“I was right near Liverpool station when the first bomb went off and was notified of it. It was… very eerie to be right there again when one of these attacks takes place.” -Rudy Guiliani
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I was hoping that we’d finally rid ourselves of dear old St. Rudy, but I see that I was wrong.
Please, oh please, have Ken Livingstone tell Giuliani to shut the heck up and get out of town as soon as he gets back from Singapore.
Here in NYC, I’m sure that we’ll now be forced to endure yet another round of Rudy’s undiluted praise for Bush’s approach to “combating” terrorism. Interviews with Rudy will be the big “get” for all the local news shows today and tomorrow. His smarmy mug will be all over the TV, I’d expect. God, I can’t stand the guy.
Off topic but if there are any Canadians or knowledgeable folks…Is the National Post generally a conservative paper? Is it widely read in Canada and is it a sort of USA TOday? Appreciate any help.
Compared to Canada’s longest standing ‘national’ newspater, The Globe and Mail, The National Post is definitely conservative:
The National Post vs. the Globe and Mail
When Conrad Black launched the National Post in 1998, his intention was clearly (at least partially) to take a bite out of the Globe and Mail. Black had long said that the Canadian media was particularly left leaning and that he firmly believed the majority of the population was yearning for a stronger conservative voice. The Globe’s political standpoint and editorial leanings were generally considered to be center-right at its most conservative and centrist at its most liberal, but Black’s definition of “liberal” may differ from that of others. (A Microsoft columnist probably said it best when he described Black as “a moderate Republican by American standards, but by Canadian standards a right-wing maniac.”)
As to widely read, I believe the National Post is the second most widely read paper in English Canada. But that doesn’t mean a whole lot as readership tends to be mostly Ontario and in major cities like Calgary or Vancouver and is greatest within the business community.
I’m a Canadian, though I wouldn’t call myself knowledgeable…
The National Post is in fact a conservative paper. Wikipedia has a little bit about it, if you need some background. It’s a national newspaper like USA Today, but I don’t think it’s as widely read as its rival the Globe and Mail.
“A Reminder That the War on Terror Is Not Over”
Today, 4:27 PM
So says Pataki.
What Pataki just said is a reminder that we are truly ruled by morons who have so debased our discourse for political purposes and who have no idea how reality actually operates.
I’ve been streaming the BBC World Service radio since Susan recommended it this morning and it’s outstanding. They just had an interview with Condi and it was fascinating. The new catchphrase is Ideology of Hate vs. Ideology of Hope. I heard Bush use it this morning and Condi worked it into her yak.
Asked whether the US/UK went to the wrong war (hasn’t stopped attacks in the West… Madrid, now London) and may be a bit responsible for an increase of terrorist activities, Condi audibly bristled as she said, in other words, No, Islamic terrorists have freely attacked for years and no one did anything. The attacks are because someone is finally fighting them back.
OK, that’s a new one… the terrorists are pissed because we’re fighting them? Lucky thing that we got Bin Laden, and made damn sure we stayed the course in Afghanistan and did away with the Taliban completely or we’d really be in big trouble, huh?
In the past, terrorists struck because they weren’t afraid of suffering any consequences.
Now, terrorists strike because we’re making them suffer consequences.
Under that world-view (or Weltanschauung, a word with which Condi is doubtlessly familiar but that GWB certainly couldn’t pronounce), is there any reaction or response that wouldn’t lead to further terrorist attacks? What she’s saying appears to amount to a giant “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
It made absolutely no sense to me either. She seemed to imply that those that came before Bush (Clinton) was soft on terrorists and so they struck with impunity over and over. Now they are fighting harder because we are fighting them. Total nonsense. I will attempt to find a transcript, don’t know if they’re available from the BBC.
I’m so sorry, I can’t find that particular quote anywhere. Other quotes from that same interview, but not that one. Oh well, maybe she had a momentary brain fart… the other quotes all made sense.
Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: London terror attack near G8 summit “works to … Western world’s advantage, for people to experience something like this together”
The following exchange between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News business contributor and substitute host Stuart Varney occurred during breaking news coverage of the attacks on London subways and buses on the July 7 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:
KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 –believe it or not– was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it’s important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world’s advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened.
VARNEY: It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again.
KILMEADE: Yeah.
— N.C.
Posted to the web on Thursday July 7, 2005 at 2:07 PM EST
Lovely folks over at Fox News, aren’t they? My officemates and I were wondering earlier how long it would be before the goons at Fox began overtly politicizing this tragedy. We already have our answer.
It’s definitely good to see that in their minds, neither the epochal effects of global warming nor the thousands upon thousands who die every day in Africa as an indirect result of poverty are as worthy of attention as a single act of hatred.
What offends me most here is that I share a common bond of citizenship with these sorts of mindless venom-spewers.
White House Silence: Bolton’s Nomination Just Withering Away. . .
