Ahh, the NY Times:
First Vice chewed out The Times for accurately reporting that the 9/11 commission said there was no collaborative relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Then Paul Wolfowitz called the reporters risking their lives in Iraq craven rumormongers. Then came Mr. Cheney’s F-word. (Not Fox, the other one.)
Discuss.
Russell Wardlow
Modo-ese: a language that, when translated into English, always results in the same sentence – “I am a sloppy, dried-up, old lying bitch of a woman.”
Parkway Rest Stop - Jim
Every time I read what this woman writes, I feel afterward as if I had just picked at a scab. When will I ever learn?
Memo to Self: Do not read this hateful woman’s screeds.
Anti-Idiot
Remember Moron Dowd on the threat from WMD when a Democrat
was in the White House, in 1997?
“I was peaceably eating my penne at lunch the other day when my
friend, another reporter, told me he thought Washington was in
imminent danger of being gassed, germed, VX’ed or anthraxed.
Suddenly there are fears about Iraqi crop dusters spraying death on
the Mall, about the nation’s capital being another Nagasaki… Having
covered President Bush’s [Bush 41] efforts to demonize the Iraqis, I
understood the motive behind Secretary Cohen’s alarmist performance
art. We are talking about a world-class monster who strangles people
with his bare hands, gasses entire villages, assassinates members of
his family and uses babies as shields.
Wondering if the Clinton crowd has the spine for its first big crisis is
giving me a bad case of the jits. The suspicion lingers about these alumni of
make-love-not-war that they are not entirely comfortable with things military …
Even with George Bush’s sometimes scattered style and Colin Powell’s inhibition
about the use of force, the Bush-Baker-Cheney-Powell-Schwarzkopf team still
gave the impression of command … I want Madeleine Albright, the most virile
of the lot, to stop wearing picture hats around the Mideast. Saddam Hussein is
not threatening Ascot. I fret that toothy Tony Blair is no Iron Lady.”
November 19, 1997
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D13FE3D5F0C7A8DDDA80994DF494D81
Anti-Idiot
Sorry, the above post turned into a mess, feel free to delete.
Here it is again, hopefully in a readable format:
Remember Moron Dowd on the threat from WMD when a Democrat was in the White House, in 1997?
“I was peaceably eating my penne at lunch the other day when my friend, another reporter, told me he thought Washington was in imminent danger of being gassed, germed, VX’ed or anthraxed.
Suddenly there are fears about Iraqi crop dusters spraying death on the Mall, about the nation’s capital being another Nagasaki… Having covered President Bush’s [Bush 41] efforts to demonize the Iraqis, I understood the motive behind Secretary Cohen’s alarmist performance art. We are talking about a world-class monster who strangles people with his bare hands, gasses entire villages, assassinates members of his family and uses babies as shields.
Wondering if the Clinton crowd has the spine for its first big crisis is giving me a bad case of the jits. The suspicion lingers about these alumni of make-love-not-war that they are not entirely comfortable with things military … Even with George Bush’s sometimes scattered style and Colin Powell’s inhibition about the use of force, the Bush-Baker-Cheney-Powell-Schwarzkopf team still gave the impression of command … I want Madeleine Albright, the most virile of the lot, to stop wearing picture hats around the Mideast. Saddam Hussein is not threatening Ascot. I fret that toothy Tony Blair is no Iron Lady.”
November 19, 1997
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D13FE3D5F0C7A8DDDA80994DF494D81
Ralph Gizzip
MoDo et.al. have succeeded in turning the Old Gray Lady into a Crusty, Disease-Riddled Slut.
Andrew J. Lazarus
How many Assistant Secretaries of Defense have died in Iraq? Compared to how many journalists?
And I bet the least qualified journalist knows how many Americans have died in Iraq, which you’ll recall was beyond Wolfowitz’s knowledge of the situation.
(Incidentally, isn’t Wolfie making a mistake admitting that the country is a horribly dangerous place for journalists to go find the repainted schools?)