|  |  |  | APJ Hot Headlines, October 2003
10/10/03
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Ambassador Joseph Wilson: a true American hero (as is his wife) | MacArthur: Impeach Smirk NOW! | Finally! Dems shed their pink tutus, write scathing letter to Ass-KKKroft citing five major bungles in Wilson-gate so-called "investigation," demand special counsel | Novak's changing tale | Novak's a conservative, so he gets special justice | Card: Chimpy wants answers (to questions like "How do we sweep this under the rug?")
GOVERNOR GROPINATOR! -- Arnie names transition team -- and shows he has no clue about how California law works! | Arnie thanks compliant press for being part of his campaign team | Conason: Hypocrites in the locker room | Just in time (snicker): Howler on the issue the press refused to cover | Letterman slaps Gropinator and his bitch Jay Leno | Will the FEC, FCC investigate Annie's ties to NBC? We doubt they'll rush toward a probe | Arnie to get lavish favors from Smirk
QWAGMIRE -- Two US soldiers murdered in Iraq ambush | Spanish military attaché killed in Baghdad | Smirk tries PR campaign to fool Americans into thinking qWagmire s going peachy | How do you know Shrubbie is lying about Iraq? His lips move! | Same goes for Big Time Dick | Rummy cancels news conference to avoid embarrassment over having his shiny qWagmire toy taken away | Horrors! Team Smirk forced to resort to international diplomacy to convince other countries to clean up our mess in Iraq | Shock! Congress is actually taking a second look at no-bid qontraqts for Whistle Ass's friends! | 6 months, 1 day: Iraq is not getting better (you may need to scroll down)
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Dean: Smirk is dragging America to failure | Lapdog press claims Dem candidates "taunted" Clark, fail to say he -- and Dean, and Kerry -- articulately stood their ground in the face of truly stupid and biased questions from Judy, Jeff and Candy | Complete attack-question "debate" transcript | Rosario Marin (R) will run to challenge Sen. Boxer
FOX WATCH -- Dylan Krider: Liberal like a FOX
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Senate may postpone Sellout to Big Energy "Plan" until election gets closer
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh's addiction diary | John Lott joins Rush in whining about people daring to blast racism in sports | Ailes on John "Mary Rosh" Lott and Rush
INJUSTICE MINISTER SCANDALS -- Philly Mayor Street's messenger seized -- can you say "intentional timing"? (more in the Guardian) | Ass-KKKroft's FBI apologizes to AP reporter | Abuse of the PATRIOT Act: Thanks, Ass-KKKroft!
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Commission is giving White House squatters a free pass | Red Cross blasts indefinite Guantánamo detentions
SMIRKONOMICS -- Suddenly, John Snow talks up the dollar
SHOCKER! Smirk caught sucking face with Ali McGraw lookalike
You go, girl! Margaret Cho: Coulter is not only a liar -- she's not a hot chick! (scroll down)
Paul Krugman Lessons in civility
Mokhiber & Weissman Norquist exploits the Holocaust so the rich can get more tax cuts
Reuters Iranian human rights lawyer wins Nobel Peace Prize 2003
AP Smirk looks for ways to interfere with Cuba's thug regime. Here's an idea, moron: how about dropping the failed trade embargo and flooding the nation with Yankee greenbacks and a hunger for free markets -- stupid? | ... and it makes the ideal gift for your racist friends and members of the White Kollar Klan!
Spacewar State Department protests Pat Robertson's call for a nuke strike against Foggy Bottom
Guardian Vatican joins supporters of "Reconstructionist" extremism in egging on Anglican split
Telegraph Smirky's "soulmate" Putin to price oil in Euros as part of Eurocentric strategy
Cleveland Plain Dealer Radio broadcast vet thinks liberal talker Randi Rhodes is a sure winner
Boston Globe GOP Congress to exempt homicidal firearms industry from liability in plague of gun killings
10/9/03
GOVERNOR GROPINATOR! -- Arnie's priorities: big hooters, big energy, big paybacks for his sponsors -- will Smirk throw money at California now that the Gropinator has been elected? | Conan the liability | Faludi: Arnold the humiliator | Groping for victory | Let's see the Gropinator keep his promises | Conason on recall retaliation | The stupidest moment in cable news history? | Exit polls show depressed minority voter turnout | All of a sudden, right wingnuts want to "reform" California's recall process | Fiscal irresponsibility: Arnie will repeal car tax | Why Mexicans fear the Gropinator
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Scroll down to read Jim Marcinkowski's take on the Plame disclosure | FBI talks with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson -- and Novak! | Marshall: Parsing the words "leaks of classified information" | Don't forget that Chimpy linked to Bob Woodward! | He swears he'll hunt down Saddam and Osama -- but can't find a traitor in his own cabinet?? | Spikey Isikoff caught making crap up again!
