Okay, if I HAVE to, I’ll register on the Washington Post web site. But it would be a lot less of a pain in the ass if somebody would just note whether the story tells what Drudge did with the “alert.” Did he run with it, or did he do the right thing and denounce the little shitheel and his attempt at character assassination?
Registering on the Washington Post site is fun. All it asks for is year of birth, gender, and zip code. I always enter 1901, female, 90210.
The Pentagon is also retaliating against the soldiers who were critical of Rummy.
I wonder if Rummy will do anything to Abizaid for pretty much calling him a liar on the whole “guerilla war” question.
From the Washington Post:
emphasis mine
Well, THAT was coy of Drudge, wasn’t it?
Yes. I wish we could go back to the days of the Clinton administration, when no one ever practiced character assassination.
Tu quoque much, Andy? How does anything Clinton did (and I remember him defending himself against character assassination not engaging in it) let Bush off the hook right now?
I see nothing wrong about reprimanding soldiers that were out of line like that. They are supposed to act and behave responsibly, it’s part of their job. They adhere to stricter standards than civilians.
Rumor has it that Chance also LIKES the shitty theme song of ENTERPRISE and sings it in the shower regularly!
Oooh, the scandal!
Giving their opinions when asked is “out of line”?
I can only conclude, Monster104, that you have less respect for America’s armed forces than I do.
I never was much of a fan of selective outrage. Clinton had a “war room” of staffers whose job it was to dig up the background dirt on anyone who might prove troublesome. He had phone banks of people who would spread the dirt. He had James Carville, ferchrisake. We could also ask “How does anything Bush did let Clinton off the hook.” If you wish to be taken seriously when you condemn such acts, you must condemn them without bipartisan prejudice. Otherwise, it is merely a case of “It’s wrong for you to do this, but it’s fine for us to do it.”
SAL,
umm…cite?
Yah, it’s the Pit and not required to back up inflammatory or flammatory accusations.
Remember way back in 2001, just after Rehnquist dubbed the sElected President Bush NeoCon King of the World?
We were so touchingly naive back then.
Ari Fleischer’s first week of press conferences were about the looting, burning and general vandalism the departing Clintonions wraught on the White House?
That didn’t pan out, did it? To be, like the truth? Or even technically true?
Did Ari ever “disabuse” you of that notion?
“It’s been a long time…”
Clinton, at a minimum, was always fairly conservative about bashing individual members of the press. There are very few ways for an administration to get the press corps buzzing like hornets than to attack someone in it.
And to do it so clumsily! And to DRUDGE for God’s sake! He was bound to report it in such a way as to make the administration look bad. What were they thinking!
As to the soldiers…it was foolish of them to speak on the record. But it’s certainly true that soldiers on active duty have less freedom of speech that the average citizen. That’s pretty long standing.
Satisfying Andy Licious. You said
and you got called on it by Corbomite .
When you get time, you might give us a cite which would allow us to applaud you on your memory. Until then, quit posting crap.
This post is a testimony to the value of reading a variety of news sources. Some papers have slants. Different papers, different slants. If you don’t keep in touch with a spectrum, you get only one side.
Now to the basics: The General Accounting Office (GAO) is a nonpartisan, government watchdog agency. It investigated these claims – and people who are interested in learning something rather than just crying “cite” could find out about it.
The GAO did, in fact, find some vandalism, estimated at around $19,000 to $20,000.
And:
There was, indeed, some initial questions about the extent of the damage, and the Bush administration said there was more than was documented because they had not, during that hectic time, recorded absolutely everything. Yes, some news sources have spun this story as saying that vandalism did not occur. I think those inclined to look at the world through that prism will also tend to ignore what the GAO found.
Sure, Sam. The key words are “when I get time.” I’d love to fight your ignorance, but in itself that would be a full time job.
Actually, I didn’t think this statement would even be controversial except for diehards who still believe that he didn’t have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky, et al. Such people exist. And so did Clinton’s war room, and it doesn’t take much work to find reports on it, unless all you want to do is scream “cite.”
Well, google “filegate,” will you?
That’s merely for starters. During the impeachment, the White House established – and acknowledged – a scorched-earth policy of digging up dirty secrets on opponents.
Background: The “Ellen Rometsch’ strategy” refers to using FBI files to blackmail members of Congress. "Rometsch was an East German spy who had slept with President John Kennedy as well as many other congressmen and senators. " (ibid)
Maybe you forgot how the White House reacted to Paula Jones?
Remember Linda Tripp? She got a security clearance and worked at the Pentagon. Yet after she blew the whistle on Clinton, suddenly her security clearance came under a review for a supposed arrest, for which the charges were dropped – more than 29 years ago.
And then:
Now, Sam, if you haven’t wandered away to listen to “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” with earphones to drown out all the bad vibes, remember Juanita Broaddrick, “the Arkansas woman who maintains she was sexually assaulted by then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton in 1978, filed suit Monday, accusing the president’s office and Justice Department of trying to “smear and destroy her reputation” by maintaining a file on her." … Broaddrick wrote the White House on October 12 seeking documents related to her.”
But Associate White House Counsel Meredith E. Cabe replied that, in effect, the Freedom of Information Act wouldn’t apply to any files it had on Broaddrick.
Your attention span holding up, Sam? For personal attacks on a journalist, there’s always the crusade the White House waged against Vanity Fair contributing editor Gail Sheehy for “Hillary’s Choice,” her book on Hillary Clinton.
I could go on. But it’s worth it only if there is an open mind on the receiving end.
Oh, and here’s your butt, samclem.
I figured you’d want it back.
Oh, he’s a journalist and he’s okay. He sleeps all night and he works all day…
Um, why has no one brought up the fact that Matt Drudge is a gay hypocrite who could stand some outing himself?