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One of the big arguments against Free Software is the supposedly inherent insecurity of publicly-available encryption systems: "If it can be studied by anyone, it can be cracked by anyone!", implying that Free Software was a tool of terrorists and other criminals. Yet right now, I see this very telling headline from Associated Press:
Al-Qaida used Hotmail, simple codes in planning
In the timeframe before 9/11, Hotmail was a Microsoft-owned service. The article seems to dodge this salient fact, but Wikipedia comes through for us on this one.
So who's the real tool for terrorism?
Just seen on the AP wire: POW benefit claimants exceed recorded POWs
Oh, suddenly an impossible quantity matters? Why didn't it ever matter during the elections in Chicago or California?
With this kind of selective reporting, their financial bankruptcy mirrors their moral bankruptcy.
The Los Angeles Times has apologized for a false accusation against P.Diddy. He was not involved in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
So why hasn't CBS apologized to President Bush for the forged "memos from the Texas Air National Guard"?
Oh, right, he's a capitalist white guy who believes in law and order.
Anti-abortion postings ordered removed
Were the postings in question trying to make a rational argument against abortion?
No. Whoops! The Disassociated Press must have been dreaming again.
The postings were advocating murder. (Never mind the facile comparison of murder and abortion.)
How about "Postings threatening life of abortionist ordered removed"?
Kathy Griffin says she was joking at the Emmy Awards.
Either her timing's way off, or it became a joke only after the damage was done.
But look on the bright side: nobody is rioting or calling for her beheading. If she'd said "Allah" instead of "Jesus," I'm sure she'd have round-the-clock police protection right now.
A "nor'easter" over New York City and the Eastern Seaboard (from the southwest, oh well) is dumping lots of snow and cold rain, making life very inconvenient, possibly dangerous, for people there.
Into this mix, CBS meteorologist John Bolaris tried to impress his viewers with this:
As of 11 on Sunday evening, New York City received 6.41 inches of rain, the fourth wettest day of all time, and the heaviest rainfall in 30 years.
Being from the Midwest, the rainfall doesn't impress me nearly as much as Bolaris' access to a time machine. Maybe he can also put to rest the argument about whether or not Babe Ruth actually pointed to where he intended to hit the ball in the 1932 World Series.
What's that? Bolaris doesn't have a time machine?
Ignoramus.
Gentlemen, take your positions.
Ready...
Set...
Seriously, you'd think the yearly ritual of bashing Christ's Resurrection would be getting old after almost 2,000 years. But no, the so-called "post-modern" heretics can find lots of tawdry new ways to express their hatred.
Can we expect the same attitude from James Cameron towards Islam? I'm not holding my breath.
Update 2007-02-26 01:30pm EST: Cameron has exposed his dilettante side:
Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics.
Lies, damned lies, and...
A new headline from al-Reuters:
Suspected Greek militants fire rocket at U.S. embassy
"Suspected militants"? Well, if they fired a rocket at non-combatants, doesn't that make them militants by definition?
"Suspected militants"? Or "Suspected Greeks"? In their morally ambiguous universe, I doubt al-Reuters knows.
Apparently, the NYT can't learn any new tricks, so they start 2007 with their favorite old trick: bashing conservatives for imagined transgressions. In this case, the "transgression" is posting the video of Saddam's execution taken by an amateur with a cell phone.
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Human Rights Watch has sunk to a new level of hypocrisy, with their call not to execute the Butcher of Baghdad (and Agence France-Presse's full assistance in spreading such vile excrement). Why they wish to grant him "rights" which his victims never got, I don't understand.
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During a rather "interesting" conversation with my mother about politics in public education, the topic of Sesame Street came up. We both agreed that in the past ten years, the CTW has taken their political correctness a bit too far (Near! Far!), but then she said something that surprised me:
"Even in their early days, I didn't like their attitude about inner city life."
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I will place no pink ribbon, pink logo, ping slogan, or any other pink on this website, even if October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I will do no such thing until there is an equal media blitz for Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
According to the American Cancer Society's own statistics, breast cancer is expected to claim over 40,000 women's lives in 2006, while lung cancer will take over 72,000 women's lives, making it almost twice as deadly as breast cancer for women.
