Letters to the Editor
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@Jay L
Sorry, Glenn, I just happen to be here reading this and couldn't resist replying to it.
Apparently, your editors took the same message away from your article as I did, because the subhead right above this text box says:
If that wasn't the point, then you might have strayed from the point. Which is a shame, because your real point is not only valid, but crucial.
-- Jay L
Glenn doesn't have any editor(s).
And, I don't get your crack about DeNiro.
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Edit
I accidentally left this part of the quote out of my previous post.
The leading conservative journal is caught in a far more serious scandal than the TNR/Beauchamp controversy that it helped fuel.
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I don't think Jay L
Gets the difference between a controversy and a scandal. He must be an Independent voter.
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And leave me out of this...
Or I'll have Pesci work you over with the baseball bat.
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Kitt. indulge me too?
I wish to reconcile with all...okay?
I 'd share some turnip Tikka Masala?
It's only sweet spices & tomato salsa.
I' d fresh simmer some sauce in mashed white turnip, with crown head cauliflowers. I'm not trying to be stupid. I am that quite naturally...
Good night...
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Turnip soup!
Without exaggeration, Bebop, that, to me, sounds like a great recipe.
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Kitt, Maya Kaimal...
I'll be waiting at the bottom of the driveway? We can walk up the hill in the rain with some of your friends. okay. ginger. butter. and dried fenugreek leaves, and paprika! garlic. yogurt. A Abbaye de' Leffe?
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For the terminally stupid: Scott Beauchamp CONTROVERSY
Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thomas_Beauchamp
Stephen Glass, TNR SCANDAL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass
Place your bets now.
Which one is the current NRO SCANDAL?
Oops! I gave it away.
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Clarification . .
Midnight--I guess it wasn't clear.
My post about Smith "having neither the time nor the military experience to verify what he was told" was supposed to echo Joe Klein's excuse for getting his story wrong and refusing to own up to it--I believe what he said was "I have neither the time nor the legal experience to know who is right"--covered in the previous 2 posts on this blog.
Anyway, it's doubly ironic, because, of course, Smith IS a military man and should have the experience to know when there are 4500 soldiers in the area and when there aren't!
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Unrelated but can somebody help me out?
I'm looking for the exact quote by the white house reporter that said something like:
"We didn't want to question the President because we didn't want to cause trouble at this very important time..."
Related to the invasion of Iraq. Anyone?
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Never mind I suck
Found it via search when I remembered that the description of the press conference was "disastrous."
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Surely you aren't going to claim the left wing has a monopoly on the truth?
Perhaps not.
But they don't routinely print stuff prefaced by "Here's something you won't see in the Liberal MSM" and follow it with a story that you wouldn't see in the MSM because the MSM takes a modicum of responsibility for truth and they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Google "Laurie Mylroie" if you really need a refresher in how it works.
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Kitt
Glenn doesn't have any editor(s).
I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. If, in fact, he writes his own subheads, then I'm surprised. Why would he write:
The leading conservative journal is caught in a far more serious scandal than the TNR/Beauchamp controversy that it helped fuel.
as the entire description of his piece, and then say:
The point isn't whose scandal is bigger
Glenn's a razor-sharp precision kind of guy. While the latter doesn't completely contradict the former, it does make it an odd choice for a subhead.
And, I don't get your crack about DeNiro.
Yeah, well, it was funnier in my head. You sounded all "Are you talking to me? Are YOU talking to ME?" Anyway.
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Rumsfeldiana
Thanks for the WaPo tip, bebop.
Looks like Rummy is still working for the White House. Brilliant tying together of Truman, Chavez, Islamofascism, and the threat of the Intertubes into one silly Chicken Little package.
Incidentally, if anyone is to blame for Chavez' rise, it's the US and its Venezuelan proxies and the way we threaten him every time we hear a sneeze from his direction. Stop puffing him up, and sooner or later he will fail and go away.
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BTW, Glenn...
If you haven't seen it, speaking of journalists and journalism...
From: ThinkProgress today
Gregory: Blogs are to blame for polarization.
...In February — at a similar event at the Press Club — Gregory pointed the finger at blogs for the reason that “politics and political coverage has become so polarized.” Glenn Greenwald wrote at the time:
The reality, of course, is that most media-criticizing bloggers do not want journalists to be “political advocates.” They want them to do what journalists are supposed to do — which is not…sit around with their good, trustworthy, nice-guy friends in the White House and simply “ask questions” and “get information,” but instead to scrutinize that information, treat it with doubt, investigate it before passing it along to determine whether it’s true...
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The dog that did not bark in the night..
I work on contract, which gives me long periods of time in which I am at my leisure to do as I please, but the other side of the coin is that I also have long periods when I often work 18 to 20 hour days.. Just trying to explain my sometimes long absences.
Back to my title.. I read the previous letters column (now closed to comments) and noted the posts about the fictional nature of the government's story of the events of 9/11/2001. I couldn't help but note the derision poured upon the poster that had the temerity to question the government's version of events.
My title comes from a Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze", in which the clue which leads Holmes to the solution of the mystery is a dog which did not bark in the night when it should have done so if the series of events happened as they were related to Holmes.
The job of the Secret Service is to protect the President, and when the President is considered to be under a direct threat by the SS then the President is just along for the ride.. The SS takes command and the President is hustled to safety whether he wishes to be or not. In protecting the President the watchword of the SS is prudence, they are prudent to a fault.
On the morning of 9/11/2001 the current resident was in a schoolhouse in Florida, it was an event on the published itinerary and was hence an item of public knowledge, including that of possible terrorists.
Recall that the current resident was informed by his chief of staff, Andrew Card, that the nation was under attack shortly after the second plane hit the WTC. At that time it was not known what the scope or the full nature of the attacks might be.
Prudence would dictate that the SS immediately remove the current resident from that schoolhouse and whisk him to an undisclosed location, as indeed they did with Ctheney.
But the fact of the matter is that the current resident was not removed from the Florida schoolhouse immediately, in fact he remained there some half an hour or so after the second strike on the WTC.
Why did the Secret Service dog not bark in the night?
This is the question that has been burning in my mind for some six years now, ever since I became aware of the series of events of that fateful morning.
If you cannot answer my simple question then you should perhaps reevaluate your acceptance of the government story as to the nature of the events that transpired on 9/11/2001.
Sometimes a lack of reaction is the most revealing reaction of all.