And on to the White House! HURAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
If we can stand our ground in Wisconsin and Iowa, or maybe pick up Colorado . . . We are going to win this election, folks. Our sisters and brothers are in the trenches in Florida. Volunteers from all over the country are down there right now Getting Out the Vote. Jay Bookman, columnist in The Atlanta Constitution, calls 300 electoral votes for Kerry. Dave Boyles and I have a hundred-dollar bet riding on the outcome now.
Will the cool guy win again? (No not me, Kerry—though I’m a lot cooler than Dave.)
Business Week editor has knack for predicting presidential winners based on “cool”
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041029_4248_db009.htm
The Urban Farm Report endorses Don McDaniel
If you live in district 97, Western Gwinnett, Duluth, I recommend voting for Don McDaniel. He worked for Howard Dean here, founding member of Georgia for Democracy. He supports Chattahoochee River Keeper and Sierra Club.
http://electdonmcdaniel.com/about.php
Friday, October 29, 2004
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Richard Avedon, 1923-2004
The great American portrait photographer, Richard Avedon, left us an incredible, unfinished portfolio called “Democracy 2004.” It’s in this week’s New Yorker and it knocks me out.
David Boyles
Dave pulls up in what he calls his “Thunder chicken,” a cool black 1996 Thunderbird. The bumper stickers announce, “Defeat Kerry and Vietnam Veterans will get the parade they never had.” And something like, “US Marine Terrorist License,” which looks like a hunting or fishing license and carries the ID number, 091101. Big ‘Nam Vets for Bush bumper stickers. Dave called me from the road and I invited him to rest here on his trip back to Florida from his hometown in Ohio.
Dave went to Viet Nam when I started going to Broward Community College. He spent two years in the Marines, six months in ‘Nam. He told me the pack he grunted weighed about a hundred and twenty pounds. I told him about Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” One-twenty is on the extreme heavy side, if I recall from O’Brien’s wonderful story. He must have been packing a lot of heat. Dave was one of my two main friends approximately between our ages of ten and sixteen, the years leading into high school.
As we were leaving for breakfast, I noticed a four-inch, round circle sticker with the W logo done in American-flag chic affixed to one of our outdoor garage lights. When we returned I noticed another on my mailbox, to complement our Kerry yard sign. I told Dave I was not amused and he should remove his littering graffiti at once. He did.
When he left to hit the road again, I noticed another sticker on the circuit-breaker box in the garage. Will probably find more.
Vote Bush or I’ll kill you, boy's ultimatum to girl
Thanks to Bexx for the link.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pscrewdriver28oct28,0,7776269.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
David Boyles
Dave pulls up in what he calls his “Thunder chicken,” a cool black 1996 Thunderbird. The bumper stickers announce, “Defeat Kerry and Vietnam Veterans will get the parade they never had.” And something like, “US Marine Terrorist License,” which looks like a hunting or fishing license and carries the ID number, 091101. Big ‘Nam Vets for Bush bumper stickers. Dave called me from the road and I invited him to rest here on his trip back to Florida from his hometown in Ohio.
Dave went to Viet Nam when I started going to Broward Community College. He spent two years in the Marines, six months in ‘Nam. He told me the pack he grunted weighed about a hundred and twenty pounds. I told him about Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” One-twenty is on the extreme heavy side, if I recall from O’Brien’s wonderful story. He must have been packing a lot of heat. Dave was one of my two main friends approximately between our ages of ten and sixteen, the years leading into high school.
As we were leaving for breakfast, I noticed a four-inch, round circle sticker with the W logo done in American-flag chic affixed to one of our outdoor garage lights. When we returned I noticed another on my mailbox, to complement our Kerry yard sign. I told Dave I was not amused and he should remove his littering graffiti at once. He did.
When he left to hit the road again, I noticed another sticker on the circuit-breaker box in the garage. Will probably find more.
Vote Bush or I’ll kill you, boy's ultimatum to girl
Thanks to Bexx for the link.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pscrewdriver28oct28,0,7776269.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Palast uncovers Republican stink in Florida
Greg Palast is a world-class patriot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
BBC Television News On-Line
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Greg Palast, reporting
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
(Watch it tonight at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm begining at 5.30pm EST, available for 24 hours.)
Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".
It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot.
---Mass challenges---
They may then only vote "provisionally" after signing an affidavit attesting to their legal voting status.
Mass challenges have never occurred in Florida. Indeed, says Mr Sancho, not one challenge has been made to a voter "in the 16 years I've been supervisor of elections."
"Quite frankly, this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting."
Sancho calls it "intimidation." And it may be illegal.
In Washington, well-known civil rights attorney, Ralph Neas, noted that US federal law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, even if there is a basis for the challenge, if race is a factor in targeting the voters.
The list of Jacksonville voters covers an area with a majority of black residents.
When asked by Newsnight for an explanation of the list, Republican spokespersons claim the list merely records returned mail from either fundraising solicitations or returned letters sent to newly registered voters to verify their addresses for purposes of mailing campaign literature.
Republican state campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher stated the list was not put together "in order to create" a challenge list, but refused to say it would not be used in that manner.
Rather, she did acknowledge that the party's poll workers will be instructed to challenge voters, "Where it's stated in the law."
There was no explanation as to why such clerical matters would be sent to top officials of the Bush campaign in Florida and Washington.
---Private detective---
In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows.
The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services.
On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats.
Greg Palast reporting. The film will be broadcast by Newsnight tonight, Tuesday, 26 October, 2004 at 2230 BST (6:30pm New York time).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
BBC Television News On-Line
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Greg Palast, reporting
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
(Watch it tonight at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm begining at 5.30pm EST, available for 24 hours.)
Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".
It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot.
---Mass challenges---
They may then only vote "provisionally" after signing an affidavit attesting to their legal voting status.
Mass challenges have never occurred in Florida. Indeed, says Mr Sancho, not one challenge has been made to a voter "in the 16 years I've been supervisor of elections."
"Quite frankly, this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting."
Sancho calls it "intimidation." And it may be illegal.
In Washington, well-known civil rights attorney, Ralph Neas, noted that US federal law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, even if there is a basis for the challenge, if race is a factor in targeting the voters.
The list of Jacksonville voters covers an area with a majority of black residents.
When asked by Newsnight for an explanation of the list, Republican spokespersons claim the list merely records returned mail from either fundraising solicitations or returned letters sent to newly registered voters to verify their addresses for purposes of mailing campaign literature.
Republican state campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher stated the list was not put together "in order to create" a challenge list, but refused to say it would not be used in that manner.
Rather, she did acknowledge that the party's poll workers will be instructed to challenge voters, "Where it's stated in the law."
There was no explanation as to why such clerical matters would be sent to top officials of the Bush campaign in Florida and Washington.
---Private detective---
In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows.
The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services.
On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats.
Greg Palast reporting. The film will be broadcast by Newsnight tonight, Tuesday, 26 October, 2004 at 2230 BST (6:30pm New York time).
Didn't tell you I'd take you to Florida, said I was going to Tampa with you
Old joke but new twist. The only surefire way to fight those who might tampa with the tally is swamp 'em with numbers.
How about 900,000 doors knocked on?
That's the latest number posted by the League of Conservation Voters.
A note from the League of Conservation Voters. If you live around Atlanta and want to go, William Perry [williamperry@mindspring.com]. If you live somewhere else, http://www.envirovictory.org/
These people are for real.
From William Perry:
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all those that went to Orlando this weekend -- WHAT A GREAT TRIP!!
As mentioned, and due to popular demand, we are trying to make arrangements to send another group down this weekend. For planning purposes, if you would like to go back, please let me know:
1) when can you go and how long can you stay, from what day to what day?
2) if we can not get a bus or van, would you be willing to drive?
if you'll drive, do you have room for anyone else?
if you'll drive, would you want to caravan with others?
if you can't drive, would you be willing to carpool with someone else?
3) if we can rent vans, would you be willing to drive one (for those over 25)?
Details on housing, etc are still coming together, I'll share that info as I get it.
Thanks,William
How about 900,000 doors knocked on?
That's the latest number posted by the League of Conservation Voters.
A note from the League of Conservation Voters. If you live around Atlanta and want to go, William Perry [williamperry@mindspring.com]. If you live somewhere else, http://www.envirovictory.org/
These people are for real.
From William Perry:
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all those that went to Orlando this weekend -- WHAT A GREAT TRIP!!
As mentioned, and due to popular demand, we are trying to make arrangements to send another group down this weekend. For planning purposes, if you would like to go back, please let me know:
1) when can you go and how long can you stay, from what day to what day?
2) if we can not get a bus or van, would you be willing to drive?
if you'll drive, do you have room for anyone else?
if you'll drive, would you want to caravan with others?
if you can't drive, would you be willing to carpool with someone else?
3) if we can rent vans, would you be willing to drive one (for those over 25)?
Details on housing, etc are still coming together, I'll share that info as I get it.
Thanks,William
Three quick questions
Who is Nader's running mate again?
Where is John Ashcroft?
How is Donald Fumblesfeld?
Where is John Ashcroft?
How is Donald Fumblesfeld?
Turning up the electricity in The Magic Kingdom
It's ELECTRIC down there. After a weekend of knocking on doors in Orlando, the media are reporting grassroots action all over the state. I got goose bumps when I saw the Kerry office on the news in Brandon, Florida, a town I have visited hundreds of times to see friends and family. A town where an old friend I love lives; fellow-progressive, turned ultra-conservative, turned Bush fundraiser. We were each other’s best men in our weddings. To Brandon I say, may the best man win.
I’m struck by how easy it was to walk through neighborhoods, knock on doors, and find so many voters willing to speak with me. My recall is a mental blur, after hours of discussing many issues with forty or fifty people, maybe more. As I settle back in at home I review snapshots in time (took some real pictures and I’ll see if my “Hello” is working so I can post them.): The Greek, no-nonsense immigrant who invited me in to see some emails. Having recently visited Germany, the man tells me public support for Kerry swells throughout Europe.
“What issue is most important to you, sir?” I asked. “Bush is a moron.” The Cuban couple, husband leans strong Kerry, wife slight lean to Bush, “but I don’t know the politics that much.” The three of us had a nice long conversation. She knows the politics a bit better now. The Department of Defense worker, “I work for DOD, and so does my wife. Definitely Bush. My wife? Sure you can talk with her but . . . “ No thanks, you know what side your bread is buttered on.
The feelings, the perceptions, yard signs for Bush (usually two, come on, two signs in a 50’ front yard?) Yard signs for Kerry. Lot of Martinez/Senate signs, no Castor’s but I understand she’s pulling even with the Republican. Liberals, with their studied resolve to make a change, neocons with anger, fear, and belligerence in their eyes.
Now I know why they call them battleground states.
I’m struck by how easy it was to walk through neighborhoods, knock on doors, and find so many voters willing to speak with me. My recall is a mental blur, after hours of discussing many issues with forty or fifty people, maybe more. As I settle back in at home I review snapshots in time (took some real pictures and I’ll see if my “Hello” is working so I can post them.): The Greek, no-nonsense immigrant who invited me in to see some emails. Having recently visited Germany, the man tells me public support for Kerry swells throughout Europe.