QWAGMIRE -- Suicide bomber attacks Baghdad police station, kills 8 | Clare Short on the qwagmire | Stupid: Bremer wants to cut off free food for Iraq's poor -- PLUS! FOX News employs former Saddam loyalist! | Condi's just making crap up now | Rummy was locked out of shakeup | Condi leaves Rummy hot under the collar | White House tries to play the mess down | So does Rummy | Road to Baghdad paved with selective intelligence instead of common sense | To the qronies go the spoils | Proposed $87 billion debaqle sets off feeding frenzy
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Clark will return payments from speech | Dems set fundraising sights on Florida | How Carville and Röve made the new rules | Clark: an Eisenhower for our times? | Press whores cast Kerry as "unfocused"
FOX WATCH -- Listen to Bill O'Reilly implode on NPR's Fresh Air
ENERGY SCANDALS -- The Great Energy Scam
WHAT A RUSH! -- Hunter Thompson on Limbaugh | Monopoly: right-wing radio
INJUSTICE MINISTER SCANDALS -- Was planting of bug in Philly mayor's office an Ass-KKKroft dirty trick? | PATRIOT Act: the "tentacles of totalitarianism"
9/11 AFTERMATH -- FBI counterterrorist chief quits | Unusual, arguably inappropriate and illegal secrecy surrounds Gitmo inmates
Josh Marshall Norquist's immorality
Daily Howler The age of propaganda, part 3
DataLounge Smirk endorses anti-gay proclamation
AP Alec Baldwin's gift for Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-DeLay's poodle)
Boston Globe In Philly, FBI raids follow discovery of bug in mayor's office | Hobbling the IRS: no funds, resources to monitor the rich | Why the hell is Anheuser-Busch so pro-concealed-gun?
NY Times Texas GOP reaches secret deal to gerrymander state congressional districts | Congress steps up pressure with Syria
10/8/03
GROPING HARASSER TO BE NEW CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR AS ENTIRE STATE GOES INSANE | AH-NULD MANHANDLES GOLDEN STATE | Ward Connerly's racist Prop 54 defeated | NYT Magazine completely screwed up the story about Gray Davis' hateful "neighbor" who's not one | Arnie's goose-stepping supporters rough up rival for governorship, spout hateful anti -gay epithets | Mary Carey, Larry Flynt, Gary Coleman graciously concede | Ward Connerly still hates disadvantaged people | Gropinator victory may fool GOP into thinking :macho vote" is important | Voters fooled into blaming Davis | Grim day at Davis HQ | Great -- now Maria "Fake Kennedy" Shriver wants to return to MSNBC | Gilliard: How Davis lost | Kos: Arnie will last six months
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Regime denies "Scooter" Libby, "Turdblossom" Röve or "Iran-Contra" Abrams are the leakers | Smirk may let treasonous cover-blowers hide behind executive privilege -- and Wilson may sue | WH lawyers "pore over papers" (with shredders at the ready, we're sure) |Hesiod is right: Return of the White House enemies list with Moran, Gregory at top | Smirk promises leak scandal will sleep with the fish | Signorile: Some leaks are more felonious than others | Josh Marshall applies "The Clinton Test" to the evidence detour through the White House Counsel's office | Gilliard: Fire Novak
WHAT A RUSH! -- Chimpy's (weak) defense of Pigboy
QWAGMIRE -- 3 more soldiers and a translator killed in Iraq | Putin: Iraq could be next Afghanistan thanks to US mismanagement | Conason: Imminent threat? Cue audience laughter | More Conason: Where ae those WMDs? | More Smirk-a-lateralism on the way? | Rummy's star on the wane | Iraq guerilla issues dire warning | We should have listened to the UN weapons inspectors -- but you know that | Australian PM Howard censured for lying about Iraq | Aussie Labour legislators to snub Whistle Ass speech | "But look! It's getting so much better in Iraq!"
