STICKING TO THE SCRIPT :: FLASHBACK, HOWARD DEAN

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above: HOW OUR FRIENDS HONOR THEIR DEAD

As Howard Dean’s behavior in the past days has become more
and more curious, it has also become more and more outlandish.
Dean continues to lash out at John Kerry as one who is hostage
to “the special interests” and even went so far as to
call him a Republican, no less. Dean’s proclivity for becoming
unhinged continues apace. Hardly a day passes without Dean providing
further proof that he is not fit to be the President of the United
States, let alone a primary election candidate.

It is a shame Dean doesn’t get it. He is finished, and as
Laurence O’Donnell of MSNBC so aptly put it on Dennis
Miller Live, Dean was already finished before his post Iowa
tirade. Laurence also astutely pointed out how embarrassing it
was for Al Gore and Bill Bradley to get suckered in to endorsing
Dr. Dean. As we suggested earlier on this site Dean probably peaked
on the day Gore endorsed him. From then on it was all down hill.

From: Analyze-Media.com/Television.html

This Just Not In 2

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Eat The Press | Harry Shearer: This Just Not In | The Huffington Post:

You know, there were a lot of credible sources out there, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who disputed many Bush administration claims about WMD from the beginning, and the most credible ones were careful to distinguish between chemical, biological and nuclear threat analyses. At least some US Senators, including Joe Biden, who voted in favour of the Iraq resolution (for reasons that are worthy of another post!) knew the real scoop on ‘WMD’ and did not buy the administration’s pre-war rhetoric. I guess the moral of this story is simply that if you want to be informed about any complex issue, you cannot and should not rely solely on the media, and certainly not on just two or three sources. We have to take responsiblity for our own enlightenment, particularly in these times, when our own lack of awareness – due to laziness, time constraints, just too many pressing personal concerns about living our own lives – can l 2ead to such dire and fatal consequences as war can bring. My point continues to be that constantly blaming the media for our own lack of critical thinking – common sense, even – on any number of pressing issues of our time is not going to do much to solve the problem of a severely uninformed electorate. By: LizM on December 17, 2006 at 10:04pm

“One More Shot” Bill Kristol

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General Kristol appeared on The Daily Show last night and Jon Stewart didn’t pull any punches, challenging every single delusional neocon talking point he tried to put forward.

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Kristol’s other appearance on the show can be found here (16MB WMV)

One senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland.

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush ‘to reveal Iraq troop boost’:

Bush ‘to reveal Iraq troop boost’ By Justin Webb BBC News, Washington US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learnt. The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces. The move comes with figures from Iraqi ministries suggesting that deaths among civilians are at record highs.

 The US president arrived back in Washington on Monday after a week-long holiday at his ranch in Texas. The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr Bush’s Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of next week. Its central theme will be sacrifice. The speech, the BBC has been told, involves increasing troop numbers. The exact mission of the extra troops in Iraq is still under discussion, according to officials, but it is likely to focus on providing security rather than training Iraqi forces. The proposal, if it comes, will be highly controversial. Already one senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland.

The need to find some way of pacifying Iraq has been underlined by statistics revealed by various ministries in the Iraqi government, suggesting that well over 1,000 civilians a month are dying.

Cheney On Libby Witness List

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Cheney On Libby Witness List:

Vice President Dick Cheney will be called as a defense witness in the CIA leak case, an attorney for Cheney’s former chief of staff told a federal judge Tuesday. “We’re calling the vice president,” attorney Ted Wells said in court. Wells represents defendant I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who is charged with perjury and obstruction. Early last week, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said he did not expect the White House to resist if Cheney or other administration officials are called to testify in Libby’s trial, expected to begin in January…. Cheney, who would be the trial’s most anticipated witness, has said he may be called to testify. If so, prosecutors could ask how the White House responded to Wilson’s criticisms. Cheney was upset by Wilson’s comments, Fitzgerald has said, and told Libby that Plame worked for the CIA. That conversation is a key to Fitzgerald’s perjury case. Libby testified that he learned about Plame’s job from a reporter. Cheney could also help prosecutors undermine Libby’s defense that he was so preoccupied with national security matters, he forgot details about the less-important Plame issue. Prosecutors argue that Plame was a key concern of the vice president, and thus would have been important to Libby.

Poll: Hillary tops McCain, ties Rudy

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Newsday.com: Poll: Hillary tops McCain, ties Rudy:

BY GLENN THRUSH Newsday Washington Bureau December 18, 2006, 11:28 PM EST WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton beats John McCain and ties Rudolph Giuliani in a new Newsweek national poll, a stunning counterpoint to recent surveys showing the former first lady trailing the GOP’s dueling presidential frontrunners. The poll, taken earlier this month, shows Clinton besting McCain 50 to 43 percent among 1,000 registered voters nationwide. It also showed her in a dead heat with McCain among independents, a group that has proven stubbornly resistant to her centrist message. Clinton leads Giuliani — her onetime Senate nemesis — by a 48 to 47 margin, a technical tie that falls within the poll’s 4 percent margin of error. Clinton came within a hair’s breadth of renouncing her October 2002 vote authorizing the Iraq invasion Monday, telling NBC “Today” show anchor Meredith Vieira that she wouldn’t have voted yes if President George W. Bush had leveled with the American people about Saddam Hussein’s limited weapons arsenal.

