(La MalKKKin's got your 'hot air' right here, buddy!)
You would think that any person confronted with a near-perfect record of staggering on-the-job failures would perhaps take a moment to reflect and maybe rethink their career choices. If you were a soccer player who consistently kicked the ball into their own team's goal, a firefighter who repeatedly sprayed gasoline instead of water on to burning buildings, or a doctor who managed to kill every patient they touched, wouldn't you start to think that maybe you were in the wrong line of work?
The cabal of yahoos on the Right, led by Michelle Malkin, who have dedicated the last couple of years of their lives solely to whacking off to MSM conspiracy theories and savagely dry-humping the corpse of Neoconservatism? They are not troubled by such doubts. They seem to be blissfully unencumbered by any sort of self-awareness whatsoever, actually. Even as they watch every single talking point they have pushed since 9/11 burst into flames and explode, they blithely insist that they have been right all along and that it's only the damn terrorist-loving liberals who have ruined everything.
Several years ago when I was a ward clerk in a public hospital, I was an unfortunate witness to the spectacle of a rather sweet-looking forty-ish businesswoman going into a complete fugue state from an encephalitic fever. She started screaming and clawing at the faces of anyone who came near her exam room. Just before the orderlies managed to subdue her, she tore off her hospital gown, ran into the hallway, squatted down and defecated into her hands…and ate it.
The feeling I got in the pit of my stomach seeing that is akin to the feeling I am getting watching the Pajamas Media crowd flog the dead horse that was their prize story this year, the "Who is Jamil Hussein?" canard.
Frankly, I can't look straight at it, anymore, but Greg Sargent? Do you have something you'd like to share with the class?
Oh, dear. It will be interesting to see what Malkin, Curt of Flopping Aces, Powerline Blog's John Hinderaker, and all the other merry wingers who promoted this story have to say about this new development. Of particular interest will be to see what the hapless Eason Jordan, the former CNN chief who actually offered to fly Malkin to Iraq so the two could hunt for Hussein together, has to say about it.
These bloggers actually managed to kick up enough dust around this story that some mainstream news orgs were suckered into paying attention to this attack on one of their own and granting it a semblance of legitimacy. The truth, however, is that with a few exceptions, the righty bloggers and columnists pursuing this attack were never serious about discovering whether or not that original burned-alive episode happened. Their real goal was to scapegoat an enemy within at a time when their cherished war was devolving into a disaster, to discredit the messenger, and to sow doubts about the validity of the war imagery being brought back by that messenger — imagery that was turning the American public against the conflict and causing their beloved leader and party to sink ever deeper in the polls.
And the funny thing is, not one of these people is willing to stand up and admit that they were wrong. None of them has enough integrity to stand up and apologize to the Associated Press and its reporters for openly accusing them of engaging in gross journalistic fraud, and for doing so on shaky grounds that revealed a complete lack of understanding of the nature of journalistic work — particularly the relationship of reporters to officialdom.
Dave, you know I love you and that I think you're one of the best bloggers going, but surely you're not so naïve as to expect rational, responsible behavior from the Malkinites? They are not rational people. They are not even adults. They are squalling, feuding toddlers with driver's licenses and mortgage payments. They may have been toilet-trained, but after that the cognitive development stopped cold. Really.
Brad at Sadly, No! knows the score:
Oh. My. God. Just. Shut. Up.
You guys are wrong about everything all the time and you show no shame about it. Doesn’t that bother you at all? Consider that normal people- people with actual souls- would have quietly slid away from the public spotlight after being exposed as complete frauds. But y’all cuckoos in the wingnutosphere? Pffffft! Once this fake MSM conspiracy theory has been debunked, y’all’ll just start combing through Reuters photos to see if there’s any added smoke. Losers.
UPDATE: I’m a big Greg Sargent fan, but he’s way off base here:
The Associated Press has just struck back very hard against the wingnuts who have been sliming the news org over the case of missing police captain Jamil Hussein — and it looks as if there may soon be lots of crow-eating going on in right blogistan.
Nope, sorry Greg. The wingnutosphere never eats crow. First they’ll acknowledge that Hussein does exist, but then add that there are still a lot of questions to be answered about the AP’s report. The next thing that happens is they never answer those questions and move on. Lastly, they start leafing through every goddamn wire photo on the Internet to search for evidence of photoshopping or tampering of any kind. When they finally find something (or hell, even if they don’t) they’ll start braying and shrieking about how the Iraq war is going just fine, and that journalists only report bad news because they hate the troops. This is how they play the game. They will never change because they have no souls.
I believe that with this statement Brad has just made the most sober and clear-eyed assessment of the state of affairs over in Right Wing Woof Woof Land that I have ever read. Kudos.
