Richard Engel and MSNBC bring it: Iraq and Afghanistan

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Tuesday June 30, 2009 · 6:58 PM PDT

2009/06/30 · 18:58

I am an old timer who has not posted a diary in ages. I'm a reader, analyzer, lurker - whatever label you'd like to pin on me.

However, I'm coming out of seclusion to say that Richard Engel is the bomb.
What a novelty - a "mainstream media" reporter (Engel is NBC's chief foreign correspondent) is actually reporting real news from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 11:48 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 11:48

He's at it again. Ron Fournier shows his complete lack of bias (/snark) in this opinion article just up at NYTimes.com:

Analysis: Palin's age, inexperience rival Obama's

Interestingly enough, the byline is The Associated Press. Someone at the NYT added an editor's note IDing Fournier as the author, with the bland addition that he "has covered politics for The Associated Press for nearly 20 years".

Consider the headline. It implies that Palin and Obama are equally inexperienced. The first paragraphs provide details on how McCain's choice of Palin is one a maverick would make, and why it might be good, or bad, for the McCain presidential bid. Fournier admits that her choice was red meat to the GOP fundi-conservatives. He also mentions her ethical issue.

Sounds fair and balanced, right? Well... follow me below the flip.

murfmom

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 7:12 AM PDT

2006/07/05 · 07:12

So far I've not found details after an admittedly quick search. The following headline is on top of the NYTimes.com hompage ...

Breaking News 10:03 AM ET:
Kenneth L. Lay, Ex-Chairman of Enron, Dies, According to Reports Read More

News Bush Wants Kept Quiet: Katrina Death Toll Way Up

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Monday September 19, 2005 · 4:09 AM PDT

2005/09/19 · 04:09

The last of 9 items on the list under the byline Major Developments in Katrina's Aftermath - posted at 5:54 am EST on the NYTimes.com's AP/Reuters crawl - states:

The death toll linked to the hurricane rises to 883 along the Gulf Coast, 646 in Louisiana alone. The search for bodies continues.

This is a number the Bush Administration, especially Department of Homeland Security and its red-headed stepchild, FEMA, do not want you and me to see. Read More

Bush to announce SCOTUS pick 9pm tonight

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Tuesday July 19, 2005 · 10:27 AM PDT

2005/07/19 · 10:27

This just in from the NYTimes online.

[snip]
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the Bush administration was asking television outlets to broadcast the speech live across the country. Bush's spokesman would not identify the president's choice.
[snip]

Who will it be? Edith Clements? Edith Jones? A blank slate or known ideologue?

Laura has spoken and she wants a woman. Think Bush will listen?

p.s. Note timing of announcement: not only prime time, but in the middle of the "Rovegate" brouhaha. Can you say distraction?

BREAKING: Staffer told me Boxer is supporting Conyers today!

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Thursday January 06, 2005 · 7:11 AM PST

2005/01/06 · 07:11

I just got off the phone with a staffer at Sen. Barbara Boxer's Washington office after many, many tries.

When I requested that Sen. Boxer please support Rep. Conyers' challenge to the 2004 voting process, the staffer said, "Don't worry, she will".

What excellent news!

The aide was very nice, especially when I told her that I'm a Floridian who appreciates Boxer's service to our country.

It's encouraging that I can look to her for leadership since my Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson, cannot be counted on to support debate on this very important issue.

____
p.s. pardon if anyone else already posted a diary with this news that has fallen off the front page ... no time to search

Miami Debate: Repubs pay for young GOoPers' trips

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Friday October 01, 2004 · 1:01 PM PDT

2004/10/01 · 13:01

Smartone's diary earlier today, titled CNN "undecided " voter is really Republican Operative, prompts me to share my experience last night.

Local College Republicans misrepresenting themselves as undecided voters to the media after the debate were not the only ones at work. The GOP imported busloads of young College Republicans from around the state to crash the protests and sign-waving efforts that preceeded the event!

How do I know this?
Read all about it after the break (a nod to you, MaryScott!! ;-D)
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Florida Update: Hurricane Frances Good and Bad

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Saturday September 04, 2004 · 6:43 PM PDT

2004/09/04 · 18:43

Hi Everyone!

