Comments on: Face the Snark http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:11:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bumzaway http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501503 Bumzaway Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:43:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501503 <p>ONE QUESTION -<br /> WHY DIDN’T FITZ HAVE CHENEY ON HIS WITNESS LIST? Why be at the mercy of Wells to call him?<br /> thanks for an anser</p> ONE QUESTION -
WHY DIDN’T FITZ HAVE CHENEY ON HIS WITNESS LIST? Why be at the mercy of Wells to call him?
thanks for an anser

]]> By: farang http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501355 farang Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501355 <p>I rate Colin Powell as a known liar. A proven liar. A world class liar. A real liar, if you prefer.</p> <p>But, I was going to say that I never thought of the msm Sunday yappers as reporters, or journalists, did you? Yes?</p> <p>Then that is where the disconnect begins between us “conspiracy theorists” and you “reality bloggers.”</p> <p>ya see?</p> <p>If Tim flashing his “Bush/Cheney” button pinned inside his lapel back on election night 2000 didn’t convince you, what exactly would?</p> I rate Colin Powell as a known liar. A proven liar. A world class liar. A real liar, if you prefer.

But, I was going to say that I never thought of the msm Sunday yappers as reporters, or journalists, did you? Yes?

Then that is where the disconnect begins between us “conspiracy theorists” and you “reality bloggers.”

ya see?

If Tim flashing his “Bush/Cheney” button pinned inside his lapel back on election night 2000 didn’t convince you, what exactly would?

]]> By: Craig Shergold http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501274 Craig Shergold Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:35:54 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501274 <p>I rate Colin Powell as the real thing.</p> <p>Clarence Thomas: definitely Stepin’ Fetchit.</p> <p>Armstrong Williams: <em>someone else try</em></p> <p>Condoleeza Rice: Butterfly McQueen.<br /> “I don’t know how to birth no country!”</p> I rate Colin Powell as the real thing.

Clarence Thomas: definitely Stepin’ Fetchit.

Armstrong Williams: someone else try

Condoleeza Rice: Butterfly McQueen.
“I don’t know how to birth no country!”

]]> By: The Oracle http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501138 The Oracle Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:25:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501138 <p>I believe Timmeh’s attitude was best reflected by all the Communist workers at TASS and PRAVDA in the old Soviet Union, who also had a policy involving the Kremlin that anything anyone said from the Kremlin was “off the record” unless approved for dissemination by their masters in the Kremlin.</p> <p>The workers at TASS and PRAVDA knew to wait obediently for the Kremlin’s officially-sanctioned “talking points” before reporting on anything involving the Kremlin.</p> <p>I doubt if Timmeh realizes how much of a stooge he has been for the Bush administration, just as the TASS and PRAVDA workers were stooges for the Kremlin. </p> <p>With one difference. Timmeh has a long, democratic history of First Amendment journalists behind him, journalists who defended the U.S. Constitution and the Fourth Estate (and our democracy) from assaults by totalitarian thugs in whatever administration, while the TASS and PRAVDA workers would have been “disappeared” if they didn’t treat everything from the Kremlin “off the record” until such time as the Kremlin’s official, Communist “talking points” were issued.</p> <p>In other words, the TASS and PRAVDA “journalists” had an excuse, while little Timmeh doesn’t. Just as all the right-wing stooges don’t have any excuse in the MSM (and it’s fringes) who swallow anything the totalitarian thugs in the White House feed them. No excuse. Their “off the record” policy regarding anything Bush/Cheney-related (until they receive their “talking points”) has been not only been a betrayal of any journalistic ethics they may supposedly hold, but a betrayal of our democracy…as well as betraying the safety and well-being of their own children and grand-children, nieces and nephews, over the next several decades.</p> I believe Timmeh’s attitude was best reflected by all the Communist workers at TASS and PRAVDA in the old Soviet Union, who also had a policy involving the Kremlin that anything anyone said from the Kremlin was “off the record” unless approved for dissemination by their masters in the Kremlin.

The workers at TASS and PRAVDA knew to wait obediently for the Kremlin’s officially-sanctioned “talking points” before reporting on anything involving the Kremlin.

I doubt if Timmeh realizes how much of a stooge he has been for the Bush administration, just as the TASS and PRAVDA workers were stooges for the Kremlin.

With one difference. Timmeh has a long, democratic history of First Amendment journalists behind him, journalists who defended the U.S. Constitution and the Fourth Estate (and our democracy) from assaults by totalitarian thugs in whatever administration, while the TASS and PRAVDA workers would have been “disappeared” if they didn’t treat everything from the Kremlin “off the record” until such time as the Kremlin’s official, Communist “talking points” were issued.

In other words, the TASS and PRAVDA “journalists” had an excuse, while little Timmeh doesn’t. Just as all the right-wing stooges don’t have any excuse in the MSM (and it’s fringes) who swallow anything the totalitarian thugs in the White House feed them. No excuse. Their “off the record” policy regarding anything Bush/Cheney-related (until they receive their “talking points”) has been not only been a betrayal of any journalistic ethics they may supposedly hold, but a betrayal of our democracy…as well as betraying the safety and well-being of their own children and grand-children, nieces and nephews, over the next several decades.