Maybe Malkin views her impending showboat tour of Iraq as a species of career rehabilitation à la Judy Miller's stint (stunt?) in the pokey. Funny, but I think that Malkin's plan, at best, will work out about as well. The words of Murray Waas spring to mind, "humiliated and discredited shill". I can't imagine why.
For our final word on this sorry chapter in the history of the ultimate decline and fall of Righty Bloggers, we'll go to Editor and Publisher:
Meanwhile, Brian Whitaker, Middle East editor at The Guardian of London since 2000, concludes his summary of the latest twist today this way: "Because of the number of reporters quoting Jamil Hussein, the bloggers were in effect alleging a generalised conspiracy by AP's Baghdad staff to deceive the news-reading public – an idea so unlikely as to be almost incredible.
"Interestingly, something similar happened with the hoax allegations relating to the Lebanese ambulances. As the bloggers pursued their claims, the only way they could support their claims was by implicating more and more Red Cross workers in a conspiracy to deceive – a conspiracy that, in the end, existed only in their imaginations.
"Back in Iraq, the good news today is that Capt Jamil Hussein really does exist, and the interior ministry's spokesman has finally and officially confirmed it. The bad news is that they have issued a warrant for his arrest for 'having contacts with the media.'
"Congratulations, bloggers. He won't be talking to AP again now."
Oh, riiiiiiight. The Lebanese ambulances! I remember that one. What a knee-slapper that was! Boy, the hits just keep coming, don't they? Don't ever change, oh, you tireless footsoldiers of the Pajamahadeen! You guys are a fucking riot. What would we ever laugh at without you?
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woohoo, my first zed
Congratulations, Mr. President!
Howard Dean!
that’s preznit
TRex @ 2
Oh, TRex, that was magnificent!
Bye bye, MMKKK. Wasn’t nice knowing you and please, let the door hit ya on the way out.
TREX!!!
This is getting obscure. Until now I hadn’t known anything about the whole AP-Malkin brouhaha. After reading (okay, skimming) your post, I still don’t exactly understand what it’s about, nor care to. And I wish I hadn’t read your hospital story! Yuck!
T-Rex,
I just came by to say “gracias” for Friday’s Late-Nite post.
Gracias. Los Perritos del Fuego were more than helpful. Thees Spocko Saga, I now believe, has legs.
Also: the not entirely off-topic word of the week:
“Mouse-o-fascism”
so.
Fabulous, Trex! Your roundup shows so clearly what ijits these righties are.
The sad thing is, they have enough attention and power to cause real damage to people they make up stuff about. Jamil will likely be in jail by the time OLOTCC gets there. Think she’ll visit him and apologize for getting him arrested? Or visit his family and apologize to them for making their lives worse than they already are, just by living in Iraq in the Bush era?
No, of course she won’t.
Malkkkin’s next squawk : Free Jamil Hussein!
I’m reminded of their posturing during the Danish cartoons brouhaha. European writers don’t need such fair weather friends, they have real ones.
Reporters Without Borders
Index on Censorship
These poor troubled rightwing types exposed their insane hostility towards professional journalists in this attack on AP. Thank god for reporters. May they live through this new year.
I offer this link as a tribute to free speech: here’s a visit to Disneyland with Paul Krassner.
Not for very much longer, I suspect. Real journalists are pretty pissed off about this and other episodes in the last couple of years. This is the beginning (or maybe even the middle) of the end for these people.
And not a goddamn minute too soon.
preznit giv me turkee @ 2
Congrats! twolf1 must be asleep.
!El Gato Negro! @ 8
De nada, mi amigo!!
Any time.
Back from vacation. Little has changed. Luv you all. Balrog.
It’s kinda wierd, really. I’m talking about the impending evolution of Humankind to “Son Of Man” (homo infinitis) with the smartest minds in Blogtopia, and it’s hard to get a rise out of anybody.
Maybe if I was Alec Baldwin or some other celeb, I could draw more folks to something that’s closer than the noses on our faces.
Pan-Dimensional Consciousness is coming to the human Race on a global scale. Let’s get this Neocon war and class war bullshit over with and embrace the future.
http://teocawki.blogspot.com
So, any updates on the Spocko Saga?
BradRocket~You guys are wrong about everything all the time and you show no shame about it.
Ohhhh, si, eet ees obvious that las Malkinistas weel pay no real price for their depredations on the press.
Possibly, however, thees weel be one more teensy leetle nail een the coffin of la blogsfera a la derecha, one day they may wake up to find eet has been nailed shut, eh?
Let us hope.
so.
neurophius @ 17
We got a load of links to last night’s post. The story is getting around and some MSM outlets are starting to get interested. That’s all I know for now. Don Gato probably knows more than I do.