“What issue is most important to you, sir?” I asked. “Bush is a moron.” The Cuban couple, husband leans strong Kerry, wife slight lean to Bush, “but I don’t know the politics that much.” The three of us had a nice long conversation. She knows the politics a bit better now. The Department of Defense worker, “I work for DOD, and so does my wife. Definitely Bush. My wife? Sure you can talk with her but . . . “ No thanks, you know what side your bread is buttered on.
The feelings, the perceptions, yard signs for Bush (usually two, come on, two signs in a 50’ front yard?) Yard signs for Kerry. Lot of Martinez/Senate signs, no Castor’s but I understand she’s pulling even with the Republican. Liberals, with their studied resolve to make a change, neocons with anger, fear, and belligerence in their eyes.
Now I know why they call them battleground states.
Monday, October 25, 2004
Fishing for Florida votes, caught a bunch
Mary and I returned early this morning from Orlando, canvassing for Kerry with the League of Conservation Voters. Volunteers from all over the country knocked on 50,000 doors in key Central Florida counties in one weekend! Just one environmental organization! Many other groups are down there, all over the state in a full-tilt boogie for the week leading up to the election.
What is happening is electric, incredible, and we definitely changed some minds. All it took last time was five-hundred votes. If the volunteers on just our two busloads from Athens and Atlanta snagged one each, that makes about a hundred votes. Oh, and I have a feeling we did better.
Interested in helping out? www.envirovictory.org/GA or envirovictoryfl@lcv.org, or I suggest you just call Riley Wells at (407) 420-4640. Time’s a wastin’. The League of Conservation Voters offers free transportation, dorm-style lodging, and arranges steep hotel discounts.
It's five o'clock in the morning. More later.
What is happening is electric, incredible, and we definitely changed some minds. All it took last time was five-hundred votes. If the volunteers on just our two busloads from Athens and Atlanta snagged one each, that makes about a hundred votes. Oh, and I have a feeling we did better.
Interested in helping out? www.envirovictory.org/GA or envirovictoryfl@lcv.org, or I suggest you just call Riley Wells at (407) 420-4640. Time’s a wastin’. The League of Conservation Voters offers free transportation, dorm-style lodging, and arranges steep hotel discounts.
It's five o'clock in the morning. More later.
Friday, October 22, 2004
“Condoleezza Rice is not a partisan.”
Yep, Mary Matilin said it. Dick “Go Fuck Yourself” Cheney’s flack catcher on CNN today. I bet James whispers that in her ear more than once. Not a partisan!?
Our national security advisor, just doing her job getting the word out on national security advising, just happens to be advising in the swing states. She ought to be advising someone on how to go after the real terrorists.
Count the flatware (FASTER!), button down your wallet pocket.
As foxy as ever: I keep seeing Fox News tease up to a story, “From the Koran,” and text that amounts to “instructions for beating your wife.” Sorry I missed the whole non-news-story. Laura’s real job, Cheney’s daughter, I didn’t get the memo but Fox fell right in line yesterday on women voters.
Almost as lame is their “academic freedom” story about an Eng. 101 Professor’s essay topic assignments: Iraq, good or bad? Bush policy, good or bad? and etc. Miss it? You didn’t miss anything.
Gone Fishing.
Our national security advisor, just doing her job getting the word out on national security advising, just happens to be advising in the swing states. She ought to be advising someone on how to go after the real terrorists.
Count the flatware (FASTER!), button down your wallet pocket.
As foxy as ever: I keep seeing Fox News tease up to a story, “From the Koran,” and text that amounts to “instructions for beating your wife.” Sorry I missed the whole non-news-story. Laura’s real job, Cheney’s daughter, I didn’t get the memo but Fox fell right in line yesterday on women voters.
Almost as lame is their “academic freedom” story about an Eng. 101 Professor’s essay topic assignments: Iraq, good or bad? Bush policy, good or bad? and etc. Miss it? You didn’t miss anything.
Gone Fishing.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Jesus Saves
Oh to be a sports headline writer last night
“Hell Freezes Over,” was a good one.
Another eschews the headline for a full-frame mug shot of Babe, a tear falls from one eye.
NY Daily News: “ Ruthless”
The Globe: “A World Series Ticket”
I would have Johnny Damon’s big mug with, “Jesus Saves.”
“Hell Freezes Over,” was a good one.
Another eschews the headline for a full-frame mug shot of Babe, a tear falls from one eye.
NY Daily News: “ Ruthless”
The Globe: “A World Series Ticket”
I would have Johnny Damon’s big mug with, “Jesus Saves.”
How about the Red Socks?
Man. That was so beautiful. How about I buy a virtual beer for Boston fans everywhere, OK? Put it on my Bloomingdale's card. I worked in New Hampshire for a couple of years, Carlton Fisk's famous jumping-jack homer, first time I lived near a baseball team since I was a kid near Pittsburgh. The bars will close to sweep up in a couple of days. Etch that win in stone.
What price democracy?
Oct 21:
Now on eBay you can buy a vote! (Boy, you can’t buy a vote in this town.) One’s being prosecuted in Missouri, three more reported to have sold votes online through that auction service, according to CNN this morning.
By the way what is democracy, American Heritage Dictionary?
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Make sure you write that on your palms before casting a vote. Just a subtle editorial aside, if you don't mind: Vote for Bush and you must not care much for the definition of democracy.
