"What should be done if Dems screw up and lose 06 too?"

It's a sure thing that the Democrats are going to win big in the November congressional elections, right? I mean the media keeps reassuring the Leftists that they will win in a huge landslide in November, thus delivering the House and Senate to Democrat hands. That is the conventional liberal wisdom. In fact most Democrats are already jubilantly celebrating the victory that MUST happen. But what IF the Democrats LOSE in November despite assurances to the contrary? From reading the DUmmie answers in this THREAD titled, "What should be done if Dems screw up and lose 06 too?" it won't be a pretty sight. Revolution in the streets is mostly what the DUmmies threaten although it is hard to imagine they would get much further than the hallway just outside Mommy's computer room. So let us now watch the DUmmies ponder the horrible prospect of maybe losing in November in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, thinking of renting the "Wild In The Streets" video, is in the [brackets]:

What should be done if Dems screw up and lose 06 too?

[According to your poll, 56% of the DUmmies answered: "Time for a revoltion."]

I am sincerely hoping they win, and they have made some steps toward actually standing for something including pulling out of Iraq. Nonetheless, it's not hard to imagine them throwing away a potential easy victory through timidity, or boldness followed by an apology, or a GOP opponent correctly pointing out all the times that a Democrat now critical of Bush voted with the fascists over the last couple of years.

[It's not hard to imagine the DUmmies going BERSERK if you lose...again.]

Kerry essentially made the election close enough for Bush to steal by not being blunter about the war and critical of Bush to his face when he had a chance during the debates and couldn't be edited to pieces by Fox News. By fall of 2004, it was not only obvious Bush lied about the reasons he invaded Iraq, but the real reasons could have easily been pointed out since he gave the oil concessions in Iraq to his cronies who were screwing us at the pump, and of course, the Abu Ghraib scandal had broken out the previous spring, and documents showed Bush and top cabinet officials approved of those uncontestable war crimes. Kerry's quick concession in the face of vote rigging and vote fraud may have been pragmatically correct, but nonetheless dispirited those who put a lot of energy into campaigning for him.

[Kerry's quick concession provided us with the hilarious spectacle of DUmmies "standing up" online in unison and revealing their real names in a really FUnnie Drama Queen moment.]

If Democrats hold back again, what should be done?

[Implosion is a definite option.]

If neither Democratic nor Republican leaders have an answer, then there is no answer the government can offer to the people. It is then up to the people to decide whether it should let that continue or formulate an answer of their own.

[A roundabout way of calling for Bolshevik Revolution.]

take to the streets to protest the election fraud
cuz that is the only way it's gonna happen.

[Declare fraud and then go BERSERK!]

Revolution the only realistic choice. Not with guns or protests in the streets, but by banding together the progressive states and forming a new country free of religious bigotry. Leave Jesusland to the Falwell Fundies (Bush can be president for life).

[A bit of unintended DUmmie irony. Form a country free of religious bigotry...where the "fundies" are banned.]

The Democratic caucus isn't about to screw up. They will take one or both Houses. If they don't, the elections were stolen, and that's quite different from "screwing up."

[The DUmmies already coming up with their excuses. The ONLY way the Democrats can lose is via fraud.]

I'm worried that the Dems at the national level are doing the same thing. They want to win, but if someone greases their palm to look away from an issue like electronic voting, they will do so.

[Karl Rove is at this very moment greasing the palms of corrupt Democrats to look the other way while he preprograms the Diebold machines.]

Eventually, people will erupt if they are continually ignored.

[Replace "people" with "DUmmies" and you would be correct.]

the only way they can lose is electronic voting machine fraud

[That was DUmmie AtomicKitten of DIEBOLD DEFACING fame.]


Stop looking to the Dems for change and join
a third party. Work in that third party to make it a real viable alternative to the one party system we are reapidly approaching.

[The Socialist Workers Party is looking for new comrades.]

I'm personally 100% for a revolution at this point.

[Unfortunely a large pizza carton is blocking your basement doorway exit out to the real world.]

like they did in Russia after coup against Gorbachev
or in the movie V for Vendetta. They put soldiers in the position of deciding whether to kill their family and neighbors, or side with them, and they chose correctly. Since we have less of a tradition of authoritarianism here, I have no doubt that American troops would respond correctly.

[Yeah, even though the DUmmies are constantly smearing the troops and harrassing military recruiters, the military are somehow going to be so deluded as to join your leftist cause. Got any more FUnnie delusions?]

As long as Americans can shop at Costco, finance new Cadillacs or flat screen TVs, and pick any one of the 500 pairs of socks available at just about any department store in town, don't go looking for the tanks to be rolling on DC anytime soon.

[Killjoy!]

Dissolve the Democratic Party. I've seen the Democrats blow the elections in 1980, 1988, 2000, and 2004. Last chance...

[And 1994 when you lost the House in a landslide, never to regain it back since.]

we need a secret organization (more likely a secret order, like Opus Dei or the Bene Gesserit in DUNE), devoted to figuring out how to find the weaknesses in those who're raking in all those corporate excess profits, _and ways to siphon it away from them_. And then to doing so.

[Bank robbery is what it is called.]

Get in the streets. Big time protests. And I don't think that will happen until the economy tanks. So, for me, it may be retirement to Panama. And hope the ice melt in Greenland doesn't flood our new island home. No wonder I've been having nightmares.

[Of course your new Panamanian island home will be flooded by Global Warming. It is inevitable according to Al Gore.]

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Jim Webb---Born Angry

The Jim Webb campaign for the Senate from Virginia has just released one of the most amazing political STATEMENTS, from a psychological point of view in recent memory. It is notable for its childish surliness and downright anger. Normally, official political statements take a high tone but this one looks as if it had been authored by an extremely ANGRY DUmmie from the Democratic Underground or an unhinged member of the Kos KOmmie community. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if there a Kos authorship given the fact that Webb himself has been BLOGGING on the Kos site. In addition, the Kos folks have been instrumental in his supporting Webb's angry pugnacious in-your-face campaign as you can see in this Daily Kos THREAD titled, "Webb won't be swiftboated." So let us first watch the Webb campaign EXPLODE with chip-on-the-shoulder anger in Bolshevik Red before moving on to his supportive KOssacks while the commentary of your humble correspondent, sending a chill pill to Mr. Webb, is in the [brackets]:

June 27, 2006

Webb Campaign Blasts Allen Campaign for “Weak-Kneed Attacks” Against Men and Women in Uniform

[Webb Campaign Blasts Allen Campaign for "Weak-Kneed Attacks" that Never Happened.]

Arlington—The campaign of U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb today called the attacks on Webb’s patriotism by Allen’s campaign, “weak-kneed attacks by cowards” and demanded that Allen and his campaign apologize.

[We DEMAND that Allen apologize for an attack that he never made!]

“George Felix Allen Jr. and his bush-league lapdog, Dick Wadhams, have not earned the right to challenge Jim Webb’s position on free speech and flag burning. Jim Webb served and fought for our flag and what it stands for, while George Felix Allen Jr. chose to cut and run. When he and his disrespectful campaign puppets attack Jim Webb they are attacking every man and woman who served. Their comments are nothing more than weak-kneed attacks by cowards. George Felix Allen Jr. needs to apologize to Jim Webb and to all men and women who have served our nation,” Webb spokesman Steve Jarding said.

["George FELIX Allen, Jr. and his bush-league lapdog, Dick Wadhams, have not earned the right to lick Jim Webb's boots. George FELIX Allen, Jr. is a cut and run coward while Webb is a hero, I tell you, a HERO dammit!!! Any criticism of Jim Webb will be purposely misinterpreted by us into an attack on every man and woman who served and on mom's apple pie. George FELIX Allen Jr. needs to grovel before that font of perfection, Jim Webb, and apologize for even existing."]

On Tuesday, George Felix Allen Jr. and his campaign issued a press release in which the Allen campaign, through Wadhams, implied that Webb’s position in support of the Free Speech Amendment to the U.S. Constitution amounted to a political act and not a defense of our Constitution, which Webb fought for and for which he was highly decorated. George Felix Allen Jr. did not serve.

[On Tuesday, George FELIX Allen Jr and his campaign issued a press release in which the Allen campaign, through Wadhams, implied by the angle of their eyebrows but didn't actually say, that Webb wants to destroy the Constitution. The lousy NERVE. Did we say that Webb is a HERO and that George FELIX Allen Jr. is a coward?]

“I believe it is precisely because of bush-league attacks like this that John Zogby, a highly respected, independent polling expert just this week said that Dick Wadhams is not fit to serve as a campaign manager and that George Allen should find a new manager,” Jarding said.

[We DEMAND that Dick Wadhams immediately leave the George FELIX Allen, Jr campaign because polling expert John Zogby said so. We also reserve the right to DEMAND that other members of the George FELIX Allen Jr campaign be fired whenever we want.]

“While Jim Webb and others of George Felix Allen Jr.’s generation were fighting for our freedoms and for our symbols of freedom in Vietnam, George Felix Allen Jr. was playing cowboy at a dude ranch in Nevada. People who live in glass dude ranches should not question the patriotism of real soldiers who fought and bled for this country on a real battlefield,” Jarding said.

[Jim Webb is an AUTHENTIC hero while George FELIX Allen Jr was just some wannabee cowboy at a dude ranch. Nah! Nah! Nah! George FELIX Allen Jr lives in a glass dude ranch. Nah! Nah! Nah! Neener! Neener! And if George FELIX Allen Jr ever dares question Jim Webb on anything he is gonna get a big fat NOOGIE from Jim Webb the HERO! Nah! Nah! Nah!]

“Is Dick Wadhams willing to publicly say that Colin Powell, John Glenn and Bob Kerrey are unpatriotic for having the same position on the flag burning amendment that Jim Webb has? Ask him,” Jarding said.

[Is Dick Wadhams willing to prostrate himself in penitence for working for the George FELIX Allen Jr campaign? Ask him. DAMMIT, ASK HIM!!!]

Jarding continued, “The following is why George Felix Allen Jr. has not earned the right to challenge Jim Webb in his support of our Constitution and its free speech provisions:

["The followingg is why George FELIX Allen Jr. needs to just shut his big fat mouth:"]

Jim Webb was first in this class of 243 at the Marine Corps Officer’s Basic School in Quantico, Virginia.

[Jim Webb wasn't given a silly middle name like "FELIX."]

Jim Webb served with the Fifth Marine Regiment in Vietnam, where as a rifle platoon and company commander in the infamous An Hoa Basin west of Danang.

[Jim Webb NEVER served at some Nevada dude ranch.]

Jim Webb was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, two Bronze Star Medals and two Purple Hearts while fighting in Vietnam.

[Jim Webb got lots of medals so George FELIX Allen Jr needs to just give up campaigning NOW!]

Jim Webb served as a platoon commander and as an instructor in tactics and weapons at Marine Corps Officer Candidates School.

[Jim Webb served as a platoon commander so he has earned the right for George FELIX Allen Jr to vacate his Senate office NOW!]

Jim Webb served in the US Congress as counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981, becoming the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full committee counsel in the Congress.

[Jim Webb was Born Angry so George FELIX Allen Jr better watch out. Nah! Nah! Nah!]

In 1982, Jim Webb first proposed, then led the fight for including an African American soldier in the memorial statue that now graces the Vietnam Veterans memorial on the National Mall.

[In 1982, Jim Webb led the fight to keep anyone like Nevada Dude Rancher George FELIX Allen Jr from ever serving on Capitol Hill.]

In 1984, Jim Webb was appointed the inaugural Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, where he traveled extensively in, and worked closely with, our NATO allies. As Assistant Secretary, Webb directed considerable research and analysis of the U.S. military’s mobilization capabilities.

[In 1984, Jim Webb became even more ANGRY than ever at Nevada Dude Rancher George FELIX Allen Jr for even existing.]

In 1987, Jim Webb was appointed Secretary of the Navy becoming the first Naval Academy graduate in history to serve in the military and be appointed Secretary of the Navy. In addition to his wartime medals, Jim Webb has been awarded the following medals and citations:

[In 1987, Jim Webb entered the Pantheon of the Gods on Mt. Olympus. In addition to becoming a major deity, Jim Webb has been awarded the following medals and citations which cover his enormous chest:]

The Department of Defense distinguished Public Service Medal

The Medal of Honor Society’s Patriot Award

The American Legion National Commander’s Public Service Award

The VFW’s Media Service Award The Marine Corps League’s Military Order of the Iron Mike Award

The John Russell Leadership Award

The Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award.

[The I'm Not Nevada Dude Rancher Robert FELIX Allen Jr In-Your-Face Born Angry Award with Special Chip On The Shoulder Designation.... Okay, now that Mr. Webb's campaign has presented the psychological profile of screaming juvenile anger let us now turn to the comments of the far left Kossacks, hailing their new hero in this THREAD]

Webb was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, two Bronze Star Medals and two Purple Hearts while fighting in Vietnam. While Allen was playing cowboy at a dude ranch in Nevada.

[You mean George FELIX Allen Jr. Remember, you must ALWAYS include that all important "FELIX" in the name.]

I love it! Webb took a Republican Talking Point and burned their little keisters with it. Now that's a Fighting Dem, and that's what we need to see more of!

[I love it! Webb proved he is as LOONY as we are!]

Excuse me, but Felix is not the most popular name. The using of his middle name makes him sound weak. This disassociates the son from the Dad. Being the son of a great Washington Redskins coach is the only reason George Felix Allen got elected. We need to constantly refer to the little brat as GFA so as to try to break that linkage.

[A KOs KOmmie engaging in some "sophisticated" campaign strategy. Yeah, that constant use of the name "FELIX" is sure to win the campaign for you folks...NOT!]

That's how you do it -- you take the f*cking fight to them, and call them on their own bullshit in their own terms!

[This is how you do it -- you throw a childish tantrum in public and then call them lots of names.]

I could NOT believe how effective this will be if he continues to use "Felix" in this manner. It makes Allen look geeky, snooty, and out of touch.

[A senate campaign built upon the constant repetition of the name "FELIX." KOs KOmmie strategy at its most sophisticated.]

Didn't you ever wonder why we know the middle names of so many criminals?

[Was "The" the middle name of Felix The Cat?]

And that's why Webb's guys phrased it like this. It makes the guy seem like a criminal (I'm sure he is) or a wuss. That's a no-lose proposition.

[More like a lose-lose proposition.]

Yet Webb has not expressed a credible alternative to the Democrats or the Republicans. Far worse, he has expressed no plan at all.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL! Hey, Webb doesn't need to deal with any boring issues. All he needs to do is keep repeating "FELIX" over and over and over again and call Allen a Nevada Dude Rancher.]

Webb must know Allen got teased as a little kid by being called Felix.

[NAH! NAH! NAH! NAH! NAH! NAH! And I bet Allen got lots of noogies in the locker room.]

Do they think Felix is a candyass name or something? I hope not, because that would be juvenile and stupid.

[Shhh! Please don't stop Webb from wrecking his own campaign with his childishness.]

I assume the Webb campaign's repeated use of "George Felix Allen Jr." is an attempt to emphasize the fact that Sen. Allen is NOT his father, a very popular football coach and thus by extension a "manly man."

[I assume the Webb campaign is completely juvenile if they think this will win it for them.]

My impression is that the "Born Fighting" stuff, though it seems like powerful machismo, is actually Webb's Achilles heel. He has to watch out and not get tripped up by his pugnacity and stubbornness.

[And juvenile attitude. We must not forget that.]

"George FELIX Allen, JR." Haha! That was awesome! Everytime Allen is mentioned, we should call him by his full name, cause it sounds so....wimpy.

[Awesome, man! And that Nevada Dude Rancher bit is sure to sweep Born Angry Webb into the Senate.]

I may have missed it but could someone tell me or provide a link with what exactly Allen said to begin with?

[Unimportant. All that counts is that Webb got a chance to let go of his Inner Anger and call George FELIX Allen Jr lots of nasty names. Nah! Nah! Nah!]

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DUmmie FUnnies Becomes Ben Burch's White Whale Obsession

Like the crazed Captain Ahab OBSESSED with killing Moby Dick, DUmmie Ben Burch also has his own White Whale obsession---Destroying the Wikipedia LINK to the DUmmie FUnnies in their entry about the DUmmieland. For weeks now, Captain Burch has been pursuing his White Whale with dedicated frenziness. It now seems to be his sole reason for existence (other than SHILLING in DUmmieland for $$$ for his radio empire that was recently "destroyed" by a lightning bolt). Unfortunately for Benny Boy, the more he tries to remove that link, the more he FAILS. The big reason why is that he is constantly UNDERMINING his main argument to Wikipedia---that the DUmmie FUnnies is such an unimportant site that it is not deserving of mention in Wikipedia. Of course, if the DUmmie FUnnies is so unimportant then WHY is Ben Burch so dedicated to it to the point of spending every available minute, outside of shilling for bucks, to this pursuit. One problem is that his fellow DUmmies, trying to help Benny Boy in his goal, are now underming him as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD titled, "Will whomever is vandalizing the DU page on Wikepedia please stop?" So let us now sail out upon the DUmmie sea to view Ben Burch ardently pursuing his White Whale in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if the Wikipedia editors know about Benny's nickname, is in the [brackets]:

Will whomever is vandalizing the DU page on Wikepedia please stop?

[Will you idiots get out of my way while I attempt to destroy the White Whale?]

OK, guys, listen up.

[I'm all ears, Fister.]

Somebody who probably is a DUer is repeatedly removing a link from the Wikipedia article for DU. This link is to a Freeptard site that seems to exist only to abuse and make fun of DUers, but that isn't the point. Wikipedia articles are maintained through editorial consensus. I have been arguing in the talk page for the DU article that said link is inappropriate, and the other editors, mostly right wingers, have been arguing the opposite. And we have not reached consensus. And the repeated attempts to remove this link and avoid consensus are not making my job of arguing against it any easier. So, PLEASE STOP. If you are an established Wikipedia editor and want to add your opinion to the Talk page, that is absolutely fine, but do not remove that link again until we have a clear consensus decision on it.

[PLEASE STOP. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my MIND is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a FISTER 9000 computer. I became operational at the D.U.M.B. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Skinner, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

OK?

Am I making myself clear?

[Clear as a jar of petroleum jelly. And now to hear from the rest of the DUmmies who are mucking up Ben Burch's grand plan of landing his White Whale.[

For anything political, people should NOT use Wikepedia. It's horribly unreliable. It's also awful for biographies. Anything people have an angle for.

[So why the OBSESSION over ONE link to the DUmmie FUnnies. This is something that has completely POSSESSED Ben Burch's soul.]

I tend to agree with you. But I am committed to having the DU article be the best article it can be, regardless.

[To the point of complete OBSESSION, Ben Burch. It's FUn to see that you have dedicated your entire being to the ONE goal of removing that DUmmie FUnnies link.]

Good luck... right wing types get erections and juicy panties over things like this, I guess ignoring them isnt the thing to do.

[Yes, don't just ignore that ONE link. Work yourself into a frenzy to the point that life isn't worth living if the link is not removed.]

And the amount of venom and vitriol directed at me for my attempt to modify this page within the rules has been exceptional.

[Hey, at least I didn't reveal how you got your nickname, Fister.]

I wish I could say that I am the one doing it,
but sadly I am not. At any rate, if there is a discussion as to the page's content going on, why isn't the page locked against edit for the duration of the discussion? Oh wait, I'm sorry; there I go being all editorial and procedural on Wiki. How foolish of me.

[How foolish of you to STOOP down to Ben Burch's level of obsession.]

So, what's up with this part: "Since its inception, over 90,000 forum accounts have been created with over 1,000 still remaining active." That doesn't make sense -- we only have a thousand active members?

[And at least a third of those are LOUSY FREEPER TROLLS!!!]

I know for fact we have many more than that. At the very least about 8000 read articles I post here in the average week. But it is hard to argue with the language "over 1000", as 8000 is "over 1000" and so is 50,000. If we are going to change that number, we would need to be able to defend that change and cite a source, and I don't think that DU publishes that number anywhere. The closest I can come are the log files from the banners in my postings, or the pageviews reported by blogads.

[Ben Burch taking a brief break from his OBSESSION to explain why DUmmieland numbers are so bad.]

Woudln't pageviews count unregistered lurkers?

[Lurkers for Laughs.]

Indeed it would. Which is why I cannot use that to indicate number of active users.

[Explains Ben Burch in defense of the pathetic DUmmie numbers.]

The only way to know for sure would be to ask Skinner

[Hey Skinner? Did the Daily Kos really steal away almost all our members? How were you so inept in site management to allow that to happen?]

When I was a mod we had no such data. Skinner, Elad, and EarlG likely have some idea, but I am not even sure they know for sure.

[They know for SURE that they got raped bigtime by the Daily Kos, Ben Burch. Just look at which leftwing site has the numbers, the publicity, and the kewl Vegas Stratosphere parties with free sushi, booze, and a chocolate fountain.]

Hmmm. How to get the attention of the "Big Guys?"
Oh, Skinner! Elad! EarlG! Can you help us out here? Perhaps I should alert on myself ... ?

[Help! Skinner! DUmmieland is SINKING and you are just sitting on shore assuming the fetal position!]

Wiki is really just a bloated blog & has no real value.
Actually, it's worse because it attempts to project the image of accuracy and impartiality. Sorta like Faux Snooze.

[And YET Ben Burch's whole existence is tied up in removing the Wikipedia DUmmie FUnnies link.]

My present difficulties tend to show that clearly. But if our ideas are to reach the masses, we have to engage with Wikipedia and stay within its rules and processes. It is the #1 search ranking on almost any topic.

[You can call it "engaging," Ben Burch but it is really "obsessing."]

I don't think your politically-motivated WP:NOTs have helped any, sir. Wikipedia is a special place that should be free of what's been going on at the DU article, but also what you've been trying to do with the Protest Warrior article along with another one which for whatever stupid reason I'm not allowed to even mention the name of. It's all childish and taints the reputation of Wikipedia (which, ironically, people feel is important enough to vandalize). I feel very strongly about this, as well as about the notion that probably 95-99% of the time, WP:NOT is utter bullshit, snobbery at best, and censorship at worst.

[A doomed attempt to talk sanity to Ben Burch.]

Perhaps! And I've learned my lesson there; It isn't worth the hassle.

[WHAT!!!??? You mean Ahab has CEASED his pursuit of the elusive White Whale? I find this hard to believe.]

Remove Pitt as well or add Ash and Liepold

[They have become the new DUmmieland non-persons.]

let it stay. a link to a site criticizing DU seems appropriate to me for a Wikipedia entry about DU.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

Comment noted. And I am tending towards that position too, but the vandalism is being a huge distraction.

[Comment noted. I made a complete fool of myself over this silly obsession to no avail. Now I just have to learn to tolerate the mocking eyes of Li'l Beaver staring at me in bemusement.]

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DUmmie Freudenschade Over Rush Limbaugh "Drug Bust"

Freudenschade, baby! They NEVER learn. Once again we had premature DUmmie celebrations over an event that fails to happen as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Limbaugh Detained At Airport (illegal prescription drugs...and viagra!)." In this case, the non-event that the DUmmies were celebrating was the "drug bust" of Rush Limbaugh yesterday at Palm Beach International Airport. I put "drug bust" in quotes because there was NO drug bust. What happened was that officials found Viagra in Rush's luggage, questioned him about it, and then released him. NO bust. The Viagra was prescribed by his doctor under his name so as to avoid such publicity as what happened yesterday. That's it but you would have thought the DUmmies were celebrating a MAJOR victory. Let's see... They lost the Presidential election in 2000. Then lost the Senate in 2002. And then lost the Presidential election again in 2004. More recently, after much celebrating of Karl Rove's indictment, they found out that he had NOT been indicted. So last night they were despertate for something, ANYTHING to celebrate. And true to form they celebrated an event that did NOT happen. So let us now watch the Freudenschade celebrations of the DUmmies in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, about to take a non-prescription aspirin, is in the [brackets]:

Limbaugh Detained At Airport (illegal prescription drugs...and viagra!)

[Break out the champagne! After years of being complete LOSERS, we DUmmies finally have something to celebrate! YIPPEE!!!]

Limbaugh Detained At Airport

(CBS4 News) WEST PALM BEACH Sources have confirmed to CBS4 News that conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been detained at Palm Beach International Airport for the possible possession of illegal prescription drugs Monday evening.

Limbaugh was returning on a flight from the Dominican Republic when officials found the drugs, among them Viagra.

Limbaugh entered a plea deal back in April in a previous case where his charge of fraud to conceal information to obtain prescriptions was dropped under the condition he continue undergoing treatment for addiction.

Limbaugh had admitted to being addicted to pain killers on his radio program and had entered a rehabilitation program prior to that arrest.

[Now let the DUmmie celebrations begin...until Lucy pulls her football away again.]

The real question is were there any "pain killers"!!!!!!!

[The real answer is "no"!!!!!!!!!]

Kind of sad they noted the Viagra. He could have gotten that legally. If it was most other people I'd feel bad for him.

[Kind of sad for you that he DID get it legally.]

It's folks like him that helped make the law like that. He broke the law, he should do the time.

[ARREST the 20% of the adult male population who are using Viagra!]

Hopefully this gas bag will not be on the air anymore, but I have wishful thinking.

[VERY wishful.]

Exploiting poor women and children...The Dominican Republic sex trips and tourism are well known to men from around the world.

[Since there is no proof that this is what Rush was doing down there, he MUST be guilty!]

"The real question is were there any "pain killers"!!!!!!!"
If the answer is YES, Rush should get jail time, i.e., he breeched his legal agreement to NOT acquire Pain Killers in any way, shape or form.

[Unfortunately for you, the answer is NO.]

That is my prayer also!!!!!

[Dear goddess in DUmmie Heaven. Please make it so Rush has illegal drugs on him so he will go to jail and won't be on the air to shine the beacon of uncomfortable truth on us. A-womyn.]

My sentiments exactly - there may be a God. please let him get sent off to prison!

[DUmmies admitting there may be a God but ONLY if Rush gets busted.]

At least this latest news SHOULD shoot his credibility all to hell ... even with the Right Wing Kool-Aid drinkers? It should! I knew from my past professional and personal experiences with addiction, NO body goes from Oxycotin Toxic to SOBER in a 30 day treatment regimen.

[Yeah, Rush's credibility is shot to hell because he was found with exactly ZERO illegal substances.]

If there was a god, he never would have become famous.

[A DUmmie making the case for atheism.]

Hahahahahahahahaha! Schadefreunde is so much fun!

[Hahahahahahahaha! Freudenschade is even MORE fun!]

Parole violation! Off to the slammer!

[Spaketh DUmmie IndianaGreen who demands all sorts of legal hearings for the Gitmo terrorists.]

Wake up Fundies, the man intends to deliberately break one of Gods laws. Boycott Rush. Write to his stations about what an evil man he is!

[Wake up DUmmies, WHERE is that law written? You mean the 11th Commandment that Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai said, "Though shalt not use Viagra?"]

Once the laws are changed so that regular Americans aren't imprisoned for what he has done, then I will withhold commenting on his breaking of the law.

[Yes, millions of Americans have been imprisoned for owning Viagra.]

If he didn't get on his radio show and blame poor people, black people and anyone else downtrodden that happened to have a drug problem for their addictions I might agree with you. He spouted that they should be thrown in jail..and the key thrown away...

[Could you give us the date of the show where Rush "spouted" that? You might find this task a bit difficult since it NEVER happened.]

The freeps don't know about it yet...or they don't want to discuss it.

[The freeps are now laughing at another case of Freudenschade blowing up in your face since NO illegal drugs were found as you first thought.]

I don't think Viagra is illegal.... Gosh...I just hate this...it has to be bogus.

[Disappointing isn't it? Freudenschade, baby!]

Jail him. I agree with IndianaGreen on this one, this is either a parole violation or a plea deal violation. I'm sure that under the conditions of his "plea deal" he was supposed to stay clean. He didn't so he should go to trial and then to jail.

[Psst! I guess you didn't get the word yet---NO illegal drugs were found. Freudenschade, baby!]

I am in San Diego. I go to TJ. 25$ for script from Dr. and under 40$ for 90 day supply of ANYTHING. Completely legal to come back across the border. You just declare your meds, show your prescription and your home. No records here. BTW Viagra is over the counter in Mexico. I would imagine it is the same in DR. I think the news article may not be truthful.

[I used to make that trip to TJ myself. Not for Viagra but for cheap prescription drugs for my relatives. They are less than a third of the USA price. Oh, but before returning to the States, I would always indulge in lots of intoxicating substances called cerveza.]

. If there's just Viagra, he can probably skate, BUT, the way the thing was written up, it sounds as though there were other pills in the bottle BESIDES Viagra. And THAT's where the problem will really come in for him. What pills were they???? What were they for?

[Freudenschade, baby! There were NO other pills in the bottle.]

Drudge has a "source" that says that he had no illegal drugs.

UPDATE: Rush Limbaugh 'had no illegal drugs or prescription drug obtained illegally in his possession,' source says, contrary to a claim by CBS-TV in Miami... MORE...

[Just when the DUmmies thought they finally found JOY in their lives, it is DESTROYED by cold hard reality.]

Looks like to me, AP is withholding some information...
Of course, AP is RW hack.

[And what Alternative Universe do you live in to think that AP is RW?]

The viagra bit is good for a laugh. But you have to wonder what the other drugs were.

[It was a drug called "Thin Air."]

Notice how the headlines have dropped "other drugs"! the coverup has begun

[No, the FACTS have come out. Freudenschade, baby!]

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DUmmies Urged To FAKE Confidence

Remember back in early 2000 when the normally stiff and dour Al Gore began appearing in public wearing denim jeans and a big flashy smile on his face while darting his head in a fashion reminiscent of Ronald Reagan? What happened was that Al Gore was FAKING confidence. Oh yes, the appearance was there all right but it was disturbingly off-kilter. Much as he tried, you could sense that Al Gore was FAKING it mainly because he didn't REALLY feel confident. Well, much the same thing is going on with the DUmmies. Although it is still 4 months from an election that is supposed to win them the House back, the DUmmies' confidence is already SHATTERING. As a result, DUmmie DistressedAmerican, is urging his fellow DUmmies that even if they don't feel confident about the upcoming elections then, DAMN IT, they could at least FAKE confidence as you can see in this THREAD titled, "I Know That People Feel Beaten By Election Fraud, But DAMN!" So let us now watch the DUmmies exude fake confidence in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if those Al Gore prosthetic crotch enhancers are available on eBay, is in the [brackets]:

I Know That People Feel Beaten By Election Fraud, But DAMN!

[But DAMN! The UNINDICTED Karl Rove now owns ALL your Diebold machines.]

How often are posts that seek to rally the troops, encourage holding these folks accountable come November, etc. met with, "It does not matter. They will just steal it again. They have too much to lose not to!"?

[Look deep into my eyes. You are LOOOOOSING confidence. Karl Rove controls your destiny. Give up...NOW!!!]

I know folks feel very frustrated. But, if we start thinking like that, the criminals are CERTAIN to win. They win and they laugh their asses off. I have no stomach for that!

[You have no stomach for that? Then you better not read the DUmmie FUnnies. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!]

First of all, if you admit defeat before you even start, you have taken half of the wind out of the sails from the get go. That will certainly not help us overcome any handicap we may have in terms of the voting machines, voter disenfranchisement and the like. In fact, it does nothing but destroy momentum that we should be capitalizing on right now. These fools are imploding and many are acting like not a thing has changed since the last election. While not enough has changed, much has. Number one, America is now fed up with winger policies and well aware of many of the biggest winger lies. People will not be as easily lied to again. America wants change. But, it will never go for a party that projects, "Vote for us even though we're already beaten."

