Charming little vignettes concerning that bastion of truthiness and pro-Republican slantitude, the Washington Post:
-- Watch the WaPo's Howie Kurtz flog his new book and spew silliness about the US media and Iraq! Watch Jon Stewart rip him to shreds! (h/t Crooks and Liars)
-- The WaPo nearly widdles on itself in glee as it uses a British judge's ruling to beat up on Al Gore on the front page. Except, as Robert Parry of The Consortium points out, Judge Burton's ruling was not exactly error-free. Oops. (Tim Lambert has more at Deltoid.)
-- Rabid neocon nutball, Pam Oshry type-alike and WaPo columnist Charles Krauthammer channels Dr. Strangelove, or How He Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Hillary Clinton. (Note to Senator Clinton: Some endorsements you can do without. Trust me on this one.)
-- Speaking of Hillary Clinton, WP reporter Anne Kornblut seems to have problems with accurately reproducing quotes from the senator.
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Zed!Sorry LS and Bob.
PW!
zed?
Dang! If I hadn’t stopped to read first….
Bob in HI
Hill, should distance herself from Krauthammer, stat…!!!
“Speaking of Hillary Clinton…” This could prove to be a long night.
Should Blackwater be pulled out of Iraq?
Poll:
http://www.cnn.com/
Oklahoma kiddo @ 6
Apparently, OKK…!!! 8~)
And the Zombie Rightwing Meme that Will Not Die Marches On In Search of Brains to Devour.
Don’t particularly like or dislike Hillary, but good grief does the media fills up their stupid tank before every discussion with or about her.
LS @ 7
Heard on the radio about two separate incidents where soldiers in Iraq were told they had to take orders from the mercenaries.
uh oh, i like goobers!
Blackwater? American taxpayers are paying these guys. That means you and me.
Jim Clausen @ 1
LOL
What is Hillary’s position on Blackwater?
TexBetsy @ 10
OK, this might get my primal scream. Did the radio say if they were “told” that by their superiors or by BW itself?
either way is bad, but curious.
this is out of control.
Charles Krauthammer’s endorsement of Hillary should be the kiss of death for that candidacy.
TexBetsy @ 10
Wow. I know they drew weapons on the troops…I’m gonna try to find the source of what you heard. That is insane.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 14
Well, don’t quote me but I thought HRC was getting some campaign support? can anyone verify?
do-si-do @ 15
Told by both, reported to commanding officers if they did not follow mercenary “orders” including being frisked by the mercenaries, etc. The speaker was the blogging officer from Arizona whose name I always forget.
do-si-do @ 11
I am still holding out for the ones with the raisins.
Olbermann has invaded our living room.
cubical for tonight
Krugman and John Dean on Olbermann tonight.
tw3k @ 22
cute!
TexBetsy @ 10
And, how pray tell, does the whole “salute the stripes” thing go if you are dealing with a thug in sunglasses?
Or do they just give them all scrambled eggs to wear on the bills of their caps?
That is just nuts.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 14
Senator Clinton has requested extra time and a slide rule for this question.
tw3k @ 22
LOL!
tw3k @ 22
Paranoid, are we…??? ;-)
Leonard Clark! That was him. (Military officer talking about the mercenaries.) Third hour of this show.
tw3k @ 22
Hey! That’s my office! *g*
EvilDrPuma @ 26
I think the Senator is rather an expert on trigonometry.
TexBetsy @ 10
I don’t know if this is the same video Jane posted or not. But it is Blackwater and troops. I keep wondering…where are the flowers and all the candy????
http://www.militaryvideos.net/.....ideonum=33
Anne Kornblut didn’t even lie well enough for the New York TImes; that’s why the WaPo hired her. She’s inexcusably in the tank for The Regime, and will do anything to mischaracterize a Clinton position.
She is only outdone by Shailagh Murray, known at the Orangerie and Eschaton as The Devil:
Yeah, public opinion has shifted on Iraq, Shalaigh — but not the way you claim. Note how she uses Obama’s poll standings as a misleading proxy for the clear, unambiguous, and readily available polling on American opinion on the Iraq adventure.
LS @ 32
The more important question is…can we get the ones without the nuts?
“Some endorsements you can do without; trust me on this one.”
I MEAN, Phoenix!
IMHO, Krauthammer is the slimiest of the slimeballs.
He WISHES she gets nominated. :o)
I think I might be on the “to watch” list by whoever runs ‘national security’. If not, I am offended.
Phule @ 34
no nuts
Oh good. More hearings about FISA.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 36
I assume we are.
TeddySanFran @ 33
That is a clear insult to the Devil.
TexBetsy @ 37
and this sure is a time for chocolate.
John Dean on KO
Elliott @ 41
Always! (You have mail on FB.)
LoudounLib @ 42
rats. No cable at my house. Can you let us know what he’s saying to Keith?
TexBetsy @ 29
Great catch TexBetsy!
I thought that the British judge whingeing on An Inconvenient Truth was hysterical. What the British don’t have wacko, know nothing judges? Sure they do. Most of the examples were brought up long ago and did not touch on the integrity of the message itself, but if some half-wit British judge blathers on about it, then we should all take what she has to say about it seriously. It drives the Right Wing crazy that despite their best efforts to smear him Al Gore continues to rise above and prosper whereas their BoyKing has ended up in the crapper of history.
Verison being discussed by Dean and Olbermann. There will be no impeachment. Right, Speaker?
Get Out!
from TPM Josh Marshall by David Kurtz
Iraqis complete their investigation of Blackwater’s Nisour Square shooting and ask the State Department to pull Blackwater out of the country.
TexBetsy @ 43
thanks!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 31
Hillary can be so obtuse on occasions that she is positively hypotenuse.
