Questions for MINITER on My Local Radio Wingnut Show

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The "Losing Bin Laden" bozo is on my local radio wingnut's show by phone. Besides blaming CLINTON for "1/3 of my book" he's saying he hopes to knock FRANKEN off the top spot on the bestsellers' list by next week. The host has read my question #1 to him.

1) Why is 1/3 of a book spent on what CLINTON shoulda done, but when ANYTHING Shrub is brought up it's called "finger-pointing" and Monday morning quarterbacking.

2) Why do yakkers constantly say that 9-11 CHANGED EVERYTHING, giving us THE NATIONAL WILL to DO SOMETHING, which was LACKING BEFORE--------in terms of SHRUB, but not of CLINTON.

3) We want the "good, bad, ugly" about CLINTON, -------but NOT of Shrub. The Repukes kept CLINTON hogtied with trivial allegations/investigations------gridlocking everything from health care through anti-terrorism.

4) Shrub/CHEENEE shelved all anti-terrorist plans and recommendations from Inauguration through 9-11.

5) So Shrub has been waging this SECRET war, highly effective, eh???? How come the OVERT war is such a bust?

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1. His Answer to #1 (He Will Be On Till End of the Hour)

"I'm glad you asked that question. If you are pro-CLINTON, you will find chapters in my book (extolling) your guy. If anti-, will also find chapters. We want the good-bad-ugly about things if we're FAIR MINDED."

He then said that his NEXT book will be about Shrub, but NOT how Shrub is screwing up----------nayyyyyy, but rather how Shrub is waging A SECRET WAR against terrorism, that Shrub told us from the beginning we would not see everything being done.

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2. Host: "Isn't It Really UNFAIR...

to charge that CLINTON was responsible for the 3,000 deaths of the WTC? This is what drives the CLINTON supporters absolutely NUTS."

MINITER: "CLINTON had 8 years, there were DEATHS. If people are upset, they ought to be upset with the people who gave me interviews, not with me. I'm just a reporter."

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3. The Bin Laden Video

He sez he notices something NOBODY else has noticed, that the vegegation is VERY GREEN, that at this time of the year it wouldn't be, that it would have to be at least 6 weeks old.

Also, that the AK47 is the CHINESE model not the usual RUSSIAN model, that he never had combat but likes to pose, and that the fact that he's carrying it means he doesn't even trust his bodyguards.

"No honor among terrorists. That the other guy in the video is NOT FREE to leave his side."

[Minstrel Boy]

6. "just a reporter"

That's no excuse. But it may be an explanation.

This is a portion of the response of American journalist John Swinton, in the early 1900s, when asked to toast an "independent press":

"We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the string and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Think things have measurably improved?

Since learning about Operation Mockingbird, and that in the 1970s the CIA had assets in all the major media, I don't think so.

[JHB]

4. Ask him how he changed the manuscript...

...from when the book was supposed to be called "The Duel: Clinton and Bin Laden's Secret War" by Simon & Schuster, why didn't they publish it, and how did he "juice it up" for the Regnery anti-Clinton crowd?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/09/02/wmd/index.html

http://hoffmania.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_hoffmania_archive.html#106246497253645975

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5. He's Gone. I'll Study Up for Next Time

He VOLUNTEERED to stay the whole hour past his scheduled 1/2 hour and ended saying he's willing to be back ANYTIME, which took the host a bit by surprise, saying, "Well now.....we're going to hold you to it."

Does he have TIME on his hands?