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Celebrating Thanksgiving With An Iraqi Meal
Another Anti-War Fable Exposed
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Are Wives Necessary? Welcome to Hef's World
Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax on 60 Minutes
Chilling of Dissent, Courtesy of John McCain
Billions Spent (By Clinton) on Inner City Job Creation Caused Umemployment

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The Disingenuous Voice, 2
More Willy Pete, or “Those Aren’t the Nasty Charges You Are Looking For…”
Manufacturing a Gun Crisis with the Associated Press
IT'S A REVERSE-VIETNAM
Sympathetic Vibrations
...Or Not
The Lies of Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre, Part 3

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Think Progress Responds, Sort Of
The Nasty and Unfounded WP/Fallujah War Crimes Allegations
She Has Returned!
Whole Foods
Gotcha Moment: Ratner Admits Dems Hide Real Iraq Views for Political Purposes

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WashPost's Tom Shales Shows His Heart Bleeds for Dan Rather, Mary Mapes
Marxism is So Appealing Because…
I feel like I've seen this someplace before
Is Rep. Murtha Really A "Hawk" As The Media Has Been Claiming?
N.Y. Times Reports Fed Probe Of Women's Deaths From RU-486 Abortion-Drug Combo
Hasta la Vista, Common Sense
Mainstreaming Bullshit and Smearing Their Own Country
Meanwhile, At The Real Quagmire ...
ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A SECOND-RATE FILMMAKER?

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Dana Milbank and "The Facts"
Think Progress and WP
A question for those still outraged over the Plame leak...
"Kerrying" our soldiers
JOHN O'NEILL SPEAKS UP...
Scotland: More guns, more violence
Swiftee John O’Neill, on Mad Murtha’s party:
Professor Who Said "Soldiers Should Turn Guns On Superiors" Fears Firing
Did Murtha Urge Retreat From Somalia?
Murtha Refuted by a Marine
The difference between a liberal and a philanthropist
FIFO

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Questioning Their Patriotism
Academic Treachery
Murtha Could Face Ethics Probe
Andrew Sullivan, Stuck on Squeamish
Why Professor Johnny can’t spell
Is this all about impeachment?
Clift on Murtha Madness
Mission Accomplished
Finger firmly raised, Clinton senses the wind changing direction
Earth to Chris Matthews: We Have Proof Liberal War-Bashing Was Alive and Well in 2002
More WP Bullshit
Fitzgerald v Starr: Bang for the Buck
Willy Pete LIVES! (UPDATED TO SHOWCASE THE MORAL OBTUSENESS OF THE KOSSACKS)
Dana Milbank, Vicious Partisan Liar
Think Progress Misrepresents Phone Call Between Brothers as "Chemical Weapons" Evidence

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Newsweek Reporter: Murtha Is Right, While Team Bush Are Deluded "Ideologues"
DEMS WANT TO TRASH THE WAR WITHOUT GOING ON RECORD OPPOSING IT
"The Swift-Boating Of Jack Murtha"?
CBS Portrays Murtha as Victim of Unfair Attacks, Insists His “Patriotism Questioned”
What Could Be More American Than A Vote?
The War Debate Turns Even Nastier
Questioning Their Patriotism
Spinning the spin
New York Times gets Schmidt’s comments wrong
To whom it may concern
Valerie Plame; The Lie That Just Keeps On Lying
Kyoto Protocol Dead?
Journalism Versus Reality in Iraq
John Murtha and Cindy Sheehan

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Here come da McCarthyism charges from the Left.
Bush Risks Alienating GOP Over Iraq War.
Don't Get Too Excited About Today's Woodward/Plamegate Revelation
Mr. Fitzgerald Now Say He Was Wrong?
The foul odor of Vietnam wafts through the Senate
One Last Time
By Popular Request- CINDY SHEEHAN
Smacking away the hand meant to soothe
But Soft, What Stupidity Through Yonder Computer Screen Breaks? It Is Eschaton, And A Bunch Of Morons
No More War Powers For You!
Where’s The Draft
What the Silberman-Robb commission found
In the Mattter of Ronnie Earle: I Accuse
Cheney Comes Out Swinging
Op-Ed Slams Kennedy on Gun Control
Haven't Heard About Abramoff In A While?
Please Note: Iraq Is Not Vietnam
Backlash
Documents Indicate That Saddam Hid WMD’s, Had Ties With Al Qaeda
Since Liberals Are So Concerned About Secret Prisons
Media Ignore Congressman Murtha’s Long History Of Opposition to the Iraq War
Echoes of the ’60s
Murtha urged leaving Iraq 18 months ago
Blowing Smoke
MORE ON MURTHA:
Dear Rep. Murtha

