Bishop Hedd

"Who is linking him to Valerie Plame (last scene in a photo shoot for Vanity Fair)? Why would they need him to 'out' Valerie Plame?" Well Jeff, as you probably already know, was last seen in Hot Military Stud magazine.

This is good because it puts an end to Bill Frist and Republican Senators' macabre and ghastly idea of subpeonaing Ms Schiavo to "testify" before the Senate. Just when you think they can't be more bizarre in their attempt to "preserve life" they top themselves.

"So let me get this straight, Bush (and probably Karl Rove) hatched a devious plan to hire a 'sleeper cell' reporter for Presidential press conferences. The reporter would ask 'softball' questions that the President could easily answer. The rest of the press corp. would have no choice but to write about how well-spoken the President was. BUT, even with all their resources and money, the only person they could find to do such a job was a gay man who wrote for an obscure website that no one had ever heard of. So you're saying that this was some sort of media conspiracy on the part of the Bush administration that just happened to have exactly zero effect on media coverage of the President and was placed in the hands of someone with a very checkered past? Yeah, right....." Almost sounds as ludicrous as WMD's in Iraq right? Nobody's sure what exactly "Gannon" is yet (he is being linked as a possible suspect along with another conservative hack/hired gun Robert Novak in the outing of CIA operative Plame) that's what many of us would like to find out.

Couldn't care less? Then hypocrisy in journalism doesn't bother you?

"Gannon" obviously doesn't write what he lives. Well if he was, as you say, a "nobody" (and it's hard for me to disagree) Why was he allowed daily brefing passes for over two years? Why was he always called on by Bush or McClellan to lob softball questions on difficult issues? Couldn't be that he was loyal to the admistration could it?

"I have my bias." That I don't doubt. What the heck does our military have against the eye-ties anyways? Here we have one of the few European nations dumb enough to join the "coalition of the willing" (Rummy calls it "The Mother of all coalitions") and then we crap all over them. And it isn't like this hasn't happened before with our military and innocent Itallian cilvilians. Remember that moronic pilot who thought he was Iceman from Top Gun and sliced that ski cable car off its wire calling dozens of tourists back in '98. They gave him the proverbial slap on the wrist for his pathetic and dangerous show of machismo. Well it looks like this time the Itallians are rightfully upset and may withdraw some or all of their troops shortly. But that's ok I think Thailand might still be there with us.

Yeah well so did I. Taught me not to believe in exit polls anymore......or Diebold voting machines for that mattter.

What's an "RCow"?

Except once again you failed to note "Gannon" wrote frequently and derisively of homosexuals in his work, often denigrating Kerry for having the utter temarity to accept support from gay and lesbian groups all the while posing for photos in Manhole magazine.

Damn it so am I! Stupid "liberals"! It isn't as if conservatives control anything in this country anyway but still those Kennedy lovers gotta pick on them real Americans! hee-hee

Actually I had considered that period before I submitted my post but not even that period compares to the blatent obviousness in how symbiotically linked our current government and the conglomerates are. So I left it off.

So because she's a writer for a leftist publication her story has no credibility. Yet you posted in regard to the Jeff Gannon story that his personal life was being smeared basically on the basis of his being a homosexual military escort/prostitute/beefcake photo boy on the basis that his politics are far right. Gotcha.

Or guessing when SS will become insolvent.

Naw not really. That crowd annoys me. Honestly I don't lay awake at night praying for them, nor am I into banal symbolism like yellow ribbon magnets-on-the-back-of-the-vehicle either. All that aside I really don't want anyone to die, especially if you think like I do and realize these boys and girls are dying for a no discernable reason, then the issue becomes somewhat maddening. I wouldn't wish for thousands of US mass casualties on the basis of making the effort, whatever it is, look bad. Taking that tact for the basis of being against the war serves no practical purpose. Of course this sounds ludicrous on the face of it but I truly wish nobody else dies. That's the extent of my support.

Hahahah.....No sorry, but I do have Cliff's for Paradise Lost! Cliff's Notes hee-hee. Your post almost made me use the clickable smile feature damn you!

Here Corporation...here boy. Tax break tax break. Good boy, here's your little tax break.

I'm just in the dark as to why all this "Nazi" talk on here? And no, I don't like his paint by numbers writing style either. Like I said before if you feel persecuted fine! Fantastique! I just thought it was ironic that he went on in his lengty missive in a style reminiscent of what he was tryng to defend against in the first place.

Possibly. I was jaded as well when the march to this thing first started over two years ago and Americans fell for it hook,line and sinker, duped by a government and complicit media. That hardly made me doubt the validity of the poll however, just because I didn't agree with the majority at that time.

Promise! Just as long as we can change the board's name to Politics, Conservatives are persecuted People too while progressives are evil, and pundits

Surprised by what? That she wasn't killed as well? So am I. The military and the journalist give two completely at odds versions of what happened and given how the military has handled situations similar to this in the past I tend to believe the woman.

I apologize for ever posting a poll on a site called politics, POLLS, and pundits. I don't know what I was thinking. I'll refrain from ever doing so again.

I question the wisdom of putting a poll on a board called politics, POLLS, and pundits because it will doubtless be meant with derision by some. Seeing as I was never for the thing in the first place I don't think anyone's accomplished anything worth of note to make me change my mind at this juncture. I think the last thing I recall reading about the situation (the media has been disturbingly quiet of late) involved our military shooting at a rescued italian journalist who was just held hostage, killing her guard.

Even Better! Polls you don't agree with!

Yup, it's that time already: the second year anniversary of our mid-East excursion dubbed Operation: eat hot lead suckers. Who can forget all the incredible images that have become ingrained in our conciousness: All the network TV cameras beautifully capturing the poetry of the initial bombing raid on Baghdad March 19th, 2003. Donald Rumsfeld confidently beaming that he had assembled, in his words "The Mother of all coalitions". Our President standing resolutely behind a "Mission Accomplished" banner as well as Mister Bush hopping on that midnight plane to Baghdad for Thanksgiving with a plastic turkey in tow. We all seemed so much happier then. What happened? http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1000844124

Hey this new sanctimoniously pious persecution complex by the Right is all well and good. No problem. Just don't post something that resembles the marching points of the RNC almost to a T. He lost credibility after oh about the first paragraph, making the trite observation that in Germany circa 1940 business and government were one and the same, autonomous of each other but somehow linked as some sort of two headed monster while defending conservative economic policy. Right about now in America I can't imagine a time where big corporate business and big conservative government have been more or less one and the same than now. Than he really got going on his screed, providing nothing really very enlightning but proving that he might have a hell of a future as a possible media flack/paid journalist hack for the RNC ala Gannon, Williams, Novak et al. Hey, if the pay's good enough I'd even look into it.