total screw-up in the words I used

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* " the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that two reporters should be jailed for contempt of court if they refuse to name their sources. The Justice Department has been seeking testimony from Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine in its investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame." LINK

* ""Yesterday was a total screw-up in the words I used," (schwarzenegger) said at a news conference. "Because instead of closing, I meant securing. I think maybe my English, I need to go back to school and study a little bit."... Nunez's office, however, pointed out that Schwarzenegger said something very similar in a 2003 interview with Fox TV host Bill O'Reilly." LINK

* " The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has fired two top employees because of revelations arising from an FBI investigation into their alleged mishandling of classified information... The Iranian threat is to star at AIPAC´s policy forum in May, including a "walking tour" exhibit on how close Iran is to creating the bomb." LINK

* i love it when amygoodman introduces a segment, and then throws to the person she is interviewing with something like 'can u tell us whats going on' - and the interviewee often says 'actually amy, you gave a good synopisis in your introduction' - how often do u hear that in the msm?

* davidcorn: " I am guessing that in these past 72 hours, Marla the dead do-gooder has gotten more than fifty times the ink that Marla the live one received in the past three years. I suppose that's the nature of these things, and I'm as guilty as anyone for having not celebrated Marla and her crusade in my own columns, though she was a friend and I was fully aware of her accomplishments." LINK

* it looks like fauxnews is gonna start slamming biden. i guess they dont like the bolton situation

* sam bee does an awesome job on frank luntz. the repugs really need to watch the daily show so that they dont fall into it. heres the vid.


* "The court martial of a soldier accused over the Daily Mirror's fake Iraqi prisoner abuse photographs, which led to the sacking of Piers Morgan as editor, has collapsed." LINK
i didnt even know they had charged anyone...

* "Israeli consul to The Hague arrested for selling passports... Police are also checking whether Yitzhaki sold Israeli passports during his previous postings to New York, Vienna, Nairobi and Singapore." LINK

* "No evidence backs the rumor that the college of Cardinals used Diebold machines. And don't be too quick to believe the report that Cardinal Francis Arinze had to wait in an unusually long line." LINK

* "Mexico's attorney-general on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftwing mayor of Mexico City, in a move that intensified the political battle in the country over the decision by Congress to impeach him earlier this month." LINK
where are the democracy-bringers when we need em?