In some ways, I think Dana Milbank's article lays bare the way our

[KlatooBNikto]

propagandist press does the bidding of their masters. He was fully aware that the Republicans erected obstacles to John Conyers holding hearings in the Judiciary Committee's conference room but continued to ridicule that the hearings were held in a small basement room.He was also contemptuous that Conyers had American flags brought in to his hearings.

That this lap dog of his paymasters could not or would not find room in his article to say exactly what the hearings were all about says a lot about Milbank.

He is a despicable coward and in the words of George Galloway, a Press Popinjay.

[EFerrari]

1. Yup. The sum of my note to him was a dictionary entry

for "propaganda".

[sam sarrha]

7. "Fascism is more accurately called Corporatism, ..." ..Benito Mussolini

We must NEVER forget that corporate influence of Government any kind is Fascism. 55 million people died in World War 2, the great war against Fascism... NEVER FORGET, NEVER !!!! when did we quit HONORING the sacrifice of the "55 MILLION" that died saving the world from FASCISM !!! Fascism doesn't remain in and isolated area, It Is An Infectious Disease, that always roars into a Pandemic.

We must be ever vigilant against it..!!

The Reich has spent hundreds of millions of Dollars attempting to "Redefine" the very word Fascism, in order to hide what they intend to do until it has enslaved us all.

This is Fascism: http://www.indybay.org/print.php?id=1719333

the latest attempt is to legislate a monopoly to INTERNET access,"Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act" HR2726, would let Cable and Telecom Corporations shut down community Internet and Broadband projects across the country.

In the last 5 years we have fallen from being a leader in broadband to ..13th.. in the world. this is a threat to DEMOCRACY ITSELF.. it has been planed by the Fascists and it is WORKING !!!!!!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Dana Milbank is a Bu$h whore of the first degree

Here's his gushing discription of Bu$h's carrier landing when Bu$h declaired the now infamous "mission accomplished".



For Bush, the Military Is the Message for '04

By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 2, 2003; Page A01

<snip>

For Bush -- who also spent the night aboard the carrier -- the whole day was devoted to linking his presidency to the aura of the U.S. military. When the Viking S-3B carrying Bush made its tailhook landing on the aircraft carrier off California yesterday, Bush emerged from the cockpit in full olive flight suit and combat boots, his helmet tucked jauntily under his left arm. As he exchanged salutes with the sailors, his ejection harness, hugging him tightly between the legs, gave him the bowlegged swagger of a top gun.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2849-2003May1¬Found=true

[rodeodance]

3. did nayone hear back from him-or from the WaPost?--I have not but

had the feeling that lots of us/others wrote to him about that nasty piece.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

9. There is a response in todays WP from the ombudsman

Sorry, as usual I forget the name of the ombudsman but it was addressing the earlier column when Milbank used the term "wing-nuts" . Anyway, the ombudsman seems to think that some of the uproar is due to the fact the most people identify Milbank as a "reporter" and do not realize that he has also become a "columnist" when he writes under the "Washington Sketch" heading. No doubt that is true, but you don't find too many reporters who attempt to do both. Once you start writing columns and injecting opinions and bias, how do you go back to being a straight reporter? Would I accept a straight news article by Bob Novak or Michelle Malkin?- I don't think so. I guess the Post and Milbank believe that he can have it both ways. In his reply to the ombudsman about the "wing-nut" terminology, Milbank said that he was trying to be colorful and provacative.

The article about the Conyers hearing was written as a Washington Sketch. That still does not answer the question as to why this is the ONLY coverage the WP had about the hearings. They are still demeaning the hearing by acting as if it does not rise to the level of "news."

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Did he really say "jauntily"??? I mean, could he be serious, and

that is ejection harness right? Don't want to read too much into his swill.... but wait.... "hugging him tightly between the legs"... forget it. This dana person is an idiot.

[KC21304]

6. Although I think Milbank's piece on the hearing was

outrageous, I don't agree that he has been a Bush whore. My take on this piece from May 2003 is it is more derisive than it is complimentary. And he had been pretty well banished from the White House press corp. I am glad he is getting grief on this but I don't agree he has been a Bush toady.

[KlatooBNikto]

10. This may actually have given him the motive to do a hit piece on

John Conyers. By doing this he may be trying to climb back in favor at the WH. As I see the usual apologists being trotted out to debunk the DSM, Dana's motives become clearer.

[Botany]

5. This what I wrote him ....... according to an earlier thread his

article is now locked and can not be loaded. He just wrote a piece on
on on the cost of the war .... he is covering his ass ..... I am sure the blowback
was white hot.

this was the e mail I sent him ...

Have you no shame? John Conyers should be sitting on his butt and enjoying his latter years yet he shows up and fights for all of us and you belittle him. I will cancel my subscription to the Washington Post national weekly as soon as this e mail is sent ..... I have been getting it for @ least 18 years but as long as you draw a paycheck from the post I want nothing to do with that paper.

Go visit Walter Reed and look @ the amputees; Do they not have the right to know how we got into this bloody mess?

Shame on you

[e-mail]

[Jacobin]

8. WaPo just Loooves the invasion of Iraq

They were a huge cheerleader for the war to make Israel safe.

And didja notice how Milbank went bonkers when someone at the hearing suggested that Israel and its hired US think tanks have influence on American foreign policy? Oooooo, can't talk about that, now can we?