Login HereBetween 7:25 p.m. and 7:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1998, the day the Lewinsky scandal exploded into public view, Mrs. Clinton departed the White House for an undisclosed location for discussions with people whose names are redacted from her schedule.
The following day, Mrs. Clinton held a 30-minute “private meeting” at the White House. The participants’ identities are removed from the schedule.
When Mr. Clinton admitted the affair to the nation on Aug. 17, 1998, that day on Mrs. Clinton’s calendar says simply, “No Public Schedule.” The following day, when Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, left the White House for a scheduled vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, the schedule reflects that trip at a time “TBD,” to be determined. No other events or meetings are listed on that day.
What?!? We don't get the background chatter that she made Bill sleep on the sofa in the private residence for months afterward? Or that she used Kleenex tissues to dry her copious tears or that she sought solace with a pint of Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby? Come on! What in the hell is wrong with these people -- this occurred years ago and is none of our business. It wasn't our business back then, and it sure as hell isn't our business years later.
This is not news. It is a distraction. From what, you ask? For starters, the fact that John McCain can't tell the two major branches of Islam apart, and has managed in one "foreign policy" trip to enrage the Palestinians and insult the Jews by equating Purim with Halloween, in a "goodwill tour" masquerading as a transparent bid to court American Jews in the delegate-rich states of NY, NJ and FL.
And quite a reversal from past McCain statements that the press has studiously avoided mentioning in its reportage.
..."I would expect concessions and sacrifices by both sides."...
When I interviewed McCain last month, I asked him about the interview. Did his readiness to send Scowcroft and Baker as his negotiators with the Israelis signify a different kind of approach than the more neoconservative one he had been associated with? "I respect and admire all of those people and their knowledge and background," he said. "They don't make the issues. The president does." And, McCain added, "What I was saying was that I would appoint someone to go to the region who was well regarded: Scowcroft, Baker, Kissinger, George Mitchell, Tony Zinni, Bill Kristol, Randy Scheunemann. I can give you a list of 50 names of people who would qualify and go over there and make a good assessment of the situation to get the process started."
Clearly vexed, McCain turned his attention to the reporter. "So let me just say one thing about this reporter. I was walking through a crowd of people at Verkunde, and this reporter trails behind me and we had a very offhand conversation. He said, 'like '67 borders,' and I didn't know what he was talking about, and he had a tape recorder, so I would be very careful about assuming anything."... (emphasis mine)
Let's contemplate that McCain didn't know what a reporter meant by the '67 borders in Israel -- in 2006 -- or his attempt to tap dance around his signaled shift to a new policy stance toward Israel having to make concessions for peace, and then his back-pedal from it when neocons and wingnuts raised hell. And add in the recent embarrassing failure to comprehend the difference between Iran or Iraq training Al Qaeda, and begin to see the need for some in-depth, probing foreign policy questions that are not being asked of McCain by the press.
He'd send Bill f-ing Kristol to negotiate a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians? Is he utterly daft?!? Or just a ginormous press suck-up?
A back and forth and back again on a major point of foreign policy contention is still news, isn't it? Only if it's a Democrat, otherwise it is sweep it under the rug time. Would you like more pudding and pie?
(YouTube of The Who, performing "Won't Get Fooled Again" live.)
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Christy!
McCain doesn’t know sh*t from shinola. He not only doesn’t know much about foreign policy sand foreign affairs, but also knows next to nothing about the economy… And Joe-Lie? The less said about that moron the better…(Where’s punaise when we need him?)
My contempt for Joe Lieberman knows no bounds.
—punaise sub
BTW, I dropped him a line just to say howdy and he said to say Hi to everyone.
Lieberman is John McCain’s Nancy Reagan: “We’re doing everything we can.”
Slowly, surely, word will out. McCain is daft.
CHS:
This is a wonderful catalogue of what is more and more looking like McCain’s total ignorance, rather than the cynical pandering to the Israelis I thought it was. He seems genuinely not to understand why Zinni and Kristol, or Baker and Kissinger, don’t go together in a sentence for the consumption of Israelis.
One sentence you want to reword — you’ve got it backwards:
“goodwill tour” masquerading as a transparent bid to court American Jews in the delegate-rich states of NY, NJ and FL.” That
And digging through ten year old records to find completely useless information to use as a shiny object in this manner deserves a swift kick in the…..