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- House Republicans sell themselves like hookers | Clark campaign manager quits | Campaign finance "experts" try to turn Clark into crook | How to be the McCain of 2004, by McCain himself
9/11 AFTERMATH -- America was bamboozled into thinking Iraq was about 9/11 | Ass-KKKroft to appeal Moussaoui decision | Biowarfare gear on sale at the Pentagon -- cheap! (more here)
Daily Howler Yet more from the propaganda age
AP Site Finder bugs now plague Web
CNN Sen. Judd Gregg's wife abducted, released | Who bugged the Philadelphia mayor's office?
Salon Right-wing Crank Yankers! MoveOn.org exposes Tom DeLay, Bob McManus
Boston Globe Hate radio host suspended | Kerry debates a hard-righter in his audience -- and earns his respect
Observer The end for Arafat? Aide admits wily survivor Yassir has had heart attack
Guardian Tyco trial exposes greed, waste of shareholders' money | Reconstructionist-tied extremists seek to split US Episcopal Church
Detroit News Supremos overrule FCC in a move that could open up broadband competition
APJ How vouchers hurt the people GOPers claim they help
WaPo Garbage in, garbage out: "Senator in a Drum" Nickles (R-OK) to retire
10/7/03
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Cover-up in the making: the White House Counsel gets the evidence before the DoJ does (Kleiman and Atrios comment) | Former CIA officials furious with Team Smirk for compromising covert operative | Democrats emboldened by emerging national security scandal | A tale of two WaPo stories | 28 years ago: another Novak leak, almost the same cast of conservatives | Smirk, no longer in denial, calls leak that compromised CIA a "criminal act" | DC implodes; is press waking up? | Smirk hopes criminal probe will scare potential whistle-blowers into shutting up
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB starring ARNIE THE GROPER -- Dead heat in Golden State | Arnie's lead shrinks | Oakland paper rescinds Arnie endorsement | Women in movie biz mobilize against Arnie | Hypocrite Clinton-hater Maureen Dowd loves Arnie | Michael Moore: Davis can win easily -- here's how | Allegations hound Gropinator as sixteenth woman claims Arnie felt her up | Computer experts fear "hack box" vote fraud in recall ballot | Orrin Hatch: Character doesn't count, vote Arnie | Absentee ballots may delay result for days | An age of propaganda: Tweety spins for Arnold | Siege Heil: the Bush family, Röve, Arnie and the Nazis | Prop 53: guaranteed to make a bad situation worse | The also-rans
WHAT A RUSH! -- Did painkillers make Rush deaf? | Blowback: Rush's proto-Confederate allies at ESPN are now on the hot seat
FOX WATCH -- WARNING! Regular viewing of FOX News Channel may leave you misinformed and stupid! | We report, you... get it wrong!
HACK BOX VOTING -- Time to recall computerized voting machines
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- And then there were nine: Graham drops out | Clark lays out foreign policy vision | Will women be key to new Democratic "21st Century Southern Strategy"?
QWAGMIRE -- 3 more soldiers and a translator killed in Iraq | Smirk's credibility vanishes | Act of desperation: Smirk puts Condi in charge of Iraq and Afghanistan | Saddam loyalists riot, take over in Baiji as police flee | "Vial of botulinum" -- or more harmless stuff that couldn't hurt a kid? | Blair not welcome at UK qwagmire funerals | Will Turkey send troops to Iraq/ And won't this get the Kurds miffed? | Joe Allbaugh, poster child for qronyism
9/11 AFTERMATH -- GAO: DoD facilitated illegal manufacture of bioweapons right here in the US of A! | A clever FBI 1998-99 attempted sting operation against Hamas -- and how it unraveled
Michael Moore You'll never be rich -- corporatists would never allow it
Paul Krugman Lumps of labor
AP Chemical company wants to be shielded from legal actin for the harm their gas additive caused
Daily News Martha Stewart launches counterattack | Stupid move: NYC's CBS affiliate drops legendary in-your-face reporter Penny Crone, legendary for sticking up for the "average Joe"
Guardian Why the PATRIOT ACT sucks | Hacker with Asperger's left Port of Houston in chaos
Las Vegas Sun Elton John mocks Dennis "GOP clown" Miller
Vidalia Delta Times Supremos to timber barons: stuff it
LSJ 84,000 less kids eligible for Pell grants
NYT He should have been institutionalized, not executed | Supremos overturn $80 million judgment against corporate drug dealer
TVNewsLies launches Internet radio show!
