Actually, I was thinking of some equivalent to that SNL skit from when we bombed Kosovo, when the Republicans suddenly turned anti-war, featuring Jesse Helms and others carrying 'Hell No, We Won't Go' signs, and whimpering about the jack-booted thugs of the Clinton administration. Can you picture it? Want to star in it? Who would you want to play? :>

I call Newt, I call Newt!

The invasion of Iraq is looking more and more like one big homosexual panic.

What worries me is that I think you just gave the conspirators their legal defense strategy. :>

Instead of the "diminished capacity" defense, they have "diminished masculinity?"

Sure, a Bush-appointed judge might buy that.

All must read and gaze awestruck at the interview President Bush gave to Mike Allen at The Politico. It touches on virtually all of the themes that have been aired here about the disgrace of current journalism. No surprise it came courtesy of The Politico.

Virtually no substantive questions, a grotesquely chummy tone, misstatements of fact about Bush, even a headline: "Bush warns of disaster" totally unsupported by the contents of the interview that -of course- is meant to stir national security hysteria.

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The Politico interview should be framed and kept as the ultimate symbol of the Alice in Wonderland world we've been living in for seven years.

Isn't Mike Allen that sniveling little sycophant we sometimes see on MSNBC and other gasbag shows, who practically licks his lips with boyish excitement as he talks about the latest political blub-blub-blub?

Military propaganda operation & Karl Rove:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/14/201014/764/730/514899

Such brilliance.

it's Parsley, not Paisley...

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Definitely not coming to your house for dinner until THAT one's straightened out. :>

*hack hack gag*

Oh, and just one other small note, it's Parsley, not Paisley...

Thanks! I wrote that one in a hurry.

Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert!

Just kidding. Glad you liked it. I've got GOP Superfriends on the brain in a bad way.

I dare ER to define anti-Semitism and to provide a single example of it from this thread.

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That's a good start for our little spambot. Let's see what we get.

Antisemites like you are in no position to be making demands! Heh.

Obama LIKES jews

his wife might not, his rev might not, his supporters might not. YOU do not (most likely you make no distinction between groups or individuals - all are but instances of the New Soviet Man). but he likes jews. my proof? (GG insists as you know WinSmith).

"GG" should be "SS," am I right? Am I right?

[Electro Robot:] I mean I wouldn't want the people who's opinions outnumber mine 100 to 1 to feel persecuted or anything.

[Glenn:] Would that be at all like the countries with the huge armies and mountains of nuclear weapons feeling persecuted by the countries that have none?

Kill the antisemite!

Are you sure it wasn't you who spilt a bowl of sour cream and Tacos at DC's 17th Street Cafe? Take the 5th? Drink a 5th of goat milk and go to sleep.

No sir, I wasn't at that table. I was at the bar. Mwahahaha! (Guy in the tan suit, shhhhh!)

That was a fun night, despite the horrible ABC News debate that transpired.

Now, as you have taken to saying, I must "hit" the hay...

Have you been doing bongs non-stop since Wednesday? 8') Republican Superfriends?

You'd think, huh?

I'm glad you've enjoyed my rantings.

For real.

It really is disgusting what they did to Scott Ritter. For being so right, at such a wrong time, his reputation and public standing were utterly destroyed.

I remember this one episode of Bill Maher's former show Politically Incorrect, in which Ritter and Dennis Miller were members of the panel, and Miller just relentlessly mocked him - to the audience's delight, I might add.

Just another instance of the earnest, informed person being ridiculed by some ignoramus kewl kid with a "savvy" (and, not coincidentally, right-wing) view of things.

The one thing I haven’t noticed mentioned on this thread and mentioned often in past threads, is that propaganda by the Pentagon is illegal.

Absolutely correct - it is not only morally repugnant, but it is expressly illegal. Outrageously (but unsurprisingly) enough, this enormous fact is the most under-reported facet of this story.

Just file it in the same dark, neglected drawer as warrantless wiretapping, detainee abuse, politicization of the Justice Department, criminal prosecution of political foes, lawlessness of military contractors...

I think it's also important to keep in mind that this story is just one manifestation (among many) of the larger sickness of militarism that continues to grip our media and political establishment.

We cannot separate the psychology motivating these media outlets to showcase propaganda "force multipliers" from the overall psychology that got us into the Iraq War and its attendant abuses in the first place.