Guest blogged by David Edwards
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UPDATE FROM BRAD: Just jumping in to say that “Colbert Report” is the most brilliant fucking thing I have perhaps ever seen on television. Be sure to catch it when you can! Hopefully David will keep us well-fed with clips here! C&L has a great one from the premiere on Monday if you didn’t catch it.
C&L also has O’Reilly on Jon Stewart last night as well in case you missed it.
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Treason First, you mean?
He was asking her about comparisons. Watergate to Plame gate, etc.
I have a comparison, how FAST they all did the Terry Schiavo thing … in one day they moved mountains … compared to the Katrina response … they killed us with SLOW nothingness …
They are FAST when they want to advance some agenda bug up their ass, but are SLOW when real action in needed to save many americans with live brains.
While that interview was fun, the thing that’s missing is the follow-thru on some of the questions… Colbert – and Steward on TDS need to let the guests actually answer the questions and explain their answers… I know they aren’t "news shows" and their job is comedy … but they miss a bunch of great stuff when the focus is on them being funny and not on the interviewee …
they should change the focus a bit from time to time from "look at how funny I am" to "can you BELIEVE this shit"
just my 2 cents…
Does Lesley Stahl remember Watergate? I sure do, and we’re getting close to the point where Nixon told Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald Cox. Will Bush tell Gonzales to fire Fitzgerald?
I think Lesley Stahl might have been a coed on a college campus back then. Or maybe a model in New York. There was no cable-TV in 1974, no Internet, Microsoft hadn’t yet come into being, and the vice president (Agnew) had resigned in disgrace. What goes around sure comes around.
Dear David,
Jesus said that if you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword.
Will we EVER learn????
Nixon had to learn it (Watergate). Reagan had to learn it (Iran-Contra). Clinton had to learn it (Monica-gate). And now, Bush has to learn it (Treason-gate).
Perhaps a future President John McCain will have learned this lesson???
I can only hope so… for the good of the country.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it , or just dumb asses….#4 Sukabi, I have to agree with you,they could be funny AND let the answers come through…#6 MrBlueSky, so true….I can only hope so too….
OT but not sure where to post these–
1) http://www.tomdispatch.com has an outstanding 2-part interview with middle-east expert Juan Cole about Iraq and the implications of current US policy.
2) http://www.gregpalast.com has a new article by investigative journalist Greg Palast in relation to the 2004 election.
#5 : Unfortunately for Gonzales, he has no authority in the matter at all and has been forced to recuse himself.
Fitzgerald has full A.G. authority which is why everyone is afraid of him. No one can fire him. They attempted to replace his director with Timothy Flannigan, but that completely went south. Oh and David Margoliz, who is the Director with Fitzgerald is a criminal prosecutor of RICO and helping Fitzgerald’s team take them down.
Doug E.
SUKABI – I agree with your thoughts exactly, although Jon Stewart can do both pretty well imho. He gets a tad bit more serious sometimes with guests, though, and lets them talk more. But the more news heard and learned right now the better, I agree.
From the interview – So how long did it take for Nixon to resign from the beginning of the info leaking? Would love to know that. This all seems so damn slooooooow. Course we had a senate and congress back then.
She couldn’t stop laughing, could she? lol, I am going to watch the 60 Minutes show, just to see a show with limited commercials. That sounds like a refreshing trend, hope people support it.
…yeah maybe THIS is the 60 minutes where they interview Clint Curtis and bring election fraud out of the national closet….Brad???
I am dreaming of course. It is too bad Colbert has to try to be be so cute, he cut off the comments of a very professional person/half way decent journalist who could provide some real insight for us. She may be waiting in the weeds to do a "Woodstein" on this story or another and could be giving us a hint.
Robert Lockwood Mills – Yeah I had the same thought about Leslie’s apparent youth, I think she must be just, how-you-say – well preserved. Here is a bit on her history:
(snip) Shortly after her arrival at CBS News in 1972, Lesley Stahl was regularly assigned to stakeout the principal players in the Watergate scandal. Her job: to corner these elusive public officials as they left their homes early in the morning and elicit a response to her questions before they could escape.
The job was exhausting, undignified and fruitless; often she was left without a sound bite. And when Stahl succeeded in getting a scoop, it meant riding side-saddle on the back of a courier’s motorcycle, fighting to keep her reporter’s hair in check, as they snaked through D.C.’s traffic to get the footage back to CBS in time for the morning news. (snip)
I just want the truth to come out. I want it to be blasted on the front page of every paper. I want gw gone. Not to change the subject, but what is with Syria and Iran? Can Congress stop the idiot from more damage there? Seems that is his next target!!!
Saw both The Daily Show and Colbert Report. Both very good and very funny.
I didn’t catch the name of John Stewart’s "Reporter" near the beginning, but he was so good – burned on everybody, had me laughing so hard I had tears running down and my kids came in to see what was going on.
Sue & Mugzi:
Read this sickening report and you’ll see Cheney had targeted Syria, Iran & Lebanon long in advance. Regardless of who was sacraficed.
Securing the realm: The new world order
Doug E.
At risk of stating the obvious…
…Lesley Stahl is totally Babe-o-lisious!
Good article Doug E!
In light of Iraq, who in Congress will approve attacking Iran and Syria?
Mugzi: Umm, nobody but a small minority of the republicans probably.
They don’t even need congressional approval, as long as they’re breaking the law they will attack Syria with little "skirmish wars" since they’re under a microscope.
All of them will have to be rounded up and brought to the court, RICO time and it won’t be pretty.
Doug E.
I am sitting here listening to CSPAN and some senate committee drilling Condi Rice a new asshole. It’s pretty good and a wee bit satisfying. They are telling her like it is. This feels so cool, seems everyone has all of a sudden realized they can’t hide the crapola any longer and want answers and the war to change. Man, she spews the bullshit. But they keep interrupting her and stopping a lot of it lol. Almost reminds me of…..yep…..baghdad bobbette!
One note – they kept trying to get her to commit to an answer to whether Bush would invade Iran without coming to them first. She refused to take that option off the table. Is it getting close?
Other than worrying about Iran, anyone else smiling so hard lately your face hurts like mine? lol
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I’d hate to be anyone with this kind of song written especially for me….poor bushy…. http://www.bushflash.com/idiot.html
Get the traitors of Traitorgate
Sleep Well Tonight
It’s a seven trillion dollar deficit that needs to express itself,
It represents the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave,
Don’t ask how it’s spent,
certainly don’t ask why,
You won’t get any answers,
at least any that make sense.
Just know if there’s trouble in the world, that budget can bomb the shit out of anybody, anywhere,
and make that trouble worse, while making you feel better.
It can sponsor arrogant cowboys who can run through the world like the wild west.
“Eeeeh-Hah”! The head bounty-hunter cries,” Ride that bomb down for me, boys.”
The millionaire lets others do his killing,
He’s the worst kind of killer,
He fights the War of Terror,
by spreading a terror all his own.