So McCain is running on his foreign policy expertise–and he has already said he doesn’t know anything about the domestic economy–this is all he’s got?
What the hell is the matter with the press? Do they care if we elect a Know-Nothing to lead us?
Spotlight this post and get the word out there. Make sure the press hears what we think of their shameful silence about McCain’s ignorance on foreign policy.
This is why I don’t get cable, and don’t have a TV so much as a computer that records the few programs I want to watch and a big monitor.
Maybe you guys pointed to this yesterday, but Media Matters has an interesting article of the press’s lack of coverage of McCain’s foreign policy “expertise”.
That is just amazing to me…I mean, can he really not know this stuff?
Gawd, maybe he IS losing it…I’ve shied away from that view, considering it somewhat ageist, but I can’t believe that he didn’t once know this stuff, even if he no longer does.
help me gaia !! he really is Chimpigula
maybe Short Ride should clue his ass in that no one dons party hats and noisemakers on Rosh Hashanah, puts ashes on their forehead for Yom Kippur, and no one eats ham and colors eggs for Passover
He’s passed the Commander in Chief threshhold!
Christy, Christy, Christy,
When are you going to accept that what is called ‘news’ in television is nothing more than light entertainment and background noise. What gets shown is determined by the information fed to producers from focus groups and advertisers. News has nothing to do with it. It’s Entertainment Tonight.
We have to make up a new word to designate what used to be called ‘news’. The old word has been degraded beyond recognition. Or else we have to make a word that adequately defines what the media call ‘news’ but obviously isn’t.
My only exposure to teevee news is in airport waiting lounges, but if that is representative (CNN) it’s pretty sad stuff. At least when you’re watching sports, you know its out and out entertainment, and nothning more.
You know, the CFO of my company mentioned Lieberman the other day. Told me he was the “only decent” Democrat.
He had to pick his nuts up off the floor after I got done explaining to him that Joe Short Ride Lieberman was NOT a Democrat.
My contempt for Joe Lieberman runs long, deep, enduring, and will NEVER die.
John McCain is a waste, too. I want him to reimburse the taxpayers for this latest campaign stop in Iraq. He can give my share to the Obama campaign.
Hey, has McCain released his campaign numbers yet so we can know for sure he’s broken the law. Not that anybody will do anything about it.
“What the hell is the matter with the press? Do they care if we elect a Know-Nothing to lead us?”
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Asked and answered in three words: George W. Bu’ush.
Just goes to show how far you’ll get by serving ribs to the press.
One would have thought Holy Joe would have given St. John the Schicksa’s Guide to Living with your Mother-in-Law. Never, ever let her take a taxi home. I mean, borders are not bookstores, John, they are things people in the Middle East have been fighting and dying over since the pyramids were a new suburb. Stop confusing those little blue pills with your Alzheimer’s medication.
maybe that reporter was speaking Israeli . . .
thinking about it, he made that comment about Purim bec those around him saw him as such a clueless dumbass, they broke it in to digestible Weekly Reader pieces for him
Thank you, CBS, for keeping us with Marquette and Kentucky.(KMOV)
If Joe Lieberman really told McCain that Purim was the Israeli Halloween that is so American it’s almost cute. Purim is compensation for not pulling out all the stops for Halloween, but I will have no costume for either.
A look at his Wikipedia bio convinced me that McCain has never been very detail oriented.
The mitzvah is to have a Purim seudah, or meal. Most of the special foods for Purim are of the pastry variety however.
I usually am interested in Brian Ross’ s stuff, but this is just cat poop.
shiksa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiksa
more like an A*PAC suck up, he already has the CUFI loons sewn up
More like dog poop, I think. Cat poop is normally buried.
There’s NO buisness…like SHOW buisness…like NO buisness…I know….
One of my acquaintances says that part of it is that McCain is a fighter jock and an adrenaline junkie. Policy isn’t exciting enough for him; neither is learning from the locals before shooting off his mouth.
I got an e-mail this morning from the National Jewish Democratic Council (I am not Jewish but I have supported many things they work for) and they are NOT buying what McCain is selling. Not at all.
CNN reporting a McCain aide fired for distributing Obama/Wright videos…
Afternoon,Christy and everyone…
My thoughts exactly.