TRex @
13
Let’s fucking hope so. The people I’d like to ridicule are the VCs who bought Roger Simon’s business plan and funded that train wreck.
What up B-Rog?
shooogarp;
I was reading something from last night and if your thinking of taking a blog for a spin we’ve got this little blue number…..
What about the whacko who asked that the burned bodies be produced as proof?
Guess he never read “The Monkey’s Paw.”
EPUD from last thread, but important:
pow wow says
January 6th, 2007 at 8:17 pm*
Okay, I’ll say it:
Do we, in fact, (ultimately) have John Negroponte to thank for playing a not insignificant role in the cooperative release of enough [defined as ‘a panoply of,’ per Judge Walton] classified information via the CIPAct, to allow the Libby trial (and its “faulty memory defense”) to proceed without a graymail dismissal??? I’ve been wondering how that clearance through the top dogs of the intelligence community (and beyond) worked…
Because we may have Mr. Negroponte to thank for staring down Mr. Cheney and refusing to (further) violate our Fourth Amendment rights to privacy:
“Contrary to the bland stories in The New York Times and Washington Post of Friday, Negroponte did not go voluntarily to State from his job as director of intelligence. In fact, there was tremendous administration pressure to get him out of his current job. The chief cause of the quarrel involved Negroponte’s balking at a request from Vice President Cheney to increase domestic collection by the National Security Agency on U.S. citizens.
Negroponte flatly refused, Cheney bridled, and from then on the pressure built to get rid of him. (The White House did not return phone calls, but there is nothing new in that.)
The Bush people, chiefly Cheney and the president, were already annoyed by the fact that the Negroponte group has been busy producing drafts of reports that predict utter disaster in Iraq and which are utterly opposed to any increase of troops. Cheney and Bush both flared in wrath over this…
…
My sources on this are excellent — 8.5s out of 10s.”
– Richard Sale
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_sempe r_tyrannis/2007/01/sale_on_negropo.html
There’s more there about Rice and her battle for a deputy, and Cheney’s junket to Saudi Arabia, etc., as well. [Larry Johnson has this up on his blog now too, I believe.]
Hmmm…
edit: this link should work
EPUd from last thread….
Most righty bloggers appear to have never read anything other than cereal boxes and Sgt. Rock comics.
TRex @ 13
I cannot believe it’s taken the real journalists this long to figure them out. We’ve known for years the conservative bloggers were jokes.
Neurophius,
!I accidentally closed the maldito weendow! (grrrrumble grrrumble)
Si there are updates, but as they are Off Topic, joo should stop by my blog and go for a scroll.
Or, joo could go here, or here, for Spockos latest guest posts.
The news, she ees good, but there are some strange tweests and turns popping up.
so.
!El Gato Negro! @ 28
I hereby grant you full permission to go off topic if you need to, sir. Tell us about these twists and turns, please.
TRex: …whacking off to MSM conspiracy theories and savagely dry-humping the corpse of Neoconservatism
Now that’s a good example of something you couldn’t say if you were committed to being “civil”. Someone should send that to David Broder, Deborah Howell and Anne Kornblut so they can see the kind of writing they should aspire to. Maybe they would finally understand the futility of trying to maintain “civil discourse”.
She doesn’t even think she needs rehabilitation, she just keeps moving the goalposts. “Jamilgate was never really about Jamil Hussein, it was about something much larger…..”
OT, but, TRex, have you dropped by Kevin Drum’s Washington Monthly lately? I did today and he had some sad news to tell Thursday evening. He had a post up with a picture of his nine year old cat, Jasmine, entitled Final Cat Blogging. It seems the cat was sitting on his desk watching over him, as usual, and suddenly had a seizure, fell to the floor and died within about a minute. I felt so sad for him and his wife, Marion, since I have six pets (4 cats, 2 dogs) myself, and most of them are older than nine. I thought of you, because you and Atrios do some cat blogging. So stressful to lose pets, who really are members of your family in most cases. I lost a pet 3 years ago and still haven’t gotten over it. Anyway, I needed to tell someone I thought would understand.
Who lost here?
