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Howie Klein sent me this great news, and I thought you guys would want to mark your calendars:
Robert Kennedy's and Mike Papantonio's Air America show, Ring of Fire is pretty hard-hitting and not the place you might expect to catch up with a singer-singerwriter. But Rickie Lee Jones isn't exactly a typical singer-songwriter-- and she can be pretty hard-hitting herself. See for yourself this weekend when she joins Mike and Robert, Saturday 5- 7 PM (EST) and Sunday 3-5 PM in most cities. You can find your local Air America station at airamericaradio.com or listen online at that site. Some of the local affiliates do not carry Air America on weekends, or carry it at various times so check. But you can always listen to the show online. Next week, the show will be archived at the Ring of Fire website.Knowing Rickie, she'll have lots to talk about and one thing will no doubt be the project she's involved with for Blue America-- and the song she recorded, "Have You Had Enough?".
Huge congrats to everyone involved in the song, including our own Tommy Yum!
Our Wednesday Blue America guest -- Chris Carney, running in PA-10 -- got great news this week, with a poll putting him seven points ahead of his opponant, Don Sherwood. The thought that we could turn a red district blue with a win for Carney is fantastic -- but the thought of him beating Don Sherwood just makes me grin. Please consider donating to Chris if you can swing it -- this is truly a race that is very winnable, and one that I would love to see us take with a hefty margin. (Sherwood ranks up there with Mean Jean Schmidt on my list of races to win.)
Howie also sends this along: "Our guest for the Blue America chat this Saturday will be Roger Sharpe, in the toughest race we've introduced so far. It's in North Carolina's Piedmont area (NC-05) and Roger faces the only woman in the U.S. House whose voting record is further to the right than Mean Jean Schmidt's-- Virginia Foxx (who first came to prominence as a state legislator when she introduced North Carolina's bigoted anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment)." Should be a great chat -- and I hope everyone can make it!
-- For you Washington State readers, Howie has some information on a race in the WA-35.
-- Donna Edwards just got endorsed by the Teamsters in her race. Go Donna!
-- For some Friday fun, I'm posting the link for the Rowley supporter-made video using Have You Had Enough?, just because it makes me smile. (Love the fact that this fella put the video together and put it up on YouTube all on his own. Great moxie -- and the video is a kick!)
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Fiona is 1st.
“Our guest for the Blue America chat this Saturday will be Roger Sharpe, in the toughest race we’ve introduced so far. It’s in North Carolina’s Piedmont area (NC-05)”
YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being front-paged gives me the tingles!
Re: previous thread:
from Dan Froomkin’s column: The Associated Press reports; “President Bush will make a prime-time address from the Oval Office on Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
“White House press secretary Tony Snow said the administration had requested network time for the address at 9:01 p.m. EDT. The address is expected to run 16 to 18 minutes, he said. . .
Is this a clue that there’s been a change in programming? Or were/are they planning to interrupt the miniseries for this speech from Bush?
Thanks for posting the link to the “Have You Had Enough?” video. I love it too and Mike is working on versions for supporters of Jerry McNerney (CA-11), Nancy Johnson (CT-05), Charlie Brown (CA-04) and for several other races. Meanwhile, we’re trying to collect donations at the Blue America PAC to put the 60-second radio spots up for our favorite congressional races. I’m eager to hear which races FDL community members are most excited about us concentrating on.
I was about to correct you about there being no WA-35 district, then I realized that’s the 35th state legislative district, which looks like this. It’s on the southern end of the Olympic Penninsula, and includes Bremerton, Silverdale, Shelton, and at least part of Tumwater. Other than that, it’s sparsely populated, and is, or at least was, prime timber country.
Thanks for the heads up on Sheldon, Howie.
Makes me wonder if he and McGavick are BFF.
(((((TOMMY, HOWIE, and RICKIE LEE)))))
D’ja see the good news for Jay Fawcett this morning too?
Ratchere!
Check out NY Times review of Path to 9/11. Seems that Allessandra Stanley got an advance copy. You know she’s going to softball ABC with the statement that
” All mini-series Photoshop the facts’The Path to 9/11′ is not a documentary, or even a docu-drama; it is a fictionalized account of what took place.” She also states that ABC is “under assault by bloggers”.
My favorite quote:
“The Sept. 11 commission concluded that the sex scandal distracted the Clinton administration from the terrorist threat.”
She goes on to acknolwedge that the scandal was a result of the right wing impeachment, but then makes a bizarre comparison of such republicasn to “widows sickened by the memory of spats about dirty dishes and gambling debts.”