Today, 6:45 PM
I have spent much of the day trying to learn what, if anything, came from an alleged strategy session between White House top brass and State Department legislative strategists on the nomination of John Bolton to serve as U.S. Ambassador…
C. Boyden Gray demoted from Fox News “Supreme Court analyst” to “contributor” following Media Matters letter
Today, 4:21 PM
Fox News’ erstwhile “Supreme Court analyst” C. Boyden Gray appears to have been demoted. Since Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock wrote to Fox News on July 1 demanding that Gray be removed from his position as Fox News “Supreme Court analyst” because of his involvement with a group created to help confirm President Bush’s judicial nominees, Gray has appeared on Fox News four times, but has not once been identified with that title.
Fox News featured Gray prominently during its initial coverage of the retirement of Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, but failed to disclose the conflict inherent between Gray’s role on Fox as a so-called news “analyst” and his professional role as founder and chairman of the Committee for Justice, an organization established with the encouragement of White House senior adviser Karl Rove to support Bush’s judicial nominees.
Gray has since appeared on the July 3 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday with Nan Aron, president of the progressive judicial watchdog group Alliance for Justice; Gray was identified as the former “White House counsel under Bush 41” and as the head of “the conservative Committee for Justice.” Gray also appeared on the July 4 edition of Fox News Live on a panel with journalist and Fox News Supreme Court analyst Tim O’Brien. Gray was identified as “former White House counsel under President George Herbert Walker Bush.”
Gray made two Fox News appearances on July 5. He was the subject of a one-on-one interview on Fox & Friends, in which he was identified as “former White House counsel for President Bush senior.” Host Brian Kilmeade also explained that Gray “was involved in the nomination process for Justice Clarence Thomas.” On The Big Story with John Gibson later that day, Gray appeared with Ralph Neas, president of the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way; Gray was described as “President George H.W. Bush’s former White House counsel and a Fox News contributor.” At no point was he identified as a “Supreme Court analyst.”
Why Daily Kos represents the ugly triumph of market forces
Today, 5:25 PM
In All the President’s Spin, we argued that liberals are rapidly following conservatives into the rhetorical sewer. Here’s more evidence that we were right — Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the editor of Daily Kos, making a series of feeble-minded comparisons between American conservatives and the Taliban: …
I was hoping that we’d finally rid ourselves of dear old St. Rudy, but I see that I was wrong.
Please, oh please, have Ken Livingstone tell Giuliani to shut the heck up and get out of town as soon as he gets back from Singapore.
Here in NYC, I’m sure that we’ll now be forced to endure yet another round of Rudy’s undiluted praise for Bush’s approach to “combating” terrorism. Interviews with Rudy will be the big “get” for all the local news shows today and tomorrow. His smarmy mug will be all over the TV, I’d expect. God, I can’t stand the guy.
I so agree with you I cannot tolerate him especially after the conventions last year. Of course he will ride the waves of as far as he can..
Amen.
Guiliani was all over the morning newscasts (at least NBC and ABC). I couldn’t watch him, he’d make me feel ill that early in the morning.
Rudy just always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time… what a coincidence, huh?
I was thinking the same thing. Just hope he doesn’t come to DC anytime soon.
He’ll be able to go on non-speaking tours pretty soon. Colleges and organizations will pay him to stay the heck away from their hallowed halls.
Off topic but if there are any Canadians or knowledgeable folks…Is the National Post generally a conservative paper? Is it widely read in Canada and is it a sort of USA TOday? Appreciate any help.
Compared to Canada’s longest standing ‘national’ newspater, The Globe and Mail, The National Post is definitely conservative:
When Conrad Black launched the National Post in 1998, his intention was clearly (at least partially) to take a bite out of the Globe and Mail. Black had long said that the Canadian media was particularly left leaning and that he firmly believed the majority of the population was yearning for a stronger conservative voice. The Globe’s political standpoint and editorial leanings were generally considered to be center-right at its most conservative and centrist at its most liberal, but Black’s definition of “liberal” may differ from that of others. (A Microsoft columnist probably said it best when he described Black as “a moderate Republican by American standards, but by Canadian standards a right-wing maniac.”)
As to widely read, I believe the National Post is the second most widely read paper in English Canada. But that doesn’t mean a whole lot as readership tends to be mostly Ontario and in major cities like Calgary or Vancouver and is greatest within the business community.
I’m a Canadian, though I wouldn’t call myself knowledgeable…
The National Post is in fact a conservative paper. Wikipedia has a little bit about it, if you need some background. It’s a national newspaper like USA Today, but I don’t think it’s as widely read as its rival the Globe and Mail.
Thanks to you both for the links
Atrios:
Today, 4:27 PM
So says Pataki.
What Pataki just said is a reminder that we are truly ruled by morons who have so debased our discourse for political purposes and who have no idea how reality actually operates.
Rudy, please go away.
I’ve been streaming the BBC World Service radio since Susan recommended it this morning and it’s outstanding. They just had an interview with Condi and it was fascinating. The new catchphrase is Ideology of Hate vs. Ideology of Hope. I heard Bush use it this morning and Condi worked it into her yak.
Asked whether the US/UK went to the wrong war (hasn’t stopped attacks in the West… Madrid, now London) and may be a bit responsible for an increase of terrorist activities, Condi audibly bristled as she said, in other words, No, Islamic terrorists have freely attacked for years and no one did anything. The attacks are because someone is finally fighting them back.