It’s not clear why anyone would think that the Right blogosphere should admit defeat here. Their original logic(al fallacy):
-Things aren’t going that badly in Iraq
-Impromptu immolations on sidewalks counts as “going that badly”
-therefore, the report of such must be false
-therefore, the AP must have made up this Hussein person they say they got the report from
The only part of this at all disturbed by the revelation that, yes indeed, there is a Capt Hussein of the Baghdad police, is the very last item, their secondary conclusion. But their primary conclusion, that the report of the immolation must be false, is not disturbed by this revelation. They simply have to replace that secondary conclusion with:
-therefore, this Capt Hussein who told them this lie must work for the insurgency
As a minimum, they can claim as an excuse for their first version of that secondary conclusion, that they were carried away by a pardonable optimistic idealism over the Iraqi police forces sufficient to make them overlook the possibility that a Captain in such would tell the AP defeatist lies. But it all worked out in the end, because their idealism, while it may have misled them initially, ended up leading to the exposure of a traitor in those police forces, because they are idealistic and don’t complacently accept defeatist lies at face value. So now, not only has the Right Blogosphere exposed the AP’s defeatist lying, but their activities have helped uncover an insurgency mole in the Baghdad police! Brilliant deduction and a nice day’s bit of detective work from 12,000 miles away sitting at their computers in their Moms’ basements.
Even if you don’t accept their self-deception, you still have to admit that they have eliminated a source willing to speak things unhelpful to their side frankly to the AP. So, what exactly has our side won from this encounter to match this accomplishment?
Ann in AZ @ 32
I did see that and went and left him a note of condolence. It’s very, very hard to lose a friend, whether they have two legs or four.
I have to run for a bit, gang, but I’ll be back in a few.
Play nice.
Ann in AZ, was Kevin Drum the person who started cat blogging? I may be remembering that wrong.
It’s very sad about Jasmine.
Ummm, “Thanks” for sharing that whole defecating thing.
Michelle Malkin – wasn’t she a dancer at the New Jolo Club in Subic Bay, PI? (Navy folks would appreciate this).
TheOtherWA @ 36
Yes, he started Friday Cat Blogging on his original blog, “Calpundit”.
Hokay,
well the main weird theengy ees thees trollita named “Blogical thought”.
Thees leetle culo has been persistently trolling the same repetitive, misleading screed on just about every blog that posts about Spocko.
We theenk, and yet we are no certain, that he ees a sock-puppet of someone at KSFO.
Eef he trolls jour blog, por favor, grab hees IP addy, weel joo?
We weel no harm thees man, but to reveal a Disney/KSFO sockpuppet would be the cherry on the top, no?
so.
(Cont.)
say, TRex! that is such a lovely photo of Malkin… did you send it to her by any chance?
Thanks, Senor El Gato Negro.
I will go there.
I’m still waiting for Malkin to figure out why dozens of mutilated bodies keep turning up on the streets of Iraq. I’m hoping she goes with an epidemic of heart disease combined with a severe urban rodent problem.
This may be overly serious for Late Night, but I think it’s a mistake to think that the winger bloggers persistently get these things wrong just because they’re stupid. Their purpose isn’t to get the facts right or make sense, it’s to promote the conservative cause. When they can, they try to make sense, because that works better, but when logic or the wingnut cause has to be sacrificed, logic will always go first.
Redshift @ 44
Over the net, so I have to spike it: “The facts have a well-known liberal bias.”
TheOtherWA @ 49
No, it’s up to the “party leader” of the minority to give up the gavel to the newly-elected speaker. Boehner has that job this year, as Hastert declined to run for any GOP leadership post. (Can you say “resignation” at the end of this Congress? Sure you can.) Nancy had the displeasure of that task for the last two sessions, and she’s more than happy to switch roles.
Ain’t that the truth? Promote the cause, even if you have to lie. It’s pathetic. What’s worse is that it worked for quite a while.
I’m too cynical to believe the MSM is catching on to their games, but it could happen.
More Spocko Update for the interested.
Spocko wrote me last night that he weel have a new website up ASAP, he has ppl working on eet.
As soon as the new Spocko’s Brain ees up, he weel repost all the KSFO files and Disney weel be back to square one, except for all the bad PR. ;)
The really good news ees that Spocko had interviews weeth reporters for the San Fran Chronicle, and the San Fran Weekly, wheech are, respectively, the largest paper een Northern California, and the largest independent weekly in Northern California.
So that’s a lot of pipples, right there.
Most of the rest of the news ees included een thees dKos diary by the dangerously creative Mike Stark.
*Whew* I hope that thees breengs everyone up to date on the Spocko Saga.
As always, eef joo weesh to have the files, or Spocko’s emails, to post for jour own, joo can email me at gatobloggerro “at” yahoo “dot” com, and I weel gladly send them to joo.
Viva Spocko!
Wasn’t Denny supposed to be up there handing Nancy the gavel? Why did John Boehner do it? And why did no one covering the event for the teebee bother to ask that question?
Riesz Fischer at 39, I’m glad you knew the answer to that question, because I wasn’t sure, although I believe he was the first one I saw cat blogging. Then Atrios. Someone else who visits here also has a cat blogging site, I think, but I don’t know who else. I like the pictures. Gives some relief for the heavy subjects usually taken up in the blogs.