Now on eBay you can buy a vote! (Boy, you can’t buy a vote in this town.) One’s being prosecuted in Missouri, three more reported to have sold votes online through that auction service, according to CNN this morning.
By the way what is democracy, American Heritage Dictionary?
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Make sure you write that on your palms before casting a vote. Just a subtle editorial aside, if you don't mind: Vote for Bush and you must not care much for the definition of democracy.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Go Red Sox!
Wouldn't mind owning a Boston bar tonight$
Oct 20
Bush is happier than a dog with two dicks; back out on the campaign trail, where all he has to do is yell, “you can run but you can’t hide,” and the homegrown flock gets all riled up. Glad to get away from those pesky debates, facts, reality and all that. He’s a little messianic in a peculiar way. We’ve got a cheerleader running against the captain of the football team.
Free Speech in America? In corporate America nothing is free, not even liberty. Listen to somebody paying for it, wants it to be a good purchase:
From: Michael W
Sent: Tuesday July 13 2004 12.28pm
Subject: Dude, Iraq sucks
My name is Michael W and I am a 30-year-old National Guard infantryman serving in southeast Baghdad. I have been in Iraq since March of 04 and will continue to serve here until March of 05.
In the few short months my unit has been in Iraq, we have already lost one man and have had many injured (including me) in combat operations. And for what? At the very least, the government could have made sure that each of our vehicles had the proper armament to protect us soldiers.
In the early morning hours of May 10, one month to the day from my 30th birthday, I and 12 other men were attacked in a well-executed roadside ambush in south-east Baghdad. We were attacked with small-arms fire, a rocket-propelled grenade, and two well-placed roadside bombs. These roadside bombs nearly destroyed one of our Hummers and riddled my friends with shrapnel, almost killing them. They would not have had a scratch if they had the "Up Armour" kits on them. So where was [George] W [Bush] on that one?
It's just so ridiculous, which leads me to my next point. A Blackwater contractor makes $15,000 [£8,400] a month for doing the same job as my pals and me. I make about $4,000 [£2,240] a month over here. What's up with that?
Beyond that, the government is calling up more and more troops from the reserves. For what? Man, there is a huge fucking scam going on here! There are civilian contractors crawling all over this country. Blackwater, Kellogg Brown & Root, Halliburton, on and on. These contractors are doing everything you can think of from security to catering lunch!
We are spending money out the ass for this shit, and very few of the projects are going to the Iraqi people. Someone's back is getting scratched here, and it ain't the Iraqis'!
My life is left to chance at this point. I just hope I come home alive.
The source for this is The Guardian. From an email to Michael Moore. Here’s the rest excerpted from MM’s new book.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1005-22.htm
Sinclair misunderestimated
They were just doing a fair and balanced TV news magazine. What’s all the fuss fellas?
Sinclair to Show Only Part of Kerry Film
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
BALTIMORE - A documentary critical of John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Vietnam-era anti-war activities will be shown only in part during a program examining the use of such documentaries to influence elections, Sinclair Broadcast said Tuesday. The company's announcement came hours after shareholders challenged Sinclair's plans to air the program, saying the controversial broadcast may hurt their investment.
"A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media," will examine the "role of the media in filtering the information contained in these documentaries, allegations of media bias by media organizations that ignore or filter legitimate news and the attempts by candidates and other organizations to influence media coverage," the company said in a statement. It will air Friday on 40 of the company's stations.
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., the owner of 62 television stations, has been criticized for ordering the stations to pre-empt regular programming to air the show. The company, which has previously declined comment on the issue, said reports that the documentary would be aired in its entirety were "inaccurate."
The Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites), arguing that the broadcast should be considered an illegal in-kind contribution to the Bush campaign.
Sinclair fired its Washington bureau chief Monday after he publicly criticized the company's plans.
"We have not ceded, and will not in the future cede, control of our news reporting to any outside organization or political group," said Joe DeFeo, Sinclair's vice president of news.
Groups have also called for advertisers to boycott Sinclair, whose stations reach a quarter of U.S. households, many in key swing states for the upcoming presidential election.
The news special will discuss allegations surrounding Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities raised in the documentary, "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," but the entire 42-minute documentary will not air, Sinclair said.
Sinclair said executives met recently with senior Kerry campaign officials but the campaign has declined to participate in the program.
"The experience of preparing to air this news special has been trying for many of those involved," CEO David Smith said. "The company and many of its executives have endured personal attacks of the vilest nature, as well as calls on our advertisers and our viewers to boycott our stations and on our shareholders to sell their stock."
Meanwhile, a lawyer said he planned to sue on behalf of shareholders, alleging insider trading by top executives as well as damage from the decision to air the film. Media Matters, a media advocacy group, announced it was underwriting the costs of a shareholder action demanding equal time for opposing views.
Eighteen senators, all Democrats, wrote last week to the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) to ask it to investigate Sinclair's plans. The agency declined to intervene.
New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi, also a Democrat, sent a letter expressing concern to Sinclair on behalf of the state's pension fund, which owns shares in the broadcasting company.
Sinclair shares dropped more than 3 percent Tuesday, falling 23 cents to $6.26 a share on the NASDAQ market. Sinclair stock dropped about 8 percent on Monday, and is down from a high of more than $15 a share in January.
Two groups offered programs Tuesday to Sinclair to air in response to its news special. California philanthropist Deborah Rappaport and her husband offered to pay for an hour of air time on Sinclair stations to air the documentary "Going Upriver," a positive portrayal of Kerry's service in Vietnam, before the Nov. 2 election day.
Mother Jones Magazine offered Sinclair a half-hour video of four prominent Republicans — including John Dean and Pete Peterson — condemning the Bush administration.
