Comments on: Profiles In Blurrage http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:23:32 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: woid http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1120760 woid Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:11:01 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1120760 <p>Just try to guess what picture is front-paged with the lead story in today’s NYT?</p> <p>You guessed it: the photo op. Bush shaking hands with Elmo and Moohominahomina, as he calls them.</p> <p>A few minutes of showing up after seven years of nothing, and the Times goes along with the farce that Bush is “involved.”</p> Just try to guess what picture is front-paged with the lead story in today’s NYT?

You guessed it: the photo op. Bush shaking hands with Elmo and Moohominahomina, as he calls them.

A few minutes of showing up after seven years of nothing, and the Times goes along with the farce that Bush is “involved.”

]]> By: amberglow http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119405 amberglow Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:01:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119405 <p>it’s a total farce–they’re planning the Iran attacks in all those “private talks” at the WH.</p> <p>if they were serious, they’d hold it in a neutral country and would have invited Iran too.</p> it’s a total farce–they’re planning the Iran attacks in all those “private talks” at the WH.

if they were serious, they’d hold it in a neutral country and would have invited Iran too.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119208 earlofhuntingdon Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:01:09 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119208 <p>An international conference is the public climax of consistent, intense, informed private diplomacy, pursued simultanteously at junior, mid- and senior professional levels. </p> <p>Among the first things a diplomat determines is who has authority to make decisions, are they willing to make the ones important to you, and have they the domestic backing in their government to keep any promises made. It’s not clear here whether even Bush’s knows the answers to those questions about himself. Which makes the odds of concluding a demanding new agreement (on what, exactly?) about longstanding conflicts quite poor. That’s one form of useful primer about this conference we’re not likely to see written up in the traditional media.</p> <p>On this NYT piece specifically, to echo the chorus, a photo op, by definition, is substanceless image-selling. Expecting substance from an incurious, uninformed (ignorant), attention-deficit-burdened boy-man is like expecting critical news reporting from, well, Time. We do expect it from the New York Times, though, and we ain’t getting it. What gives?</p> An international conference is the public climax of consistent, intense, informed private diplomacy, pursued simultanteously at junior, mid- and senior professional levels.

Among the first things a diplomat determines is who has authority to make decisions, are they willing to make the ones important to you, and have they the domestic backing in their government to keep any promises made. It’s not clear here whether even Bush’s knows the answers to those questions about himself. Which makes the odds of concluding a demanding new agreement (on what, exactly?) about longstanding conflicts quite poor. That’s one form of useful primer about this conference we’re not likely to see written up in the traditional media.

On this NYT piece specifically, to echo the chorus, a photo op, by definition, is substanceless image-selling. Expecting substance from an incurious, uninformed (ignorant), attention-deficit-burdened boy-man is like expecting critical news reporting from, well, Time. We do expect it from the New York Times, though, and we ain’t getting it. What gives?

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119119 Funnydiva2002 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:47:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119119 <p><a href="#comment-1119093"><em>Funnydiva2002 @ 58</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1119038"><em>terri @ 56</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>That’s the only thing that Bush does consistently well…. <strike>smiling </strike>for the camera.</p></blockquote> <p>Fixed.</p></blockquote> <p>Oops. meant to insert “smirking” after the strikeover. Oops.</p> <p>Like it matters…</p> Funnydiva2002 @ 58

terri @ 56

That’s the only thing that Bush does consistently well…. smiling for the camera.

Fixed.

Oops. meant to insert “smirking” after the strikeover. Oops.

Like it matters…

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119112 Funnydiva2002 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:43:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119112 <p><a href="#comment-1119099"><em>twolf1 @ 59</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>“<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ap_interview;_ylt=AmfcGi2zGQPiBZzVdbXhlFys0NUE">It’s worth a try</a>” - what an effing moron!</p></blockquote> <p>An effing moronic maroon of a moron!</p> <p>Where’s Punaise when we need him.</p> <p>FunnyD</p> twolf1 @ 59

“It’s worth a try” – what an effing moron!

An effing moronic maroon of a moron!

Where’s Punaise when we need him.

FunnyD

]]> By: twolf1 http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119099 twolf1 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:37:00 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119099 <p>“<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ap_interview;_ylt=AmfcGi2zGQPiBZzVdbXhlFys0NUE">It’s worth a try</a>” - what an effing moron!</p> “It’s worth a try” – what an effing moron!

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119093 Funnydiva2002 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:30:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119093 <p><a href="#comment-1119038"><em>terri @ 56</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>That’s the only thing that Bush does consistently well…. <strike>smiling </strike>for the camera.</p></blockquote> <p>Fixed.</p> terri @ 56

That’s the only thing that Bush does consistently well…. smiling for the camera.

Fixed.

]]> By: james k. sayre http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119064 james k. sayre Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:07:21 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119064 <p>The Bush war-mongers are hosting a “Mideast peace conference” in Annapolis (the home of the Naval Academy, part of our war-making machine)? The Bush gangster regime has illegally invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush has murdered over one million Iraqis in his vile blood-lust. Bush has forced millions of Iraqis to flee and leave Iraq. Bush had given the zionist imperialist Israelis one million cluster bombs which they in turn dropped on the Lebanonese people… Bush has tried to destroy Hamas, the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people Peace is the absence of war. Peace is also the absence of war-mongering. So Bush and Cheney should stop their war-mongering and saber-rattling against the Iranian people. And now this war-criminal has the gall to organize a “peace” conference? Grotesque…</p> <p>This is akin to Hitler and the German Nazis trying to stage a “Scandinavian Peace Conference” in Hamburg in 1941 after they invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway…</p> The Bush war-mongers are hosting a “Mideast peace conference” in Annapolis (the home of the Naval Academy, part of our war-making machine)? The Bush gangster regime has illegally invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush has murdered over one million Iraqis in his vile blood-lust. Bush has forced millions of Iraqis to flee and leave Iraq. Bush had given the zionist imperialist Israelis one million cluster bombs which they in turn dropped on the Lebanonese people… Bush has tried to destroy Hamas, the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people Peace is the absence of war. Peace is also the absence of war-mongering. So Bush and Cheney should stop their war-mongering and saber-rattling against the Iranian people. And now this war-criminal has the gall to organize a “peace” conference? Grotesque…

This is akin to Hitler and the German Nazis trying to stage a “Scandinavian Peace Conference” in Hamburg in 1941 after they invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway…

]]> By: terri http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119038 terri Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:53:28 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119038 <p>That’s the only thing that Bush does consistently well…. smiling for the camera.</p> That’s the only thing that Bush does consistently well…. smiling for the camera.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119015 Elliott Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:35:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/27/profiles-in-blurrage/#comment-1119015 <p>Joe Biden is NewsHour’s candidate interview, just starting</p> Joe Biden is NewsHour’s candidate interview, just starting

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