Comments on: Libby Trial: Some Instructive Thoughts http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:39:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: brel1 http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508823 brel1 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:19:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508823 <p>Got marcy’s book, can’t wait to dive in. Great followup to Clark and Wilson.</p> Got marcy’s book, can’t wait to dive in. Great followup to Clark and Wilson.

]]> By: Katie Jacob http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508423 Katie Jacob Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:36:00 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508423 <p><a href="mailto:montag@71">montag@71</a><br /> I read that Fitz could be removed from his position as US Atty. but that they cannot remove him from his position as special prosecutor until he is done prosecuting the case.</p> montag@71
I read that Fitz could be removed from his position as US Atty. but that they cannot remove him from his position as special prosecutor until he is done prosecuting the case.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508387 SouthernDragon Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:00:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508387 <p>Marcy and Jane were talking about the Libby Defense Fund. Mel Sembler, head of the Defense Fund, lives in St Petersburg, FL and has frequented a small restaurant for breakfast for many years. One of my friends is a long time server in that restaurant. Since before this Iraq fiasco she had told me that he was always pleasant to be around, tipped well and was generally an alright guy. Sembler is now in residence pretty much full time and has been a regular at the restaurant since the election. Since the beginning of the year, however, his demeanor has changed drastically. Now he’s curt, argumentative, and not much fun to be around. Sembler Company owns numerous shopping centers, his specialty, and one is in downtown St Pete, named BayWalk. There is a long history of anti-war protests at BayWalk and he’s never been happy with us but this is something different. I wonder if he, and other bigwigs in the party, are beginning to see the writing on the wall. I agree with Jane and Marcy that some of the defense fund money went to a focus group and that the general plan was to protect Dickless and the other neocons. It definitely makes sense. These people don’t do anything without a focus group. Hopefully that too will come back to bite them. Less than two years to go and I’m already pumped!</p> <p>On a Hillary note, Terry McAuliffe was on WMNF, our community radio station, yesterday and I asked him if he supported NAFTA, CAFTA and free trade agreements in general. He gave a wishy washy, dance around answer but he said the US needed to invest more in education and re-training to get American workers back to work. Now if workers are losing their jobs here to workers overseas making a quarter an hour, does that mean that the free traders (slavers in my view) are going to try to convince Americans that slave wages are acceptable in this country as well? It sure sounded as if he was saying that we must work for pennies in order to entice corporations to shift their workforce from overseas to the US.</p> <p>What’s it to be: profit over people or people over profit?</p> <p>Join St Pete For Peace at BayWalk this Sat night between 8 and 9:30. You’ll be glad you did.</p> Marcy and Jane were talking about the Libby Defense Fund. Mel Sembler, head of the Defense Fund, lives in St Petersburg, FL and has frequented a small restaurant for breakfast for many years. One of my friends is a long time server in that restaurant. Since before this Iraq fiasco she had told me that he was always pleasant to be around, tipped well and was generally an alright guy. Sembler is now in residence pretty much full time and has been a regular at the restaurant since the election. Since the beginning of the year, however, his demeanor has changed drastically. Now he’s curt, argumentative, and not much fun to be around. Sembler Company owns numerous shopping centers, his specialty, and one is in downtown St Pete, named BayWalk. There is a long history of anti-war protests at BayWalk and he’s never been happy with us but this is something different. I wonder if he, and other bigwigs in the party, are beginning to see the writing on the wall. I agree with Jane and Marcy that some of the defense fund money went to a focus group and that the general plan was to protect Dickless and the other neocons. It definitely makes sense. These people don’t do anything without a focus group. Hopefully that too will come back to bite them. Less than two years to go and I’m already pumped!

On a Hillary note, Terry McAuliffe was on WMNF, our community radio station, yesterday and I asked him if he supported NAFTA, CAFTA and free trade agreements in general. He gave a wishy washy, dance around answer but he said the US needed to invest more in education and re-training to get American workers back to work. Now if workers are losing their jobs here to workers overseas making a quarter an hour, does that mean that the free traders (slavers in my view) are going to try to convince Americans that slave wages are acceptable in this country as well? It sure sounded as if he was saying that we must work for pennies in order to entice corporations to shift their workforce from overseas to the US.

What’s it to be: profit over people or people over profit?

Join St Pete For Peace at BayWalk this Sat night between 8 and 9:30. You’ll be glad you did.

]]> By: annie http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508362 annie Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:34:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508362 <p>i don’t get it, i think the videos are great and i can hear everything fine. maybe something is wrong w/your computer superdupercomplainer.</p> i don’t get it, i think the videos are great and i can hear everything fine. maybe something is wrong w/your computer superdupercomplainer.

]]> By: rb http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508258 rb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:05:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508258 <p>Pardon=admission of guilt.</p> <p>Effect on Plame v. Libby case?</p> <p>What is the status of that case?</p> Pardon=admission of guilt.

Effect on Plame v. Libby case?

What is the status of that case?