I didn’t read the commission report but did they make such a determination???
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09.....8path.html
In the WA 35 race, just wondering if there’s another dem on the ticket against Sheldon (as we have not had our primary yet). The state Senate majority is not that large for the Dems so at least want to make sure it remains in Dem hands. That being said, Sheldon is good buds w/ my ex, who is also a state legislator.
Busted (#7), when you get a chance, read that transcript I link to. Close your eyes and you’ll swear you’re listening to an even nastier version of Lieberman.
Howie –
During Wednesday’s Blue America, you asked if twice a week is too much. Absolutely not — in fact, I think you should go to a three times a week schedule: Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
The election season is upon us, and our Blue America Democrats need all the help they can get. The more they see of the netroots, the better the chances they will pick up some fightin’ Democrat attitude.
moe99 (#10)– yes, a great one. The woman who was endorsed by the Democratic Party– and by conservation groups, women’s groups, native American groups, gay groups, civil rights groups, every progressive organization in the state– is Kyle Taylor Lucas.
Just got back from the mall. I was just about to pay for a new pair of pajamas until I noticed the Disney tag hanging. Alas, I had to put them back on the rack. I really needed new bolg attire too…….thanks Disney.
OfT, FWIW
I just received this, this morning from my ABC affiliate. It looks to me like their standard response.
I will continue to keep up the pressure as time allows.
moe99 @ 10:09am (#10)
Yes, Kyle Taylor Lucas is running against him. According to Howie’s article, the Washington State Democrats endorsed Taylor. They had a debate, and here’s the transcript (h/t DownWithTyranny):
http://www.theolympian.com/app.....22006/1103
This may be off topic, but I thought I would mention that US Senator Russ Feingold is having a Question and Answer Session in Jacksonville, Florida, this Sunday.
Here is the DFA link.
Just in case anyone else on FDL lives in this god-forsaken part of Florida.
OT - VIDEO: Bill Bennett Says ABC Should ‘Correct Those Inaccuracies’ in Path to 9/11
When propaganda becomes entertainment
the terrorists have won.
-ck- (#12), oy!
I don’t want to stress out everyone’s credit cards. But the response was so overwhelming that we don’t go back to once a week, that I’ll keep doing Wednesdays and Saturdays. By the way, the money came flooding in for Chris Carney. Last time I looked we were over $2,000.
I really do want everyone to think about which race or two we should target with out “Have you Had Enough” ads. SayNoToPombo already has their customized version up at their My Space page. And Chris Murphy supporters in CT-05 tell me they will be able to raise money on their own, just in the district, to run the 60-second radio spots there.
pooch @ 10
No, they concluded exactly the opposite (about Clinton, that is)…
Howie Klein @ 6
As soon as you add Roger Sharpe to the Act Blue page, I’m in.
Howie Klein @ 12
HOLY CRAP!!!
A quote from the debate transcript.
Duke, Shelton: I’ve listened to Sen. Sheldon speak at various Democratic Party functions, and he says he wants the support of the Democratic Party. But when they were debating the governor’s election, he said that he wasn’t there to represent the party.
snip
I did vote for Bush in 2004.(Sheldon)
snip
(Lucas) Specifically I would point to votes he’s taken siding with pharmaceutical companies and against affordable medication for working families, voted against small business opportunities to provide affordable health care. And if we want to look at building healthy ecologies in this district, his vote against a septic cleanup bill last year — Hood Canal is in dire straits, and the shellfish industry is struggling. It was incomprehensible to me that he would vote against that bill.
DINO. He needs to be out on his ass.
I am sworn to secrecy, but the people who know me know which race I am talking about. There will be some amazing polling news released very soon about a certain supposedly better-dead-than-not-red congressional district.
LindaR– what time?
For those calling ABC affiliates, here’s an important tip from folks at Kos:
Ask to speak with the SALES department - these are the people who have the most to fear from a boycott.
The SALES PEOPLE are the ones who will generate the most pressure to pull the movie.
SALES!
LindaR @ 25
::Doing my Snoopy happy dance::
we compile lists so you don’t have to:
over at skippy we have a list of email addresses to disney you can simply copy and paste into your “send to” box in your email.
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Howie Klein @ 26
It’s driving me crazy — I’m waiting for an email saying I can blab, but I heard the numbers last night.
