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The Citzen Journalist Goldstein style

Hot Air has a new Vent up by Jeff Goldstein. I only have one question: what is Jeff doing sitting at home writing the best blog in the blogosphere and not enjoying multimillion dollar contracts with his own late night television show? What a hoot! And who knew that the "real life" Jeff is a yummy hunk!

Dorkafork Jeff Goldstein, as the paleocon retard:
When’s the last time YOU’VE ever seen a patriot in flip flops?!



Jeff Goldstein, the earnest moonbat:
We rape and pillage but it’s for us, so it’s cool, man!


H/T: MVRWC for the screen shots

NBC joins the looney left

In surfing around today and reading lots of posts and comments about the foiled terror plot, I've seen some incredibly stupid remarks. I have never seen such lunacy as is rampant on the far left. I didn't think it could get any more insane, until I came to the Newsbusters story. Jeff Goldstein has a suggestion. I take only one exception: to do what Jeff suggests presumes the loonies admit terrorists exist. They don't. In their childish worlds, it is all a Rovian/Cheney plot.

Progressive delusional paranoia goes national:  NBC News “questions the timing”

Via Newsbusters, here’s NBC’s Kevin Corke:

“Yeah well said because a lot of people here are going to be asking the question, not only today but in the days to come, if, if the administration has known about this potential plot what was the hold up in getting the word out, especially domestically? Now right now they’re saying, Ann, that there’s no expectation that there will be domestic arrests related to this particular terror plot but still it does beg the question how long ago did they know of this and why are we just hearing about it right now?”

As Ace notes:

I can’t think of any obvious answers to that. Nothing like, “He didn’t leak it because he didn’t want to compromise the British investigation, which was a painstaking, massive one conducted over a period of months.”

Must be something else, I’m sure.

And of course, here’s the question that an objective journalist would have directed back to Corke—and those many many many concerned people so concerned and curious about “the timing”:  If not today, when?  And the corollary (which goes to motive), why NOT today?

Because here’s the thing:  had Bush leaked the story for political purposes days ago—say, in the run-up to the Lieberman primary—we’d hear braying from the left about the timing of that. That he didn’t do any such thing—that he let British intelligence and law enforcement do its job and make the call about when to make arrests and how to break the story—is now (ironically! amazingly!  incredibly!) being framed as, well, what, exactly?  A coverup?  Who knows.  We’re never told.

And the reason is simple: by framing the question open-endedly—which has the effect of insinuating a dark conspiracy being carried out by cynical men for secret purposes—Corke and those like him have achieved their purpose of creating doubt where thre need not be any.  It is a smear couched as intellectual curiosity.

So in order to avoid this kind of unsavory journalism in the future, I have a suggestion:  perhaps Mr Corke and the rest of the “concerned” and “curious” can make this easy on all of us and just draft a list of dates when it would be convenient for them to have facts reported.  For my part, that the story broke on the day the arrests were made is something I’m comfortable with, answering to my satisfaction, as it does, the fraught question posed by Mr Corke: “why today?”
That answering being that today is the day of the arrests.  Which is the story.  QED.

Mother Moonbat Watch ...

What is Cindy doing today?

MOTHER SHEEHAN'S MARRIED LOVER - Cindy Sheehan & Right Wing Love Affair?
Melanie Morgan & "It Comes in Pints" Blog ^ | 08/10/2006 | Melanie Morgan

Posted on 08/10/2006 10:43:42 AM PDT by Impeach98

MOTHER SHEEHAN'S MARRIED LOVER

 

 

Activist breaks camp in Crawford to do 'damage control'

Cindy Sheehan packed her bags and left Crawford ,Texas, Tuesday afternoon and arrived home in Berkeley, Ca. late Tuesday evening. Sheehan rushed back to do damage control after explosive information became public today about an alleged affair that began while she was still married to her husband Patrick, and after her son Casey Sheehan died in Sadr City, Iraq attempting to rescue members of his trapped squad.

Sources are telling authors Melanie Morgan and Catherine Moy, (American Mourning, Cumberland Press) that Sheehan is furious that the news of her affair has gone public. Sources have identified the boyfriend as former right-winger Lew Rockwell of the Ludwig Von Mises think tank located in Alabama, who is himself married.