Oct 20
Bush is happier than a dog with two dicks; back out on the campaign trail, where all he has to do is yell, “you can run but you can’t hide,” and the homegrown flock gets all riled up. Glad to get away from those pesky debates, facts, reality and all that. He’s a little messianic in a peculiar way. We’ve got a cheerleader running against the captain of the football team.
Free Speech in America? In corporate America nothing is free, not even liberty. Listen to somebody paying for it, wants it to be a good purchase:
From: Michael W
Sent: Tuesday July 13 2004 12.28pm
Subject: Dude, Iraq sucks
My name is Michael W and I am a 30-year-old National Guard infantryman serving in southeast Baghdad. I have been in Iraq since March of 04 and will continue to serve here until March of 05.
In the few short months my unit has been in Iraq, we have already lost one man and have had many injured (including me) in combat operations. And for what? At the very least, the government could have made sure that each of our vehicles had the proper armament to protect us soldiers.
In the early morning hours of May 10, one month to the day from my 30th birthday, I and 12 other men were attacked in a well-executed roadside ambush in south-east Baghdad. We were attacked with small-arms fire, a rocket-propelled grenade, and two well-placed roadside bombs. These roadside bombs nearly destroyed one of our Hummers and riddled my friends with shrapnel, almost killing them. They would not have had a scratch if they had the "Up Armour" kits on them. So where was [George] W [Bush] on that one?
It's just so ridiculous, which leads me to my next point. A Blackwater contractor makes $15,000 [£8,400] a month for doing the same job as my pals and me. I make about $4,000 [£2,240] a month over here. What's up with that?
Beyond that, the government is calling up more and more troops from the reserves. For what? Man, there is a huge fucking scam going on here! There are civilian contractors crawling all over this country. Blackwater, Kellogg Brown & Root, Halliburton, on and on. These contractors are doing everything you can think of from security to catering lunch!
We are spending money out the ass for this shit, and very few of the projects are going to the Iraqi people. Someone's back is getting scratched here, and it ain't the Iraqis'!
My life is left to chance at this point. I just hope I come home alive.
The source for this is The Guardian. From an email to Michael Moore. Here’s the rest excerpted from MM’s new book.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1005-22.htm
Sinclair misunderestimated
They were just doing a fair and balanced TV news magazine. What’s all the fuss fellas?
Sinclair to Show Only Part of Kerry Film
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
BALTIMORE - A documentary critical of John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Vietnam-era anti-war activities will be shown only in part during a program examining the use of such documentaries to influence elections, Sinclair Broadcast said Tuesday. The company's announcement came hours after shareholders challenged Sinclair's plans to air the program, saying the controversial broadcast may hurt their investment.
"A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media," will examine the "role of the media in filtering the information contained in these documentaries, allegations of media bias by media organizations that ignore or filter legitimate news and the attempts by candidates and other organizations to influence media coverage," the company said in a statement. It will air Friday on 40 of the company's stations.
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., the owner of 62 television stations, has been criticized for ordering the stations to pre-empt regular programming to air the show. The company, which has previously declined comment on the issue, said reports that the documentary would be aired in its entirety were "inaccurate."
The Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites), arguing that the broadcast should be considered an illegal in-kind contribution to the Bush campaign.
Sinclair fired its Washington bureau chief Monday after he publicly criticized the company's plans.
"We have not ceded, and will not in the future cede, control of our news reporting to any outside organization or political group," said Joe DeFeo, Sinclair's vice president of news.
Groups have also called for advertisers to boycott Sinclair, whose stations reach a quarter of U.S. households, many in key swing states for the upcoming presidential election.
The news special will discuss allegations surrounding Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities raised in the documentary, "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," but the entire 42-minute documentary will not air, Sinclair said.
Sinclair said executives met recently with senior Kerry campaign officials but the campaign has declined to participate in the program.
"The experience of preparing to air this news special has been trying for many of those involved," CEO David Smith said. "The company and many of its executives have endured personal attacks of the vilest nature, as well as calls on our advertisers and our viewers to boycott our stations and on our shareholders to sell their stock."
Meanwhile, a lawyer said he planned to sue on behalf of shareholders, alleging insider trading by top executives as well as damage from the decision to air the film. Media Matters, a media advocacy group, announced it was underwriting the costs of a shareholder action demanding equal time for opposing views.
Eighteen senators, all Democrats, wrote last week to the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) to ask it to investigate Sinclair's plans. The agency declined to intervene.
New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi, also a Democrat, sent a letter expressing concern to Sinclair on behalf of the state's pension fund, which owns shares in the broadcasting company.
Sinclair shares dropped more than 3 percent Tuesday, falling 23 cents to $6.26 a share on the NASDAQ market. Sinclair stock dropped about 8 percent on Monday, and is down from a high of more than $15 a share in January.
Two groups offered programs Tuesday to Sinclair to air in response to its news special. California philanthropist Deborah Rappaport and her husband offered to pay for an hour of air time on Sinclair stations to air the documentary "Going Upriver," a positive portrayal of Kerry's service in Vietnam, before the Nov. 2 election day.
Mother Jones Magazine offered Sinclair a half-hour video of four prominent Republicans — including John Dean and Pete Peterson — condemning the Bush administration.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Eloquent
Thanks to my cousin Joanne, I finally got around to reading the most powerful summary of what we must do November the second. (Yeah, it's me, Mr. Hyperbole I'm not a bullshit artist but I know what I like.)
The editorial endorsement from The New York Times (10-17-04).
