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"Bush may find himself with the epitaph penned a century ago by an old imperialist who knew the region well:Give up? Find him HERE.
"A fool lies here/Who tried to hustle the East."
"White House-credentialed fake news reporter "Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency "Talon News" was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing."
"Jeff GannonWow! I mean, why would he quit just because someone was "paying attention" to him?**
A Voice of the New Media
The voice goes silent.
Because of the attention being paid to me I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News. In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life.
Thank you to all those who supported me."
Yes, we're talking about "Jeff Gannon, Washington Bureau Chief, Talon News" -- Talon News being the rinkydink wingnut "news service" chaired by the same guy who runs GOP USA (the wingnut site that is less upscale than Renew American, but slightly more professional than BushCountryUSA, and apparently run by various members of the Texas GOP).Open Letter To Rep Louise Slaughter
"An argument that judgment matters but knowledge does not is profoundly anti-intellectual. It implies that we do not need ever to learn anything in order make mature decisions. We can just proceed off some simple ideological template and apply it to everything. This sort of thinking is part of what is wrong with this country. We wouldn't call a man in to fix our plumbing who knew nothing about plumbing, but we call pundits to address millions of people on subjects about which they know nothing of substance."Can I get an AMEN?
"Goldberg is hoping to Kerryize me because my position on the war can't be reduced to a sound bite. I don't really care. I'm not running for office and I'm not making any money to speak of from this punditry gig. If people can't imagine that you can hate Saddam and also think a unilateral war and long-term occupation of an Arab country are bad ideas, that is their problem."Professor Cole, you are not alone. The problem is, because of the way the Right artfully frames their ideas, people actually believe that anything less than black and white is not to be trusted. Falling in with those Right-wing frames and talking points, the mainstream media failed to spark any meaningful debate before the Iraq war. In essence, they did lack the imagination and curiosity necessary to keep the Bush administration from dragging our nation into this unjust disaster. If we aren't on our toes, they'll be allowed to do it again. The Right is attempting to make intelligent and knowledgeable people look like devils. I was amazed that David Brooks offered such a destructive anti-intelluctual manifesto in the NY Times this week. Brooks basically says that if you're not Barney Rubble, you're Beelzebub. Heaven help this country. Do we really want it run by Barney Rubble, Ralph Kramden, Al Bundy, Jonah Goldberg, and Company?