I'll be blunt: If the Politically Correct crowd were truly worried about women's health, they would have a much stronger sense of proportion. As it is, their fixation on women's breasts undercuts their stated mission.
"His interactions with customers seemed somewhat capricious" may describe the Soup Nazi, but it doesn't really touch the mass media's treatment of Christians and Muslims. The Muslims can expect the Politically Correct speech police to protect them from any potential offense, including factual criticism, but for the Christian George W. Bush, who was just "assassinated" in Death of a President, they have just four words:
"No empathy for you!"
It's not capricious; it's totally predictable. Thankfully, not everybody in Hollywood is saying this.
When JonBenet Ramsey was murdered, the whole nation went into a tizzy. Many talking heads excoriated Patsy Ramsey for turning her daughter into a little showpiece (and the JonBenet pageant videos did leave us looking askance). Others accused the police of incompetence, demanding the immediate arrest, conviction, and execution of both of JonBenet's parents.
The big problem I had with the whole case wasn't with the handling, but rather with the presentation. The JonBenet case became a national shocker, because she was a sweet, compliant, and above all cute little girl. If the victim had instead been an adolescent genius on the verge of schizophrenia, would the mass media have been all over the case? Not bloody likely. Children die every day, and the news producers barely gives them a passing glance.
Unless a pro-Hiz'b'allah propagandist calls their attention to it. Then we get to see the corpses, from several angles, posed like vases at an auction.
Bastards.
The news bias at Reuters has finally been exposed, from the stringers on the ground to the top echelons of the corporation. The evidence is incontrovertible: a bad Photoshop "clone tool" job, trying to make Beirut look both bigger and smokey-er, playing for anti-Zionist sympathies around the world.
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(Warning: adult image contained within.)
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So Rush Limbaugh takes Viagra(tm). Why does Ass-Press writer Brian Skoloff wait until the sixth paragraph to refer to this as an "alleged violation" of the court deal?
Seriously, the media reports are less about Rush's legal troubles than they are about getting his entire medical history into public view. Whichever lawman leaked this is on par with the New York Times' reckless disregard for reporting integrity.
Also, where is the invocation of HIPAA? The US Customs agents and the Florida sheriff's office became aware of Rush's prescription, only because of their professional duties. Without court action (a judge's order or arrest warrant), this places them within the boundaries established by HIPAA, where medical confidentiality is required. Michelle Malkin is ranting about the lefties' double standard on privacy, but never mentions it. Even the HIPAA-specific HIPAA Blog has nothing on their main page, as of right now (3:28AM EDT).
I hope Roy Black sues these officers of the law into monetary bankruptcy. It would complement their moral bankruptcy well.
Here's a lovely gem from the ignorami who manage the CBSNews.com site:
It appears these dorks can't be bothered to do a simple lookup on Wikipedia.
Charles at LGF posted about this at 12:04 AM EDT. At 5:04 AM, this screenshot still reflects reality. That's five hours they've had to correct this.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say ejecting Dan Rather hasn't raised their collective IQ.
This evening's news on NBC had a report on "civility," or the lack of it, in public discourse. For their prime latest example, they used clips of Ann Coulter exposing terror enablers on the Today show opposite Matt Lauer.
Conspicuously absent were clips of Al Franken's earlier appearance, in which he called for the executions of Karl Rove and Lewis Libby for treason. Also absent were the laughter of Matt Lauer and the production staff at such a comment.
Where was NBC when Al Gore made his insulting "extra chromosome" comment? (Or the myriad others from the Sore Loserman.) What about Franken, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, and the other denizens of Air America spew their hateful bile? Where is the NBC Nightly News report on their lack of civility? The indignation of NBC appears to me hypocritical, selective, and quite tardy.
This doesn't even touch on the insults and character assassination of Jack "ex-Marine" Murtha and Dick "Turban" Durban, the bigotry of Jesse Jackson and Ray Nagin, or the outright hatred displayed by any number of protesters at appearances by Michelle Malkin and Alan Dershowitz.
NBC and their ilk can kiss my pasty blue-collar ass. (Now where's my interview with Matt Lauer?)
Kimberly Dozier's treatment in a military hospital took away resources meant for our soldiers. Will CBS make up the cost? Ha!
