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[Plaid Adder]

Wow, how long has it been since you saw the American media doing something that actually cheered you up?

I mean, the news from Iraq is still very bad--50 yesterday, 40 today, how many tomorrow?--but the news from the WH briefing room is fantastic. What is this with the spine-growing all of a sudden? It's like one lemming finally stood up and said, "Hey! That's a cliff! Let's not go there!" And now they're all stampeding in the opposite direction.

Whatever, I'll take it,

The Plaid Adder

[GOPisEvil]

1. It's nice the media is using their "sharks smelling blood" for good...

...it's about damned time.

Better late to the party than never showing up...

[NJCher]

2. did you see Jon Stewart last night

He had a lot of clips of shrub on and in one the shrub says, in response to why the Iraqis don't want us there, "I think the Iraqis do want us there." Then Stewart says something to the effect of "I guess a car bomb that blows up 50 people is Iraq's way of saying 'welcome!'"


Cher

[Jivenwail]

3. Oh, yeah...

Jon was "ON" last night. Absolutely hysterical. You just gotta love,love,love that guy!

[Lost4words]

5. I think he said that an RPG is an Iraq's way of saying alowha. n/t

[StClone]

8. Jon repeats at 10:00 ETZ Comedy Central this morn

I will be watching.

[izzie]

4. It is big business so always goes for the bottom line.

If it was not for the bottom line can you see the news. Bush would be mud but they will still watch them selfs because of that money.I do not think they will ever do to Bush what they did to Clinton.

[Robin Hood]

6. Bush was caught lying about WMDs.

Now, Everyone is wondering what else is he lying about. It's about credibility, he has pissed his away. all bets are off.

[Tigerlily]

7. Fantastic "Cassandra" article, Plaid Adder!

One of the best I've read concerning how it has felt to live in Bush's America for the past 3 years. Thank you! :)

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Yes, well done!

Very powerful essay!
While reading it I had the idea of an updated movie version of the Trojan war, using the Iraq war as an allegory. Might be an interesting interpretation...

[Plaid Adder]

19. Thanks! I really appreciate it

Makes me happy to knwo someone's readin'.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[madrchsod]

10. nice history lesson..

learned more from you than any world history teacher i`ve had. the elite in this country has given over 200 million to the republican party and the election of the boy king,they`ll want their investment to pay off.
it`s going to be along hot summer

[ithacan]

11. listening now on Democracy Now

it is pretty unbelievable, they are actually PUSHING Scott, calling him on his spinning, demanding that he answer questions...

I love it, but I have to wonder what is up. Why now? Is this just some way for the media to get this out of the way now so in the crucial months it'll be past?

Or maybe, this is a bunch more drips, and there's no turning back...

Maybe it's the really dismissive attitude displayed by this white house to the press (there was a great article in the New Yorker on this, Ken Auletta I think)...

[Plaid Adder]

12. I think maybe we have been too prone to discount the human factor...

What I think maybe we're seeing now is that now that the individuals who make up "the media" finally feel like it's 'OK' for them to actually question things, they are releasing the pent-up frustration that they have been repressing for the past 3 years. My guess is that what they're doing now actually feeeeels gooooood to them. So naturally they're going to want to keep doing it so they can maintain that "hey look, I can finally respect myself" high.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[BeFree]

13. Pent-up frustrations

Agreed.

Also, given the fact that it looks like a new administration will be in place in less than a year, and that bunch of menacing bullies will no longer threaten them and their families, the press members, as individual human beings, are finding a new level of comfort.

It doesn't hurt that the apparent nominee is Kerry, but under the circumstances, just about any of the Dem candidates would tend to empower that new comfort level. IMO

Hey, *! C ya in hell.

[NJCher]

14. it's also the "tipping point"

Cher

[Cat Atomic]

15. Didn't cheer *me* up.

The fact that the press conference was completely ignored by the television media was awfully distrurbing to me.

I honestly thought that they'd never just ignore it. I assumed it'd be such obvious censorship that they'd have to cover it in some form. But they didn't. That's troubling.

[On the Road]

16. Asking Questions About Vietnam?

They're only -- what -- eight wars behind? Hey, there's a break-in at the Watergate you might want to investigate (Jon Stewart).

[KoKo]

17. Plaid your article today about Cassandra is Exceptional! Wonderful....

Printed that one out to keep. Many thanks for your observations, comparisons and conclusions. It was a real treat. :-)'s

[Plaid Adder]

18. Thanks, KoKo1

Took me a long time to write it, too. Some of them just roll right off the tongue but that one actually involved work.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder