"Forgive Me While I Tear My Hair Out"
In her blog post yesterday about John Kerry's speech on Monday in Boston, Arianna Huffington says, "Forgive me while I tear my hair out." Her witty comment is in reference to Kerry's comments about Iraq as quoted from the Boston Herald. As Ron pointed out earlier today, the Boston Herald took Kerry's comments out of context.
I must say that in reading Arianna's post, I had the same reaction, I wanted to tear my hair out. Not for what John Kerry may or may not have said but, for her wanton quoting of the Noise Machine, with no, that's right, no space given to the facts.
I'm shocked to see so much credence given by Arianna to what is said by the Right Wing Noise Machine. Maybe it's just me, but I expect better from the big tent party than outward slams on our own.
Arianna quotes the Boston Herald's account of Kerry's Boston speech which contradicts the Boston Globe's account. You'll find quips from the Globe here about Kerry speaking about Iraq to the press and you can compare those to the Boston Herald's insinuation that Kerry spoke about Iraq during his speech. He didn't.
Arianna needs to read John Kerry's speech from Monday because there is nothing about Iraq in that speech.
Finally, that Arianna parroted the right wing spin on Inside the Bubble is astounding to say the least. Inside the Bubble should be aptly named "The Snore Room". I'm sure if Arianna tried she could have gotten the take on Inside the Bubble from some of those who were actually "inside the bubble" rather than rely on the word of a republican rag.
My sources "inside the bubble" tell me there is nothing in that flick that even hints at "what went wrong" in the Kerry campaign. It's a poor excuse of a documentary from a democrat who sold out as a shill to the republicans to recoup his investment in the film.
Arianna may take issue with John Kerry's position on Iraq, or anything else for that matter. That's her business, but when she uses up her blog space to bash a Democratic leader who's actually out there every day working hard for a change, it's part and parcel of what is wrong with the Democratic Party.
I know the whiners and the bashers won't agree with this, but guess what, it's true. While the Democratic Party has been busy eating it's own, the Republicans shored up their bases and we've caught snoozing, time and again.
So, please forgive me, while I tear my hair out. The future of our country is important to me. The future of the Democratic Party is important to me. We need unity and we won't get it as long as the whining and the bashing continues.
It's time for unity within the Democratic Party. It's time for the whiners and the bashers to get on board, because the train is coming... DeLay was indicted today, Frist is under investigation, Rove is under investigation, FEMA fumbled not once but twice, the Republican Party is unraveling. The lame duck president is swiftly becoming a cooked goose. We don't have to agree on every little thing our Democratic leaders say or do, but standing behind them in unity can go a long way, at time when we need to do what they have done so well for so long, shore up our bases.
And while I'm at it here, I'll throw in this, our leaders also need to step up to the plate and stay on message. Can we get a little cooperation going all the way around. 2006 is around the corner and the Republicans are starting to resemble suicide bombers. This is our chance to regain our footing. Let's take it because we have a lot of work to do cleaning up the colossal mess BushCo has made.
I must say that in reading Arianna's post, I had the same reaction, I wanted to tear my hair out. Not for what John Kerry may or may not have said but, for her wanton quoting of the Noise Machine, with no, that's right, no space given to the facts.
I'm shocked to see so much credence given by Arianna to what is said by the Right Wing Noise Machine. Maybe it's just me, but I expect better from the big tent party than outward slams on our own.
Arianna quotes the Boston Herald's account of Kerry's Boston speech which contradicts the Boston Globe's account. You'll find quips from the Globe here about Kerry speaking about Iraq to the press and you can compare those to the Boston Herald's insinuation that Kerry spoke about Iraq during his speech. He didn't.
Arianna needs to read John Kerry's speech from Monday because there is nothing about Iraq in that speech.
Finally, that Arianna parroted the right wing spin on Inside the Bubble is astounding to say the least. Inside the Bubble should be aptly named "The Snore Room". I'm sure if Arianna tried she could have gotten the take on Inside the Bubble from some of those who were actually "inside the bubble" rather than rely on the word of a republican rag.
My sources "inside the bubble" tell me there is nothing in that flick that even hints at "what went wrong" in the Kerry campaign. It's a poor excuse of a documentary from a democrat who sold out as a shill to the republicans to recoup his investment in the film.
Arianna may take issue with John Kerry's position on Iraq, or anything else for that matter. That's her business, but when she uses up her blog space to bash a Democratic leader who's actually out there every day working hard for a change, it's part and parcel of what is wrong with the Democratic Party.
I know the whiners and the bashers won't agree with this, but guess what, it's true. While the Democratic Party has been busy eating it's own, the Republicans shored up their bases and we've caught snoozing, time and again.
So, please forgive me, while I tear my hair out. The future of our country is important to me. The future of the Democratic Party is important to me. We need unity and we won't get it as long as the whining and the bashing continues.
It's time for unity within the Democratic Party. It's time for the whiners and the bashers to get on board, because the train is coming... DeLay was indicted today, Frist is under investigation, Rove is under investigation, FEMA fumbled not once but twice, the Republican Party is unraveling. The lame duck president is swiftly becoming a cooked goose. We don't have to agree on every little thing our Democratic leaders say or do, but standing behind them in unity can go a long way, at time when we need to do what they have done so well for so long, shore up our bases.
