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Washington Post legend Bob Woodward knew who Valerie Plame was in June 2003, likely before any other reporter, but he didn't tell his executive editor about it until a few weeks ago. Here's the Watergate hero's statement. An excerpt from the WaPo story: Bob Woodward apologized today to The Washington Post's executive editor for failing [...]
Wed, November 16 2005 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Robert Scheer, one of the L.A. Times' more progressive voices, found himself out of a gig last week — although for balance, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative cartoonist also got whacked. A replacement for Scheer has been named: Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism. I believe he is attributed with calling the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” [...]
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So, the armed forces of the country that liberated Iraqis in part because Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons on them is now being investigated for using something akin to a chemical weapon. :( But the white phosphorus used in Fallujah was used to attack the bad Iraqis, not burn the good ones, insists the U.S. military. An excerpt [...]
Wed, November 16 2005 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
I'm guessing the Netherlands TV company that shot a sparrow that flew into its studio and knocked over 23,000 dominoes is now wishing it hadn't. For one thing, the guy who pulled the trigger is getting death threats of his own. A Dutch radio station is offering big bucks to anyone who breaks into the [...]
Wed, November 16 2005 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
WARREN, PA—Although respondents to a Pew poll taken prior to the 2004 presidential election characterized Bush as “the candidate they'd most like to sit down and have a beer with,” Chris Reinard lived the hypothetical scenario Sunday afternoon, and characterized it as “really uncomfortable and awkward.” Reinard, a father of four who supported Bush in [...]
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Zerby pointed to an interesting statement made by Steve Roberts of George Washington University on the CNN program Reliable Sources: