Kingdom of Idiots: 2005

I was in one of the deeper enclaves of the Kingdom of Idiots.

One could say I am nitpicking. But I really do not like 60 minutes, anything that does not fit their storyline ends up on the cutting room floor.

Here is my exchange with Count highhopes
The Outing of Valerie Plame
I love how they criticized Novak for naming the CIA front company Valerie Plame used.
However they left out the part where Mr. Novak states that was the company she said she worked for when she donated to the Al Gore campaign.

Just a inconvenient fact to seeBS.
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Heir to the Throne:
That's an odd thing to bring up. It means something to you? Libby's lawyer, Joseph A. Tate, is a well-known, rather large contributor to the Democratic party and its candidates. What do you make of that? Is that also an "inconvenient fact?" It's difficult to see what you are getting at.
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seeBS/60 minutes gave the impression that Mr. Novak/The White House named the CIA front company Valerie Plame to get back at her.

Leaving out the part where Mr. Novak states that was the company she said she worked for when she donated to the Al Gore campaign does not help give that impression.
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Heir to the Throne:
I don't know what Tom Delay's lawyer has to do with the Plame case. Nothing I would suppose. Why do you ask?

I'm still puzzled why you think Valerie Plame making a contribution to a Democratic candidate is an "inconvenient fact."

Your understanding is that the 60 Minutes producers and editors purposely left out this "inconvenient fact" in an effort to falsely leave the impression Novak was trying to "get back" at Valerie Plame? Who could come to this impression? I don't understand. Why would Novak be trying to "get back" at Valerie Plame? Are you certain you aren't the only person that got this impression? I did not. It would never occurred to me that Novak has any reason to "get back" at Valerie Plame. What did she do to him?

As far as I can see, Novak outed the CIA agent and then for good measure he outed a CIA dummy corporation used by agents for covert purposes. I think we can both agree he did exactly those things. You say the addition of pointing out that Plame made a contribution to a Democratic candidate is a significant "inconvenient fact" that somehow changes these basic facts? I don't see how. I don't understand your reasoning. I don't understand how you got the impression that Novak has a reason to "get back" at Valerie Plame. I don't see how you came to the conclusion that 60 Minutes' omission of a campaign contribution forced this false impression upon you.
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You mentioned Libby's lawyer is a democrat. My mention of Delay's lawyer being a democrat was to illustrate that your statement of Libby's lawyer being a democrat is meaningless.

It is not about the campaign contribution. It is about 60 minutes editing of Mr. Novak's statement as to why he mentioned her CIA front company. They make it appear that he just said Valerie Plame worked for this company which is a CIA front company instead of she donated to Al Gore and listed them as her employer.
That is the inconvenient fact.
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"In recent years, she told people she worked at an energy consulting firm called “Brewster-Jennings & Associates.”

Robert Novak, the columnist who first printed her name, revealed that, too. “And she listed herself as an employee of Brewster-Jennings & Associates. There is no such firm, I'm convinced,” Novak said on CNN."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/28/60minutes/main994753.shtml

Here is the full quote
The name of the CIA front company was broadcast yesterday by Novak, the syndicated journalist who originally identified Plame. Novak, highlighting Wilson's ties to Democrats, said on CNN that Wilson's "wife, the CIA employee, gave $1,000 to Gore and she listed herself as an employee of Brewster-Jennings & Associates."

"There is no such firm, I'm convinced," he continued. "CIA people are not supposed to list themselves with fictitious firms if they're under a deep cover -- they're supposed to be real firms, or so I'm told. Sort of adds to the little mystery."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40012-2003Oct3?language=printer

Monday, October 31, 2005

Links of the Day

The Myth Of Dragging Wilson's Wife Into The Niger Case
THE BIG LOSER in the Libby affair
McCain’s Soft Spot in South Carolina
So Much for that "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" Stuff
Campbell Brown’s Puff Piece On Joe Wilson
Tony Snow Exposes Bill Maher As Clueless Moron

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Links of the Day

Early Thoughts On Libby Indictment, Fitzgerald
Andrew Sullivan Outraged
Scooter Libby evidently lied
Question Of The Day
PlameGate - Libby Lies About Lying
The Libby Indictment - a few preliminary thoughts
Our 27 Months of Hell Brought to Us By Lyin’ Joe Wilson

Friday, October 28, 2005

Links of the Day

Good Night, Good Luck and Good Riddance
Better To Be Wrong Than Gutless
CLINTON SCANDAL STATS
Battle Royale: "Partisan" vs. "Propagandist"
The Incredibles
Gray Lady Likes A Quagmire When The UN Is In Charge
Clooney on CBS: Just "A Couple" of Soviet Spies in 1950's Government
"Possible Civil Suit Looms As Threat in CIA-Leak Case"
Another DeLay Scandal?
How Covert Was Valerie Plame? (cont.)
CPL. JEFFREY B. STARR: WHAT THE NYTIMES LEFT OUT
Explaining Liberals to Our Conservative Readers

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Links of the Day

Milbank/Pincus write wrong
Moore Hypocrites Than True Believers?
Left Wing Heroes
The White House Cabal?
Baby Steps Towards The Truth
A WaPo Whopper Re Wilson?

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Duchess Lynn Cullen calls for impeachment of George W. Bush

Yesterday, a local talkshow host (Duchess in the Kingdom of Idiots) Lynn Cullen was complaining about the Wall Street Journal "doublestandard" on perjury. She also said that even if Fitzgerald found no wrongdoing, we should impeach George W. Bush based on what she read (i.e. New York Times) and her "critical thinking".

I sent her the following email:
"From the WSJ editorial page
"Let's stipulate that the law is the law, and if Bush
Administration officials lied to a grand jury in the
clear and obvious way that Bill Clinton did, they
should be prosecuted."

That is why you did not read it.

It is nice to know you now see perjury as a crime.
However only if it is a republican.

I also love you calling for the impeachment of George
W. Bush based on your "critical thinking" about the
"lies" for the war with Iraq. You claimed that even if
Fitzgerald found no wrongdoing George W. Bush should
still be impeached because you know the administration
is guilty.

Let me use the same standard with Bill Clinton. Based
on my "critical thinking" even if Star found no
wrongdoing, Bill Clinton should still be impeached for
File/China Gate because I know the administration is
guilty..

And no I do not accept your B.S. Clinton is not the
president dodge."

The end comment is because when Lynn is shown how the Clinton Administration
did the same or worst as the Bush Administration, she screams out "Clinton is not the
president anymore". That and "Can't you republicans get over Clinton".

Links of the Day

A Memo To Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison: Please Shut Up
Leonard Pitts on Moral Authority
DNC Chair Howard Dean reaches across the aisle...
Cindy Sheehan To Tie Herself To White House Fence
4 to go and Cindy can’t wait
Howard Dean: Liar
2006: A Race Odyssey

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Links of the Day

"WE HAVE TO EXTERMINATE WHITE PEOPLE"
Why Is This Man Smiling?
AP: DeLay’s Mugshot Smile Hurts Democrat Chances in 2006
Oiling up the Handcuffs? II
“Turn To The Left, Please”
How Covert Was Valerie Plame?
KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON MIKE WALLACE
DeLay’s Lawyer Links Judge To MoveOn.org
DeLay Blasts Ronnie Earle
Significant Relationship between Ronnie Earle & Soros!
Fake Menstrual Blood Simple: Tarranto Rips Exciteable Andy Over Menses-Monomania

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Links of the Day

Fair Warning
Hypocrisy: Schumer Demands President’s Conversations with Rove, But No Talk About His Own Leak
Democratic Senators Who Live In Glass Houses..
Does McCain really think he's going to win the GOP nomination by enlisting the media in calling Republicans who disagree with his policies bigots?
Joe Wilson Rooting America To Fail In Iraq
Didn't Get The Memo (Or Didn't Want To)
Christians With Big Families? Disgusting!
Right On Cue: The Excitable One Gets, Well, Excited
There Was No Crime In The Plame Case
I hope Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
Except for the fact that I'm pro Life
Russert Returns: Did Libby Hear About Plame From Tim?
The Best Mug Shot I Have Ever Seen
The Death of Mother Russia
My new best friend…
Beware Your Wish

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Links of the Week

ABC/AP Whitewashes Toledo Riot
Politically correct -- and totally false -- headline
Kerry Takes On The Governator Over Union Issues
Broussard tries to remove critic
AP Report on DeLay vs. Earle Forgets Clinton Attacks on Starr
Judith's Big Adventure
The White House, the CIA, and the Wilsons
Chain Chain Chain... Cheney Fools
Delay Turned Down Misdemeanor Plea Bargain
DeLay Judge A Far-Left Activist
DeLay Moves to Dismiss Second Indictment
Yack Thompson
How many swings does he get?
NOW and never
Someone Give Bill Kristol a Pill
Anything But the Facts
Another Motion to Dismiss
JACOB WEISBERG TELLS DEMOCRATS to stop enjoying the Plame case:
Why Did Joe Lie?
Fox Slammed For Family-Unfriendly Shows
Myths About Gun Control
More Rumors
AP No Longer Finds Sheehan Newsworthy-- When She Criticizes Hillary

