Duncan takes the right to task over the London shooting, and I say that he is right on.
"Bush and the Right generally have become masters of this rhetorical trick. Criticize the Bush policies in Iraq? You're attacking the troops! Criticze the Bush policies in Gitmo? You're attacking the troops! Criticize the 101st Fighting Keyboarders glee about the killing of "bad" brown people in London? You're attacking London bobbies! It's long past time for the Right to take responsible for its own actions and rhetoric, and stop trying to pawn it off on those on the front lines." read on
You know, I must have had a thousand lunches with John, and I can't think of a single thing he's said that would specify his politics," says Prettyman, a World War II veteran who once served as an aide to Robert F. Kennedy. "We were all under the impression that he's a conservative, but he always talked generalities. He's not the type to lay it all out." ...read on
The jury is still out on whether Roberts fills the bill of the type of conservative that the extreme religious right is looking for. I've been trying to figure out why they have been tripping over themselves with his nomination when Miguel Estrada, Edith Jones, or Priscilla Owens are more their type of judge. I know that the religious right is rallying around the fact that his wife is such an anti-abortion activist. I can't understand why Captain's Quarters would be up in arms with the release of that information. I've mentioned it in the context that it deserves.
Frank Rich says that Alberto Gonzales is too closely tied to Rove-Gate. Jeralyn digs a little deeper into the Air Force One passenger list.
E&P: Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's Why
So what is shown on the 87 photographs and four videos from Abu Ghraib prison that the Pentagon, in an eleventh hour move, blocked from release this weekend? One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: "I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe.” They show acts "that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added.....read on
“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.”
(thanks Lauren)-via Tapped: "We don't always remember to plug Prospect media appearances, but here's one you have to see. During a little late-night TV watching yesterday, I caught the highlights of the new buddy cop movie starring Conan O'Brien and Prospect co-founder and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich."
Larry Johnson emailed me this exchange with CBS. Read the full email here
Rabin, Carrie:Thanks so much for speaking with us. Unfortunately, our piece was cut to just a minute, and we had to kill our sound bite with you. But we'll save the interview for the numerous other broadcasts interested in the story.
thanks again for your time...and hope to speak with you soon...
Carrie,
Here's what is fascinating. Our testimony yesterday on this issue before a joint committee of Senate and House Democrats has been the most widely requested piece that C-Span has had in quite a while. On the internet my speech today has turned out to be one of the most replayed and repeated speeches the Dems have ever had. Yet, most of the Main Stream Media seems to be cowering in fear at following this story. Pretty sad. Who is out there speaking on behalf of Valerie Plame? Only a few of us. Pat Lang told me earlier today this is what would happen.
I won't be available for CBS in the future. No need to waste my time with you folks because, whether I spend time with you or not, the story gets ignored.
Larry
What this shows is how cowardly and intimidated the MSM is over this story. Hugh Hewitt had an interview with Howard Fineman:
HH: Last question, Howard Fineman, thanks for the time today, if you had to rank on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of importance the Plame memo, the Roberts confirmation and the war on terror, where would you put those three, the Plame memo first, one being insignificant, 10 being life or death?
HF: Well I'd put the Plame memo at maybe 2 or 3, I'd put the Roberts nomination at 5, and I'd put the war on terror at 10.
So old Howard thinks it's a non-story. You know the uber-apologist Hewitt hopes it will go away. A breach of national security, an outing of a CIA operative, a journalist in prison, and all Fineman can say is that it's a 2-3. If a blow-job had been part of the story you can bet Howard would be salivating.
Washington, DC - This week, Larry Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism, delivered the Democratic Radio Address.
Ebay has a new listing. What makes this an amazing bargain is that it comes with Don King hair! A murderer and a traitor melded into one. The perfect combination.
Larry Johnson testifies before a joint session of Congressional Democrats
I've talked to Larry several times recently and he has not been happy with the way the RNC and the talking heads ( John Gibson ) have smeared Valerie Plame. He told me that unlike her husband, she is not able to defend herself against these malicious attacks. Johnson has taken on that roll. Keep in mind that he, and all his friends that are speaking out are republicans. James Marcinkowski who also testified, was actually a Young Republican. ( OYE doesn't apply ) Will the talking heads do their jobs and listen to actual CIA for guidance, or will they stick to allowing Ken Mehlman's ridiculous "chewbacca defense" to go on unchallenged?
AmericaBlog says: The RNC is LYING. Anyone who allows Mehlman on their TV show must grill him repeatedly for lying about an issue as important as national security
The mother enrolled her 8-year-old autistic son in a Fayette County T-ball league "to help him socialize and gain confidence." Instead, the boy got a coach who offered to pay a 7-year-old teammate $25 to injure him before a game so the boy's limitations wouldn't keep the Falcons from a win, according to state police at Uniontown.
The 7-year-old boy threw a ball at his teammate's left ear and then threw another ball into his groin during warm-ups before the game, according to state police. The 8-year-old boy didn't play with the Falcons during the game on June 27 and went to the hospital instead. Mark Reed Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, Fayette County, is accused of engineering the attack so the boy would be unable to play, police allege...
We've all read stories of the "out-of -control parents" engaging in violence over little league games; watched Law & Order episodes, and followed the Thomas Junta trial. In a sense this might be a far worse moral crime. How truly depraved do you have to be to "take out" a handicapped child?
BREAKING NEWS: BBC: Shot man not connected to bombing
Police said Saturday that a man shot and killed on a subway car had nothing to do with an investigation into a series of bombing attacks Thursday on London's transit system.