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The NBC News anchor is finally forced to address the NYT exposé -- on his blog. His self-defenses raise far more questions than they answer.
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  • What are you on about now, nabalzbbfr/anonymoose?

    "When Louis Farrakhan speaks, it's like when E.F. Hutton speaks...Black America listens."

    The Jeremiah Wright non-issue was in the previous thread. Do TRY to keep up will you, son?

  • Take the "sharp" scissors away from bucky1?

    He reads with dull spoons seeking whom he can eat.

    It's hard to get the image of Pedinska out of my thoughts.

    She is practicing a imitation waddle? She hugs and rocks bucky1 to sleep.

    Pedinska has a G-string on with a cloth diaper dangling out the back strap.

    Pedinska rocks cranky creeps who lash out bile and arrogance at every chance.

    Pedinska don't shine rubber high heel galoshes. Some trolls give me crotch itch.

  • Not Totally Ignored

    Although some may not consider it a "major network," The News Hour on PBS did, in fact, do a piece on the Pentagon Message Force Multipliers Illegal Propaganda Operation, last Thursday:

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june08/tvgenerals_04-24.html

  • Raw Story gets question to Perino

    Raw Story got a question on the Pentagon propaganda program to Perino at a recent gaggle. Worth a read. Perino's response predictable. The fact it takes so long to simply get a question to the WH spokesperson is so very depressing. On the other hand, the fact that it finally got asked is positive.

  • Quick Note to Quickstrategy

    You will (or should) probably ignore that outburst from bucky but might be a little puzzled about what prompted it. Just where does that kind of thing come from? Believe it or not, it is just as likely to be found on the far right fringe as it is on the left. I doubt even Codepink hates America (The U.S. Government) as much as these guys (antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com, but I'm sure a few of them have infiltrated the ranks of every respectable antiwar group around. Bucky is harmless and clueless. He just doesn't know any better. I think he may be from Gibsonton.

    From a post by Tom G. Palmer (of the Cato Institute) on Jeremy Sapienza from antiwar.com:

    Evil or Crazy Person "Smears" Self

    Sick, or What?

    Antiwar.com Senior Editor and Lewrockwell.com Columnist Jeremy Sapienza has once again given everyone an occasion to “smear” him by…quoting him. He recently headlined an essay as follows:

    A Grim Milestone -- 159,000 US Troops Remain Alive in Iraq

    Filed under: War — Jeremy Sapienza @ 2:13 pm

    Another occasion that Mr. Sapienza gave to “smear” him by quoting him was when he wrote:

    “I will stand up proudly for it. I have cheered on men attacking US troops. I will continue to cheer any defeat US troops meet.”

    If William Kristol and other neo-conservatives had tried to invent people to discredit their critics, they could not have done better than the kind of trash that antiwar.com and lewrockwell.com have dredged up. What a truly sickening display of how far someone can go off track — from “the state is an enemy of liberty” to “any enemy of my state is a friend of mine.”

    (I mention the “smear” charge because when Mr. Sapienza is quoted, his defenders at lewrockwell.com and antiwar.com insist that such quotations — with links to his expressed opinions — are “smears.”)

    UPDATE: I just had a chance to settle in to my hotel room in Portland, Oregon when I checked my email and found one insisting that Mr. Sapienza isn’t a columnist for lewrockwell.com. Sure enough, his name cannot be found on the list. I’ll respond to some of the comments later, but I did have the foresight to take a screenshot of the list of “Columnists and Commentators” before posting the column above. Here it is. And just in case Mr. Sapienza gets dropped from the masthead of the antiwar.com and sent down the memory hole, here’s a screenshot of the antiwar.com masthead taken at the same time the material above was posted. Had the neo-conservative warhawks set out to do it deliberately, it would have been an astonishing accomplishment for them to have invented personas more likely to discredit the cause of non-intervention and peace than Justin Raimondo and Jeremy Sapienza.

    http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/026869.php

    The full essay:

    October 25, 2005

    A Grim Milestone -- 159,000 US Troops Remain Alive in Iraq

    Filed under: War — Jeremy Sapienza @ 2:13 pm

    UPDATE: WHY I HATE THE TROOPS. Read before attacking or judging me.

    Well, it seems the 2000th slackjawed yokel/fresh-from-Chihuahua tomato-picker/"urban" slum-dweller baby-killer has finally bit it in Iraq. That's 2000 less future homeless junkie serial-killer rapist petty thief semi-crippled nutjobs to be subsidized/suffered by the productive people of these United States. To paraphrase the neocons: "Better to get them over there before they get us over here."

    I have been saying for a while, the only good thing about wars is that they attract the most worthless illiterate dirtbag shitsack welfare-suckers to be scraped off the bottom of society's pot and flung away like the human trash they are to be erased from the gene pool in a foreign place.

    The really fucked up part is that Fred Phelps' gaggle of nutballs from Idaho or Missouri or whatever will probably get more slack cut them than the likes of some rational-to-the-point-of-inhumanity anarchist.

    http://www.anti-state.com/blog/?p=12&PHPSESSID=1176e56ae6d10e965b4faa93e1a8e5da

    They think they are anarchists or something. Protofascism is what I call it.

  • casual_observer. Thanks. And thanks to every sane voice.

    The dang images make one goofy. Now if one comes to a dinner party....

    How can one stop being transfixed? Wondering what in Nature gaud ....

    What is that disgusting brown log doing floating in the Kool aide bowl?

    casual_observer? Please be a good host and use a pitch fork for removal.

    A bedridden reader, or a muscle man/lady, wish to see a flower bouquet.

  • The veggie tries again ...

    A good deal of crap comes out of the celery patch, but "He reads with dull spoons seeking whom he can eat" is still gibberish.

    What is the matter with the vegetable? I wager it is being told that those who take part in murder are guilty of murder.

  • Good Morning Good Celery!

    Take the "sharp" scissors away from bucky1?

    Yes, please!