"The president who lost the popular vote got a real mandate on Sept. 11, 2001. With the grieving country united behind him, Mr. Bush had an unparalleled opportunity to ask for almost any shared sacrifice. The only limit was his imagination.
"He asked for another tax cut and the war against Iraq.
"The president's refusal to drop his tax-cutting agenda when the nation was gearing up for war is perhaps the most shocking example of his inability to change his priorities in the face of drastically altered circumstances. Mr. Bush did not just starve the government of the money it needed for his own education initiative or the Medicare drug bill. He also made tax cuts a higher priority than doing what was needed for America's security; 90 percent of the cargo unloaded every day in the nation's ports still goes uninspected."
And . . .
"We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better.
"Voting for president is a leap of faith. A candidate can explain his positions in minute detail and wind up governing with a hostile Congress that refuses to let him deliver. A disaster can upend the best-laid plans. All citizens can do is mix guesswork and hope, examining what the candidates have done in the past, their apparent priorities and their general character. It's on those three grounds that we enthusiastically endorse John Kerry for president."
Read all about it, folks http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/opinion/17sun1.html?oref=login&ex=1099211497&ei=1&en=
It should be pasted on the side of every building.
The editorial endorsement from The New York Times (10-17-04).
"The president who lost the popular vote got a real mandate on Sept. 11, 2001. With the grieving country united behind him, Mr. Bush had an unparalleled opportunity to ask for almost any shared sacrifice. The only limit was his imagination.
"He asked for another tax cut and the war against Iraq.
"The president's refusal to drop his tax-cutting agenda when the nation was gearing up for war is perhaps the most shocking example of his inability to change his priorities in the face of drastically altered circumstances. Mr. Bush did not just starve the government of the money it needed for his own education initiative or the Medicare drug bill. He also made tax cuts a higher priority than doing what was needed for America's security; 90 percent of the cargo unloaded every day in the nation's ports still goes uninspected."
And . . .
"We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better.
"Voting for president is a leap of faith. A candidate can explain his positions in minute detail and wind up governing with a hostile Congress that refuses to let him deliver. A disaster can upend the best-laid plans. All citizens can do is mix guesswork and hope, examining what the candidates have done in the past, their apparent priorities and their general character. It's on those three grounds that we enthusiastically endorse John Kerry for president."
Read all about it, folks http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/opinion/17sun1.html?oref=login&ex=1099211497&ei=1&en=
It should be pasted on the side of every building.
Monday, October 18, 2004
Bless Tony Blair's cold little infatuation with W-YA!
I read the news today, OH, BOY!, the English Army had just BEEN ORDER TO SUPPORT W (insert American flag logo here) by marching into the fire! to help Karl Rove's 2004 political takeover of American Democracy and his neocon conspiratorial empire-building ways! Nine-thousand British soldiers sent marching into the inferno so Gee-W-Ya! gets a trump card (dead English added to American bodies) to lay at the feet of the American electorate. Is this a fixed litmus test? Look how strong our coalition is now! By the way, is John Lennon turning over in his grave? A thousand and more (dead soldiers) people turned away, but I just had to look, having read the book. Tens of thousands dead . . . as many as thirty-thousand . . . at least we know who is against us, who is for us. Not the Polish; they're pulling out soon.
If this political strategy goes down, look for southern Iraq--now patrolled by the British--to become one big oil-fueled orange flame. Start gathering the firewood, heating oil will be out of reach and it's going to be a long, cold lonely winter.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1017-02.htm
If this political strategy goes down, look for southern Iraq--now patrolled by the British--to become one big oil-fueled orange flame. Start gathering the firewood, heating oil will be out of reach and it's going to be a long, cold lonely winter.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1017-02.htm
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Let’s do a little uniting; the great W-ya!-Divider won’t
Just in: now you can watch the most amazing 22 minutes in television history--OK, call me Mr. Hyperbole, it's what I do--Jon Stewart dressing down Tucker Carlson, Paul Begala, and by extenstion every shouter on the airwaves. "Stop, please, help us."
Thanks to Carol Todaro for the link.
http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater231.html
Some people tell me they are not interested in voting, never have been. Amazing. Make a difference; show up November 2.
From Paul Krugman on slime-ball republican felonious vote tampering:
“The important point to realize is that these abuses aren't aberrations. They're the inevitable result of a Republican Party culture in which dirty tricks that distort the vote are rewarded, not punished. It's a culture that will persist until voters - whose will still does count, if expressed strongly enough - hold that party accountable.”
Read all about it http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?oref=login
MIND-NUMBING, THE BILLION-DOLLAR HEADHUNTER
With that kind of money, who needs a job? Over $1,000,000,000 will be spent on the presidential election, so much that money isn’t relevant anymore.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/14/1097607371741.html?oneclick=true
What motivates John F. Kerry? GW Bush? As a young man, Kerry chose a life of public service. Bush? Did somebody make him do it? Those “good people around him?” How will all this go down in history? Oh, no matter we’ll all be dead (right W-Ya?). Some of us on the left bank of the river Styx. Which way to the Elysian Fields? Would that be a left or a right once we're in the "mainstream?" Wouldn't want to take a wrong turn now, would we?
“FUNDAMENTALISTS are really simple folk. They can’t handle complexity, inconsistency or especially, Paradox. Just keep it simple, stupid and safe. Bless their little hearts.” http://www.riverstyx.us/
Thanks to Carol Todaro for the link.
http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater231.html
Some people tell me they are not interested in voting, never have been. Amazing. Make a difference; show up November 2.
