Plush Life: “Dear Media, You blow
Let me just say that all of you, the entire journalism industry, are a bunch of suck-ass idiots.

You know that what Kerry said was not an insult to the troops. You know it was a botched punchline, and yet you take republican talking points and run amok like a bunch of two year-olds who got into the sugar jar. You are an embarrassment to your profession.

When are you going to start reporting the real news and stop sucking republican dick? For fuck’s sake.

If you want an apology from someone, why don’t you ask why Bush hasn’t apologized for causing the deaths of 2,800 American servicement over a lie?

And when is Bush going to apologize for sending them into a war ill-equipped and unsupported?

And when are YOU, the media, going to hold this administration accountable for anything?

You owe US an apology for your bullshit.Dear Media, You blow
Let me just say that all of you, the entire journalism industry, are a bunch of suck-ass idiots.

You know that what Kerry said was not an insult to the troops. You know it was a botched punchline, and yet you take republican talking points and run amok like a bunch of two year-olds who got into the sugar jar. You are an embarrassment to your profession.

When are you going to start reporting the real news and stop sucking republican dick? For fuck’s sake.

If you want an apology from someone, why don’t you ask why Bush hasn’t apologized for causing the deaths of 2,800 American servicement over a lie?

And when is Bush going to apologize for sending them into a war ill-equipped and unsupported?

And when are YOU, the media, going to hold this administration accountable for anything?

You owe US an apology for your bullshit.”

“Tom Friedman: What does being right have to do with it?
By: John Amato @ 2:02 PM – PDT

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H/T to Kurtz for picking up his six month mantra.
Greg Sargent:
K, the transcript’s in. Here’s what Tom Friedman had to say to Howard Kurtz yesterday about Iraq:
You know, the problem with analyzing the story, Howie, is that it doesn’t — everyone, first of all, this is the most polarized story I’ve certainly written about, so everyone wants, basically, to be proven right, OK? So the left — people who hated the war, they want you to declare the war is over, finish, we give up. The right, just the opposite. But I’ve been trying to just simply track the situation on the ground. (Emphasis added.)
I don’t know, I kinda think being right on such matters as whether to fight a war might be important. Particularly if you’re Tom Friedman, the man whom wavering liberals trusted more than anyone else in the galaxy to interpret the Middle East for them in the runup to the Iraq war. Whether you were right about that or not should tell us a thing or two about the soundness of your judgments and doctrines. Yet in Friedman’s world, those who were right about Iraq couldn’t possibly have been motivated by reason or sound thinking. No, they were driven by emotion: they ‘hated’ the war….read on”

Crooks and Liars » 2006 » June » 12: “Arthur Silber:
‘You therefore should feel free to disregard the following in its entirety. Perhaps a commentator like Tom Friedman is more suited to your tastes. Friedman has been consistently, relentlessly wrong about everything. Moreover, Friedman is admirably and extraordinarily conscientious in his refusal to recognize even one of his errors, and believes that his time is far better spent in vilifying and marginalizing those who would dare to point out his mistakes, and their calamitous costs. In the race to destroy the few remaining vestiges of intelligence in our national debates, always having been wrong makes one especially well-qualified to serve as an expert with regard to what we should do now and in the future. If others happened to be right and, even worse, if they were right for provable reasons which were also correct, well, that only demonstrates their nefarious, ugly motives and that they are not to be trusted on even a single point….read on”

Crooks and Liars » 2006 » June » 12: “David Horowitz laughed off of Larry King…
By: John Amato @ 8:42 PM – PDT

Horowitz was on Larry King to defend Ann Coulter’s vicious attack of the 9/11 widows in her new book. He wasn’t actually booted off the show, but when he defended Coulter by saying that she didn’t write the book for money…well…I hear she’s such a giving person. It happens at about the three minute mark.
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Horowitz: and I don’t think for a second that she wrote this book for money, ahh..
Everybody on the set broke up in laughter. It was such a ridiculous statement that he started laughing at himself.
People like Horowitz say the stupidest things to justify their arguments.”

Pass the Bread

Crooks and Liars: “Bill Moyers’ Baccalaureate Address at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY”

The Corner on National Review Online: “Best Sandwich Ever — On Film [Jonah Goldberg]

Appropos of nothing, I’ve decided to declare that the sandwich Adam Sandler makes in Spanglish (a really brilliant movie, by the way) is the single most appetizing sandwich ever captured in cinema. On this there can be no debate. But I would very much like to know what, exactly, was supposed to be in it.

Update: Huzzah! Thank You Al Gore for this internet which provides answers to such questions so quickly! Here’s how to make the Spanglish sandwich.
Update II: A reader does make a strong case for the Swedish meatball sub in ‘Back to School.’ This may be among the funniest sandwiches, but I’d rather eat the Spanglish sandwich, which I will probably do tonight. “

The New Journalism TPMCafe: “Chairman of Joint Chiefs Richard Myers, with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at his side, said: ‘There is no way to militarily lose in Iraq. There is also no way to militarily win in Iraq.’ WSJ, 5/20/04”

Majikthise : Citizen soldiers, citizen media: The War Tapes: “The War Tapes, the true story of National Guardsmen who filmed their own tour of duty in Iraq.”

Needlenose: “Iraq’s prison system is overrun with Shiite Muslim militiamen who have freed fellow militia members convicted of major crimes and executed Sunni Arab inmates, the country’s deputy justice minister said in an interview this week.

‘We cannot control the prisons. It’s as simple as that,’ said the deputy minister, Pusho Ibrahim Ali Daza Yei, an ethnic Kurd. ‘Our jails are infiltrated by the militias from top to bottom, from Basra to Baghdad.’

As a result, Yei has asked U.S. authorities to suspend plans to transfer prisons and detainees from American to Iraqi control. ‘Our ministry is unprepared at this time to take over the facilities, especially those in areas where Shiite militias exist,’ he said in a letter to U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John D. Gardner, the official in charge of American detention facilities.

. . . Gardner said the eventual transfer of prisons to Iraqi control would proceed gradually, preceded by several weeks of training for Iraqi guards, conducted by U.S. corrections officers and military police. The Iraqis would then work under the supervision of American guards for at least six months. A U.S. transition team would then be left in place for an additional period before the prison was handed over.”