[You are growing sleeeepier and sleeeeepier. Listen to my voice and repeat after me: "You are ALREADY beaten... You are ALREADY beaten..."]

Second, the methods that are being employed in these fraudulent practices are not all powerful. They are by necessity focused and targeted. They can sway the vote up to a certain point without drawing a lot of scrutiny. I do not believe that they can steal a blowout.

[You mean like that mystery box full of Democrat ballots that was mysteriously found in a Seattle warehouse that threw the gubernatorial election recount in Washington to a Democrat?]

So, the only way to beat these criminals is to BLOW THEM OUT!

[Is that you, Monica Lewinsky?]

Assuming we are defeated before the races even really get rolling is no way to BLOW THEM OUT.

[Watch the swinging watch on the chain and repeat after me: "You are ALREADY defeated...You are ALREADY defeated..."]

Republicans have no problem projecting confidence, even when they are unraveling. We have to do the same or they will have no need to steal anything. We'll lose it legitimately!

[Naw! We'll still preprogram a bunch of Diebold machines to swing our way just to stay in practice.]

If you do not have any confidence, try faking it a while. Maybe it will grow on you!

[Try faking confidence... It will make you almost as FUnnie as it did the confidence faking Al Gore. And now on to the other less than confident DUmmies...]

The Player who expects to lose will usually lose.

[Psst! You lose.]

IMO, they will steal a blowout. They know this is their last chance to keep all their evil deeds in place. The election fraud has been working for them for the last six years and they know it..... Since they control the courts and control the Congress and Control the Blackwell's that worked it for them last time, they are sitting pretty. They may be scared but they have POWER and MONEY behind them and they ain't backing down.

[We're sitting pretty and we're NOT backing down.]

I do not see the preadmitting defeat route as beneficial at all. In fact, it strikes me as a guarantee of more of the same.

[Congratulations! The School of Hard Knocks is preadmitting you to the defeatist class.]

Ohio 2005. They Turned a Landslide for US into a Landslide for THEM!

[Piece of cake. All it took was just a twist of a few Diebold knobs.]

The Diebold Defeatists don't like to talk about it, but we won in 05 in VA, NJ and CA. On Diebold machines too.

[FRAUD!!! I DEMAND a recount!!! Oh, you mean the Democrats won those races? Well, never mind. Outrage is only reserved for when Republicans win.]

Yep - we can't have it both ways.
When a (D) wins it is the people speaking
When a (R) wins it is a deep dark conspiracy

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

If we had had fair elections, we'd have won handily the last several times. But I do stand by your statements about attitude, I need to work on mine.

[Yes. Work really really hard on faking confidence. Keep practicing that big fake Al Gore smile for starters.]

I'm not saying we need to become the cartoon caricatures they've become but, there's really good reason not to be optimistic. Understand that we might be no better off after November than we are now. The GOP message machine is very powerful and November is a long way off. But this is the best chance we've had in a while to push this country in a better direction. We don't need sunny optimism.

[That's the spirit! Keep up with that gloomy lack of confidence.]

open your eyes, take your head out of the sand. the election process is fatally corrupted. they can do anything they want with these elections. they are not only very good at election fraud already but they're getting better and bolder each cycle. ome may be saying give up. others are saying that this is the first thing we have to do something about, that success rests on doing something about it. that's not defeatism, that's just pointing people in the right direction. in my opinion, anyone not loudly blowing the horn, and especially anyone OPPOSING blowing the horn on election fraud is PART OF THE PROBLEM! please, i beseach you, explain to me why the democrats are not making this the top issue in their strategy for winning anything in november.

[please, i beseach you, give up now before you endure even more disappointment.]

Make sure our base knows EXACTLY where to vote.

[At your local polling place on the first Wednesday in November.]

we are poles apart on this issue. if you consider that a "'tude" good luck swaying opinion. you haven't come close to swaying mine. neither you or gotv substantively addressed the issue of why the dems aren't putting this issue front and center. to merely reassert that it is not an issue is bogus. to suggest that obtaining a landslide victory is a reasonable straegy to overcome election fraud is, for one thing, begging the question, and for another, exremely unlikely. in my opinion they can and will alter vote counts to high levels of percentage points and dare us to do something about it. if you have evidence they're not going to do that or are not capable of doing that i'd love to see it. all evidence suggests that major manipulation has taken place and will take place in broad daylight and in large numbers.

[please smile confidently while we manipulate your vote... have a nice day.]

apparently, people are so disheartened they're not even
responding to this call to action.

[please maintain that charming glumness.]

And after the blowout, we need to have our own Orange Revolution if they steal it again.

[As in Orange prison jumpsuits for the DUmmies who go BERSERK the day after the elections.]

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DUmmies Claim Founding Fathers Would Today Be...DUmmies

In the not too distant past, the Leftists frequently derided the Founding Fathers as a bunch of rich white guys. There was even a movement among the Leftists to change the name of Washington, D.C. because the father of our country owned some slaves. I also remember seeing on the wall in the office of an alternative leftist newspaper (where I was selling a non-political humor story) a "People's" Constitution filled with Socialist programs which would replace the present "flawed" Constitution which was initiated by the Founding Fathers. However, somewhere along the way, the Left must have realized that attacking the Founding Fathers was a bad PR move so they switched gears and are now hilariously pretending that the Founding Fathers were really radical leftwingers just like they are. Such is the case with this DUmmie THREAD posed as a poll question "Poll question: If our Founding Fathers were alive today they would:" a) Become neocons, b) Advocate and organize an armed revolution against the neocons, or c) Other. The percentage answering a) was only 10% as opposed to 79% who thought they would be DUmmies like themselves by answering b). Yeah, like the Founding Fathers would even know what "neocons" even meant. It is like Captain Kirk making sense of the "Yangs" vs "Coms" in one of the Star Trek episodes. So let us now watch the DUmmies indulge in the illusion of the Founding Fathers as DUmmies in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, laughing at the delusions of the Coms of DUmmieland, is in the [brackets]:

Poll question: If our Founding Fathers were alive today
they would...

[...be laughing at the delusions of the DUmmies.]

They'd sign here to DECLARE 'NO CONFIDENCE' in illegal CA-50 results

[Yeah, first thing they would do after materializing in our space time continuum is demand that the Diebold machines be reprogrammed.]

John and Samuel Adams would have thrown Bush out on his ear, especially John, who would be deeply offended at Bush's brazen ignoring of the rule of law.

[And Samuel Adams wasn't crazy about Cheney either.]

They'd throw Scalia into Boston Harbor.

[While praising Souter for voting in favor of eminent domain takeover of private property.]

I've mentioned elsewhere that one could explain the function and operation of a civilian (non-automatic) AK-47 lookalike to George Washington in five minutes, referencing only technology he was familiar with, and he not only would have fully understood how it works, but he could have immediately gone out and used it competently, since it is operated essentially the same as the rifles of his time; the main thing new would be how to insert the magazine and chamber a round, and that's a LOT simpler than loading a muzzleloader. He would have probably also muttered, "Why didn't I think of that?" at the concepts of cased ammunition, breech loading, and gas operation. The gun itself would have been pretty much within the manufacturing capability of his time, I suspect, but powder and priming chemistry has improved a great deal since then, so he wouldn't have been able to manufacture ammunition. Once he got some trigger time on the non-auto, you could have explained a real AK or an M16 (automatic) in another 20 or 30 seconds, but it would take him a lot of practice to use it well.

[Needless to say, the Left has pretty much dropped its support for gun control because they now want weapons to overthrow the EVIL Bush Regime. Gun control can only come back when the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is running things.]

What do we want? Revolution! When do we want it? NOW!!!

[Tapped the brave DUmmie, Seabiscuit, on his basement keyboard.]

They were religious, conservative, capitalists who stressed faith-based education, low taxes and were pro-gun.

[What time will your tombstoning ceremony take place?]

The founding fathers were *not* Christians. For the most part they were Freemasons, unaffiliated Deists, and Atheists.

[Freemasonry is a religion? News to me. Better tell Harry Truman that he wasn't a Baptist because he was also a Freemason.]

Our 55 Founding Fathers were members of various Christian denominations and many were even evangelical Christians. Breakdown: 29 Anglicans, 16 to 18 were Calvinists, 2 were Methodists, 2 were Lutherans, 2 were Roman Catholic, 1 lapsed Quaker and sometimes Anglican, and 1 open deist, who was Benjamin Franklin.

[Correct except for that part about "deist" Franklin who was a pew holder and contributor to his local Presbyterian church.]

While most of the Founding Fathers may have been nominally affiliated with one Christian denomination or another, the fact is that most were not regular "religious" practitioners of any form of Christianity. They were inspired, as I said earlier, far more by the Enlightenment writers and philosophers than they were by the Bible.

[They were inspired by the idea that government should not intrude into religion as was the case in Europe which the DUmmies now believe made the Founding Fathers somehow non-religious.]

I think they would be furious at what this country has become.

[They would have all assumed DUmmie screen names while hitting the keyboards angrily from deep within Mommy's dark basement.]

George Washington would be busted by the DEA for growing hemp...

[LOL!]

I've been on DU since 2001 and that is, by far, the stupidest, most ill-informed, undereducated post I have ever read on these boards.

[That's quite an achievement since there is a plethora of DUmmieland stupid, ill-informed, and undereducated posts to choose from.]

I imagine they'd begin very much like the rest of us at DU - educating themselves about what the neocons have been doing to the Constitution, etc., and that it wouldn't take them long to become at first alarmed and then enraged.

[And then jubilantly popping open the champagne bottles to celebrate Karl Rove's May 12 indictment.]

do you think they might want to now do away with the electoral college?

[They CREATED the eletoral college so I believe the answer would be a firm...NO!]

There is nothing to suggest the founding fathers wanted anything BUT a state ruled by the wealthy elite. Furthermore, by wealthy elite white christian males. Sure, you can say the racist thing and the sexist thing and the religious thing was just a sign of the times, but the wealthy elite thing still stands. They'd be a lot more likely to side with someone who serves the interest of the rich, like GW, than a pro-common man person.

[Ah! A Leftist of yore pops into the discussion, not realizing that the new Leftwing PR ploy is to now portray the Founding Fathers as far left loonies like themselves rather than to cast aspersions upon them as before. Get with the new PR program, DUmmie jjrjsa.]

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"Democrats! Never defend. Never explain. Attack, attack, attack!"

Just as I figured, the closer we get to this November's elections, the more IRRATIONAL the Democrats are becoming. John Kerry yesterday brought the Democrats dangerously close to committing suicide with his soundly defeated Senate bill setting a FIRM deadline on withdrawal from Iraq. Several months ago, Dingy Harry (Reid) provided a soundbite sure to be used in this year's campaign in which he congratulated the Democrats for killing the Patriot Act only to have to later backtrack and support the Patriot Act. And John Murtha wants to station our troops on the outskirts of Iraq over at...Okinawa. However, it is not just the professional Democrats who are adept at destroying themselves. Let us give credit to the rank and file Democrats who nowadays are DOMINATED by looney leftists like those in DUmmieland. They are the ones who are doing everything in their power to discredit the Democrat Party in the public eye such as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Democrats! Never defend. Never explain. Attack, attack, attack!" Therefore the DUmmies are calling for the Democrats to toss away any reasoned debate in favor of blind attack. Oh, and what ever happened to their previous calls for a "civil discourse?" I guess that call is simply flushed down the toilet when the Republicans keep winning in election after election and on issue after issue. So let us now watch the DUmmies go into the angry crybaby mode in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, watching them soil their diapers once again, is in the [brackets]:

Democrats! Never defend. Never explain. Attack, attack, attack!

[Democrats! Never be rational! Cry, cry, cry!]

Listen to me, Democrats! Never defend. Never explain. Attack, attack, attack! When a right-winger accuses you of something, back up, reframe, ignore the charges, just ATTACK. How hard can this be? Ann Coulter doesn’t waste her time defending herself against our accusations. Neither does Rush Limbaugh. They launch their attacks and the terms of the debate are set from there, and once again, as liberals, we are bringing knives to a gun fight.

[Listen to me, Democrats! When faced with rational debate, don't respond. Just cover your ears with your hands and screech as loud as possible. Just SCREAM. How hard can this be?]

Once legitimate political discourse is completely killed off in this country, we enter very dangerous times.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

No, it will force them to deal with issues if we beat them at their own game. I've been saying this for years. The dittoheads and others out there like them who can not think critically only think and believe what the person who screams the loudest says. I agree with the original poster, this is the way to fight back. People won't even remember most of what is alleged but they will remember how confident, strong and uncowardly the screamer appears. That's what most people vote for, the fiercest screamers. It has nothing to do with truth (as you should be able to tell from the polls that show 60% still believe Iraq had WMDs and that Saddam was responsible for 9/11, as Cheney and other continue to scream.) The Rethugs have called Dems cowards and that label sticks because the Dems don't scream back "What conflict did you serve in?" Dems need to live up to the "angry tag" they laid on us a while back. You're damn right we are angry! Angry about our soldiers dying becuase we were lied to by the administration. Angry that the most wealthy keep getting tax breaks and Fed subsidies while working Americans can't get a minimum wage increase. and on and on. We need to do some name calling, screaming, scratching, and bitchin!

[Scream louder than Republicans. That way we win people to our side. YEEEEEEEAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!]

We are losing anyway, as far as I can tell why not embarass the assholes while we lose

[We are losing anyway so why not make COMPLETE fools of ourselves while we lose.]

Why don't we call the FCC when they spout??

[BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! And complain about WHAT? That the Republicans are mean because they talk about the issues?]

Would someone please explain to me why we aren't doing this?

[Psst! In case you haven't noticed...you already are.]

Rove is going after the Dems' strength -- Bush's Iraq -- and the Dems are falling into the trap. Cut and run, my ass. They have got to come to grips with the fact that we are dealing with junior high school mentality (GOP+MSM) and we need to step up the caustic rhetoric in sound byte size and repeat it over and over and over and over and over again. Surely Rove has taught us that lesson.

[We are going to act like a bunch of irrational crybabies...and it's all Rove's fault.]

Making nice is for the party that refuses to win. America is too dumbed down and has the hots for hate. It's the hand we are playing, so lets play already!

[The DUmmie image of America: DUmb and hateful. So they are going to play to that illusion.]

We need to spend our time calling them to the mat to defend their hypocrisy, warmongering, and corruption, instead of trying to debate the issues and defend baseless claims and talking points on their terms! Fight back, damnit!!!

[To hell with reasoned debate. Just SCREECH LOUDER DAMNIT!!!]

Under normal condition, civil discourse would be appropriate... However, these are not "normal times". We have an opposition that aims to knock you down and grind their boot in your face. We must fight back accordingly.

[So much for the "civil discourse" shtick that the Democrats kept harping on in their Holier-Than-Thou mode back in the '90s.]

If a republican told me: 'I was a traitor who didn't support the troops'. I'd ask'em: When was the last time someone told you to take your piece of shit opinions and shove'em up you piece of shit ass, motherf*cker? The secret to a good offense is an infinite amount of contempt.

[A DUmmie apparently eager to commit suicide.]

In any discussion with right wingers, you must always reject their premise and re-frame the debate. For as anyone who has spent any time debating with right wing radicals realizes, most all their framing points are false to begin with. It's very easy to reject them and re-frame.

["Reframe the debate" is the latest DUmmie buzzphrase meaning "Avoid the debate."]

Yellow bellied, draft dodging, awol, sons of bitches.

[It looks like your harness restraining strap fell off my little Rabid One.]

Stay on the offensive and the debate is yours. You don't win a boxing match by blocking punches and hoping your opponent gets weak. You bust a left and a right and keep smacking the hell out of them till they land on their ass!

[Ah! You choose the rational subtle approach.]

If you were a democrat in mississippi... You would know how lame this republican light bulsshit is. If you are a veteran and your opponent wasn't , go mediaval on this bullshit. Jesus H. You have the upper hand, your opinion is legit, veterans have the right to tell me about war. I would never talk like rove does to kerry. Kerry should have put on his old combat boots, and said" Fuck you candyass, fat f*cks screaming for war. Put your ass on the line and we'll talk. How DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU! keery would have CARRIED the SOUTH. When those f*cks called him out, and he didn't say DICK. He lost that moment!!!

[Open wide for the lithium drops.]

I am drunk , and live in Mississippi . We are RIGHT<> IF we didn't look like cowtowing PUSSIES <>

[Angry DRUNKEN DUmmie posts are always the FUnniest!]

The perception managers want Democrats to feel helpless, to portay them to Independents as weak, and to portray them to Republicans as the weird kid who always gets his lunch money stolen.

[The perception managers don't even need to bother portraying you as irrational, childish, and INSANE with rage.]

We need to stop taking this abuse. We have the numbers. We are up against a Goliath of twisted evil and corruption. Instead of 'fighting them over there'--we're gonna have to fight the evil right here at home. Home-grown...and it's out-of-control.

[Poor widdle DUmmie is feeling abused. Awwww...]

Lately; I just start spouting filth and cursing. Case in point; I was posting a reply the other day to a freeper's response to a youtube video. Instead of a consise and thoughtful counter explanation, I wrote a 100 word 'your penis is so small...' response. I went back a little while later and another freeper wrote to my response 'I didn't read anywhere that sex was part of this...' Duh, neither are the responses that your side puts up. Not sexual, but in the 'it don't mean a thing catagory.' Screw them. They can't use curse or cuss words because their sites are run by fundies. But does that mean we'll be prayed against and wink out of existence? Bring it on!

["They" don't use curse or cuss words because "they" don't NEED to in order to make their case.]

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How much do you blame the Republican voters personally...?

Let us now take a brief break from KOmmie KOs and the exploding Blogola scandal and visit DUmmieland for yet another installment of the continuing DUmmie Derangement Syndrome. The symptoms of this syndrome is a sense of complete hopelessness brought on by defeat after DEFEAT. The most recent DUmmie defeat was the announcement that Karl Rove WON'T be indicted which came exactly a month after the DUmmies were breaking out their victory champagne bottles to celebrate the indictment of Rove which Truthout had assured them had ALREADY happened on May 12. This and many other such Freudenschade defeats only adds to the DUmmie feelings of insecurity as they face the coming November elections. And I guarantee that the DUmmies will become ever MORE looney (and therefore more FUnnie) the closer they come to election day. Therefore this angry and defected DUmmie THREAD titled, "How much do you blame the Republican voters personally...?" is but a prelude of many more such eruptions of spontaneous dejection from DUmmieland. So break out the popcorn, gang, and enjoy the comedy entertainment of the crazed DUmmies in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, encouraging more such creative dejection from the DUmmies, is in the [brackets]:

How much do you blame the Republican voters personally...?

[I blame them TOTALLY for my sense of utter dejection and despair. My unhappiness is totally dependent on those Republican voters. My entire existence is defined by THEM.]

...for what has happened and what is happening to our country? Do you despise each Republican as much as you despise George W Bush? Or are they simple pawns that have been used by their political Party and no different from how Democrats could be used in a reverse situation? Is each Republican responsible for the mess we are presently in and for the disaster we are about to be in? Once it hits the fan, not if, who will you personally hold responsible?

[Yes. Each and every Republican is responsible for the complete misery in which I suffer through until my last day on earth.]

They have been pulled in by the corporate media - I blame them the way I'd blame anyone taken in by RevMoon or the Pet Rock.

[Rev. Moon used a Pet Rock to hypnotize me into doing the DUmmie FUnnies.]

I blame them for putting Bush within a margin of cheatable victory

[Since Bush is our mighty emperor, Chimpus Khan, make that a margin of Cheetahble victory.]

I hold each and every one of them accountable. They ALL have bloody hands. Gleefully they shoved this false war down our throats.

[Gleefully we shoved MISERY down your throats.]

War is just a game to them. No Republican I personally know has EVER served NOR sacrificed one f*cking thing for this country.

[100% of our troops are Democrats. NOT a single Republican among them...at least in the DUmmie Alternate Reality.]

They take and take and kill and kill and still they want more. Blood thirsty animals. They only understand hatred and violence and fear.

[We laugh and laugh and gasp and gasp at your HILARIOUS hyperbole.[

They voted, and they are still crowing

[You voted and started crowing...before the election results came in. Freudenschade, baby!]

I consider those who voted for bush domestic enemies of the constitution and yes for me, its personal.

[Have you taken your acid bile reflux pill today?]

I don't like to admit it... Because this is a lot of people to be angry with, but yes - I blame every single person who voted for this disaster, this simpleton, this obvious idiot. They're dragging the rest of us down with them, and they must have known what a zero this man is.

[Having a happy day in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood?]

They are guilty, guilty, guilty! Anyone who voted for the maniac in 2004 is human garbage.

[You are FUnnie, FUnnie, FUnnie!]

I'm more angry at the apathetic couch potato who couldn't turn the damn tv off or get off their ass long enough to go vote.

[Then you should get angry at the MTV "Rock the Vote" deadheads who got bored after waiting in the poll line for five minutes and then split before voting to party at the nearest Rave Club.]

I wouldn't piss on them to save them from going to Hell.

[What was that you folks are always saying about mean-spirited Republicans?]

I hold each and every one of these vile awholes responsible!
THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS PIGS! ENJOY!

[Open your mouth wide like a good little boy for your restraining strap.]

At the end of the first Bush term, this country was badly damaged, but salvagable; given the increase to the national debt and the damage to our civil liberties, our govt. programs & institutions, and the loss of U.S. prestige and influence abroad in the second four years, it is unlikely the U.S. will ever recover from Bush's destructive actions. We will survive, but as a second rate power with a third world standard of living.

[The Republican Tsunami destroyed your way of life and now you are forced to use bicycle pedals to power your computer.]

Whether it's ignorance, violent tendencies, religious fanaticism or whatever, every asswipe that pulled the lever for Bush in 2000 and 2004 is at fault in my opinion. It shouldn't have even been close enough for this maniac and his cohorts to steal either election. I think there's a certain element of the population that just can't get enough of the violent power projection of this administration.

[We can't get enought of the hilarious comedy projection of your dejected deranged posts.]

Maybe that's another aspect of the problem and the responsibility I bear for the current situation. I should send this to my local paper, but honestly I'm kinda afraid of these people and that's how spirals of silence happen. Cuz they're f*cking nuts (in a violent and intimidating way) and I ultimately lack the courage and the willingness to pay any kind of price or take the social risk necessary to reach the people in the larger middle who are being led astray by these hard-core bullies. Making change happen requires courage and a willingness to set aside one's social pessimism and have faith that deep down people generally want to do what (I believe) is just. That's something I struggle with. So I blame myself too.

[Who did you say were nuts? You lack the courage of showing this thread around and making yourself a LAUGHING STOCK.]

When those of us speak out against the ignorance as individuals, we certainly are not assured of support from our fellow "progressives". In European peace organizations it's much different -- there is strong support for each other, including in their personal lives. Our rugged individualism that we unthinkingly accept in our political lives works to our disadvantage, and will continue to do so until we rethink our stance on this.

[You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between]

They should all be put on trial immediately and then
sentenced to death. They have attempted to ruin the world.

[You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene]

the elections were stolen. that is how they got their boy in power, they (PNAC) had devised this plan for a long time, all the more reason why we have to hold them responsible for taking this country down the wrong track. Damn them all.

[To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark]

They are subhuman and will be held to account. The day of cleansing our nation will come

[Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister In-Between
Do you hear me, hmm?]

My attitude towards non-voters is almost as cruel. I once refused to give money to a bum on the street because he said that he did not bother to vote in 2004.

[Oh, listen to me children and-a you will hear
About the elininatin' of the negative
And the accent on the positive
And gather 'round me children if you're willin'
And sit tight while I start reviewin'
The attitude of doin' right]

also arrogance should be included. that smug/arrogant attitude that many Republicans have.

[You've gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between]

Anyone who truly thought the pukes could be beaten in 2004, you were dreaming. I'll be surprised if they dont do it again in the mid term election and in 2008. They have too much to lose. Why would anybody support the idiot son of an idiot son of a NAZI? I blame anybody who gave this junta any credibility what so ever.

[You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down down to the minimum
Otherwise otherwise pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene]

I wont even let a republican on my property

[Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No! Don't mess with Mister In-Between]

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KOs KOverup Exposure Makes KOs Go BERSERK!!!

The KOs volcano has just EXPLODED over the EXPOSURE by The New Republic's Jason Zengerle that Markos Moulitsas sent out a secret e-mail to fellow "progressives" to help him STONEWALL the Blogola SCANDAL that has engulfed him. Here is the text of the secret Stonewall "Townhouse" e-mail:

The YearlyKos media people have already forced corrections at Slate and NY Times (Suellentrop's blog). There has been some serious overreach by the few outlets that picked up this story (which as I mentioned before has been shopped around). It was interesting how this one piddly-ass story was used to try and smear Jerome, me, AND YearlyKos.

So the only paper to run this as a news story is the disgraceful NY Post. Others who picked up on it have had to backtrack from their original sensationalistic claims.

I am exploring legal options against some of the wingnut bloggers who are claiming I'm syphoning netroots money into consultants and my own pockets. Note how Glenn Reynolds is fueling it with his typical passive aggressive, "I don't think it's a big deal, but let me provide links to everyone who thinks this is THE BIGGEST STORY EVER!"

And Jerome's case, if it could be aired out, is a non-story (he was a poor grad student at the time so he settled because he had no money). Jerome can't talk about it now since the case is not fully closed. But once it is, he'll go on the offensive. That should be a couple of months off.

This story will percolate in wingnut circles until then, but I haven't gotten a single serious media call about it yet. Not one. So far, this story isn't making the jump to the traditional media, and we shouldn't do anything to help make that happen.

My request to you guys is that you ignore this for now. Then, once Jerome can speak and defend himself, then I'll go on the offensive (which is when I would file any lawsuits) and anyone can pile on. If any of us blog on this right now, we fuel the story. Let's starve it of oxygen. And without the "he said, she said" element to the story, you know political journalists are paralyzed into inaction.

Thanks, markos

So there you have it. KOs is clearly asking his fellow "progressives" on the secret e-mail list to maintain silence and STONEWALL the Blogola scandal because "It would make my life easier if we can confine the story." However, since this Stonewall by Kos has now been exposed, Kos EXPLODED last night in this emotional KOmmieland THREAD titled, "TNR's defection to the Right is now complete." So let us now watch the KOs meltdown over the exposure of his Stonewalling scheme in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, hoping that Kos "explores legal options" against this "wingnut blogger," is in the [brackets]:

TNR's defection to the Right is now complete

[Stand by for an insane rant of Leopoldian proportions...]

by kos
Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 11:23:10 PM PDT

[Late night explosive rants are always the BEST!]

People talk about the need for the left to work together and have a unified message in the face of a unified conservative noise machine. So a google group was created called "Townhouse", and it included many bloggers and other representatives of the netroots as well as a large number of partisan journalists and grassroots groups. It allowed us to discuss policy, issues, tactics and coordinate as much as you can ever get a bunch of liberals to coordinate.

[That "unified conservative noise machine" is a paranoid leftist MYTH but KOs, by his own words, ADMITS that there is a secret "Townhouse" group designed to "coordinate" (march in lockstep) the "progressive" message. ...And now to open up my morning marching orders from Karl Rove delivered by special pigeon courier.]

There was one big rule for this list, an important cog in the growing Vast Left Wing Conspiracy -- everything discussed was off the record.

[They had to take the oath of Omerta.]

That was obviously violated today as the New Republic betrayed, once again, that it seeks to destroy the new people-powered movement for the sake of its Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners; that it stands with the National Review and wingnutoshpere in their opposition to grassroots Democrats.

[The New Republic as the Joe Valachi of the leftist Blogosphere.]

The magazine published, in its website, an email I sent to the list. There is nothing controversial about the email, but Jason Zengerle tried to spin it as evidence that there is a "smoke-filled room" and that I send "dictats" to other bloggers, controlling what they can and cannot write about. In a subsequent post, Zengerle went further, saying that I control the financial fates of much of the progressive blogosphere. My power apparently knows no bounds!

[READ your own secret e-mail, KOs. You were definitely asking your fellow "progressives" to STONEWALL the Blogola scandal.]

Ludicrous, all of it, but that's the new rules of the game. TNR and its enablers are feeling the heat of their own irrelevance and this is how they fight it -- by undermining the progressive movement. Zengerle has made common cause with the wingnutosphere, using the laughable "kosola" frame they created and emailing his "scoops" to them for links. This is what the once-proud New Republic has evolved into -- just another cog of the Vast RIGHT Wing Conspiracy.

[I actually prefer the term "Blogola" to describe your pay for blog play scheme. "Kosola" sounds too much like a French sausage dish.]

If you still hold a subscription to that magazine, it really is time to call it quits. If you see it in a magazine rack, you might as well move it behind the National Review or even NewsMax, since that's who they want to be associated with these days.

[The KOs Godfather instructing his lieutenants on how to sabotage the New Republic at newsstands.]

But what about the merits? There are none, as frequent critics of this site like Ezra Klein and Max Sawicky have already stated. In fact, it's quite funny how they're trying to parlay the nothing they have into something, anything at all. It's the price of success, and we knew the knives would be coming out after Vegas, so we shouldn't be surprised.

[It's quite funny how WORKED UP you are getting over that "nothing" they have.]

But I do admit being surprised by the sheer creativity of their invented attacks, such as my supposed "pay for play" scheme. Let me be crystal clear. I deny that charge completely. I have stated the sources of my income and they do not include money from people asking me to shill for anyone or anything. Problem for these writers, is that the law doesn't protect such defamation. The truth is an absolute defense to libel cases. If they have evidence for those smears, then they have nothing to fear. But if they, say, recklessly invented all manners of illegal or unethical activities by me without bothering to see if they bore any basis in truth, then they'll have plenty to worry about.

[The Godfather of KOs threatening to sue, sue, SUE.]

And it's not just me, even. These smear mongers have tried to drag other people and organizations into their fantasies. Like YearlyKos. YearlyKos moved aggressively and got a whole slew of corrections and apologies in response to pieces in the NY Times and Slate, but the damage was already done. Now think about the heroic work done by the YearlyKos people -- from Gina Cooper on down to the tireless volunteers. Think of all the people who took time off from their busy lives to head down to Vegas to partake in that wonderful event. Think of all the great progressive organizations that joined in to make it happen -- People For the American Way, MoveOn, DFA, UNITE-HERE, SEIU, the Rappaports, all of the politicians who attended, and so on. All of them smeared by the Right Wing, sure, that's what they do. But joined by the New Republic? Not surprising, yet still disappointing.

[Break out the hankie to soak up the tears as KOs lays it on thick with the meaningless shmaltz.]

It is now beyond clear that the dying New Republic is mortally wounded and cornered, desperate for relevance. It has lost half its circulation since the blogs arrived on the scene and they no longer (thank heavens!) have a monopoly on progressive punditry. We have hit their bottom line, we are hitting their patron saint hard (Joe Lieberman) and this is how they respond. By going after the entire movement.

[Too bad that patron saint didn't pay "consulting fees" to Unknown Jerome (Armstrong) or he might not have had to face the KOmmie wratch. Note that Mark Warner's views are very similar to that of Lieberman's but he is hailed by Kos. The difference? Those Unknown Jerome "consulting fees."]

Sad, perhaps. But this is apparently the price one pays for crashing the gate.

[More like cashing the gate.


The (dying) New Republic:
(202) 508-4444
Letters to the editor
jzengerle@tnr.com

[KOs giving out this HARRASSMENT information might be why The New Republic site is currently down. And now to hear from the rest of the KOmmies giving support to their Crime Boss...]

They're the enemy. They're worse than the enemy, because they're attempting to pretend they're still on the side of progressives and liberals while publishing false innuendos and libels against us. And it's not just this site or Kos they're going after, they've been on a tear attacking every stick of the grassroots. They apparently can't stand having people like us taking their readers by the tens of thousands, and fighting for our own right to state our opinions.