A blogger is running a story that states a christian ministry group headed by the father of David Cunningham, the director of the ABC 911 film had a major involvement financially and editorially in the making of this film. Please check this out ASAP
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
There is a terrific diary at KOS about all the different ways you can pressure ABC.
A lot of things I hadn’t thought of, like deleting ABC from your DVR (because it sends a record of your viewing habits to ABC).
Here’s the link. I highly recommend you take a look, and act on its recommendations:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....2711/37922
Whoa FS - that is extremely interesting. I would like to see more people start digging into that story.
Bustednuckles @ 10:21 am (#23) - [Sheldon is a] DINO. He needs to be out on his ass.
Agreed. It’s clear that I haven’t been paying enough attention to state politics. This guy should have been gone years ago, but I hadn’t known this about him. Voting for Bush in 2004? What kind of progressive would do that?
pooch @
10
There’s a nice rebuttal from Roger Ailes here.
Cujo (#33)- a Lieberman kind
Speaking of Air America, what the hell is going on in NYC? I turned them on Tuesday and that lickspittle douche bag armstrong williams and some other rightest hack is on. I’m forced to listen to NPR on my way to work.
HotFlash @ 34
Shorter Ailes: She ain’t nuthin but a ho, ho, ho.
Petition Letter to Iger:
“Pull the made for tv movie, “Path to 9/11″. It is unfair to air anything about 9/11 that does not give dignity and respect to those who died. Fiction has no place on this 5th anniversary of the attack.”
Cujo359 @ 34
I have heard of him, offhand. I just never realized just how bad he was. Unfortunately for my sorry behind, I tend to pay more attention to the local aspect of politics.( Vancouver area) But that is already changing. H/T FDL and
several left coast blogs.
FS@31 If that is true then it answers the question of WTF was Disney thinking. They were sold on a “History” project for 911, management didn’t do their job and the corp. was sandbagged by rightwing christian wackos.
Steve @ 41
How stupid do you have to be to be sandbagged by rightwing christian wackos?
HotFlash, I especially admire this passage from your Roger Ailes link:
Mumf mumf mumf.
Okay, whaddya think — was I laughing just now? or crying?
Rant alert
Since the media are still very much on topic, I thought I could segue into something I saw last night on Charlie Rose. The editors of Time and Newsweek, Richard Stengel and Jon Meacham, were on. It was like watching two gentlemen discussing a genteel competition at their country club. It was all very Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Blogs, of course, were dismissed early on and along with them the interactivity that they represent and that people like Stengel and Meacham abhor. Stengel said that you would always need good mainstream investigative reporting like Michael Isikoff on the Monica Lewinsky affair. Yes, that was his example. You see people need to come away after reading their magazines with the feeling “that they’ve learned something” although not necessarily with what they need to know. They stressed that the magazines’ role was to present the world to the reader too busy to do it for him or herself. But they never discussed what that world was. They never discussed their coverage of the last 6 years. They never mentioned their feature articles comparing Bush to Churchill and Roosevelt of not so long ago. They never pointed out those sterling examples of investigative journalism a la Isikoff that laid bare at the time the lies and manipulations that led to Iraq or underlay Bush’s tax cuts. They did not bring up their exposes on the 2000 and 2004 elections or what they found out about Bush’s “lost years” and National Guard experience. They did not boast about how they broke the story behind Abu Ghraib and the trail that led straight back to Rumsfeld and from there to Alberto Gonzales and the White House. Nor did they hype their timely investigations into signing statements, NSA wiretaps, and secret CIA prisons. No, they were too modest or perhaps that was not the world they wished to “present” to their patient, passive, gullible readers.
/rant
Someone was wondering about the writer the other day. His bio says born in Boulder, CO; his family fled Iran during the ‘takeover by Islamic militants’.
I can’t verify the birthplace, but he was born in 1956/1957 (genealogy has its accesses), so if he was born in the US, his parents must have been here for school or military training, then gone back (assuming the story about fleeing Iran is true; a lot of people came long before that to escape the secret police). I wonder how truthful his bio is…..
for jasonb from last thread @153 and other looking for factual review of relavant scenes from PT911. Editor & Publisher staff review is here:
http://www.editorandpublisher......1003087654
This is the only detailed analysis of the film’s questionable scenes by an unbiased source I’ve read and have yet to see a detailed take-down by anyone else who has actually been allowed to preview it. Here’s a small excerpt from E&P:
Editor & Publisher has alot of other interestiong items on the controversy, particularly the PT911’s claim that a leak by the Washington Post scuttled intel efforts to listen in on OBL’s phone traffic. It was actually the conservative Moonie Washingtom Times that leaked the item, and the leak probably was harmless as OBL was very aware of US Intel’s listening efforts directed at AQ. Link here:
http://www.editorandpublisher......1003087653
Raw Story linking to a story that claims the Bolton nomination is dead.
