Yes. Accused murderer Neil Entwistle’s plane from the UK to the U.S. is landing soon. (“Neil Entwistle was handed over the custody of US marshals at Gatwick Airport” – From Fox News) I hope that all three cable news networks carry live the landing of the plane — even from a remote distance at which one can see nothing. It is the most important story of the day. Fox News is on top of it. … And live on CNN, Dick Cheney is walking into the White House (… and GOOD for Kyra Phillips (one of CNN’s better hosts) for saying that she understands the V.P. is going to give an interview “on another network” and not giving FOX News any free publicity … ) … OPEN THREAD:
Update [2006-2-15 14:59:42 by susanhu]: A “teaser” for the Cheney interview was just aired on Fox. Cheney was interviewed by Brit Hume (ugh). This was pre-taped and edited by Fox — they’re not playing it in full until 6pm ET. (I wonder if Cheney’s people get to “vet” the interview and make edits to it. Oh no. That’d never happen.)
Is this sarcasm????
I hope that all three cable news networks carry live the landing of the plane — even from a remote distance at which one can see nothing. It is the most important story of the day.
Totally! Can’t you see my tongue in my cheek? Oh, we need video conferencing here! :):)
Nope, sorry. Lost the ability to see your tounge cheek and/or any combination of the two about 67 days ago.
thanks for clarifying.
Well, it’s a good thing … I’d need to brush my hair and change out of my ratty old sweatshirt.
Glad to see you! Hugs.
whatever.
but I guess it’s ok to violate your OWN rule, eh??
What’s the buzz around Austin about the shooting?
but this does have all the earmarks of a story that’s going to have legs.
Personally, even though it sounds very tragic, I’m going to ignore it just like I did anything about Scott Peterson, Brad and Jen, Britney, or any of the other people who are or have been undeservedly in the news.
Well, we missed the really big story here at BT. CNN is featuring a class of elementary school children holding a wedding for the two Chilean chinchillas they keep in tiny cages. It was a ceremony complete with wedding cake, decorations, and special outfits for the bride and groom.
I hope Rick Santorum sees that story and fires off at CNN for belittling the institution of marriage. And was that ceremony held in a publicly funded school? All the more reason for vouchers so kids can get a real education.
Susan’s getting feisty over there on the peninsula . . . 🙂
Well, the Communist News Network (CNN) is always promoting gay marriage…. and now they’re promoting marriage between animals! And they’re brainwashing children to participate in animal marriages!
One of my favorite jokes involves two old Brits sitting in their club, reading the papers and drinking whatever it is they drink there, when one turns to the other and says (and to tell this joke properly you have to do it in a posh British accent):
“I say, did you hear about old Fatheringsham? They say he’s left his wife and gone off to Shropshire to live with a sheep!”
“Do tell,” the other gentleman said, and went back to his paper. A moment passes, and then he turns to his friend and says, “Is it a female sheep?”
“Of course it’s a female sheep! There’s nothing queer about old Fatheringsham.”
I once was worried I’d get kicked out of a movie theater (well, more than once, but those are different stories for different days). We were watching whichever Star Trek movie it is where Kirk gets killed, and there’s this scene where he’s in a stable, and in the stable is a horse. (No, I don’t remember why there were a horse and stable out in outer space, but there you have it.) So during the next scene where we see Kirk out for a ride, I turned to my wife and said, quietly so as not to disturb anyone actually paying attention to the movie, in my best posh British accent, “Did you hear about old Kirk? . . . “
It was my wife who was going to kick me out of the theater for making her laugh out loud, by the way.
maybe the chinchilla fur lobby has it’s hooks in Man on Dog and put a leash on him already
Though she undoubtedly would make a more professional and credible journalist than anyone CNN does employ, isn’t Kyra Sedgwick the actress, and Kyra something else the newscaster?
I’m looking now. Kyra Sedgwick is married to Kevin Bacon.
It’s PHILLIPS! Thanks!
a long time ago. She played twins. One was a psychiatrist, and one was even more evil.
“Search For Tomorrow”! I know that because we only got one tv station — NBC — when I was growing up (and that only after I was 7 years old — no tv at all before then). And “Search for Tomorrow” was the only thing to watch in the early afternoon if I was home sick and watching tv…. very hyper-dramatic, as I vaguely recall.
Louisiana artist George Rodigue has created three silkscreen prints as a fund raising effort for the New Orleans Museum of Art.
View and purchase info HERE Additionally, as of 18 Jan 06, Rodrique has donated over $300.000 to the SE LA Chapter of the American Red Cross thru the sales of his artwork.
Peace
As I write this, the wonderful BoingBoing blog has as its top story the Abu Ghraib photos, complete with information on how to download the video. I haven’t done it. For one thing, I’m at work, and for another, the stills they posted were enough for me.
But if anyone wants to see what the government thinks is worth shredding the First Amendment over, that’s the place.
the stills they posted were enough for me.
Me too. Look, I do think it’s necessary to make the photos public and to have some sort of idea of what they contain. Indeed had I friends left who were arguing that we need to torture human beings in the name of national security I would be showing them prints of those photos. We should be able to see the women and children who were tortured too and putting those photios in the face of every right-wing family values Christian insisting that torture is justifiable. We should be screening them on Ann Coulter’s garage doors.
But I must say that they are, to me, as bad as the photos that came out of the concentration camps of WW2, profoundly disturbing. I’m still disturbed by the first set. I do not want to see the video.
caution against harboring any illusions that seeing them will change the views of people who support US policies.
What to you is an indescribable horror and undeniable proof that your country is run by nothing more than a gang of thugs equally indescribable in that any adjectival attempts fall short, to those who support the policies, the photos offer much needed confirmation that progress is being made in the war on terror, and that their hard-earned tax dollars are being spent in accordance with their beliefs and desires.
It would not be a good idea, in other words, to point these photos out to crusade supporters and express how they make you feel. To do so might put you and your loved ones in danger.
On the other hand, you have to ask, if the American people are so gung-ho about this war, why would the government try so hard to suppress the photos? You’d think they’d post them on a web site somewhere to tell the world that YES, this is what we do to anyone who stands in our way. So the people who support the war can see that their wishes are being carried out.
I think they should be available also, although I doubt that I’ll ever get to see them used as evidence in war crimes tribunals, which is why I want them available.
I keep thinking of the words of Pete Seeger’s song King Henry, and relating it to my own family:
I’m not sure the reputation of our country is ever going to recover from this insanity. Its another sad day for this country. I’m really floored. I can only imagine the Arab rage, we will never be forgiven. This administration has replaced a cold indifference to the world with an attitude of contempt and sadism. Where is the humanity. Who are the true architects of these abominations. Rumsfeld needs to be in prison for this shit.
(I wonder if Cheney’s people get to “vet” the interview and make edits to it. Oh no. That’d never happen.)
Why would they need to vet an interview with Britt Hume? On the FP of DK there’s a screenshot of their headline du jour, 2 days after Dick shot a 78 year old man in the face and chest from 30 yards and one day after the same man had a heart attack because one of the up to 200 pellets has lodged near his heart. And the headline is ‘How is Dick Cheney feeling?’
They could edit out any comment the VP/his people decided wasn’t said “just so.”
Don’t forget scripted. I would bet every penny I own that each question and answer in the “interview” was carefully written in advance.