And people take Mark Steyn seriously. It is very sad.

Zed. nice to see we know they are hypocrites. now to tell the world.

The only job Fitz should have now is PROSECUTING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR CRIMES !!

Will you all join me in asking the question that needs to be asked?

What did the President-Elect know and when did he know it?

The Federalist Society luvs them some Mark Steyn. You can listen to his recent speech to them here.
http://www.fed-soc.org/publica…..detail.asp

Short version: Europe going to hell because European women aren’t having babies. U.S. soon to follow.

Dang that Google, BT. Gonna be hard to erase all them there cached copies, dontcha know?

No need to do that. The MSM is already tarring Obama with that brush.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c…..015994.php

Digg is open!

The question I would like answered is when does the FBI make an early morning knock on Cheney’s door?

Haha, it is to laugh!
Tucker is right, though: lunatics shouldn’t be allowed to run amok. cordon them off in right wingnuttia.

Obama is getting off easy. If he were a Republican, the headline of that piece would have been the question above:

In bold letters: WHAT DID HE KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

The NYT editorial page would be calling for him to step down.

yeah, i totally agree with you!!!

they should demand answers and details and never give up until they get them!!! just like they did with cheney. and gonzalez, and delay and grimes, and libby, and cunningham and palin and stevens and bush. they ALL came right out with it!! he should too!! he should get the same treatment they did!!! i agree!!

only difference is, obama came right out and SAID what he knew before the papers went to print.. what a way to kill a story.

I’d like to see Tucker and Fitz in a ring somewhere settling this.

Just yesterday, I was thinking “Funny how you never see the handle ‘ex-libtard’ at any blog of either party.” And here you are.

Carly
ex-repug

Where were you during the Clinton years, when the press did almost nothing but reprint RNC blast-faxes verbatim?

Or when James B. Stewart could write a book accusing Hillary Clinton of evil deeds — deeds that all hinged on a document that Stewart didn’t bother to turn over and read properly?

I suggest you get yourself educated, bucko. Or tell your paymasters at the RNC that we’re not falling for your booshwah.

Yup. Considering that even McCain staffer Trevor Potter admits that the press babied McCain by researching and then refusing to publish the very nastiest stuff buried in McCain’s past, ED doesn’t have a leg to stand on here.

For What It’s Worth … I am not a regular here so I may be culturally out of line… but

I am really getting so tired of ironic, satiric and “just the opposite” blog postings, not just here, but all over the progressive blogosphere. At DailyKos, for just one example, using Darwinist survival logic, users came to learn that in order to gain the coveted 10 “Recommended Diary” slots, it became increasingly necessary to think “marketing”… a hook, to induce someone to click on your offering amongst the hundreds of others — thereby enhancing your chance of being read, recommended, and vaulting to top of Rec list.

That of course included, for marketing hook reasons, titles that had exact opposite intent of the content — to enrage people to click and see “wtf is this person saying?!”… and so on.

I guess I have just reached a state of “Ironic Title Fatigue” … As with everything else in life, saturation leads to dilution in value. For me, I am becoming more and more conditioned to hate blogs/diaries that use this ploy.

This is nothing personal against the blogger here. And again, since I am not a regular, a reaction of “well get the f out of here then” might be totally appropriate. But I am just sharing a sentiment “at large” and it happens to have been triggered by this blog entry. peace :)

And Lowry, and Kristol, and Hutchison…

If our Trad Media was an actual objective “media,” then these righties listed above by B T would be asked about their former spoutings on Fitzgerald’s supposed animus against the Bush Administration.

Maybe K. Olbermann or R. Maddow will bring it up, but I think (ya think?) FNC will let Kristol slide on this one.

My initial response is that irony and parody are part of the life blood of those who have to, or choose to, deal with a political landscape (the US, lately) where prevarication, lying and unsubstianted BS are part of the norm. All of the quotes above were criticisms of a conservative US Attorney who, in doing his job, was attacked dishonestly and unfairly.

So, rather than rant, and spew anger, Blue Texan was, or may have been, using irony in order to keep from being sucked into the rage that the stream of Righties lying and posturing to save face because they support Bush creates.

Serious answer, yes (assuming I am correct or near correct about BT’s intentions) but there is a survival strategy here, I think.

I thought Rove was going to get rid of Fitz?

Heh. Heh.
good call, BT. I’ve been wondering the same thing, too! I think the “partisan witch hunt” meme will be fun to throw back in the face of ‘Thuglicans who want to gloat over this.
Then we can point out that Dems seem to have far, far less trouble holding their own accountable for being slime-bags than do R’s (and than they do R’s)

FunnyD

Chuck Todd is still happy to call Fitz a “grandstander”.

That was a great reply. And I surely agree with you in terms of healthiest behavior and to stave off lapsing into rage. You are so right. all we’ve seen for 8 years has been rampant lawlessness in broad daylight and god knows what still to be discovered, and no oppositional party pressure to curb/correct/bring justice to these abuses.

Really, my comment wasn’t at all about this particular set of tongue in cheek comments… it was more a launchpad for behavior I see consistently at sister-site of the progressive realm, dailykos. I should have parked my comment over there vs here. But the trigger for me, right or wrong, is “oh damnit, that’s part of the culture here too?”

And now for something completely different and out of the blue: I go home to New Orleans to see parents sibs nieces nephews for thanksgiving, only to hear one of them speak of “Carville”. I said “who?” They, all being staunch Republicans, said to me somewhat incredulously, “James carville.” I said yeah,i know who he is, but why are you mentioning him? They: “Oh, he and his really nice wife moved into the XXXXX house 2 doors down.”

Me? (in my head: WTF#%@^$%&^@#%!@ ??) “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“No. And they have 2 daughters going to XXXXXXXXXXX school.” (This is where my sisters went to school, where my Mom went to school, and where my nieces and Goddaughter go to school.. I am incredulous; I think my jaw was really dropped for about a minute.)

They ask “You know, he’s the liberal and his wife is the” — I said “I know Lady McCheney”. They: “what?” Me: “You’ve never heard that nickname?” “No.” (irritated) “They’re both very nice people”.

Me: “How long ago did they move here?”
They: “I guess about 4-5 months ago”

Me (cringing)

They: “They were over at the XXXXXX’s house the other night. And both are delightful”…

I had to go to my room.

This is a true story.