ExcuseMe (18)..
Thx for the info on the Fiengold event at UNF! It’s so rare that national Democrats are invited to events around here. I’ll see if I can make it Sunday. Russ is at the top of my list for 2008 right now and I’d love to hear him in person.
Mary@42 Stupidity or greed? I can’t wait for discovery or for bloggers to document the money trail.
Love the tune, love the idea, LOVE the people involved.
Thanks so much.
OT-
www.2006joe.com
How stupid do you have to be to be sandbagged by rightwing christian wackos?
Well, I cain’t rightly say, Mary McC — all I know is, it’s a threshold that mighty few elected representatives these days can clear.
Time we retired their jiggly butts, yes?
From WAPO,
Bruce R. Lindsey, who runs Clinton’s foundation, wrote Kean last night that he was “shocked” by the former New Jersey governor’s role, saying: “Your defense of the outright lies in this film is destroying the bipartisan aura of the 9/11 Commission and tarnishing the hard work of your fellow commissioners.”
Snap.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01454.html
OT - below thread - defamation, public figure, actual malice.
IMO, ABC has a tough row to hoe, because they have now been put on notice, prior to their major distribution, that their content is false and defamatory. This isn’t like the normal - publish, THEN find out, and the argument becomes whether or not you had intent - if you publish in the face of warnings the material is not correct (and you even acknowledge it is not correct) then if any of it is defamatory - you are pretty much stuck on malice.
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Belowthread - Kimba1970 - thank you.
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BTW - I think Howie Kurtz is getting taken with Christy & Jane. ;)
can someone check, this please? Can’t get through firewall here at the salt mine.
It’s on the DU board. Says, “Breaking - ABC will not air 911 movie”
http://www.thewashingtonnote.c.....001632.php
Link to Bolt-On story.
T- @ 54
Disney are now saying they will not release a film politicizing 9/11 so close to an election.
Oops, my mistake, sorry… It was 2 years ago and the movie was called Fahrenheit 9/11.
Bad joke.
T- This is what it says:
doh!
T- @
54
full story there
Oops, my mistake, sorry… It was 2 years ago and the movie was called Fahrenheit 9/11.
excellent.
Who would expect them to at least be consistent?
Urban Pirate @
51
www.LiebermanForLieberman.com
Well, we wuz all ovah that one like Chimpy on Rice, weren’t us?
Just got off the phone with the assistant to the General Manager of our local (but ABC owned & operated!) ABC affiliate, KGO-7. She said they are contractually obligated to run the show. I said I was calling because, unlike the network and half of the network sponsors, KGO has answered NONE of my emails the past two days. She said the General Manager was in a meeting, and that they were forwarding all the emails to the network right now.
It sounds like the affiliates are feeling the heat — I told them I would contact LOCAL sponsors of KGO-7 today to tell them I wouldn’t be buying their products either. I told her that as patriotic Americans, the management of KGO-7 should think hard about maligning those who served their country and tried to protect us from terrorism during the Clinton Administration, but that more than the slant, I was concerned that the inaccuracies were falsehoods that dishonored the victims of 9/11. I asked her, and her boss the General Manager, to consider that there might be a higher calling than their contractual obligations — namely, their patriotic duty AND their interest in advertiser dollars.
She said my comments would be added to the list and thanked me for my concern. They sound quite spooked.
Bay Area ‘pups, call KGO-7 at 415-954-7777. Ask the harried switchboard operator to connect you to the General Manager’s office. Please add your voice to mine.
If ABC owned & operated affiliates are still communicating their viewers’ displeasure to the network in New York this late in the game, there may be an opportunity to STOP this tripe.
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Had Enough, America?
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Guess I’ll have to go on over to the joeblog to cheer myself up!
Very good news here. Larry Johnson’s first take on the Senate Intel Committtee’s Phass II report:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/m.....el_co.html
No wonder they’re pushing Path to 911 out now and hyping the War On Terra’ non-stop. This looks to be DEVASTATING for the Bushies….
And the Bolton nomination is really dead?
Wow what a week!
klyde @
37
Are you listening to the old station or the new one at 1600AM?
Tues. morning Mark Riley said something about not being heard in NY, but he never said why.