The latest wild-ass guess is that Negroponte is going to take over for Condi as Secretary of State so that Condi can replace the Shooter as Vice President. I’m not buying it. I think the Shooter is going to have to be dead and buried (in consecrated ground) before he gives up power. And I just can’t see the Repubs appointing a Vice President who’s openly black.
Glen Tomkins @ 34
I think it goes like this:
Pajama Media believes the media exaggerates the carnage, thus undermining the war effort.
AP quotes policeman.
We can not find this policeman, therefore it is proven that this plot is real!
Redshift @ 44
Amen. Their paychecks depend on them getting it wrong.
twolf1 and everyone else…. Where is everybody?
The link isn’t up yet, but it looks like John McCain has an Op-Ed in tomorrow’s Post.
Thanks, Riesz.
VENT this, bee-yotch!
Ann in AZ,
eef joo like the gatoblogging, and joo can scroll by las trollitas, then Eschaton comment threads are a cornucopia awaiting jour mouse to click.
Here, try thees first, eh?
Esso es verdad, eet ees a veritable keety-fest.
!Vamanos!
never mind… browser malfunction….
Frank Probst @ 55
Did Holy Joe help him hold the quill and ink?
Teddy SF –
Is that you, dotting the exclamation point on Ocean Beach?
(more here)
jeffreyw @ 25
Just put an article up about this at my blog. There’s no real new information there relative to what you can read in the previous thread, except for a bit of speculation on my part:
Of course, electronic surveillance without a warrant was illegal to begin with. What additional collection were they attempting to do? I can see a couple of possibilities:
The surveillance actually was done in a more-or-less legal fashion, in that
the data from the illegal taps weren’t retained beyond the limits of FISA
There was a new form of analysis or new criteria for increased surveillance
that went beyond what’s reasonable to combat terrorism
That’s what occurs to me after thinking about it a few minutes. I freely admit to having no idea what the NSA is collecting or how. That’s part of what’s always been scary about the NSA. What it does and how it does it is entirely secret. That’s what FISA is about.
Crazy story, that’s for sure.
Malkin finally commenting on this again tonight. I won’t pretend to know how to links it.
That “person” was here last night. I went searching for their comments to score you an IP address and it looks like the moderators have deleted them.
Pity.
Peterr @
61
oh, WOW! they did it!
T-Rex,
oh, too bad.
Well, de nada, perhaps eef we bait the hook some more, he weel no be able to resist, although he must be wearing out hees stumpy leetle feengers trying to post on ALL the blogs weeth Spocko posts, last I saw the number was well over Nine Hundred.
Gracias again for trying.
!Aha! Now eet ees the time for:
!”Pretty White Spies, weeth Problems”!
She ees my favoreet Late-Nite Saturday show en la televisor.
I weel return, een an hour or so, eh?
Hasta Luego :)
so.
Let me translate Malkinese to English for you.
I just repeated what OTHER people said, so it’s not my fault!
Damn the facts and their liberal bias!
Who do they think they are? Reporters in a war zone or something? It’s not as if there are established journalistic principles to rely on. There’s never been a war or war coverage before we, the right blogosphere got here, so if we don’t understand something, it must be the MSM up to their old tricks.
I’m going to find something to make the AP look bad even if I have to pull something big and stinky straight outta my ass! Again!
TheOtherWA @ 68
Some additional translation is required. “Dubious origins” == “Iraq”?
The congress was ready to amend FISA to give a bit more leeway, every one thinks that wiretapping is good when we’re after terrorists.
What if they decided to use it for simple criminal investigations? Or to spy on political opponents?
It would be easy to rationalize that it was only used against “bad” people.
We really need some judicial oversight on this, it’s too scary, otherwise.
?What? I have already seen thees one.
!Maldito reruns!
?Why do joo torment me so?
Ahhhhhhhhhh, Melissa George…
?Why must joo be so evil, yet so delectable, eh?
(sigh)
http://www.edwards08.com
Sorry gang, it’s a bit touch and go for me tonight. Phone keeps ringing.
So, it looks like I may have been right about who killed Viktor Litvinenko.
Yes, if the stringer is Iraqi, the group of people we went to liberate, they cannot be trusted. No stringers should ever be used in a foreign country, especially if the stringer is from, and knows a lot about, that country. See how easy that is?
Blogger rules! Also known as Calvin Ball, where the rules always change. ;)
Frank Probst @ 55
Oh goody. Let the dweeb bury himself even further. MSM will quote him all week and run him at the top of the hour video feed, and in the end, he’ll be branded as that loser that thought escalation would win the war. Political Self-Immolation for Dummies.
twolf1 @ 72
is that for real?