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Links of the Day

Tracking Joe Wilson
… And Yes, I’m Questioning His Patriotism
Justice goes unserved for a Texas girl
CBS Public Eye: Mike Wallace "Creates A Perception Problem" At Anti-Gun Fundraiser
Sweet 16. . . FROM HELL.
CYBERCRACKDOWN
The Nation: "Accuracy Is For Peasants"
DeLay Fights Back

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Links of the Day

The Elitism of Arlen Specter
Bill Keller’s excellent NY Times adventure
Telefund, Checkbook Liberalism, and the Exploitation of the Worker
Sexing the Sharia
Is It Possible That Kerry Would Ever Have To Testify About His Vietnam Days?
What's Up With Wallace?
Torture and Tyranny: The Real Che
Delay’s Counter-Offensive Continues
Peter Paul and Hillary
Davis-Bacon Confidential!
Twelve questions for Mr. Earle
What a fine DA or Hack Ronnie Earle is

Monday, October 10, 2005

Links of the Day

CBS News and Castro's Cuba
WHITEWASHING CHUCKAQUIDDICK
Digital Brownshirts Ho!
Lamest Indictment Ever?
Filmmaker Sues John Kerry For Not Allowing Truth Movie to Air
Did Earle Break The Same Campaign Finance Law?
Media Act as Defense Attorney for Democrats
AP Report Criticizes Cheney For “Throwing Stones”
Berger the 'Sock Stuffer' Called as Character Witness for Clinton

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Links of the Day

Seattle Closes Strip Clubs; Gay Bathouses, Animal Sex Farms to Remain Open
GEORGE WILL makes an important point on why the Bush Administration's "trust me" argument is falling flat
The Ronnie Earle Circus
Ronnie Earle - The "Keystone Kop" Prosecutor
"Prosecutor reveals third grand jury had refused DeLay indictment"
What is Al Gore talking about?
The Humiliation of Ronnie Earle Continues
The Dumbest Political Story of the Day

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Links of the Day

Cohen To Democrats: Think Or Shaddap
The Shot Not Heard Around the Bayou
The Whole Story
CBS Evening News Never Touched Durbin, But Leads with Bennett
CHUCKAQUIDDICK: LOOK WHO'S PAYING THE TAB
Schumer's Plumbers
Hillary Lawyers Trying To Suppress Potentially Embarrassing Report

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Links of the Day

Quote of the Day
What a joke.
60 Minutes: Pimp My Child!
Shorter Garance Franke-Ruta: Libs, Just Make Stuff Up!
Delay Moves to Dismiss Charge

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Links of the Day

Tom's Troubles
ABP Calls on the Democrat Party to Save the Republican Party
When "conservatives" attack
The Last Nerve: Sullivan Says You're All Nazis
Ronnie Earle: Partisan Hack
What's It All About?
"Commander in Chief": Hillary's Infomercial
Ends, means, the "progressive" left, and language

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Monday, September 26, 2005

Aaron Broussard confronted on B.S. story claims "nitpicking"

It is nitpicking when you point out that his story has holes you could drive a Mac truck through.
An example of the left's Clinton Standard.
He does not matter that He lied. His heart is in the right place.
Correcting the facts and missing the truth
Broussard's Holy Grail Moment
Russert lets Broussard off the hook
Russert Lets Jefferson Parish President off the Hook…Again
A Backlash for Correcting the Record?
Aaron Broussard responds

Links of the Day

A Shocking Moment of Candor
Why "any woman won’t do" on the Supreme Court
Memo to DSCC Staffers
Hillary and the Giant Orange in the Octagon
It's Time to Investigate the Press
'Independent' Katrina Expert has Clinton Pedigree
Media Whores and their Creators
Evil Erin (Brockovich) to Receive Harvard Award
Geraldo Gets His Due-NYT Caught Red Handed
NYT's Public Editor Continues Being a Dick
If Iraq is like Vietnam, how come the rallies keep getting smaller?

