Hello? You did read points 1 through 8 in this diary, yes? Each point a recitation of the facts about Joe Klein and his gross misrepresentation of the facts, a refutation of his misleading work?
One of the BIG problems with the American public is that they don’t take the time to read carefully. Here are a series of easily digested facts in a neat format, and look at the results…it’s difficult for some people to catch the clue-by-four that says CALL THEM ON THEIR LIES OUT LOUD.

Yes, I read the points about Mr. Klein and Time. I do not care about those points. That you do care is part of why the Republicans get by with what they do.

Personal attacks are not the solution. If all of those points are true, the best way to deal with that is to provide easily digesrable documentation. In item one, the documentation requires reading an entire posting to find the documentation. Glenn Greewalrd is always a good read for me, but if I want documentation to accept I am not going to read the whole article, so you loose your audience.

Rather than dealing in personality just refute the misinformation and allow your audience to reach the conclusion that Joe Klein is at best a sloppy journalist and probably a liar as well. You keep your liberal ethics in tact and expose the misinformation.

Bill Clinton Won the Presidency by addressing with facts each each attack, personal or otherwise.

Did I read the points? Silly Wabbit.

BULLSHIT, KLIEN!!!!!!

But Klien sirta called bullshit on himself, albeit in a most pussified way:

http://time-blog.com/swampland/

Nah. That don’t even count.

BULLSHIT, KLIEN!!!

More media skullfuckery.

Syria has announced plans to attend the Annapolis summit. This is reportedly a ‘victory’ for George W. Bush.

How long ago was it that Speaker Pelosi was vilified for speaking to the Syrians?
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Will Condi wear a burka?
How about George?

Reading the Times BAE story this morning, a thought occured to me. Is there any chance that the EO authorizing confiscation of assets of anyone threatening the Lebanese government is actually targeted at the Saudi (and maybe secondarily the Chinese) investments in the US? That might be a way of neutralizing Saudi (and Chinese) leverage over the US (and helping to right the national balance sheet to boot). I.e. if the Saudis do move OPEC oil off the USD, then the USG discloses (possibly fabricated, possibly real) evidence of Saudi (or Chinese) support for Syria, Hezbollah, or what have you — and then on that basis nationalizes in one fell swoop all Saudi assets in the US. (Pretty rich stuff there, what with the longstanding Bush family ties to the Sauds — “Take that, Daddy!”). Balance of economic terror. So to avoid triggering all that, the Sauds see to it that OPEC remains on the dollar, at least for the time being. And the House of Saud makes all pally with every USG-connected player it can.

Of course even in the highly unlikely event that this scenario were valid, that power dynamic wouldn’t be a permanent fix, it would at best only buy time — once onto the game, the Saudis (and Chinese) could slowly move enough investment out of the US, eventually reaching the point where they’re no longer at enough risk to be controlled any longer by the confiscation threat.

I’m nuts, aren’t I? Please tell me I’m nuts with this?

They don’t care as long as it gets hits and generates “buzz”. It’s disgusting.

I accuse Bush Republicans of “tampering with the blueprints of a superpower” (the Constitution). On the theory that Americans will give up liberty for security, but they won’t give up American power for security. Just try suggesting that we change our expansionist policies in the Middle East to calm down the terrorists–and see what Rush says.

Anway, instead of just yelling bullshit, I suggest people devote their creativity to building our own ‘lethal shorthand’ — one that sells in the mainstream and not just on the blogosphere.

That’s almost the way I read it. It’s counted by Yeas and Nays and these are recorded. If the proportion of those reach 2/3rds the veto is overridden in that House. I say almost since the latter seems to suggest that abstentions and ABSENTEES are not counted to the ratio Only AYES vs. NAYS…..

It took me a minute or two to figure it out. One thing I found is that 15 members didn’t vote: 8 Reps & 7 Dems…3 of the Dems caught my attn = Kucinich, Stark (D-CA), & Van Hollen (D-MD) plus 4 others. And interestingly Ron Paul didn’t cast a vote either.

Well, not to many people will read this now that Book Salon is upstairs, but I wanted to say about Ron Paul.

He is concerned about the value of the dollar and it has fallen.

He is concerned that the US does not report the M3 Money Supply under the Bush Administration.

I believe he is concerned that the US under reports inflation. Anyone who buys anything except computers would have to agree with that.

His concerns seem right on to me.

So? Are you sure that the other candidates would not support disclosing the M3 Money Supply? Thats eems just good transparency to me. Or that they are not concerned about under-reporting inflation? I’m sure the Democratic candidates would support measures of actual inflation to average consumers, whether that included volatile elemnts like gas/energy/and food or not.

And any candidate should be concerned over the falling value of the dollar and what that means economically, and diplomatically. It might help the balance of trade, but that would only be true up until other countries shifted to pricing in Euros and insisted on payment in the latter.