She pulled the same shit with Tweety about the claim that Kerry fragged himself. Tweety tried to pin her down, she kept saying “someone said it, it’s in the book!” but never could come right out with the accusation.
jeffreyw @ 70
That’s part of what I meant when I was speculating that they may have wanted to go “beyond what’s reasonable to combat terrorism”. There’s a whole laundry list of possible abuses in that category. I should probably explain that a little better. ;)
This is what concerns me. For Negroponte to have objected, it would have to be a serious misuse of the NSA, not just peeking where they’re not supposed to and then wiping the recordings. It probably involved diverting some significant resources from other things, or something so blatantly illegal that no government servant with any sense would get involved.
UptownNYChick @
76
Type it into your browser — works the same. It’s on huffpo here
Peterr @ 61
Fiance and I are the yellow and red blobs at the tip of the inside of the “A.” What fun: 1,111 people at Ocean Beach to tell our Congresswoman what we want done!
U.S. Selecting Hybrid Design for Warheads
The new weapon would not add to but replace the nation’s existing arsenal of aging warheads, with a new generation meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental detonation and more secure from theft by terrorists.
I guess they have a hole drilled in them so they can be bike locked to a parking meter.
jeffreyw @ 76
Well, I could say that medical records exist that Malkin’s parents induced an early labor so she could be their anchor baby and make them into American citizens, but that wouldn’t make it true and certainly not worth bringing up on national television. There is no reason that this woman should have a career. She is skating by on the fact that men find her attractive. She’s got no journalistic skills, the writing style of a precocious sixth grader, and the ethics of a javelina cut loose in an Arby’s.
Brownshirted trollop.
OT – USC kicker found dead at bottom of cliff
Danelo, the 21-year-old son of former NFL kicker Joe Danelo, made 15 of 16 field goals this season and led the Trojans in scoring with 89 points. The junior made two field goals in the Rose Bowl on Monday to help USC beat Michigan 32-18.
Hee hee. Don’t stop, you’re on a roll.
twolf1 @ 79
Use this instead: http://johnedwards.com/splash/
Frank Probst @
43
That, or a bad case of pinkeye going around.
squiddy @ 85
Damn you, Scott Baio.
Cujo359 @ 69
The phrase, “reliance on local foreign stringers of dubious origins” is worthy of further considertion. If legitimate news media organizations like AP are not [because MalKKKin says so] allowed to use “local foreign” sources of information, what would she rather they do–rely on stupid neocon fantasies made up by wingnut welfare babies who have never been anywhere near Iraq?
Of course, once she has actually been to Iraq *cough green zone cough*, her statements will be exponentially more reliable than those of people–including government officials–who actually live there…you know, those
“local foreign stringers of dubious origins”…so the criteria for reliability will have changed: you must not be a local person in Iraq, but you must have popped into the country briefly for a Magical Mystery Tour, which makes you more reliable than anyone who has never been there [why else would she go?]as well as anyone who has always been there.
It will be interesting to see how much “truth” MalKKKin can learn in Iraq about what is “really” going on in Iraq from people who are not “local.” Presumably, whatever line the U.S. military chooses to feed her–but she could have (and presumably has) gotten that without ever having to leave home.
So will somebody explain to me again just why she is going?
twolf1 @ 72
Who was it that kept buying up addresses from Lieberman and redirecting them to Ned? Who says the DC folks can’t learn from bloggers?
http://hillary-clinton.com/ is just waiting to be purchased
jeffreyw @ 89
That was *ilson46201.
twolf1 @ 90
Can it be? I didn’t think underscores were valid characters in a domain name.
Cujo359 @
92
u may b right
*here is *ilson? long time no see
http://www.pelosi07.com/
Looks like http://www.hillary08.com is not taken.
jeffreyw @ 96
http://www.register.com says it’s not available
twolf1 @ 97
My mistake, looks like a Go Daddy site, whatever that is.
Broderella opines tomorrow:
Excerpt:
tsf bold
I’m still waiting for the outcry over Amir Tehiri, the guy who made up the baseless story that Iran was legislating to require Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive colour badges, an account promoted by Benador, the PR firm of Perle, Woolsey, Ledeen, Gaffney and a host of US neo-cons. Tehiri went on to meet with and advise President Bush and he is currently employed as a Wall Street Journal Middle East ‘expert’.
And then there was the WaPo article (10 April) by Thomas E. Ricks which pointed out that a specific US military propaganda program was in place in regard to al Zarqawi, a program which also targeted Western domestic audiences. Ricks described how the Pentagon had concocted fake Zarqawi letters one of which was published by the New York Times. All of this was done, of course, specifically to ramp up the importance of al-Zarqawi and to publicly tie the Iraq war to al-Qaeda and 9/11.
