Saturday, April 10, 2004
Un f*cking beleivable:
Condoleezza Rice under oath:
"You said, did it not warn of attacks. It did not warn of attacks inside the United States. It was historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information. And it did not, in fact, warn of any coming attacks inside the United States."
MSNBC today:
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, which national security adviser Condoleezza Rice dismissed this week as an unspecific historical document, included information from three months earlier that the al-Qaida terror network was trying to send operatives into the United States for an explosives attack, according to several people who have seen the memo.
It's about the rule of law.
What will we tell the children?
OK. Maybe its me, but they all just look like inkblots to me. No vaginas, or penises or any of that stuff. Just a bunch of illegible inkblots.
OK. I thought one looked kinda like a crab. But I had to look real hard.
So what does that mean? Am i like a freak or something?
What else can you really say?
President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.
The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.
Friday, April 09, 2004
Stumbled across this old article from the New York Times, and it just makes your jaw drop at how inept the adminstration is. Also its worth mentioning that General shinseki, who made the "wildly off the mark" assessment, was forced to resign as a result. You're not allowed to disagree with the Bushies.
At a Pentagon news conference with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Mr. Rumsfeld echoed his deputy's comments. Neither Mr. Rumsfeld nor Mr. Wolfowitz mentioned General Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, by name. But both men were clearly irritated at the general's suggestion that a postwar Iraq might require many more forces than the 100,000 American troops and the tens of thousands of allied forces that are also expected to join a reconstruction effort.
"The idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces I think is far off the mark," Mr. Rumsfeld said. General Shinseki gave his estimate in response to a question at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday: "I would say that what's been mobilized to this point — something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers — are probably, you know, a figure that would be required." He also said that the regional commander, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, would determine the precise figure.
A spokesman for General Shinseki, Col. Joe Curtin, said today that the general stood by his estimate. "He was asked a question and he responded with his best military judgment," Colonel Curtin said. General Shinseki is a former commander of the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia.
In his testimony, Mr. Wolfowitz ticked off several reasons why he believed a much smaller coalition peacekeeping force than General Shinseki envisioned would be sufficient to police and rebuild postwar Iraq. He said there was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq, as there was in Bosnia or Kosovo. He said Iraqi civilians would welcome an American-led liberation force that "stayed as long as necessary but left as soon as possible," but would oppose a long-term occupation force. And he said that nations that oppose war with Iraq would likely sign up to help rebuild it. "I would expect that even countries like France will have a strong interest in assisting Iraq in reconstruction," Mr. Wolfowitz said. He added that many Iraqi expatriates would likely return home to help.
Yesterday we have Condoleezza, when she wasn’t lying, saying that oh no, it wasn’t a plan, it was a “series of actionable items”, and that they didn’t have any inkling about bin laden striking inside the U.S. after they reviewed the presidents briefing entitled “Bin Laden determined to strike within the United States”.
And today, we have federal marshals seizing and destroying audio recordings of speech by Supreme Court Justice Scalia in which the subject was how he feels the Constitution's true meaning must always be protected.
My theory is that sometime around 1997, all conservatives brains were infected with a microorganism that removed all sense of irony. Which is even tougher when you consider the fact the same thing happened in 1962 that erased their sense of humor.
From TAPPED:
HOW TO MAKE AIR AMERICA SUCCEED. It looks like Clear Channel Communications has dropped Howard Stern from its syndicated lineup -- which, as far as I'm concerned, represents a golden opportunity for the fledgling Air America network. Why not pick up Stern and add him to the Air America package. Stern's a huge draw. He's better at radio then anyone else Air America, and, like Rush Limbaugh years ago, he's started to become more and more ideological. He's the bridge between entertainment radio and political radio. Sure, his program is trashy. But hey, so is Michael "Savage" Weiner. If Stern were part of the Air America lineup (which, as I understand it, is sold to stations as a package deal), wouldn't that entice a lot more stations to syndicate it? I'm not much of a Stern fan myself, but it certainly seems to make good business sense.
