The Red/Blue Project

 

QUOTE OF THE YEAR:

MARY MATALIN: "What's the crime here? Everybody in town knew that, and who outed her was her husband, my wife, the "CIA wife" and all this stuff. No crime, big gossip, politics, he's attacking us, we're answering him, and somehow people are in jail and a guy's career is ruined. Does that make sense to you?"

CBS News anchorman Bob Schieffer turned from the camera and got folksy with Pentagon correspondent David Martin on the monitor behind him: "You know David, the question I have about this story is, is this something we really oughta' be worried about here or is this just something that's gonna be emabarrasing to the military-some people trying to get back at one another?" "Well Bob..." Martin wearily replied.... "These were FOUR of the most senior officers at Guantanamo and although this is private behavior-off duty, it still involves these leaders and it raises real questions about the quality and the discipline of the people who are running the the prison down there"
The story in question is about a sex ring inside Guantanamo Bay Prison involving female officers, female civilian contractors and Senior Prison officials including the Brigadier General who's the senior official in charge of the place. No Big deal...right? Ouch.
Texan Schieffer is a longtime favorite and now elder-statesman/broadcaster inside the beltway who recently took over the anchor desk from Dan Rather at the excoriated CBS NEWS. Since the public hanging of Rather it seems he's been trying to put a more..er...softer side of that wacky American news before the viewing public. It's night after painful night of increasingly longer/long-winded P,B,+J sandwich crust controversy/ viagra for sex offenders/isn't- Yosemite-beautiful stories signifying nothing; nada.
Granted, with all the screwups going on at Gitmo it's hard to keep track of every little thing.
It makes your head hurt!

 


Blinded with rain in the country
Blinded with rain in the town
Blinded with rain in the battlefield
Black hail pouring down
Oh the rainstorm chills me
Chills me right to the bone
Fills my heart with [rainfall]
Out there in the dark alone

Haunted with voices from yesterday
Haunted with voices that sing
Haunted with voices that slip away
Leave only the hope that they bring
Oh the voices show me
Things nobody can see
Oh the voices tell me
What hard work it is to be free

Chorus-


Oh my darling HattieIowa's far away-

Don't forsake me for another-

Hold on for one more day



Selling my heart down the river
Selling my heart on the sand
Selling my heart to Arkansas
At the Company A command
Oh the heart tells slowly
To the edge of the living line
Voices singing holy
Cut free of the prison of time

Eighteen hundred and sixty four
Cloud in the eye of the storm
Sitting here wondering what for
In a tattered blue uniform
Oh the heart grows weary
Of battles that never end
Hope this war is settled
Before there's nothing to defend

If they re-elect Abe Lincoln
Sooner the war will end
Every man in Company A
Is voting for him again

General Holmes and Marmaduke
Attacked July the fourth
Buried four hundred of their dead
Only forty four from the north

Oh my darling Hattie
I'd give the world to be
Next to you and those I love
Back in Monroe County

Oh my darling HattieIowa's so far away-

Don't forsake me for another-

I will return some day ....


When the war is over
No matter which side prevails
When the war is over
No matter which side fails.....


©Robert Hunter

KOOL KIDS MEDIA CLUB

SANDY BERGER IS A SPY!!

I can't for the life of me find a valid account of Sandy Berger stuffing his pockets/pants with secrets, etc. etc.
Ah, and there's the rub these days in the Cool Kids Media Club.

I tried hard; I love a good research hunt and spent some coin calling D.C. but I'm new in the media game
so I don't have many contacts yet.
Nothing, nada, zilch, and rumor becomes fact.


Robert Novak saying that everyone knew Valerie Plame was undercover?
He's still saying this and seems more confident now that the second round of
the Smear Ambassador Wilson Patrol is out and about. He's going to swallow
his wet teeth one of these days.


Jack Cafferty isn't dead and was on CNN Monday morning grumbling about....
you guessed it, Berger stuffing things into his... socks er...jacket,er....pants...;
....and the boys on Imus were snickering like the seventh graders at
The Potomac School about that SPY stealing secrets in his underwear...

 

Amazing that the two-year old Sandy Berger investigation leak came out two days before the (now all-but-forgotten, complete stonewalling every step along the way by the administration) 9/11 report would be released...

 

David Brooks was just salivating the other night about how this five hundred page report is such a great symbol of blah blah blah...A beacon, if you will, of light, in an otherwise dark period of time, in this great nation or somesuch trite.


Get a root canal now.


Hey this report would have come out earlier if the Bush Jr. administration hadn't delayed, delayed, delayed.As usual, the media is now parroting each other this week in urging /warning/encouraging Kerry to not Bush-bash....I mean everyone in the cool- kids media club is squawking about it...Awesome!


The whole " Who is the real John Kerry?" nonsense?

 

The Dems. are going to listen and Kerry, who IS charismatic, will give a so-so mushy speech instead of what everyone, of either political party, is salivating to see to see in a politician: someone who lays it on the line and stands for something, anything.


Prolly won't happen, Kerry will win anyway and it's a good thing I don't run campaigns.

A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

An Open Letter To:

People who thought this war was a good idea.


Period.


Subtitle: You know who you are.


You don't get to sneer about how the evidence was there.


You don't get to scoff about how even Bill Clinton, Germany and France thought there were WMD's.


You don't get to shriek about media-elite liberals just Bush-hating, conspiracy theorists whining about Halliburton, and Saddam gassing his own people:


...Not when our leaders were so fully unprepared for this war that there was no legitimate flank or rear security support for the thousands of vehicles, many endlessly breaking down, in that convoy that stretched across the Iraqi desert at the beginning of the war.


...Not when they couldn't even bribe Turkey into letting us enter Iraq from the north.


...Not when there weren't enough MRE's, tanks that would work in the sand and flack-jackets for our troops

...Not when our Marines suddenly became gendarmes on the streets of Baghdad while we completely disbanded both the Iraqi army and police and the country was being destroyed from the bottom up as
the looters demolished everything that the precision guided bombs and Dick Lugar had been screaming about the need for a plan post-war Iraq and what to do about the Shiites/Sunnis/Kurds on The News Hour and Charlie Rose virtually every night for
the twelve months leading up to the start of the attack.


...Not when there was no budget for the war, funding was asked for on the eve of the initial strike and there have been no plans to pay for the ever-increasing cost.


...Not when Deputy Secretary Of Defense Paul
Wolfowitz is asked to give the number of Americans killed in Iraq during a congressional commitee on April 29 2004 and he's off by over two hundred soldiers.


...Not when they won't let us see the bodies at Dover and undercount casualties received in combat by the thousands.

Now bugger off and prepare for the trials.
JT

 

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