And how could one forget the Kuwait babies thrown from their humidicribs in 93? It brings tears to my eyes even now.
time to sleep. over and out…
TeddySanFran @ 98
What?
Fucking dumbass. Boy that’s easy for him to say from high atop his comfortable perch on the heap of white straight rich boy privilege, isn’t it?
Remind me if I meet him to kick him in the nuts.
Balrog @
16
Hi Balrog! Good to see you.
‘Night twolf1.
(speed reading ;)
Evenin’, HotFlash! You’re looking lovely. Care for an adult beverage? Or some tea?
Thanks, 58!El Gato Negro! Those really are outstanding pics!
Damn, I wish Ned had won.
Sounds like Durbin does too.
Suckers.
I don’t know why he’s surprised.
Thanks, I love that!
“shrunk to a manageable size” meaning “even I, Broderella, can’t tell mysogynistic or racial jokes around the office anymore.”
TRex @ 107
There’ll be a lot more of that from national Dems. I’m looking forward to it. Nothing RGJoe can do will surprise us, and we tried to tell them, but they still don’t get it.
Okay, how about this one from June 25, 2004:
“But I personally don’t like when public figures curse in public, whether it’s Cheney or Bono or John F’n Kerry. It’s fine for blogging (though the strongest you’ll get from me is a damned or a hell).”
I wonder what she meant by F’n?
Otter Crest Rules!!!!
TRex @ 104
Why, thank you TRex, sweet of you. I’m just heading to bed after I finish my soda H2O.
Congrats on the nice sleuthin’ and deductin’ re Litvenko. Was off reviewing your original piece on that and stopped in to Dr Hillhouse’s site. Interesting lady, that. Seems she’s being asked about a proposed mercenary survivor TV show. Our species is disgusting!
Good days, these past few. Congrats to TeddySANDFran and to El Gato on the progress of their various quests, too.
Night all.
TeddySanFran @ 106
My dream is to have Jim Webb get Holy Joe in a dark alley and ask why he’s not willing to have his son go to Iraq.
‘night, all.
Keone Michaels @ 107
Don’t mention it!
UptownNYChick @ 113
He is a lot easier than that to scare the crap out of.
*ilson46201 has been hanging around primarily Hoosier blogs since before the election. Not sure why he doesn’t hang here much anymore. I see him on http://www.takingdownwords.com a lot which is a Blusier (Blue Hoosier) hangout.
Isn’t she? I haven’t been able to keep up with this story like I have wanted to with so much going on. I plan to get back into the Litvinenko story tomorrow night.
Alright, kids, good night.
Nightie Night.
twolf1 @
79
was it _ilson that was buying up web addresses with lieberman’s name in them this summer? bet they got the idea from seeing what he had done ……
For Spocko and !El Gato Negro!…
A little night music:
San Francisco Values
;>)
TeddySanFran @
80
brilliant!
i hope this photo has been sent to news organizations nation-wide and world-wide.
a perfect example of “think globally, act locally”!
or as eugene hutz would say “think locally, f_ck globally!”
twolf1 @
81
I guess they have a hole drilled in them so they can be bike locked to a parking meter.
“untested and risky” ……. has a familiar ring to it, don’t it?
squiddy @
86
El Raton….. he ees everywhere ……
UptownNYChick @
113
can’t decide whethe or not i’d rather have john woo, david lynch or lina wertmuller direct the film …….
TRex @
115
hunter s. thompson is smiling, TRex ………
fahrender @
127
I don’t think they care about being right. I think they care about sucking up as much air time as possible to cause enough uncertainty that they can go another week, another month, another six months. It’s all about the ego here. It’s not about facts or integrity or wisdom or even fixing the mess that is Iraq. It is about being noticed and controlling the lowest common denominator.
Malkin does not have to admit to being wrong. She got noticed. She wasted yours and my time. She made some brain dead chicken-head in his mama’s basement feel a rightous anger.
Ed*ard Teller @
128
Hey, fahrender,
that thing was getting more like a maze than a ziggurat….
fahrender @ 124
Good enough for me. I’ve seen how gosh darn *good* these Bush people are at everything they do; this newfangled warhead shall deliver us from evil and restoreth our soul…we shall gird our loins and prepare for the righteous battle to usher in the end times…
(shudder)
(especially since we can’t, you know, test the things)
(unless that’s another treaty about to bite the dust)
marksb,
Maybe a signing statement already took care of that niggling little detail…
!El Gato Negro! @ 67
I added some bait, El Gato Negro, but my little blog has very low traffic. I will let ya know if I snag anything – my low traffic makes it a lot easier to find stuff like IP addys.
being right has nothing to do with Michelle Malkin’s job. Look at George Will. week after week this guy gets shit wrong in major outlets. just last week he wrote that silly op/ed about how there should be no minimum wage. so… he’s never right about anything and holds positions far outside the mainstream and remains one of the most visible sultans of swing in Big Media. He speaks with a great and powerful Oz like authority and people on t.v. seem to respect him.