--Nick Confessore
Great idea but it can't happen. Sterns contract is completly different from Air America. Air america, since its brand new, is buying time on stations, which is why they are also allowing webcasts to anyone for free. THis is similar to Rush Limbaugh. LImbaugh doesnt buy time anymore but he DOES give away his show for free to any station that wants it. his profts are from advertising.
Stern sells his show to the markets that have him. WCCC in HArtford pays a fee to be able to broadcast his show. He does this because he can. HE is #1 wherever he goes. HE is a wanted commodity. IF he goes on air america everyone can log into the net and hear him for free. Or listen to the NY am station of air america for him instead of KRock.
It can't happen. At least not until his contract is up. And even then, they couldnt afford him.
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Condoleezza Rice is a liar.
Here is the evidence.
Rice gave a press conference on MAy 16th 2002 in which she said:
“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people…would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile,”
She then repeated this charge last March in an op-ed for the Washington Post:
Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles
Her testimony, under oath, today, from MSNBC (transcript of her testimony hasnt been amde available yet):
Under questioning, Rice acknowledged that she had spoken too broadly once when she said that no one had ever envisioned terrorists’ using planes and crashing them into buildings. She said aides came to her within days and reported that there had been memos about that possibility, but she said she had not seen them.
THis is why people were demanding her to testify under oath. Because she is a LIAR.
April, 2001.
CNN reported that the Bush Administration's release of the government's annual terrorism report
contained a serious change: "there was no extensive mention of alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden" as there had been in previous years. When asked why the Administration had reduced the
focus, "a senior Bush State Department official told CNN the U.S. government made a mistake in focusing so much energy on bin Laden."
Neal Pollack has a good condensation of Rice's testimony:
Lie, lie, distortion, half-truth, pander, manipulation, pseudo-intellectual bombast. Dodge, dodge, feint, lie, dodge, avoid, subject change, lie, slander, pretentious generalization, character assassination, bald-faced lie.
Oversimplification, undersimplification, condescension, insult, insult, lie, avoidance of responsibility, avoidance of question about avoiding responsibility, cheap political point, utter, malicious lie.
Grimace, slither, dodge, lie, deliberate misinterpretation of history, nonpartisan character disparagement, narrative designed by public-relations experts to create maximum “connection” with American public. Appearance of professionalism, resoluteness, capableness, preparedness. Major omission of lie to create partial truth. Lie for political convenience. Lie for partisan gain. Lie to protect the economic interests of an incredibly small number of people. Reception of flattery. Dispersal of flattery. Abuse of good will afforbed by ten people who are trying to gather evidence without partisan bias. Backhanded dismissal of all criticsism. Denial of any responsibility in orchestrating what will almost certainly become the most tragic and bloody war of this generation.
Rinse and repeat.
Dennis Miller is as we speak interviewing Karen Hughes on his "show".
Jesus, it's absolutly unwatchable. You have to see it to believe it. It's like soft core porn.
Only with Karen Hughes.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Roger AIles (not the bloated one) has found a website by Alan Keyes that is a veritable treasure trove of nutbags.
There’s Kaye Grogan, who says:
There needs to be a law passed where any person who disrespects the "Office of the Presidency" by making false accusations and spreading deliberate rumors about the president, should be charged with a felony or at the very least a high misdemeanor.
Awesome.
Not only that, she's smoking hot.
THre’s this lady, who, if you can get past the numerous spelling mistakes, talks about the real perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombings, Islamic terrorists! And im not sure but I think she’s also babblling about how Clinton knew there was going to be attacks and tried to keep it from us or something.
These are really bottom of the barrel Freeper kooks. None are professional columnists or journalists, they're just damn entertaining.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
From Sadly No!, add Rich Bond, former chairman of the Republican National Committee to the list of scumbags pulling the race card on condoleeza Rice.
"The woman oozes expertise and sincerity," said former Republican National chairman Rich Bond. "I'm glad the White House came around to allow her to say publicly what she's already told the commission privately. The old adage is, 'Get it out, get it out, get it out.' If the Democrats want to slap around an African American woman, let them try."