From Paul Krugman on slime-ball republican felonious vote tampering:
“The important point to realize is that these abuses aren't aberrations. They're the inevitable result of a Republican Party culture in which dirty tricks that distort the vote are rewarded, not punished. It's a culture that will persist until voters - whose will still does count, if expressed strongly enough - hold that party accountable.”
Read all about it http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?oref=login
MIND-NUMBING, THE BILLION-DOLLAR HEADHUNTER
With that kind of money, who needs a job? Over $1,000,000,000 will be spent on the presidential election, so much that money isn’t relevant anymore.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/14/1097607371741.html?oneclick=true
What motivates John F. Kerry? GW Bush? As a young man, Kerry chose a life of public service. Bush? Did somebody make him do it? Those “good people around him?” How will all this go down in history? Oh, no matter we’ll all be dead (right W-Ya?). Some of us on the left bank of the river Styx. Which way to the Elysian Fields? Would that be a left or a right once we're in the "mainstream?" Wouldn't want to take a wrong turn now, would we?
“FUNDAMENTALISTS are really simple folk. They can’t handle complexity, inconsistency or especially, Paradox. Just keep it simple, stupid and safe. Bless their little hearts.” http://www.riverstyx.us/
Saturday, October 16, 2004
The good people around him
That phrase haunts me, a phrase I heard throughout the presidential campaign during 1999 and 2000 from friends and acquaintances as their rationale for voting in a president who didn’t have much on the ball.
From The New York Times review of Seymour Hersh’s book, Chain of Command: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17IGNATIE.html?8bu
Quote, by MICHAEL IGNATIEFF for the NYT:
"At the end of the book, Hersh confesses that he still hasn't got the whole story. 'There is so much about this presidency that we don't know, and may never learn,'' he writes. 'How did they do it? How did eight or nine neoconservatives who believed that war in Iraq was the answer to international terrorism get their way? How did they redirect the government and rearrange longstanding American priorities and policies with so much ease? How did they overcome the bureaucracy, intimidate the press, mislead the Congress and dominate the military? Is our democracy that fragile?'
"Yes, our democracy is that fragile. Checks and balances in the American constitutional system are functioning poorly. With some creditable exceptions -- Senators Byrd, Kennedy, Biden come to mind -- Congress did not subject the case for war to critical scrutiny. The courts deferred for too long to presidential authority, and only now with the recent Supreme Court decision, on the rights of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, that ''a state of war is not a blank check for the president,' have they begun to claw back some of their prerogatives of judicial review. Nor, in the lead-up to war, did the press, Hersh included, subject the administration case on weapons of mass destruction to the critical scrutiny it cried out for. They were taken for a ride, and so were we.
"What we have learned since, however, about the secret war fought in our name and to our discredit, we owe to reporters, chief among them Sy Hersh. This book reminds us why tough, skeptical journalism matters so much: it helps to keep us free."
I can’t help but continue to point my disturbed, restless finger at our fourth estate, the press, the profession of journalism. I wonder if there are any journalists still standing to follow in Hersh’s footsteps. If there are any good people left in the profession, when they fell the trees of dishonesty and injustice, we damn well better be in the forest to hear the crash.
From The New York Times review of Seymour Hersh’s book, Chain of Command: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17IGNATIE.html?8bu
Quote, by MICHAEL IGNATIEFF for the NYT:
"At the end of the book, Hersh confesses that he still hasn't got the whole story. 'There is so much about this presidency that we don't know, and may never learn,'' he writes. 'How did they do it? How did eight or nine neoconservatives who believed that war in Iraq was the answer to international terrorism get their way? How did they redirect the government and rearrange longstanding American priorities and policies with so much ease? How did they overcome the bureaucracy, intimidate the press, mislead the Congress and dominate the military? Is our democracy that fragile?'
"Yes, our democracy is that fragile. Checks and balances in the American constitutional system are functioning poorly. With some creditable exceptions -- Senators Byrd, Kennedy, Biden come to mind -- Congress did not subject the case for war to critical scrutiny. The courts deferred for too long to presidential authority, and only now with the recent Supreme Court decision, on the rights of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, that ''a state of war is not a blank check for the president,' have they begun to claw back some of their prerogatives of judicial review. Nor, in the lead-up to war, did the press, Hersh included, subject the administration case on weapons of mass destruction to the critical scrutiny it cried out for. They were taken for a ride, and so were we.
"What we have learned since, however, about the secret war fought in our name and to our discredit, we owe to reporters, chief among them Sy Hersh. This book reminds us why tough, skeptical journalism matters so much: it helps to keep us free."
I can’t help but continue to point my disturbed, restless finger at our fourth estate, the press, the profession of journalism. I wonder if there are any journalists still standing to follow in Hersh’s footsteps. If there are any good people left in the profession, when they fell the trees of dishonesty and injustice, we damn well better be in the forest to hear the crash.
Friday, October 15, 2004
Send in the clowns!
Mary and I were fortunate enough to witness the most remarkable, most powerful twenty-two minutes of public expression in decades, Jon Stewart on CNN’s Crossfire. Stewart in the most elegant, simplest terms defined what is wrong with the media with questions, and pleas for help from the shouters, the distorters, the partisan puke-spewers of corporate media in America today.
He did to Tucker Carlson, and by extension Bob Novak, Bill O’Liely, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity . . . oh my God I’m getting such a high from this . . . what I have dreamed about for years—reaching into the TV screen and slapping some sense into commentators and fake journalists.
My sister in Miami, on the phone, with her husband in the room, and I here in N. Georgia, were stunned. She remarked that maybe something is happening here, and I, What it is ain’t exactly clear. But we’re working hard, it’s hard work . . . something is going down!