Toby Wollin @ 44
I’m terrible at live-blogging, but he’s now talking about the Verizon thing — high probability that there could be violations of law
Sorry Toby, I couldn’t catch it all and give a good synopsis :-(
National security people. Come get me. I dare you.
Hugh @ 50
707!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 53
well you can be sure they always know where you are!
You can always watch the previous night’s KO at this MSNBC website. With ads, of course.
LoudounLib @ 51
Am not certain but you may find the KO broadcast with Dean on the MSNBC web site just after 6 PM west coast time.
Dean; …the ‘State Secrets’ defense is being chipped away, and, Shrubco is running scared… very loosely paraphrased…!!! *g*
CTuttle @ 58
*g*
Hugh @ 50
Yes. But notice that the Senator is only an expert on right triangles. She’s not very good with all other triangles. That would be left triangles.
CTuttle @ 58
Nicely done CT.
LoudounLib @ 30
stays sealed for extra freshness and so easy to clean up! ;)
newspaperbrat @ 61
Mahalo, Ma’am, high praise indeed…!!! *g*
CTuttle @ 58
A race to the bottom, this is, and Goopers have the clock, the courts, and the Legislature on their side.
Paging.Patriot.Senators.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 14
If Its Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium
LoudounLib @ 52
appreciate the effort, LL –
I just finished John Dean’s book (not the new one; the last one), so I’m pretty focused on what he says.
I’ll just have to wait for it to appear on C&L.
Did anyone catch Big Eddie Shultz smoozin’ with Kurtz on his radio “show” today? A FULL hour. Ouch!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 60
BTW I saw selise.
Toby Wollin @ 44
Second that request - tv committed suicide. C-SPAN overdose suspected.
did anyone else have the same reaction to Lynn Cheney saying Obama and her,cough, husband were 8th cousins?
What’s she up to?
Does she realize she’s sliming Obama with her husband’s name?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 60
or even something more organic like the golden ratio
do-si-do @ 62
707
SunnyNobility @ 68
rip
“Suffer the Children,” KO and Krugman harmonizing… SChip is the Repugs’ Pavlovian obsession…!!!
KO interviewing bearded guy.
BG says some people do not want to know that we are our brother’s keeper. That we are responsible for those less fortunate.
KO reiterates Frost conversation
BG progressives are doing a great job and the stories are wonderful, and it drives them (hateful people) crazy…
Oh OK, BG is Paul Krugman, NYT, conscience of a liberal author.
SunnyNobility @ 68
I have a TV that’s sort of making “I’m going on the fritz and this time it’s for keeps!” noises.
tw3k @ 71
I am warm to irrational numbers. And I especially like prime numbers.
tw3k @ 71
But the Right angles hate her. To say nothing of Pii.
OMIGOD, insane nostril staffer “doyou want Iran to win?” is going to be discussed next!
Sorry, my game’s a foot…!!! *g*
Mark @ 67
I missed it. Do tell. Did Ed give Howie a proper spankin’? Or did he pull a Stewart?
Y’all need to get dem TV’s. Yours have been possessed.
Phule @ 80
everyone wants their piece of Pi
TexBetsy @ 83
that’s waht I thought about my computer during JOhn Dean’s visit. I couldn’t get in. sniffle.
do-si-do @ 79
wisecup that is
TexBetsy @ 83
Faux Spew has been V-Chipped in my house…!!!
TexBetsy @ 83
I want a Dora the Explorer TV. I have no idea why…it’s colorful?
But I’ll settle for a used one. ;)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 78
I just like it as a compositional device :)
it’s all probably due to Homeland Security gremlins.
newtonusr @ 64
Sunshine Patriots. These are you pick yourself up by the bootstraps while we clean out the treasury patriots.
do-si-do @ 84
Enjoy!
hackworth @ 91
so true
TexBetsy @ 92
haha you always deliver, texbetsy
Sunshine Patriots: The Sun is shining so that means you don’t need your boots, just the bootstaps to pull yourself up.
do-si-do @ 86
“insane nostril staffer” — bwaaaahahahaha!
TexBetsy @ 83
We are bidding on the first radical tv’s. These tv’s are way beyond plasma and HDTV. They are progressively 3-DT. That would be ‘three-dimensional truth’.
do-si-do @ 84
the answer I wish i had :)
TexBetsy @ 48
Send ‘em to Paraguay…I don’t want them here either.
TexBetsy @ 83
Won’t he’p me, TexBets — I live in a broadcast “black hole”…no cable, no coverage, no KO.
LoudounLib @ 96
He looks like he was photographed with a wideangle lens, like all those dog posters with the big noses. I’m thinking pit bull.
…if anyone needs me, I’ll be over in the corner with CT, watching teh baseball :-)
Toby Wollin @ 100
Utah? *NOM*
Oklahoma kiddo @ 97
But, are they “left leaning”?
do-si-do @ 101
Hee hee — yep. I have a closeup pic of my cat in a similar manner.
LoudounLib @ 102
shout out the score every now and then, OK?
and have some cracker jacks on me!
LoudounLib @ 102
Awww. what? too much nose hair? what?
Elliott, CT, LL, who are we rooting for?
TexBetsy @ 108
blood loyalty and pity force me to cheer for the Indians.
TexBetsy @ 108
BoSox
LoudounLib @ 102
*sigh* the possible two slowest pitchers ever dueling it out, Wakefield and Byrd…!!!
TexBetsy @ 48
Thanks to Bushco billion dollar sweetheart dealing with Amway-Bilgewater, Erik The Prince can afford to buy any of the smaller hired thug outfits - have a new name - and never miss a lick at the lollipop.
Phule @ 103
Nah; my own special portion of Siberia — we have them here in Upstate New York. No coverage, spring arrives a month later and fall arrives a month earlier than anyplace else around here.