece of crap you are, Dan?
By all means, keep using the ad. After all, you paid for the footage, didn’t you? (snicker)
GrandmaJ, I saw it on CNN back then, March 2001 or thereabouts. He was sitting next to the fireplace in the WH. It was a heh, heh, heh moment. Not so funny.
Maybe we can persuade Cafferty to track it down and make a question of the day from it.
OT – “The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America towards a fascist theocracy… and everything that’s happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe.”
-Frank Zappa 03-28-86
With just a little updating, this quote rings true today.
Here’s the whole 21 min video of Zappa on Crossfire.
Siun,
May I email you?
mui @ 66
Oops.
Please noone call Dan Gerstein! All he gets from us is a poker face.
Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose recent comments have stirred controversy, says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.”
Burns just makes it too easy for John Tester. It makes me jealous.
IAEA report coming out today (?) – just mentioned on CNN – expected to show that, yes, Iran is enriching uranium but at a ‘comparatively slow pace’. It hasn’t pushed up the pace, nor has it produced enriched uranium of the purity needed for weapons.
Those darned ‘appeasers’ at CNN….
Here is more on The Path to 9/11. It is a ‘review’ by a right-wing ‘news’ organization. Note how the producer slams Clinton, and btw, it is NOT true that there was no response after the Cole. That is completely inaccurate and the producers know that.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Ar…..p?ID=24042
OT – Gunman breaks into UK Embassy in Tel Aviv
Prairie Sunshine @
34
GrandmaJ @ 98
Here’s the transcript . . . and here’s a story that I think includes a link to the video in the bar on the right – no time to try it now on dialup, as The Kid is waking up and needs Daddy to get his pancakes cooking.
I particularly enjoyed this from the Courant story:
(Gerstain:) “…we make one honest mistake that we own up to and they jump all over it.”
Yeah, you owned up to after trying to lie your way out of it didn’t work. That’s what I call integrity, for sure.
Ha, I knew it! I knew that was a California sunset! Man, how lame is that to use stock footage from 3000 miles away? Makes me wonder what else is fake. Is it really even Lieberman’s voice at the end, or is it a stunt double? The dad from ALF, perhaps? That has got to be one of the worst commercials ever.
The Democrat Express is boarding at at gate #1. The large broom is coming. It will be a Democrat sweep this fall.
Tasini of New York is a friend to hard working Americans, and against the Bush War in Iraq. Hillary is a friend of the anti-labor DLC and supports the the Bush-Cheney scorched earth policies in the Middle East. And Lamont will win. A vote for Senator Jonathan Tasini, is a vote for sanity.
Mmmmmm…. pancakes.
Well, it appears that in Vermont residents are able to wear whatever T-shirt they want. Exciting, huh?
http://cbs13.com/national/tops…..30520.html
jayt @
109
Thanks, this is an important point, that too easily gets lost. Prof Foland and other knowledgeable FDLers commented a lot about this a few months ago when the story was hot then. Given the number of centrifuges they appear to have, they are a long way away.
o/t (again)
fyi – 2 of 3 Boulis defendants granted bail
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami…..365051.htm
me to me @
7
Check this out. Mother Jones has invented a Lie by Lie Timeline machine to track the Bush administration’s lies re the war. It is still a work in progress but it is a great start. They are only up to March 2003 (So many lies to track!). Wish they had it earlier. I recommend you bookmark it and visit often.
In my perverse mind, I see the Bush people using this resource to keep track of their own lies. I kid you not.
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
John Casper @ 116
Here is Prof. Foland’s blog that goes into it in detail.
last night I ordered one of those “Who You Calling MACACA?” T-shirts with the frowning monkey face …
California sunset. Well. California sunsets do afford a much better unfettered view of a smog filtered sunset. Automobile smoke and congestion is one reason I don’t live in California these daze.
Bong, honey, you may need more’n pancakes. Seems you’ve come to the attention of Ken Starr hisself:
High court to get ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case?
Christy,
Take a quick peek at this short redo of the ad that we were laughing over last night:
http://www.clipshack.com/Clip……162DBCA2C3
The hat tip comes from this Kos diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..94440/1536
Under the heading of “moral confusion,” the Boston Globe has several articles and op-eds worth reading. The first shows again that we are holding completely innocent people at Gitmo.
I believe this institution and policy are under Rummy’s jurisdiction?
http://www.boston.com/news/nat…..uestioned/
meta — I think somebody had a blast writing that bit for AP on the t-shirt fracas in Vermont:
Heh.
*ilson — Wow, where’d you order the t-shirt??? I want one, too!! Maybe several!!
OfT from the Rocky Moutain News Salazar demands Rumsfeld be fired
“Defense secretary’s salvo at war critics angers Democrats”
Big props to FDL.
Lieberman endorsingVichy Dems, such as Salazar, don’t do this, if Ned doesn’t win the primary.CafePress sells the shirts — do a search there for MACACA — the vendor is donating 30% of the profits to the Webb Campaign too …
here’s the exact shirt:
http://www.cafepress.com/macacashop
But if you do a search for ‘macaca’ you will find many others
Peterr @ 111 thinks he’s found the link to the Bush > dictator vidclip. Could somebody check this out and put on YouTube? I’m on the fly in med caregiving mode for most of today and don’t know how to do this. Thanks for helping move a small stone.
Thanks, *ilson!! Coolness!!
Would be lovely to send that bright boy in Vermont a month’s worth of assorted, appropriate t-shirts to encourage his bravery and his protection of our Constitutional rights to free speech, too.
back to puppies for a sec — I forgot to mention that Fidelito is a ‘talking dog’ like his Mommy and one of his brothers. It sounds like they are genuinely trying to vocalize like humans…
In a second item wrt to Rummy’s “moral confusion,” George Soros has a worthwhile op-ed in which he argues that the Administration’s conceptual framework for its “war on terror” has made both Israel and the United States less safe.