10/6/03
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Wilson: leak put himself, wife in danger of being killed | Wilson wants leakers "frog-marched" | "The only thing the White House has been aggressive about is attacking the victims of its own bad-acts: Wilson and [his wife]." | Bob Novak, useful idiot | Littwin: White House acts like Soviet-era KGB by "outing" agent | Could scandal lead to impeachment? |
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB starring ARNIE THE GROPER -- Arnie's "Dan Burton" problem: secret illegitimate child! | The Teflon Groper | What a shock: recall campaign devolves into ugly mess | McClintock: If charges prove true, Arnie should resign | Right wingers, FReepers, Neo-fascists start hate campaign against LA Times for exposing Arnie's groping | Arnie seizes on right-wingers' hatred of Native Americans | Second newspaper rescinds Arnie endorsement | Ballot experts fear fraud on the horizon | A sure sign of sexist times | Hack box voting debuts in California | Heads up from BuzzFlash -- eBay cancels OUI! Schwarzenegger issue auctions | ... not to mention chads | GOP, Brits will count recall vote | Scoobie endorses NO/Bustamante
WHAT A RUSH! -- Roger Ailes has a reminder for pigboy before he starts doing the NA steps |
WMD SCANDAL -- "The dog ate Saddam's WMDs" |
CAMPAIGN 2003-04 -- Kerry lays out Social Security and Medicare plan | Louisiana Gov race: young Indian-American GOPer vs. Dem Lt. Governor | "Old Bull" Dems in Senate: We're not dead yet! | Rep. Patrick Kennedy rips Dean's ties to NRA | Profile: erudite long-shot Kucinich
QWAGMIRE -- "Things are improving"? Sudden need to overhaul approaches to Iraq, Afghanistan gives lie to Team Smirk talking point; Condi in charge? So much for self-rule... | Drug epidemic grips Baghdad | Putin: US stuck in qWagmire with few friends
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- DOJ wants PATRIOT Act suit dismissed
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Only in Smirk's America Enron wants $millions for energy it never delivered
$MIRKONOMICS -- Oops! Labor Department revises job stats downward
Michael Moore has seven questions for Chimpy
Blast from the past: Al Franken Spanks Coulter on KMOX! (mp3 player required) Part one | Part deux
Ornicus (Scroll down for) The Bush Family Fortune
AP Rep Cass "segregationist feelin's" Ballinger blames Islamic extremists for his divorce!
Boston Globe Texas gerrymandering mess may force delay of Democratic primary | GOP lets prescription coverage for elderly slip through their fingers; will Dems seize the issue?
LA Times Smirk's Medieval presidency
NY Times Preview: The Supremos' Fall 2003 season
10/5/03
Steve Young: Saving Private Lynch from Misinformation
WMD SCANDAL -- Cook: "Blair admitted to me that Saddam had no usable WMD" |
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Tenet caught in middle of Wilson scandal; CIA turns on 1600 as "the exposure of [Wilson's wife as an operative] is now considered an even greater instance of treachery" than trying to blame CIA for Smirk's SOTU gaffe | Profile: wary whistle-blower Wilson | Alter: someone should rat out the source | Brian Fleming tracks Chimpy's attempt to find leakers | Let's play Stonewall! Chris "Tweety" Matthews is caught up in the scandal
WHAT A RUSH! -- Franken would "run" to see a Pigboy perp walk |
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB starring ARNIE THE GROPER -- Second newspaper rescinds Arnie endorsement | Arnie's staged apology not good enough for California women | Arnie's volunteers strip 60-year-old nuns of protest signs (remind you of anything? like Germany in the 1930s?) | Conason: Uncovering Arnie | Journalist groped by Arnie may sue! | Dems step up attacks on unqualified, abusive Austrian bodybuilder | Allegations dog Arnie | Did Kenny Boy and Arnie conspire to screw California on electrical power?