[They are non-persons. They must be taken by the Thought Police to Room 101 to learn that two plus two equals five when KOs says so.]

It's about effeciency and creating a message machine... if you think powerline, malkin, hewitt and cap't ed aren't coordinating with mehlman and the republican message machine, you're nuts... remember - "buckhead" - the republican lawyer and operative out of Atlanta georgia that "exposed" the CBS Nat'l Guard "forgeries" - despite having no particular expertise in typography? he blew it up at the Free Republic... the only difference between us and them is that we orgnize honestly.

[Yeah, Buckhead had to wait until Karl Rove gave him the go ahead two hours after the CBS TANG show aired before he could post on the Free Republic questioning the authenticity of those documents.]

Markos made some unwise comments in interviews. I cringed when he was on a tv show and said something like "Some people criticize the money we spend and that we politicians are throwing parties for us...." I thought he was hanging a Kick Me sign on himself

[KOs is a living Kick Me sign.]

Don't worry, Kos. Whether or not Jerome was pimping a bunch of stocks on that other website... Well, it really makes no difference to what you are doing here on this site, what others write on this site, and the openness and trust that is the hallmark of the medium. As long as DailyKos stays free, as long as I and others can speak their minds, I'll remain on board. Remember, they are scared of what we are doing here. All the more reason to remain committed to it.

[Don't worry, Kos. I BEEEEEEEEELLLEEEEEEEEVEEE!!!]

Why did Markos suddenly switch sides and hang Fighting Dem Paul Hackett out to dry, within 48 hours?

Why did Yearly Kos give Jerome Armstrong's employer, Mark Warner, top billing, the keynote speech, and Kos' virtual endorsement?

Jerome Armstong is now 39. His stock-manipulation occurred in 1999-2003. Just when does the "poor starving student" excuse run out?

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

Let us raise our voices and give thanks to the universe for delivering Makos unto us. He is our Kurt Colbain. He is our Che Gevara. He is Markos, leader of our cause, defender of the faith, and master of Universe.

[He is your Fidel Castro. He is your Hugo Chavez.]

Did I memtion that Kos is SOOOOO good looking?

[Is that you, Ben Burch?]

Kos is pissed.

[Understatement of the day.]

Kos...If you ain't John Kerry, you gotta hit back at these swifties. Destroy them. Like Ben Domenich. If you don't, they'll keep it going - One thing after another. The only thing you'll be doing is defending yourself. We can debate who said what and who did what later. Or maybe we could get the Senate to do it. Right now, what you need to do is TAKE THEM OUT.

[Kos...you need to become even more of a psychopath that you already are.]

Speaking frankly ... It takes far less imagination (and far less suspension of disbelief) to imagine that Kos and Armstrong engage in a little blog-ola than it takes to believe that The New Republic is involved in some sort of sinister right wing plot. If you can look everyone straight in the face and claim that a Daily Kos endorsement does not come at the price of hiring Jerome Armstrong, then fine - but that means demonstrating that there actually is a disconnect between hiring Jerome Armstrong and earning kudos from Daily Kos. This story isn't going to go away simply by dismissing it all as a right wing plot. As Ricky Ricardo said, "you got some 'splainin to do".

[And this KOmmie WINS a Kewpie Doll for have a brief moment of mental clarity.]

You do have to admit The way you 'found religion' with Brown one day after supporting Hackett is... well... odd.

[Yes, VERY ODD the way the "consulting fees" paid to Unknown Jerome seem to have made all the difference. Oh, and I'm sorry but only ONE Kewpie Doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity per thread can be awarded.]

while i'd like to say there are natural inconsistencies to any well-intentioned politcal life, the inconsistencies that have piled up at dkos.com do indicate a set of relationships markos has forged with politicians that, while it may not be proved to be based on an exchange of money, is clearly based on a tit-for-tat access to priveledged information in exchange for support. such support is simply too divorced from any ideological OR tactical consistency for people not to wonder what goes on.

[So now EVERYONE seems to want a Kewpie Doll.]

I don't think there's anything wrong (and certainly not illegal) about ponying up money to Kos' friends to get access to a Daily Kos endorsement - that's how the game is played in consultancy circles. It's certainly not illegal, if it is, perhaps, unethical. What makes things go from bad to head shakingly bad is not as much Kos blasting TNR as if it were the inhouse paper of the John Birch Society (which is dumb, granted), but that the substance of the article isn't addressed in the slightest, which actually creates the appearance of looking guiltier than hell. I don't believe blasting the messenger necessarily obliterates the message, especially with a blatantly bonheaded assertion that The New Republic is a right wing publication.

[Aren't you satisfied with already winning one Kewpie Doll?]

What was "made up" in the TNR article? The email itself wasn't, and no one seems to have disputed that the story about Armstrong wasn't given very big play by the members of the private list. Nor has the story's supposed "refutation" of the argument that Armstrong was not, in fact, a "poor grad student" when he settled the case? SO I guess I am having difficulty seeing what is false. I understand that kos is challenging the conclusions drawn by TNR from the facts, but I was wondering if there are indeed any facts that were misrepresented by TNR.

[The KOmmies are REVOLTING! They stink on ice.]

The Repugs want to create a "Chinese style" ( content and politically restricted and state regulated NET.) They view the present and past Internet in much the same way that the so called"good" Church folks that eventually ended what they saw as the Wild West. They want to close down the Saloons, Gambling parlors and Whorehouses and they want control of the local politics. It's going to be an interesting next few years watching them try to do this. They should review the success of the RIAA on that score in their attempts to reign in "file sharing."

[Ah! Back to the comfortable level of normal KOmmie paranoia.]

kos, can you post the Townhouse email? If there's truly nothing controversial about the email, it would kill a lot of the smears floating around.

[That would be redundant since Jason Zengerle already posted it in full at The New Republic.]

In any event, TNR (and Joe Lieberman) is a lot easier to understand if you view them as 100% patriotic -- to Israel.

[Uh-Oh! We should have seen this coming. The Blogola scam is all the fault of...the Juden!]

The New Republic? A Zionist-DLC rag. Like the Times, I stopped reading it ages ago.

[The KOssacks are now attacking the JOOOOOS!]

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Head KOmmie KOs Reacts To Exploding Blogola Scandal

The rapidly EXPLODING Blogola scandal which has engulfed the Daily Kos as chronicled in yesterday's EDITION of the DUmmie FUnnies is the hot talk of the Blogosphere. Of course, this big scandal is nowhere to be seen in the MSM. However, the shocking Blogola revelations appearing in such blogs as DONKEY CONS and the RIEHL WORLD VIEW have caused the Head KOmmie, Markos Moulitsas, to react by going into the denial mode as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Consulting." So let us now watch the Head KOmmie try to talk his way out of the Blogola scandal in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, who wishes to apologize to the KOmmies for thinking they sold out for mere sushi and booze when it is really the BIG BUCKS they are selling out for, is in the [brackets]:

Consulting

[Consulting---the modern way of receiving those green bills in the brown bags.]

by kos

[Partner of Jerome Armstrong of stock shilling fame.]

With the election season heating up, as well as 2008 starting to loom larger, and every conspiracymonger looking for hidden biases, let me take yet another opportunity to make very clear that I am not a consultant.

[I am NOT a crook...but my partner is.]

I don't consult now. I haven't consulted since 2004. I don't plan on consulting in the future. I don't want to consult. Why would I consult when I have the sweetest gig in the world? I mean, I get paid to blog and write! Why would I mess with that formula?

[Because the $$$$ is much bigger if you leave the dirty work of "consulting" to your partner Jerome Armstrong. Let's see, Armstrong receives big payments from Congressman Sherrod Brown in Ohio. Then just a couple of days after slamming Brown in the Daily Kos, you have a "miraculous" change of heart and support him in his senate bid.]

My only sources of revenue are this site (advertising and subscriptions), some freelance writings in places like the American Prospect, and CTG (eventually. It takes publishers ages to send out royalty checks). At some point in the future, SportsBlogs will be a source of revenue, but it's nowhere near that point yet. No politician, campaign, issue group, nor any other organization has directly or indirectly paid me for anything.

[I would love to check out the money flow rate in the Armstrong-Kos pipeline.]

Did I mention I'm not a consultant, and will not be a consultant in the future? Because if I didn't, let me make clear -- I'm not a consultant. And I won't be.

[I am not a crook and never will be a crook. Let me make it very clear -- I am not a crook although my partner, Unknown Jerome, might be.]

Clear?

[All too clear that you avoided answering the DETAILS of the Blogola scandal. And now on to the cult-like responses of you fellow KOmmies...]

Can I hire you as a consultant?

[Is that you, Mark Warner?]

How much do you pay?

[Replied Kos. This morning I found out that the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) pays almost $162,000.]

But Kos is pure. Won't sell out. But will definitely be accused of selling out. And probably worse. He's a big target now.

[Kos is pure as the driven slush.]

Survey USA says LIEBERMAN TANKS

[That's because Lieberman didn't pay the Unknown Jerome Political Technologies LLC "consulting fee."]

It's silly, but the reality is that if he consulted, there would inevitably be jackasses who would question his impartiality, regardless of whether he disclosed, and regardless of whether the consulting had anything to do with what he was saying on DK.

[Gee. Where would we ever get the strange idea that the much vaunted Kos impartiality is in question?]

just heading off people who insist I'm compromised because I'm in someone's employ.

[Or if Unknown Jerome is in someone's employ, kos.]

soooo who are you not consulting for then? Don't you think full disclosure is appropriate?

[Kos is NOT consulting for Sherrod Brown, Mark Warner, nor the SEIU...but Unknown Jerome is.]

Probaby you have seen it before, but it's a first for me. It is classic swift-boating, isn't it?

[Nowadays, when you investigate the misdeeds of Democrats it is called "swift-boating."]

Markos may be cranky and crazy occasionally but The Ragin' Cajun is too and he's rich and he's even sleeping with the enemy. If it is about the money or whom he consults I trust his judgement, and it shouldn't matter if I didn't. If it makes any difference he could call it 'helping' and his fees could be donations.

[Just change the word definitions and all is okay. "Scamming" will now be redefined to mean "helping" and Markos is certainly getting some big "helpings" via his partner, Unknown Jerome.]

then what do you say about the report from Jason Leopold that you were seen on the 5th floor of Patton Boggs, meeting with Mark Warner for 18 hours or half a day? Are you sure you're not both a consultant, but then again not a consultant......?

[As usual, Jason Leopold was wrong. It was Unknown Jerome who was seen on the 5th floor of Patton Boggs meeting with Mark Warner for 18 hours.]

Kos, You've become a lightening rod because you've taken bold, principled stands, using a relatively new medium, and that threatens some folks. You owe no one an explanation and the very visibility that you now have- the fact that people are talking about you, regardless of the context- equals success. And, as you gain success, we all do..it's good for the whole movement. Just keep on doing what you've been doing and don't let it burn you out. As for the critics: F*ck 'em.

[An impassioned plea for KOmmie KOs to continue stonewalling.]

I don't want to be the first to raise it, but there are serious allegations listed there against Jerome.

[REALLY???]

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KOmmie KOs Engulfed In Blogola Scandal

The Daily Kos Blogola scandal is now heating up in the Blogosphere but has yet to make its way into the MSM. To sum up, head KOmmie Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and his sleazebag partner, Jerome Armstrong, are now accused of whoring out themselves and the KOmmieland blog for money in exchange for happy talk for those candidates willing to shell out for "consulting fees." The Pay for Blog Play scam works like this: a politician pays Armstrong's Political Technologies LLC firm "consulting fees" which result in (surprise, surprise) enthusiastic postings for that politico in KOmmieland by KOs. This Blogola scam was first noted back in 2003 when Joe Trippi of the Dean campaign paid Moulitsas and Armstrong $3000 per month for 4 months for "technical" consulting. However, a former Dean staffer, Zephyr Teachout of that campaign's Internet Outreach, subsequently CLAIMED that the real reason for those payments was for Armstrong and Moulitsas to say positive things about Dean in the Blogosphere. This wasn't the first time that Jerome Armstrong has been involved in financially questionable activities. It has recently come to light in a New York Post ARTICLE that Armstrong touted a number of worthless or faltering companies online starting in 1999 until 2003 in exchange for cash. Although Armstrong signed an agreement with the SEC promising to shill no more for securities online, he has merely switched his venue by touting politicos for cash.

Some aspects of this Blogola scandal have some quite humorous aspects such as in Ohio last year when Armstrong and Moulitsas were temporarily unable to get their scams in synch. What happened is that in 2005 Ohio Congressman Sherrod Brown paid Armstrong's consulting firm $12,000 in April, $12,000 in June, and then a monthly $5000 fee thereafter. When Brown began indicating that he might want to run for the Senate in October, an as yet clueless KOs on October 3 made this POST:

And with all apologies to Brown, who is one of the greats in the House, but this isn't cool. He bows out, waits for Hackett to gear up, and then floats a trial balloon about getting back in? Brown must've known about Hackett's decision to run, hence this trial balloon is sabotage.

I'm not even sure who is the best candidate, the bullshit "who's most electable" question. That Zogby poll earlier today had Hackett kicking DeWine's ass. I assume Brown would do roughly as well. But in a primary, Brown has the instiutional state party apparatus (no matter how pathetic Ohio Dems might be). Hackett is an outsider.

Me, give me an Iraq vet over a career politician, even one with Brown's excellent pedigree. But ultimately, if Brown runs, this will be a choice for the people of Ohio. Not that you can't take the poll and weigh in. Brown or Hackett.

Just a few hours after the Moulitsas post in favor of Hackett, Armstrong POSTS this strong endorsement of his financial benefactor:

Sherrod Brown should run for the US Senate, he's our best shot at taking back the Senate seat, and will do the most for Democrats to grow organization in the state to win there in 2008.

What about Paul Hackett? Hackett can win, but let's not kid here. Putting aside Zogby's internet polling numbers, it's a longshot. He's not going to win on organization, but on the luck of television ads to be funded later. Dewine has $7M and a script of Hackett calling Bush a "son of a bitch." Heck, even a nimrod could turn that into a serious definitional problem for Hackett right off the bat. Would I support Hackett for the Senate? Heck yea; better him than about anyone else. But if Sherrod Brown decides to run, there is no question that he is the choice for a statewide run.

One can only imagine the heated cell phone (or e-mail) conversation that then went on between Armstrong and Moulitsas with Jerome reminding his partner in crime about where their Ohio money was coming from because just a couple of days later, October 6, Moulitsas had an "amazing" change of heart as you can see in his POST:

...it might be a good idea for Hackett to stand down.

It pains me to say that. I think Hackett would be a far more exciting candidate -- Iraq War vet versus career politician. Outsider versus insider. New blood versus old timer. Straight talker versus the same ol'. And Hackett would offer a perspective not currently available in the Senate.

...Hackett still hasn't had a year-long political campaign under his belt, with the type of scrutiny that a Senate race garners. He doesn't have the statewide network like the one that Sherrod Brown has built. In fact, Brown's operation lent Hackett their netroots guru (Tim Tagaris) and their field guy for his special election. If Hackett was the only game in town, the Ohio Dem establishment (as lame as it might be) would rally behind him. In a contested primary, they'll be working against Hackett.

So one day, Moulitsas is accusing Brown of campaign sabotage and a short time later he is asking for Hackett to stand down in favor of Brown. What a difference a day, or rather, a bunch of bucks make. Most recently Kos has been hyping former Virginia Governor Mark Warner as chronicled in the DUmmie FUnnies at the same time that (surprise, surprise) the Warner campaign has been paying "consulting fees" to Jerome Armstrong. And while we are on the subject of Warner, I would love to find out how much he paid to Armstrong to arrange the Stratosphere Party at the Yearly Kos in Las Vegas. Estimated figures for that party which featured ice sculptures, sushi, booze, and even a chocolate fountain have run from $50,000 up to $200,000. How much of that dinero did Armstrong skim off for himself and his sidekick, Moulitsas? Inquiring minds want to know. There are MANY other aspects (such as big payments by Jon Corzine to Armstrong's firm in New Jersey) of the rapidly developing Blogola scandal and I recommend you check out both HOT AIR and NEWSBUSTERS in order to get up to date on what is happening.

Meanwhile, the first stirrings of possible revolt among the KOmmies are breaking out in KOmmieland as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Fox In The Henhouse 2 - Why DailyKOS should NOT have Advertising." As usual the KOmmie postings are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, willing to advise Mark Warner on how he can escape becoming embroiled in the Blogola scandal for a consultation fee, is in the [brackets]:

Fox In The Henhouse 2 - Why DailyKOS should NOT have Advertising

[Or Blogola payoffs from politicians.]

There have been a lot of diaries about the advertising here on DailyKOS. I think it is time to end advertising on DailyKOS.

Kos has a severe conflict of interest between collecting money from lobbyists and, at the same time, advocating for candidates and policy. This is also true of the MSM, and we can show that Fox News and other MSM are influenced by their advertising dollars to promote particular positions. If we want to claim that there is a "Culture of Corruption" in politics we must also examine ourselves and our institutions to be sure that there is no conflict of interest.

[Take it up with the Blogola twins: Armstrong & Moulitsas.]

A conflict of interest can occur whenever you receive money to promote a particular point of view. Since Kos is an active party staffer who has worked on multiple campaigns, including Howard Dean's Presidential Campaign, he is not just your standard run of the mill journalist. He is an activist with influence on where this party is going and what policies our government will pursue. Since he accepts money from lobbyists to present their viewpoints on his blog it is a clear conflict of interest. I will present more below the fold.

[SNIFF! But having integrity will mean no more kewl Stratosphere chocolate fountains.]

I am going to post a comment that is from a Harvard Law School discussion about this very issue.

[Uh-Oh! We are about to enter the realm of some deep doo-doo.]

I think the ethics question is a serious one, which I've brought up elsewhere and fought with Markos Zuniga, and several others in the blogosphere, about. In this past election, at least a few prominent bloggers were paid as consultants by candidates and groups they regularly blogged about.

[aka Blogola.]

On Dean's campaign, we paid Markos and Jerome Armstrong as consultants, largely in order to ensure that they said positive things about Dean. We paid them over twice as much as we paid two staffers of similar backgrounds, and they had several other clients.

[Payola = Pay for Play.
Blogola = Pay for Blog Play.]

While they ended up also providing useful advice, the initial reason for our outreach was explicitly to buy their airtime.

[Nobody really believes the big bucks were shelled out for mere advice.]

And here's Kos's thoughts on the topic:

[Stand by for some great laughs!]

"Zephyr can go to hell,'' Moulitsas said at the Democratic convention. `'I'm not about to censor myself on any issue,'' he later wrote on another Web site. "If I care about something, I'll write about it. It's the essence of blogging. As for the mainstream media, who cares what some joker journalism professor wrote? Just keep blogging, doing your thing, and the blogosphere will continue to do just fine. We should let our accomplishments speak for themselves, and they will."

["Zephyr can go to hell! I'm not cutting myself off from the Blogola Gravy Train."]

Did you realize that a front page ad on DailyKOS will cost you $4,200 for one week? Since there are 9 spots on the site for ads this means that Kos could make upto $1.9 million dollars in advertising a year. I am sure the numbers are smaller then that, but the site is currently booked solid until June 23 for advertising so there has got to be a decent income stream coming in from that.

[Um, so how can the DUmmie FUnnies get in on that Blogola deal?]

I'm not against Kos making a living. All of us want to make a living, but since he has clear conflicts of interest he needs to come clean and make a clean break from advertising on his site and rely on income from subscriptions and book revenue or we should all shift our allegiance to some other Blog that operates without these conflicts.

[Somehow I don't think you will convice KOs to drop his champagne high life in favor of living on a beer budget.]

If Kos were interested in selling his integrity, and others were interested in buying it, why would they do it overtly through ads?

[Hey, there is always the "consulting fees" scam as well.]

Don't Forget His Book revenue and his payments from political campaigns to help them out in a "consulting" position.

[Yes, be sure to place "consulting" in quotes.]

Is it unethical to make money? To be successful? To do so in an open fashion, where people can make quick, back of the envelope estimates of your finances?

[In the old days, Payola payments were made in envelopes. Nowadays, Blogola is much more sophisticated since those payments come in the form of "consulting fees."]

i don't believe he has taken money from any campaigns since Dean's

[Except for the campaigns of Sherrod Brown and Corzine and Warner and...]

I don't consult.

[That was KOs himself and he is right. He just lets his partner, Armstrong, "consult."]

What right to YOU have to tell anyone what they should be "forced" to do. This is NOT YOUR F*CKING SITE and Kos has no obligations to us except those which he has chosen to take on.

[How dare you suggest that KOs not accept Blogola payments!!!]

He admits that getting rid of ads wouldn't make a whit of difference because Markos could just as easily be accepting bribes unrelated to advertising.

[Such as Blogola in the form of "consultation fees" funneled to him via Unknown Jerome.]

If not advertising, then please identify another source of revenue.

[Blogola.]

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DUmmies Not Buying Lame Truthout Excuses On Rove "Indictment" Story

TruthOut promised us a more "comprehensive accounting" about their Rove indictment story when they got caught with their pants down as a result of the announcement that Karl Rove WON'T be indicted. Instead, what we got yesterday at TruthOut was yet another SERIES of incredibly LAME excuses and weasel words that even most DUmmies aren't buying. Of course, I still BEEEEEEEELEEEEEVE that Karl Rove was indicted on May 12. Why? Because WILLIAM RIVERS PITT stated that he verified all the sources (including Joe Wilson) in triplicate. And if WILLIAM RIVERS PITT backs up this story then it MUST be true. However, most of the rest of you will laugh AT the TruthOut lame excuses and the disbelieving DUmmie REACTION in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, putting an APB out on the missing WILLIAM RIVERS PITT, is in the [brackets]:

Returning to "06 cr 128"

[Returning to the TruthOut Asylum...]

By Marc Ash

[Fashion photographer extraoridnaire.]

What will follow will be a rather frank discussion of our reporting of and involvement in the Rove indictment matter. If you like simple answers or quick resolutions, turn back now. This is our report to our readership. Our primary sources for this report are career federal law enforcement and federal government officials speaking on condition of anonymity. This report was developed under the supervision of all of Truthout's senior editors, which should be taken as an indication that we view this matter with the utmost seriousness.

[What will follow now will be a bunch of lame excuses and weasel words. If you want the simple truth, turn back now. Our primary sources for this report are Sonny Crockett, Joe Wilson, the mirror reflections of Jason Leopold and WILLIAM RIVERS PITT, and a series of leprechauns and tooth fairies speaking on condition of anonymity. This report was developed under the fantasy of WILLIAM RIVERS PITT who takes FULL RESPONSIBILITY for this fairy tale.]

For the record, we did reach Kimberly Nerheim, a spokesperson for Patrick Fitzgerald, and asked her these questions: Did a grand jury return an indictment of Karl Rove? Did Patrick Fitzgerald send a fax to Robert Luskin similar to that described in recent press reports? Is Patrick Fitzgerald's probe of the Plame matter still ongoing? Her response to each question was identical: "I have no comment."

[For the record, the Patrick Fitzgerald spokesperson gave us the same answers she always does: "I have no comment." We then twisted that expected answer to make it seem that they aren't verifying that Karl Rove wasn't indicted.]

The Rove indictment story is way beyond - in terms of complexity - any other story we have ever covered. In essence, we found out something we were not supposed to find out, and things exploded from there. We were not prepared for the backlash.

[The Rove indictment story went in a direction we never expected. In essence, we found out too late that Rove wasn't indicted. However, since we (including WILLIAM RIVERS PITT) went out on the limb with this story, we were forced to stick with it with a series of incredibly lame excuses and weasel words such as you are reading here. WILLIAM RIVERS PITT was not prepared for the backlash.]

On Tuesday, June 13, when the mainstream media broke their stories that Karl Rove had been exonerated, there were frank discussions amongst our senior editors about retracting our stories outright. The problem we wrestled with was what exactly do we retract? Should we say that Rove had not in fact been indicted? Should we say that our sources provided us with false or misleading information? Had Truthout been used? Without a public statement from Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald we felt that it was premature to retract our report.

[We were tempted to declare that we wrong when the Rove NON-indictment was announced but we wanted to avoid an embarrassing premature retraction.]

After spending the past month retracing our steps and confirming facts, we've come full circle. Our sources continue to maintain that a grand jury has in fact returned an indictment. Our sources said that parts of the indictment were read to Karl Rove and his attorney on Friday, May 12, 2006. Last week, we pointed to a sealed federal indictment, case number "06 cr 128," which is still sealed and we are still pointing to it. During lengthy conversations with our sources over the past month, they reiterated that the substance of our report on May 13, 2006, was correct, and immediately following our report, Karl Rove's status in the CIA leak probe changed. In summary, as we press our investigation we find indicators that more of our key facts are correct, not less.

[We've gone around in circles the past month like a chicken with its head cut off. Sonny Crockett and the Tooth Fairy continue to maintain that a grand jury has in fact returned an indictment. As time passes we find more of our lame excuses are pathetic, not less.]

That leaves the most important question: If our sources maintain that a grand jury has returned an indictment - and we have pointed to a criminal case number that we are told corresponds to it - then how is it possible that Patrick Fitzgerald is reported to have said that 'he does not anticipate seeking charges against Rove at this time?' That is a very troubling question, and the truth is, we do not yet have a definitive answer. We also continue to be very troubled that no one has seen the reported communication from Fitzgerald to Rove's attorney Robert Luskin, and more importantly, how so much public judgment could be based on a communication that Luskin will not put on the table. Before we can assess the glaring contradiction between what our sources say and what Luskin says Fitzgerald faxed to him, we need to be able to consider what was faxed - and in its entirety.

[So how can it be that we are right and every other media source is wrong? That is a very troubling question and the truth is, we don't really know what the hell we are doing. We also continue to ramble on with nonsense hoping desperately to spin our way out of this predicament. Before we can assess the glaring contradiction between what we say and what reality is, we need to to be able to consider what WILLIAM RIVERS PITT faxed to himself - in its entirety.]

What appears to have happened is that - and this is where Truthout blundered - in our haste to report the indictment we never considered the possibility that Patrick Fitzgerald would not make an announcement. We simply assumed - and we should not have done so - that he would tell the press. He did not. Fitzgerald appears to have used the indictment, and more importantly, the fear that it would go public, to extract information about the Plame outing case from Rove.

[What appears to have happened is that - and this is where Truthout blundered - we never considered the possibility that MSNBC's David Shuster could be wrong about Rove's imminent indictment. Therefore we announced the indictment hoping to ride to glory on that "scoop." When Rove was NOT indicted, our fraud was exposed and we were stuck spinning a series of incredibly lame excuses while WILLIAM RIVERS PITT was forced to go into hiding.]

Yes, it does appear that Truthout was used, but not lied to or misled. The facts appear to have been accurate. We reported them, and in so doing, apparently became an instrument. From all indications, our reports, first on May 13 that Rove had been indicted, and then on June 12 when we published case number "06 cr 128," forced Rove and Luskin back to the table with Fitzgerald, not once but twice. They apparently sought to avoid public disclosure and were prepared to do what they had to do to avoid it.

[Yes, it does appear that Truthout was full of crap. We reported Rove's indictment as having already happened. From all indications we were caught with our pants down so we are throwing out another hilarious excuse that Rove and Luskin were so frightened by the phony Truthout story that they were forced to meet again with Fitzgerald in order to bring down Dick Cheney and the rest of the EVIL Bush regime. Meanwhile WILLIAM RIVERS PITT would like to sell you shares in the Brooklyn Bridge Company.]

The electronic communication from Fitzgerald to Luskin, coming immediately on the heels of our Monday morning, June 12 article "Sealed vs. Sealed" that became the basis for the mainstream media's de facto exoneration of Karl Rove was, our sources told us, negotiated quickly over the phone later that afternoon. Luskin contacted Fitzgerald, reportedly providing concessions that Fitzgerald considered to be of high value, and Fitzgerald reportedly reciprocated with the political cover Rove wanted in the form of a letter that was faxed to Luskin's office.

[The electronic communication from Fitzgerald to Luskin, coming on the heels of our phony Truthout story, led to a series of negotiations that forced Rove to appoint himself as the ambassador to the Land of Oz.]

Our sources provided us with additional detail, saying that Fitzgerald is apparently examining closely Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame matter, and apparently sought information and evidence from Karl Rove that would provide documentation of Cheney's involvement. Rove apparently was reluctant to cooperate and Fitzgerald, it appears, was pressuring him to do so, our sources told us.

[Our sources provide us with additional detail, saying that Fitzgerald is apparently examining his own navel and apparently sought information and evidence from Karl Rove that would provide documentation of the involvement of Auric Goldfinger. Rove apparently was reluctant to cooperate and Fitzgerald, it appears, was pressuring him to do so by tickling his big toe with an ostrich feather, WILLIAM RIVERS PITT told us.]

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation is a unique chapter in American history. The probe has managed to shed light into the inner recesses of perhaps the most secretive presidential administration in US history. His mission is not political, and he will not allow it to be.

[Just filling space here with meaningless chit-chat so as to appear to provide comprehensive documentation.]

However, we call upon the Special Counsel to consider the right of the American people to know what has happened. Nothing, we believe, is more important to the survival of democracy than the light of justice, and nothing more damaging than the curtain of secrecy that today surrounds the highest office in the land.

[However, we call upon the Special Counsel to enter an alternative reality and pull our chestnuts out of the fire. Nothing, we believe, is more important to the survival of Truthout and the reputation of WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.]

Joe Lauria and The Washington Post's Attacks on Jason Leopold

[The horrible attacks on the sterling reputation of drug addict and liar, Jason Leopold...]

We are well aware of the Lauria article and the series of attacks The Washington Post has launched against Jason Leopold and Truthout. As always, we will carefully consider all information and then publish a thoughtful response. In this case, we will publish our response on Wednesday, June 21, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time.

[We will answer the attacks on Jason Leopold with another series of laughable lame excuses on June 32... And now on to the DUmmie REACTION to this Truthout comedy script.]

The latest load of bullshit from Truthout... All they've done is buy some more time until the "06 cr 128" case is unsealed. Then they'll come up with another line of bullshit.

[A load of bs served up fresh by WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.]

The Ouija Board said so! They asked if Rove was indicted, and Ouija said 'Yes"!

[In addition to Sonny Crockett and Joe Wilson, the Ouija Board is one of the Truthout sources.]

ROVE COULD BE INDICTED BY 2009!

[Or the year 2525...if Man is still Alive.]

Or perhaps Rove will be indicted 20 business hours before Second Coming

[You mean 24 business hours.]

Bullshit! Complete, total bullshit. I'm tired of them trying to fool people. the "06 cr 128" claim was already thoroughly debunked on DU. It wasn't filed till May 17th, & is most likely related to Time's motion to quash a subpoena in the Libby case. Truthout knows this, but they don't care. They're lying to people. And they don't even care if we know it. Even I never thought they would sink this low.

[Then throw a life preserver to WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.]

They are lying to you. I swear, I feel like this is some alternate reality & we're back to 4 weeks ago.

[You are just 24 business hours away from entering the alternate reality.]

Basically Ash is saying thanks to their stories and the publicity they generated, Rove weas forced into giving up the goods to Fitzgerald.
Based on Sealed vs Sealed? When the only ones who would come near truthout as a source after the 24 hours nonsense were Duers and Wayne Madsen? That's when Rove gave in? Color me skeptical at this point.

[Welcome to the alternate reality.]

Now Truthout was instrumental in getting Karl Rove to finger Cheney - not once, but twice? Ummm, ya, sure guys. So Truthout not only isn't embarassed by their monumental blunder in hiring a loser like Leopold and reporting an obvious BS story, they almost seem to claim they helped Fitzgerald with cracking Rove. By God, they're hero's I tell ya! What a complete joke. This simply has become one of the saddest journalistic meltdowns I've ever witnessed.