And while I'm at it here, I'll throw in this, our leaders also need to step up to the plate and stay on message. Can we get a little cooperation going all the way around. 2006 is around the corner and the Republicans are starting to resemble suicide bombers. This is our chance to regain our footing. Let's take it because we have a lot of work to do cleaning up the colossal mess BushCo has made.
posted by Pamela J. Leavey at 10:51 PM
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you are right of course about the bubble film...and the motivations of it director. he's a whacko...
take a look at this, for instance...
MEGA FIX
MSNBC and the missing videotape
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Posted: February 15, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: In his extraordinary new DVD documentary, "Mega Fix," Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of Sept. 11 to the political exploitation of terror investigations by the Clinton White House in the desperate 1995-1996 election cycle. To arrange a showing in your city, contact Jack Cashill.
The "Mega Fix" DVD is available now at WorldNetDaily's online store, ShopNetDaily.
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
On April 20, 2001, a Peruvian military jet pilot confused a small plane carrying missionaries for one carrying drug runners and shot it down. In the last two weeks, MSNBC has been leading the charge to bring this case to closure.
Its on-air personnel – Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough in particular – have been asking hard questions about why no charges have been brought against CIA agents who may have lied about the nature of this crash. The MSNBC website invites citizens to communicate their concerns about this presumed cover-up through MSNBC to the U.S. government.
This would be all well and good were it not for the likely role that MSNBC played in the cover-up of TWA Flight 800. On July 18, 1996, about 12 hours after TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island, a military officer – off the record – told a very tired Fox News senior reporter that "a major screw-up" had occurred and that the "White House" had ordered the military to "stand down" for 48 hours until policy decisions were reached.
This did not surprise the Fox journalist. For hours the previous evening, Fox News had reportedly been involved in a bidding war for an amateur video tape of the 747 being destroyed by what appeared to be missile fire. When the electronic bidding war reached $50,000, Fox was eliminated from the process.
The high bidder seems to have been NBC and/or its new sister network, MSNBC. This makes market sense in that MSNBC had been launched just two days prior, and the publicity would have been well worth the cost. Still, I say "seems" because my sources here will not speak on record, nor will MSNBC follow up on queries. Here is exactly what I know, no more, no less.
In the summer of 2001, my partner James Sanders, and I were negotiating with Broadcast Network News (BNN) – the world's largest independent news producer – to distribute our documentary on the subject of TWA Flight 800, "Silenced." These were serious negotiations. The person with whom we were communicating was BNN's chief executive officer, Steve Rosenbaum.
One day that summer, Rosenbaum called me in a state of high excitement. "Jack," he said, "you will not believe the conversation I just had." Although Rosenbaum thought our video had market potential, he was not at all convinced of our thesis, namely that missiles had been fired at TWA Flight 800. The conversation in question eliminated just about all doubt.
As Rosenbaum explained, he had been interviewing a candidate for a position as BNN's technical director at a rooftop cafe when an airplane passed overhead. The conversation moved naturally to airplanes and then, with Rosenbaum taking the lead, to TWA Flight 800.
"I've seen the video," said the candidate, who had until recently been working at MSNBC.
"You mean 'Silenced'?" said Rosenbaum, a little surprised.
"No," the candidate answered, "the video, the actual video of the plane being shot down."
As the candidate told Rosenbaum, late on the night of the crash, editors at MSNBC had the tape on their monitors when "three men in suits" came to their editing suites, removed the tape, and threatened the editors with serious consequences if they ever revealed its contents.
The threats worked all too well. Despite my repeated requests, Rosenbaum could not get the technical director, whom he hired, to go on record. Over the years, I have asked various producers at MSNBC to follow up, but if they did, they kept what they learned to themselves.
Earlier in his research, Sanders had been approached by a technician at another station who had monitoring the competition's feeds from Long Island and made a bootleg copy of that same amateur video. What is more, he withheld a copy from the FBI when its agents came to confiscate whatever relevant tapes his station might have. Despite a series of phone calls, Sanders could not persuade the technician to hand over the tape. His fear was palpable enough, however, to convince Sanders that he was telling the truth.
Although I have not seen the video myself, I have heard from scores, if not hundreds, of credible people who swear they saw it on television in the first hours after the crash. That at least one among the hundreds of eyewitnesses would have had a video camera handy during a beautiful summer sunset evening makes perfect sense. The FBI admits to having confiscated two still photos and predictably writes off the images to dirt or scratches on the lens. A video would have been much harder to dismiss.
Nelson DeMille has obviously heard these stories as well – and perhaps more. In his best-selling novel, "Night Falls," a confiscated amateur video drives the plot. Although he spices the video up a bit in the retelling, DeMille is not just spinning fantasy. His insider details have the ring of authenticity about them.
What makes the MSNBC involvement all the more ironic is that the CIA was responsible for producing the 15-minute animated video used successfully to discredit the eyewitness testimony. If the MSNBC producers are interested in exposing not just a routine CIA cover-up, but the most consequential cover-up in American history, my fellow investigators and I will be happy to lead them right to the source.
There is admittedly much we still do not know about the explosion of TWA Flight 800, but we know enough about the CIA cover-up to bring indictments. Before turning on the CIA, however, MSNBC might want to look inward. The CIA at least had the excuse of national security. If MSNBC had reasons for betraying its journalistic ethics, I am not sure I know what they are. Indeed, had its new executives stuck to their guns that night, they might very well have prevented Sept. 11.
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