They Planted a Gay Whore in Bush's Press Conferences

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 8:38 AM PDT

2009/06/24 · 08:38

Cross-posted from http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/

I'm going to get to what it means that the AP--purportedly the most neutral source of "news" out there--is harping on the Nico Pitney question. But first, check out what this "news" entity claims in paragraph nine of their story--presumably to meet the AP's requirement for false equivalency.

Grumblings about favored reporters are not unique to the Obama White House. There were suspicions — never proved — that President George W. Bush's press operations often planted friendly questions in his news conferences.

Never proved?!?!

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Saturday April 18, 2009 · 12:04 PM PDT

2009/04/18 · 12:04

(Cross-posted from emptywheel)

I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.

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Wednesday April 08, 2009 · 7:51 AM PDT

2009/04/08 · 07:51

Cross-posted at emptywheel

Michigan and Chrysler have about 2 weeks to get JP Morgan Chase to renegotiate Chrysler's debt--or 300,000 people will lose their jobs. To pressure JP Morgan to negotiate, FDL and Progress Michigan are calling on people to boycott Chase.

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 10:40 AM PDT

2009/04/04 · 10:40

Cross-posted from emptywheel.

The WSJ confirms what we've all probably suspected: the creditors that are forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy are the same banks that have been surviving only with the help of the federal government. And of course, they are refusing to offer the same generosity to Chrysler.

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 8:17 AM PST

2009/01/16 · 08:17

(Cross-posted from emptywheel)

They're calling it a miracle--the successful landing of a US Airways jet in the Hudson and subsequent rescue of all 155 passengers. They're detailing the heroism of all involved, starting with the pilot and including cabin crew, ferry crews, and first responders. What they're not telling you is that just about every single one of these heros is a union member.

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Thursday July 17, 2008 · 3:13 PM PDT

2008/07/17 · 15:13

In a supplement to his responses to the House Judiciary Committee, Patrick Fitzgerald confirms what we've always suspected: Karl Rove was trying to have Patrick Fitzgerald fired while Fitzgerald was still investigating Rove for his role in leaking Valerie Wilson's identity--and the timing lines up perfectly with the Administration's efforts to fire a bunch of US Attorneys.

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Monday July 14, 2008 · 8:13 AM PDT

2008/07/14 · 08:13

And yet Attorney General Mukasey is still preventing us from learning what happened.

Five years ago today, on a Monday morning just like today, this happened:

Our bedroom was just beginning to show the first hints of morning light on July 14 when Joe marched in, dropped the newspaper on the bed, and said in a tight voice, "Well, the SOB did it." He set a steaming mug of coffee on my bedside table and left the room. What? I struggled to wake up. I sat up, switched on the lamp, and opened the Washington Post to the op-ed page; I didn't know what I would find, but I knew it wouldn't be good. Rovert Novak had written in his column that "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 8:24 AM PDT

2008/06/03 · 08:24

Henry Waxman noted the same thing that I did about Scottie McClellan's book. He noticed that Scottie McC's book sure came close to saying Dick Cheney and George Bush were personally involved in the outing of Valerie Wilson.

New revelations by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan raise additional questions about the actions of the President and the Vice President. Mr. McClellan has stated that "[t]he President and Vice President directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby." He has also asserted that "the top White House officials who knew the truth - including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney - allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie." It would be a major breach of trust if the Vice President personally directed Mr. McClellan to mislead the public.

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 1:25 PM PDT

2008/05/28 · 13:25

There's something disturbing in the Rules and By-Law Committee Meeting Materials handed out for Saturday's meeting: the distinct possibility that the RBC will overturn the results of MI's April 19 Convention, the only thing approaching a real exercise in democracy this year. It's the problem of how to assign uncommitted delegates as supporting Obama.

First, the document pretty much throws out the possibility of doing a 69-59 split, which is what MI recommended.

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 7:50 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 07:50

The Democratic Party's charter requires that the Party:

Establish standards and rules of procedure to afford all members of the Democratic Party full, timely and equal opportunities to participate in decisions concerning the selection of candidates, ... and further, to promote fair campaign practices and the fair adjudication of disputes. (Charter, Article I, Section 4)

Yet both the Democratic National Committee and the Michigan Democratic Party appear to be violating that requirement in their selection of which challenges to the MI Clusterfuck to hear at the May 31 Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 6:00 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 06:00

No no, not the bomb. Strictly a peaceful civil program, you understand, just like the Iranians say they're developing.

As Bush flew into Riyadh, the White House said the United States, the world's largest energy consumer, had agreed to help protect the resources of the world's top oil exporter and help it in developing peaceful nuclear energy.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 1:37 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 13:37

I just started a petition to collect the names of people who would like the MDP and the DNC to adopt my "Solomon's baby" solution for the seemingly intractable problem of how to seat MI's delegation.

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