I heard Katie Couric admit to the world, on this morning's live TV show "Today," that she has "played grab-ass" with Regis Philbin. If true, this isn't simple sexual harassment; it's sexual assault, and Ms. Couric is the perpetrator.
Was she out there saying "tut-tut" when Dianne Parkinson sued Bob Barker for harassment? Did she cheer for Lorena Bobbitt? Oh, but those were different. Women were the victims, not the perps. It's okay for a woman to touch a man any way she wants, isn't it?
No, it isn't. It's just another case of "do as I say, not as I do" for all the world to see.
The timing couldn't have been better. A suicide attempt prison riot at Gitmo, on the same day the United Nations chided the U.S. for their "maltreatment" of the prisoners.
I'll say it again: The next time some arrogant "human rights" asses (especially from the U.N. or Amnesty International) shows up at Gitmo, arrest them for espionage. Let them get a first-hand experience of life with Taliban supporters. Then, six months later, if they're found "not guilty" in a military tribunal, put them on a plane to Denmark. Before they leave the runway, make sure they understand that there won't be a trial the next time they show up at Gitmo.
(H/T: Michelle Malkin.)
Has the mainstream press given up trying to make hay out of the NSA domestic spying wiretapping call records database? More importantly, have they actually bothered to look up any pertinent case law or actual legislation?
I won't be one of their sheep. I already know what the Constitution says.
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With so much going on in the world, and an uncooperative desktop computer, I feel overwhelmed at all the comments I could have made, but didn't. It's time to do some catching up.
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Another idiot journalist tries to defend Mary McCarthy with this twisted thinking:
The firing of CIA intelligence analyst Mary McCarthy this week for allegedly leaking classified information has touched off a red-hot debate about who gets to leak, who doesn't, and what it all means for what Americans know about their government. (emphasis mine)
"Americans"? The question in this case isn't about what Americans know about their government's actions. It's what the WHOLE BLOODY WORLD knows about our process of waging war.
"This a matter of principle," said Ray McGovern, a former fellow CIA analyst, "where she said my oath, my promise not to reveal secrets is superceded by my oath to defend the constitution of the U.S."
Maybe that should be "Ray McGovern, a fellow ex-CIA wuss who thinks he's above the law". If McGovern bothered to read the Constitution, he would have found the following:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. (Art. III, Section 3)
No stretch of the imagination gives Mary McCarthy, Ray McGovern, or any other CIA employee the permission to take it upon himself or herself to reveal classified material about conduct with foreign nations. ("Unilateral action," anyone?) That authority is reserved strictly for Congress and the President. McCarthy and McGovern are more worried about discrediting George W. Bush than they are about "Freedom of the Press" or their ostensible "Constitutional duties."
Finally, there's this arrogant sub-header on the story:
Some See Media's Watchdog Function at Risk
With Drudge, Little Green Footballs, and Roger L. Simon exposing the anti-freedom biases in the New York Times and the Washington Post, with Michelle Malkin reporting stories that the NYT and WaPo bury in section D or totally spike, I'd say the media's watchdogs are doing just fine.
Just observed on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, this headline:
Hidden in the Heartland: Immigrants here watch, worry
"Hidden"? On the top headline of the Sunday edition of the second-largest newspaper in the state? That's on par with Juan Cole complaining to Newsweek that his Free Speech is being infringed. Only in the liberal media would such self-contradiction go unnoticed.
I've had too much going on lately, and it's affecting the blogging. So, for a break, tonight I'm going to hang out with my brother, and maybe even watch the South Park "Cartoon Wars" episodes back to back. You know, the ones with the censored Mohammed!
(If you want to see what was censored, check Bareknucklepolitics. Or, it might be what was censored. Even if it's fake, it's very much in keeping with the spirit, animation, and attitude of the episode.)
Update 11:56pm: They still wimped out. A second chance to do the right thing, and they threw it away.
