take your pick mr rumsfled.

* eric at speakspeak (who recently dared express skepticism about larisa's reporting - how dare he!) has the transcript of colbert at WHCA here

* one point that i've been meaning to address for weeks - per Rummy, zarqawi and OBL have 'media counsels' - brains trusts, if you will, wondering all day about how they might be able to get some media coverage in america - as you know, its tough competing with missingwhitegirls and sharkattacks and rapes at duke (btw - i still dont give a damn). i have to be careful about what i'm about to say, and i need to be very careful about divulging my secret sources - but i have it on good authority that if the TERRORISTS want to get some good media attention, then they should ACTIVATE one of their SLEEPER CELLS and get someone to walk into a cafe in DC or NYC wearing a SUICIDE BELT and blow themselves and their fellow diners into smithereens.

i'm pretty confident that would get some media attention.

every day that goes by that the 'alqaeda media committees' dont implement this plan indicates to me that either a) they are even dumber than the americans or b) the media committees dont exist.

take your pick mr rumsfled.