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Links of the Day

"Novice" Protestor Just Happens To Be ANSWER Member And Anti-War Organizer Since the 1970's
9th Circus : Male Temper Tantrums=Sex Discrimination & A "Reasonable Woman" Test
Mr. Cronkite's Lie Will Never Die
Pro-Choice
Anatomy of an anti-war puff piece

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Links of the Day

Dear God, Will Someone Please Impeach Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
McCain Clueless on Impact of McCain/Feingold
Another Prime Time Crapstorm On the Way
quote of the day
Schumer Staffers Get Free Vacation For Privacy Violation
The rules of the game

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Links of the Day

MSM Bitchslapped Again as Times Starts Mass Firings
Global Warming on Mars
Specter Proposes Ideolgical Quota System For SCOTUS Nominee
Memo to Sen. Kerry
Testifying before Congress: "A Downpayment on Freedom of Speech"
crappy wine
More On the Levee Failure
Sheehapalooza: Stuck on Stupid
SOME PROGRESS ON OIL:
Speaking of Special Interests
Oliver Willis: Stuck On Stupid

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Links of the Day

Uncharted Territory, Once Again
David Brock comes after me.
Under Pressure From Blogs, MSNBC Kinda-Sorta Corrects An Error
FEC Fires First Shot at 527s, and Picks The Club for Growth
Reid To Senate: Partisanship Wins Over Substance
Jeff Jarvis should stop the coverup - NOW!
Is Al Queda having recruiting problems?
In her ceaseless effort to gain a 16th minute
FEC Begins Assault on Free Speech (Thanks McCain-Feingold - and President Bush)

Monday, September 19, 2005

Links of the Day

We Can Get Transcripts Now, E.J.!
Give Us the Memos!
Is it Hugh or is it Sid?
Rove Reportedly Calls Cindy Sheehan A "Clown" - He Should've Said "Liar" Too

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Links of the Day

ROVE-GALLOWAY CONNECTION REVEALED
Hollywood Hypocrisy
This business we call show
DRIVING MISS ARIANNA

Friday, September 16, 2005

Links of the Day

Day 3: The Democrats Read Their Reviews
Paul Krugman Prettifies His Own History of Misstatements
Democrats Revel in Presidential Poop Scandal
Confirmation Analysis: A Boomerang Borking
"As incompetent as they are disingenuous"
Drudge Does the Unthinkable AGAIN

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Links of the day

Bandwidth Costs Big Money: Excitable Andy Makes His Play For The Kos-cash
THIS IS SURELY THE DUMBEST STATEMENT OF THE WEEK
Go Hillary! Get that commission formed!
Senator Charles Schumer Forgets the Ginsburg Standard
Good Little Chucky, Here's Your Bone
I suppose I should be flattered

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Links of the Day

Katrina Coverage, Stage 2: Competing Narratives Emerge
Williams: The Gloves Are Off
Why haven’t we heard about "failure" in Mississippi?
Another Prediction
Who Pays the Bill For the Bill of Rights?
Feds Responded to Katrina in Record-Breaking Time
Girls Gone Stupid: Video of Landrieu's Retarded Interview
Venezuela: Echoes of Zimbabwe
Expanding the limits of the barf factor on "Spaceship Earth"
What is George Thinking?

Sunday, September 11, 2005

F*ck the Mainstream Media

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, CHIMPY! BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!
Kerry-supporting, anti-war “conservative” Andrew Sullivan (who, let’s face it, he’s a hirsute Josh Marshall with a nicer apartment and a bear fetish)
If Fred Phelps started taking pictures of AIDS victims to try to show people the price of being gay, Sullivan would be throwing a shit-fit of epic proportions. But apparently using the innocent victims of a hurricane is the best way of being a BRAVE TRUTH TELLER!
Oh. And that nobody was calling for photos of those bodies falling from the towers once they hit the ground? Skip that. Muddies the argument.

THE PRESS WANTS TO SHOW BODIES from Katrina.

THE PRESS WANTS TO SHOW BODIES from Katrina. It didn't want to show bodies, or jumpers, on 9/11, for fear that doing so would inflame the public.

I can only conclude that this time around, the press thinks it's a good thing to inflame the public. What could the difference be?

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&amp;Uc=14ewb3ap.b147fdut&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1
don't know her name, but she works for MSNBC. My apologies for my wordage, but this wench didn't know what the hell was going on. She made up 75% of what she was saying and exaggerated about 95% of everything that she did know. The message: do you want to be a reporter? All you need to do is have a pretty face and buy a Thesaurus!

