Personally I'm sick of the ongoing pie fight diaries. While I am on the fence for this fight (I can see why women would be offended by Markos' comments; I also believe that Markos needs to put up any ad that will help for the bandwidth we are using here) I find it really irritating sifting through all of the pie diaries, what 2 days after Markos' comment.
So I've decided on a protest diary to explain to people how tiresome this is for me.
Here's my take on the pie fight (be sure to check the end of the diary to see my point):
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Here's my point. With all of these (in my opinion) tiresome, distracting diaries I believe we are missing important stories that have come out in the last couple days. Here's one story that has been missed here at dKos
A couple of quotes from this story:
The Bush administration, having found no alternate candidate or support from any allies, has given up on its attempt to force out Mohamed ElBaradei as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to two US officials.
::snip::
The Bush administration's vigorous but solitary campaign - including a complete halt of intelligence sharing, recruitment of potential replacements and eavesdropping on ElBaradei in search of ammunition against him - won not a single ally on the IAEA board.
::snip::
Bolton was the driving force behind efforts to oust ElBaradei - whose stance on Iraq and cautious approach on Iran put him deeply at odds with the White House. But Bolton's efforts ran into trouble in December after revelations that US officials were culling intercepts of ElBaradei's phone conversations for material to use against him.
::snip::
The two US officials, who would discuss the issue only on the condition of anonymity, said Rice decided afterward to invite ElBaradei to the State Department and officially offer US support for his candidacy. But she also wants to make it clear that the White House expects several things in return.
::snip::
Specifically, the administration wants ElBaradei to be more publicly skeptical on Iran. In the past two years, his inspectors have uncovered a large-scale nuclear program the Iranians built in secret over 18 years.
Iran says the program was set up to produce fuel for nuclear power, and ElBaradei has said repeatedly there is no proof to contradict Iran's story. The administration has rejected those findings and believes that ElBaradei's comments have hurt its campaign to ratchet up international pressure against Iran.
This is a MAJOR story. Bolton organized a campaign to get rid of ElBaradei because he contradicted our lies about Iraqi WMD's. He went so far as to get ElBaradei's phone tapped (and got caught...I'm starting to wonder if the administration has a squeegee to remove all of the egg we've been getting on our faces as of late).
And now that we realize we can't get someone into the position it looks as if we're trying to pressure ElBaradei into becoming a pawn in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
And we at dKos have missed the story completely. Maybe it was the pie fight dispute, maybe not. Either way we have still missed this.