Howie’s promo — for his show “Reliable Sources” (that title always cracks me up) — says he’s going to talk about “how the media created Cindy Sheehan” and he’s going to have Arianna Huffington on and ask her why she’s “constantly attacking Judith Miller.”
’bout five minutes from now.
P.S. Joan Baez is entertaining today at Camp Casey!
that we don’t forgive Miller for her columns. We don’t like being fed disinformation in the pages of the Grey Lady which, whatever its shortcomings, we depend on to give us solid journalism.
Hell! Tell Howie we don’t forgive HIM for being such a putz!
Hey, Boo! Got any Pepto-Bismol? Jesus … that cynical round-up of media coverage on Cindy.
Lisa Pease’s stuff all morning. I need more Reynold’s Wrap. LOL.
The RFK stuff blew me away. I didn’t know any of that shit.
So, it all comes down to:
RFK was killed by a bullet entering his head from behind, just below the ear. The shot was so close that it left powder burns.
Yet, no witness saw Sirhan Sirhan get anywhere near that close to Kennedy, and no one saw RFK turn his back to Sirhan, and he collapsed toward Sirhan.
And then Sirhan’s gun held 8 bullets, all discharged, but he managed to hit RFK four times, four other people once, and another person twice. That’s ten wounds. Plus, another two bullets lodged in the swinging door doorframe.
What the fuck? I thought it was an open and shut case.
Sometimes I think our national motto could be, What the Fuck?
really got me concerned when I started reading her piece on the shooting of Governor Wallace.
On a seperate topic, the Wallace shooting is a little more interesting now that we know that Deep Throat was Mark Felt.
Woodward was using Felt on that story, and he and Bernstein did some important article on it.
There are also new tapes of Nixon talking about the shooting, I believe.
Not saying that the official version is wrong, but new info makes it possible to get a broader picture of what went on behind the scenes.
Yup, and if JPol weren’t on vacation with his elderly mom — he’s a good son — he’d be here to chime in because he’s done a lot of work on these cases too. His area of expertise, however, is the media coverage of the events.
The New York Times and the JFK Assassination
— that link is from Lisa’s page about the media
How the Media Assassinated Oliver Stone’s film JFK
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Jerry recently spoke at a national conference on the Kennedy assassination.
he had some articles, and he had written something in the Village Voice back in the early nineties. I recognized his name because he sent me a nice email a few days ago.
And there he sits in prison … case closed, slam the door.
I saw the other day that Pfc. Willie Brand was convicted for the beating deaths of those two Afghani prisoners at Bagram Air Base … those are the two who died after four days of having their legs beaten so badly they’d have had to have them amputated had they lived.
Other low-level soldiers will go on trial for those deaths.
No officers, to the best of my knowledge.
Does anyone believe that those Pfcs carried out such horrific measures without anyone in charge knowing about it?
If you’re reading what’s online, that’s only a small piece of the story. It gets worse. The gun in evidence has never been matched, by the police nor by a panel of experts convened in 1975 to the bullets from the victims. In fact, the gun in evidence does not even have the Grand Jury tag on it, raising the issue of whether this gun was the one turned in by Rafer Johnson to the police after the shooting.
In addition, none of the shells in the pantry could be matched to the gun in evidence. The police were so worried about this that they asked the FBI to examine nearly 40,000 shells from a shooting range where Sirhan was seen doing target practice the morning before the shooting. Not ONE of the shells was ever matched to the gun.
The court order that created the 1975 reinvestigation panel listed the shells as items to be retested. But in the second court order, which replaced the first, the shells were mysteriously omitted.
Wait until you get to the part about the girl in the polka dot dress…! 😉 I have over 20 witness statements of people who saw a girl in a polka dot dress with Sirhan throughout the night. At the end of the night, she ran out shouting, “we shot him, we shot him…we shot Kennedy.” Keep reading! The articles online are cut off – they are complete in our book The Assassinations (www.theassassinations.com). And I’m working on a full book solely on this case. When you see what the police KNEW and lied about, it will make you very, very upset.
I read about the polka dot dress woman. I didn’t see that you had 20 witnesses. I counted 3 in the article I saw.
So, what’s your theory?
Because, while I agree the coroner’s report and the forensic evidence are very hard to square with the witness accounts, I still can’t see a plausible plan.
It appears to go like this:
Sirhan is turned into a manchurian candidate, trained to fire his weapon at RFK upon a)being activated and b)being in his presence.
Then he is strategically placed at the rally in a place Kennedy was not expected to exit. Strange.
Then once he starts firing, a bodyguard who wasn’t planning to be at work that night puts several shots into Kennedy, but only one witness sees him discharge his weapon.
It doesn’t add up much better than the official story.
I thought that too, then I heard a presentation from his lawyer on Guns and Butter-don’t have a link handy, sorry.