A blogger claiming to have experience in Baghdad (titled, appropriately enough, I WAS THERE) is reporting on the crude attempts at censorship in Iraq:
Khalid Bookshop was the first target for the new insurgents’ strategy; it is the oldest bookshop at Rabi Street, west of Baghdad, it was set on fire around 9 pm on Monday, no casualties but every thing in the book shop was burned. [emphasis added]
That's every thing, including that holiest Islamic book:
The fire ate all the books, many Korans (Muslims Holy Book) were on the floor either burned or half burned, some workers were cleaning the shop, which the fire turned all its walls and roof into black; Khalid was standing in the middle of the shop, sad and scared, "I can not say any thing, I afraid to say any thing that will make every thing worse, thanks God that we are all alive and no one was hurt," Ani said.
Burned Korans. Korans on the floor. Probably also soaked Korans, if the firefighters showed up. Who knows how many times the names "Allah" and "Mohammed" were burned or smeared beyond legibility?
Reports in Newsweek of reckless treatment of Korans were cited as a reason for anti-US riots last year (even though Newsweek quickly recanted the allegations). How long until we see a similar display of anger directed at Syria and Iran, for supporting such blatant anti-Islamic hatred?
I'm waiting.
Waiting...
(H/T: Pajamas Media.)
CBSNews.com takes issue with those turning the tables:
"Well-placed sources," "people close" to the situation, "two sources close" to decision-makers, "sources say," "insiders," and "a person close." Those are the kinds of sourcing phrases you’d expect to see in a big story about, oh, say the rationale for invading Iraq. Today, they’re characterizations reserved for stories about Katie Couric’s seemingly imminent decision to leave NBC News and become the new anchor for CBS News. If this were about weapons of mass destruction, would we believe they exist?
Oh, puh-leez. If I were a betting man, I'd put US$5 on Katie "Miss Perky" Couric herself using at least three of those phrases during her first week at CBS.
Notice the dig at George W. Bush: "If this were about weapons of mass destruction, would we believe they exist?" Well, if someone dropped a VX missile down Vaughn Ververs' trousers, would he still believe there were no WMD's in Iraq?
Borders and Waldenbooks have chosen this day whom they will serve:
Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among Muslims in several countries.
"For us, the safety and security of our customers and employees is a top priority, and we believe that carrying this issue could challenge that priority," Borders Group Inc. spokeswoman Beth Bingham said Wednesday. [emphasis and link added]
Wow. Just... wow. This story is rife with kowtowing.
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The AP put out this anonymous bit of stupid fluff about air quality in the three most in-your-face liberal states: California, New York, and Oregon. To put a fine point on it, laws don't clean air. If anything, there appears to be some kind of correlation between clean air laws (including anti-smoking laws) and dirty air!
I will grant that the report is based on data from seven years ago, so things may have changed significantly since then. But 1999 was still the Clinton era, and these states had a near carte-blanche to restrict people's lives in any way their legislatures saw fit. A whole fat lot of good it did, huh?
As a side note, the cancer risk statistics are reported incompletely. A figure like "68 per million" is meaningless without a time frame. Are these 68 people going to develop cancer in a week, a year, or a lifetime? My guess is over a year, but that's only a guess, no thanks to the shoddy reporting from the anonymous coward at the AP.
(H/T: My mother, who hates New York specifically because of their anti-smoking laws.)
Men of peace sleep soundly at night, because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.—probably not George Orwell, but true nonetheless
Ruth Marcus' current WaPo editorial follows another anti-male (and, by inclusion, anti-Bush) line: Only women are allowed to choose strength, or not; manliness should be denigrated and reviled:
No wimpiness worries now. This is an administration headed by a cowboy boot-wearing brush-clearer, backstopped by a quail-shooting fly fisherman comfortable with long stretches of manly silence -- very "Brokeback Mountain," except this crowd considers itself too manly for such PC Hollywood fare.
How veddy droll of Ms. Marcus. Did you notice the anti-gay slur? Too bad her attempts at character assassination don't stop there.
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A blatantly biased AP headline: Mo. Drama Teacher Resigns in Play Flap. The "flap" resulted when teacher Wendy DeVore decided to say "screw you" to the people providing her paycheck: the parents of her students. It's time for a Fisking! (Typical disclaimers apply.)
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The Associated Press has issued a "clarification" regarding their reporting on Michael Brown's sniping at President Bush. Note the time on the story:
AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO
Fri Mar 03 2006 19:48:29 ETClarification: Katrina-Video story
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON (AP) - In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S. officials.
The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking.
The day before the storm hit, Bush was told there were grave concerns that the levees could be overrun. It wasn't until the next morning, as the storm was hitting, that Michael Brown, then head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Bush had inquired about reports of breaches. Bush did not participate in that briefing.
They "corrected" their error at twelve minutes before eight o'clock in the evening, well into the weekend news cycle. Weekend newspapers were nearly ready to go to press, broadcast network news was in pre-production stages, and nobody was going to make room for this.
I submit to the world that the AP editors knew this, and held the story until Friday evening, when it would get as little exposure as possible.
(H/T: Drudge.)
(Get it? Mardi Gras, Lent, fast. Ha ha. Okay, bad pun.)
The Michael Brown interview hyped on NBC Nightly News has already been discredited, and it hasn't even been broadcast in its entirety. It looks like the blogosphere now moves faster than the speed of light!
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Q: Can an entire television network wear a Mardi Gras mask?
A: Yes.
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More death and destruction in Islamic nations today, ostensibly over the Jyllands-Posten cartoons. ABC (US) Radio had a sound bite from a Muslim apololgist:
There is a pent-up anger, a pent-up rage, at the West, because we are not in control of our destinies.
Rage at the West? More like pre-fabricated, government-sanctioned "protests," prepared over four months since they were first published on 2005-September-30. How do we know this? Because we also have three cartoons which were not published, one of which has been identified. Omar at Iraq the Model speculates that only a few middle eastern Muslims have seen the cartoons.
Middle eastern Muslims may not be in control of their destinies, but it's obvious who are the manipulators. Shame on ABC Radio for running such a soundbite without response.
Just seen on Drudge without a linked story: ABC won't air the video of Bob Woodruff's roadside bomb attack.
Of course they won't. It would show the world the reality our soldiers and Iraqis face every day, something the MSM has made great effort to hide. I don't think that's the only reason, though.
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Helen Thomas has her tail feathers fluffed out, in a self-important huff, all because President Bush wouldn't take any of her questions today:
"He's a coward... He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."
Really? Maybe it's just because every time she asks a question, it's only by way of lecturing him (or his lackey) about his obvious inferiority, his inept defense of the USA, and his total lack of compassion for everyone who isn't named George.
How deluded can one reporter be, to think he owes her even the time of day? Does she think she's so "above it all" that the laws of physics don't apply to her, either?
(H/T: Drudge.)
Cathy Seipp has exposed David Cay Johnston, an ivory-tower journo who thinks he's qualified to order around other reporters. He tried to tell her that she could read his email only if she'd agree to keep its contents a secret.
A reporter trying to silence another reporter? Something is terribly wrong with this picture.
Following is my own comment in the ensuing discussion.
Memo to DCJ, on the outside chance he's still reading this:
Ever heard of the First Amendment, Mr. Johnston? I suspect you have, being a reporter and all. Free Speech and Free Press are usually the very first invocations when someone complains about shoddy reporting.
It goes both ways. "Free speech for me but not for thee" is not how our country works. Unless you have a prior, contractual AGREEMENT to keep silence, nobody is bound to keep any kind of "secret" you pass along. It isn't your so-called "ethics," it's something every high-school civics student learns and every soldier has sworn to defend, even to death.
I'll be damned if I'll say nothing while you enjoy those freedoms, and simultaneously try to deny others those same freedoms.
(H/T: VodkaPundit, in his Pajamas.)
The Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin, Internet Haganah, and the FBI brought down a terror wanna-be. Vigilant citizens at their finest, and the Associated Press picked the story up immediately.
Oh? They didn't? What's their top story?
Oh well.
Side note to the ACLU, CAIR, and other terrorist sympathizers: This was practically in my parents' back yard. Don't you dare suggest that we don't need surveillance of foreign nationals. Our Constitution cannot be construed to defend outsiders who come here to do murder.
H/T: Spotted on Little Green Footballs.
When Pat Robertson said Hurricane Katrina was a punishment from God, the civilized world told him to "shut up." But when Ray Nagin says the same thing:
Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
Why is the ACLU so deafeningly silent? They are usually the first on the scene when a politician starts talking about God. Could it be? Of course.
