Tim Blair

"And what happens when this stuff gets into the mainstream... and because there's been so much reporting about what's being reported, it has already taken on a life of its own?"

You mean, like Bush the Elder being baffled by a supermarket scanner?

You mean, like Bush the Younger holding up a plastic turkey?

Oh, wait, those things were reported by honest-to-gosh suit-jacket-and-tie wearing ace reporters in the MSM. Not nearly the same thing.

"And what happens when this stuff gets into the mainstream... and because there's been so much reporting about what's being reported, it has already taken on a life of its own?"

You mean, like Bush the Elder being baffled by a supermarket scanner?

You mean, like Bush the Younger holding up a plastic turkey?

Oh, wait, those things were reported by honest-to-gosh suit-jacket-and-tie wearing ace reporters in the MSM. Not nearly the same thing.

Sorry,pal - bloggers may wear pajamas, but the Emporer of the MSM is buck naked.

Note to maureen: "Gee lady, you think maybe he's a stiff?"

FAIR is famous here for their outrageous complicity in the "Super Bowl Sunday = Domestic Violence" hoax several years ago. In fact their rebuttal from the time remains online:

http://www.fair.org/extra/9304/superbowl.html

From that bastion of ultra-conservatism, Cecil Adams:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000414.html

FAIR's record of "accuracy" is suspect and any claim that they are "fair" is absurd.

Watching the widening cracks in MSM is almost as cool as following the moon landings, and way more important for the future. I know a lot of columnists are now licking the blogosphere's arse lately, but it really is something to behold and savor.

"Maureen Dowd is extremely puzzled."

In other news, Francisco Franco is still dead.

Appy-polly-logies for the double post.

Extreme puzzlement is what frequently follows when teen-age girl-type idiocy get smacked in the face with reality.

I can't say for sure where MoDo's head is, but I'm willing to bet that it's dark, scary, very smelly and that she could see better if her bellybutton was made of plexiglass.

The Guardian infiltrator seems to think FreeRepublic violates people's First Amendment rights when they pull troll comments.

"Government shall make no law..." doesn't mean I have to make space for him on my web log.

Thank goodness.

What an idiot the professor is.

What happens when the documents are shown to be perfectly legitimate? Well, assuming we haven't entered another dimension and are still on this planet: We'll be watching the pigs fly and hell freeze over while the media types trumpet their victory over the 'pajama wearing' bloggers.

There would be NO PLACE on God's Green Earth to escape the headlines all the media would produce if those documents were shown to be valid. The only people who would not know about it would be those who are dead or in a coma.

I can't understand the concern about 'pajama clad' bloggers misleading anyone when we have one of the 'Big Media' stars acting like Pres. Nixon during Watergate. We've just been lied to, by a major US news organization's 'star/ace newsreader/reporter' in the midst of a presidential election campaign! They've been caught and all they can do is continue to insult the intelligence of whatever viewers they have left.

CBS News' reputation is in the toilet and all this journalism professor can wonder about is what will happen if the docs. prove valid?! This guy teaches journalism?

From Dowd's second to last paragraph "Iraq is a vision of hell, and the Republicans act as if it's a model kitchen." a model KITCHEN?????? What the h*ll is she talking about?

How typically lefty of the Guardian guy.

"Hi, I'm here to spoof your private community and misrepresent who I am. Oh wait, I've been banned (for speaking The Truth (while lying about who I am)). First Amendment! Free speech! Lying liars!"

I don't know about you guys, but my kitchen pretty much resembles a "vision of hell" even on a good day.

I also like how the Guardian person tried to clothe himself in Deep Understanding of American Politics by giving himself the handle "weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident". "Jeffersonian", he called it. The idea being that he's more authentically "American" than these evil Freepers, even speaking as a Briton. Wow, how profound and thought-provoking.

Only to display typically inane misapprehension of what the First Amendment says and means, only paragraphs later. Yeah, Guardian person, you're the one gamely understanding and upholding American values, and the Freepers are the ones being freaky fascists. Got it.

Yo, Treacher! Leave off the Rather blather for a bit and tell us more about the Space Unicorns, the Cloud People, and Lord Gnarl and the Carved Army. I'm sitting here in my feety flannel jammies and want a story.

Oh, Maureen is a lot more puzzled than that. Check out the "discussion forum" (in which no actual discussion occurs) she has going between herself and Gail Edwards: "A Discussion on Women, the Presidency, and the Election." Chock-full of howlers, i.e.:

"Howell Raines, a mentor for Gail and me, used to say that politicians like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton succeeded because they had true believers around them who were passionate about them."

Howell Raines, MENTOR. Of what, resignation letters? Good pick, Mo!

Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-DING!!!!!!!

That's what you'll likely hear soon from the 60 Minutes stopwatch.

FAIR is a transparent liberal organ. Note that even though refer to Killian by his proper title of Lt. Col. they cannot bring themselves to address G Dub by his proper title of President. They won't even throw a Pres. his way. I first became aware of FAIR when a couple of my friend at UT Austin pointed it out to me. Unfortunately these friend of mine also happen to be liberal douchebags. (Nobody is perfect.) However they had already pointed me towards Indy Media and Chomsky so I knew immediately that FAIR was a group of partisan hacks. FAIR is so far left that they take the Chomsky view that Republican and Democrats are just factions of the same imperial, fascist party. No serious person should pay FAIR any mind.

The "right wing" Media Research Center posts videos and transcripts of liberal howlers by the MSM.

From MoDo's column:
...the Democrats are...a preposterous, paranoid fantasy...clamoring for...[a] blood-drenched Iraq.

Angie Schultz:

I want either a nice long fantasy novel or a 39 episode anime series.

Barring that, I want whatever Treacher is drinking. Or, uh, consuming.

Hey I work on the same block as Emerson and Jeffrey Seglin - Maybe I can explain to him the chance of the docs being revealed as legit would depend on the CBS sources producing them - maybe I can also see if he wants to bet on football because if he thinks these docs are legit I think there's a fortune to be made betting against his prognostications of the future.

I'm guessing Maureen Dowd's "model kitchen" is a reference to the "kitchen debate" in 1959 between Nixon, then vice-president, and Khruschev: While inspecting a model kitchen at a U.S. trade show in the USSR, they began arguing about the relative merits of capitalism and communism. Khruschev insisted that Soviet workers live as comfortably as American workers, which was clearly untrue.

"Barring that, I want whatever Treacher is drinking."

Killian's, natch!

Boy, if Jeffrey Seglin still believes the documents might be proven to be authentic, then he is probably telling that to his students. What a fine and quality education those kids are getting.