Yet another one of the wingnutosphere’s Grand Mal Temper Tantrums blows up in their collective faces (h/t digby):
An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military.
Hussein, 36, remained in custody at Camp Cropper, a U.S. detention facility near Baghdad’s airport.
A decision by a four-judge panel said Hussein’s case falls under a new amnesty law. It ordered Iraqi courts to "cease legal proceedings" and ruled that Hussein should be "immediately" released unless other accusations are pending.
The ruling is dated Monday but AP’s lawyers were not able to thoroughly review it until Wednesday. It was unclear, however, whether Hussein would still face further obstacles to release.
Unfortunately, Hussein will probably be stuck in custody until the end of this year, when the Iraqi government is scheduled to get actual control over its own courts system. Why? For the same reason all the other innocent men, women and children have been held for so long by Bush and his minions, and released only after much effort: The Bushbots can’t admit error, ever, and most especially not when it comes to their war on brown people with oil. (Case in point: Remember the four Brits released from Guantanamo? The ones that BushCo said were "too dangerous" to be let out of custody? The Brits held them for a day, then let them go free. Period. Without charges.)
Just as Bush Junta members can never admit error, neither can the members of the wingnutosphere that so assiduously fluffs them. Which is ironic, because just like the Bush Junta, the wingnutosphere’s adherents are considerably more prone to error — or evil — than the rest of us.
Item: Their insistence that Captain Jamil Hussein, an Iraqi police officer who said some things that ran counter to their rosy view of Iraq, didn’t exist — thereby endangering his life when he had to step forward. But the captain’s peril was lost on most conbloggers, who in addition to not generally suffering much trauma in their lives, are noticeably lacking in the empathy department.
Item: Their disturbingly similar attacks on Scott Beauchamp, a US troop in Iraq who also said things that clashed with the wingnuts’ take on reality in Iraq. They doubted that he existed, too — and when he revealed himself, they set out to destroy him, starting with his military career. They even were willing to use a gay porn film actor and alleged "former male escort", Matt Sanchez, to do it, despite Sanchez’ own and far more serious credibility issues. Again, they went after a guy who saw more pain and bloodshed firsthand in one day than most will see in their entire lives. The higher brain functions seem to be missing with these people.
Item: You’d think that they’d have the sense not to pick on deathly-ill kids or their families. Guess again:
The wingnuts have been in full force attack against the family of Graeme Frost, the twelve year old boy that gave the Democratic radio address a couple of weeks ago. In their typical ignorance of the facts, Malkin and the rest on the right side of the blogosphere are trying to paint this family as phonies. Think Progress has noted the important facts the attack monsters are forgetting.
So what would you do if you saw that face snooping around your house? That might be a good question for the Frost’s:
Update 2:50pm Eastern: I (Malkin) just returned from a visit to Frost’s commercial property near Patterson Park in Baltimore. It’s a modest place. Talked to one of the tenants, Mike Reilly, who is a talented welder. He said he had known the Frosts for 10 years. Business is good, he told me, though he characterized Frost as “struggling.” Reilly was an outspoken advocate for socialized health care without any means-testing whatsoever and an insistent critic of the Iraq war. Despite all that, he did agree with me that going without health insurance is often a matter of choice and a matter of priorities. Or maybe we were speaking two different languages.
I also passed by the Frosts’ rowhouse. There was an “01 – 20 -09″ bumper sticker plastered on the door and a newer model GMC Suburban parked directly in front of the house. I’ve seen guesstimates of the house’s worth in the $400,000-plus range. Those are high. But Mark Tapscott’s point remains: “[P]eople make choices and it’s clear the Frosts have made choice to invest in property and a business, but not in private health insurance. The Maryland-administered version of the federal SCHIP program, by the way, does not impose an asset test on applicants.”
Now isn’t this the same Malkin who has complained about hate mail and threats? Ironically she did this on the same day that Free Republic decided to post the Frost’s’ home address. Of course this is also the same Malkin who tries to act like she is concerned about children. Well we see how much she really “cares” now.
How big a foul-up was this? The mainstream media actually deigned, not only to notice, but to drop the bogus he-said-she-said "evenhanded" pose usually adopted in the face of outrageous right-wing bullshit and to repeatedly call the pigs out on their piggery.
Remember, everyone: They’re so much more moral than you. Got it?



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Piggery!!! Yeah!!!
PW!
Damm I guess ZED IS dead/s
bada bump bump bump
g’evening everyone – i was gonna dive but my back is acting up tonight. i’ll be over in the hottub if anyone needs anything.
So?
Leisure Guy!
Good evenin’, everyone! Suz, take care of yourself, okay?
Oh, maaaan.
And let’s remember that the leading proponent of the Bilal Hussein story was … [drumroll} … my pal Michelle Malkin.
‘Course, Malkin’s five media nanoseconds of credibility all but vanished a few months ago, amid the bus wreckage of the Hunt for Graeme Frost.
Bong’s nite nite
Aloha, DB!
i’m blaming all the forking housework i’ve been doing pw.