CAMPAIGN 2003-04 -- Worry sets in at the occupied White House | Democrats smell victory in 2004 | Clark raises $3.5 million in 2 weeks | Dems win big in Louisiana open primary | New laws shrink contributions to Dems in Hollywood | Campaign chaos in Philly: and you thought California was a circus | Graham seeks counsel from Clinton, Daschle | Kucinich sees antiwar sentiment growing
QWAGMIRE -- Lied to again: report had stated Iraq's oil revenues were nowhere near enough to pay for rebuilding
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Actually, that's the problem: Americans aren't aware that 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis
AP First Lady's spokeswoman to resign (maybe she's fed up with Pickles' chain smoking)
OneWorld Insult to the planet: Smirk appoints Gingrich lackey as UNESCO representative
ZWire Pension managers with big-time Connecticut GOP ties embroiled in mob probe
WaPo Texas district gerrymandering mired in internecine GOP squabble
10/4/03
FOX WATCH -- FOX News Channel viewers are stupid, clueless, and/or easily misled
MUST-READ FROM GUARDIAN -- A question of character
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Leak also exposed front firm vital to nation's security -- thank you, "vengeance-at-all-cost" White House! | Did Novak blow MORE CIA covers? | "To Junior and Karl Rove, 'the most insidious of traitors' are people who exercise their right to free speech by writing a newspaper column." | Clark: Time for independent probe | Ellsberg: The plumbers are back | A sign Smirky and Ass-KKKroft want this swept under the rug, and fast: sudden "rush" deadline to turn in evidence | Bernstein: Novak is Röve's bitch | BuzzFlash: The David Corn Interview | BuzzFlash: DOJ has already failed | Did NPR censor Nina Totenberg's report on the strangely delayed order from the DOJ to preserve leak evidence? | Marshall: How dumb can the Neocon"geniuses" at the WSJ editorial page be? You've gotta read this...
WHAT A RUSH! -- Scoobie: Was he really that bad? | RackJite's Eulogy for Rushbo | Jackson gave ESPN ultimatum: it's me or the bigot | Conason: Instant karma gets Rushbo
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Ass-KKKroft's bungled prosecution strategy may have damaged cases against other Al Qaeda members
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB starring ARNIE THE GROPER -- Palast: Arnie met with Kenny Boy Lay (more here) | Finally, Davis speaks out against unqualified, sleazy celebrity bodybuilder | Arnie loved those ol' Nazi march records | Arnie's handlers seem more worried about accusations from females than "I love that Adolf" gaffe -- hmmm, might Arnie have a "Dan Burton" problem??? | 3 more grope victims speak out | Victim of Arnie's sex harassment speaks out |Angry women launch TV ad | Mitt Romney smears Ted Kennedy using Arnie the Groper | | Arnie's dupes more upset about car tax than character issues | Davis, Bustamante deep in the brown sauce | Davis hedges his bets with slew of appointments
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- It's Election Day in Louisiana -- here's the skinny | No surprise: Kerry goes on the attack | Cities begin billing White House, GOP for Smirk's visits | Kerry: America must prevent more Scalias from being appointed | Dean's fiscal conservative stance helps him -- and helps cast GOP as hypocritical | Edwards blasts Smirk's Iraq funding scam for qronies | Cheapest network airtime ever! Hacker plants Kucinich spot on cbsnews.com | Howard Dean at Howard U | Graham: I'm not dead yet! | NYT story debunks wingnut lies about Clark's Kosovo record | Smirk tactic: no apology on Iraq
WMD SCANDAL -- Empty-handed, Smirk's excuses for feud with Saddam are being laughed at outright by thinking Americans | Was it Saddam's botox? Or just garden-variety non-toxic soil bacteria? | Chimpy: Saddam wanted missile parts (not uranium, smallpox or VX) from North Korea
QWAGMIRE -- Chaos rules | Finally, questions about qronyism
Daily Howler Estrich becomes Hannity's monkey
CNN Dems: Smirk is screwing domestic programs
Guardian Profile: Michael Moore | Suicide bomber kills 18 in Israel
Philly inquirer Unbelievable in 21st century: American hospital tolerates racism
10/3/02
WHAT A RUSH! -- CNN is saying on air that Rush IS being investigated by LE | Atrios unearths some hilarious, hypocritical Rush transcripts | Conason: the only surprise is that Rush restrained his bigotry for four weeks! | Limbaugh refuses to address his drug problem during NAB speech | Limbaugh IS being investigated | Lurie: ESPN suffers from institutional racism and Rush helped them flog their anti-NFL position | More bad news for Rush: Smirk, Joe Farah, Lucianne stand by him | He who lives by the loudmouth... | Rush: still a big fat idiot | Why blacks distrust conservatives