I'm glad to check in from my friend's computer on the mainland (it's a PC, but she's really a great person so I can't complain...). We're starting our second night here after leaving our home in Key Biscayne (a barrier island SE of Miami) yesterday morning. What a wonderful thing to have electricity - we have A/C, TV, hot meals, cold beer (for which my husband gives thanks), great company, comfy beds, showers, and a snug refuge for our pets.

Are we lucky on two counts:

if Frances had come ashore just 25-30 miles further south, Miami-Dade's millions would have gotten clobbered with lots of rain, wind, and storm surge. Here, about 10 miles south of downtown, we're getting steady but not heavy rain and good puffs of wind.
the local television and stations, to whom EVERYONE I know with power has been glued since at least Tuesday, are showing hurricane updates and stories 24/7. Since Frances is HUGE (about the size of Texas), that means hardly anyone in the entire state saw Dubya speak at he convention Thursday night. Newscasts have been allocating 5 minutes max to other news every hour for days, and this storm is at least 24 hr from clearing out. Unbelievable!

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Thursday August 19, 2004 · 1:14 PM PDT

2004/08/19 · 13:14

I filled out my absentee ballot today for the August 31 Miami-Dade County primary election.

Out of curiosity I read the accompanying "Instructions for Marking your Ballot", provided by the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections in English, Spanish and Creole. I noticed an egregious error in the mailing instructions in all three languages. I quote:

9. You may return your absentee ballot by mail through the U.S. Postal Service. You will need to affix a 37 [cent] postage stamp if mailed within the United States. Be sure there is sufficient postage if multiple pages or if mailed from outside the U.S.

The almost 6" x 12" official absentee ballot mailing envelope is much larger than a standard 4-1/8" x 9-1/2" business envelope. The clerks at my local post office confirmed my suspicion that extra postage is necessary for delivery. You need $0.49 of postage, not a $0.37 stamp as printed in the official instructions!!! Read More

MoDo's Latest: Compares Chimpy to, er, a chimp! Take a Poll ...

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Thursday April 22, 2004 · 6:54 AM PDT

2004/04/22 · 06:54

I'm in a charitable mood today, and take Maureen Dowd's latest NYTimes.com Op-Ed piece as more evidence that she has turned the corner from anti-Dem, tabloidy quasi-journalist to cogent, focused BushCo critic.

What say you? Vote in the Poll below after perusing these tidbits and the entire article here .

The Body Politic
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: April 22, 2004
WASHINGTON

Not since Jane Goodall lived with chimps in Tanzania has there been such a vivid study of the nonverbal patterns of primates engaged in a dominance display.

Bob Woodward's new book, "Plan of Attack," reveals that President Bush decided to go to war based mostly, believe it or not, on body language.

[...snip...]

read more selections in Extended Copy Read More

US Kills Journalists from own Arab-Language TV station

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Monday April 19, 2004 · 11:00 AM PDT

2004/04/19 · 11:00

I thought the news that Bush really IS going to nominate Negroponte as US Ambassador to Iraq was the outrage du jour.

Then, just below that headline on the AP newswire at the NYTimes.com, I see this sad report :

GIs Kill 2 Workers of U.S. - Funded Iraq TV
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 19, 2004

Filed at 1:11 p.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. troops shot to death two employees of U.S.-funded television station Al-Iraqiya on Monday and wounded a third in the central city of Samara, the station said.
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MoveOn.org Advertisements Live in Miami!

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Monday March 08, 2004 · 8:54 PM PST

2004/03/08 · 20:54

Serious apologies to the Rulers of dKos Diary postings:

I just want to share the good news that a wonderful, brief MpveOn.org ad was aired during the prime time 6pm news here in Miami on WPLG 10 (ABC affiliate).

Thank you for not shrinking in abeyance to the the threats of illegality heaved on you from the Republican National Committee.

I am thrilled!!! (even tho I had to endure two Bush ads within 20 minutes on the same station.

Even better- I get to vote for Howie tomorrow !!! Maybe I'll even try to be a delegate if I continue to drink enough vino tinto and believe we who speak out can make a difference ...

peace and love to you all - thanks for caring!!

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