democracy is a riot

* foil for ood is back - 2 articles in the nyt this week - maybe the UN is toast this time... oops - wait - both brought to u by the judicious judymiller. somehow she manages to write 2 articles without once mentioning her golden boy mr chalabi - despite the fact that he's the only person who has the details. hmmm. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/international/middleeast/13food.html?pagewanted=all&position=

* meanwhile, judybaby is subpoenad re plame http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/politics/13leak.html

* speaking of stealing money, theres something like $5 or 10bn 'unaccounted for' in iraq.

* i think i sed the other day that goss was texan - he's actually floridian. same same? my bad.

* looks like kobe will get off (as it were) - remember those lynching tees the DA's office bought that should have made everyone sick to the bone? scottpeterson will prolly get off. jacko was/is also lynched - i bet they like having him up their sleeve till they need him. no sign of any indictments for rush (he is still being pumped into iraq for 3 hours a day on troopradio).

* remember the mccain for demveep campaign? he makes me sick - stumping for bushwhore

* speaking of mccain, when will jfk2s divorce records get put thru the media washer? - and who can imagine what other dirty trix they have up their sleeves?

* ""Those that threaten us and kill innocents around the world do not need to be treated more sensitively, they need to be destroyed," cheney said." indeed. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040812/us_nm/campaign_cheney_dc_6

* " Pakistan authorities arrested five more suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network in the past 48 hours, including "valuable targets,"" - i wonder if they have nicknames. i miss nicknaems. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040812/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_al_qaida_arrests_3

* "Woodward, for his part, said it was risky for journalists to write anything that might look silly if weapons were ultimately found in Iraq. " http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5676702/ thnx bob. how bout the risks of looking silly if they werent ultimately found? "If there's something I would do differently -- and it's always easy in hindsight -- the top of the story would say, 'We're going to war, we're going to war against evil.' But later down it would say, 'But some people are questioning it.'" going to war against evil? jeepers.
"These editorials led some readers to conclude that the paper had an agenda, even though there is a church-and-state wall between the newsroom and the opinion pages. " funny for so many reasons.

* wapo's meaculpa (of sorts) - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58127-2004Aug11?language=printer "There was an attitude among editors: Look, we're going to war, why do we even worry about all this contrary stuff?"" and " "Do I feel we owe our readers an apology? I don't think so."" huh?? and "stories on intelligence are always difficult to edit and parse and to ensure their accuracy and get into the paper." hmmm and "People forget how many facets of this story we were chasing . . . the political ramifications . . . military readiness . . . issues around postwar Iraq and how prepared the administration was . . . diplomacy angles . . . and we were pursuing WMD. . . . All those stories were competing for prominence." and "(people) have the mistaken impression that somehow if the media's coverage had been different, there wouldn't have been a war." but maybe we'd already have the 44th president.

* the teeve media (incl bbc) about venezuela's election/recall is already scary. looks like we might have a helluva w/end. didnt the media learn anything about the last time they told the same stories??? shit.

* evil evil Krauthammer on McCain-Feingold "And what you got is an avalanche of money into politics this year as George Soros, Democratic big shots and, to a lesser extent, Republican moneymen (Republicans are slower on the uptake)" please. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61487-2004Aug12.html separately, i wonder what wapo's next meaculpa wrt iran will say about krauthammer

* lets not forget that 'those 7 minutes' was actually half an hour "The fact that Bush wasted 27 minutes that day - not only the seven minutes reading to kids but 20 more at a photo op afterward - was, in my view, the most outrageous thing a President has done since Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court." http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/221323p-190107c.html - lets not forget that 'no-one' knew how many attcks there might have been. lets not forget that the obvious assumption was that the p-resident himself c/would have been a target. lets not forget that ergo those kids were presumably in danger. and the parents. and teachers. and the secretservice. and andycard and ari1. and condi (whoops, now shes in dc). all this while the secretary of defense was helping with a hand on a stretcher at the pentagon.

and while we are at it - heres wapo's lead "President Bush defended himself from Democratic nominee John F. Kerry's criticism that Bush *reacted passively for several minutes* after learning that the nation was under terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61299-2004Aug12.html 27 becomes seven becomes several. wapo will be weaculping into the distant future.

* i saw some of 43 and laura on larryking - 43 looked surprisingly human - no horns or anything - heres a wrap
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/

* i always wondered why alq hasnt set off a bomb on an ny bus or a cafe or something. i think ive resolved the quandry - they hate us cos of our freedoms right - but they havent had much of an opportunity to attack freedom per se - till now - praps we should be concerned that a free-speech zone will get blown to smithereens. that'd show em.


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