]]> By: Andrew http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501114 Andrew Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:03:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501114 <p><b>NYT: CHENEY EXPECTED TO MAKE HISTORIC APPEARANCE<br /> ON WITNESS STAND… ‘ACT OF LOYALTY’ CARRIES RISK…</b><br /> <a href="http://www.rawstory.com">www.rawstory.com</a></p> NYT: CHENEY EXPECTED TO MAKE HISTORIC APPEARANCE
ON WITNESS STAND… ‘ACT OF LOYALTY’ CARRIES RISK…
http://www.rawstory.com

]]> By: Alice B. http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501032 Alice B. Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:57:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-501032 <p><a href="#comment-500630"><em>sittenpretty,MCI SUCKS! @ 15 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>the Gimp is a Pimp…who knew?</p></blockquote> <p>I knew…”Meet the Pimp”…MTP</p> sittenpretty,MCI SUCKS! @ 15

the Gimp is a Pimp…who knew?

I knew…”Meet the Pimp”…MTP

]]> By: P J Evans http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500889 P J Evans Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:57:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500889 <p>I was visiting friends this morning and hearing the Talking Heads cheerleading for an attack on Iran. You’d think they’d have learned by now that Cheney’s administration makes the hind legs of dogs look like yardsticks. I’m not hearing them express doubts or questions about the ‘information’ they’re being handed. (I mean, serial numbers identifying the country exporting the shell? Ask about it, guys, because that isn’t real believable.)</p> <p>And I was tired of the astronaut and Anna Nicole stories after about five minutes of breathless coverage.</p> I was visiting friends this morning and hearing the Talking Heads cheerleading for an attack on Iran. You’d think they’d have learned by now that Cheney’s administration makes the hind legs of dogs look like yardsticks. I’m not hearing them express doubts or questions about the ‘information’ they’re being handed. (I mean, serial numbers identifying the country exporting the shell? Ask about it, guys, because that isn’t real believable.)

And I was tired of the astronaut and Anna Nicole stories after about five minutes of breathless coverage.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500813 dmac Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:07:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500813 <p>bonkers @ 8<br /> Stop the presses!<br /> A Conglomerate Media report that’s accurate and not embedded with Repubelickin spin…<br /> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070211/ap_o">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070211/ap_o</a> n_go_pr_wh/libby_and_cheney_s_world<br /> Hopefully a sign of things to come…</p> <p>then:<br /> jeffreyw @ 22:<br /> Remember to rate it high. </p> <p>me:<br /> thanks, jeffrey, i always forget to do that part………<br /> d</p> bonkers @ 8
Stop the presses!
A Conglomerate Media report that’s accurate and not embedded with Repubelickin spin…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070211/ap_o n_go_pr_wh/libby_and_cheney_s_world
Hopefully a sign of things to come…

then:
jeffreyw @ 22:
Remember to rate it high.

me:
thanks, jeffrey, i always forget to do that part………
d

]]> By: snowgeek http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500758 snowgeek Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:33:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500758 <p>EPU’d:</p> <p><a href="#comment-500751"><em>snowgeek @ 74</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>RawStory has a scoop on tomorrow’s NYT:</p> <p>NYT MONDAY: CHENEY EXPECTED TO MAKE HISTORIC APPEARANCE ON WITNESS STAND… DEVELOPING…</p> <p><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/NYT_Cheney_expected_to_make_historic_0211.html">http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0211.html</a></p> <p>Interesting!</p></blockquote> EPU’d:

snowgeek @ 74

RawStory has a scoop on tomorrow’s NYT:

NYT MONDAY: CHENEY EXPECTED TO MAKE HISTORIC APPEARANCE ON WITNESS STAND… DEVELOPING…

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0211.html

Interesting!

]]> By: greensmile http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500739 greensmile Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:25:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/11/face-the-snark-34/#comment-500739 <p>You gave me the best laugh I had today.</p> <p>The AP gets my vote for the MSM news source with the largest number of weenies where vital organs should be and it’s just wiener schnitzl really, stubby and all fat. [you have any idea how hard it is to type when you are laughing so hard your eyes tear up?] They are 0 for two this week, first for butchered reporting of Edwards hiring of Amanda and Melissa and second for the deeply knowledgeable copy about an organization I actually suspect they just heard of, MoveOn:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070211/D8N78LTO0.html">Reid’s office has enlisted the backing of the anti-war organization MoveOn.org</a></p></blockquote> You gave me the best laugh I had today.

The AP gets my vote for the MSM news source with the largest number of weenies where vital organs should be and it’s just wiener schnitzl really, stubby and all fat. [you have any idea how hard it is to type when you are laughing so hard your eyes tear up?] They are 0 for two this week, first for butchered reporting of Edwards hiring of Amanda and Melissa and second for the deeply knowledgeable copy about an organization I actually suspect they just heard of, MoveOn:

Reid’s office has enlisted the backing of the anti-war organization MoveOn.org

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