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The list of the governments that have persecuted journalists The Washington Post hails those reporters who face grave danger from the Taliban and the governments of Cuba, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the U.S.
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  • retzilian

    Tin Foil Hats

    Sorry, I thought I heard my name being called.

  • Retzilian, was your last comment meant to be sarcastic?

    Jes wonderin'

  • "when will they ever learn, when...?"

    too late, is when.

    the need for democracy is obvious. but the cattle are mute, unless they are mooing for another master.

    like a dung beetle, he needs dung. so he never says "the cure for oppression is democracy", or anything else. he's part of the problem, as much as the politicians.

  • ehillesum

    The answer is quite simple. Liberals are Ameriphobes. Oh yes, you hate your country but either don't know it or, more likely, will not admit it.

    See, this is brilliant.

    Where to begin? Perhaps e=mc (squared).

  • Shorter ehillesum

    USA! USA! USA!...

  • I Don't Know, Al

    like a dung beetle, he needs dung.

    This is pretty deep.

  • baldie

    i thought my permutation more glorious, though admitedly less germain...

    Two Cannibals are eating a pirate

    one says to the other, can I have some of the booty?

  • booty, get it?

    [cough]

  • The Wurlitzer Belches On

    Our leading contestant today has a particularly ingenious explanation for the persecution of journalists that has run rampant in the last several years, during which time by every measure our international ranking for press freedom has plummeted. Wait for it... Liberals Hate America! Well, knock me over with a feather. Apparently there is smoke pouring out of the righty ticker tape machine, and babbling incoherence is all that's coming out, leaving helpless automatons everywhere writing in crayon on the rubber-room walls.

    Never mind the ruthless, coordinated campaign against every deviation from the Republican "story" of the last eight years, every bit of which was utterly false and distorted, and deserved much more criticism than it ever received. Forget about the pogroms against CBS, The New York Times, Bill Maher, Phil Donohue, Dan Rather, and even the Dixie Chicks, for chrissakes; none of that smacks of totalitarianism for those who rather prefer totalitarianism, as long as it's their kind.

    So despite the fact that America hating liberals are, as a result of the disastrous tenure of Bush and Company, a substantial majority of the country, apparently the shrinking but nonetheless blameless champions of the right declare themselves the "protectors" of America.

    Nice protection they've provided....

    Jebbie, it's time to declare a winner.

  • Oh!, Hag

    "Jebbie, it's time to declare a winner."

    -- Cocktailhag

    Yeah, I guess so.

    Link at sig

  • cocktailhag

    Jebbie, it's time to declare a winner.

    Agree with that. I'm thinking ehillesum, (unless, of course, it's me, due to cleverness--no! I won't allow gainsaying in whatever form!).

  • hah!

    Timothy, I love you're wurk two but can you please tsop talking about the rule of law and talk more about what concerns americanms like the economy and Bill Ayers trust in the police

    looser

  • ehillesum

    being poor in the US means drinking Folgers while you are surfing the net while being poor in many parts of the world means you eat a bit of grain each day; and on and on and on.

    Good lord! I think you've turned into Andrew Leonard!

  • @omooex

    Two SS guards are bending over a plundered corpse in striped pajamas. One says to the other, "Is this 14-carat gold?"

    (Surely that's trollworthy.)

  • Sorta Kidding But Not

    I can't decide if I think the conspiracy theories are funny or scary. Maybe both. I'm not ruling out the idea that Obama is bought and paid for. It would explain his mystifying turnaround on the FISA bill, it would explain his saber-rattling with Pah-Kee-Stahn, it would explain why he'd pick Hill for SoS, and this Brennan POS for CIA.

    Then again, he could be bluffing. He is a poker player, after all.

    I read his books, I really like him. He's a good writer, he has a fine mind, he's got beautiful ideas, he's tough and talented and disciplined as hell.

    So, I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I have one eye closed.

  • Left and Right in the USSA

    GG wrote:

    "The notion that Obama is some sort of aggressive or radical Leftist challenger of establishment power is and always was the by-product of fear-mongering from the Right and, to a lesser extent, the projected desires of some progressives."

    I think many readers still retain some notion that in the USSA, "the Left" and "the Right" refer to political ideologies or even moral convictions. In the spirit of turning a page on the grotesque abuses of the last eight years of partisanship, let us resist the temptation to criminalize the policy differences of the past and embrace the modern vernacular in which these terms are now consumed:

    The Left - those left out of political discourse due to the insignificance of their opinions. In Theocratic terminology, also refers to those left behind in the Rapture.

    The Right - those who by virtue of their national prominence and/or political power rule by divine right. In Theocratic terminology, also refers to those whose thoughts and deeds are Biblically righteous.

  • Oh shit! Jebbie!

    Your complaint form doesn't let me type anything. I want Glenn to discuss whether Barack Obama is a true Messiah or merely a failed one. ASAP!

  • Whoa friend baldie

    I may be an offensive lout, but I draw the line at SS at the concentration camp jokes! Generally, I seem to get the blame for starting these kinds of things, so:

    I'm Omooex, and I did not approve this message!

  • Franklymydear

    Part of what you quoted:

    "[T]he next Administration will maintain far more of this Administration's legal architecture than the intemperate rhetoric in some quarters would seem to suggest . . ."

    The President-elect is already backpedaling and it will be very interesting to watch--not only when the new administration continues many of the Great Satan's policies but how the MSM and the left tries to spin it. I can imagine:

    When the Prez realizes there really are bad guys at Gitmo and that most of us don't want them incountry, we will hear: "Well, Gitmo isn't really that bad. A bit of paint here, more fiber in the diet, and, with its Carribean climate, its really quite pleasant."

    When the Prez realizes it really is helpful to listen in on potential terrorists when they call their cousins incountry, we will hear: "The new administration has taken great steps, GREAT STEPS, to ensure that our people are only listening to real terrorists and not the pillow talk the Bush administration listened to.

    And so on.

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