It.does.not.matter.
If Dubya’s blotter sheet and Kerry’s war record were legitimate targets of interest for the MSM in ‘04, it seems timely to review St. John’s military record and time in the Senate.
I’m anguished that he was shot down and endured six years of torture as a POW. But twenty-eight medals in twenty combat air hours? Rickenbacker and von Richthofen must be laughing in their graves. What’s leaked so far suggests that his peace time naval experience is eerily similar to all of Dubya’s: his lineage made him a legacy and allowed him to skirt normal performance requirements.
His foreign policy expertise? It ought to be comprised of more than his aides converting dollars into pesos in order to pay his domestic help. And let’s take a long, close look at his lobbyist relations, and the legion of “volunteer” lobbyists running his campaign. Odds are “volunteering” is new neocon code for “deferred compensation”.
Politico said that he was suspended and did not say for how long.
I found the “schedule” an intereting read. Read a few months, picked at random; it took a lot of physical endurance to keep that pace for eight years.
Google failed me.
Love the song selection, Redd.
We Won’t Get Fooled Again!!!!!
Rock on.
This evidence in this post actually suggests something different. He actually seems not to just be another A*P*C suck-up. If he were, he’d hew to their talking points better. He actually seems inclined towards independent mindedness, but is disastrously ignorant and impulsive.
ya knowww…..
there I thought this was gonna be a youtube of britney’s butt, but nooOOOOOooooo
Suspended is probably what happened. I was only half listening.
It’s a gal; McCain’s a guy.
Used “actually” too much there…
The MSM will probably focus on what a good guy McCain is and how quickly he addressed the problem.
it’s over at TPM
IT should not matter, but it is exactly what is to be expected, day after day, so long as there is a Clinton at the top of the national news. The Clintons have yet to deal directly with this stuff so it won’t stop. Ignoring it has failed. If they don’t stop it now, it will be the stuff that decides the election and probably leads to Pres. McCain with a Republican House and Senate.
And then play the tape, again.
Besides ignorance and impulsiveness McCain can’t restrain anger, or, as they so delicately put it, he’s “clearly vexed”.
His buttons are waiting to be pressed.
Interesting. I do respect the fact that he was able to gain the nomination without going negative or using kitchen sink tactics.
He didn’t have to; he had a lot of surrogates like Huckabee doing so for him.
Awesome video, Christy! The Who at their peak had few peers.
Interesting take on what to do if the Dem contest goes all the way to the Convention:
http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=917
Still don’t think it’s going to come to that, and we’ll all be able to turn our sights on CrazyTrain soon. Wouldn’t that be nice?
News is NOT entertainment. It is propaganda either by omission or commission. We should not be surprised that MSM supports the administration. It represents large accumulations of capital. One thing about those boys is they never have enough money. They, whether they be big Pharma, big agriculture, big finance, or big media will not change any time soon. It is foolish to wait on them. We need alternatives.
Yees, I noe vut it is. I was playing with the Orlando-like interchangeability of the roles played by McCain and Lieberman, and dissing McCain for making such gaffes when he has the oh-so-publicly Jewish Lieberman as a key aide. (I’m not dissing a religion, merely Holy Joe’s manners and politics.)
Bush = War = Recession = McCain
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believe that is why those cheek pouches are full of xanax ;)
One thing that can be said about Richard Mellon-Scaife is that he is persistent. His attack organization “Judicial Watch”, is now suing to get Hillary’s phone records. There latest spin is that the “schedule” exposes Hillary as Bill’s co-President!!!
more dumbassery - why would they want to help her make the case she has so much exec office experience ?
Now I get it. As Blue Texan asked, “Will McCain have Lieberman next to him at 3:00 a.m.?”
“His buttons are waiting to be pressed.”
Oh, I’m waiting for that day. I’m hoping it comes during the first debate with the Dem candidate where McCain turns to Hil or Barry, jabs his finger in the air and yells, “You little jerk, you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about!”
And then stunned silence across the country.
Why would Bill be saying all of those supportive things about McBush…makes you wonder what they’re up to…if anything.
OT
Good program now on CSPAN2. British journalist wrote book called Flat Earth News, talking about how bad the press is. Just started.