George Soros: “Blinded by a concept.”
http://www.boston.com/news/glo…..a_concept/
Echoes of Pachacutec and Soros’ earlier comments here on Book Salon.
lotus @ 122
lotus, my flower… saw that yesterday and got a good chuckle… glad to see you back in the fray. you stayin’ dry?
LOTUS!!!1!
RevDeb at 7:30. Thanks. I didn’t know he even had his own blog. Bookmarked that sucker.
The question that begs answering is how on earth this country has fallen into the hands of such dimwits? Gerstein-Lieberliar is a perfect example of the kind of willful stupidity that reigns over Washington and corporate boardrooms.
Holy peyote! Bush says the trick is to “keep the expectations low” among other things(!?!)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..rent-bush/
And this is the man, Holy Joe thinks its unpatriotic to question.
Sharkbabe at 52
Good for you re smokes! Keep up the good work. ;->
Stuart Eugene Thiel @
32
You want cybersleuthing? Check this out: How Katie Couric lost 10 pounds overnight.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..28314.html
And the coup de grace in the Globe’s response to Rummy’s “moral confusion,” we have this from Peter Galbraith, former ambassador, who recalls real history, but this involving Rummy’s and Bush I’s and Cheney’s complicity in ignoring the real use of wmd by Saddam against the Kurds, and other crimes, but who also helped cover up the crimes when Congress tried to stand up to Saddam in the 1980s:
http://www.boston.com/news/glo…..appeasers/
Just mailed off some appreciation to Olbermann and MSNBC.
Listened to Vermont Public Radio this morning and caught part of Senator Leahy’s response in Burlington. I’m pretty sure I heard the word “stupid” and he closed with “I wish someone in the Bush administration would read a history book”.
Hello Lotus! Good to see you. Hope Ernesto blew right past you.
orangejumpsuit @ 139
d r i f t g l a s s does it better.
:-)
new thread
TOMMY!!!!
Smoochies to ya, bro, AND another bowl or two o’ chuckles . . .
If the reason Bush is the way he is, is because he gave up booze and drugs, then someone please re-introduce this man to those things.
hell, I wish one of ‘em would read a 7th grade social studies book
Our Neighbors in the Middle East
Smoochies to you too, meta — smoochies to alla y’all!
Yep, Ernesto (”Che” down here) was nicely mannered here, and we sure hope he stays that way farther upcoast. Just dumped 7″ outta my topped-out rainguage, but I don’t think that was only his.
We’re about to get hit with Ernesto’s remnants this weekend. We need the rain — but I’m glad he petered out before hitting land. We could go the rest of the hurricane season without anything big — the last thing we need is a repeat of last year. SIGH
mui @ 7:41 am,
The first thing I noticed when I watched that clip yesterday of the Williams interview was the body language, when Williams asks the first ‘hard’ question Fartacus’ immediate reaction is to step closer to him, get in his space. It doesn’t take long and Brian has to wave his papers he’s holding to make him back off a little and establish some boundries. We know how good Bush is with boundries and all. Oh, wait…
HEY! lo
havin’ fun yet?
Welcome back indeed! ;->
Christy Hardin Smith @ 150
Glad Ernesto isn’t as much of a danger as it looked at one point, but how about finding another verb to describe how Ernesto declined in strength? “. . . petered out” hits a little close to home . . .
;)
Peterr picky! 154
lol Peterr at 153
Oh, and new thread, gang. :) Thought you could use a fresh space…
Doing some research on Lebanon crisis and response, thought you might find it interesting that Norway has earmarked funds for emergency reproductive health assistance and protection from and response support to victims/survivors of gender-based violence in the IDF populations. Reproductive health is earmarked for about 475K and violence is earmarked for 200K.
Also, found the most recent OCHA (UN humanitarian response guys) report.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5633.shtml
interesting stuff.
talk about appeasing the faschists . . .
if memory serves me: chimpy mcflighsuit’s family did a bit more than appease the nazi’s . . .they did business with them till the US government frozed grampa’s assets.
Prairie Sunshine @ 75
The USA has more fascism going on than Islam could ever dream of.
We’ve got fascism four ways - the collusion of Big Business and government, plus Catholicism (God bless our military and ixnay communion for John Kerry, don’t forget the Pope’s meeting with Kneel Bush), plus Pat Robertson, James Dobson, et al, and their billion dollar evangelical biz helping out (and getting bigtime faith based initiatives), plus Big Biz’s right wing media conglomerates (violating anti-trust laws) pushing the right wing agenda a la the lovely Soledad – a tiny example.
So we’ve got big bizniss and the media it owns, the government, the military ind. complex and religion in our fascist stew.
Islamofascism can’t touch it with a ten foot pole.
One of the big problems is that Joe and Jane Sixpack don’t know the definition of fascism.
joe-nertia! apply directly to your forehead!
joe-nertia! apply directly to your forehead!
joe-nertia! apply directly to your forehead!
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Here’s a better “Pressure” video, except that it’s sung by a scary black person, which Dan “race bait with Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters” Gerstein might not like.
Exactly right – which is why the Rovians are trying to muddy the waters with their own “unique” definition of fascism. Rove developed his playbook from Orwell’s 1984 and Goering’s philosophy of authoritarian government
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
The sun sets behind the mountains in SB, I live 30 mins away. I have seen many travel books claim beautiful sunsets in SB but it just ain’t so. I know it minor BS but what the hey.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 33