mary matalin

* xymphora has what looks like an important post up about Able Danger - although I'm not sufficiently familiar with the details to have anything clever to say about it, and i can't make any sense of the AD thing anyway... The key line seems to be: "Since the revelations on Able Danger prove that the story of Atta must be a fraud, the Official Story must be a fraud. The 9-11 Commission knew about the Able Danger story, but omitted it from their report, obviously because it didn't match the Official Story."

* xymphora: "The Blogger spell checker doesn't recognize the word 'blog'."
funny. i should probably use spellcheck, but obviously dont. do you mind?

* digby & and the nyt introduce tristero (link)

* i mentioned Matalin's hacktacularness earlier when i was watching MTP. Wolcott has more, and better: "Even without the immature pouting and pissy expression, Matalin would have been a car wreck in repose: With a bad haircut topping a mistaken facelift and a ghastly floral pin that looked like spray-painted aluminum, she looked like the Beltway's Madwoman of Chaillot. Maybe defending the defensible is getting to her, and the acid reflux has gone to her brain." (c&l have the vids - one & two)
Matalin did make a good point, that it's inconceivable that the secretservice would let people drink and hunt around the veep - but the flipside to that is that they are arguing that hunting accidents are a dime-a-dozen - to the extent that is true, then cheney shouldnt be hunting at all.