OK, that’s a new one… the terrorists are pissed because we’re fighting them? Lucky thing that we got Bin Laden, and made damn sure we stayed the course in Afghanistan and did away with the Taliban completely or we’d really be in big trouble, huh?
Condi’s saying this?
Under that world-view (or Weltanschauung, a word with which Condi is doubtlessly familiar but that GWB certainly couldn’t pronounce), is there any reaction or response that wouldn’t lead to further terrorist attacks? What she’s saying appears to amount to a giant “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
It made absolutely no sense to me either. She seemed to imply that those that came before Bush (Clinton) was soft on terrorists and so they struck with impunity over and over. Now they are fighting harder because we are fighting them. Total nonsense. I will attempt to find a transcript, don’t know if they’re available from the BBC.
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In my new diary – BBC interview with Dr. Condoleezza Rice was astounding change of arguments.
IMHO New Propaganda LIE.
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I’m so sorry, I can’t find that particular quote anywhere. Other quotes from that same interview, but not that one. Oh well, maybe she had a momentary brain fart… the other quotes all made sense.
Via Media Matters:
The following exchange between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News business contributor and substitute host Stuart Varney occurred during breaking news coverage of the attacks on London subways and buses on the July 7 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:
KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 –believe it or not– was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it’s important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world’s advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened.
VARNEY: It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again.
KILMEADE: Yeah.
— N.C.
Posted to the web on Thursday July 7, 2005 at 2:07 PM EST
Well that is certainly fodder for anyone who thinks the Octopus was behind this.
I really can’t stand these people.
Lovely folks over at Fox News, aren’t they? My officemates and I were wondering earlier how long it would be before the goons at Fox began overtly politicizing this tragedy. We already have our answer.
It’s definitely good to see that in their minds, neither the epochal effects of global warming nor the thousands upon thousands who die every day in Africa as an indirect result of poverty are as worthy of attention as a single act of hatred.
What offends me most here is that I share a common bond of citizenship with these sorts of mindless venom-spewers.
WashingtonNote
White House Silence: Bolton’s Nomination Just Withering Away. . .
Today, 6:45 PM
I have spent much of the day trying to learn what, if anything, came from an alleged strategy session between White House top brass and State Department legislative strategists on the nomination of John Bolton to serve as U.S. Ambassador…
(tee hee)
From Media Matters:
C. Boyden Gray demoted from Fox News “Supreme Court analyst” to “contributor” following Media Matters letter
Today, 4:21 PM
Fox News’ erstwhile “Supreme Court analyst” C. Boyden Gray appears to have been demoted. Since Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock wrote to Fox News on July 1 demanding that Gray be removed from his position as Fox News “Supreme Court analyst” because of his involvement with a group created to help confirm President Bush’s judicial nominees, Gray has appeared on Fox News four times, but has not once been identified with that title.
Fox News featured Gray prominently during its initial coverage of the retirement of Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, but failed to disclose the conflict inherent between Gray’s role on Fox as a so-called news “analyst” and his professional role as founder and chairman of the Committee for Justice, an organization established with the encouragement of White House senior adviser Karl Rove to support Bush’s judicial nominees.
Gray has since appeared on the July 3 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday with Nan Aron, president of the progressive judicial watchdog group Alliance for Justice; Gray was identified as the former “White House counsel under Bush 41” and as the head of “the conservative Committee for Justice.” Gray also appeared on the July 4 edition of Fox News Live on a panel with journalist and Fox News Supreme Court analyst Tim O’Brien. Gray was identified as “former White House counsel under President George Herbert Walker Bush.”
Gray made two Fox News appearances on July 5. He was the subject of a one-on-one interview on Fox & Friends, in which he was identified as “former White House counsel for President Bush senior.” Host Brian Kilmeade also explained that Gray “was involved in the nomination process for Justice Clarence Thomas.” On The Big Story with John Gibson later that day, Gray appeared with Ralph Neas, president of the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way; Gray was described as “President George H.W. Bush’s former White House counsel and a Fox News contributor.” At no point was he identified as a “Supreme Court analyst.”
Some DKos bashing:
Today, 5:25 PM
In All the President’s Spin, we argued that liberals are rapidly following conservatives into the rhetorical sewer. Here’s more evidence that we were right — Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the editor of Daily Kos, making a series of feeble-minded comparisons between American conservatives and the Taliban: …
(it goes on quite a bit longer)
brendan-nyhan.com
I saw the MoveOn ad featuring the Schiavo case / SCOTUS. It was alright … it should attract attention from viewers.
Have any of you seen it?
I hope it gets widespread attention. Maybe the news channels will play it over-and-over-and-over again like they did the Swifties… sigh
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Japan, Korea, Cuba & Caribbean countries, Italy and The Netherlands will suffer as a result.
Baseball as a sport to be enjoyed by amateurs around the world.
The Team USA not qualifying for Olympics 2004 in Athens, Greece the final push for downfall?
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