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Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won’t they connect the dots?

Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much.

“Bush’s War on the Press.” ::: ALTERMAN

the Washington Post’s Dan Eggen reported this past Sunday, the pushback against not only reporters, but also federal whistleblowers, has been swift and severe. Eggen’s found “dozens” of employees from the CIA, the NSA and other intelligence agencies who have been interviewed by FBI agents “investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA’s warrantless domestic surveillance program.” What’s more, many employees at the CIA, FBI and the Justice Department “have received letters from Justice prohibiting them from discussing even unclassified issues related to the NSA program.”

Do Vanity Fair reporters have some kind of truth serum for their interview subjects? It seems as though people are always admitting things like eating disorders or revealing their sources in huge government scandals, and then, suddenly, they never said any of these things.

First it was Lindsay Lohan‘s “I never said I had an eating disorder.” Now we have Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee claiming that “he doesn’t remember” telling the mag that former State Department official Richard L. Armitage is the likely source who named Valerie Plame to Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward.

In an article to be published in the magazine today, Bradlee is quoted as saying: “That Armitage is the likely source is a fair assumption.” Armitage was deputy secretary of state in President Bush’s first term.

This month’s VF “officially” hits newsstands today, and the tell-all issue also features Teri Hatcher‘s confession that she was molested as a child. And a bunch of other stuff that nobody remembers ever saying.

http://www.jossip.com/gossip/vanity-fair/the-case-of-vanity-fairs-mystery-amnesia-20060314.php

:::Magazine: Bradlee Knows Woodward’s Source on Plame Jim VandeHei, Washington Post:::

It’s GALLING…. 

She referred to hotel-balcony reporters not giving us the good stories in the middle of this war zone where just three days ago, the windows in NBC’s offices were shattered once again. She went there last month for a week or so and reporter Richard Engel has been putting his life on the line the last three years, living with shattered windows and kidnappings of the press and daily IED blasts. Over 50 journalists have been killed in Iraq, Ms. Ingraham.

There’s just Crazy Sectarian bloodshed and mass murders going on and the right-wingers, still to this day, remain dazed by the Kool-aide and she chalks it all up to Bush-hating and liberals actually wanting America to fail over there. That’s all they have left. And none of us forget those of you who were behind this war when there were sane voices warning us of this fate and they were bullied out. We remember and you don’t get to jump ship now with these sorry excuses for your equally lame excuses. O’Reilly had her on that night on his Peabody Award®-winning program, agreed with her, and said he’s really getting peeved about the tone in America. Former Senator Alan Simpson told Larry King that he sure didn’t like the partisanship permeating Washington.

Uh-uh. 

You don’t get to be pissed that we’re mad;

The Republicans created this harsh environment. The so-called weak Democrats can’t even get a hearing room from these hacks and Excuse me, but let’s just cut the old crap about how “both parties are the same” because that’s the kind of mindless drivel that goes right along with “everyone thought Saddam had WMD’s” and “the democrats can’t seem to do anything” ….and just for good measure:

“There ain’t no diference between Al Gore and George W. Bush”- idiot in America

But that kinda thinking wins out….

and we all lose.

BONUS :::BULL::::  

“Everyone knew she was a C.I.A. agent”

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603220013

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/nbc_today_ingraham_carville_gregory_060320a_320x240.wmv

Bonus footage of J.T. as Senator Deakins

The Long Island Project Teaser Trailer

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The_Daily_Show_Plame_Game.wmv

The gang that couldn’t do anything straight:  Moussaoui is the tip of the dirty iceberg

E.Alterman  :::::  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

This is too easy.  Did they think that nobody was paying attention?  They’ve lost Bin Laden, screwed up Afghanistan, completely wrecked Iraq, destroyed our fiscal future, left us completely vulnerable on homeland security, ignored the threats to New Orleans, messed up its recovery, thrown science out the window, attacked our civil liberties, undermined freedom of the press, you know the drill.  Why is anyone surprised that they are both incompetent and dishonest when it comes to seeking justice for the terrorist murder of thousands of Americans? 

Carl Cameron Follows Bush’s Instructions On How To Describe Warrantless Domestic Wiretapping

Since January, the White House has tried to re-brand their domestic warrantless wiretapping program as a “terrorist surveillance program.” The goal is to make critics of the program’s legality seem weak on terrorism.

So far, the White House press corps hasn’t bought it. But today, Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron became the first reporter use the term “terrorist surveillance program” during a White House press conference.

From today’s Press Conference:

THE PRESIDENT: Carl.

CAMERON: Thank you, sir. On the subject of the terrorist surveillance program –

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

CAMERON: — not to change the tone from all this emphasis on bipartisanship, but there have been now three sponsors to a measure to censure you for the implementation of that program.

Cameron is not only doing the administration’s bidding – he is not doing his job. The term “terrorist surveillance program” could refer to any number of programs, many of which have been around for decades and are not at all controversial.

The program at issue is different precisely because it is conducted a) without a warrant and b) involves people on U.S. soil. That’s why it’s accurately described as a warrantless domestic wiretapping program.

Filed under: Terrorism, Media

Posted by Payson March 21, 2006 3:50 pm

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