People love to speculate. When the subject of the speculation relates to Dear Leader’s trials and tribulations, well, I’m hooked. The following stories come with a warning label: “For Amusement Only”. Our first story is perhaps the only one that is not gossip, but made me smile anyway.
* Polls says that majority of Americans want Bush impeached. Discontent in America is underreported, downplayed and covered up. People who identify themselves as Republicans are a minority in this country. Yet they are in charge and ruling with an iron fist. Something’s gotta give. full story here
The real dirt follows.
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* Bush’s temper is getting worse by the day. Seems as if Baby Bush is really a baby. These rumours are very persistent and in my humble opinion, are probably true. Heh. full story here
* Bush and Darth Cheney fighting? Ha! According to Philiadelphia’s Attytood, Cheney is tired of cleaning up Dubya’s messes. See? I told you this would be fun. full story here
* Andy Card and others come together to oppose Karl Rove. Or, “Those on Fitz’s Short List vs. The Survivors”. This fun item comes to us from a Chris Matthews interview of newsweek’s Howard Fineman. full story here
Take the gossip with a grain of salt, believe it or not. It sure seems that Bush’s administration is in the throes of some in-fighting and upheaval. And that makes me smile.
Update [2005-10-12 10:53:26 by Nag]: Carole Coleman, the Irish reporter who REALLY interviewed Bush and prompted an official protest to the Irish government, was so disgusted with him that she “wanted to slap him” during the interview. Heh. I love this stuff. I found Carole’s excellent article. full story here
[Update] The first 2 photo links at the top of this diary are now mysteriously missing from the internet. Let’s try this one.
There is one more link I wanted to include and can’t put my finger on right now. It’s an article by that Irish reporter who interviewed Bush and asked some REAL questions that resulted in an official protest to the Irish government. It happened a while back, and caused quite the kerfuffle. It was a fascinating account of how Bush is treated like royalty by his staff. He is arrogant and obviously thinks of himself as royalty. No one speaks in his presence unless he speaks to them. She was told that the president would control the interview. Bush is referred to as “the leader of the free world” in private, not just for public consumption.
I’m off to search for it, and if I find it I will add it to the list in the main diary. It is a great companion piece to the gossip.
No, but I wish someone did. At least, I wish more people protested it in the voting booths. Great link, that’s exactly the attitude I was referring to. I think he’s getting worse as his house of cards crumbles.
Green Irish and US JCS Dick Myers
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Thanks Nag – I love this stuff. Of course I get a disciplined grip on myself before giving credence to anything at all. tee hee.
Awww, it’s so much fun, who cares if it’s true or not?
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E&P link fix plus additional reference NationalJournal.com
FINEMAN: And that runs through a whole lot of things, whether it`s Harriet Miers or Katrina. But it all starts with Iraq.
And some submerged, but now emerging divisions within the administration over why we went into that war, how we went into that war and what was done to sell it. There are people are out for Karl Rove inside that White House, which makes his situation even more perilous.
My understanding, from talking to somebody quite close to this investigation, is that they think there are going to be indictments and possibly Karl Rove could be among them, if not for the act of the leaking information about Valerie Plame, then perhaps for perjury, because he`s now testified four times.
WSJ Edition ::
Focus of CIA Leak Probe
Appears to Widen
Christopher Dickey
America’s conflicts are fought mostly by people who have come from the powerless classes. But true patriotism is not about being a spectator.
Oct. 11, 2005 – On or about Dec. 30, 2002, which was a day after we’d had dinner in New York and a year to the day before he died of a heart attack, John Gregory Dunne put a floppy disk in an envelope and dropped it off at the Manhattan apartment where I was staying. As happens, I misplaced it in my travels after that, and only last weekend did I find it and read the digital newspaper clippings he’d pulled together, which he’d talked about with so much excitement at our dinner.
John was interested in patriotism. He was fascinated by the real substance of it, which he saw as diametrically opposed to what he called “the spectator patriotism” exploited by the Bush administration as it went looking for wars. There was something (it took a while for John to put his finger on it) in the fact that several people he knew had children on active duty: historian Doris Kearns had a son, John himself had a nephew, I had a son. We had people we loved in uniform doing what they saw, and we understood, imperfectly perhaps, as their duty to defend the values and the dreams that are the United States of America. But why were there so few from this circle of acquaintances if the cause was so great?