Oh and look, she is claiming her tent down at Camp Casey in Crawford is now her principal  residence. She must be (a resident, that is), right? Otherwise this would be illegal. Check the update at the link below for Cindy's new wish list:

Cindy Sheehan Registers To Vote In Crawford - Illegally?

By DB on Media Bias

From our intrepid correspondent on site down in Texas, Crawford Activist, we have this photo of Cindy Sheehan at the local post office last Tuesday registering to vote in McLennan County:

Crawford Activist reports that Mother Sheehan then left Crawford late Tuesday afternoon to attend a conference in Seattle she is headlining.

Ms. Sheehan is supposed to return to Crawford Friday morning in time to protest the RNC fundraiser near the President’s ranch.

Then Cindy is off again to give a speech in Washington, DC on Saturday. It seems she just can’t resist those speaking fees.

But hasn’t our hero mother broken Texas law by registering to vote when she is not a Texas resident?

It gets better, check out the UPDATE:

Bear in mind that Mother Sheehan is hereby soliciting for donations to her private residence, which is strictly against the IRS guidelines for a tax exempt "charity," which (God help us) GSFP is.

Iditots! Who? The NYT, of course

Put aside the fact that the editorial starts out with "It is now 26 days since Hezbollah and Israel began their latest combat [1] — a very long time for the world to allow such a deadly conflict to rage in the Middle East powder keg.". Well it is hard to put that arrogant and so utterly stupid statement aside I know. The New York Times, Bill Keller in particular, are so ignorant, they have become dangerous to all of us. Here is a taste, but go read it all:

Can the NY Times Be This Mind-Numbingly Stupid?

By jon on Media Bias

9. The NY Times is now on record recommending that Hezbollah be provided with a way to claim victory. This may be the most astonishingly inane, idiotic, absurd and downright stupid bit of lunacy that has ever been published. Hezbollah is a proxy for Iran, which is flexing its regional muscles and, oh by the way, developing nuclear weapons as part of an apocalyptic mission. How, exactly, will bolstering Iran's terrorist arm help the world confront the Iranian threat?

The only person even more idiotic, arrogant, and ignorant than Bill Keller is his boss, Pinch Suhlzberger. They are terror enablers, terror appeasers, and proponents of massive dhimmitude. Treasonous, in my opinion, too.

Snatching Defeat

 

Dr. Demented (Deb Frisch) update

No, Ace, I didn't know this, but it is welcome news.

Keeping Up With Doctor Debby

By Ace

As many of you probably know, Doc Deb Frisch was served with a restraining order yesterday, ordering her, by judicial decree, to stop cyberstalking Jeff Goldstein and especially his kid. Her compliance with the order is, shall we say, rather ... spotty.

I didn't mention this because I know she does this to get attention and thus even dropping her name causes lots of people to flock over to her bus-accident of a site. As "someone" said, you can't fight the urge to rubberneck at human disaster areas; but still, it just encourages her.

And it also gets her into more trouble, as she feels oddly compelled to keep the bad attention coming.

At any rate, if you can avoid going to her site, it would probably be for the best for all concerned. Including Deb Frisch herself.

  If you need to know what the Deranged Doctor is up to, you might try going to this site, Don't Hire Deb, which keeps an eye on her battiness and reposts it for your delectation.

Moonbat Roundup

The Code Pink Crazies:

Mother Moonbat and her minions move in to Crawford, TX and the residents aren't happy: (H/T:  BMEWS)

Wayne Stayskal -Tribune Media Services

Texas Town Disturbed By Sheehan, Protests

CRAWFORD, Texas (SEATTLE-PI) July 27, 2006"

Like many folks in President Bush’s adopted hometown, 83-year-old Robert Westerfield isn’t exactly rolling out the welcome mat for the town’s newest resident: war protester Cindy Sheehan. “I wish she’d stay away. Crawford’s a Republican town, and she’s a dumb Democrat,” Westerfield, a lifelong Crawford resident, said Friday while sitting on a bench outside a gas station on Main Street.