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Leak probe could go beyond White House | Dean: Smirk, Röve more vicious than Tricky Dick | Krugman: Slime and defend | Dems: Ass-KKKroft must go | Smirk's lackeys continue to attack Wilson | Expect a long investigation | Novak's leaky history | Slain CIA agent's dad calls leak treason | Punishing leaker won't be easy -- but it is possible |
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB starring ARNIE THE GROPER -- Arnie admired Hitler (where are all those "character matters" Republicans?) | "If I was a man I would bust your jaw": Grope victim tells all | Late-campaign controversies could tank recall | Angry women launch TV ad | Character does not matter to Howie Kurtz | ... or Mrs. Kurtz | Arnie's weak apology for being a groper is met with skepticism | Mitt Romney smears Ted Kennedy using Arnie the Groper
WMD SCANDAL -- "no shining weapons" | Empty-handed Kay: We didn't find one damn microgram of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq | And now Smirk wants $600 million to try again? | Scroll down to see David Cork expose another Smirk lie | Hack partisan reporter Judith "Jaysonette" Miller's star fades at NYT | Why does Smirk have such trouble finding stuff?
QWAGMIRE -- Annan rejects US Iraq transition plan | US commander admits Iraq resistance is growing stronger | Senate defeats Iraq tax
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Graham manager quits | Report: Graham to drop out | Andrew Young will not run (that's good news -- the next president will need a good Secretary of State) | Lieberman floundering but far from out | Dems meet to brainstorm campaign | Marshall: Wesley Clark and the lies of the New York Sun | Clark: Smirk twisted Iraq faqts
9/11 FALLOUT -- Moussaoui ruling a bigger setback to prosecution than expected
Eschaton Sleazebag Norquist compares taxes to Holocaust
Jerome Doolittle Some good news from academia
Daily Howler A day in the life
AP Minnesota GOP Chairman indicted | Kit Bond fires aide who named his blog after the plane that killed Sen. Mel Carnahan and his family | House votes to strip women of access to emergency late-term pregnancy termination -- how many women will die?
Guardian Profile: Al Franken
WaPo House rejects attack on overtime rights | Senate Judiciary Committee rubber-stamps judicial extremist Pickering | Strange bedfellows: will tobacco farmers, health activists out tobacco under FDA control -- and will it let big tobacco companies off the hook?
NYT America loses confidence in incompetent Smirk
10/2/03
WHAT A RUSH! BREAKING! Hooked on "hillbilly heroin": NY Daily News breaks story of Limbaugh's drug abuse; ex-housekeeper turns in holier-than-thou right wing talk show host and moral scold for alleged purchase of tens of thousands of black market painkiller pills
BREAKING via Hesiod: Rush quits ESPN (ESPN statement here)
BREAKING: Scoobie Davis, happy at last! (He also nails Rush's racist bent and points out that one of the painkillers Rushbo is alleged to use causes deafness!)
ESPN talent blasts the blowhard | McNabb: It's too late for Limbaugh to apologize | Clark: fire Limbaugh!
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL
Conflict of interest: Ass-KKKroft's ties to probe target Röve | Conason: A national outrage | Marshall: knives out for Wilson | Neo-cons endorse treasonous betrayal of our national security | Ex-CIA official: leaks risk the nation's security | "Capitol Gangster" Novak shifts into desperate damage control mode | Wilson will name names |  Wilson protected secret of wife's job | 69% of Americans want special counsel | Papers erupt over treasonous criminal outrage at White House | White House strategy: blame others at all cost | Is Scooter Libby the "other" leaker? | Fingers point to Röve | Focus on Smirk's "fixer" Röve | Profile of the outed CIA agent | McClellan hammered with tough questions, gives stock evasions in response | Digby: They've had two months to destroy evidence | Lambert: Differences between Wilsongate and non-scandal Whitewater (plus: confusion and cluelessness at NYT)
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB starring ARNIE THE GROPER -- Did agent sabotage John Connolly's new book detaining all the stuff Arnie does not want you to know? | Six women accuse Arnie of abuse
A NETWORK OF OUR OWN? -- Consortium headed by Al Gore makes bid to buy Newsworld International cable outlet
FRANK LUNTZ SHOWS HIS IGNORANCE -- "Americans dont want to hear about the Holocaust anymore, and they particularly dont want to hear it from the Jewish community."