Great line describing Faux News: “Full Flaming Flaggots.”
Digg it for PW… great post PW!
dugg
Dang Suz you gotta take it easy on yerself… you can only get the place so CLEAN.
That sux, Suz! In a bit I can offer you some true comfort food… Fresh lasagna…! I’m loving the smell of it in the oven right now!
Seems like Malkin has kinda dropped off the radar screen. Maybe radars can’t reach as far as Hell.
i did not say the cause was the housework
just that i was blaming it (laughing)
how is everyone doing tonight?
My favorite tidbits for tonight:
McCain camp lashes out at Soros, but still takes his money
AND:
Judge allows discovery, $70 million damage claims in Rather suit
Exactly, David.
Even the GOP/Media Complex decided that she’d gone too far attacking an injured kid and his family.
Shall I send Antonio Banderas over to give you a backrub, Suz?
Thanks!
Can I get you some ibuprofen, Suz? I have the Costco economy pack of two bottles of 10,000 tablets. (Kidding! They only have 2,000 tablets per bottle.)
:)
Thanks very muchly!
oh that i was still practicing instead of consulting…
It was surprising that even the gop’s propaganda machine has limits. Before they dumped MM I was sure they didn’t. Go figure.
My neck hurts..otherwise…
If Suz passes, I have dibbs on him.
Since he’s still in US custody, he may not be released anytime soon. It would be nice if we did the right thing and respected Iraq’s soverignty and followed the court’s instructions.
Oh, all right!
Hail PW! Drive-by hi, all y’all. Hope to be back later. I would commend Emptywheel’s posts from today to one and all, some rather heavy stuff’s been coming down on torture authorization disclosures… intrigue abounding. TTFN.
Bill Clinton’s take on the Bosnia misspeaking…
“A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me,” he said. “But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995. Did y’all see all that. Oh, they blew it up. Let me just tell you.
Click.
Bill, you’re not as good at the Jedi mind trick as you think…
Got it, PW. The Malkins of the world are standing up for what’s right. People in America should STAND UP! Nevermind if they’ve worked and payed taxes their entire life and now need some help with medical bills. They’re taking advantage. (As I would if the need arises) Jack of asses.
Owie.
ola gente,
I just need Willy to grab a cold one and go sit down in the corner.
TDS has a history of Fox News — don’t miss it (not being a spoiler).
“Those aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
“Betcher ass they are, old man! Shaddup or I’ll haul you in, too.”
A-yep.
Someone at Booman just posted this AmericaBlog link about Bill’s remarks.
sweet, looking forward to it :) thanks, christine e
Michelle Malkin where to begin or better yet should I bother?
Who?
PW, I gather that this means you trust those articles based on articles at Huffington Post?
hehehe
Everything for me and none for thee; except criticism, when the reverse is true. But it would be ungentlemanly of the NewsHour or the major networks to actually tell us so.
Ouch.
Nothing to say. So it goes.
It’s a known fact that Soros donated to one of McCain’s window-centerpiece campaign-reform groups.
Malkin used to interest me in sort of a freak show way.
That got old pretty quick.
I used to read stuff over at David Neiwert’s site about her. Deeply creepy woman.
First Law of Holes, Bill. Geez Louise, make him stop.
wait – i thought soros was paying the liberal media and funding the lefty blogosphere? does that mean mcbush got the check i’ve been waiting for? dayam.
I totally agree with that. I’m just asking in general if you think that the Huffpo articles are accurate when they take an article from say-NYT-and put it in their frame.
It isn’t a news source I totally trust anymore. What do you think? I see a slant…
Hey you guys, guess who is with me right now in Rancho Cordova!!!!!
Gotta go — y’all be good to Suz and let Antonio Banderas give her the backrub!
george soros?
g’nite pw
Tiny Tim?
He’s bound and determined not to be the first ‘First Man’! ;-)
I’m supposed to guess someone alive, no doubt.
Aloha, PW!
Hi Suzanne, hi Margot! Great music PW, thanks.
mary mcc has gwen stefani from no doubt visiting? cool!
So…let’s see…are people or corporations going to take the side of those that make money or those that drown….
Do you stay with the Titanic? Or do you swim for your life in a sea of sharks?
Hmmmm.
It’s green and it fights.
gi joe?
noooooo. not gi joe. geezzzzz.
Green Warrior!
teasing ya, mary mcc.
*waving to gw*
Just speaking for myself? I intend to survive. And I couldn’t give a rats ass if Cheney makes all kinds of money on the war. Market forces.
After seeing her cheerleader shtick that was it for me…
-G
Me too.
hiya pups,
anything i should know about today? i’ve been in a news blackout today?
greenwarrior
Bush is still Prezdinent, and Cheenee is still Prezdinent…
Ah, but there’s oil in them thar hills of North Decody. Move aside, L’il Texas….
Cheney is in Rancho Cordova tonight but not with us. He is raising money for stupid Dan Lungren. Had to sneak into the state under cover of his own darkness (h/t greenwarrior)
Yup. That will surely be interesting.
What a creep.