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The "right" to watch TV
Howard Dean Busted: Claimed MD GOP Head Called Him "Anti-Semite"
THE MASSEY MESS: "ERROR IN JUDGMENT"
Armando’s New McCarthyism
ANTI-WAR LIARS & THOSE WHO LOVE 'EM
This Is It?
Reason matters
The French Offer to Join the Invasion of Iraq
More Sony DRM Hijinks - Now It's MediaMax
Che Chic
I Want To Have An Abortion...
Dimestore Hitler in Dreadlocks
The rise and fall (and rise again) of Willy Pete

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WELL, THE HATEMAIL HAS POURED IN
Dean Flopping At DNC
More Manly Pans for a Manly Guy
Odds, Ends
Like a good neighbor, Mary Mapes' defender is there...
THE MOVIE JARHEAD IS GETTING A LOT OF BAD PRESS
APB
Reagan Spinning

Spineless wimp DNC chairman Howard Dean

Dean Runs Away from Debating Mehlman

"DNC CHAIRMAN HOWARD DEAN REFUSES TO APPEAR ON SET WITH RNC CHAIR DURING TOMORROW 'MEET THE PRESS', SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... DEAN ONLY AGREED TO BACK-TO-BACK INTERVIEWS ON NBC WITH RIVAL... DEVELOPING..."

If this is true, what a spineless wimp you got for a DNC chairman. I mean with the american people turning against the war and the corruption of the Bush administration, he should clean Mehlman's clock.

Update:
CHICKEN LITTLE AT NBC: DEAN DUCKS APPEARANCE WITH REPUBLICAN
HOWARD THE DUCK: DEAN DODGES NBC APPEARANCE WITH REPUBLICAN
Mehlman Vs. Dean On Meet The Press
Mismatch

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Bias 101: Democratic Wins = Democratic Wins, Republican Wins = Democratic Wins
Mary Mapes v. The Truth, Part 2
Hubris
Still Stupid, After All These Months…
Smear Politics.....From Joe Klein
You All Right, Jacques?
Jimmy Massey and the Mapesified Media
Anonymous Sources Want to Try DeLay in the Press
Bush breaks his silence and fires back at his political opponents. Finally. (UPDATED)
The White House Counter Attack begins

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Lawyers, Guns, and Money
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LIES of JOE WILSON
Republicans to the intelligence establishment: "Who's your daddy NOW, bitches?"
Let's Talk About Leaks
Plug the Leak, And the Leaker
Mary Mapes: Hooked on Semantics
Trent Lott: Secret Prison Leaker Was Republican Senator
Mary Mapes Names Names
Mary Mapes: Bush National Guard Story Still "Is a Good Story"
Selective Declassification To Undermine the Bush Administration
Stupid Is As Stupid Blogs
Weapons-grade Bullshit (UPDATED & UPDATED AGAIN TO ADDRESS PANDAGON'S LEARNED TAKE)
Nets Paint Results as Slap at Bush, But in '97 Saw No Rebuke of Clinton in GOP Wins
Mapes Tells CNN's King She Had No Political Agenda, Charges Bloggers “Went Nuts”
Crow. The Other White Meat
Hey You Liberals, When Does The Draft Start?
All is Lost

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"Brennt Paris?"
Cindy Sheehan's Circle Of Friends
Curiouser and curiousier
Senators Defend "Torture"
Odds, Ends
Panthers Cheerleaders Arrested
More MoDo Magic
The "Anti-Torture" Bill Should Be Called The "Let's Have More Planes Flown Into American Buildings" Bill
Quote Of The Day
I Want To See Joe Wilson Sue Somebody

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Yet Another Reason
Oil Profits
Thank You, Harry Reid (The List Senate Democrats Don’t Like)
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What Sarbanes-Oxley has Wrought
White Out
Investigate Plame & Wilson
Irrelevant
If Al Franken Sues, Will the MSM Cover It?
Encouragement for Right-Wing Nuts
Lefty Professors Crush Dissent
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Jimmy do us all a favor - hush!
Wilson discussed Plame’s job publicly a year before Novak
Hold On To Your Seats
The Fitzgerald Fishing Trip

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Joseph Wilson: The evidence
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Media Matter disgusted by male hetrosexual behavior on O'Reilly Radio show/Fox News.
I am sure that David Brock is just jealous.
MAPES: "I WAS AN IDIOT"
Racing with the moon(bats)
Reforming Free Speech
Don't We Still Trust The CIA?
Chickenhawk
Why is anyone listening to Joe Wilson?

Journey deep into the Kingdon of Idiots

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.
...
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.
...
"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

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