]]> By: theExile http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508034 theExile Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:24:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-508034 <p>I’m with <a href="mailto:Pat@111">Pat@111</a>, ignore SuperDuper - if you don’t like ‘em don’t watch ‘em. I’m sure I’m not the only one that loves to watch Jane, Marcy, Jeralyn, Arianna and Swopa discuss the trial AND read about it. I mean they aren’t Brian Williams or Timmeh litte Russ, THANK GOD!</p> I’m with Pat@111, ignore SuperDuper – if you don’t like ‘em don’t watch ‘em. I’m sure I’m not the only one that loves to watch Jane, Marcy, Jeralyn, Arianna and Swopa discuss the trial AND read about it. I mean they aren’t Brian Williams or Timmeh litte Russ, THANK GOD!

]]> By: Pat http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507965 Pat Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:54:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507965 <p>Long time lurker - have to respond to Superduper at 107. If you don’t want to watch the videos, it’s very easy to just not click on them. That would be your loss, however. </p> <p>What you say makes no sense; the videos are very professional and rival or surpass the quality of most news commentary shows. Don’t like ‘em? Don’t watch and don’t come around here complaining.</p> <p>These FDL folks have worked too hard and put in too much blood, sweat and tears - and money - to have to put up with complaints. They owe you nothing. It’s easy enough to click off to some other place. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.</p> <p>Marcy, Jane, Christy, Swopa, et. al. — YOU ROCK!! Unbelivably terrific coverage. Thank you for all of this.</p> Long time lurker – have to respond to Superduper at 107. If you don’t want to watch the videos, it’s very easy to just not click on them. That would be your loss, however.

What you say makes no sense; the videos are very professional and rival or surpass the quality of most news commentary shows. Don’t like ‘em? Don’t watch and don’t come around here complaining.

These FDL folks have worked too hard and put in too much blood, sweat and tears – and money – to have to put up with complaints. They owe you nothing. It’s easy enough to click off to some other place. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Marcy, Jane, Christy, Swopa, et. al. — YOU ROCK!! Unbelivably terrific coverage. Thank you for all of this.

]]> By: JoyB http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507962 JoyB Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:37:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507962 <p><a href="#comment-507953"><em>Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 109 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-507942"><em>Superduper @ 107 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>With all due respect to Jane and FDL - which I’ve been reading daily for months now - I don’t think these video reports have been working too well. Maybe it is just better to read your comments as print online, but the amateurs with the microphones aspect of the videos just grates. I never make it past 30 seconds. Trying to be all things to all media may not be a happening thing.</p></blockquote> <p>Sorry Superduper. In the spirit of a British radio game show about ‘words’ I’ll have to deduct you 10 points for ‘inaccuracy.’<br /> However you have given me a great idea for a name for a rock group: <b><em>Amateurs with Microphones </em></b></p></blockquote> <p>That’s funny, I find myself rapt. The bubbleheaded bleach blonds on the MSM TV lose me in seconds.</p> Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 109

Superduper @ 107

With all due respect to Jane and FDL – which I’ve been reading daily for months now – I don’t think these video reports have been working too well. Maybe it is just better to read your comments as print online, but the amateurs with the microphones aspect of the videos just grates. I never make it past 30 seconds. Trying to be all things to all media may not be a happening thing.

Sorry Superduper. In the spirit of a British radio game show about ‘words’ I’ll have to deduct you 10 points for ‘inaccuracy.’
However you have given me a great idea for a name for a rock group: Amateurs with Microphones

That’s funny, I find myself rapt. The bubbleheaded bleach blonds on the MSM TV lose me in seconds.

]]> By: Mabel’s Wig Shack http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507953 Mabel’s Wig Shack Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:42:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507953 <p><a href="#comment-507942"><em>Superduper @ 107 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>With all due respect to Jane and FDL - which I’ve been reading daily for months now - I don’t think these video reports have been working too well. Maybe it is just better to read your comments as print online, but the amateurs with the microphones aspect of the videos just grates. I never make it past 30 seconds. Trying to be all things to all media may not be a happening thing.</p></blockquote> <p>Sorry Superduper. In the spirit of a British radio game show about ‘words’ I’ll have to deduct you 10 points for ‘inaccuracy.’<br /> However you have given me a great idea for a name for a rock group: <b><em>Amateurs with Microphones </em></b></p> Superduper @ 107

With all due respect to Jane and FDL – which I’ve been reading daily for months now – I don’t think these video reports have been working too well. Maybe it is just better to read your comments as print online, but the amateurs with the microphones aspect of the videos just grates. I never make it past 30 seconds. Trying to be all things to all media may not be a happening thing.

Sorry Superduper. In the spirit of a British radio game show about ‘words’ I’ll have to deduct you 10 points for ‘inaccuracy.’
However you have given me a great idea for a name for a rock group: Amateurs with Microphones

]]> By: Lupin http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507948 Lupin Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:07:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/15/libby-trial-some-instructive-thoughts/#comment-507948 <p>The scene I want most to see now:</p> <p>ENTER CHEYNEY WEARING GAS MASK. LIBBY IS CLINGING TO HIS CHAIR.</p> <p>CHEYNEY<br /> (throaty voice)<br /> Scooter. I. Am. Your. Father.</p> <p>LIBBY SCREAMS AND IS DRAGGED AWAY BY THE BAILIFFS.</p> The scene I want most to see now:

ENTER CHEYNEY WEARING GAS MASK. LIBBY IS CLINGING TO HIS CHAIR.

CHEYNEY
(throaty voice)
Scooter. I. Am. Your. Father.

LIBBY SCREAMS AND IS DRAGGED AWAY BY THE BAILIFFS.

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