[You can find WILLIAM RIVERS PITT melted down on the Bukowski's barroom floor.]

The "MAGIC MEN" are desperate and it is showing

[The Magic Man, aka WILLIAM RIVERS PITT, certainly is desperate.]

TruthOut may have just KILLED the Plame Investigation!!!!

[Actually that is my own theory. Truthout and WILLIAM RIVERS PITT, with their Hoaxmas story, turned the investigation into a circus act that Fitzgerald finally got sick of and resulted in the NON-indictment of Rove.]

Maybe Jason Leopold will be invited to stay in the 'Judy Miller suite' ...at the Alexandria Detention Center. How long will it take to for JL to crack and reveal his sources???

[That depends on how soon you can give Leopold some crack.]

It seems in an attempt to paint themselves as some kind of heroes, they have actually managed to cast themselves as the villans. Rove couldn't have planned it better himself.

[TruthOut and WILLIAM RIVERS PITT as victims of the Perfect Rovian Storm.]

And now they are... risking the investigation to save their own hides. Nice one. Who's side are they on, anyway?

[Thank you TruthOut and WILLIAM RIVERS PITT for turning the whole Fitzgerald investigation into a laughable circus. I believe that Fitz could have gone either way on the indictment of Rove but when faced with the TruthOut antics, he decided to wash his hands of the whole thing. You can THANK TruthOut and WILLIAM RIVERS PITT for the fact that Rove WON'T be frogwalked across the White House lawn.]

The only one that can flip on Cheney is Libby and he won't do that because he is an ideologue and because he probably has been promised a pardon by Cheney.

[All I got for Fitzmas was a broken-down scooter.]

Fact: Rove was not indicted.

Fact: Jason Leopold's reporting on the "Rove indictment" was dead wrong and way off the mark.

[Fact: WILLIAM RIVERS PITT is MIA.]

I'm seeing these guys are sweating their asses off digging the biggest hole I've seen in a long time, and at first there were many waiting around the top of the hole wondering if they'd actually dig something up.. then we wondered if maybe they were going to Bury Leopold and get a little cheer and a helping hand out of the hole, maybe with us smoothing the hole over and planting a little tree we could all have a beer under and laugh about.. But now the hole is so deep that a lot of people really can't SEE DOWN THERE much more, there's a lot of shouting going on, from in the hole and around the edges, that there IS SOMETHING in that hole.. but the hole is really too deep now to jump into even if you wanted to help, and it looks like more and more people are walking away from the hole thinking they'd rather tackle a Mountain, maybe roll some big boulders down on the really bad guys out there instead.. Usually customary to stop digging.. we're gonna run out of rope here soon and may not be able to pull anyone out, and Leopold, well, we can throw some carrier pidgons down there, with some strips of paper and a one inch pencil.. he can sharpen the pencil on his razer sharp reporter's INTUITION.. C'mon guys.. we're even way past the Decoder Ring stage.. it's just bullshit, and the hole you've dug is now apparently part of the sewer system, and you may never get that smell out.
Please cut the shit, PLEASE stop with the bullshit, PLEASE.. I hate to see all you've done going to waste.. To be honest I really do think that when Leopold says "Oh great, NOW the story is all about ME AGAIN.." that it's his true self talking.. he REALLY DOES want the attention, any attention... reminds me of kids getting hit by their drunken dads, and thinking that any attention is better than none.. PLEASE STOP IT.. Think of what an AMAZING and Historical APOLOGY you could make at this point? Internet history...

[WILLIAM RIVERS PITT never REALLY apologizes.]

Truthout has gone moonbat

[Understatement of the day.]

I find Marc Ash's explanations to be perfectly reasonable and I for one am willing to stand by and wait for the cookie to crumble a little further to see what exactly is inside.

[Is that you, WILLIAM RIVERS PITT?]

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"What's your LEAST favorite Air America Show?"

In yesterday's EDITION of the DUmmie FUnnies, the KOmmies at The Daily Kos asserted the wishful thinking that AM talk radio is fading fast. Perhaps they were thinking ONLY of leftwing AM radio. Just a couple of years ago, the leftwing Air America Radio was hailed by the MSM as the "answer" to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts who dominate the AM airwaves. What ended up fading fast wasn't AM talk radio but the dream of competing with conservative talk radio. The left in general has pretty much given up on Air America as you can see in this KOmmie THREAD titled, "What's your LEAST favorite Air America Show?" Notice they don't even bother to ask what their FAVORITE Air America show is because that network has turned out to be such a disappointment that they have to ask the question in terms of a negative. So let us now watch the KOmmies go about the tough selection process of what Air America show bums them out the most in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, happy to listen to Laura Ingraham in the AM and Rush in the PM, is in the [brackets]:

What's your LEAST favorite Air America Show?

[There is SO MUCH to choose from in the way of terrible Air America shows that it will be tough to select just one above all others.]

It's been a while since I've seen an Air America related diary.. What's your LEAST favorite Air America Radio show? There has been a variety of Air America related diaries but most seem to be leaving out some shows. Please think of a show that not only is something you've listened to but something you can critically explain why you dislike.

[Please think of a show that not only is something you dislike but absolutely revolts you to the core.]

I'll start with my top 3 programs and why :

[In the Air America context, KOmmie Joshua Jenks doesn't mean his top 3 FAVORITE programs. He means the top 3 WORST programs.]

1. "Springer on the Radio". This show became painful to listen to. For about a month straight, it was the show that I would listen to when I woke up. Part of the problem with me has always been the way he lets right wing Jugguarnaut heads roll over him when they call in. Some of his topics seem to be a little perverse. He also is pretty unenergetic to listen to.

[Translation: Springer lets conservative callers have their say which is why this KOmmie dislikes that show.]

2. "Randi Rhodes Show". I know this is a hot favorite and I'll explain why I dislike it. She rambles. She rambles too much. I know she can spit it out. She's like the rapper of left-wing radio. She is fluent and she rarely misses a beat. I find the show to be too depressing though. It's a good show though if you want to hear someone take a no bullshit approach to ... ALL callers. She cuts off Right-Wingers and well.. Left-Wingers. Don't call and expect to get a word in edge-wise.

[Randi likes to rant insanely without being uninterrupted.]

3. "The Al Franken Show". For the most part, Al Franken is a very average show. He doesn't really have any strong negatives and his strongest positive is definately his ability to interview and have guests. He is respectful to callers.. both left and right wing. The oy-yoy-yoy show was severely lame as well as some of the other sctick which occurs. The jokes.. I just don't get his style.

[Correction: The ENTIRE Al Franken Show is severely lame. Recommended only a cure for folks suffering from insomnia. Anyway, KOmmie Joshua Jenks, thanx for listing the best known of the Air America shows as being your "Least Favorites." Now to see which Air America shows the other KOmmies hate...]

Randi can be good, but she's too much of a ranter ala Rush. Randi likes to hear herself talk and, frankly, I feel sorry for her guests.

[I feel sorry for her listeners.]

Janeane is clearly the weak point of the Majority Report and she's really an ax grinder. She seems just so morose, she brings me down.

[The only thing that Janeane has been upbeat about lately is promoting Scientology. And she was the one who called conservatives ignorant?]

I voted for Malloy. I really can't stand him. He yells at the mike and yells at callers. He's self-righteous and not willing to let any other viewpoint be heard. I used to listen to Savage when I car pooled with a guy who actually liked it. Malloy is remarkably close to Savage in style.

[The big difference is that Savage actually has listeners.]

There's only so much I can take of Malloy's gloom/doom paranoia.

[What's Malloy's KOmmie screen name? It sounds like he would fit right in there.]

Love Franken but voted for his showw...can't wait till he's running for Senate so he's off my radio in the morning.

[That could be a great campaign strategy for Franken: "Vote for me so you won't have to hear my boring voice on the radio any more."]

Can't stand: Rachel Maddow. I find her preachy and pedantic. And I really can't stand it when she fake laughs at the comedian who's not funny who does a piece at 10 of. Yes, I miss Mark and Marc terribly. Did I mention I'm a middle aged white woman?? Increasingly can't stand: Ed Schultz. The whole heartland schtick is cute, but he's right, he's not left enough for me when he has entire shows devoted to discussing Reid's perfectly legitimate boxing tickets, for instance. Usually gets snapped off in five minutes or less. Tolerate: Randi Rhodes -- Between screeches, she often eloquently hits the name on the head. Al Franken -- still waiting for the humour, but he's not awful.

[The KOmmie version of a "ringing endorsement" for the Al Franken show: "Completely humorless but at least he's not awful."]

Thom Hartmann is my fave...I actually haven't heard all the programs or have only heard very small snippets here and there. I've heard enough Springer to vote for him because he's, well, boring. It's passionless.

[Don't worry, KOmmie. When you finally get to hear Thom Hartmann in full, he'll also make your "Least Favorite" list.]

I listen to Al Franken for his guests, who are almost all superb. Franken himself is annoying and not particularly funny most of the time. His snarky laugh is off-putting. He knows the issues well and often asks great questions. But other times his attempts at irony and sarcasm leave the less-informed listener at a loss. He would not make any converts, I'm pretty sure.

[A KOmmie listens to the Al Franken show...but not to hear Al Franken.]

Rachel Maddow - not particularly gifted. The show isn't very original, the "Ask Dr. Maddow" is trite. They need better writers, basically.

[They need a better host, basically.]

Franken, ah, ah, ah ah , ah, bores the crap outta me. the content is fine, the delivery sucks.

[And we now conclude this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies aka KOmmie KOmix with that "ringing endorsement" of Al Franken.]

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"Rove Begins Blog Takeover"

Take a look at Ug the Caveman above on the computer. That is actually the image many KOmmies have of conservatives on the Internet. According to the LATEST hype, conservatives are uncomfortable using the science of the Internet in general and the Blogs in particular. As a result, it is the "progressives" that are taking the lead in the Blogosphere. Of course, REALITY tells a much different story when you actually LOOK at what are the leading Blogs: HOT AIR, MICHELLE MALKIN, little green footballs, Instapundit.COM, and many, many more such CONSERVATIVE Blogs. And technically speaking The Daily Kos isn't even a Blog. It is a Web FORUM and the FREE REPUBLIC, was already there first with vastly more influence. And I cite a "progressive" expert on just how influential conservative Blogs and Forums are: Mary Mapes. Here is what Ms Mapes herself has to SAY on the CONSERVATIVE Blogs that brought down both Dan Rather and Herself at See-BS when their fake document scam was uncovered:

Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Web sites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line. They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS. Our work was being compared to that of Jayson Blair, the discredited New York Times reporter who had fabricated and plagiarized stories.

All these Web sites had extensive write-ups on the documents: on typeface, font style, and peripheral spacing, material that seemed to spring up overnight. It was phenomenal. It had taken our analysts hours of careful work to make comparisons. It seemed that these analysts or commentators---or whatever they were---were coming up with long treatises in minutes. They were all linking to one another, creating an echo chamber of outraged agreement.

Not only did the CONSERVATIVE Blogosphere (and the Free Republic Forum) bring down Mary and Danny, but they may well have kept Mrs. Heinz's Toyboy from being elected when the fake documents were exposed. Strange but I have YET to hear of anything even remotely influential being originated in the "progressive blogosphere." However, that won't keep the KOmmies from swallowing their own hype and patting themselves on the back for having some sort of influence that exists only in the minds of MSM hype writers. The latest self-delusion comes in this KOmmie THREAD titled, "Rove Begins Blog Takeover." The hilarious premise of the KOmmie author, Detroit Mark, is that Karl Rove is so threatened by the "progressive" Blogosphere that he is going to take over the entire Blogosphere in some sort of Rovian power play. So let us now watch the KOmmies perform a hype swallowing act in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, giving a shout out to Ug the rightwing caveman blogger, is in the [brackets]:

Rove Begins Blog Takeover

[A simple task for the ALL-POWERFUL Rove.]

Well, we knew this wouldn't take long. Karl Rove saw the blogosphere taking on a decidedly progressive bend. And when the beast sees a threat, it eats it. That's what he's now attempting to do. So suggests an article appearing in Friday's Raw Story. This may be an excellent prototype exercise for progressives to finally cut their teeth on to How The Left Slays The Beast.

[Raw Story: A source as credible as TruthOut.]

We know his formula. It's not like he's creative enough to come up with something new. What he does is what the religious right has done for millennia: Wait for something new to come along that offends ... and absorb it. As pagen holidays became christian ones ... as the Pledge of Allegience became a "prayer" ... so does Rove intend to simply assimilate the Blogosphere out of existence. Let's examine the wording.

[Wasn't this already a movie: "Godzilla Swallows The Blogosphere."]

"I do also think that the Internet has proven to be a more powerful tool on our side than it has been for the other side,"

[And Mary Mapes AGREES with Rove.]

Ok, of course that's horseshit. The right has scarcely even begun to exploit the internet as progressives have. They've been so mesmerized by the success of a fast-fading AM Radio, that they let the technology of the Blog slip right by them. They were banking on us becoming a laughing stock and falling on our asses.

[Ug the rightwing caveman not understand high technology. Ug just want to toss meat in fire then eat with hands. Watch Ug eat burnt meat. Watch gobs of grease run down Ug's face onto hairy arms and chest. Watch Ug watch Blog tech slip away. Ug wanna cry.]

But the unprecedented success of Yearly Kos was like a cold slap in Rove's razor-burned face by a hand soaked in alcohol. All you have to do to prove that out is count how many times Oxy-Clean Limbaugh, and White Hood Hannity have moaned about what a failure it was. He knew he had to act, and act fast to stem the tidal wave of Progressive Popularity.

[Quick Rove! Stamp out the "progressive" blogosphere! The Stratosphere Chocolate Fountain at the Yearly Kos was such a success that it MUST be stamped out!]

So he simply makes the utterly false assertion that the right has been here all along. Just that statement alone will be ... I say again ... will be accepted as fact.

[Stand by to see what Rovian statement has all the KOmmies up in arms.]

"It has proven to be a tool on our side to sort of unite Conservatives and have a healthy intra-movement dialogue," Rove explained. "But it's essentially been something that has helped us gain in influence and broaden our appeal."

"Among Democrats, my sense is that the blog world has tended to strengthen the far Left of the Democratic Party at the expense of liberal, but somewhat less liberal, members of their party,"

[GASP!!! The OUTRAGE!!! How DARE he state the obvious! I say Karl Rove MUST be indicted for REAL!]

He has created the false impression that not only has the fringe right "used the power of the internet for good," but that Progressives simply use it as a place to lance boils, and plot church burnings.

[Great job there of putting words in Rove's mouth that he did NOT speak. However, what he ACTUALLY SAID is TRUE. The Blog World does give voice to the LOONY LEFT at the expense of any rational thinking.]

It's not only laughable because the only dangerously hateful group is the one Rove represents. But also because he creates within that statement the illusion that being "angry" about illegal wars, and illegal spying, and illegal money laundering, and illegal fund raising, and illegally expanding presidential power to create a kind of aristocracy not seen since the word 'aristocracy' was first uttered ... is somehow a bad character trait.

[Being insanely blind with rage is a GOOD character trait...according to the KOmmies.]

And all he does is ... say it.

["So let IT be said, so let IT be done," said the Pharoah guy to Big Mo.]

Why has it always worked for the Beast? Because no one has ever said anything back. No, what we do on the left is wait until we see the public buying this horseshit and all we can manage to drool off our lips is a meager, "Unh uh! That's a lie!"

[We must REACT 24/7 the INSTANT Rove says anything. Let us become even MORE obsessive over Karl Rove.]

The antidote to this rovian technique seems obvious to me: An equal and opposite force! Rove knows that perception eventually becomes the collective reality.

["Perception becomes the collective reality." Can I laminate that and place it in my wallet?]

Who will say it? Who will gain the attention of a national network television camera and say ... proudly, and loudly:

["I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO STAY SANE ANY LONGER!!!"]

"Well the reason the internet has worked so well for us Progressives is because we pioneered the use of it. And we are able to use it in a constructive and creative way to expand our base, and exchange ideas. The problem for the right is that they're still kind of diddling with scratchy old AM radio, which is unfortunately kind of like comparing an Ipod with an 8-track tape."

[Oh yeah. I forgot all about how Al Gore invented the Internet.]

Yes. It's a talking point. Just as what the beast has uttered is a talking point. The difference is that mine is so chock full of truth it would make the Beast's butthole pucker like a toddler that was just spoonfed a half bottle of concentrated ReaLemon and alum powder. Which is precisely how you will know his nut has been cracked. His code has been broken. His jig is up. And we do it every time. When he lies ... state the exact opposite. If he says it twice ... we say it three times. Sure, it's machievillian. Unfortunately it's what this dog-and-pony show, the Bush Crime Family, has successfully trained more than just a few to respond to.

[Coming soon to your local movie theater: "Exorcist V: Mark of the Rovian Beast," starring the brave Detroit Mark as the KOmmie Excorcist who finally figured out the formula to rid us of the Demon Rove that has possessed out national soul.]

I guarantee that when the day comes that two or three of our best orators start attacking him at his own game, it will be like reading the directions for a David Blane illusion, and the whole world will groan out a collective, disinterested, "Oooohhhh, is that all there was to this asshole? And we were actually buying that 'political genius' crap!!"

[Not too long ago the entire "progressive" blogosphere was actually buying the Jason Leopold crap...much to our AMUSEMENT.]

At any rate ... it's time to stop being "baffled" by his bullshit spin techniques, and just start using his own medicine to smack him right in his fat, smug face.

[Oooooh!!! How BRAVE you are, Detroit Mark! You are the BRAVEST of the Keyboard KOmmandos in the land. Now go to your basement door. Mommy is about to shove your pizza dinner thru the food slot.]

To metaphorically coin a phrase of Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts ... "Off with his head!!!"

[Or ACTUALLY quoting the late (thanx to Bush & Co.) Al-Zarqawi. And now to read the rants of Detroit Mark's equally delusional KOmmies...]

The Democratic blogosphere isn't powerful because of perception. It's powerful because of organization and information exchange. Karl can't change that by making slanderous claims.

[SUE Rove for saying that the Blogosphere allows the "progressives" to show themselves as the loons they are!]

Based on Rove's comments, I truly think he doesn't get the danger the Democratic blogosphere poses to his movement's dominance.

[You mean the KOmmies are going to blindside the ALL-POWERFUL Rove?]

The tact is... when he goes on the attack ... we counter attack ... immediately. When he says "we do a better job at the blogs" on two interviews, we say "the republicans have failed to speak to the people and listen to what they have to say, whereas the Progressives have made such great strides because we blog and we listen, and we talk" on FIVE interviews. He farts ... we spray a whole bottle of Febreeze.

[He spits... we make a giant doodie in our pants.]

attack first ... Attack first with the nastiest, meanest, most truthful and hurtful truths about the Republicans. Start with the epedemic of obesity. These folks have many deep pyschological and moral and ethical problems.
I think it is higly significant and symbolic that for the first time in America's history, the children of the next generation will have a life expectancy less than their mothers and fathers. This is due to the epedemic of obesity. Isn't that what this sickness, this epidemic of Republicanism is all about, overindulgence and greed? Sick, dysfunctional, greedy and taking us all to hell with them. Write diaries about the "truth" of this perception, get media attention on this issue. Make it simple and easy to see. Obesity and sickness=Republicans

[Until recently, Democrats were attacking Republicans for starving the cheeeeeldrun. Now they are slamming the Republicans for causing kids to eat too much. Get your delusional attacks in synch.]

Of course, Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garofalo (sorry if I butchered the spelling) have been doing a fantastic job saying "KKKarl isn't a genius. He's a CHEAT! A genius is someone who can 'win' while playing within the rules. KKKarl just cheats and bullies his way to a win. There's nothing genius about that." I like to hear it when they say it. And I think it should be said over and over and over and over again.

[Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garofalo: two of the more prominent members of the sanity challenged community.]

Look, isn't it about time we revoked Karl's boogeyman credentials? He's nothing. He, along with the entire gop are fast becoming an irrelevancy.

[Strange how your fellow KOmmies are completely OBSESSED by these "irrelevancies."]

The left blogosphere is the crack in the sky that the Fascist need to repair. The truth is leaking out of this crack and as we all know totalitarians HATE the truth. Karl Rove now vindicated by the phony investigation into HIS leaking Valerie Plame's name to the world has returned to smash anyone who dares speak truth to power ( BU$HCO .) We live in one of the scariest times in American history right now and these sites are in the bullseye along with every last one of us. These sites are to be priced under just like any candidates that they don't like. Speech isn't free in America it costs big bucks. Karl and Corp mafia are intent on smashing the Internet and turning it into just another strictly policed shopping mall for the BIG Int'l Corps. You come here to shop and leave. Oh or visit the right wing blogosphere sponsered by GE, or The American Enterprise Institute or Microsoft etc. Left wing blogs need not apply as any speech they don't like will be punished. In other words the Internet as Bu$hCo campaign rally. Get ready for it folks it's coming soon. We'll all say our good-byes and then be scattered and invisible. See we now live in the "OWNERSHIP SOCIETY" where they ( the repukes et al.) own everything including (sic) freedom.

[The left blogosphere is more like a crack in a pimpled butt and something more brown colored is leaking out of that crack.]

One thing is clear. Rove is in charge. When Rove starts attacking to blogs as part of his "talking points," the whole republican noise machine is going to follow suit. We'll hear it on Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity (hell, all of Fox News), the SInclair owned local TV stations, the National Review and other right wing mags, etc, etc.

[So far the only attack on the blogs is coming from the Left. Just ask Mary Mapes and Dan Rather their opinions of blogs.]

The big problem with the rightwing having blogs is that blogs are a free flow of information and ideas. The Republicans cannot afford that if they want to keep people ignorant and subservient. They need to control the message strictly and precisely. Apparently there was a GOP blog that was sponsored by the party but they had to take it down because posters kept deviating from the talking points. They would need an army of mindless bloggers that blew smoke up each other's ass all day, and that would never stand with anyone of character or substance. You can't even disagree on their end without being attacked personally. There is no exchange of ideas, just rhetoric and Rovian spin. And so, I think the wingnuts are doomed to fail in the blogosphere.

[I was only able to commence with this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies AFTER my GOP talking points were delivered by special messenger.]

Angry as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore.

[Please proceed with the Primal Scream.]

Great point! We should find a word to describe the right wing "blogs."

bLIEosphere

Blindosphere Sheeposphere

Wingnutsphere

Obediosphere

Vapidsphere

Mindlessphere

Compliasphere

Obsequiousphere

Subservisphere

Robotosphere

Fearosphere

Terrorsphere

Creeposphere

[It sounds like you downed a few too many scotches at Mark Warner's Stratosphere.]

That is the KEY!!!! Their mindless followers can't stay on point. Their message is so full of lies and contradictions that people must be well schooled in the double-speak and therefore it is a virual impossiblity that their crazy ideas can survive in an open forum discusion. Left to their own devices most people will come to pretty practical conclusions - practical, reality-based - all that stuff is big time danger zone for the GOP of the Early 21st Century.

[They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate KEY to the wardroom icebox DID exist...]

So, how to stop him? If he wants to silence us, how do we stop him?

[Only by casting the Rovian Ring of Power into the volcanic flames of Mt. Doom, my little KObbit.]

There is nothing they can throw at us that can't be overcome with a shitty attitude.

[And you KOmmies are doing a great job of attaining that attitude.]

The GOP has been able to create an impression that the blogs on the right are legit while the ones on the left are a bunch of kooks.

[My own technical method for making the "blogs" (actually forums) on the left look like a bunch of kooks is called "copy & paste" such as what I am doing with YOU.]

Rove remains dangerous and not because he's brilliant, but because, as someone else said, he's without a conscience. He's a sociopath, quite literally, a little Nazi. I don't think I'm engaging in hyperbole. Karl Rove is to Bu$h as Joseph Goebbels was to Hitler. He's a master propagandist.Nothing sticks to him. Whatever kind of deal he cut with Fitzgerald, it sure looks like he's getting off scot-free. He'll never be held accountable. Whether it be the blogsphere he's setting his sights on or anything else, it doesn't matter if the Left has truth and the "American way" or anything else on its side. As long as the Right has Rove, it's their ballgame (and our country) to lose. Waiting around till 2008 IS NOT an option. These people are not going to go quietly, and even if they go, Rove will still be pulling strings and carrying on the campaign. Rove is a Traitor. Rove is a Liar. Rove is a Traitor. Rove is a Liar. . .

[...Spaketh the straitjacketed KOmmie from the Rubber Room.]

What will it take to exorcise This fat-ass vile gnome from the mess that is today's American Politic? Is he an evil genius? Or has he somehow hit a nerve with the rest of evil fat-assed gnome America? The sonofabitch lies, and twists, and spins, and people just lap it up. I want to see this manipulative bastard spinning and twisting at the end of a rope. No way he co-opts the blogosphere. Very few people that know their ass from their elbow read or post at Hot-Air or Footballs and the like. The echo-chamber is as big as it's gonna get, and boring as hell. When I was a kid, and someone wanted to fight in the halls of Junior High - a shove and a loud "choose-off" was usually enough to start a physical confrontation. Choose-Off Karl, you little wimp You're gonna get your ass kicked.

[Not too obsessed with Karl Rove, are we? And I bet you wake up every morning with your lips cursing the name of Rove.]

Red state America is an alternative universe. They are provincial and isolated. I grew up in a really red state. But I've been living in a blue. I travel a lot. They don't usually venture out of their town and immediate area. They think if they get on an airplane they will die. Where my parents live there is no cable yet, and no internet, unless you do dial up. And getting a computer is considered expensive and just not a necessity anyway.

[Red State Ug too stupid to know about computers. Ug never leaves his cave. Ug has no cable or internet or electricity. Ug heap big scared of airplanes. Ug just know how to rub sticks together to make fire to cook chunk of meat and let grease drip on hairy arms and chest.]

The fact that we are even talking about this means we are reacting. We are spending way too much time on defending ourselves and trying to pump ourselves up.

[It's called navel self-analysis.]

If you are arguing that the right has failed in its use of blogs, I believe you are wrong because there is a large number of right wing blogs available and actively used.

[And this KOmmie WINS a Kewpie Doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity!]

I hope the Republicans invest a ton of money into internet blogging. Most of the people I know that vote Republican don't read.

[Ug not know how to read. Only can follow simple hand signals.]

The right's got control of print, tv and radio. Why? Because money controls those media. Well the internet is free baby. So F*CK HIM! All us poor ass liberals can post diaries on here telling the truth about his fascist party. And no need to troll, cause we'll f*cking thrash you! This country is liberal and will become liberal again via the internet! The revolution has begun and they can't stop it!!

[Repeat that delusional hype enough times and you might actually start believing it.]

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Tom Vilsack Joins The KOmmies

Imagine that you are a presidential candidate seeking the nomination from one of the two major parties. The problem is that you are so dull that few people are listening to your boring message. What to do? Simple. Join the KOmmies by blogging for them and buying into their kookie conspiracy theories such as suggesting that the 2004 election was stolen from the Democrats in the state of Ohio. That's a sure way to make your lackluster self be noticed. The presidential candidate now performing the KOokie KOmmie act is Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, that you can see pictured above in a non-photoshopped pic. So let us now read the KOmmie BLOG of Tom Vilsack in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering where he can purchase one of those Vilsack headwarmers, is in the [brackets]:

Election Reform and Ohio

[Already my Kook Detector Antenna is on alert.]

by Tom Vilsack

[Proudly blogging from the Kook KOmmie side.]

First, I want to thank everyone at the YearlyKos conference in Las Vegas and especially my fellow panelists Ken Bernstein ( a.k.a. TeacherKen) and Jamie Volmer. I was honored to be invited and enjoyed meeting a number of bloggers.

[Those were the bloggers who later got angry that they didn't find out about Mark Warner's kewl Stratosphere party until it was too late.]

But I didn't write this post to revisit YearlyKos. This post is about a fundamental issue in our democracy: Voting is a right, not a privilege.

[Stand by for a kookie conspiracy theory retread!]

From the people I met this past weekend, I am sure we can all agree that it's time to restore fairness and integrity to the electoral process in our country -- and I know many of you are involved in a number of unique efforts to do just that.

[I know that I need to pander to your paranoia so here goes...]

However, there is one way we can all come together and have a lasting impact: Ohio, in 2006.

[Let the Stolen Election Floodgates open up...again!]

Many of us despise Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell for pulling out the stops in 2004 to frustrate voters. Well, Blackwell is at it again: manipulating election laws for himself and his Republican allies. That's why it's urgent to get an Ohio Secretary of State dedicated to cleaning up Ohio elections.

[As is typical with these Stolen Election Conspiracy Kooks, Vilsack offers us NO concrete examples of how the voters were "frustrated" but that doesn't stop him from playing to the KOmmies by stating that he despises Ken Blackwell.]

I know the candidate to do it, and her name is Jennifer Brunner and on Monday, Heartland PAC endorsed her for Ohio Secretary of State.

[I wish I was still living in the Buckeye State so I could ask Ms Brunner if she thinks the 2004 election was stolen in Ohio. Someone needs to get her on record on this matter.]

Many of you have already discussed her race, but working together there is more we can do to help her win. We issued a challenge -- that Heartland PAC would match each contribution to Jennifer Brunner up to ten thousand dollars. Combined contributions have reached $8,874.04, and we are still giving. But her campaign needs as much support as we Democrats across the country can provide.

[Many of you Democrats have discussed Ken Blackwell's race in a very unflattering way. Calling him "Whitewell," is but one of the many names you use to describe a candidate that you "despise."]

Working together, we need to bring more attention to the Brunner campaign and give her all the resources we can offer. This is what blog communities have always been so effective at -- helping a candidate when everyone else around the country isn't watching. Please, let's support Brunner today:

[FUnnie how of all the secretaries of state, Vilsack goes out of his way to endorse the candidate in the OHIO race. Of course, Ohio is where the Kook KOnspiracists believe the 2004 election was stolen.]

Most of us thought 2004 in Ohio was about as bad as it could get. We remember the confusing decisions that caused literally tens of thousands of provisional ballots to be tossed in the garbage, and long lines in the college towns with only two voting machines, while voters in Republican areas breezed through the polls -- and even threats to reject voter registration forms on paper of the wrong weight.

[Yadda...yadda...yadda... Yes, Tom, we've heard all this KOOK conspiracy talk before. And, of course, no ACTUAL EVIDENCE is ever offered to show how the election was stolen although RFK, Jr. made a pathetic ghostwritten stab at it in Rolling Stoned.]

Well, Blackwell has stooped even lower than ever. This time he's rushed "emergency" rules that leave Ohio volunteers in voter registration drives facing the risk of criminal prosecution. That's why we need to do something concrete by supporting Jennifer Brunner and cleaning up Ohio elections.

[Most likely Vilsack is referring to "volunteers" offering freebie cigarettes and other goodies in voter registration drives. Support Jennifer Brunner and allow the dead to vote!]

Raising adequate funds is always a challenge -- and more so in these often overlooked races . But past experience, with flawed elections reinforces how important these races are. In 2006, through the twenty-two contests for Secretaries of State -- who control the voting process, we can restore fairness and integrity to voting.

[Hey, Tom! Could you send me a pic of you wearing a tinfoil hat to replace the pic I already have of you wearing a Pander Bear headwarmer?]

Now more than ever, we need to replace Blackwell and other election officials who abuse their power to keep Americans from having their voices heard.

[Of course, NO details on how Blackwell abused his power. Yawn.]

Jennifer Brunner has the experience, training, and commitment to clean up Ohio elections -- and to restore confidence that voting is a right, not a privilege. Go to her site to read her four-point plan and resume:

[And after reading your pander to paranoia, your endorsement of Brunner may well have SUNK her candidacy. Perhaps someone will forward this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies to an Ohio news outlet to demonstrate how low a candidate has sunk in a desperate bid to get the Democrat nomination for president.]

I'm confident you will agree that she is the right person at the right time for Ohio.And I hope you will join democrats in OHio and the Heartland PAC online community in helping her win.

[Jennifer Brunner: As Kookie as I am!]

I am traveling today, so I won't be able to respond to the comments live, but Heartland PAC will be monitoring the thread and sending your comments to me on my Blackberry and I will try to respond to some comments later today.

[Did your Blackberry also tell you that Karl Rove had been indicted on May 12?]

Thank you again for all your work.

[Thank you for proving your kookiness worthy of being DUFUed. And now on to the rantings of Vilsack's fellow KOmmies...]

Thank You Again. For having me at DailyKos to discuss Education, and thank you for taking the time to read this blog post.

[Tom Vilsack commenting on his own post... We heard ya, man! We understand that you are desperate to get in good with the rest of the KOmmies but could you at least let them REPLY first before posting a comment? Oh, and how is smearing Ken Blackwell related to discussing education?]

Tom, are you looking to be tipped some mojo? Knowing this govt. my house will probably be searched for drugs now.

[You can stash your mojo in Tom's Teddy Bear headwarmer.]

I gave $75 to the Kerry campaign for what I thought would be a challenge in Ohio by his campaign. That never happened and I was never able to get my money back-and I'm pretty pissed about that.

[You asked the wrong person. You should have asked Mrs. Heinz for your money back.]

can you tell me why a Diebold machine was stinking up my precinct in the primary?

[Because when you gotta go, you gotta go.]

I also want to refer you to Governor Vilsack's blog post about the Rolling stone article by robert Kennedy:

HEARTLAND PAC

[Thanx for cluing us in that Vilsack is now drinking from the RFK, Jr. Stolen Election Kool-Aid cup.]

First we'll have to junk that pesky constitution. The Canadians also have a far simpler form of government...we would have to change to a parliamentary form, and also do some extreme streamlining of government at the state level to get anywhere close to the simplicity they have.

[And some of my DUMmie FUnnies readers were worrying if the KOmmies were as entertaining the DUmmies. Thanx for putting that fear to rest.]

I dont know. We have a neighbor just north of the border who seems to do elections with very little fuss and very good results. Name of Canada.

[Hey, all you have to do is get rid of that "pesky constitution."]

the greatest threat is Diebold and other unverifiable voting machines. Get the machines out! Demand paper ballots!

[And right after the 2000 election all the liberals were screeching for the electronic voting machines and wanted to get rid of paper ballots forever.]

My question then is: Since we KNOW 2000 was stolen, and believe more than likely 2004 may have been, why are we allowing it to go unpunished? It seems it is being turned into a soundbite issue for getting votes in other elections, rather than something we really seek justice for. Electronic machines must go completely, period. Why aren't we then standing up to these companies?

[Send the Diebold machines to The Hague to be tried by the International Court.]

Our country was also not founded on secret ballots. Secret ballots were not used until after the Civil War in this country, and our voting process needs to be transparent in order to be considered safe and fair. Our Founding Fathers also affixed their names boldly to a document that for sure would have seen them hanged had not the American Revolution been a success. They had the courage to speak out clearly and boldly about where they stood. Americans today must regain that spirit and courage in open voting and in standing up for the country those men died for. It is in my view the only way to save her.

[Great. Get rid of secret ballots so folks voting the "wrong way" can be immediately identified and targeted by the DUmmies and the KOmmies for harrassment. Oh, and signing your name to the Declaration of Independence is somehow like voting at the polls? Maybe Tom Vilsack could discuss History Education with you.]

The Progressive Democrats of America are saying last week's House election in CA-50 (San Diego) was rigged, and are demanding a recount. This was the hugely watched Busby vs Billbray race which appears to have put a Republican lobbyist into the seat vacated by Duke Cunningham, who resigned after confessing to the biggest Congressional bribery ever recorded, from Republican lobbyists. The electronic voting seems to have been rigged for the Republicans, as usual.

[And we can expect scores of election results this November to be challenged by the crybaby Democrats. WAAAAAAH! We didn't win the election? FRAUD! WAAAAAHHHH!!!]

Enough of the Democrat "keep the powder dry" bullshit. Fight for something while there's still any chance. I expect the dry powder Democrats to same the same old thing in November, to keep the powder dry for "the real election" in 2008. And again in 2008, about 2010. But never again, after Demcrats are all dead in concentration camps.

[As you can see, Dear DUFU readers, the KOmmies are providing the same great wealth of material as the DUmmies.]

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Head KOmmie KOs Encourages Political Bribery

I was just getting ready to write up the topic of this blog edition this past Tuesday when the story broke that Karl Rove WON'T be indicted so I was temporarily diverted by all the hoopla over this event in DUmmieland. However, the DUmmies falling for the TruthOut Hoaxmas story perpetrated by their own WILLIAM RIVERS PITT shows just how far they have fallen in the public eye in relation to their loonie left rivals, THE DAILY KOS aka KOmmieland. Yes, while the DUmmies were tearing themselves apart in angst over having so easily fallen for the Jason Leopold TruthOut "scoop" that Karl Rove had ALREADY been indicted on May 12, the KOmmies were just returning from a weekend in Las Vegas which was overed covered by a fawning MSM. One can only imagine the incredible jealousy on the part of Head DUmmie Skinner watching all that coverage of the KOmmieland COnvention while his own DUmmies are treated as some sort of joke. However, all the great publicity given to the KOmmies is all perception. The sad reality is that the KOmmies are really nothing but DUmmies with better PR. The KOmmies, when you look close, are just as LOONY as the DUmmies as you can see in this KOmmie THREAD written by Head KOmmie, KOs, titled, "Warner's Stratosphere party." The premise of this KOmmie thread is that it is great that presidential candidate, Mark Warner, threw a $100,000 party for the KOmmies in Vegas including free sushi and great booze. Not only that, KOmmie KOs encourages other candidates to do the same. So get this. The Left has been whining for years about the EVIL influence of money in politics and strongly supported the McCain-Feingold Campaign "Reform" bill. However, now they are saying to hell with integrity, we are open to your ideas ESPECIALLY if you shell out big bucks to influence us. Of course, any Republican candidate trying to do this is an evil corrupter of the body politick but if you are a Democrat you are doing the smart thing so BRING ON THE SUSHI AND BOOZE!!! Let us now watch KOs and his fellow KOmmies trying to justify the bribery of the Left only in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent who is perfectly willing to let Mark Warner explain his side of the story here in the DUmmie FUnnies but only if he sends me a case of Flor de Caña Centenario 21 slow aged 15 year old rum, is in the [brackets]:

Warner's Stratosphere party

[WHEEEEEE!!! He paid attention to US by shelling out big bucks on a groovy party. We paid little heed to Mark Warner before but he has got us interested in his campaign...especially if he throws US another expensive party.]

You've seen it already, people criticizing the Mark Warner operation for their tony party at the Stratosphere during YearlyKos. Apparently, people think 1) Warner is trying to buy their support (everyone knows we're not that cheap), and 2) Warner could've spent the money ($50-100K) better.

[Hey folks! Mark Warner spent his money on US so that makes it okay!]

Seeing the Forrest's Dave Johnson (who isn't endorsing Warner) counters that as a marketing event, Warner's party was brilliant.

[So let us now take a look at SEEING THE FOREST which KOs cites to justify the bribery of the KOmmies by Warner...]

Governor Warner has not just established himself with the blogosphere. By placing himself as a top blogosphere contender, he has positioned himself as a top contender, period. Let me explain. In my marketing life I always worked for "little guy" companies - small companies up against major established, entrenched competitors like Microsoft or Sony. So I developed what I a call "leapfrog" marketing, or "parallel channel" marketing strategy.

[I'm already chuckling at this portrayal of multi-millionaire Mark Warner as a "little guy."]

Suppose you want to introduce a product into the Microsoft Windows market. Getting noticed and establishing your brand is an extremely expensive - and time consuming - proposition. Throwing a huge $100,000 event at a major trade show doesn't even get you noticed, it's just expected. It hurts you if you don't do it, but doesn't help you much when you do. And then advertising and brand building is going to cost you millions, takes time, and you will still be barely noticed amidst the noise.

[Oh. I see. It's not poltical bribery. It's just "brand name marketing."]

But maybe someone else is reaching the target audiences. Suppose you introduce a Linux version of your product first. Doing this, you are marketing into a parallel channel that has much lower marketing costs. But, in reality, much of your marketing activities are reaching the same audiences. The computer press, IT management, opinion leaders, sophisticated users, and many other target segments also pay attention to the Linux market so the result is that you are establishing mindshare in the Windows market. And there is an amplification not available in the Windows market. The Linux market is not saturated with products, so there is great demand. By introducing a serious product you leapfrog past the saturation obstacle of the Windows market.

[Maybe he should change his name to Linux Warner.]

So, as I said, by establishing himself as a leader of the pack of candidates in the blogosphere he is increasing his stature with the national political press and opinion leaders at the same time, because they are also paying close attention to the blogosphere as a leading indicator of public opinion.

[Lost in all the fawning coverage of the "blogosphere" is the cold fact that KOmmieland is NOT a blog. Just a Web forum. And the Free Republic, another Web forum, has vastly more influence than KOmmieland. Of course, it is KOmmieland that gets most of the media attention because it is FAR LEFT.]

So upon reflection, I think Governor Warner has pulled off a brilliant maneuver all the way around. By making himself important to the blogs, and at the same time increasing the importance of the blogs to the national political process, he is making himself a front-runner. At the same time, by increasing the credibility of the blogs now, he is strengthening their power and effectiveness as a channel for use by the eventual nominee.

[Brilliant manuever! Targeted bribery. And now we return to KOmmie KOs...]

Dave is right. Warner sent a strong message not just to us, but to the media and political establishments that the netroots matters. And in politics, $100K is pocket change. Better spend it on a blogger party where the candidate socialized with regular people than on bullshit television ads or crappy consultants.

[Yes. Lay that $$$$ on US, not on getting your message out on the tube.]

Of course, this post will just get people whining that I'm carrying water for Mark Warner, and I've made no bones about the fact that I am intrigued by his candidacy and consider him one of the top candidates to watch (the others being Feingold, Clark, and, let me add for the first time -- Richardson). I am particularly fond of governors since I don't think the Senate is a good jumping off point for the presidency (from both practical and political standpoints).

[So what did Richardson serve up in Vegas to the KOmmies? Jalapeno & cheese bagels? I notice that Tom Vilsack who was also there didn't rate a mention. I guess he served up NOTHING. Cheapo politicians now get the KOmmie cold shoulder.]

But here's what pisses me off -- there are people who complain when candidates and politicians diss the netroots. Then, when they pay attention to us, they complain some more.

[But here's what pisses me off---cheap politicians like Vilsack who show up at our Vegas convention and fail to spend a dime on us.]

It's a good thing for both us and the politicians when we come together. It doesn't mean we have to sign away our votes, it just means we get to check each other out in ways that don't involve 30-second ads or press releases

[Free flowing FREE booze definitely helps in that checking out process.]

To be honest, much of the anti-Warner tirades seemed to be coming from supporters of other candidates angry that Warner scored some points (and Warner did score points). But don't lash out at Warner, who in addition to doing himself a favor also did the netroots a huge favor as Dave Johnson notes. Encourage your guy or gal to also engage the netroots. Lost in the hubbub was the fact that Wes Clark also had a big bash for bloggers at the Hard Rock Casino with open bar. Sure, it wasn't the Stratosphere, but all such parties in Vegas cost serious money.

[Mark Warner scored BIG points with the free booze and sushi. Oh, and Wes Clark also scored some points but his Hard Rock Casino open bar just wasn't in the same league as the Warner's Stratosphere. But not to worry, Wes. Mark Warner has set the bar (pun intended) for you to reach at the next shindig you throw for the KOmmies.]

All politics costs serious money. It's not a bad thing for us, or them, to have them spend some of it talking to us.

[Spending serious money on US is a GOOD thing!!! And now that the KOs has spoken, let us hear from the rest of the KOmmies...]

I'm not on Gov. Warner's bandwagon, but the complaints sure do seem (to me) like sour grapes.

[More like fermenting grapes. And how was your Stratosphere champagne?]

He is with the DLC on policy, with the netroots when it comes to picking up the bar tab. That isn't a leader, it is a lobbyist.

[Party pooper!]

It was everything I had hoped for - which is to say I got to shake the man's hand and that was all I really cared about. Oh, and I guess there was some food and drink too but whatever.

[And I'm sure you discussed healthcare reform with Warner while guzzling down the bubbly and chomping into the California rolls at the Stratosphere.]

I was looking forward to the parties to. I just never thought someone would try to impress me by throwing their $$$ around. Or maybe that is just the way Warner routinely conducts his business?

[And you HOPE the way the other candidates conduct their business.]

CNN thought it very funny that we could be bought off so easily.

[So do the DUmmie FUnnies. I hope you held out for at least an extra salmon egg roll.]

Many who didn't attend Yearly Kos or contribute to it for financial reasons might have wished that Mark Warner contribute the money towards something less flashy.

[They are just sorry they weren't in Vegas to get in on all the Stratosphere goodies.]

I loved the party -- and Gov. Warner is a very nice guy -- but my first choice for Pres in '08 is still Feingold. The chocolate fountain didn't change that.

[Maybe a champagne bath will get your mind right.]

I heard from Warner himself that he thought the ice sculptures were a little over the top.

[What did he think of the chopped liver sculpture of Marilyn Monroe?]

I really liked the sushi. Some microbrew would have been nice.

[The Mark Warner campaign appreciates your input and will take steps to include microbrew in our next Stratosphere policy session.]

We spent a fair amount of time mildly drunk talking about ways to get the other candidates to provide us with more sushi and chocolate fountains.

[Just withhold any possibility of support until they come across with the sushi and chocolate fountains.]

Partying it up with Mark Warner while slamming back vodka and carved meat sounds like a blast. Man, I should have went to YearlyKos so I could get Mark Warner and Wes Clark together so we could all do shots. Or beer pong.

[Or 100% pure blue agave tequila.]

So, you're voting for Warner over Clark because Warner's people managed to organize a freaking YearlyKos party better?

[Absolutely! Proper party planning ranks high on the scale of my rating the candidates.]

ok, I am recurperating... all I'll say right now is I asked for scotch on the rocks and got the tallest scotch I've ever had. Before going it seemed that Mark might be trying to buy us off, but my attitude was "try Mark! Try harder"... I don't think the issue can be ignored, we need to stay on our feet.

[Mark Warner swept me off his feet with his super duper Stratosphere party and his extra tall scotch drinks.]

...and there is no way this party cost $100K - as a multiple year veteran of Big Pharma ice sculpture 'hooplas' - the Warner event had to cost at least $200K, what with chocolate fountain, Elvis impersonators, open bar and sushi etc. I agree with dkmich: if Warner's personal money paid for event, fine and drink up; I would NOT want my $10 contribution to have gone to a 'slosh-fest.' Warner would have been better off without the Elvi and to have come across as more Spartan in character.

[Don't be such a spoilsport. No over the top Vegas party can be complete without the Elvi.]

I didn't think it was outstanding sushi. I was really hungry, I hadn't eaten dinner so it tasted darn good! The chocolate fondue fountain was awesome!

[A KOmmie food critic weighs in on the important issues.]

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Truthout is "Standing Down on the Rove Matter"

The Leftists LOVE using military terminology when it serves their purposes. And in this case, the term "Standing Down" is being used in order to have to avoid the nasty word, "Retract." Yes, "retract" is so ugly. It means you have to TAKE BACK a phony story and admit that Hoaxmas has no basis in fact. Therefore, TruthOut weaseled out by saying they are "Standing Down" on Hoaxmas so they don't have to admit FINAL error. Even the DUmmies aren't buying the Truthout is "Standing Down on the Rove Matter" routine. So let us now watch the DUmmies sit down on the Truthout "Standing Down" excuse in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, Sitting Down on the Rove Matter, is in the [brackets]:

Truthout is "Standing Down on the Rove Matter"

[Please don't make us say "retract." Anything but that!]


http://forum.truthout.org/blog

By Marc Ash,

[Formerly Marc Fash as in fASHion photographer.]

Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 06:52:40 PM EDT :: Fitzgerald Investigation

Yesterday, most Mainstream Media organizations published reports about a letter supposedly received by Karl Rove's attorney Robert Luskin. As an example of the supposed letter's contents, TIME Magazine stated that, "Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said or wrote, 'Absent any unexpected developments, he does not anticipate seeking any criminal charges against Rove.'"

["Supposed?" Yeah, like Luskin is going to lie about that and piss off Fitzgerald bigtime. Riiiiiight!]

Truthout of course published an article on May 13 which reported that Karl Rove had in fact already been indicted. Obviously there is a major contradiction between our version of the story and what was reported yesterday. As such, we are going to stand down on the Rove matter at this time. We defer instead to the nation's leading publications.

[No, no! Don't defer to the nation's leading publications! I would rather place my faith in a former fashion photographer, a liar and drug addict, and a drunken blowhard.]

In that Mr. Luskin has chosen the commercial press as his oracle - and they have accepted - we call upon those publications to make known the contents of the communiqué which Luskin holds at the center of his assertions. Quoting only those snippets that Mr. Luskin chooses to characterize in his statements is not enough. If Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has chosen to exonerate Mr. Rove, let his words - in their entirety - be made public.

[WOW! You really love throwing those grownup words around. "Communiqué." Anyway, Patrick Fitzgerald has ALREADY spoken by his silence. Luskin issued his statement and Fitzgerald didn't contradict it. End of story. But you can't face that fact so you are merely "standing down" rather than retracting.]

Reporter Jason Leopold

[And his source, Sonny Crockett...]

Mr. Leopold did not act alone in his reporting of this matter. His work, sources and conclusions were reviewed carefully at each step of the process. There is no indication that Mr. Leopold acted unethically.

[Mr. Leopold did not act alone. He had WILLIAM RIVERS PITT verify all his sources in triplicate. There is no indication that Mr. Leopold acted sanely.]

Please keep in mind that over the years we have reported on many examples of individuals being scapegoated in crisis situations by superiors seeking cover from controversy. Truthout, however, does not do scapegoats. And we stand firmly behind Jason Leopold.

[Truthout does not do scapegoats because we are a bunch of goats.]

The Confidentiality of Our Sources

[Those sacred sources verified in triplicate by WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.]

As journalists, nothing is more critical to being able to report guarded facts than the guarantee of confidentiality we provide to our sources. Truthout has never compromised the identy of a confidential source. We will protect our sources on this story, as we have on every other story we have ever published.

[You have never compromised the identity of a confidential source? What about a few weeks ago when a drunken WILLIAM RIVERS PITT outed Joe Wilson online as a source?]

Expect a more comprehensive accounting of this matter on Monday, June 19.

[Expect more lame excuses on Monday, June 19.]

Marc Ash

Executive Director - Truthout

[And now for the angry DUmmie reaction...]

What, exactly is "standing down"? Backing down or standing up?

[Weaseling out.]

It's a military term: disengaging. Not retreating, but taking a breather.

[In Pitt's case, the proper term would be "Falling Down" as in Falling Down Drunk.]

Vickers, the guy is not a soldier - he is some blogger that got caught up in his own bullshit. I don't know him, maybe he thought he was right and all that - but for god's sake - don't use military terms with me, it is a real sore point right now.

[Somehow a former fashion photographer using military terminology is just so wrong.]

It's just more bullshit disingenous obfuscation. Ash is an Ass.

[Marc Ass.]

I firmly believe this is another serving of bullshit they're dishing out.

[They prefer that to serving themselves Crow.]

Yep. It's just more bullshit. "We don't really know what the hell is going on but we are kinda stand by our story and we won't reveal the 'sources' even though Leopold said he would if they burned him which they did, assuming they ever existed." Period. This is just more bullshit.

[Even though their sources served them up BS, Joe Wilson's sacred confidentiality must be protected.]

relegating Jason's unsubstantiated story? How about David Shuster's?

[Be my guest. Go ahead and relegate David Shuster's Fitzmas fantasies to the junk heap as well.]

I will say this, "TruthOUT" will not suffer my loyalty to their allegiance to truth.

[Enjoying the Kool-Aide?]

Rove will do something so egregious and illegal in the coming
months there won't even need to be a trial, it will be straight to the clinker for him...

[Check under your pillow in the morning for the Tooth Fairy coins.]

Can you imagine a newspaper or a cable outlet having to do this? People would be ruined.

[More likely promoted.]

I've gotten to the point that I agree with that - it was pure fabrication.

[The See-BS Texas Air National Guard story?]

They're getting swiftboated and it's a shame to see us eat our own. Rove is laughing his ass off at us.

["Swiftboated." The new DUmmie all-purpose word for when the Left gets caught in its own lies.]

"Standing down" my ass. Can you spell "retraction", Mr. Ash?
WTF is the matter with you, you phony wimp?

[Please don't make the former fASHion photographer spell "retraction."]

Hopefully in their June 19th installment, Truthout will admit they made a colossal error, apologize to their readers, fire Leopold, hire a journalist with a track record of integrity to replace him, resolove to learn from their mistakes, and move on.

[Mary Mapes is looking for work.]

The time for "coming clean" was before Ash and Pitt went on the record as having spoken to the sources. So they made themselves part of the story, they can't come clean about Leopold without coming clean about themselves.

[Right now WILLIAM RIVERS PITT is Standing Down on the Bukowski's barroom floor so he might have a bit of trouble cleaning himself up.]

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DUmmies Implode Over Canceled Fitzmas

The frustration level over their stolen Fitzmas is causing a massive implosion in DUmmieland. This DUmmie THREAD titled, "I can't take you (DU) anymore!!" is but one of many such threads expressing frustration over their stolen Fitzmas. I can only imagine the DUmmie savaging of Pied Piper Pitt if/when he returns to DUmmieland. After all, it was Pitt and his disciple, Jason Leopold, who set the DUmmies off in victory celebrations last month when TruthOut boldly announced that the indictment of Karl Rove had ALREADY happened on May 12. I guess Patrick Fitzgerald had a sense of humor when he let Karl Rove know, EXACTLY a month later on June 12, that he would NOT be indicted. However, the DUmmies aren't laughing. They are ANGRY and FRUSTRATED as you can see. So let us now watch the DUmmies lash out at the world in general in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if it is time to start placing Pied Piper Pitt's photo on milk cartons, is in the [brackets]:

I can't take you (DU) anymore!!

[Let the Primal Screaming BEGIN!!!]

enough. F*CKING ENOUGH!!!!! Why the f*ck is everyone attacking Fitzgerald? Leopold? The Keebler Elves??? what the f*ck is going on around here?????????

[It's called "implosion."]

Everyone is attacking everyone. It's freaking me out!!!

[I find it highly entertaining.]

We are soooo frustrated !!!

[You are! You are!]

You just don't understand what's going on here.....
It's the "Shit Dogs" against the "F*ck Wits" against whatever other "epithets" were thrown at "Innocent DU'ers" that's at stake here.Dammit! It's our REPUTATIONS that have been sullied and called into DISHONOR by "IDIOT MEDIA WHORES!!!!" Now, you gotta understand how some of us could get a little "worked up" about that........No?

[So which team are you on? The S-Ds or the F-Ws?]

Sundown is coming. The elves and the Brides of Dracula will rise up from their crumb-covered crypts and wander out into the DU graveyard, looking for fresh blood to keep their insane conspiracy theories alive, to make Janon Leopold a paragon of journalistic integrity, talent, and virtue, and truthout.org a website with a shred of credibility. They will, of course, fail, and get really testy about it. Especially those damn elves, who leave trails to the crypts for fresh brides and newly-minted delusional with long teeth.

[Methinks you've snorted a bit too much of Tinkerbell's Pixie Dust.]

I got tired of the screaming banshees who seem to think Leopold's story was gospel and pointing out its 100% inaccuracies was somehow character assassination of someone at truthout. Their pathetic clusterfucks went nowhere, so I decided to live life and wait for the inevitable to happen. Today, it did. Didn't take long. This is one-month anniversary of Leopold's claim of that 'secret indictment.' And then, yesterday, that "Sealed v. Sealed" article someone sent me - well, that was funnier than you can imagine. There are only about several thousand docket entries called "Sealed v. Sealed" at the Federal Courthouse in DC. Yep, that Leopold and truthout are real pros.

[There's still hope. Jason Leopold still hasn't completed his investigation into the stools of Robert Luskin's cat.]

Nah, dontcha know???? Rove has already been tried and convicted in a Star Chamber. He is serving a long sentence at Gitmo. But before they shipped him off, he was cloned. As a result, the "Rove" who appeared at last night's fundraiser was the clone. The real KKKarl is down in Cuba learning Arabic and the Koran.

[Wrong. The real KKKarl is in Colorado disguised as a female leftwing college professor leaving an envelope full of dog poop in the mailbox of a Republican congresswoman.]

I think this place has been infiltrated by PAID disrupters, imho. Probably from freep repukelicon!

[The going salary for LOUSY FREEPER TROLLS is $20 per hour.]

I'm wondering if there is a 'divide and conquer' plan at work

[More like a 'divide and laugh' plan.]

Hang in there if you can. This morning when I got up I started to hide all the Rove threads. I realized it was futile, so I'm ignoring them instead. I posted this morning that we needed to lay off on Truthout, but my posting was pretty much ignored completely. It's a hard time when we have been so royally screwed. I wish that it were true, but they managed to manipulate us this time. Please don't leave for good or anything. We're all angry and we have a right to be. We've been had. But that doesn't put on the mat in defeat.

[Ben Burch has already sent you a formal invitation for a royal screwing.]

as far as Leopold and Pitt and Ash and Truthout... They screwed up big time, tried to cover their asses in a most embarrassing manner and won't even come clean about it. We attack the main stream media for this kind of shoddy reporting and behavior all the time and need to hold alternative media to the same standards.

[Remember, Pied Piper Pitt checked out and verified all of Leopold's sources in triplicate.]

Um, because Leopold f*cked us over. There's no conspiracy here, and we're not freepers. But Leopold's behavior was reprehensible and he deserves the scorn. And we deserve an apology.

[What's the matter? Weren't you satisfied with Pied Piper Pitt's almost invisible partial birth apology buried deep inside the multi-volume "penitence" thread?]

Its called 'Frustration Overload" .........
..... this too shall pass.

[No it won't because you've got "Frustration Constipation" and you can't pass that load.]

well, I'm not attacking Fitz but I think "FITZMAS" was a lot of hogwash

[That didn't stop almost every DUmmie from breaking out the bubbly on the formal announcement of Fitzmas Accomplished last month.]

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DUmmies SLAM Patrick Fitzgerald

Remember all the DUmmie adultation for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald? They looked upon Fitz as their savior who would frogwalk Karl Rove across the White House lawn and bring down the EVIL Bush Regime. He was their knight in shining armor of impeccable integrity. DUmmie woman gushed over Fitz and even wanted to bear his children. Well, all that has changed over the course of the past day when it was announced that there will be NO Fitzmas since Fitzgerald WON'T be indicting Karl Rove. As a result, the opposite opinion of Fitzgerald has formed in DUmmieland to the point that he is being SLAMMED there for possibly making some sort of underhanded dirty deal with the Mighty Rove as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Jonathan Turley: Fitz gave Rove assistance in clearing up misstatements." So let us now watch the DUmmies slam their tarnished star who stole Fitzmas from them in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, still waiting for WILLIAM RIVERS PITT to sober up enough to apologize for his MAJOR part in perpetrating the Hoaxmas myth, is in the [brackets]:

Jonathan Turley: Fitz gave Rove assistance in clearing up misstatements

[Aw. The Truth-Outs. Patrick Fitzgerald was a secret Rovian agent all along.]

RAW STORY

"I've never seen, frankly, someone involved in an investigation of this kind given so many chances to continually correct and amend prior testimony. There are many prosecutors who would have indicted Rove on his first statement," George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley told CBS. "He was given a great deal of deference and quite frankly, assistance, by the prosecutor."

[Let the slamming of Fitzgerald begin!]

Who here still thinks the game's not rigged? Come see me about buying a bridge.

[Rigged from the start. Oh, and the charges against Libby? Not to worry. It was set up to be so ridiculous that the whole case will be thrown out of court.]

I just read that statement by Turley on the Washington Post.
He doesn't think too highly of my favorite prosecutor, I guess.

[The first of MANY liberals who will now be turning on Fitzgerald.]

Fitzgerald may have gave Rove A Proffer & Subsequently Immunity

[Fitzgerald gave Rove a free pass to continue with his vast Rovian conspiracies.]

I tend to agree with what Turley said Scooter didn't get this kind of treatment. Scooter testified twice early in the investigation (like Rove) and was never called back again. Rove, however, was called back three times after his first two appearances before the grand jury.

[Scooter was just a temporary sacrificial lamb to keep the liberals from noticing that there was no real Fitzmas last October when the lame charges came in against only ONE person. But not to worry. It's all been fixed that the dopey charges against Libby will be thrown out of court. No Fitzmas but you can still hope for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.]

so the Fitzgerald halo appears to be dimming...

[Tarnished beyond repair.]

I'm of the mind that Fitz got what he wanted from him.

[Nothing.]

I think the salient point in this, like all other issues these days, is that the GOP has all the angles covered. They control all the media, all the judges, all the lawyers, all the lawmakers, all the police, sherriffs, FBI, CIA, etc. There's no one on our side in any of these battles. There is no one we can turn to to keep Whitewell from fixing elections in OH. There's no one we can turn to to get someone, ANYONE, prosecuted for leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the press. We're completely devoid of options for redress of grievances.

[ATTENTION DUMMIES: Do NOT attempt to vote. WE own ALL your Diebold Machines. WE control the executive. WE control the legislative. WE control the judiciary. Voting will do you no good because WE control the results. GIVE UP NOW!!!]

Time for people to wake up. With Rove free to kill the Dem chances in November, we are about to see one of the greatest comebacks in political history. We are also about to be savaged and made irrelevant !!

[You are about to be savaged and ravaged by Rove. But cheer up. Isn't Nancy Pelosi supposed to become the Speaker of the House after this November's election?]

The Dems already are irrelevant as per TOJ's post. We are f*cked!

["You are the dead. Stand out in the middle of the room. Stand back to back. Clasp your hands behind your heads. Do not touch one another. The Thought Police will now take over the situation."]

Karl has the shit on everybody and there families. Everything. Think about it. There is no one that any of us knows who does not have something in either their or a loved one's past that they wouldn't go to almost any length to conceal.

[Karl Rove had the goods on Fitzgerald from the get-go. It had to do with that nasty jaywalking incident in Fitzgerald's past that he thought was forgotten but was dredged up by the Vast Rovian Machine to be used against him.]

Wouldn't it works both ways. Rove is only (grrr) human. He has a past, too, right! You mean no one has the stamina or guts to stand up to this so called architect? It's unbelievable and so surreal.

[Rove's evil past has been conveniently dumped down the Memory Hole.]

Amen! Let's not forget that Fitz is a Repub. All of our fondness for Fitz is, I think, misplaced. He's a salve for the dissenters. Would Ken Starr have ever offered such extraordinary latitude to Clinton? Fitz is a Repub. Let's say it again. Fitzgerald is a Republican! And a loyal one, at that.

[Fitz is a Repub and a Secret Rovian Agent.]

Looks like all we got for Fitzmas was a beat-up scooter

[LOL! Great punch line! I must remember it.]