On topic really,
CSPAN 1 is rerunning a panel discussion with international journalists on the quality of reporting, Nick Davies wrote the book Flat Earth News
Why does the MSM, McBush amd Liebermom hate America???
Reminder that John Edwards is scheduled for the Tonight Show tonight.
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight...../calendar/
Perhaps he’ll be making an announcement?
I owe you a coke eCAHN!
They don’t want to run against BHO.
I don’t think Huckabee went negative. Remember he was going to and then decided not to air the add. Romney went negative and it backfired on him.
i wrote this to abc news yesterday when i saw the tacky brian ross article—
This is my last straw with ABC. Because of your article titled/paraphrased– ”Hillary
Clinton in White House on ’Stained Blue Dress’ Day”, I am
now going to call your network
ABC-Anything But Content
I am appalled in too many ways to articulate, from the
title, from the article, to why is this news? so, I’ll leave it
at that, for now…..
You have turned into The National Enquirer, in a time
when there are so many things affecting our populace
and the world, and this is what you choose to print.
Appalling, did I say that already?
When I do get my words back in order, you can bet I’ll
be writing a few letters about this.
I tried to register to comment, but you ask for a
birthdate, noone in their right mind would give that
information in this new era of file breaches. Most sites
just ask for email, that’s enough verification.
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ahhhhhhhhhh pete townshend………ahhhhhhhhhhhhh……big smile……..he’s my favorite since i heard him in high school, cruisin’ in a car, with my crush guy, on the way to the webn kite fly……..pure and easy and LET’S SEE ACTION……from who came first.
let’s see action is an incredible song, (singing) ’let’s see whoooo cares’, it will get you onto your feet.
o/t
Christy, lhp,
USA O’Brien bullying staff about his shutting down Public Corruption unit
LAT link
It’s the massive accumulation that makes it harder and harder for MSM to disregard the McCain cluelessness. The information builds and builds and the netwoots take control. MSM may control the gross-reach but netroots control the substance. The longer they ignore reporting on McCain’s ignorance the better it is for blogs to get the word out.
My favorite part is McCain sending Bill Crystal to negotiate between the Israelis and Palestinians. I fell over laughing. Send the bigot’s bigot out to negotiate bigotry. McCain is dazed and unable to think clearly. Someone take his driver’s license away! I don’t mean to impugn McCain’s intelligence because I don’t think he has any intelligence to impugn.
One thing McCain makes clear the longer he’s out there making one stupid remark and the other, is that he is a deliberate choice for those who will truly be in power. Who do you think will be the powerbrokers that run the country, by name please?
One thing McCain makes clear the longer he’s out there making one stupid remark after the other, is that he is a deliberate choice for those who will truly be in power. Who do you think will be the powerbrokers that run the country, by name please? Notice all the NeoCons who appear on his list.
Richard has been on a quest to destroy Bill and Hillary for 20 years. Hillary is the evil woman pulling the strings? Who knows how he thinks. The “no exec experience” is the meme of the anti-Hillary Dems….I don’t think the tea and cookie “puff butt” first lady is a Thug talking point..I think their “thing” is that Hillary is “Lucretia Borgia”…. be very affraid.
Holding out my glass. Just pour it in.
Our cable provider Comcast only carries CSpan one these days damn it - would love to catch the author of Flat Earth News but I so appreciate your head’s up.
I hate comcast. Censorship much?
Can’t they get her phone records from the NSA?
it is CSPAN 1
You mean the Huckabee ad that wound up being played on all the news programs with free publicity and air time because he “decided not to run it?” that negative ad?
Lol, just now watching the video at the top.
Me and Pete Townsend could have been twins when I was that age.
I have had people stop me on the street and tell me that.
What was jarring about the proposal to send Bill Kristol was that it was such a shameless stab at pandering incongruously placed next to proposals of people like Zinni and Baker, who are anathema to Israelis. He just doesn’t understand the context of any of this.
I think you mean Billy Kristol (neo-con’s neo-con) rather than Bill Crystal (actor comedian and fan of the fucking Yankees)
We share your contempt for Comcast dear Mary.
I got mistaken for Eric Rudolph a lot after the Olymipc Park bombing in Atlanta.
Not so nice, eh?
McCain might have had better luck were he to send Billy Crystal; both sides might laugh at the same time. Sending William Kristol to such negotiations would be like sending Bush to mediate a dispute between the ACLU and Dick Cheney.