Malkin ain’t goin’ NOWHERE. on the contrary, her flecks of spit are in petrie dishes giving birth to new big media bullies. big media bullies who HATE the mainstream media. our only hope is that a whole lot of BULLSHIT detectors are suddenly leaping to life. I’m very optimistic.
Hey, Suzanne.
I’ve been spending the past two hours trying to catch up on what Wes Clark is up to. He’s the most assertive voice among the important Democrats about Iran and the rumored nearness to conflict there.
I keep asking myself “Where’s that list of members of the national Dem leadership who have openly sopoken out against going to war with Iran?” Let alone the latest developments.
Wes does seem to have his fingers on several pulses, doesn’t he.
I think we will see a list, ET. I think it is just a matter of trying to do a whole lot in a wee bit of time (2 work days so far). I’m going to have some faith here that it will come – and in time.
1. savagely dry-humping the corpse of Neoconservatism? …
2. blissfully unencumbered by any sort of self-awareness whatsoever, actually.
3. Even as they watch every single talking point they have pushed since 9/11 burst into flames and explode…
damn. trifecta, TRex.
driving back from a dinner party in nearby Tausherland, we see a highway exit sign: “Upper Happy Valley Road”
WTF? plain old Happy Valley’s not good enough?
TRex @
27
And, clearly, they’ve never, not once, read the nutrition info on a bag of Cheetohs. :)
punaise @
139
It depends on your type of humor. The wags live in upper, the wits in middle, and the ghosts of vaudeville live in lower Happy Valley.
pun, lafayette if i remember correctly? you were on highway 24?
Suzanne @
142
Affirmative, Officer!
Big 10-4, out
(laughing) it was not because i am a highly trained observer – my mom lived off that exit for a good many years. she was up on the hill overlooking the bart station and could also see the lafayette reservoir.
punaise @
139
It’s the Uppers that make it Happy
Malkin is looking to CASH IN on Limbaugh’s and Coulter’s following. She has no morals.
Spocko’s Brain Lives!
Viva Spocko’s Brain!
so.
Good morning, pups. The NYT has David Brooks again (sigh) and Frank Rich.
http://www.mgpaquin.blogspot.com/
The tea is brewed, and there’s Colombian coffee this morning. And banana bread. Help yourselves.
hmmm….Columbian,
thanks!
Nancy Youssef, Cox Baghdad Bureau Chief, is on C-Span
rumi -
Did you hear the guy call in who wanted to just send in 500,000 more troops & get the job done? With this kind of disconnect/stupidity/brain death, is there any wonder the US is in the condition it is in? Much as I love the WJ (only b/c it’s the best of the worst – KO the exception), there are a lot of days when many of the callers just scare the livin’ spit outta me!
The job of right wing bloggers/Fox “news”/various op ed writers and tee vee talking heads is to sow just enough doubt that the American people aren’t sure wtf is going on or,and this is important,WHO to believe. When the stakes are high,the screeching reaches fever pitch. Some of it of course is just ego,arrogance and the overall IQ of an empty beer can(with none of the charm),not to mention a shot at some nice paying wingnut welfare.But one of the main jobs of the noise machine is to make so much noise and add so much crap to the flow of information that it’s harder to get to the truth.
It’s Operation If You Can’t Dazzle Them With Brilliance,Baffle Them With Bullshit.
AOB -
Amen, sister! They purposefully spend all their time spewing noise & crap so that there *is* no time left to cover real information. Your quote on brilliance vs. bullshit is spot on.
neurophius @ 88
I think it’s a great idea that she’s going to Iraq. I think it’s even a greater idea to have ALL the rightwing bloggers go to Iraq to check things out. Maybe…just maybe…the herd will get thinned out! At a minimum, they (the rightwingers) can see all the “good stuff” in Iraq face-to-face. Wouldn’t that be a hoot!
TeddySanFran @ 106
Are the Dems giving Holy Joe any Committee assignments? Which one(s)???
It’s no accident that Michelle Malkin’s mouth resembles an anus.
clueless @ 154
Yes. Joe gets chair of governmental affairs (Senate equiv. of House Government Reform Committee now chaired by Waxman).
Oh my…. Too funny for words
I can’t wait for her tour and the overdue caption: “Skank in a tank”! You could sell her bad Dukakas impression as a T-shirt and buttons at anti-war rallies.