Tim Blair

My prediction of the influence F911 will have on the US presidential election (as ranked with other influences):
1. the weather
2. voter apathy
3. voter confusion
4. hanging chads
5. negative TV ads
6. the price of gasoline
7. TV reruns
...about sixteen others I can't think of..
24. MM's F911

You came across very well in that interview, Tim.

I'm starting to wonder whether Internet radio ought to be revived. Blogging wasn't around when the online radio concept flared and died a few years ago. I reckon it could be revived as a blog addendum for popular blogs, like yours. Start with an hour a week, maybe, an interview, then take calls from posters? Maybe something to think about. Cheers, By

"Upaid??" What the frack is "Upaid"? You, son, are a JOKE UNTO YOURSELF. Your credibility, such as it was, is SHOT. Can't you afford a spellchecker? You are an affront to the BLOGOSPHERE!

Typographically challenged twerp.

Please fix.

Huh huh huh. You said "frack".

Good work Tim.

Upaid is a cunning neologism.

Just like "fundagelical".

or

"misunderestimate"

Upaid is fixd.

I had to stop listening after 2 minutes and not because of the content. Can't people collect their thoughts and speak without filling up the conversation with considerable quantities of ums, ahs and assorted grunts? So much better to read the cleaned-up transcript. With the conversation tidied up the protagonists come across as articulate. No so in the flesh, so to speak. The lefty comes across as a dithering poseur.

TIM BLAIR: Formally.

ELEANOR HALL: …has contracts… or even formally has a lot of contracts in Iraq. What do you make of that? I mean he's suggesting that there is a degree of corruption. How do you interpret that?

Try 'formerly'.

Tim, since you're going unpaid, you might as well flog my new movie, Fahrenheit 9/11.

I made a QuickTime movie called Fahrenheit 9/11. It's posted to my blog here: http://caribpundit.blogspot.com/2004/07/u_108991188670907917.html.

Call it redressing the balance.

Who the heck is Andrew Wilkie? He's quoted as saying, "Fahrenheit 9/11 rambles along but it explains well how the Bush Administration hijacked September 11, 2001."

"Hijacked"? I'm really having a hard time believing he actually used the word "hijacked". He didn't really say that, did he?

Damn it, Den Beste! You know as well as I that Atta was employed by Halliburton!

Good work, bloghead.

You're crap on radio too Fatty.

Yes, Moore's a rather ham-fisted director isn't he. He'd want to be hold all the money his movies make. Of course you're an expert in cinema, with a trophy cabinet chockas with Palme D'ors and Oscars. (And I don't spose - ha - there's any fuckin Walkelys in there! ... oh ... that's funny.) Indeed I'm sure whenever someone's making a doco they consult you about it. Hmm, wonder what that right-wing blogging guy thinks about this scene ... what his thoughts on the dolly shot panning to the ... fuckin whatever shot are. Infact it's a wonder Moorey didn't credit you in his acceptance speech. His next one for the Oscar should be a ripper. Bet y'all are lookin for'd to that one, hey kids? Get the magnum out for an Elvis on the tv?

anyway.

Steve mate, you need to relax.

Was that one of Steve's "defensive attacks"?

Tim, it would have helped, if you had pointed out that Haliburton also had the same kind of exclusive contracts with the Clinton Administration. This was for similar types of work, in the mess formerly known as Yugoslavia. You are correct, in that there are only a few companies that can handle work on this scale. In the U.S., Haliburton and Bechtel are the best known.

Tim, it would have helped, if you had pointed out that Haliburton also had the same kind of exclusive contracts with the Clinton Administration. This was for similar types of work, in the mess formerly known as Yugoslavia. You are correct, in that there are only a few companies that can handle work on this scale. In the U.S., Haliburton and Bechtel are the best known.

Interesting. I hadn't heard this before either, though it does make sense.

Well Tim, if you're going to insist upon being Mikey's cheerleader down under, it would certainly help if you had some handy crib notes to prepare for maximum flexibility in discussing the film's...er...maximum flexibilities.

Pointers to the comprehensive list of 56 deceptions contained in F911 can be found here.

Disclaimer: well yes, that link goes to Silent Running, and the points are linked to from there. Well, if you can trumpet Mr. Moore's acheivements, well then...oh nevermind.

Andjam -- Halliburton (and one of its subsidaries, Kellog, Brown, and Root) have been outsourcing work for the military for years. Other contractors as well, under a program known as Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or LOGCAP.

KBR had a big mission in Yugoslavia putting in bases and then supporting them (still might have the support mission). And I believe they also did some reconstruction work, but I can't verify that. They are doing the same thing in Iraq now, but they aren't the only contractor, from what I am hearing.

This is one reason why I am not worried about any Halliburton ties to the current administration -- Halliburton has always had their fingers in the pie, regardless of who is in the White House.