It used to be fair to say-No matter how cynical I get I can’t keep up-now it’s drifted to-No matter how paranoid I get I’m probably not paranoid enough.
ahhh, now with Joan there, some teeth are starting to show, because that’s what it’s gonna take to wake the sleeping dog that growled and bit 35yrs ago ; )
we need more like Joan there, and the voice to become a shout, and then a roar, that will be heard round the world….sorta like the shot ; )
I love her.
When I was in college, she lived nearby and came to a lot of our anti-war protests (Vietnam). And she hung with David Harris, who’d been the RA my freshman year at the boy’s dorm across the street from the girl’s dorm where I lived … i used to hang there all the time because I found too many of the women too square, and the guys were more interested in politics. Anyway, we’d sit at David Harris’s feet — literally — and listen to him talk about politics, war, and the blues.
A few years later, Baez married Harris.
Then — decades later — my daughter and I go to the Bumbershoot music festival in Seattle (always on Labor Day weekend) — and I heard this voice … I walked towards the voice. There she was, standing on an outdoor stage singing to whoever walked up.
I’ve been forutnate over the years to hear her live several times, and always regret not being able to more.
Your forutnate…congrats…she has an inner spirit that reaches out, and resonates through others souls, quite remarkable.
peace
Isn’t she wonderful?
I only remember seeing her sing once, when I was in jr. high school. It was an outdoor concert in Miami, and all I really remember is the grass, a cyclone fence, and Joan singing all those great songs that I already knew and loved: “Where Have all the Flowers Gone,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are A’Changin'”.
Shit, that was more than thirty years ago. I feel old.
I am also a huge fan. I saw her in concert twice. The first time was when I was an exchange student in Greece in high school. She performed in an ancient amphitheater on one of the hilltops in Athens. The second time was when I was in college. I was an intern at an environmental institute in Boston, and my boss knew Joan Baez’ father, also an environmentalist. She invited me to the concert, and we were invited backstage to sit with Joan Baez before the show.
How neat you got to meet her personally.
She’s blessed with a gorgeous, touching voice that’s aged well, along with the rest of her.
Actually, what I remember her talking about during that interlude was the lengths she had to go to protect her voice. Not tolerating even being in the vicinity of cigarette smoke, for example.
Any idea when Joan Baez will be there?
I have loved that woman since I heard this crystal clear voice on (AM)radio in 1961 singing “House of the Rising Sun.” Took me six months to find out who she was. I couldn’t afford to attend when she came to Dallas (also known by the intelligent as “East Fort Worth.”] about a year ago.
If I leave home at noon (CDT) and it takes 2 hours to get there, can I hear her?
If we really had a leftie TV or radio network, they’d be there LIVE to cover her concert!
(I don’t know a thing about their set-up, but it always puzzles me why Free Speech TV doesn’t do live events, like the pre-war mass demonstrations in NYC, etc. … or like live coverage from Camp Casey — a few times a day.)
This page at Code Pink’s web site says 4 pm. Go for it!
Air America is there–can they broadcast live…please, please??!!!
Another Howie says: “Kurtz–you’re no Howie. You are besmirching our fine name!” Besmirch: “sully: to bring shame or disgrace on somebody’s reputation.”
Yeah … I actually HESITATED to use his nickname out of respect for you!
You’re a FAR FINER media hound than he is anyway … god, how many times a week do I quote your blog here?!
Susan: And I am flattered and appreciative every time!
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When I heard Amy Goodman say, on Friday, that Steve Earle would be singing at Camp Casey on Saturday and Joan Baez on Sunday, I thought, Yeaaaaah–the antiwar movement is well and truly up and running again.
There are those among us who have never put away our old Joanie records and tapes.
I used to like Dana Millbank’s writing for WaPo because I thought he tried to stay responsible to the facts most of the time.
Now, however, since he’s been getting so much “face time” on the talking head circuit, I think he’s been corrupted. It’s as though his role has changed from being a reporter of news to being an entertainer, and an entertainer who seems to have become his own biggest fan.
The condescending little smirk he was wearing on Kurtz’ show while waiting to speak seems to support my contention. Fame, just like power, has a tremendous ability to corrupt.
Politically Direct
Sundays 2pm-3pm ET
It’s a musical melange on Politically Direct this Sunday as David welcomes two-time Rock & Roll Hall of fame inductee Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills & Nash), followed by Rock & Roll femme fatale Joan Jett (The Runaways; The Blackhearts) and her longtime musical partner, Kenny Laguna (Tommy James and the Shondels). And, for what it’s worth, David says, “I love rock & roll.”
— that’s 11AM pt
— it’s a live show by a longtime political guy, David Bender — enjoy it a lot. Today’s show looks like fun.