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Andy Card is the patsy that Shrub sends out to get the cheeseburgers. He is the kind of guy who cleans the ink off the rubber stamps and refills the ink pad.
If there is a spin about Andy Card being out to get Rove, that spin probably was planted by Rove (the “attack himself” gambit)…
Always remember,
liars and crooks.
I thought it was interesting that the Nobel peace prize and economics prize were both interpreted in the press as slaps at Bush as well…
Between all this good stuff and my good news diary and the diary about the impeachment poll, I think I’m going to OD on schadenfreude – and the indictments haven’t even come out yet!
I better go do some work. 🙁
Seems like everyone is lining up to get a good slap in. Oh, the mental image is very good. 🙂
I need to catch up on all my diary reading today. I haven’t read yours yet but I promise I’ll get to it. I love your posts.
I absolutely love to look for under the radar stories. This is maybe the third diary I’ve done. It’s an addiction that I’m starting to share with other BooTribbers.
Doug Thompson used to be a GOP insider working for some dweebs in the House. His contacts should be pretty good.
The interesting part is, are the ‘sources’ dividing into opposing camps? You never know whose sources are closest to the truth and who is just speculating.
Gossip-Gossip-Gossip
(But always, please, to call it “analysis”!) 😉
Oh, I think we can count on the ‘sources’ dividing into opposing camps.
We are, after all, talking about a reporter’s perception of the source’s perception of what is going on that the source wants to leak.
Ha! My perception is that your perceptions of their perceptions amounts to an excellent “analysis” (of their perceptions).
uneschewment of logomachian obfuscation and raise.
And we should not forget the cognition of the environmental stimuli as defined by Pavlov with the gestalt of Piaget as interpreted through the Focualtan deconstruction mode-of-linguisticism intimates inference should not be confined purely to the Logical Postivistic pre-suppositions of Carnap.
(HA! I’ve been writing/reading this crap for Decades! Neener, neener, neener.)
You win. 😉
ATinNM takes a Victory Lap around the outside of the playing field.
(P.S., FYI, FUBAR, BTW: That sentence was a compilation of pseudo-intellectual drivel meaning absolutely nothing.)
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His contribution to journalism today ::
By Tony Blankley
October 12, 2005
During the Reagan years, and even during the Gingrich years, the central complaint about the mainstream media by conservatives was that they misrepresented the substance of our policy proposals …
But million-dollar nincompoop television news stars led with the absurdly ignorant observations that there was “nothing new” in this speech, and that the President was not likely to improve his reduced 35 percent public support for the Iraq war.
Having decided that the speech (which they manifestly did not substantively understand or report) was not going to make the president immediately more popular, their reporting trailed off into a rehash of his other current political problems.
One doesn’t mind, so much, mainstream journalists being b*st*rds. It’s being such dumb b*st*rds that one finds so irksome.
Panel member The McLaughlin Group
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First he served Reagan, then Gingrich, huh? If Tony could withstand all that ugly for so long, then he should be able to withstand this: Corruption of the Reagan Administration. Republicans who live in glass bubbles shouldn’t use BB guns. (or something like that) 😉
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… one aspect of their relationship has been largely overlooked — the two have tangled before.
Fitzgerald is a prosecutor who routinely gets high marks, even from lawyers for some of the people he’s put in the hot seat. “Mr. Fitzgerald has handled himself very professionally,” said George Freeman, assistant general counsel for the New York Times. “His word has been good throughout all these matters.”
In fall 2001, Miller and Times Washington correspondent Philip Shenon were reporting on Islamic charities suspected of funnelling money to al Qaeda.
At that time, Fitzgerald was leading the prosecution as the newly named U.S. attorney in Chicago. He and the Justice Department argued that Miller’s calls while working the story tipped off a foundation to an impending raid — a charge the Times rejects.
In June 2002, Miller wrote about an Egyptian-American pilot who had been a crucial informant against al-Qaeda in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. The pilot said the American government failed to live up to promises to compensate him and to protect him from severe reprisals in Egypt.
Miller’s front-page story quoted current and former federal officials criticizing the government’s handling of the informant. Fitzgerald was the lead prosecutor.
» Lawyer Says Miller Lost in
Court, Won on Principle
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