PBS showing only the only good part of Ashcroft testimony where

[LittleApple81]

he didn't look or act as a caged animal.

[LittleApple81]

1. Now showing a woman from the US United Nations delegation (I think)

saying that Bush* basically got everything he wanted with "minor changes". I wonder what those "minor changes" that required so much time and tweaking of the document.
A U of Michigan professor says that the Kurds wanted semi-autonomy from the rest of Iraq and that was not included. Possible source of conflict.

[Malva Zebrina]

6. well it is obvious that Bush got what he wanted after he ruthlessly

attacked a country and essentially murdered ten thousand or more innocent people

Now we have the UN, who did not sanction this, actually sanctioning this.

and we have a president, an evil president who was not elected, who invaded a country on lies, a country that could not ever have defended itself and that had something we coveted, the oil, being given the OK by the UN. It is NOW OK that he has done so. and we will be jerked around and we and our children will be jerked around with the PR campaign that will tell them, our children, that
Bush was a great and wonderful guy to have done so--something like the old
Churchill or Roosevelt, which most of them do not have one iota of knowledge about.

I tell you, I for one, even though I am only one poor little common man,(actuallya woman) am disgusted by it all. I am disgusted because I still have my morals intact and do NOT see anything like morality being displayed in my government.

and too bad for them--not for me. I know what is the right thing to do, even if they, the Bushes and the Kerrys do not.

[shraby]

2. On an earlier thread

it was noted that the RW is exerting more influence over PBS. Sorry, don't have a link.

[Lars39]

13. Here it is....Public Tv's 'Heat Shield' Withers Under White House Pressure

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1743168

[hippiegranny]

19. well yeah, that's pretty obvious

by the way npr jumped on the reagan lovefest bandwagon. i cannot listen to them this week. they are as filtered (all good, skim lightly over the bad) as the worst of the tv pundits who are slobbering all over the actual death of someone who has been, for all intents and purposes, dead for years.

[Jacobin]

3. pretty damn disgusting

PBS has almost totally been freeped.

[pinto]

4. CNN and MSNBC both gave it the "lite" coverage...

there was one brief allusion by MSNBC to the "Contempt of Congress" comments, no footage.

[LittleApple81]

5. Now discussing the memos again. Perhaps it will be better. LEAHY UP!

[LittleApple81]

7. Ashcroft evading saying that Bush* did not order...blah, blah.

Leahy repeats the question, and then yes/no.
And then Ashcroft saying no.
Then Leahy saying yes/no?
Ashcroft going around in circles. I saw this this morning but it is DELIGHTFUL TO SEE HIM SWEATING AGAIN!!!

[LittleApple81]

8. Now showing Kennedy's questioning showing the pictures.

[LittleApple81]

9. Biden saying you may be in contempt of Congress!!! I am glad

they are showing this.
Feinstein up now.

[wtmusic]

14. Awww! I missed it the 2nd time

Ashcroft falling to pieces, looking guilty as sin. I thought he was going to have a breakdown or something :D

[buycitgo]

10. hahahahaha!!!!!! he slipped up

said he wouldn't answer whether he talked to the chimp or not, even if he hadn't, or something like that

it was clear, though, that he HAD talked to him, cause he caught/corrected himself

go for the throat, boys!

[LittleApple81]

11. Hess Brawn from WSJ up now. He was the one who broke the

news of the memos.

[LittleApple81]

12. DoJ has been exploring the possible legal ways of obtaining information.

My take: how to use torture.

[LittleApple81]

15. David Brooks: Bush* talks much more like Reagan than the old pessimistic

conservatives....I dislike him profoundly.

[Career Prole]

16. Hey Ashcroft fans!

That got ya! :D
Does anyone know the answer to the question I've asked in this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1749784&mesg_id=1749784
It's driving me nuts!
Thanks!

[LittleApple81]

17. Now saying that Reagan made a frontal attack on the New Deal n/t

[LittleApple81]

18. Time to turn off this junk. Reagathonics again. n/t