WMD SCANDAL -- North Korea says it's actually making nukes
QWAGMIRE -- Kay expected to tell panel "no smoking gun" expected | Three more US GIs dead (that's TEN in three days) | Smirky's Iraq adventure goes sour | Maggie Thatcher: Blair had no case for war | Iraqi cops out of control
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Rank and bile: military turns on incompetent Junior | Haley Barbour tied to CCC (that's the White Kollar Klan) | Josh Marshall interviews Wesley Clark | Judicial Watch is trying to strongarm Howard Dean -- will he fight back, demand Judicial Watch release contributor list, budget, salaries of its Neo-fascist staff? | Dean's "empower play" | Kos: some should drop out
$MIRKONOMICS -- Senate panel plots more tax givebacks for corporate crooks |
Daily Howler Chait and hate
AP TSA scrambles to seal holes in air freight security | Dems block vote on Leavitt
Guardian US panel shocked at magnitude of hostility toward US in Muslim world | Putin levels with press about Chechnya mess
Boston Globe FBI agents accused of moonlighting in China -- on YOUR tab!
NYT Pataki judicial nominee's anger management problem
If President Bush refuses to personally and forcefully pursue a national security risk on his own staff, how can we trust him to keep this country safe?
-- Digby, Oct. 1, 2003 (via Atrios)
10/1/03
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL --
BORGER: Junior's political czar Karl Röve fingered as treasonous leaker
RNC CHAIR GILLESPIE: This is worse than Watergate
WYETH WIRE: A second possible crime -- tip-off to White House Counsel Gonzalez
SHADES OF WATERGATE: White House Counsel gave staff nearly a full day to treasonously shred, erase, destroy evidence
SECOND GONZALEZ MEMO: Is Junta trying to target two Newsday reporters?
DEMS WON'T RELENT: Demand for special prosecutor grows
FBI opens criminal investigation | Smirk refuses to ask staff who the traitor to national security is | Intelligence experts speak out in anger about Team Smirk's blithe disrespect for national security | Criminal investigation: summary | Great timing, huh? | Josh Marshall: Smirk tries to shift the issue -- nice try (not) | David Corn: McClellan stays on message, presents poor case for White House not investigating | Scoobie to Farah: Shut the f%$# up, Scaife monkey-boy! | Scoobie on Hannity, Limbaugh, and the hard right's attempts to play down Wilson-Gate
QWAGMIRE -- Four more Americans dead -- in one day! | Qwagmire is causing a "hollowed-out" army | Qronyism comes to Iraq | The bigger issue: US must counteract lousy image in Muslim world | GOP can't sell $87 billion war bill | Bipartisan agreement: Iraq can and should pay for rebuilding
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Clark, master of understatement: Americans are "embarrassed" by Smirk | Dean's "empower play" | Military disillusioned by the GOP | Dean does Leno | Soros calls for regime change -- in the US | No early labor nod for Gephardt | Sharpton loses two key aides | Dean's Medicare quandary: overblown by the NYT? | Smirk steps out to shake down business again | Poll: Edwards ahead in SC
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Arianna quits race -- and turns on the recall altogether; will she back Bustamante? | Recall, Arnie slightly ahead | Scheer: Wilsonistas will be writing Arnie's script if he wins | Arnie: screw the environment!
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Thomas: Link to Saddam was a sleazy sales job
$MIRKONOMICS -- Sour mood descends on Wall Street | Smirk: "Jobs is on the way." (Right -- once you're evicted from the White House, squatter!)
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Smirk wants Cheney's energy cronyism covered up | Sold-to-Smirk's-buddies "Energy Department" seeks to redefine nuke waste
Atrios catches Drudge stealing from him!
Joe Conason David Brooks, hypocrite
Daily Howler Time for Russert to go
Lloyd Grove Smirk Family laff riot!
AP Dems block Smirk's EPA nominee
Guardian Political cult plans to infiltrate New Hampshire
Boston Globe Appeals court gives Vernon Jordan the shaft
NYT No child left unswindled: fuzzy math strikes again
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