*shrug*
You know, even though I think there were a lot of problems in the Clinton years, I wonder why no one ever really does ask about and follow up on the Cole situation.
I happened right before Bush won, the responsiblity was pinned to al-Qaeda in January 2001 wasn’t it?
I never see anyone ask what the Bush adminsitration response was to the Cole?
Anyone?
Any answers?
What they really should do, if someone was ready for guts tv, is a documentary. One that give pointed questions and times and doesn’t pull punches with some of the players like Clarke, Sheuer etc. who are at very different ends of the spectrum. Unfortunately, someone like Tenet who should be a central player is so tainted as untrustworthy and untruthful and corrupted by the administration, and everyone in the current administration or with relations to them has earned a minus 100 starting point on the truthiness scale, that I don’t know how you really get to the truth.
But it should be an ongoing dialog - not a five hour miniseries.
*ilson46201 @ 61
www.joey2006.com
T (at 54) and others: You are cruel. I got taken for that brief 5 seconds that spins the head. Mean! On Bolton nomination being dead - yes and it is thanks to Chaffee (RI). If he and other so-called moderates (like Susan Collins) had any integrity, grit, responsibility to the voters in their states, and care about this country and its future, this shouldn’t have come this far. Many people I know wrote to Collins over the Alito vote and said if you vote wrong, you are toast. Hopefully Mainer Dems will begin putting together an alternative candidate.
166TheOtherWA @ 67
1600AM. I e-mailed Riley and asked what’s the deal so far no response. Makes me efing sick.
FS @ 30
Oh yeah, YWAM should definitely be on our “to do” list after this weekend. Creepy indeed.
Urban Pirate @ 68
http://www.LieberBlog.com
For a great photo go here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....35818/8140
Sorry Richmond, didn’t mean it.
Go on over to the joeblog to get right.
Come right back y’hear?
Taylor’s just reported that a new poll shows Harold Ford, Jr. is now in a statistical dead heat with Bob Corker for the Tennessee U.S. Senate seat. The Rasmussen poll has now changed this race from “leans Republican” to “tossup”.
*ilson46201 @ 73
www.vetojoe.com
:)
Urban Pirate @ 76
http://www.DumpJoe2006.com
T- Somehow it feels good to get taken. Wakes me up to get back to the manu. I was chuckling.
OT - a little bit - Received a call last night from the Patty Wetterling campaign asking if I would put a yard sign up. I said of course, but consider I am in a trailer park, on a cul-de-sac road with only 2-3 drivers turning around by my house each day. NOT alot of traffic.
But I asked how Patty was doing considering how Kos had a poll up on many of the house races showing only Patty and one race in FL not having a lead or within the margin of error. She was surprised because their polling was different and the race competitive. Certainly that could very well be true. But I directed her to Firedoglake and specifically to Howie Klein to try and get Patty Wetterling to be one of the candidates that Howie highlights.
Many people know Patty Wetterling because after her young son was kidnapped she became a voice for a quicker response from police and has testified many times in Congress. But she is a quiet person by nature and not a gangbuster, go all out candidate. Just a mother wanting better for her state and our country.
Hoping that Patty’s campaign contacts Howie through this blog to put her name into the candidate mix.
Fresh Froomkin, anyone?
Cheney Lost — But How Much? includes this glum item:
Cakewalk, flowers and sweets, last throes, an’ all like that.
Hi Howie,
Hope you don’t think we are neglecting such an honoured guest! It’s just that Jane and Christy’s Multi-tasking Mad Firedogs ™are having a great time barking at a certain mouse.
So glad to see you taking the lead on presenting *real* choice at the polls. For all concerned Americans, Dem or Repub, priority #1 is getting the Congress back from BushCo — and that includes a lot of folks who have D after their name. I’m telling my Republican friends/relatives that the K Street guys have highjacked *their* party, and it’s time to vote Dem even if it means holding their noses. And I’m telling all my Dem and other friends, “Hey, there’s a real choice now!” and to get out there and support Act Blue candidates in the remaining primaries and again on Nov 7.
A donation question for you: The info I can find say foreign citizens may not contribute to US candidates, but I am dual (US born, naturalized Cdn). Anybody know if I can donate as a dual citizen? So far all our donations have been made in my husband’s name, he is US only.
Our old home district back in MI is 100% Repub(Candace Miller) w/no serious challenger, so we are backing likely progressive contenders whereever they may be, like Colleen Rowley (she’s my hero!) Chris Carney and now Roger (pleased to meet you). Thanks to you and Jane and the Blue America gang for finding these great candidates and pointing them out to us!
