more iranian nazis

* on brithume, they did a story about iran and the world cup soccer. it turns out that iran's first game is in Nuremberg - which gave fox the opportunity to show heaps of footage of Nazi rallies. fukkers. (for some reason they didnt mention the Nuremburg trials)

* tpmm:

"Dennis Hastert doesn't think so, of course, and has sent a threatening letter from his lawyer to the network. The Justice Department has also denied the story. Ross and ABC, meanwhile, reported that Hastert calls "a coincidence" the fact that Jack Abramoff hosted a fundraiser for the speaker one week before Hastert signed an unusual letter on behalf of the lobbyist's tribal clients."

ah yes - those pesky contemporaneuous coincidences.

* tpmm:

"I guess this is how Ney (R-OH) plans to stay alive while facing indictment. In an email and robo-call, Ney points out that when his opponent Zach Space was on Air-America, he was interviewed by a lesbian. Ugly."

* justin at TPMM has put together an overview of what he knows about spying, so far

* nysun:

"A magazine editor named to a top White House policy post, Karl Zinsmeister, altered his own quotes and other text in a published newspaper profile of him posted on the Web site of the magazine he has edited for more than a decade, the American Enterprise.
In response to queries from The New York Sun yesterday, the White House said all of the changes were to correct errors in the August 2004 article, which was written by Justin Park and published in a weekly newspaper, the Syracuse New Times."

funny.

* digby:

"The New York Times is verifying that the Pentagon now acknowledges that a massacre took place at Haditha. In fact, they are briefing members of congress on it to try to keep the story from blowing up into a huge scandal on the level of Abu Ghraib."

* jeralyn:

"Former Ken Starr Deputy and Bush water-carrier Brett Kavenaugh was confirmed to a seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals. He may be the most unqualified appeals judge to be appointed in decades... John Kerry in a blog post today calls him Judge Brownie."