Comments on: Squeak, Squeak!

By: Youffraita

Youffraita — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:47:33 +0000

Left this message on another thread, but it bears repeating: I currently live in PA, and Arlen Specter pretty well sets the tone for our national pols: Lie, lie again, and lie with plausible deniability. He’s made his career on it: I’m old enough to remember his first national race; he was scum then and he is still a slimebucket. How people in PA can vote for him without barfing all over the voting booth has never ceased to amaze me.

By: egregious

egregious — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:05:40 +0000

punaise @ 114

all those who could listen to Marcy speak for hours on end, raise your hand.

*hand*

And for those of us who have had the privilege of listening to Marcy speak for hours on end, and were still eager for more:

*hand*

By: JT

JT — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:47:35 +0000

I posted the whole Bill Maher Real Time from last night.

Bill’s opening monologue touches on the L.A.P.D. beatings in MacArthur Park, the fires in Griffith Park, Dick Cheney’s involvement with the D.C. prostitution scandal (Hint:Dusty Foggo/Duke Cunningham), and Tony “The Peoples Poodle” Blair.
Then:
Richard Engel live via satellite from Beirut Lebanon tells Bill that Iraqis are not on the American political time line vis-a-vis “SEPTEMBER”
The next segment has Bill immediately asking Frank Luntz what the sudden use of the prefix “DR.” is all about. Dr. Luntz then tells Arianna Huffington that she is very angry, Bill tells comedian Paula Poundstone that he is still trying to get over the clown suit that she is wearing and Luntz convinces everyone that he is a stark raving lunatic.
n which “War in Iraq” cheerleader Chris Hitchens speaks about religion and mysteriously seems to refer to Karl Rove as “DR. ROVE” …twice.
The one/two combination platter of Hitchens and Luntz give you an idea of the sort of wind-bag that passes for right-wing/conservative/ Neo-con/Straussian blah blah blah….these days.
Then NEW RULES Bill Maher would like Youtube uploaders not to edit out the nice things he has to say about the L.A.P.D.

NEW RULES:
http://tinyurl.com/2m8wl7

Part 1:
http://tinyurl.com/25lwze

THE MADNESS OF FRANK LUNTZ (Part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/2cdfhy

Chris Hitchens Mumbles “Dr. Rove”) TWICE:
http://tinyurl.com/ysno5b

By: curious43

curious43 — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:39:08 +0000

First, Little Tim reported exactly what he was told to report, no questions, no comments.
Next, when has a repub ever told the truth ? For all the people who attended this meeting it had to be arranged. So as each person walked in they were given a script of what to say. No repub would leak to timmy unless Rove gave him permission so Rove’s outburst was in the script. They all will continue to vote with Bush. Also, if you think the big deal is with Gonzo (the grinning clown) the DOJ is still bringing in Bushies, Worry about the 08 elections. It could be worse than 2000.

By: Steve T.

Steve T. — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:58:14 +0000

“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.”

Ahh. I will never forget when I first read those words. I was about ten and — honest to God — it really was a dark and stormy night when I was alone in the house. Gave me a delicious frisson of horror like nothing before.

By: dipper

dipper — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:46:51 +0000

Note to Marcy: You’re the best. Keep up your excellent work. And thanks for speaking out so well.

By: spurious

spurious — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:22:48 +0000

emptywheel @ 193

And thanks to those upthread for the kind comments. I didn’t look at the CSPAN stuff yet.

Marcy, it was REALLY, REALLY good! Are you coming to the SF Bay Area any time soon?

By: spurious

spurious — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:19:26 +0000

Bob Schacht @ 180

spurious @ 145

BTW is there any place to catch Moyers online?

Yes.

Thanks, Bob.

By: solai

solai — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:09:33 +0000

Waccamaw, couldn’t get link to work. It’s at thinkprogress.org

By: Prairie Sunshine

Prairie Sunshine — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:06:59 +0000

Fly-by musings from the land where the deer and the…well, bald eagles, play….

Young Goebbels in his ratty best last night on Real Time [yay, Arianna!] trying to portray a warmer, fuzzier new Dr. Frank Luntz…

In all the conversation about wordsmithing and propagandizing words, Maher missed one obvious question: Yes, Frank, but is it right?

Is it honorable to lie and distort and confuse and obfuscate with turns of phrase?

Tell it to the eight families waiting right now for that awful knock on the front door.

And is it symmetry or irony that forty years after Vietnam the news of the war in Iraq is being reported to the American audiences on CNN by a Vietnamesewoman?

Back to the hammock now for more philosophizing.