Hi Chris, Suz, everyone!
Suzanne, i hope you feel better.
Cheney and/or Lungren?
Had some fun with Bakken Shale at my homeblog.
Hey, PW, I didn’t see anything about the 4 a.m. drinkout getting approval. Did St. Paul reconsider after first declining. Or did KO *gasp* err?
F*cking, Chickenhawk SOB… “Bush to halt Iraq troop cuts”
http://www.reuters.com/article…..8820080411
both
Ditto
I wrote something about B Hussein for FDL a while ago… it’s sick, there’s a lot to suggest he was only picked up at all because of wingnut blog nonsense.
Up to “no good”…so what else is new….
How many more days of this madman in charge?
C&L had a piece up about KO’s piece on Bush screwin’ the troops.
We have got to expand this story, overshout the Rethug’s framing
I know who the real “axis of evil is”….What do these people do…look in the mirror and then just assign stuff to other people? Yeah….
Too many!
hey thers
Bush’s crew is the Axis of Assholes.
-G
Oh yeah, that’s what I had understood.
Those cretins had a man imprisoned.
I will never, ever forget or forgive them. This won’t go away.
Exactly, I’ll BRB, I need to put this up at M&C… 8-(
“Generation Kill” a new HBO series coming in July. Ads look heartbreaking.
fork
but it needs to get out there – so joe and jane american see what is being done in their names
I hate having cable (Mr. CE loves his tv) but every once and a while, I realize that many people watch only Fox.
part of my ‘cutting back on expenses’ included no more hbo or showtime. just cable and no premium channels.
I don’t have them either, Suz. Once in a while there’s something on HBO I wish I could see…
Right now, with Mr. CE away, I’m looking only at the Weather Channel, and Comedy Central. I would miss TDS.
hi Pups… whatz the buzzzzzz?
hey jofish…
Sorry bout your back Suz…
Awww… we can be on a first name basis, you can just call me Mr. Fish. LOL..
Jesus, sorry, this is my favorite political blog, but non-Donita people post such crap music videos. Even atrios has better musical taste.
as with any chronic condition, there are good days and bad days. today is more irritating than anything else.
The new ground-penetrating radar can go deep, but not down into the she-devils domain!
guess you won’t like what i have selected for the late late nite post tonight
Quick! Somebody post some Shatner!
no no no, not the shatner. please not the shatner
Axis of Evil Assholes, ya mean!
FuunnyD
And Suzanne, about daughters, mine is off to New York for a decorative arts fellowship for a year. Needs to be at the Met on June 2.
Leonard Nemoy did a nice version of Proud Mary you might like to post, Suz /s
Haven’t the US Courts ordered him released…but the argument used by the Pentagon there is that he faces trial under Iraqi law. So now it seems that both the US and Iraqi Courts have ruled that he should be released…but the Pentagon will likely argue that they are above the law.
lard love a duck, ya’ll better watch out or i’ll front page some billy ray
Oh, teh yay. Can’t wait for Decemberists.
no need to pull out the wmds, suzanne *g*
Nimoy doing “Bilbo Baggins” would be dandy.
So what’s good?
The way I read it, the Iraqi courts said he should be released.
That’s cruel, suz… cruel indeed. It burns, preciousss…
boa noite, pups
gonna go read a bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzRUMUZ3Dhk
g’nite wobbly
Bush and his State Dept. up in arms about Jimmy Carter meeting with Hamas. God forbid diplomacy could flourish and anything like peaceful negotiations could break out. Condi Rice would just hate to be shown up by a former one term democratic president.
I hope Carter is the advance man for Obama’s Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in his first hundred days in office. That would be a piece of news.
can’t see it … lost my uToob sign in, and don’t feel like generating another one. What is it?
Jo – decent tune – The Black Angels – but unless you need to see people getting blown up in Vietnam, I’d pass.
this song was playing on my iTunes today when Preznit Utterly Incompetant was talking on the TeeVee. Turned one down, and the other up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2LgJviH9w
try this one …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Nd10jeNmU
how’s this?
No, seen enough death in my day.
Thanks newton…
Good music, but a suck-ass vocalist.
Why is all of the writing blue?
freekin’ swary.
its only blue if it is a link. or is everything on your page blue loohoo?
Well, since this is a music-critic blog, I figured I’d warn you.
Of course, tomorrow being Friday…
no meat?
I know. Just kidding. Everyone has links to share all of a sudden!
Clearly everyone has a need to see another Queen Pop Tart yet again.
I’ll just call ya swabbie…! ;-)
exhaling
ya had me worried there for a minute
I told you to stop licking those damn postage stamps Loo…
lol, got another … gravel’s gotten carried away with it all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1
Suz, I was gonna do that or Casey Jones… were we once twin children of different mother? (apologies to whoever it was who said that…dan fogelberg and __?)
depends on what port were ya born in and if it was during a hurricane
Tim Weisberg… damn. Google iz my frend.
I saw that a few days ago. Is it for real?
I stopped! Now I’m licking the envelopes!
as long as you are not smoking banana peels ya should be fine