Let’s give it up for a great American, a patriot, Jon Stewart. If you missed the show, I can only hope somebody picks it up and replays if for you over, and over, and over . . .
He did to Tucker Carlson, and by extension Bob Novak, Bill O’Liely, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity . . . oh my God I’m getting such a high from this . . . what I have dreamed about for years—reaching into the TV screen and slapping some sense into commentators and fake journalists.
My sister in Miami, on the phone, with her husband in the room, and I here in N. Georgia, were stunned. She remarked that maybe something is happening here, and I, What it is ain’t exactly clear. But we’re working hard, it’s hard work . . . something is going down!
Let’s give it up for a great American, a patriot, Jon Stewart. If you missed the show, I can only hope somebody picks it up and replays if for you over, and over, and over . . .
That irritating debate business over, what to expect next from The Bush Channel
From the man who doesn’t pay much attention to the media, doesn’t read, $68,000 in campaign contributions from Sinclair Broadcasting http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/opinion/15fri1.html?th ninety-seven percent of that to republicans, buys a lot of airtime in the swing states. Look for “The Kerry Sucks Show” coming soon, along with these duplicitous strategies at
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1014-23.htm
Pictorial evidence of a radio receiver under his suit during the debates. Making light of his wife’s instructions not to slouch, not to sneer, not to show his potty-faced body language. Little more rationale for his record other than, It’s hard work, we’re working hard. Tacit approval of fringe-group and corporate media campaigns of smear and obfuscation. Unable to look inward and connect with himself and the electorate concerning substance, policy, and plans for the next four years. Bush can’t even handle the idea of having made a mistake, tries to joke that a reporter was handing him “a trick question” at one of his rare news conferences. In the debates he passes the buck on another “mistake” question onto other people, wrong appointments. Reminds me of the old one-liner, I thought I made a mistake once but I was wrong.
If I’m making a mistake by supporting the only strong candidate in this race, John Kerry, somebody please tell me. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Give me one good reason, it better be good, to vote for Bush and I will. Hell, I’ll join the Republican party and go to work in their campaigns today.
The actions of many religions and right-wing whacks have turned us away from the church doors in search of God and spirituality. Its Friedrich Nietzsche’s birthday (The Writer’s Almanac today) http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ who said, “God is dead . . . and we have killed him.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1014-23.htm
Pictorial evidence of a radio receiver under his suit during the debates. Making light of his wife’s instructions not to slouch, not to sneer, not to show his potty-faced body language. Little more rationale for his record other than, It’s hard work, we’re working hard. Tacit approval of fringe-group and corporate media campaigns of smear and obfuscation. Unable to look inward and connect with himself and the electorate concerning substance, policy, and plans for the next four years. Bush can’t even handle the idea of having made a mistake, tries to joke that a reporter was handing him “a trick question” at one of his rare news conferences. In the debates he passes the buck on another “mistake” question onto other people, wrong appointments. Reminds me of the old one-liner, I thought I made a mistake once but I was wrong.
If I’m making a mistake by supporting the only strong candidate in this race, John Kerry, somebody please tell me. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Give me one good reason, it better be good, to vote for Bush and I will. Hell, I’ll join the Republican party and go to work in their campaigns today.
The actions of many religions and right-wing whacks have turned us away from the church doors in search of God and spirituality. Its Friedrich Nietzsche’s birthday (The Writer’s Almanac today) http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ who said, “God is dead . . . and we have killed him.”
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Annoying liberals, labels
Today is the birthday of another one of them “Massachusetts liberals,” e.e. cummings. According the The Writer’s Almanac, cummings was a “conservative, irritable man.” He traveled to Russia in 1931 and later likened life under communism to Dante’s Inferno. He wrote about the experience. “Most of the publishers were communists themselves, and they turned their backs on cummings for criticizing communist Russia,” according to TWA.
It’s also the birthday of that pesky republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower, says TWA, who said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." And, “He was also one of the only generals who loved talking to the press. He said, ‘[Journalists are] quasi members of my staff.’”
Massachusetts liberals, sneaky republicans, pesky labels.
It’s also the birthday of that pesky republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower, says TWA, who said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." And, “He was also one of the only generals who loved talking to the press. He said, ‘[Journalists are] quasi members of my staff.’”
Massachusetts liberals, sneaky republicans, pesky labels.
A shutout
After three debates the score is three-Zip, Kerry. The leaves are beginning to change color here and you can’t even get your job approval rating over 50 percent. With all due respect, Mr. President, it’s time for your personnel review.
Seymour Hersch, he of impeccable credentials as the country’s premier investigative reporter (when will the others rediscover that all reporting is investigative?). From an article about a speech he delivered to Berkeley J-school grad students after the second debate:
"’It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me . . . What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. They know in ways that none of us know, the incredible gap between what is and what [Bush] thinks.’
“With that, he was off and running. One could safely say that for the next hour, Hersh proceeded to scare the hell out of most of the audience by detailing the gaps between what they knew and what he hears is actually going on in Iraq.”
Read it all at: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2202
Seymour Hersch, he of impeccable credentials as the country’s premier investigative reporter (when will the others rediscover that all reporting is investigative?). From an article about a speech he delivered to Berkeley J-school grad students after the second debate:
"’It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me . . . What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. They know in ways that none of us know, the incredible gap between what is and what [Bush] thinks.’
“With that, he was off and running. One could safely say that for the next hour, Hersh proceeded to scare the hell out of most of the audience by detailing the gaps between what they knew and what he hears is actually going on in Iraq.”
Read it all at: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2202
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