Not so much.
Too bad they didn’t know who Eric Rudolph was at the time, might ahve saved the life of a Birmingham, AL cop.
Do you mean Richard Jewel?
Hey gang — am going to just have a quick howdy here. It’s The Peanut’s birthday today (she’s five — can you believe it?!?). I finally have a few minutes to sit and catch my breath. How is everyone today?
He was a bad person but rather cute. :)
I knew you would catch that, brendan. It was so stunningly inane, I sat there and read it three times before I realized it was, indeed, exactly what McCain said.
Happy Birthday to the Peanut. What a great age - have fun !
obama on larry king tonight, in case it hasn’t been mentioned
and once again, am posting new favorite website…….is political contributions lists since 1978…..easy to use…they have categories, politicos, media, business, celebrity, etc. or search..i’ve been pulling up names as they come up on the news, and as i think of them……and it’s very interesting where some people used to work…….is fascinating website.
lurita doan was interesting, she has deep pockets that were later filled by bush, and so was dan senor-former?iraq cpa spokesman-cambell brown’s husband. guess what? he used to be vp of the carlyle group, small world, huh?
and you can pull up people by zip code, too…….which i did. there’s a few closet republicans around here.
i’m tellin’ ya, it’s an education.
www.newsmeat.com
This is happening more and more. When I lived in Sacramento County last year, I woke up one morning to listen to C-SPAN2. Instead I had some raging preacher sending sinners, like me, to hell, unless I send him money.
I was at our family home in Reno which has all (and more than all) channels and there was no more C-SPAN2. I just received a notice from my cable company that they will be adding and remove some channels from my service. I need to call them.
Why is C-SPAN2 being deleted from cable? Any ideas.
Best wishes, and lot’s of fun for the Peanut.
Thanks Christy for all you do. Doing well, thanks.
Nope. Not right after the Olympics, but a couple of years later. Especially after I moved to Atlanta.
Slip of the fingers. Kristol, I meant.
Hippo Birdies Peanut!!!
Maybe..*g* but suing for the WH phone logs is probably a better way to go…I am not sure what they are trying to prove, Hillary has not denied that she was very involved in Bill’s Presidency. It might have to do with she is a “bad person” because she wasn’t a “proper” First Lady. In AR, one “knock” on Hillary was that she was a bad mother because she was the wage earner and Bill did a lot of the child care. Who knows what goes on in these wackos brains.
McCain: “It’s very clear that I have a lot of experience in Iraq.”
Why corruption at the top is so damaging; it’s ripples never stop. With the best will, it will take a decade to rebuild the DOJ. It will take longer to “right” the federal judiciary: re-staffing it with less radical choices isn’t enough to reverse the effects of the decisions they’ll have made while in office. Which is why judicial nominees and seeding the bureaucracy with Cheneyites were such high priorities for Bush. Something the Dems need to think about very hard.
I get a lot of ‘you look like Condi Rice’. My answer.
“Um, no thanks. I’m not as much of a pushover as she is.”
Happy Birthday to the Peanut!!
Happy Birthday PEANUT!!
happy birthday to the peanut and maaaaaaanyyyyy mooooooooooorrrre!
oh, the ’i’m five’ birthday is so much fun! they ’get’ the whole thing!
i know your family will have a blast!
Steve @ 55 said:
Maybe the plan is to say she can’t run for prez, she’s already had her two terms?
Happy Birthday to The Peanut!
For that my standard answer would be is that thanks, but I am not a war criminal.
Happy Birthday, Peanut! Does this include a party with all the works? Bet Mom has something wonderful in mind.
Okay everybody, ready? Let’s all sing “Happy Birthday” to the Peanut (in thousand part harmony!) A-one, and a-two…
*grins* Very true. I”m also a helluva lot younger than she is. (at this point i can’t remember how old she is, just that she has at least 10 years on me.)
busted at 77—-then i’m in love with you. really.
Didn’t mean to be be snippy. Yes, Holy Joe and Mccain seem joined at the, uh, hip, which makes McCain’s repeated gaffes purposeful obfuscations - the suggestion made by EW, Greenwald and Horton, or tells us that Holy Joe is as smart as McCain.
I miss Lawrence Welk.