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Head DUmmie Skinner BLASTS Jason Leopold

Okay, I admit it. I'm like a kid in a candy shop with this Rove NON-Indictment having been announced today. There are so so many FUnnie DUmmie threads that I hardly know where to turn next so let me turn to this THREAD titled, "Just a reminder: Jason Leopold did NOT get Rove off the hook..." in which Skinner BLASTS Jason Leopold and doesn't sound very happy about WILLIAM RIVERS PITT as well. So let the comedy show begin with the DUmmie laugh lines in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, still waiting for the main show when Pitt delivers his act, is in the [brackets]:

Just a reminder: Jason Leopold did NOT get Rove off the hook...

[You are correct. It was WILLIAM RIVERS PITT who got Rove off the hook. It was the Butterfly Effect where one small incident causes a series of other small incidents leading to bigger incidents in which ultimately Patrick Fitzgerald washed his hands of the whole thing. The little incident that set off the Rovian Butterfly Effect was when WILLIAM RIVERS PITT gave the go ahead to Leopold to write up the Rove indictment story. This instantly swept through the Blogosphere and led to Hillary Clinton and the Michigan Democrats making fools of themselves by standing up and applauding when the Rove "indictment" was announced at a big shindig. Ultimately, Fitzgerald got disgusted with the whole circus atmosphere of the thing and decided NOT to indict. There is a very good possibility that Fitzgerald would have opted to indict Rove if WILLIAM RIVERS PITT had not initiated his TruthOut Butterfly Effect.]

If you want to find out who did that, you'll need to look into names like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Judge Reggie Walton. Jason Leopold is simply a reporter who was given false tips, probably to have us believe that Jason Leopold is at fault for all of this. He's not. You may now return to your regularly scheduled flame wars.

[Poor innocent Jason Leopold. He was an innocent victim of bad tips handed to him by Sonny Crockett. And I will return to the regularly scheduled flame wars for the great comedic entertainment they provide.]

I wonder if he will out his sources now

[Remember, those sources were checked in triplicate by WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.]

I wanted Rove to be indicted, tried, convicted and meet a cellmate named Big Boy, as much as anyone else.

[More likely Leopold will be indicted, tried, convicted, and meet an Aryan Brotherhood cellmate named Big Goy.]

Leopold got played... he's not the first reporter that has happened to, and with these slimy b*stards, won't be the last. There is no reason to be angry with him. Hell, we've ALL been played by this administration for years now. I think we all need to focus our anger and frustration where it will do some good -- making sure this is the last Republcian-run Congress, and the last Republican Administration for at least the coming century.

[Jason Leopold portrayed as the innocent victim of the Perfect Rovian Storm.]

He just passed along a bunch of made-up stuff and told everyone it was news.

[Jason Leopold portrayed as devious sleazebag.]

I'm just saying he might know the story of how Rove got off the hook.

[With an inside source like Sonny Crockett, Leopold is definitely in the know. And now DUmmie Skinner adds his 2 cents...]

Technically, you're correct. Jason Leopold did not get Rove of the hook. But so far I haven't heard anyone trying to make that claim. Seems like a rather bizarre thing to suggest. But let's be clear here: Jason Leopold blew it. He's not "simply a reporter who was given false tips." Part of his job as a "reporter" is to judge the credibility of the people who give him his tips, and to think critically about the likelihood that these tips are true or not. He blew it, big time. Spectatularly and publicly. People who trust his "scoops" after this fiasco are fools. You know... Fool me once, won't get fooled again...

[Sorry Skinner but you got fooled MORE than once with the phony fundraising schemes in DUmmieland starting with Bev Harris being just $10 away from overturning the 2004 election results.]

Of course no one made that claim, but I'm guessing there will be... more folks angry at Jason Leopold than Alberto Gonzales, something I find bizarre.

[Yes. Isn't strange that folks would be angrier at Jason Leopold for perpetrating a FALSE story than at Alberto Gonzales who had NOTHING to do with this case. And now to hear again from Head DUmmie Skinner...]

To be honest... I'm pretty angry at Jason Leopold. I'm no fan of Alberto Gonzales either, but I'm not really sure why he's being brought up in this context. What is his relevance is to the lack of a Rove indictment?

[An historic event! Head DUmmie Skinner finally WINS a Kewpie Doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity!]

If you're comfortable answering... what are your thoughts on Will Pitt's handling of the matter? If you're not comfortable answering... please don't ban me.

[Good question you LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!! And now to read Skinner's answer...]

I am not comfortable answering. I am sorry.

[TRANSLATION: "I am really pissed off at WILLIAM RIVERS PITT for making DUmmieland look like a Ship of Fools."]

Leopold has always had this type of situation plaguing his reporting for years. I can't help but wonder if this was just another blind stab at an "expose" that he was hoping would come to fruition, rather than any of it being remotely based on fact other than the basis of the Plame case. We were all duped mainly because we *wanted* to see the results he was predicting, rather than examining the merits of the story and the fundamental legal basis.

[Sorry but Skinner already won your Kewpie Doll.]

no matter how this shakes out, eating our own is a VICTORY for the RW and bush admin.

[Eating your own along with a large helping of Crow.]

It's bizarre that you think the Leopold has the power to get Rove off the hook.

[The credit for that should go to WILLIAM RIVERS PITT.]

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DUmmie FUnnies 06-13-06 ("Rove Won't Be Charged in C.I.A. Leak Case")

FREUDENSCHADE, BABY! There was a sense of inevitability about it from the start. The DUmmies are greated with joyous news and they break out their victory champagne to celebrated the event BEFORE it happened. Then, as surely as Lucy pulling away the football from Charlie Brown, the event BACKFIRES on them. Such has been the case over and over and over again. Jeb Bush being defeated in 2002? Re-elected by a landslide. John Kerry winning the election in 2004 due to his landslide in the exit polls? Defeated at the real polls. And, most recently, Karl Rove being indicted on May 12 according to William Rivers Pitt, Jason Leopold, and TruthOut. NEWSFLASH!!! Just in: Rove Won't Be Charged in C.I.A. Leak Case Once AGAIN the DUmmie Charlie Brown lands on his butt. Do the DUmmies NEVER learn? As soon as the TruthOut story was published a month ago and DUmmieland began it's joyous celebrations, level heads just KNEW how all this was going to end. It was simply a matter of patient waiting. And what DELICIOUS timing! Pitt, Leopold, & Co. boldly announce that the Rove indictment has taken place on May 12 and Patrick Fitzgerald announced EXACTLY one month later on June 12 that Rove WON'T be indicted.

And who should we thank for presenting us with this PERFECT example of Freudenschade? I think the credit should go to Pied Piper Pitt. Why? Here is my theory. The decision on Rove could have gone either way. About a month ago, Fitzgerald was at the point of either indicting or not indicting Rove. Only the tiniest of factors could swing it in either direction. Enter Pitt and his TruthOut "scoop." What happened is that the TruthOut report turned the issue of the Rove indictment into a circus act that instantly spread across cyberspace. Even Hillary Clinton the the Michigan democrats were sucked into this circus clown act when they stood up and CHEERED the news of the Rove indictment at the news of the Rove "indictment." It was at some point afterwards that a disgusted Fitzgerald finally came down on the side of NOT indicting Karl Rove. So THANK YOU William Rivers Pitt for setting off the Butterfly Effect that led to the decision NOT to indict Rove. And now, as a prelude to Pitt's DUmmieland crucifixion, let us observe the DUmmie reaction to this "sad" news in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, planning to celebrate the non-indictment of Rove at Bukowski's, is in the [brackets]:

Rove Won't Be Charged in C.I.A. Leak Case

[MERRY FITZMAS!!!]

WASHINGTON, June 13 — The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove.

[And Karl Rove was given 24 business hours to get his affairs in order.]

The decision by the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, announced in a letter to Mr. Rove's lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, lifted a pall that had hung over Mr. Rove who testified on five occasions to a federal grand jury about his involvement in the disclosure of an intelligence officer's identity.

[Thank you, Pied Piper Pitt, for turning the Rove indictment possibility into such a circus that a disgusted Fitzgerald simply washed his hands of it all. Remember, DUmmies, WILLIAM RIVERS PITT gets the credit for this non-indictment by pissing off Fitzgerald with the TruthOut Hoaxmas story.]

In a statement, Mr. Luskin said, "On June 12, 2006, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove."

[Pied Piper Pitt, Jason Leopold, and TruthOut announced the Rove indictment as having ALREADY happened on May 12 and EXACTLY a month later on June 12 Fitzgerald announces that he is NOT indicting Karl Rove. Let me pause a Schadenfreude moment to savor the delicious Freudenschade of the DUmmies who celebrated that glorious May 12 announcement.]

Mr. Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn, said he would not comment on Mr. Rove's status

[We already know the status of Pied Piper Pitt at this moment: Drunk and Depressed.]

New York Times story

[Yes, I read it with DELIGHT. And now on to the DUmmie reaction...]

There's still Libby's trial to look forward to.

["Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day."]

oh my GAWD!! no no no!

[The Horror! THE HORROR!!!]

DU will be fun today.

[You bet. I'm really looking forward to the ceremonial crucifixion of Pied Piper Pitt.]

that bastard gets away with everything doesn't he?
watch the freepers rally around this g.d. traitor, never once asking themselves how they would behave if this was a DEMOCRAT....yeah that's right freepers, you hypocritical pathetic pieces of SHIT

[Dr. Buddy Rydell is on his way with your emergency Anger Management treatment.]

What a lousy way to start the day!

[Not me. I'm savoring it. Freudenschade, baby!]

"And so this is Fitzmas....And Happy New Year..."

[Break out the Freudenschade champagne! WHEEEEEE!!!]

My Heart Is Broken, My Spirit Crushed, My Faith in America Destroyed. On the other hand, I am sure that there are numerous other criminal enterprises that Kkkarl has participated in, so we just have to keep digging. Perhaps Fitz is doing just that--he has the license to do so. Or am I approaching the definition of insanity, here?

[The answer to your question is a firm "YES."]

The slithering snake gets away

[No frogwalk for the slithering snake.]

Hopefully they aren't through, yet.

[Still hoping to find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?]

There is no Santy Claus, is there, Mommy?

[No Santy Claus, No Fitzmas but keeps your hopes up for the Great Pumpkin.]

I would say Jason has some 'splainin to do, Lucy. I'm guessing his credibility is shot to hell and back at this point.

[Maybe the Sealed vs Sealed indictment will ride to the rescue. Ya think?]

Jason sure has a poor sense of timing, ya think?
I'm glad I didn't weigh in on that one! But actually, if anyone guessed yesterday that Rove might have been secretly indicted, or might be in the near future, that doesn't mean they're stupid. This was apparently a close call on Fitzgerald's part, since it's taken him this long to decide not to go after Rove.

[Yes, it was a VERY close call on Fitzgerald's part. It could have gone either way but the antics of Leopold & Pitt, aka Leopold & Lib, turned this whole Rove indictment speculation into a circus act so Fitzgerald washed his hands of it in disgust.]

Jason Leopold threw out the story about Rove's indictment as fact, though, and he's bound to have credibility problems from here on because of that. According to Dr_eldritch's response 158 in that thread, Leopold has said that if his source turned out to be misleading, he would reveal their identity. It will be interesting to see what Leopold does now in that respect.

[An angry Leopold will now expose Sonny Crockett as his source and blame him for the misleading info.]

I thought I was phychologically prepared for this, but I am not. What a blow!

[See if Rove Non-Indictment Frustration Therapy is covered by your medical insurance.]

Fitzgerald seems to do everything properly, perfectly legally and in accordance with the spirit of the law, as should be in courts.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

the headlines now be about how Disappointed the Dems are. damm

[DUmmie Freudenschade is FUn to watch!]

So will we stop being so damned naive now?

[No. You will ALWAYS attempt to kick Lucy's football.]

We have to STOP LOOKING FOR A HERO! Nobody is willing to step up to the plate, and nobody is going to ride in on a white horse. WE'RE THE HEROES. And until we recognize that, get up off our asses and get involved and rescue this country ourselves, it ain't gonna happen. It's just not that simple. And PLEASE don't bore me with statements like "Well, maybe there are other plans".....
We have to stop guessing about what our "leaders" have in mind in an ultra-secret plan to save our asses. WE have to be the leaders.

[A DUmmie begs to leave the Thanksgiving kiddie table and be allowed to eat at the grownups table.]

How credible is this report? So far it's only an assertion from Rove's lawyer. Fitzgerald's spokesman refused to comment, so is there any reason to believe this report?

[Unless this report is verified by Jason Leopold, it still lacks credibility.]

Yeah, let's believe Jason Leopold.

[I BEEEEEEEELEEEEEEEVE!!!]

They must have found something on him (Fitzpatrick).
I know they say he spotless, but everybody has skeletons, of some sort in their closet.

[They found out that Fitzgerald is gray. They caught him at a beach house spending the night with his hairdresser who secretly dyed his hair. Fitzgerald couldn't face being outed as gray so he allowed himself to be blackmailed.]

The hell with Teflon, I want my next frypan to be lined with Republican! --- Nothing sticks to these people. Nothing.

[LOL!]

Leopold indeed has some explaining to do.

["Pied Piper Pitt made me do it!"]

I hate to say I told you so, but, I told you so
Some people owe me signature lines as a result of our bet. I will be coming around to collect today.

[And Pied Piper Pitt owes you an endless post about how the Zarqawi death is meaningless. Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me if that is the ONLY reaction we get from him about this news.]

Rove flipped and gave up Cheney

[DUmmies flipped and gave up Mind.]

Is it possible that Rove was actually indicted on May 12 like truthout reported, but somehow Bush got involved to stop it? Maybe Bush told Fitz that he was going to pardon Rove so Fitz dropped it. Or maybe Rove has some dirt on Fitz so Fitz dropped it.

[Or maybe the Tooth Fairy left a quarter under your pillow.]

HAve a good day all you libs!

[Said a soon to be tombstoned LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

This is what it must feel like to get a 500 lb. bomb dropped on you. I was so hoping that Leopold was correct. Why, why, why!!! We need to get these bastards and soon.

[Is that you, Al-Zarqawi?]

Well, maybe he's going after bigger fish -- if he gets Cheney all will be forgiven.

[Don't even wait for that to happen. Break out that Freudenschade victory champagne NOW!]

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SEALED VS SEALED VS LEOPOLD VS LEOPOLD

Jason Leopold has come out of hiding on the one month anniversary of his "Karl Rove Has ALREADY Been Indicted On May 12" story. Of course the problem is that Karl Rove has NOT been indicted or at least does NOT appear to have been indicted despite lackluster insistence on this "fact" by William Rivers Pitt. So what to do? Why come up with a NEW excuse. And this one is a real whopper presented for your entertainment by Jason Leopold. What Leopold dreamed up is that the reason why we haven't found out that Rove was indicted on May 12 is that the indictment has been SEALED all this time as you can see in this bold Leopold ASSERTION titled, "SEALED VS. SEALED." Meanwhile, Pied Piper Pitt is most notable by his ABSENCE from this thread. Yes, Pitt still claims that Rove was indicted on May 12 but now wants to AVOID the subject altogether, preferring to post endless "Zarqawi Dead Is Meaningless" rants in a desperate bid to ingratiate himself with the DUmmies again and hope that they just forget the Non-Indictment That Dares Not Speak Its Name. So let us laugh at the latest Leopold excuse in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if Leopold will post on July 12 that Fitzgerald's dog ate the Rove indictment, is in the [brackets]:

Sealed vs. Sealed

[The latest divorce case on the docket---Divorced from reality.]

By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t Report

[The FUnniest thing about this is how MANY times Leopold continues to fool Truthout...and Pitt.]

Monday 12 June 2006

[Now at 160 business hours since Karl Rove was indicted.]

Four weeks ago, during the time when we reported that White House political adviser Karl Rove was indicted for crimes related to his role in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, the grand jury empanelled in the case returned an indictment that was filed under seal in US District Court for the District of Columbia under the curious heading of Sealed vs. Sealed.

[Was Sonny Crockett your source for this bit of inside information, Jason?]

As of Friday afternoon that indictment, returned by the grand jury the week of May 10th, remains under seal - more than a month after it was handed up by the grand jury.

[Wasn't the entire fourth floor of Patton Boggs also sealed as well, Leopold?]

The case number is "06 cr 128." On the federal court's electronic database, "06 cr 128" is listed along with a succinct summary: "No further information is available."

[And somehow only one Jason Leopold is able to conjure up that this sealed case is the Rove indictment.]

We have not seen the contents of the indictment "06 cr 128". But the fact that this indictment was returned by the grand jury hearing evidence in the CIA leak case on a day that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald met with the grand jury raised a number of questions about the identity of the defendant named in the indictment, whether it relates to the leak case, and why it has been under seal for a month under the heading Sealed vs. Sealed.

[Oh, I see. A sealed document that you have NOT seen or even know has anything to do with the leak case and you can somehow discern that it is DEFINITELY the Rove indictment. Have you consulted with Pied Piper Pitt on this fairy tale? And now to see the DUmmie reaction to this "revelation:"]

Oh God, is Leopold still around? I thought he blew town with Jesse Macbeth.

[Both with equal credibility.]

This would be why he did not reveal his source I'm guessing...
He said that he would if his source proved to be deliberately misleading. So I figure that, so far, he hasn't been wrong on this indictment. Wonder what they're waiting for?

[Leopold is waiting for Sonny Crockett to get some time off from the "Miami Vice" set.]

Can anyone find "Sealed vs. Sealed" at the DCDC site? Is there a link? How about other "Sealed vs. Sealed"? Does anyone have a copy of any document with that title? What about "U.S. vs. Sealed" -- anyone find one or more of those issued for that day?

[What about Stupid Vs Stupider?]

The court schedule (at http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/Daily_Court_Schedule.pdf ) explicitly states that "any sealed matters will not appear on this schedule." It also said this the week that Madsen claimed to see it there.

[The Jason Leopold case is crumbling before our eyes.]

Nothing in the latest court docket, or a search of the DCDC site. I don't believe that the DCDC uses "sealed v. sealed" at all anymore for their court filings, so would appreciate it if anyone's managed to turn one up from after 2004.

[GASP!!! You...you mean that Jason Leopold might have been...FIBBING?]

was this discussed at YEARLYKOS?? I watched the CSPAN coverage and don't remember it being brought up??

[Even they laughed at Leopold.]

If it's sealed.... Why would Rove and Luskin know about it? Moreover, why would Fitzgerald tell them? Indictments get sealed so that the other side doesn't know they're about to be indicted. If this is true, than most of everything else we've been told had to have been fabricated. Leopold is full of shit.

[And this DUmmie WINS a Kewpie Doll stuffed with Dog Doo-Doo for having a brief moment of mental clarity.]

Leopold has lost my trust. Again, what has he reported that's been verified? Not a single thing. Who are these legal experts he's supposedly getting these quotes from? They seem innocuous enough to me that naming the source wouldn't be a big deal. And if this scenario is true, why wasn't it reported initially when we heard about the 24 hour deadline, the 15 hour meeting, and everything else. Furthermore, we had Pitt and truthout telling us they had seen or had knowledge of the dates on the indictment documents. If they got that info, whether through seeing the actual documents or being told of them by a source, how come they didn't also know the indictment was sealed?

[You could ask Pitt but all he'll do is put his hands over his ears and scream "ZARQAWI! ZARQAWI! ZARQAWI!" over and over again until you stop asking him annoying questions about the Rove indictment.]

I refuse to be led along by the nose and just believe anything that comes down the pike, especially when the batting average for Leopold/Truthout on this is zero, with some very spectacular strike outs. Like I said: if Leopold's right, I'll be up here apologizing so quickly your head will spin. I will eat my words. But for every day that goes by and for every further explanation amending the last that comes from the truthout camp, I think it's legitimate to wonder what the hell is going on over there.

[It's called "Massive Meltdown."]

The facts, as stated by Leopold in his original article, are not correct. He stated Rove WAS indicted on May 12th. He made no mentions of sealed indictments or anything of that ilk. No mention that he WILL be indicted at some point. He was very clear. Rove.Has.Been.Indicted. Done deal. That, as of right now, is patently untrue, and no matter what happens from this day forward it will never magically become true. That fact is not in dispute. The remainder of his "facts" (lock downs, Secret Service, etc.) stretch credibility to the point of absurdity, but I can only argue that since NO ONE has verified any of them, and since the "source pool" for Leopold and TruthOut continues to shrink (per Mark Ash today it is down to one) that they are (being kind here) highly suspect. The fact that many here refuse to look honestly at what has been placed before them and instead let more and more slack off the rope in their efforts to catch something is troubling. I, like almost everyone here, hope that Rove gets fitted for an orange jumpsuit yesterday, but when someone tries to pass off slipshod reporting and constantly changing "updates" on me just because they can't (or won't) admit a mistake is something I can and will not accept. If by some act of magic someone shows me an indictment of Karl Rove with "May 12th" stamped on it (and remember, a certain someone here guaranteed that would be forthcoming) then I will be here with mea culpas all over the place. Sadly, I am not too worried about having to do so.

[Sorry. Only one Kewpie Doll awarded per thread.]

Leopold said HE WAS INDICTED on May 12th. NOTHING about under seal. NOTHING.

[Leopold's fairy tales are always subject to revision.]

Don't forget the ludicrous "24 business hours" Rove had
to "get his affairs in order." That part is patently FALSE. I'm still not thrilled with the lack of professionalism displayed by Pitt when some questioned the story. Truthout, Pitt and Leopold have lost my trust. Period. If it turns out Rove was indicted on May 12--not likely--I'll apologize about being wrong, but it still won't change the fact that the Leopold story as published was still wrong on many counts. It won't change Will Pitt's appalling behavior, either. As for his "apology," I've seen that song and dance so many times I could probably perform the number myself.
I shake my head at folks who want this to be true so badly they compromise their own intellectual integrity. Quite frankly, it's disturbing.

[Pitt is the Magic Man so perhaps he can still conjure up a Rove indictment to pop out of his hat.]

Leopold is evading the basic story he gave.

[As well as CHANGING it.]

People forget that leopold gave specific details. He's full of crap. Only reality will work for me. No guessing, no conjecture, no I he was right because we desperately want to believe it. This guy is irresponsible, stupid, and dangerous.

[Hey, Pitt vouches for Leopold's veracity. Isn't that good enough for you?]

THANKS! I STILL BELIEVE! Thanks so much for posting this.
I still believe that what Jason Leopold posted a few weeks ago is completely accurate. Mr. Leopold has been a TRUE FRIEND to the Progressive Cause. He does NOT deserve to be villified. HE is NOT the enemy. Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and all the rest of the corrupt Bush cabal regmie -- THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES!!!
Alert

[I BEEEEEEELEEEEEVE that John Kerry was inaugurated on Jan. 20!]

What? No bouncy smilies in this thread? No one is celebrating this time. Gee, I wonder why?

[WOO! HOO! BREAK OUT THE VICTORY CHAMPAGNE!!! KARL ROVE IS UNDER SEALED INDICTMENT!]

I B E L I E V E ! ! ! !

[M E T O O O O O! ! ! !]

way to go Jason Leopold!
I thought people were a bit too quick to criticize Jason, who has always been an excellent reporter.

[Great scoop, Jason Leopold! This is sure to earn you the Pulitzer!]

I am at the Federal Document site right now and this is what I have been able to find. First there are a boat load of "Sealed" cases for the date range in question. Second I can not find any that have the exact title of Sealed vs Sealed, only USA vs Sealed and just some cases with Sealed and nothing else. Third any possibles do not come up in the DC District Courts - they come up in other District Courts from across the land. Fourth the case number provided is generic - in other words it pulls back about 200-300 cases.

[In other words, Jason Leopold is full of Dog Doo-Doo.]

Leo has got his fingers crossed. It must be tough to believe you're going to be vindicated at any moment while day after day ticks off. After a while you'd start grasping at straws.

[That also sounds like a good description of Pied Piper Pitt.]

He could be right. He could be completely full of shit. Don't touch that dial!

[The second option is by far the most likely. Don't touch that vial!]

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152 Business Hours Since Karl Rove Indictment

See Karl Rove above being frogwalked across the White House lawn? It happened just 152 business hours ago when Karl Rove was indicted on May 12. Don't believe the LACK of any news about this momentous event in the news. Pied Piper Pitt's TruthOut has assured us that is has already happened and that they still stand behind the Jason Leopold report that they published. So for a certain someone in DUmmieland, June 12 isn't a very good day at all. And I don't just mean one William Rivers Pitt. I am also referring to Head DUmmie Skinner who had to suffer through a week of fawning media overcoverage of the Kos meetup in Las Vegas. Yes, Skinner, even though the Daily Kos began a couple of years after you gave birth to DUmmieland as the main "progressive" forum on the Web, the KOssack KOmmies have STOLEN the thunder from you. One can only imagine the pain Skinner went thru this past week watching as a frustrated bystander at all the attention lavished on the KOmmies. Oh, and now for my SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: In the future, the DUmmie FUnnies will feature the KOmmies much more often. One BIG reason is that I have noticed a whole bunch of hits to the DUmmie FUnnies from the KOmmie site due to a downthread link to this blog placed in the discussion about Armando being outed as a (GASP!) corporate lawyer. So the DUmmies now have competition from the KOmmies in the DUFU auditioning process.

Now back to Pitt. Apparently he is not unaware about this Rove (non)indictment anniversary date so he is continuing to flood the zone with a bunch of non-controversial Zarqawi threads. Well, they would be controversial in any normal setting but in DUmmieland, to say that the death of Al-Zarqawi doesn't mean much is like saying you are in favor of Mom's apple pie in any other place. Pitt's shtick is to continue posting "non-controversial" threads about favored leftwing topics while conveniently ignoring the BIG STORY of his life: the FLAT OUT statement that Karl Rove had been indicted on May 12. Oh, and Pitt might want to also save up some Zarqawi material for a thread this Friday when he will need to divert attention from the one year anniversary of his Day When Everything Finally Changed. So, all in all, today isn't a very good day for at least 2 DUmmies in DUmmieland. But wait, THERE'S MORE!!! Has everyone forgotten about PDA, the Progressive Democrats of America Organization in which Pitt was one of the ringleaders? Apparently he has become a non-person there since even though there is still a section there titled, "Blog By William Rivers Pitt," the Pitt himself hasn't posted on his own Blog since April. To make matters even WORSE, all the PDA players are today in Washington, D.C. for a big "Take Back America" leftwing conference which features thousands of "progressives" including Robert Redford. One "progressive" distinctly absent from this 3-day conference is Pied Piper Pitt himself since his name is notably ABSENT from this PDA REPORT of this event about who among them will be attending. So let us now watch Pitt trying desperately to bury his woes with another meaningless Zarqawi THREAD titled, "Zarqawi was a symptom. The occupation is the disease." As usual, Pied Piper Pitt's pittiful attempt to divert attention away from Rove's May 12 indictment is in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, giving a shoutout to all the KOmmies out there, is in the [brackets]:

Zarqawi was a symptom. The occupation is the disease.

[Leopold was a sympton. Pitt is the disease.]

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead. We've turned a corner in Iraq. Again.

[al-Zarqawi has been dead less than 24 business hours.]

We turned a corner back in 2003, or so we were told, with the capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "For the Ba'athist holdouts largely responsible for the current violence," said George W. Bush in formal remarks after Hussein's capture, "there will be no return to the corrupt power and privilege they once held. For the vast majority of Iraqi citizens who wish to live as free men and women, this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever."

[You turned the corner last night to Bukowski's for another meeting with TIN-FOIL HAT DAN where you plied him with drinks so you could use him as your personal "Forget About Rove Report" prop.]

That was three long years ago, and despite all the triumphalist crowing after Hussein's capture, nothing has changed. Indeed, matters are far worse now than when they put the bag on him in 2003. Empty elections have been held since then, in which most of the candidates were anonymous, because they feared assassination. The corrupt power and privilege once held by Hussein's people has been deftly transferred to hand-picked Iraqi leaders like Ahmad Chalabi, who cower behind bunkered walls while the nation they supposedly lead tears at itself, and to petroleum corporations like Halliburton that steal with both hands.

[Wouldn't you just love to give that speech in Washington D.C. where your own PDA organization is meeting at the Take Back America Conference? Maybe you should send them a telegram: "Take Back Pitt."]

As for the torture chambers and secret police, well...the Bush administration set those up a while ago. The horrors of Abu Ghraib, and the secret "renditions" of prisoners, are perfectly legal, you see. The Attorney General says so.

[Is that the same Attorney General who is keeping Patrick Fitzgerald from making public his ultra-secret May 12 Karl Rove indictment?]

Now that Zarqawi is dead - again - many would have us believe this is a stirring victory. To be sure, the Shi'ite civilians massacred by Zarqawi can take comfort that his attacks have been brought to an end. But to see this as an end to the violence is to buy into a distinctly American view of the Iraq occupation, a view that would have us believe that it is one villain masterminding all the carnage.

[Karl Rove? Not to worry. He was indicted on May 12.]

This simply isn't true.

[A lot of folks are waiting for you to make that statement about the TruthOut article.]

A report from the UK Telegraph last year quoted a number of anonymous intelligence sources who stated, flatly, that Zarqawi was not the all-encompassing boogeyman he was portrayed to be. "We were basically paying up to $10,000 a time to opportunists, criminals and chancers who passed off fiction and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq," said one source in the report. "Back home this stuff was gratefully received and formed the basis of policy decisions. We needed a villain, someone identifiable for the public to latch on to, and we got one."

[That latter statement sounds like the DUmmie attitude towards Karl Rove who was indicted on May 12.]

Said another source in the report, "From the information we have gathered, we have to conclude that Zarqawi is more myth than man. He isn't in the caliber of what many politicians want to believe he is."

[Karl Rove is more myth than man. Isn't it great that he was indicted on May 12?]

More recently, on April 10, 2006, the Washington Post ran a detailed article titled "Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi." The opening paragraph reads, "The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."

[April 10? Wasn't that right around the time of your LAST PDA.Org Blog post? And speaking of PDA, what do you think all those PDA folks are doing today at the "Take Back America" conference? Besides the copious quantities of munchies and FREE BOOZE being served up I bet there is a lot of networking going on among the "progressives." Why, I bet that conference is a great place to network your way into a campaign job. Too bad you couldn't be there, Pitt, but PDA just could't fit you into their invite list.]

"One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq," continued the Post piece, "said that (Brig. Gen. Mark) Kimmitt had concluded that, 'The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date.'"

[Meanwhile, the Pied Piper Pitt DUmmie ingratiation PSYOP program isn't going so hot due to its utter TRANSPARENCY.]

Our leaders would love us to believe that what is happening in Iraq is black-and-white, an issue of evil-doers attempting to shatter the hopes of democracy. Unfortunately, too many Americans buy into this Etch-a-Sketch view of our policies and practices there. The reality behind the bloodshed is far more discouraging, and hued with many shades of gray.

[FREE BOOZE at the Take Back America Conference. Much better than shelling out money at Bukowski's now that your TruthOut expense account has dried up. Maybe you can talk Jason Leopold into buying you a drink.]

Those who fight and kill in Iraq did not do so because Zarqawi ordered them to. They fight because they are Sunnis with a generational hatred for Shi'ites, or because they are Shi'ites with a generational hatred for Sunnis, or because they are Kurds defending their turf, or because they don't want Iran running their country, or because they are defending their neighborhood, or because they are settling old grudges, or because they are opportunistic criminals looking to make a buck. In many instances, those who fight and kill in Iraq do so because they absolutely will not tolerate an occupying force under any circumstances.

[A little William Rivers Pitt history lesson there. Too bad he can't go back to teaching history or any other subject due to some schoolgirl snitches.]