Richmond (alternative candidate) Collins- of course- is a gooper- maybe I don’t understand your post.
HotFlash - so proud to have Colleen Rowley running to representent Minnesota. And she and Patty Wetterling (See my # 80) have campaigned together at DNC events, along with Amy Klobachar. The trifecta in my estimation.
lotus @ 43
Oh! That was Mickey Camus!
T- @ 63
I was there a little earlier. The comments are extremely funny. People are actually compiling a list of serious questions (gasp!) they want Dan Gerstein to answer on Holy Joe’s behalf!
TeddySanFran @ 64
Somebody somewhere — I’ve read hundreds of posts and links in the past 24 hours — said that stations have to get licenses renewed by FCC, so send a complaint to FCC, or threaten to. Said it hardly ever happens so even one letter hits like a , um, bunkerbuster.
Peterr linked this ealier, but I want to toss it in again,
Values we have to hide abroad
Eugene Robinson actually addresses the issue of torture and war crimes that keeps being swept under the state secrets rug.
Interesting - while I was there I took a look at Krauthammer & Hoagland. Krauthammer fesses up that Iraq is a civil war and has been for some time. Actually wants to discuss goals, options and possiblities as opposed to ranting about appeasement. What a difference a looming election makes. Hoagland is at “goodness gosh golly” the Rumsfeldian three Gs Maybe we need some international cooperation (other than those handy dandy Egyptian torture chambers)? He mentions that the US might need to adjust its “rhetoric” but somehow never quite gets to the indictments in Italy, or the two rendition/torture flights investigations in Europe, and the fact that we are going to have an increasingly tough time getting assistance when we are engaging in actions recognized by our “allies” as crimes.
Jane Mayer had this piece about some of the deaths in detention - Killer Questions
The mindset to torture first, evidence (from the torture) later - if there are survivors - is not a) going to win widespread cooperation from other countries haven’t descended to the BushAmerica State Sponsorship of Torture level yet, and b) isn’t going to help get informants and human intel with ties to the work with a DOJ that will hand them over to be tortured.
We’re seeing the Bush/Rove perspective rejected all over, which partly accounts for the favorable polls and shifts we’re also seeeing.
Shades of Pachacutec: “It’s not a war on terror,” by the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenat.....on/7119330
Bush/Cheney view of Iraq was false:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09.....r=homepage
Bush/Cheney/Addington/Gonzalez view of military tribunals being rejected by Republicans: [may need sign in]
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?.....a0526dQ2Fr)XqrEQ3BQ51.5Q3BQ3BQ27HrHQ60Q60irQ60Q2FrQ60Ir)Q24.DSaQ7BQ27Q3BarQ60IZXQ7BQ24ZgDQ27!Z
And three courts have now rejected Bush/Gonzalez/Yoo view wrt to standing in surveillance law suits:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.....html#links
T- @ 54
T, It was a joke…and not funny:
Disney are now saying they will not release a film politicizing 9/11 so close to an election.
Oops, my mistake, sorry… It was 2 years ago and the movie was called Fahrenheit 9/11.
Dear Mod, if you can free me at 81, Mary may join me in the thanking (not so much for my sake as for the Froomkin).
ccmask @
15
I *only* blog in my Tweetie(tm) jammies now!
OT - From Anderson 360, CNN
HOLMES: Well, funnily enough, I spent today with several Iraqis, just ordinary Iraqis, an academic, a journalist, and others, preparing for another story.
Those speeches, it has to be said, among those I have spoken with, do not go down very well at all. When — when you say, and they hear, the president say that Iraq is central to the war on terror, well, they say, well, it wasn’t until you invaded us.
When they say that — the president says that this is now a haven for terrorists, they again say, well, it wasn’t until you invaded us.
And — and those I spoke with today also expressed real dismay that — that CNN poll showed that 43 percent of Americans still believe that — that Saddam Hussein caused 9/11. And — and they are stunned at that level of — of ignorance. So, yes, they are not real impressed — John.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA.....cd.01.html
rwcole - of course Collins is a gooper, but she (along with the other Maine gal) has gotten a pass from Dems (little opposition), because purportedly she is a moderate who represents the interests of a majority of Mainers. She has been hugging and kissing Lieberman of late. Bad news.
Whoa, look what just got EPU’d:
Nemo @ 266
Mary4 — don