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CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION
CIA leak story grows
By the time I booted up the computer this morning, so much good work had already been done on this expanding CIA leak arrest story that I think I'll just do some linking and quoting. First, Ace, who shares my cynicism, notes how the mainstream mes...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 22.04.2006 @ 18:48
LOOKING FOR HATE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
"'Dateline NBC's' Anti-NASCAR Bias"
From the April 17 Weekly Standard "Scrapbook":Concerned that Americans might be engaged in anti-Muslim stereotyping, "Dateline NBC" producers had an unusual brainstorm: Let's stereotype Americans! More specifically, the cla...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 17.04.2006 @ 13:17
THE $64,000 QUESTION IS ANSWERED
"Saddam, Al Qaeda Did Collaborate, Documents Show" (UPDATED)
Okay, settle down. It's from the New York Sun. And while these folks aren't Moonies, I'm not sure as an organization they have the right "diversity" to be taken seriously as a news outlet. But what the hell. Let's take a l...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 25.03.2006 @ 22:42
WMD Redux - The "Intelligence Summit" fallout
After watching the ABC "Nightline" report on Wednesday, which provided a sneak preview of some the Saddam tapes featured by the bi-partisan Intelligence Summit over the weekend, I found a few things to be clear: ABC, working from what som...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 20.02.2006 @ 16:14
THE LEFT HASN'T LEARNED A DAMNED THING FROM 9/11
WMD Redux - The "Intelligence Summit" fallout
After watching the ABC "Nightline" report on Wednesday that gave a sneak preview of some the Saddam tapes being featured by the bi-partisan Intelligence Summit over the weekend, a few things were clear: ABC, working from what some experts...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 20.02.2006 @ 14:05
THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT
The Decline and Fall of the American Media Empire
Among the Washington Press corps today, talk is centering nearly exclusively on the "timing" of the information flow that followed Vice President Dick Cheney's non-lethal Saturday hunting accident (the VP sprayed birdshot into one of...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 13.02.2006 @ 19:07
Identity Politics, Free Speech, and the Future of worldwide Liberalism, 2: a follow-up
From Islam Online:Danish Muslim leaders warned on Saturday, February 4, of grave consequences if copies of the Noble Qur’an were burnt in a rally planned by Danish extremists to protest Muslim anger over cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). ...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 4.02.2006 @ 16:05
A BAD DAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEFT
BeKos Kerry Says So
Massachusetts Senator and failed Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, writing on Daily Kos: There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television end...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 21.01.2006 @ 16:32
Problematizing the NSA
From the NYT "News of Surveillance Is Awkward for Agency":At a news conference at the White House on Monday, General Hayden also emphasized that the program's operations had "intense oversight" by the agency's general coun...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 22.12.2005 @ 13:18
Likely scenes from my first holiday party of the season (which is where I'll be for the next several hours)
Jeff's progressive friend #1: "I don't know how you can even begin to defend this outrageous affront to our civil liberties, Jeff. It shocks me -- really shocks me! -- that you, of all people, have no problem with Bushco ...
Comment Posted By protein wisdom On 17.12.2005 @ 16:35