Army is unlikely to be able to meet the next rotation of troops in Iraq without undesirable changes in its deployment practices

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HaloScan.com – Comments:

Didn’t hear anything yet in the mainstream media about this snippet from the ISG report:
“The Army is unlikely to be able to meet the next rotation of troops in Iraq without undesirable changes in its deployment practices. The Army is now considering breaking its compact with the National Guard and Reserves that limits the number of years that these citizen-soldiers can be deployed.”

We are without salvation, understanding or even the intelligence God provided us to begin with…Laura told me so

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deadissue.com » Words:

AnimalsWhile the boy wonder was busy “listening” to people in the know about how best to continue fucking up the lives of millions in Iraq, he had the presense of mind to address a dip in the polls by dispatching Laura to inform you and I, that the piles of headless bodies (Sunni), those full of holes made by murderers with power tools (Shia) and the multitude of mothers and children barely managing to exist from day to day as the hell that surrounds them grows more gruesome by the day, has little to do with the public’s lack of confidence in her husband, but rather it is the media that continues to get the story of this war wrong day after day, callously shirking their responsibility to report on all the “good things” happening, out of laziness I suppose, or perhaps it is true that the thousands of people who have risked their lives to bring us the story had it in for Laura’s man all along…just like she and the 25% of Americans, who seemingly don’t fear for the safety of anything not attached to an umbilical cord, had suspected all along.

god.jpgThat’s right, it’s YOUR FAULT for buying into this anti-Bush rhetoric, this news, cooked up in the heads of traitors who understand psychology and unleased throughout the country for the purpose of turning your stupid brain into an organ of evil, much like the inside of a smoker’s lung, black and sticky without the ability to function like it once used to, leading to the necessary convulsions for survival with hatred and death expelled outward in the form of idiotic lies about our president and his devine path we were at one point lucky enough to walk alongside him on towards the glory that was just over the next hill if we’d had the strength or the character to not abandon faith and christ once things got tough. And so now we are without salvation, understanding or even the intelligence God provided us to begin with…Laura told me so.

She’s not the only one looking for an appology either, as there are plenty of stupid white men whose desire was a war, which they got, only not the outcome they expected along with it because of how stupid everyone involved was about carrying it out, and a fellow like Richard Pearle wants us to know that he is owed an appology from the soldiers and their bosses and their bosses’ bosses for draging his brilliance through the mud, like a band of arrogant vandals they persecuted his vision and striped away all the important parts, leaving him without an oil tanker bearing his moniker, no high speaking fees, just the burden of stupid people and their failures unjustly attached to his name.

Forget about the fatherless, homeless children who are afraid and the smell of burning garbage and the roving bands of murders killing at will day after day…it’s about these people we see on television and read about in Vanity Fair, and what this war has done to them, how it has tarnished their image and spoiled their legacies. These poor people and all the bad things that have been done to them. Boy wonder hasn’t been happy in so long now…we should all be ashamed of ourselves!

Carter back in the 70s (the killer rabbit); Dukakis in the 80s (tank); Clinton in the 90s (haircut)

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The Washington Monthly:

Yes, and even little ole jim had it right with Carter back in the 70s (the killer rabbit); Dukakis in the 80s (tank); Clinton in the 90s (haircut).
The MSM go along for the frivolous ride sometimes. And, no, I cannot think of comparable example in their treatment of Republican nominees.
The idea to paint the opponent as someone who cannot be entirely trusted because they are rather…. odd somehow. And the oddity must be due to personal problems. This strategy works best with a relatively unknown person, somebody who is a blank slate. You get to paint them as an oddball.

TULLYVISION – Chris Matthews Has No Idea Who This Joe Wilson Fellow Is:

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Just an abdication of any sense of journalism. Tip O’Neill is twirling in his grave.
Three things that are most troubling about this goddamned case lately: 1: Lawrence O’Donnell at the end of this summer, all of a sudden declares on Olbermann’s Countdown program that it’s all over(the Fitzgerald case) and that it was much ado about nothing (possibly in reference to Armitage’s confession/reveal that he was blabbing about Valerie Wilson as well around that time) 2: Bob Woodward’s complete skullduggery about this sickening political payback/blowback and his public, blatant disregard for honest disclosure about his direct involvement in this possible illegal act while simultaneously mocking it in the press. 3: That Washington Post Op-Ed after the Armitage reveal. Worst day in their history.
Disgusting.

JT
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