more about these simple minded points - because a truly mainstream production needs simplicity - a certain purity of thought and i think we should put him in charge of the rewrites.

he has to stay away from quoting 'doctors' - when i stayed in the loony bin i never was allowed to bring up 'conditions'!

"more about these simple minded points - because a truly mainstream production needs simplicity - a certain purity of thought and i think we should put him in charge of the rewrites." -- pieceofcake

In your hack writer dreams, at least keep the facts straight. It is lwm who champions the simple minded idea that the government always stops the horrible things in the end, just like in the movies.

By the way, your name is taken from "Wag the Dog", but the producer always had a story that showed how "this is nothing" and he had overcome much worse situations in the past. So, add that to your act to be closer to the name you took.

By the way, is it your intention to drag down the intelligence level of the thread as lwm wants to do? If not, your writings sure are coincidental.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/

A lot of good information is to be found here. I am not so sure anything is "new" to many commenters here, but there is a nice summary in the latest blog post. I had missed the change in leadership of the FBI investigation team in late 2006.

He does a time-line that I find helpful in keeping some of this straight.

piece of cake is taking from my birth - it was a piece of cake to give birth to - moi - and if you found it in wag the dog you didn't understand the simple point of the movie -

So much about intelligence - HAH!

I'm amazed there are sources that specialize in mailed pornographic images of blindfolded women. Learn something new every day!

Bruce Ivins is not it, as per a Spertzel op-ed in the WSJ.

I don't touch the WSJ with a long pole, here's the dkos story

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/5/5586/57155/664/562764

(or click on my signature)

piece of cake is taking from my birth - it was a piece of cake to give birth to - moi - and if you found it in wag the dog you didn't understand the simple point of the movie -

So much about intelligence - HAH! -- pieceofcake

Look, I know you teenagers may miss the point of that movie; after all, there were more than one, and it had no chase scenes.

I think the movie "Wag the Dog" is a perfect metaphor for what we see in this situation. We see changing "stories" based on only information fed the news agencies via the feds. We see the network news following false leads on cue. We see the whole "war" fought out in the media even thought the reality of the situation is hidden.

The over riding point of the movie is that the media, and public opinion, can be manipulated in the most unbelievable of ways. It did not take a "conspiracy" to get the CIA on board to "see" the false "war", only self-interest. That is the point.

and i always thought wag the dog was a movie about the idea that a tail can wag a dog - but you are right i still have a lot to learn and thats why i am here - i am also dying to have a intelligent conversation - pick any subject - i know we probably should stay 'on anthrax'

or why things collapse - but it is lunctime in germany and it must be very dark in the homeland so we could get it one - we are probable pretty much alone on the thread and perhaps the few others could join in!

don't be a party pooper - what's about --- whats about - hey - what's about Faust - Goethes Faust we are just reading this - you know the story with the pact with the devil and all of this -

and it is very intelligent - i had to read the whole book and it is a very thick book and can you imagine there are even ticker books about this thick book and it always reminds me on my grandmother who met Gore Vidal in Ravello - thats in italy and she had read all his books and told him how wonderful (i'm sorry but i forgot what she thought was so wonderful and Gore Vidal told her he never had thought about that but it was a truly wonderful point and i know again that i am silly here but as you might know i am a BIG FAN of LWM and i thought it was not very nice of you to come up with any kind of 'condition' especially in your 'condition' and

if you don't want to answer to that - we just could leave it - as a movie is just a movie!

don't be a party pooper - what's about --- whats about - hey - what's about Faust - Goethes Faust we are just reading this - you know the story with the pact with the devil and all of this -

and it is very intelligent - i had to read the whole book and it is a very thick book and can you imagine there are even ticker books about this thick book and it always reminds me on my grandmother who met Gore Vidal in Ravello - thats in italy and she had read all his books and told him how wonderful (i'm sorry but i forgot what she thought was so wonderful and Gore Vidal told her he never had thought about that but it was a truly wonderful point and i know again that i am silly here but as you might know i am a BIG FAN of LWM and i thought it was not very nice of you to come up with any kind of 'condition' especially in your 'condition' and

if you don't want to answer to that - we just could leave it - as a movie is just a movie!