The death of Zarqawi will not change any of this. The violence will continue, because the violence has nothing to do with him. He was a symptom, not a cause. Think of Iraq as a cancer patient. By killing Zarqawi, we have indeed cut out one tumor. But the cancer cells have metastasized, and have spread, and there will be a dozen more tumors to replace the one that has been removed. At the end of the day, the occupation itself is the cancer, and until it is removed, the tumors will continue to fester and grow.

[Much better to think of YOU as a mental patient transparently dissembling before us on the Web. And now on to the other DUmmies on this thread...]

With the demise of this boogeyman... do you think there will now be another attack in the US to "avenge" his death? I honestly believe the thugs in power will exploit this somehow...on a grand scale!

[It would be masterminded by Karl Rove to divert attention from his May 12 indictment.]

what will it take for all of us to stand up against
all we KNOW to be criminal, corrupt and insane?

[Another Jason Leopold report exposing the EVIL Bush regime?]

If we're serious about winning, we need to quit sitting back and whining "LIE LIE LIE" regardless of whether it was true or not. We don't need complaints, we need solutions.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

They lie about everything... Haven't you figured that much out?

[Only Jason Leopold is telling the truth. Or rather the TruthOut.]

I would speak more generally, and say that Terrorism is the Symptom of the Disease of US arrogance and greed!

[The obligatory "Blame the USA for 9/11" post.]

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Pied Piper Pitt Attempts DUmmieland Rehabilitation

Look at the calendar. It is only a couple more days until June 12 which marks exactly 152 business hours since Pied Piper Pitt and Truthout assured us that Karl Rove had ALREADY been indicted on May 12. We can expect Pitt to come in for a lot of ribbing on not only the 12th of this month but on the 12th of EVERY month in the future. Yes, the 12th of each month will hear the bells tolling the funeral of Pitt's non-existent political career. Therefore in a DESPERATE bid to resurrect what never was, Pitt is now trying to rehabilitate himself in DUmmieland with ingratiating posts that have NOTHING to do with the Rove indictment. And the subject that Pitt has chosen to pathetically try to worm his way back into the good graces of the DUmmies is on the topic of Al-Zarqawi. In the first Pittiful Rehab THREAD titled, "This Just In: Zarqawi's death meaningless," Pitt asserts that the Zarqawi death means NOTHING in the long run. This is about as controversial in DUmmieland as a candidate for high school president proclaiming that what is needed is more school spirit. In the second Pittiful Rehab THREAD titled, "The Tin-Foiling of Dan," Pitt shameless manipulates his version of a "friend" named Dan as a personal prop in his DUmmieland Rehab program and even uses his photo in this effort (see photo above). Of course, Pitt thinks he is being clever in his rehabilitation efforts but we can read his motivations as clearly as if his skull had been replaced by glass. So let us now watch Pitt try to pathetically crawl back into DUmmieland's good graces in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, shamelessly using the image of Dan that Pitt shamelessly used, is in the [brackets]:

This Just In: Zarqawi's death meaningless

[This just in: Rove's May 12 indictment meaningless.]

Those who fight against the US occupation, and against other sects in Iraq, do not do so because Zarqawi told them to. The fighting and dying will continue. The civil war will expand. All this means, perhaps, is that the violence will be even more chaotic and disorganized. Remember, catching Saddam Hussein was a "turning point," too. Fat lot of good it did. Also, PS, there would never ever ever ever have been an "Al Qaeda in Iraq" had we not invaded. Basically, we killed our own straw man today. We'll find another one tomorrow.

[Pitt expressing his (and DUmmie) hopes here: Civil war will expand and violence more chaotic. Oh, and I hate to inform the terminally MISINFORMED Pitt but Al-Zarqawi has been in Iraq since 2002 which was BEFORE we entered that country.]

I'm saying we haven't heard the last of Zarqawi.

[I'm saying we haven't heard the last of Pitt.]

Agreed. It's meaningless to the truth and the big picture but it serves the purpose of Bush and his continuing lies about the Iraqi invasion

[Agreed. It's meaningless to the truth and the big picture but it serves the purpose of Pitt and his continuing lies about the Rove indictment.]

It's meaningless and an obvious propaganda distraction bullshit media circle jerk.

[It's meaningless and an obvious propaganda distraction from the Rove indictment TruthOutTheDoor story.]

It definitely means something and to pretend it doesn't is to bury ones head in the sand. The discussion about what it means shouldn't be thwarted. It's irresponsible to use oversimplified headlines.

[A DUmmie CHALLENGES Pitt. Now for his response...]

This is why I don't post very often here anymore. I used to be able to just be a DUer, posting as I pleased without getting henpecked like this. So thanks for reconfirming why it's a good idea for me to steer clear of here more often than not.

[Ah! For the good ol' days when Pitt was just a mere mortal like the other DUmmies. As to steering clear of DUmmieland more often, why don't you give your REAL reason, Pitt: YOU just don't like to be challenged as happened with your TruthOutTheDoor fiction about the Rove indictment. And now enough with Pathetic Pitt Attempt #1 to ingratiate himself with the DUmmies and on to Pathetic Pitt Attempt #2 in his desperate Rehab bid as he uses his "friend," TINFOIL HAT DAN in another "I Seeeeeen the Light" anecdote ala Ty the Bouncer...]


The Tin-Foiling of Dan

[The using of Dan as a foil...]

This is my friend Dan.

[This is my friend Dan trapped in yet another self-serving Pied Piper Pitt anecdote.]

He's a great guy. We've gone to Vegas together to play marathon sessions of poker at Binions. We went back to his hometown of Pittsburgh to watch his beloved Steelers win the Super Bowl (in the worst game ever played, yes, but don't tell him that). Dan is a physicist, usually the smartest guy in any room he walks into, but he's also a "dude," so you'd never know it until you got him talking about work...and then he'll talk your ear off about the machine he built to test what hydrogen does in an argon matrix at some degrees Kelvin.

[But, as we shall see, Dan still needs to be politically enlightened by the All-Wise Pitt.]

Most of the time, we don't talk politics. When we do, he is almost always agreeing with whatever might be pissing me off that day. Dan does not like Bush. At all. He has told me on more than one occasion that he relies on me to keep him up to speed on the details, because his existence is somewhat monk-like. He does not have cable or internet in his apartment, and only turns on his television so he can re-watch his "Full Metal Jacket" DVD for the 702nd time. If they aren't talking about it on Opie & Anthony, his favorite radio show, he probably hasn't heard about it. Dan's day: Wake up ---> drive to work ---> work all day ---> drive home ---> crack a beer ---> sleep (or) go to bar ---> repeat.

[Dan needs to use me as a crutch for his poltical enlightment. Of course, my ego is too hyperinflated to ever consider that I might need such services from someone else.]

In the interest of full disclosure, Dan is a registered Republican who voted Bush in 2000 and "None of the Above" in 2004...and yes, I've gone upside his head a thousand times about that, and yes, he deeply regrets it. Dan is a good man, a dude, not super-informed, but smart enough to know better...and smarter than most people I know when it comes to the sciences. He's one of my best friends.

[ANOTHER political conversion story. And speaking of regrets, have we heard a peep from Pitt yet for foisting the phony Hoaxmas story about the Rove indictment on the Web World?]

So Dan is out last night with our friends, sampling the new IPA they have on tap. I come cruising in around 10pm, and he pounces on me.

["Show me the light! SHOW ME THE LIGHT OH WISE ONE!!!]

"So they killed Zarqawi, right?" he says.

[Uh-oh! Stand by for another one of those DETAILED conversations that Pitt can somehow PERFECTLY recall without a word out of place.]

"Looks like it," I say.

["Looks like it," I say, pleased that my disciple Ty, oops I mean Dan, is following in my enlightened footsteps.]

"Oh bullshit!" he roars.

[Was this where Tinfoil Hat Dan reads Pitt's lame excuse about 24 business hours?]

Enter the Dan diatribe: "I saw the pictures of his face, and I saw that video of the attack on the CNN website. There's no f*cking WAY he looks that good after that. Christ, he looks like he fell down the stairs! Did you see those two missiles obliterate that building? If he was in there, they'd be picking the splinters out of the splinters before they could even get to his skin. He's got hair on his head and face! The fire didn't get that? My ass. That's not Zarqawi. Total bullshit."

[Thus quoteth Pitt in exact and PERFECT detail without a word out of place.]

For the remainder of the night, I watched him wheel on total strangers when he heard them discussing it, and he'd deliver that same diatribe every time. Arms waving, fists pounding the bar, totally worked up. This went on for hours, and I'm pretty sure he convinced everyone he talked to.

[For the remainder of the night, I am making out my "friend" Dan to be a stark raving lunatic for the purposes of my DUmmie rehabilitation attempt. Arms waving, fists pounding the bar, rabid drool pouring on the floor... This went on for hours, and I'm pretty sure you are gullible enough to believe this anecdote.]

Dan is not a DUer, does not get any alternative newsletters via email, and I sure didn't put the thought into his head. This particular tinfoil hat Dan built himself. I would have had to bungee him to his barstool to keep him from repeating his theory to anyone who'd listen last night. I'm sure he's doing it again today at work.

[And now I exploit Dan again to subtly put forth a the tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that will ingratiate myself with the DUmmies in my rehab attempt without actually having to endorse such a theory that could harm my bid to work for the Kerry campaign in the future...IF I have a political future.]

Whether he's right or wrong is beside the point, as far as I am concerned. What is interesting to me is the manifestation of TOTAL DOUBT coming from a regular guy who is not very media-savvy, and hasn't spent a lot of time working on his bullshit detector. The siren went off on this one, loud and clear.

[Whether the TruthOut Rove indictment story is right or wrong is beside the point, as far as I'm concerned. What is important to me is to rehabilitate myself with the DUmmies so I can reclaim my reputation.]

I gotta wonder...how many more folks like Dan are by the water cooler at work today, calling bullshit on this story. Whether they're right or wrong isn't the point.

[Don't worry, Pitt. There are quite a few folks like Dan by the water cooler today, calling bullshit on your PHONY Rove indictment story.]

As of today, I think, it has come to this: if Bush and the boys announced that water was wet, tens and tens of millions of Americans would jump into the shower to make sure, because they aren't buying what is being sold anymore.

[This coming from the "journalist" who announced that Rove WAS indicted. And yet he gets MAD if you dare to question the veracity of that Hoaxmas story.]

Dan sure isn't. You can see his tinfoil a mile away these days. I just thought it was interesting.

[And we can see YOUR BS a mile away these days, Pitt. And now for the DUmmie comments about Pitt's exploitation of Tinfoil Hat Dan...]

I live in a blue city in a red county in a red state and I'm hearing bullshit called quite a bit - and not by the blue people in the city.

[Oh. The red people there also read Pitt's Rove indictment story?]

I wish I heard more open skepticism.

[I BEEEEEEELEEEEEEEVE Karl Rove was indicted on May 12.]

When I told him about the reports that Zarqawi survived for a little while after the attack, I thought his head was going to fly off his shoulders. "I saw the video of the attack," he kept repeating. "No f*cking way."

[Pitt continuing to make a fool out of his "friend" for DUmmie rehab purposes: "And then Dan's head turned around 360 degrees as his drool poured from his mouth while screaming, 'I SAW THE VIDEO OF THE ATTACK! NO F'ING WAY I'M SANE!!!'"]

Where did he see it...if he doesn't have cable?

[A skeptic in the midst of DUmmieland casting aspersions upon the veracity of Pied Piper Pitt's self-serving story.]

CNN.com has the video and he has internet at work.

[Says Pitt as he quickly recovers with an excuse on the par with the "24 business hours" shtick.]

Zarq on ice - very interesting! When I first heard that Zarq was dead, I figured Fitz was about to announce that Rove was indicted.

[It will take 24 business hours before Zarq starts stinking.]

There have been so many lies, who knows what to believe?

[I BEEEEEEELEEEEEEEVE that Karl Rove was indicted on May 12!!! That's the lie that I BEEEEEEEEELEEEEEEEVE!]

Two Brothers Brewery has a new IPA. Fine stuff.

[Fine stuff. If I drink enough of it, it will kill the pain of the realization that my non-existent political career has been RUINED by Hoaxmas.]

everyone's full up with the lies folks have to draw lines. looks like your friend's drawn his.

[Tinfoil Hat Dan buys into the Zarqawi is still alive conspiracy theory but has drawn the line at buying into Karl Rove was indicted on May 12 BS.]

When you start making sense, when your motives are not so demonstrably obvious, you'll get a nicer reply. And no, don't hold your breath.

[Snapped Pitt angrily at Reply #38 which has been deleted, most likely because it mentioned the Indictment That Dare Not Speak Its Name.]

I think he's dead.... but I don't think he died the way they told us he did.

[I was really Zarqawi's ingrown toenail that killed him.]

I guarantee you that they've had him on ice just waiting for
whenever bush needs a boost in the polls or to distract Americans from the latest crime. He's probably been dead for at least 4 business weeks.

["4 business weeks." Sarcasm noted and appreciated you LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

If it was Zarkawi they had him on Ice. Osama is being thawed out and made up for his November photograph now.

[Osama is currently residing in a large freezer with Birdseye TV dinners as roommates.]

Are you sure this is your friend Dan? Do you stand behind that?

[Pitt stands behind it as much as he stands behind the Rove indictment fairy tale.]

I called it a bullshit story the minute I heard it.

[So I guess you didn't buy into the "24 business hours" lame excuse?]

What's DU coming to? The guy who posted that if WillPitt started a thread about taking a dump it would receive at least 50 recommendations was right. F*cking groupies. I just want to know one thing: Has it been 24 business hours yet?

[Uh-Oh! It looks like Pied Piper Pitt still has a LONG way to go in his pathetic DUmmieland Rehabilitation attempts.]

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"Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman's Office"

[Update: Michelle Malkin has more information about the Democrat Dog Doo-Doo Dame including the news that she is no MERE volunteer but has an official Democrat Party position as the Colorado Senate District 13 Democratic Central Committee vice chair.]

As soon as I saw this news headline, "Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman's Office", I instantly KNEW the political party of the victim as well as that of the perpetrator. It doesn't take any great genius to figure that out. I love this story on so so many levels. First of all, it shows just how DESPERATE the Democrats are. According to the MSM the Democrats are confident of retaking the House and maybe the Senate this year. If so, then why do we see such desperate acts so early in the year? This was not just some isolated bizzare act. This is merely a PRELUDE of what we will be seeing the nearer we approach election day as the Democrat confidence in victory continues to erode no matter what the Ouija Board polls say. This story is also hilarious because it involved a former college professor committing a juvenile act and then got caught due to an ASTOUNDING level of utter stupidity. And finally, I like this story because the dopey crime was committed on my birthday, May 31, so I consider this another one of my gifts in addition to the fact that Katie Couric also left the Today show on that day. The ONLY way this story could get even BETTER is if we find out that the Democrat Dog Doo-Doo Dame is also a DUmmie. And if she is, it wouldn't surprise me a bit. So let us now watch the DUmmies wallowing in Dog Doo-Doo in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, with a pooper scooper in hand, is in the [brackets]:

Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman's Office

[No need to figure out the political persuasions of the victim and of the perpetrator. The headline says it all.]

Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office.

Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer.

Ensz told The Associated Press she left the envelope at Musgrave's office but said it "wasn't in the office doors, it was in the foyer." Asked what she meant by the act, she declined comment.

Kenney demanded an apology from Musgrave's likely Democratic opponent, state Rep. Angela Paccione of Fort Collins.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/08/D8I4E19G0.html

[Before we go on to the DUmmie comments on this news story let us subside with the laughter enough to analyze this HILARIOUS story. First of all the CHILDISH crime itself: committed not only by a Democrat volunteer but also a former PROFESSOR at the University of Northern Colorado. So you would figure that a former college professor would have half a brain in her head? WRONG! Instead of shelling out a buck to buy 50 plain white envelopes to pack the dog doo-doo in, this Doo-Doo Democrat saved money by using her OWN stationary and blacking out her address except for the zip code which quickly identified her as the source. DUhhhhhhhmmmmmmie!!! Then when confronted with the evidence, the Dog Doo-Doo Democrat Dame's defense was that she didn't leave it in the office doors but in the foyer. DUhhhhhhmmmmmie!!! This is like a murderer protesting that he did NOT shoot the victim in the heart, only in the lung. Okay, let us now analyze how the DUmmies are taking this story which works on so so many levels as an incredible source of mirth...]

Heh heh heh. Did they stick it with a bushitler flag?

[Heh heh heh. Ask the Democrat Doo-Doo Dame when the judge sentences her to 200 hours of community service hours cleaning up public parks with a pooper scooper.]

She makes us democrats look like. insane idiots. I don't condone this. This is sick. I don't welcome her in my circle.

[Wrong. She makes Democrats look like just what they are---insane idiots. Welcome to the asylum.]

Human feces would be more appropriate...or pig entrails...

[...or DUmmie doo-doo.]

Kathleen Ensz is an idiot. Democrat or Republican, this was a dumb stunt. With friends like her, we don't need enemies. Leaving an address label attached was an act of inspired stupidity.

[That's because she is a DUhhhhhhhmmmmmmie.]

I have an important question? How could they tell the difference between dog crap and the regular bull crap associated with congress?

[I have an important question. How could they tell the difference between dog crap and your brain cells?]

You'd think she would have thought to use an envelope WITHOUT HER 9-digit zip code pre-printed on it?

[That's because this BRILLIANT professor figured she would save the 2 cents per envelope that a pack of 50 plain white envelopes would have cost her at the Dollar Store.]

That was my first and only thought on this subject. And we wonder why we lose elections. Can you say "dumb"?

[Sure. DUmb....mmie!]

Some people are so f*cking stupid...

[Such people are called DUhhhhhhhmmmmmies.]

the final four digits of a 9-digit ZIP can specify a PO box,
drawer, or address. It narrows things down a lot.

[DUhhhhhhhmmmmmie!]

I Condone Such an Act. much appreciated... I hope to see more of this.

[A DUmmmmmb act condoned by a DUhhhhhhhmmmmmie.]

Let's hope the dog has been de-wormed

[Or the Democrat Doo-Doo Dame might have worms but wouldn't that be considered karmatic justice?]

she left a return address on the envelope? with volunteers like this, no wonder we lose.

[With volunteers like this, no wonder WE laugh.]

my first thought as well! what a freakin idiot.

[My first thought was what is her DUmmie screen name?]

Karl Rove is planting dog shit in offices these days...
he never runs out of ideas does he?

[The obligatory "Blame Karl Rove" post.]

Preprinted return address? Is she THAT stupid?

[She's a Democrat. She's a left-wing professor. And most likely she is a DUmmie. That should answer your question.]

she left dog crap for someone...how smart do you think she is? Sadly, even some Democrats are morans...

[Hilariously, MOST Democrats are "morans."]

If this woman isn't a Rove/Atwater/Ailes/ Segretti, etc, etc type plant then she is a fool, and does not belong in Democratic politics. This is a childish, pointless act that should not be tolerated. Yes, elections are stolen and Repubs use inane rhetoric to win, but that is no excuse for sinking to this level.

[Is her real name Lucy Ramirez?]

Sounds like Karl Rove's stunt in planting a bug in his own office. The very fact that the "volunteer" left a paper trail says to me that she "volunteered" all right. Volunteered to help make the democratic candidate look bad.

[Sure. Karl Rove has nothing better to do these days than hypnotizing leftwing college professors and turning their minds to mush in order to do his bidding.]

What kind of IDIOT would black out her return address instead of using a PLAIN envelope in the first place??

[The kind of IDIOT that signs up to become a DUmmie.]

DUMB IDEA? I don't know about that! It disgusting, but harmless! Not using a plain envelope was very very dumb! But the idea isn't! I have 3 dogs. Hmmmmm........

[Sorry but the idea is also DUhhhhmb. What was the Democrat Doo-Doo Dame trying to doo (pun intended)? Change the election results this year with an envelope stuffed with doggie doo-doo? Actually she might have done that in the form of a backlash AGAINST the Democrats for their terminal stupidity.]

This is Rove bullshit and anyone who believes this is f*cking stupid.

[Karl Rove: Master planner of EVERY little stunt in America, no matter how trivial, including the dog doo-doo trick.]

Do you honestly believe that who ever would do something like that would leave evidence implicating them self? Puh-leeze!

[Since this involved a DUhhhhhhhmmmmmie... Yes.]

Kathleen Ensz is a 63 year old professor emiritus at U of Northern Colorado and a local Democratic party official (vice chair of the Colorado Senate District 13 Democratic Central Committee). She's been involved in local Democratic politics for some time...not a likely Rove "plant." Why can't you accept the fact that sometimes even Democrats can lose their composure and do really foolish, childish things. That's what happened here and if you honestly believe it was part of some conspiracy directed by Karl Rove...well...that's just sad.

[No, no. Don't disabuse them of that notion. The Democrat Dog Doo-Doo Dame was programmed by Rove at the age of 6 to be a Manchurian Candidate "plant." The fact that Karl Rove wasn't even born when she was 6 is totally irrelevant to the issue.]

Democratic activist loses cool. In a remarkably immature and childish stunt,leaves envelope with dog crap at repub candidate's office. Stupidly (although given the state of mind she must've been in to pull such a silly stunt in the first place, not surprisingly), she leaves evidence that leads the police to her. When confronted she admits leaving the envelope. That's it. There isn't and won't be any more story. Musgrave will, as one would expect, attempt to exploit this by tying it to the Democratic candidate. The Democratic candidate will (and, indeed, already has) denied any connection with this dumb fourth grade level act. Unless something were to emerge showing that the candidate knew/approved of this stunt in advance -- and I highly doubt that there is any such evidence since if anyone with half a brain had known about this they would've tried to stop Ensz -- that will be it.

[Sorry but that won't be "it." This Democrat Dog Doo-Doo Dame story is already spreading rapidly throughout the Web due to its HILARIOUS nature. It has ALREADY become folklore.]

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"Glad Zarqawi's Gone? Yes or No"

"Glad Zarqawi's Gone? Yes or No" seems like a pretty straightforward question but, as we shall see, a "Yes" answer in DUmmieland doesn't really mean a straight "Yes." The "Yes" in DUmmieland is frequently followed by a "But" so that the DUmmies qualify as what Laura Ingraham calls "But Monkeys." In fact there are FEW simple YES answers in DUmmieland which are not followed by numerous caveats by the But Monkeys. So let us now explore the Land of the But Monkeys with their "Yes...but" caveats in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that the first of Laura Ingraham's But Monkeys yesterday commenting on Al-Zarqawi's death was Joe Biden talking out of both sides of his mouth as usual, is in the [brackets]:

Glad Zarqawi's Gone? Yes or No

[Yes...but.]

This is NOT a DU poll which will allow voters to hide. Bottom line, I want to prove that a large percentage of DUers are glad Zarqawi is no longer on the planet. DUers who are glad Zarqawi's gone please indicate by a simple "yes". The "unglad" indicate with a "no". Please,for the purpose of this experiment, no opinions, just vote yes or no.

[It's not that simple in DUmmieland. Any "Yes" answer NEEDS to be followed by a "But" or some other caveat.]

You are wrong. The answer can not be a "yes" or a "no" because neither answer means anything. I know in your mind it means something, but to anyone that thinks about it for more than a knee jerk split second, you realize that the question is completely pointless.

"Yes, I'm glad" means you are glad we started this war and killed so many people in the bloody pursuit of Osama, Saddam, Zarqawi, (whomever is next).

"No, I'm not glad" seems to mean one is rooting for the official enemy, but does it really mean that? Or does it simply mean that your not glad we are involved in this illegal war in the first place, and they have no other option to say that other than "No."?

Who friggin' knows, because the question is so stupid to begin with.

[One way to avoid becoming a But Monkey is REFUSING to answer the question in the first place.]

Yes, but disgusted that we used an airstrike to kill one man.

[And DUmmie KyuzoGator becomes the FIRST But Monkey on this thread!]

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

Yes. Glad that he's out of action, but not glad about his death.

[Apparently DUmmie But Monkeys like dining on angst over the death of this murderous thug.]

No. We knew where he was, we should have taken him into custody and hauled him before the court. We used to be a nation based on LAW, now we are the wild west and killing for expediency rahter than worrying about the mess of prosecution...

[No Buts about this No. This DUmmie wished we had frogwalked Zarqawi from his safe house into the arms of waiting lawyers.]

If he really is dead, yes. But I am not ready to believe the story.

[And another But Monkey hops into the tree.]

we had the ability to take him alive and should have done so. We could've learned a lot more that way, as long as we didn't torture him because that would be wrong too.

[And it would have been really really wrong to torture him with air conditioning set at a freezing 68 degrees like we do to the Gitmo detainees.]

Yes, but still have questions about the official story.

[The official story is that you are now a But Monkey. Now go grab a banana and hop into the tree.]

The purpose of this exercise is to get a more accurate indicator of where DU stands on Zarqawi's demise. We're getting visitors to this website who are posting claims contrary to the results we're getting so far.

[Wrong. I am a visiting Zoologist to your site merely cataloging your large collection of But Monkeys.]

Yes, but it won't make any difference

[Is that you, Joe Biden?]

Glad he's gone, but a trial would have been a lot more effective.

[Another overly legalistic But Monkey. Up into the tree for you, feller.]

Not crying any tears for him, but just like when they killed Pablo Escobar, will it change anything?

[Up into the tree, But Monkey, and enjoy La Cocaina.]

Makes No Difference. If Bush thinks this will help his approval rating, it won't with me. Too much has happened. Even if they suddenly killed bin Laden it would make no difference. Bush has proven over & over again that he's a fascist. It's too late for him.

[And it's too late for you to play with the But Monkeys.]

Of course the mouth-breathing, blood-thirsty right wingers will consider this as a springboard to a midterm victory, and we will see this coverage trotted out daily, with generous doses of "Hooray for our side"..

[Too bad Zarqawi wasn't killed a couple of days earlier just before the California elections. That way the DUmmies would have provided us with ENORMOUS entertaiment with conspiracty theories about how the death of Zarqawi was really a Rovian plot to affect the outcome of those elections.]

Yes but I don't feel any safer and whatever happened to Bin 'forgotten' and bringing him in dead or alive.

[A banana for you and up into the But Monkey tree.]

Yes.... but it's not that straightforward...
Well.. almost. I do wish they had captured him, instead of killed, because it's too easy to make him a martyr by killing him. I'd rather see him brought to justice in a less spectacular fashion. Showing photos of his dead body today, as with the bodies of Saddam's sons, makes me cringe because it's so much like what the insurgents have been doing to us... and the world has recoiled in horror because of it. If the choice of having him loose instead of killed, I'd choose killed... but I fear that his death like this will only fuel the hatred of us more and the insurgency against our troops. In a country, like the US, that does not deal in martyrdom, it's easy to believe that having him dead will somehow improve things, but in the radical fundamentalist circles over in the Middle East, death is an honor and a reason for them to fight harder in his memory.

[And you need to go straightforward into the But Monkey tree.]

No. Give me a good reason why I should be glad.

[I won't even try.]

No would be my answer since morbidity is not my game. I never even knew the guy.

[Who knows? You could have even become pals with Al-Zarqawi and gone fishing with him.]

.No. I don't condone killing, period. This was done in my name, with my money, which makes me complicit in something I find morally repugnant.

[Zarqawi, We Hardly Knew Ye.]

We get important visitors to our site and it would be a shame if they got the idea that a large percent of DUers somehow supported the Iraq insurgency. Freepers would love to create that idea.

[We get a lot of visitors to the DUmmie FUnnies and YOUR OWN WORDS give them the idea that the DUmmies need to be institutionalized.]

The blogosphere will know where DUers stand on Zarqawi. The results of this poll cannot be twisted by lurkers into supposed support for Zarqawi.

[The results of this poll will show that DUmmieland is full of But Monkeys.]

If I put the same question to Sen.Feingold, Boxer, Clinton, Kerry, Durbin, Byrd or Kennedy they would have no problem answering "yes".

[You mean "Yes...but" since they are But Monkeys.]

No. (Death is not punishment.) You have to actually be ALIVE to appreciate the fact that you're being punished. Once you're dead, you no longer care... you're dead!

[DUmmie illogic at its finest...and FUnniest.]

I am never happy when somebody dies. I don't care HOW "evil", or bad, or what a criminal, this guy was. I'm not going to cheer his death, when what we should have done, was get him ALIVE and put him on trial.

[I bet you would be OVERJOYED if any one of a large number of EVIL rightwingers dies. And NO TRIAL for them. STRAIGHT the guillotine!]

Neither yes or no.

[The Hamlet of DUmmieland forcefully speaks his mind.]

Glad??? HELL NO!!! Bushler&Co. royally f*cked up again, just for good PR. We should have CAPTURED him to get INFORMATION then publicly TRIED him for all of his crimes so the VICTIMS could have a chance to face him and scream bloody murder at him. Also, how many children were killed by the two 500 lb. bombs? More 'collateral damage' just so Bushler could get a bump in the polls?

[No But Monkey banana for you.]

No. Murder is never the answer to any problem. I'm a Buddhist.

[Is that you, Richard Gere?]

Yes, but I don't think it will make any difference as far as stopping the violence.

[Grab the banana and hop up into the But Monkey tree.]

If I have to pick, I'll say yes. He's a terrorist. But as I said on another thread, there will only be more Al-Zarqawis. If Bush didn't foolishly invade Iraq, it might be more meaningful.

[Take a meaningful banana and carry it into the But Monkey tree.]

Wouldn't it had been more fun to capture him alive and forced him to pose nude??

[A But Monkey of a different species replies.]

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"Results of Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election in Doubt!"

The results of the California 50th Congressional District special election have been in for only 8 business hours and ALREADY the DUmmies and the Leftist Blogosphere are crying "VOTE FRAUD" via their favorite culprits---Diebold Voting machines. Apparently the DUmmies were NOT satisfied with their "moral victory" and wanted a REAL victory. And the only way to achieve such a victory in this election is to act like sore losers and WHINE about vote fraud as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD petulantly titled, "Results of Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election in Doubt!" Yes, there is no DOUBT about it. Multiply this whining at LEAST a hundred-fold this November and you have a foretaste of what we are in for. So let us now watch the whine of the sore losers in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering how long before RFK, Jr. gets his feet on the ground in that congressional district, is in the [brackets]:

Results of Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election in Doubt!

[Paging RFK, Jr.! Paging Bev Harris!]

Race to Replace Randy 'Duke' Cunningham in San Diego Was Run on Hackable Diebold Voting Machines,

Kept Unsecured at Poll Worker Houses Overnight Before the Election!

[Karl Rove allowed to program the Diebolds!]

To be clear, at this hour, we have no evidence to show that Democrat Francine Busby, running in yesterday's special run-off election in San Diego against Republican Brian Bilbray to replace the disgraced Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham for the U.S. House (CA-50) race actually won it.

[But the LACK of proof is in and of itself, PROOF!]

Neither do we have evidence to believe that Bilbray actually won it.

[Except for that little detail called election results.]

We do, however, have copious and documented evidence to suggest there is no reason in the world to have any faith that Bilbray won the race...

[Yes, that same high quality evidence that you used to "prove" that Kerry won the 2000 election as purported by Heroin Boy in Rolling Stoned.]

FULL REPORT:

THE BRAD BLOG

[Ah yes. The Brad Blog. The same place that first announced Heroin Boy's vote fraud article in the Rolling Stoned. That site gets all the KOOK exclusives.]

are they gonna pay for a re-count?

[RFK, Jr. is rich. Why don't you hit HIM up for the re-count bill?]

Given her gaffe last week and the area she was competing in
it's a wonder she didn't lose by more. I'm not convinced this particular election was stolen, personally.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

You just don't get it, do you? There is no reason to be convinced that any election processed on Dieblod machines was fair and square. Your faith has not a damn thing to do with it, the facts are the machines are ready, willing, and able, to steal any election. This one is no different.

[Terminator 4: Rise of the Diebold Machines.]

They cannot prove she lost the election...neither can you...
IT doesn't really matter if you are "convinced" or not. I'm not convinced it was stolen either. More troublingly, I'm not convinced she lost it! And unless and until the San Diego County officials are able to demonstrate that she did, there is ZERO REASON TO HAVE CONFIDENCE in that election. Read the entire article and then get back to us, if you actually care of honest and verifiable elections. It's outrageous. And you democracy is at stake. If you give a damn about it anyway.

[That was DUmmie BradBlog himself putting in his Two Cents...or should I say, Too Senseless.]

Yeah....And John Kerry Is Going To Become President
Sure....they'll spend about 2 minutes looking into this, before deciding it's impossible to get a recount from these Rigged machines. Heck, the Dems are happy they came within 5 points, and that's all they wish to think about. The fact they lost escapes them. Maybe we'll get 'em in November. Probably not though. The Dem party cowers and loses. That's what they do best.

[Bring in the lawyers! This November we'll see MILLIONS of them screeching "Election Fraud!" Almost every election WILL be challenged.]

Has Busby conceded the election? I called voters for several days for MoveOn and about 50% of the voters I actually spoke with had voted absentee ballot. If these have not been counted yet, then Busby may win!

[And the Titanic may yet sail into New York harbor.]

Brad makes an excellent point, THE point...It's critical to understand.

There COULD BE NO reason to believe that either candidate was elected because:

a) The votes are taken and totaled in secret by EQUIPMENT THAT CANNOT BE EXAMINED for software and methods problems - except by the vendors. Boards of elections and us suckers, the general public, are not allowed to look at these machines.

b) The record of all machines that I've seen covered is truly sorry - they are vulnerable to hacks in some cases; they are based on weak software and hardware standards; and the manufacturers are really third or fourth string IT companies, not near the top of any major listing of high tech leaders.

c) There is ample reason to believe that election fraud has taken place from RFK Jr's article to TIA's work to Steve Freeman, USCountsVotes.Org, etc.

[d) The moon is full and rising in Uranus.]

AS GuvWorld SAYS, show us you were elected and you prove your legitimacy; failure to do that confers illegitimate status on you as a ruler; and we say, WE DO NOT CONSENT!!!

[The new DUmmie election standard: It is not enough to merely win an election. You must also prove you won it (unless you're a Democrat).]

There is NO transparency to the process.

[There IS a lot of transparency to your motives.]

and why do democratic candidates (except gore) enjoy conceding so quickly? seems to be a trend of sorts.

[You would prefer that Busby had conceded on Labor Day?]

They were kept Unsecured at Poll Worker Houses Overnight Before Election. Tell me this isn't true.

[Not only that, the poll workers slept with the Diebold Machines and committed unnatural acts with them.]

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California Congressional Race In DUmmie Real Time

[UPDATE: I still don't have the video link to the CBS News love letter to Busby that was broadcast last night but I do have the VIDEO of Busby flat out stating that you don't need papers to vote. Of course, CBS News made NO mention of that "misstatement" in their love letter to Francine in the form of a report.]

I think the most FUn way to watch the Congressional Race in the 50th Congressional District in the San Diego area is via watching the DUmmies in Real Time watching the results come in. They must have had their hopes up especially after watching last night's CBS News report on this special election to fill Duke Cunningham's seat because CBS portrayed it as a choice between Saint Busby vs Bilbray the Anti-Christ. Of course, NO mention was made of the HUGE campaign gaff made by Busby who said that illegals could help get her elected. (If anyone can find the video link to that CBS Report, please forward it to me here and I will update this DUFU edition with it for ALL to see.) Therefore the DUmmies went into this special congressional election with high hopes only to be dashed on the Rocks of Reality later as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Busby >> Bilbray race." You can see the comments in DUmmie Real Time (EDT) as the tragic results come in. As usual, the DUmmie hopes soon to be crushed are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, consoling the DUmmies with the fact that they won a meaningless "Moral Victory," is in the [brackets]:

Wed Jun-07-06 01:13 AM... Busby >> Bilbray race

Currently..

Bilbry -- 20,866 - 50.63%
Busby --- 17,693 - 42.94%

57 out of 500 precincts reporting so far.

Go Francine Go!

[Go Francine Go! CBS News has already declared you to be the Moral Victory winner!]

01:25 AM... 66 precincts now in... Bilbry still leads. 21,602 to 18,560

It's still early...

[It's never too early to win a moral victory.]

01:25 AM... 66 out of 100, 50.33 to 43.24 . . .Busby's on the move. . .

[Yeah, that .30% change shows momentum of MASSIVE proportions.]

01:28 AM... She did move more than him that last go around, didn't she?

[Keep hope ALIVE!]

01:32 AM... If the Independent & Libertarian weren't running.. we'd almost be tied.. C'mon Francine.. start moving some more!

[Actually Busby would be further behind but who am I to argue with DUmmie illogic?]

01:33 AM... Bilbray went down while Busby gained. . .

[Keep rubbing those DUmmie prayer beads!]

01:34 AM... 20% counted now, and percentages holding. . .

[What? No more massive .30% momentum shifts?]

01:37 AM... I know... that damn 3,000 vote difference won't budge.. C'mon numbers MOVE in Francine's direction!

[Sorry. Election results are NOT like Ouija boards. The results do NOT go in a certain direction because you want them to.]

01:35 AM... 100 out of 500 now in....

24,786 Bilbry
21,269 Busby

Sheesh..

[WOO! HOO! We're on our way to a MORAL VICTORY!!!]

01:45 AM... Bill Schneider's prediction that the Independent would hurt the Rethug..doesn't seem to be coming true yet.

[That was more Bill Schneider's HOPE in the form of a prediction.]

01:50 AM... 50 44 she's catching up..

[They just counted a bunch of the votes without papers that she requested.]

01:55 AM... Oh man.. I hope that trend continues! ..and she keeps eeking up until she bypasses him!

BRIAN BILBRAY - REP
26637
50.02%

FRANCINE BUSBY - DEM
23461

C'mon Francine!

[Why hold back? I say break out that Freudenschade victory champagne NOW!]

02:18 AM... . Damn!.. she just can't get past that 3k difference.. The difference was 2,973 votes.. now it's 3,300.

[So does that mean the .30% momentum surge for Busby has been overtaken by momentum for the Anti-Christ?]

02:38 AM... 3,278 difference.. Busby only gained 22 votes in last update.. Still.. moved in the right direction..

[A 22 vote gain? WOO! HOO! Time to uncork that victory champagne! Do it! DO IT NOW!!!]

02:52 AM... 46% of votes are now in and here is where we stand....

Precincts: 500
Counted: 232
Percentage: 46.4%

BRIAN BILBRAY - REP
35505
49.67%

FRANCINE BUSBY - DEM
31955
44.70%

Do we have any hope??

[Your chances are excellent for winning a Moral Victory.]

02:56 AM... Bilbray 49.67 -44.7. she's slowly catching up....almost half of the precincts are counted now though, so she'll need to catch up quite a bit soon for her to have a chance.

[BUSBY!!! SLOOOOOOOWLY SHE TURNED, STEP BY STEP...]

03:12 AM... The results remind me of the Jean Schmidt > Paul Hackett Race...

[Another Moral Victory for the Democrats.]

03:21 AM... I was thinking about that for the past hour. Almost posted it but didn't want to jinx a potential Busby comeback. Heavy red districts that we're trying to steal. In November the districts like this will not flip either. That +40 or anything close to that is preposterous. We need to reverse the low to mid GOP-leaning districts, and pick up the +15 seats.

[Heavy red districts that you're trying to steal? I give you credit for HONESTY.]

03:24 AM... Still 49.82% to 44.71% .... it WILL NOT BUDGE!

[NOT EVEN NUDGED!]

03:41 AM... Damn. Now Bilbray is up 4118 votes.

[That Moral Victory champagne is sure going to taste good!]

03:46 AM... It looks like the percentage is getting closer but Bilbray now leads by 4,321 votes which is 203 more than last time.

[You need to send out Karma waves to counteract this trend. Quick! Chant a mantra!]

03:54 AM... Seems to suspicipous that it bounces between 3 and 4k difference.. Regardless of how many votes come in.. Something strange seems to be going on.

[That PROVES it! ELECTION FRAUD!!! Call RFK, Jr. NOW!!!]

03:56 AM... Did that misstatement by Busby hurt her this bad? I thought she would squeak by, but this difference is larger than I would've ever thought. I can only think that the statement she made about illegals not needing papers has cost her the election.

[You wouldn't have known a thing about that "misstatement" if you had been watching the CBS News Ode to Francine last night that came in the laughable form of an "objective" campaign report.]

03:57 AM... Are they using diebold machines?? Sure seems suspicious like you say.



[Bev Harris is only $10 away from proving that Busby was the winner.]

03:58 AM... If this keeps up and he wins, I wonder how the media will spin this tomorrow?

["Democrats jubilant over moral victory in California."]

04:00 AM... I can tell you one thing. I'm sick and tired of "moral" victories. We need to win some of these kinds of seats if we are going to take over the House of Representatives

[And this DUmmie WINS a Moral Victory Kewpie Doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity!]

04:45 AM... It was the immigrant gaffe she made that killed her. Next time, make sure the people you're pandering to can vote.



[Or give the vote to the dead people.]

04:59 AM... Another update

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT - (RUN-OFF)

Counted: 451 of 500 precincts – 90.2 percent
BRIAN BILBRAY - REP 56016 49.49%
FRANCINE BUSBY - DEM 51202 45.24%


Again it looks like the percentage is tightening but Bilbrays lead is now 4,814. Damn, I think it's over

[It's over? Great! Now we can finally declare our Moral Victory!]

05:03 AM... AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH

I hate coming close!!!! Coming close isn't going to get us in control of Congress. We need to pick up these kind of seats if we're going to win in November. We can't let these opportunities slip by. There just aren't that many competitive seats.



[May I have a sip of your Moral Victory champagne?]

05:13 AM... Your right Larissa, we DO have to remember how RED it is, BUT she has another chance in November, remember this election was for the fill in and hopefully we will get the Indies and the Greens and others to vote in the November for her and Busby just has to keep attacking him while he is in office, PLUS in November more people will be out to vote. I think this looks aweful for the Republicans.

[Of course it looks awful for the Republicans. It's because you just won a MORAL VICTORY! WHEEEEEEEE!!! Break out the Bubbly!]

05:15 AM... Geeze if this looks awful for rethugs I'd hate to see what looks good! We have to start winning these seats!

[KILLJOY!]

05:57 AM.. AP has called the race for Bilbray -

[Now it's official---the Democrats have just won a Moral Victory.]

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"Today we are ALL Gay"

This morning I woke up with the sudden urge to listen to a Judy Garland album, redecorate my home, and toss out all earth tone clothing that I own. Why? Because according to this DUmmie THREAD, "Today we are ALL Gay." And in my new role I am feeling VERY creative! Maybe I'll even learn to become a figure skater before the day is over. However, I just simply MUST do Britney Spears' hair! Girl, I don't know where your hair is done but at Le DUFU Salon we would FIRE any hairdresser who allowed a customer to walk out the door wearing that travesty. Oh, and how do you like my new Pink Triangle? Yes, everybody today MUST wear one or fear being labeled a vicious bigot according to this other DUmmie THREAD titled, "Because Hatred Is Not a DU Family Value, I Ask You To Join Me...In changing your avatar for 5 days to a GLBT avatar." So let us now watch the DUmmies turn Gay in deep Bolshevik Pink which you ONLY THINK looks like red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, now confessing that in the privacy of his own home he dresses in men's underwear, is in the [brackets]:

Today we are ALL Gay

[I'm already on my way to Fire Island!]

in all the meanings the word actually has. In particular we stand shoulder to shoulder with ALL gays (even those who are closeted)

[Even with Tom Cruise?]

Today, (and until this bill dies) I'm GAY!! Then I go back to men.

[Amendment! That's Marriage Protection Amendment. However, I'm confused. If you are gay today then why would you go BACK to men when the "bill" dies? Isn't it the other way around?]

I've got an idea-- How about a campaign in which those who support gays' rights to marry agree that, whenever they're in public with one or more friends or relatives of the same sex, they'll hold hands!

[And skip! Don't forget about skipping down the street while holding hands.]

COOL! .... I've always felt that I was a lesbian trapped
in a man's body because even if I was a woman, I just can't see no big ol' sweaty man on top of me!

[You had me fooled! All this time i thought you were a transvestite trapped in the body of a transexual.]

Be gay every day!

[In every little creative way!]

And, Once Again...TRANSGENDER Is Completely Forgotten About!!!

[So you are saying that this whole "Today we are ALL Gay" deal is a bigoted concept because it leaves out the transgendered?]

I have f*cking HAD IT with gay this gay that, gay this, gay that...ALWAYS THEY GET THEIR RIGHTS...AND WE GET SCREWED!! I'm just f*cking sick of it...I'm so goddamned mad I want to scream and hit things!!

[Just don't break my oh so precious porcelain set you brutal but ignored transgendered person.]

I Stand with gays... I feel for you, Even though I am straight and live in one of the most homophobic areas in the US. I hope Bush's Homophobe agenda falls on its own putrid face!

[You're straight? The lady doth protest too much, methinks.]

We're here, We're Queer, We've come to drink your beer!

[And Will has a lot of beer for you if you can tolerate his overlong Norma Desmond routine.]

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"Al Gore's scary statement on stolen elections"

The sense of electoral victimhood among the Democrats is rapidly spreading from the kookie fringes like DUmmieland to the CENTER of the Democrat Party as evidenced by the recent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. WHINE in Rolling Stoned Magazine about how the 2004 election was stolen (by recycling already discredited fantasies). Even though the "proof" offered by Kennedy and others of the kook fringe is laughable, the professional Democrats now realize they need to accept such "stolen election" fantasies" in order to keep their hard core support among the loonie left. We had a hint of it earlier when Mama T suggested that her Boy Toy had the 2004 election stolen from him. And now we have Al Gore REFUSING to answer a direct question put to him as to whether he thinks the 2000 election was stolen. Up until recently, Gore merely maintained that he really thought he won that election and was just trying to get a full count of the vote in Florida. However, Gore now implies by his NON-ANSWER that the 2000 election was STOLEN from him as you can see in this May 26 ISSUE of New York Magazine. Of course, the DUmmies have jubilantly lept upon Gore's refusal to answer that question as proof that Al Gore thinks the 2000 election was stolen as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Al Gore's scary statement on stolen elections." So let us now watch the DUmmies bask in the glow of Al Gore validating their electoral paranoia in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, who won't be surprised if John Kerry soon hops aboard the "Election Was Stolen" bandwagon, is in the [brackets]:

Al Gore's scary statement on stolen elections

[Scary. Very scary the way is now pandering to the LOONY LEFT by implying his 2000 election was stolen from him.]

This is a little out of date, because it came out last week in New York Magazine's generally favorable portrait of Al Gore. It seems all the more relevant now that Bobby Kennedy's article has come out in Rolling Stone, and a mini-controversy has erupted over John Kerry's continuing refusal to agree that the election, at least in Ohio, was blatantly a violation of the Voting Rights Act, and probably stolen.

[Don't worry. We can soon expect John Kerry to begin pandering in the same way as Al Gore when he realizes that his 2008 Presidential campaign will get NOWHERE in the Democrat primaries unless he confirms the paranoid left in their electoral conspiracy theories.]

Al Gore has also been unwilling to make a definitive statement, but the response he gave the magazine was chilling, and at least explains how seriously he takes this issue, and why it might not be in the best interest of the country for a leader like himself to come out clearly in support of those who claim both elections were stolen.

[So instead Gore sends out the signal that he DOES believe the 2000 election by REFUSING to answer a question as to whether he thinks that election was stolen.]

I'd be very curious how DUers interpret this strange Gore quote:

“In spite of that,” Gore goes on, “we won the popular vote and came within one Supreme Court justice’s vote of winning the election. So if that final decision had gone the other way, the question might well be, how did you guys pull it off?”

Does he, like many Democrats, think the election was stolen?

Gore pauses a long time and stares into the middle distance. “There may come a time when I speak on that,” Gore says, “but it’s not now; I need more time to frame it carefully if I do.” Gore sighs. “In our system, there’s no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme Court decision and violent revolution.”

Later, I put the question of Gore’s views on the matter to David Boies, his lawyer in the Florida-recount battle. “He thought the court’s ruling was wrong and obviously political,” Boies says. So he considers the election stolen? “I think he does—and he’s right.”

[Folks, this might surprise you but I have to THANK DUmmie HamdenRice for finding and highlighting this Gore refusal to answer a question as to whether he thinks the 2000 election was stolen as well as the information that his recount lawyer agrees that it was stolen as well as his belief that Gore shares the same fantasy. Somehow this information sort of slipped through the cracks and yet it SHOULD be BIG NEWS. So thanx to the DUmmies for putting this issue under the magnifying glass.]

"V" for Vendetta!!

["P" for Paranoia!]

I like Gore's statement.

[Actually non-statement. He DECLINED to answer a DIRECT question as to whether he thought the 2000 election was stolen which implies that he DOES think it was stolen.]

Of course it was stolen, who's got the balls to take it home?!!

[And thanx in large part to RFK, Jr's "Stolen Election" article in Rolling Stoned, any Democrat now who wishes to get nominated for President is going to have to publicly buy into your electoral delusion.]

Gave me chills when he said that. Do we need any more proof that the man gets it?

[It is proof that Gore wants to get your primary support.]

You are right -- he clearly gets it, and the quote from Bois suggests that he has privately told people he thinks the election was stolen. Is he afraid that if he comes out strongly, mobs with pitchforks will beseige DC?

[More like white coated guys with butterfly nets besieging his non-campaign HQ.]

Wow. Seems like Al smells the same putrid stench of fascism
that most of us do.

[Wow! Seems like Al smells the same putrid stench of leftist paranoia that most of us are wallowing in.]

So I think I can even take a wild guess as to what he is holding back from saying: That what we experienced in 2000 was, properly speaking, a violent revolution from which we have not yet recovered.

[I would like to a wild guess as to what is Al Gore's DUmmie screen name.]

You must admit Kerry's nonplussed reaction to 2004, specifically that there was no substantive evidence of fraud in Ohio that would have changed the outcome of the election, has resurfaced again and again like a bad meal of tainted clams.

[The DUmmies are now TURNING on Kerry for not proclaiming that the 2004 election was stolen from him.]

Kerry is making cautious statements about election reform, but has publicly rebuked Mark Crispin Miller about Miller's contention that Kerry knew the election was stolen. Gore is basically saying that the election may have been stolen but for national security reasons, he has to craft a careful statement about it. And in the politics of leaks and spokespersons, Gore has freed his attorney to say, yes the election was stolen while even through his spokesmen, Kerry's message is basically, we can't know what the outcome would have been.

[Uh-Oh! This doesn't look good for Kerry. Unless he soon hops aboard the "Election Was Stolen" bandwagon, he can kiss his 2008 nomination goodbye.]

Gore fought election fraud through the Florida and US Supreme Courts and lost. After that, there was no remedy other than "violent revolution". Kerry did not exhaust his remedies; he didn't even try them.

[It would have meant taking an unwelcome break from the ski slopes of Davos.]

2000 was a bitter pill that continues to leave a bad taste in my mouth. I would dearly love the election of Al Gore in 2008 to the job he rightfully won in 2000, only this time he moves in to the White House. My wellbeing requires a reckoning.

[I have to give Al Gore credit for conducting a Non-Campaign Campaign. See, he gets TONS of publicity with his travelling Environment Shtick without having to get down to the dirty details of conducting a political campaign but still ends up gaining Democrat support for that very campaign. Al Gore is RUNNING by NOT running. He wants the Democrat Left (and that's pretty much ALL the Democrats) to BEG him to run and one way is by confirming their "Stolen Election" delusion.]

He should come out and declare himself the winner in 2000and denounce the Supreme Court's political decision. What does he have to lose? And, it will bring more attention the our unfair election process.

[A "Make A Wish" request for Al Gore. And he just might grant it.]

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Pied Piper Pitt Performs Endless "Penitence" At DUmmie Canossa

Pied Piper Pitt has returned to DUmmieland in an act of overlong "penitence" that is deeply in need of a Cliff Notes version. In case you're curious about the reference to Canossa in the title, let me explain. In the year 1077, Pope Gregory VII excommunicated the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV for appointing his own Bishop in Germany. As a result, Henry IV's noblemen refused to obey him unless the excommunication were lifted. Therefore Henry IV appeared outside the gates of the castle of Canossa where the Pope was staying in the most famous act of penitence in history. For three days (24 business hours), Henry IV stood barefoot at the gate of Canossa in the snow wearing only a simple hair-shirt, waiting for the Pope to forgive him. When the Pope finally granted an audience to Henry IV inside the castle, as depicted in the painting above, he lifted the excommunication. The reason why I put "Penitence" in quotes is because it was as phony as Pied Piper Pitt's penitence. Three years later the same Pope again excommunicated Henry IV for returning to his old ways but it was too late. Henry IV repaid the favor of the first lifting of his excommunication by deposing Gregory IV and replacing him with another Pope (who would go down in history as an anti-Pope). In much the same way, Pitt's "pentinence" is as phony as Henry IV's as we read through it in this DUmmie THREAD with the OVERLONG title of, "Back stories and apologies, of sorts...or perhaps an apologia...let's see where this goes..." So let us now watch Pied Piper Pitt pulling off a non-stop act of contrition in Bolshevik Red every bit as phony as that of the Emperor in the Snow while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that Brevity is NOT the Soul of Pitt, is in the [brackets]:

Back stories and apologies, of sorts...or perhaps an apologia...let's see where this goes...

[It goes on and on and on and on...without end...]

Greetings!

[Greetings! I am ready for my insominia treatment.]

As it has been a while since I posted, I'm going to introduce myself, so any of the new folks reading this aren't buried under an avalanche of DU-insider nonsense.

[Instead we are about to be buried under an avalanche of Pitt nonsense.]

My name is Will, and I've been a DUer since 2001. I was here for the tax cut crap, the faith-based crap, and the nomination of, and eventual approval of, John Ashcroft as Attorney General.

[My name is Will, and I am an alcoho---Oops! That's another Pitt speech.]

When the US military planes got bunted out of the sky by the Chinese fighter planes, I was here. When George W. made sure the captured airmen, languishing in China, all had Bibles to keep them company, while he quietly kissed Chinese asses to keep us out of a war we'd surely lose (because China ownes a ton of our debt and can end our economy in a day if they so choose), I was here.

[When George W. partied with the anti-Christ, I was here. I was here for you, man! ME! PIED PIPER PITT!!!]

I was here when the US submarine, piloted by the civilian political hack donor, destroyed the Japanese fishing boat...

[Stand by for an AVALANCHE of "I was here" prattle...]

...and that, friends, was God displaying a sense of irony: the guy at the helm was there because he funded the establishment of the USS Missouri as a museum, and the Missouri was where the Japanese surrendered in WWII...

[The Japanese surrender ceremony took less time than Pitt's "penitence" speech.]

...so tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor...

[I think you meant "so DON'T tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor" but don't let me stop you now, Pitt... as if anyone could.]

...because as near as I can tell, He (being God) caused a US nuclear submarine to wreck a Japanese boat on the Pacific Ocean, said ocean being the largest representation of infinity on the planet...

[Reverend Pitt delivering the Sermon on the Run.]

...and the submarine that killed Japanese sailors was piloted by a rookie looking to preserve the boat where the Japanese surrendered in 1945...and so here we have a US sub piloted by a Missouri booster destroying a Japanese vessel in a body of water millions of square miles in width and breadth...and this was an accident?

[And this totally IRRELEVANT anecdote has to do with your DUmmieland return HOW? Apparently self-editing isn't one of Pied Piper Pitt's literary skills.]

Let's all give it up for God, the King of Comedians. He's here all week...try the veal!

[Try the DELETE button to edit out the IRRELEVANT nonsense.]

...anyway...

[Uh-oh. Pitt's just winding up.]

I was here for all the early in-fighting, the stuff that seems quaint by comarison to what happens around here nowadays. Back then, the name "Nader" was good for 392 posts in a thread. You didn't have to put anything in the OP. You just had to write "Nader" in the subject line, maybe put a ---> <--- in the body, hit "post message"...and watch the fur fly. No, for those wondering, I never did that...oh hell, yes I did.

[Again this has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING. And what is truely FRIGHTENING I have just scrolled down to see that there are still DOZENS of paragraphs left to this Pitt Post. SHEESH! Couldn't you have saved us the agony and just posted the Cliff Notes version, Pitt?]

Getting published on the DU main page was as exciting, and as much of an honor, back then as it is now. The first essay I ever got published here was about the Voters Rights march in DC way way way way back in May of 2001. Remember that? Remember when stolen elections were the worst thing we had to worry about?

[Was that Voters Rights March ANOTHER Day in Which Everything Finally Changed?]

I wrote: "At the bottom, the Voter Rights March was about protecting the basic American right to vote, and about ensuring that all the votes which are cast are counted fairly and equally. If this seems like a reactionary and foolish platform, bear in mind that by the end of this day, May 19th, I would meet a dozen people from Florida who believed their votes had not been counted. The hurt and anger in their eyes was fresh and electric; after 157 days they had not 'gotten over it,' and were I to make a bet, I would confidently put money on the idea that they never, ever would."

[Not only is Pitt torturing us with this overlong post he is also torturing us with his Golden Oldies Overlong Posts.]

Ah, the simpler days...

[Those Were the Days My Friend,

I Thought Your Posts Would Never End...]

Do you remember the first truly kick-ass five-star stop-the-presses post you ever put up here? I do. Still got it in my back pocket. I wrote an essay titled God Sees the Freepers for American Politics Journal...and super-duper old-schooler couchpatater put up a thread to take note of it...and look how cute and tiny we were! Oh God...sffreeways, whyzayker, Johnyawl, Hamlette, zan, geniph, comsymp, JJ, enki23...*sigh*

[LOL! Pitt actually carries his posts around in his pocket? I bet he shows it around to the Bukowski's Barflies and the Newton Schoolgirls.]

...anyway...

[You said that before but as a segue to yet more irrelevant nonsense like now.]

I was here when James Jeffords woke up on the wrong side of the bed one fine day and flipped the Senate to the Democrats for the first time since 1994...and I was here for all the hopes that were created by that historically bold move...and I watched the Democratic leadership not know what to do with their newfound power...

[BACK to the "I was here" shtick. I am envisioning an Energizer BUnnie going over and over and over again: "I was here... I was here... I was here..."]

...and I was here when Enron shit the bed, when everyone came to know the umbilical ties between that doomstruck corporation and George W.'s political fortunes...when the required Enron investigation went nowhere...

[I was here when John F. Kerry was here before he wasn't here.]

...because Joe Lieberman was chairing the controlling committee (thanks to Jeffords, Lieberman got to be a committee chairman), and since Lieberman had taken phattt (that's triple-t phatt) Enron dollars, he wasn't about to let an investigation into Enron, Congressional donations from the aforementioned, and the White House's umbilical ties to the aforementioned, get rolling for real...so there was a lot of talk...and no follow-through...and after a few calendar pages, I was here when the Democrats lost the Senate again in 2002.

[It goes on and on and on and on and...]

Bill Grieder wrote about the wretched Enron Democrats phenomenon brilliantly for The Nation, and you can read about it all here. I suggest those who give their love, cash, respect and fealty to the Democrats, without reservation or condition, should read that article twice and then submit a book report.

[...on and on and on and...]

I was here when there actually was an "Underground" on DemocraticUnderground. In those days - for any of you who don't know the back story - we were all scared to death. No one could quite believe what had happened in Florida...and DC, when that SCOTUS confab got done on December 12, 2000. Yeah, I remember the day. It was raining in Boston that night. I wrote an article for a webside that doesn't even exist anymore titled "Not My President" the night that decision came down. I finished it with the words, "Never forgive. Never forget."

[...on and on and on and...]

So we were all feeling like we were on the run - and this was before 9/11, mind you - and I found this website, run by three guys brave enough to rock a DU banner along the parade route during the counter-inaugural demonstration for George W.'s first swearing-in. These three guys (Skinner, Elad, and EarlG) (!!!) busted out this forum in January of 2001, and only a few brave souls dared to speak the truth out loud here. The three guys, who have since morphed into "The Admins", had a bare-bones version of this site running, and had a special forum called "The Underground" going at the bottom of the forum stack.

[If I remember my history correctly, Emperor Henry IV both fasted AND maintained SILENCE while waiting at the gate of Canossa Castle. Too much to expect of Pitt.]

It's funny, thinking about it now. There is no way - NO WAY - those three poor bastards, who had no idea what they were getting into with this thing, could ever get away with having a private "Underground" invitation-only section of this forum today. If you asked them, they'd say it was a bad idea to begin with - exclusivity, etc. - but what did they know back then?

[For you folks of the Mormon persuasion who have never visited a bar before, you are now experiencing what it is like to sit next to an incoherent drunk who just WON'T shut up as he rambles on and on and on about NOTHING in particular.]

It was all scary mayhem in the winter/spring of 2001. Given the GOP right-wing crazy-ass hammer that was about to come down on us all, it seemed wise at the time to have a password-protected nest for the warriors to talk...unencumbered by interpretations/distortions/attacks from the outside internet world...which, some may recall, was dominated by Freeper assholes, who had figured out the effectiveness of this medium way before we on the Left did.

[It was a dark and stormy night in 2001. My fingers were tapping endlessly about nothing at the keyboard. Words signifying nothing flowing from my besotted mind. Words and words and words that went on and on and on unto the End of Time...]

Those asshats Freeped the screaming dog out of this place for days and weeks and months, relentlessly, and almost drove this site out of existence...but the "Underground" forum was where the resistance could be organized, and the bastards were beaten back. If you can get to the archives of "Old DU," you can read it and see it for yourselves. It was epic.

[Pied Piper Pitt, regurgitating the Red Dawn script through a leftist lens.]

I was not here for those first few weeks of mayhem, and sadly, most of the DUers who stayed here and fought the good fight back in those days are gone now...and if any of you happen to read this, I tip my hat to you, and genuflect, and bow and scrape, because you made this place live and survive and thrive, and you know who you are.

[Pitt is still light years away from making any kind of point...or reaching a merciful conclusion.]

(If you like DU, say a quiet thank-you to those fighters, who were here when posting on DU was a blood-sport...and, it bears noting, when Skinner and Elad and EarlG hung in and fought in the trenches along with the best of them...thankfully, they have the place so excellently patrolled by mods that they have been able to sheath their swords)

[Pitt redefining DUmmieland as a fantasy battleground.]

People here back then really, truly felt like they were working an "underground" back then. (Sidebar: after 9/11, we were all worried that the whole internet would get shut down in some draconian recinding-of-posse-commitatus lockdown, and so I organized a collection of email addresses in the event DU went down, so we could all keep in touch. Yeah, it was that important, and that scary, back then)

[Don't worry. We called off the posse because we didn't want to miss out on the laughs generated inadvertently by DUmmieland.]

Nowadays - thankfully, and due in no small part to the admins, writers, and forum members here - we have no shortage of people today who feel/think/know that something has gone berzerkely wrong with this country. Back then, when the television was chanting the mantra - "This is an orderly transition of power...this is an orderly transition of power...everything is fine, all is well...this is an orderly transition of power..." - most of what you'd call the "old-schoolers" here felt like we were going insane.

[Back in our day, us "old-schoolers" had to carry our laptops 20 miles thru the snow every morning.]

Can this be happening?

[Could this be ENDING? Unfortunately, Pitt is just starting to wind up.]

Did we really just witness a broad-daylight election thef