Code Pink tries to close gas station, Cheney look-alike to the rescue  (H/T: Gateway Pundit)

Paid at the Pump Some cutesy anti-war protesters have a real gas attack.
By  Alan Scherstuhl
Article Published Aug  3, 2006

Seven bicycles rolled to the pumps at 5:16, inciting a couple of anti-war honks. Out came the trash bags. To stunned motorists, the activists said things such as "no gas today," "keep driving" and "we're taking over."

With a feathery boa wrapped around her Peaches T-shirt, Finken commandeered the easternmost pumps. She kicked off the chants with "money for health care!"

"Stop the war!" called the rest of the Code Pinkers.

Finken: "Funding for education!"

Code Pinkers: "Stop the war!"

Half the QuikTrip customers: "Fuck you!"

At Finken's pump, a Dick Cheney look-alike in shorts, sandals and an apoplectic rage, leapt from his red Dodge van and pushed her aside.

"I'm sorry, we're taking over right now," she said.

"Move the fuck out of my way!" He dragged her bike from the pump.

"Gas station's closed!" Finken shouted into her megaphone.

Cheney: "Don't fucking do that!"

********

Officers detained several protesters, including Finken. After several minutes, an unmarked cruiser pulled through the lot. In the passenger seat: that Cheney look-alike.

Soon, Finken was under arrest. Cheney was pressing charges.

More Plame/Wilson ... argh!

I have seen others ask "where is Hugh Hewitt?" I lost him too for awhile after he went to Townhall. So if you missed that he did three separate interviews with constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, he has kindly posted the following links. Chemerinsky has signed on to the Wilson/Plame civil suit, although from the sound of things, he doesn't have a clue what the case is about. What a chump!

Transcript of the first conversation is here.  The second conversation is transcribed here, and the third is here.

And if you lost Hugh in your RSS feed reader after he made the switch, here is the current feed that I finally got to work: http://rss.townhall.com/blogs/hughhewitt in my Bloglines feed reader. Don't have a feed reader, just click ... and while you are at it, enter this one too:   http://squiggler.blogs.com/blog/rss.xml.

Related:

MacRanger has new news on the Libby case which, of course, is all about Plame/Wilson at: Plame Game - I said, they said, but I got the shaft!

 

Have journalists dumbed down? Or are they just plain dumb?

What is it with our supposedly "learned" journalists? Is their dumbing down a recent phenomenon? It is scary to think that we've been spoon fed their ignorance for years and years.

A Newsbusters story on Chris Matthews of Hardball fame details the embarrassing (Newsbusters calls it disgraceful) ignorance of a man who at one time was considered the cream of the crop. Matthews is on MSNBC on weeknights and has his own Sunday show as well. One has to wonder how he could be so uninformed ... ignorant ... about stories he has been reporting about for years.

Chris Matthews Exhibits Shocking Ignorance of Middle East History

In War on Terrorism

Without a doubt, Americans who have even a rudimentary understanding of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Islamic terrorism must be amazed by the continued ignorance being exhibited by the mainstream media as hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel exploded in the past three weeks. One of the finest examples of this occurred on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday when the host concluded the program by actually blaming this flare up on – drum roll please – George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

So, I finish reading about Chris Matthews and the next story I click on is this eye roller from Patterico. Go read it all.

L.A. Times Editors: “We Just Can’t Solve the Mystery of Why that Muslim Guy Shot All Those Jews”

By Patterico on Dog Trainer

Yes, if you ask the editors of the Los Angeles Times, it’s an utter mystery why the shootings occurred. At least, if you look at Page One. Here is a graphic from the paper’s front page today, teasing stories appearing inside the paper:

The teaser leads to a story on Page A22, which contains the following clue to the “mystery” of the shooter’s motive:

All I can say is thank goodness for blogs. Even with all the cat fights, the potty mouth kiddie korps, and the trolls, excellent research, fact checking, and information and idea exchanges can be found all over the blogosphere.

What is it with our supposedly "learned" journalists? Is their dumbing down a recent phenomenon? It is scary to think that we've been spoon fed their ignorance for years and years.

A Newsbusters story on Chris Matthews of Hardball fame details the embarrassing (Newsbusters calls it disgraceful) ignorance of a man who at one time was considered the cream of the crop. Matthews is on MSNBC on weeknights and has his own Sunday show as well. One has to wonder how he could be so uninformed ... ignorant ... about stories he has been reporting about for years.

