Angry Left has an interesting find that will amuse you.
Media
SNL
I have never liked Justin Timberlake and whateverboy band he was in, but a half hour into Saturday Night Live, and he has been in two skits and his monologue, and he has been hysterical. Nice to have SNL actually be funny.
Interesting
Did you know that you could get to the NY Times with just the url http://times.com ? I have always used nytimes.com. Cool.
Rush Limbaugh and Pills
John Hawkins has scooped the mainstream press (again) with a whole history of Rush, pain killers, and hearing loss.
A must read.
Step 3 in the Scandal
Step 1 in Plamegate was to get the charge noticed.
Step 2 was to create a circus atmosphere with revolving questions and cyclical answers, each shifting and changing so that no one really knows what the hell is going on.
Step 3, it appears, is to impugn the investigation and to imply that Bush is guilty of a cover-up for stating he knew nothing about the leak:
If someone at the White House, perhaps acting with institutional sanction, revealed the name of a C.I.A. operative to undermine the credibility of Mr. Wilson and thus stifle dissent over Iraq policy, that in itself would be a serious assault on free speech and an egregious abuse of power. In such a case, the blanket denial that Mr. Bush issued this week would put him dangerously close to the territory in which the cover-up eclipses the offense.
Blow me, Gail Collins. Can’t these guys even pretend to be impartial? Also, in this lengthy dissertaion regarding leaks and their investigation, the hacks manage to forget to mention that the source of such leaks is usually never found or prosecuted. I guess they don’t want you to know that so they can feign the appropriate outrage if that is the case in this situation.
*** Update ***
Maybe Gail should check the front page of the online edition. She might learn something:
Former Attorney General Janet Reno, in June 2000 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the pool of potential leakers in any administration is extremely big.
“Almost inevitably, we find that the universe of individuals with authorized access to the disclosed information is so large as to render impracticable further efforts to identify the leaker,” Reno said. “Almost all leak investigations are closed without having identified a suspect.”
Or was Reno just ‘covering up’ for Clinton?
Left Wing Press?
When people bitch about the Mulholland endorse attack on Arnold in the LA Times, keep in mind the timing of the release of this story, as well as all the comments from senior Democrat officials in California.
As soon as Arnold pulls ahead, the LA Times releases this- only a few days before the election. Can they really claim this isn’t a political hit piece?
This Will be Fun to Watch
Drudge is reporting that Rush Limbaugh is involved in some ‘prescription drug’ scandal. This could be entertaining.
Here is the story.