I can't speak for Patrick here, Jerry, but I'd say that no one outside the Army had ever heard of Tommy Franks until his last job put him in the public eye, and he failed miserably at that one.
I've still got my National Defense medal from my time in the Navy; some of that stuff you get for showing up (not all, by any means, but some..."theater" medals, for example).
Since Sullivan and Scheiber are an "item," which she disclosed earlier yesterday or today, it would seem logical to assume that they are feeding each other this pap. They don't seem to get it: if I wanted to be a Republican I'd register that way.
Brother Inspired Fist of Mild Harmony. "Mild" Harmony? You is or you ain't, ain't ya?
"the city holds a different view."
I hope that was an unintentional pun.
Anna Feruglio Dal Dan said "I suspect a lot of the love and respect he was paid was due to his certainly charismatic presence."
I said elsewhere that he was a master of the 20th century media machine. He knew how to manipulate his own image as well as any politician from any country.
Heresiarch, I have to differ you on elapsed time. One of the most effective uses of film I ever saw was the freeze-frame ending of Fail Safe, which went on for minutes. B&W pictures of kids in playgrounds in NYC, people on the NYPL steps, etc., just as a nuclear weapon exploded.
See Mark Schmitt at The Decembrist as well.
Good lord. That Thatcher/Reagan thing belongs over at the Squick and Squee thread at Making Light.
Yuk.
Is that why Francis stopped writing? His wife did the research? I thought he'd just gotten a little elderly to continue. For 15 years I could count on a birthday book he'd written, since he seemed to publish in October.
Terry Karney, it's nice to see there's another Nero Wolfe fan here. I've got them all in an honored place on the shelves, along with McAleer's bio of Stout.
Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris. The second volume of his biography, it covers the presidential years. There is at least one interesting parallel between TR and Bush; they both valued personal loyalty over competence in their advisers, at least from my reading of the book and my observations during the past four years.
Rather than minion, how about lackey, or (only in some cases, mostly those who work directly for him) lick-spittle loyalists.
As I said today at my place:
Quote:
How is it "moral" to spend the country into bankruptcy? How is it "moral" to invade a country which was no threat to us, based on lies deliberately trumped up to fit an agenda thought up by a think tank? How is it "moral" to sell out the nation's public lands to private industry? How is it "moral" to turn a blind eye to science, demanding ideological purity over empirical fact?
End quote.
The press really has just blindly followed the Republican line of "moral" as a code word for, as Kristof said today, "God and gays." (I'll leave out the "guns and grizzlies" part, because they're part of a separate equation. We cannot let the media do this. We have to call them on it every time they do.
I saw the part excerpted while "supervising" installation of a washer/dryer. Carlson really did look discombulated.
Maybe they don't fact-check "commentary" as closely as they do their own reporters?
If I'd read it at allI hope I'd have noticed that; the Wallace shooting was nearly the only event large enough to outweigh my own Navy boot camp issues in the spring of 72.
Mr. Adelsohn, I wonder. Would even the lapdog the press has recently become think it could be spun? I suppose it's too much to hope that it would play out that way; it would really get the point across about Bush's inability/unwillingness to speak without a script or a friendly crowd.
Can you imagine Lehrer or whoever the moderator is actually going so far as to direct a question to the empty chair? Much less members of the crowd?
Re: calling in the National Guard to keep those folks from beating people up
Are there any Guard units left in Michigan, or are they all deployed? In Hawai'i we just saw another 2,000 called up this week.
Given what we now know, I conclude that I had better high school teachers fact-checking my papers than the Times editors turned out to be.
Useful tip: if the link from the NYT has that "CND" bit in it (like the one Andy Perrin initially posted), it means it's a continuing story, and will probably be superseded later. I think I got that from CJR's Campaign Desk or Jay Rosen's Press Think, but wherever. It's saved me some confusion to know that.
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