Chris Matthews Exhibits Shocking Ignorance of Middle East History

In War on Terrorism

Without a doubt, Americans who have even a rudimentary understanding of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Islamic terrorism must be amazed by the continued ignorance being exhibited by the mainstream media as hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel exploded in the past three weeks. One of the finest examples of this occurred on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday when the host concluded the program by actually blaming this flare up on – drum roll please – George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

So, I finish reading about Chris Matthews and the next story I click on is this eye roller from Patterico. Go read it all.

L.A. Times Editors: “We Just Can’t Solve the Mystery of Why that Muslim Guy Shot All Those Jews”

By Patterico on Dog Trainer

Yes, if you ask the editors of the Los Angeles Times, it’s an utter mystery why the shootings occurred. At least, if you look at Page One. Here is a graphic from the paper’s front page today, teasing stories appearing inside the paper:

The teaser leads to a story on Page A22, which contains the following clue to the “mystery” of the shooter’s motive:

All I can say is thank goodness for blogs. Even with all the cat fights, the potty mouth kiddie korps, and the trolls, excellent research, fact checking, and information and idea exchanges can be found all over the blogosphere.

What is it with our supposedly "learned" journalists? Is their dumbing down a recent phenomenon? It is scary to think that we've been spoon fed their ignorance for years and years.

A Newsbusters story on Chris Matthews of Hardball fame details the embarrassing (Newsbusters calls it disgraceful) ignorance of a man who at one time was considered the cream of the crop. Matthews is on MSNBC on weeknights and has his own Sunday show as well. One has to wonder how he could be so uninformed ... ignorant ... about stories he has been reporting about for years.

Chris Matthews Exhibits Shocking Ignorance of Middle East History

In War on Terrorism

Without a doubt, Americans who have even a rudimentary understanding of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Islamic terrorism must be amazed by the continued ignorance being exhibited by the mainstream media as hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel exploded in the past three weeks. One of the finest examples of this occurred on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday when the host concluded the program by actually blaming this flare up on – drum roll please – George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

So, I finish reading about Chris Matthews and the next story I click on is this eye roller from Patterico. Go read it all.

L.A. Times Editors: “We Just Can’t Solve the Mystery of Why that Muslim Guy Shot All Those Jews”

By Patterico on Dog Trainer

Yes, if you ask the editors of the Los Angeles Times, it’s an utter mystery why the shootings occurred. At least, if you look at Page One. Here is a graphic from the paper’s front page today, teasing stories appearing inside the paper:

The teaser leads to a story on Page A22, which contains the following clue to the “mystery” of the shooter’s motive:

All I can say is thank goodness for blogs. Even with all the cat fights, the potty mouth kiddie korps, and the trolls, excellent research, fact checking, and information and idea exchanges can be found all over the blogosphere.

Deranged moonbattery extraordinaire ...

This guy is too much. Looks like all the biggie moonbats have signed on.

Ramsey Clark Plans Rally Against Israel

By Van Helsing

Ramsey Clark has announced plans to stage a "National Emergency March on Washington" to protest American support for Israel's attempts to defend itself. According to Clark, who was U.S. Attorney General under LBJ, the financial assistance our country has long provided to Israel is grounds for impeaching President Bush.

Why anyone in the West would want to bring about the disintegration of a relatively civilized Arab state that has been moving toward democracy is not explained. If Lebanon did have any oil, we would just buy it. But in Ramsey Clark's circles, rational explanations are not to be expected.

Laura by a knock out, again ...

I saw this in real time and it was delightful to behold. Be sure to watch the video. I love Laura Ingraham  and I especially like how she refuses to settle for her guest/targets avoiding the question and going into one of their "talking points" diatribes.

Friday Night Fights III: Laura Ingraham Takes on Code Pink Co-Founder Medea Benjamin

After her stunning knockout of Fox News’s resident liberal Juan Williams last
Friday night, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham was looking to defend her title this Friday against Medea Benjamin. For those unfamiliar, Benjamin is the co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink who heckled visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mouri al-Maliki during his address to Congress Wednesday (hat tip and video courtesy of Ms. Underestimated and Expose the Left).

UPDATE:

Dem Congressman Helped Code Pink Kook Crash al-Malaki Address