Ray Nagin is black.
Oh, but Nagin still has his foot in his mouth:
"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans—the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."
Such bigoted comments from a white guy, especially one in political office, would immediately draw the ire of the NAACP, and Ray Nagin would be the first to make an asinine comment about "herding all the blacks into the ghettos, just like the Jews under Hitler." But when Ray Nagin himself declares skin color to be a criterion for living in New Orleans, where is the NAACP?
As of this writing, they haven't said a word .
How shameful, on today of all days, when we remember a man who had a dream of a nation where character was more important than skin color. President Bush is right, there's still a long way to go to realize that dream. The tacit approval of the ACLU and the NAACP is doing nothing to help.
Just heard from Mr. Valenti, discussing TV standards:
Everything is relative.
Does it cross his mind that he just made an absolute statement? Well, he's trying to argue against a TV rating system that would allow parents to cut off a program before the violence and profanity and giant boobs arrive. It doesn't look like he's thinking through much of anything these days.
I wonder if "giant boobs" includes Bill Clinton.
(Hat tip: Laura Ingraham, in a "best of" segment.)
President Bush gave his weekly radio address this morning. Take a look at this tiny excerpt from today's speech (emphasis added):
As the 9/11 Commission pointed out, it was clear that terrorists inside the United States were communicating with terrorists abroad before the September the 11th attacks, and the commission criticized our nation’s inability to uncover links between terrorists here at home and terrorists abroad. Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn’t know they were here, until it was too late.
This immediately produced the following twisted headlines:
I guess it's "damned if you do, damned if you don't," at least until these idiots get their press passes revoked.
John Murtha (D-PA) takes a swipe at the Administration, Jean Schmidt (R-OH) takes a swipe at John Murtha.
And a Democrat is indignant about it all. Well, not really all:
During a news conference with the Ohio Democratic Party yesterday in front of her district office in Portsmouth, Ohio, [Ohio State Representative and Air Force Reserve Major John] Boccieri called on Schmidt to stop attacking veterans and criticized Lamar Advertising for standing with politicians like Schmidt instead of veterans. The following are excerpts of Boccieri's remarks:
[...]
"Like thousands of soldiers, I left my family, my friends and my job only because our country asked me to go. So Congresswoman Schmidt, when you attack one veteran you attack us all. When you call one veteran a coward you call us all cowards."
He's only indignant about Schmidt's remarks. The far more damaging remarks of Murtha were met with silence, a silence that speaks volumes.
Update 10:00pm PST: Of course, Schmidt isn't the first self-absorbed hotshot to pressure someone into supporting Bush-bashers. It probably won't work this time, either.
Le livre noir de Saddam Houssein (The Black Book of Saddam Hussein) contains 700 pages of reasons why kicking his a$$ to the curb was the right, and righteous, thing to do. It reaches all the way back to the beginning, showing that murder and torture (including chemical weapons) were his standard operating procedure.
It includes this incredible quote from Abdoul Hadi al-Hakim, a Sh'ite arrested in 1983 and detained in Abu Ghraib:
The worst moments? It was all terrible, but the worst was the fear of being executed. Each time we heard the lock turn we were silent; it could be the moment to leave, for me, for another. I am angry with those who mix the crimes of the Americans with those of Saddam when they are not comparable. [emphasis added]
Read the whole article.
(Hat tip: Lady of Shalott and Charles Johnson.)
Drudge was screaming last night: "CNN FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH". This morning, he had two images available, one with a black image superimposed, one with a white image. I've combined the two, to show what the text underneath the X is.
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Three parties are doing the re-writing in this case: Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, ABC Radio News, and Associated Press. I suppose this could go under "Politics" as well.
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If the Big Media outlets are so worried about torture in Iraq, where was their concern while Terri Schindler lay dying of starvation and dehydration?
Oh, that's right, Terri was a Catholic woman of European ancestry, so she wasn't worthy of the media's defense.
Young Singers Spread Racist Hate and ABC gives them a big frown and wagging finger in the second paragraph of the article. Later, a critic calls their message "garbage."
So where were the words of warning when Kanye West (who?) accused George W. Bush of hating black people?
Only nobody dares call Kanye West's idiocy "garbage." It's only an "opinion."
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