Links of the Week

Blanco Paralyzed by Fear
USS Bataan: the dog that didn’t bark?
Tom Ridge’s Duct Tape
Nagin blames Blanco for needless deaths
Quote Of The Day #2: Journalists Who Are Long On Opinions And Short On Knowledge...
What The MSM Isn't Telling You About The Feds' Response To Katrina
Snopes Discovers “Fake But Accurate”
My hunch of the night
Kanye West Speaks
FEMA Response Not The Issue
Kinsley on Katrina: Not Bush’s Fault
My Perimeter Has Been Breached
THE DEMOCRATS' KATRINA PROFITEER
McCain Violates His Own Silly Law
The Ultimate Airbrush
The Paypal Fiasco: In Summary
Deja Spew
Katrina Stuff
Lest We Forget The Role Of The Media
New York Times Prints False Story About Geraldo Rivera
The Disaster effort: How do we grade it now?
More Katrina Thoughts
Specter again floats the notion that Roe is a "superprecedent"
Calm Down And Let’s Get This Right
Don’t Just Blame The Feds
The Kingfish is Dead
HUFFPO EMERGENCY BUSH BASH BLOG APPLICATION FOR THE VICTIMS OF ALL DISASTERS EVERYWHERE!
CNN's Soledad O'Brien given the verbal smackdown by NOLA resident
Hurricane Katrina: The ‘K’ stands for ‘Klan’
More, from the IMAGE IS EVERTHING files (updated to note Miss Alli's STIFLING OF DISSENT!
Always More Government. Always.
We Failed You? Try Again.

Monday, September 05, 2005

Links of the Week - hurricane Katrina edition

America’s Tsunami?
The Future, as I Remember It
New Orleans is Gone
Where Was Supernanny This Week?
Katrina’s aftermath blogging
Gouging
Let the Blame Game commence
Dear Pandagon: FOAD
The perils of premature pontification
Politicization of the Katrina Disaster
Burying The Lede
I've had it with people blaming this crisis on Bush, so here's a documented list of state and local failures
More on the National Guard response
Louisana: No, we’ll handle it ...
Democrats are dangerous
SUPPOSE
ONLY TAX MONEY WANTED
A New Low for the MSM?
BLACKS WANT MONEY THEY CAN CONTROL, NOT MONEY FROM THE RED CROSS THAT WHITEY CONTROLS
NEW ORLEANS STEALS OUR DONATIONS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR NOSES
THE FULMINATER
CYA is a Big Job in a Town With as Many Asses as New Orleans
Poll: Americans blame poor government response to Katrina at all levels

Links of the Week

That's Torn It
Charles Murray on group differences
Sheehan: Gold Star moms are "Brainwashed murder and mayhem moms"
The Anti-War Left's ""We Support the Use of U.S. Military Force" Contract
What The Hell Is In The Water?
Bolton: stiring up trouble or doing his job?
Camp Casey Diary From A CQ Reader
More Dots Missing From The Omission Commission
Saint Cindy Slams Mothers Of Lost Sons Who Support The War
Chavez To Complain To UN About American Free Speech
Department Of Justice Focusing On Porn Over Illegal Immigration, Corruption
Three More Remember ID'ing Mohammad Atta
US Has Three Times The Oil of Saudi Arabia, Locked In Shale
THIS IS GOOD:
Saddam/Sept. 11 Link Ignored By 9/11 Commission
9/11 Commission Suppressed Evidence of Links Between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein
From the Belly of the Beast
Able Danger: Hearing Will Be Public
His Gun Control Was Good Enough, If Not Ideal
Wal-Mart Employees Finding Ways to Unionize

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Links of the Week

Dafydd: Jamie Gorelick's Other Job
Un-Pussifying The Western Male
9/11 Updates: Able Danger And A New Memo
You Will Respect My (Moral) Authority!
A Mighty Wind
Not all books are good.
The N.Y. Times' 9-11 scam
I’m so glad Jonah wrote this!
GORELICK SUCK-UPS AND ABLE DANGER
Action, Meet Consequences
Comparing Apples, Oranges and Abortion Pills
Correspondence… Letter to Mark Steyn
Excerpt Of The Day: Cindy Sealed The Deal. I'm Now A Republican...
Patrick Sheehan Speaks; Cindy Sheehan Goes Home for Now
A variation on the chickenhawk theme
Able Danger Fox Trot II: What Was Said In October 2003?
'Al-Qaeda Brought The Matches'
BADMOUTHING THE ECONOMY
I thought I smelled something a while ago...
Turn About is Fair Play
The Gorelick Wall Encompassed Defense, CIA, And State
Rich 'Swiftboats' Himself Into Irrelevance

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