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Saturday, July 28
Robin Givhan Was Right: Hillary Clinton Was Reinventing Herself Again
by
margieburns
on Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:57 AM EDT
The big lapses at the Washington Post closely parallel those
of the Democratic Party establishment – enabling the non-vote count in election
2000, failing to investigate 9/11, and enabling the It is telling, if somewhat ironic, that some establishment-type Dems are now
at odds with the Post over a fashion article. For the record, accusations that Givhan wrote about “body parts” are bogus. The article is not about body shape or size, and anyone who suggests that it ... more » Tuesday, July 24
On May 4, 2006, the Attorney General opened up access to DOJ criminal investigations to Cheney
by
margieburns
on Tue 24 Jul 2007 05:30 PM EDT
The excellently well-prepared Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), probably one of the best Senators in Congress, offered up a real eye-opener in today's Senate Judiciary hearing. The hearing ostensibly dealt with politicization in the Department of Justice but provided little new regarding Gonzales.
Mean, harsh, repetitive and stupidly thuggy Sens Arlen "Bash Anita Hill" Specter (R-PA) and Chuck "check kiting" Schumer ("D"-NY) did their usual thing -- 90% wasting time, 10% good points or what should have been, and 100% self-dispay -- while as usual making me feel sorry for Gonzales. Critics of the administration have good points to make, ... more »
Sportcasters, gamblers, liars, plagiarizers and the treatment of Barry Bonds
by
margieburns
on Tue 24 Jul 2007 06:39 AM EDT
As Barry Bonds approaches the record-breaking home run, some of our more respectable news media voices are joining the feeble bandwagon lumbering after Bonds to attack him. The Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam weighed in with faint praise and a superficially balanced appraisal of the treatment of Bonds in this week's "Department of Human Behavior," usually a pretty good column. Bob Schieffer weighed in with a not especially telling editorial on this week's Face the Nation.
The more volatile wing of the ape family, of course, is still carrying on its defamation of Bonds in connection with "steroids." Some ... more » Saturday, July 21
McCarthyism and Partial Reporting
by
margieburns
on Sat 21 Jul 2007 10:48 AM EDT
Soon after moving to the DC area, I recall hearing a
particularly informed anecdote about Senator Joseph McCarthy of red-baiting
‘Communist conspiracy’ fame, the man who gave McCarthyism a bad name. In McCarthy’s time there existed a government entity called the Legislative Reference Service, precursor to the present Congressional Research Service (CRS), which handles reference questions on an extensive range of topics for members of Congress and congressional staffers. Condensing for brevity, what happened was that McCarthy, already in full throat at the time, actually got in touch – quietly and behind the scenes -- with the then director of ... more » Thursday, July 19
YouTube needs our help in the election: some help from Community Counts
by
margieburns
on Thu 19 Jul 2007 08:51 AM EDT
Uncle Sam wants you. As most people with access to media know, YouTube has asked vox populi to submit questions for the Democratic presidential candidates on a televised debate (CNN) July 23. The problem is that while more than 1300 questions have been uploaded so far, according to a good article in the WashPost today, CNN's editors will choose the relatively few questions to ask the candidates.
Something of a bottleneck, there, especially considering the many ways CNN went along with the administration and facilitated its achievement of war with Iraq. A web site named Community Counts has ... more »
The GOP, excluding Ron Paul again
by
margieburns
on Thu 19 Jul 2007 07:43 AM EDT
The email below, which went out to mailing lists including my PC, suggests strongly that the GOP is up to its old tricks again. According to the correspondent, the National Republican Senatorial Committee did not even include Ron Paul in its most recent mailing for a GOP presidential preference poll. These people don't want even their own supporters to vote.
The most entrenched figures in both major parties are doing their best to exclude most of our population from any genuine decision-making, but the GOP does it by far more thoroughly than even Dems like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Schumer and ... more » Friday, July 13
Ms. Palfrey confirms that Mr. Burkman's business with her was escort service related
by
margieburns
on Fri 13 Jul 2007 01:17 PM EDT
Other blogs are already all over this, but to clarify a bit
more -- One of Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s outgoing calls (
Chances of reaching Burkman himself are apparently slim and none, and slim’s out of town, as is Burkman. Other posts including Wonkette (today) have done good work regarding questions about Mr. Burkman already; naturally, quite a few people wonder why a lobbyist for ‘family values’ ... more » Wednesday, July 11
Update on yesterday's post, e-mails from Ms. Palfrey
by
margieburns
on Wed 11 Jul 2007 09:10 AM EDT
Since yesterday's blog posting was about Deborah Jeane Palfrey's publicly released telephone records, it seems only fair today to post Ms. Palfrey's own words. The questions emailed to her attorneys concerned her outgoing phone calls on September 11, 2001.
Ms. Palfrey herself replied in two emails yesterday evening, first, "Ms. Burns… I simply cannot remember such details. –Sincerely, Jeane Palfrey" and second, "Ms. Burns… what concern is my estate planning to you? -Jeane Palfrey" The latter pertains to the fact that one of the 9/11 calls was placed to a law firm. An attorney with the firm explains ... more » Tuesday, July 10
What the ‘DC Madam’ was doing on 9/11
by
margieburns
on Tue 10 Jul 2007 02:00 PM EDT
My immediate question about those phone records of Deborah
Jeane Palfrey, the so-called ‘DC madam,’ was what if any interruption of
business they would show for
First, though, Ms. Palfrey had her own domestic business to take care of. ... more » Tuesday, July 3
Keith Olbermann calls on Bush to resign
by
margieburns
on Tue 03 Jul 2007 09:15 PM EDT
In a pretty spectacular peroration tonight, MSNBC’s Keith
Olbermann delivered a ten-minute indictment of the president and vice president
and asked Bush to perform one last act of patriotism: resign. Saying “Even
Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign” and adding that Nixon’s resignation,
belated though it was, ranked as one final action of nonpartisanship, Olbermann
urged George W. Bush to emulate Nixon, “not for self, not for party” but for
the country. Olbermann also prefaced his speech, in one of several promotional moments, with the comment ... more » Monday, July 2
A crook in the White House
by
margieburns
on Mon 02 Jul 2007 09:51 PM EDT
The total commutation of Libby’s sentence should put an end to any
questions, if any remain, about whether the Bush-Cheney cabal is completely crooked.
Briefly: the published statement for public consumption that
the president found Libby’s sentence “excessive” is transparently false. If he
had merely found the sentence excessive, he could have commuted it PARTLY. Two and a
half years cd have been reduced to two, or to one and a half, or to one year.
It cd have been drastically commuted to six months, or to three months. That did not happen. Instead, George Walker Bush elevated Byron York over ... more » Sunday, July 1
Presssure on the new Scots Prime Minister of Britain -- did US authorities have security concerns not passed along?
by
margieburns
on Sun 01 Jul 2007 12:29 PM EDT
Very disappointing: It may have been a given that Gordon
Brown’s accession as Prime Minister of Great Britain would be greeted with some
new terror plots. – After all, Brown’s being welcomed as new British Prime
Minister has been reported around the world as a repudiation of Tony Blair’s
‘Bush-poodle’ support for the war against Iraq. It was probably inevitable that
any parties with a vested interest in sowing dissension and keeping |
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