Open Thread

7 Comments

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   dada on May 22, 2007 at 2:57 pm

   no one home in the WH either:

   […]

   Comey portrayed as an attempt by Bush’s top lawyer and chief of staff to “take advantage” of a very ill man. Comey didn’t tell the Senate panel that the bad feelings were stoked even more the next morning when White House officials explained the hospital visit by saying Gonzales and Card were unaware that Comey was acting A.G. (and therefore the only person authorized to sign off on the surveillance program), according to a former senior DOJ official who requested anonymity talking about internal matters. Top DOJ officials were furious, the source said. Just days earlier, Justice’s chief spokesman had publicly said Comey would serve as “head of the Justice Department” while Ashcroft was ill. Justice officials had also faxed over a document to the White House informing officials of this. When a Gonzales aide claimed the counsel’s office could find no record of it, DOJ officials dug out a receipt showing the fax had been received. “People were disgusted as much as livid,” said the DOJ official. “It was just the dishonesty of it.” A Gonzales aide at the time (who asked not to be ID’d talking about internal matters) said there was a “miscommunication” and “genuine confusion” over who was in charge.

   via newsweek

   these clowns really are ham-handed oafs.

   They say Bush’s pet name for Gonzales is “Fredo.”

   enjoy…was just a matter of time untill this trailer got made.

   lTMF’sA

   

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     BooMan on May 22, 2007 at 3:15 pm

     powerful.  And on the money.

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   on May 22, 2007 at 3:13 pm

   Triumph of the Will is a great work of art.

   I could never understand why Sergei Eisenstein’s crass propaganda tends to be received with great admiration by liberals, while Riefenstahl’s artistically far superior work to be condemned.

   I would argue that a country’s citizenry being familiar with Triumph of the Will is conducive to having a healthy political culture. When I heard Bush’s address to the joint session of Congress after the 9/11 attacks, it reminded me of nothing so much as Hitler’s speech at the Nuremberg Rally as shown in that film. Yet most Americans who had not seen this film apparently felt that Bush’s speech roused Americans from a sense of defeat.

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     BooMan on May 22, 2007 at 3:17 pm

     I studied Triumph of the Will in college film class.  

     As filmmaking it is quite interesting.

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   anna in philly on May 22, 2007 at 4:30 pm

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8WV233w_Q&mode=related&search=

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     on May 22, 2007 at 6:24 pm

     What a fantastic song. Thanks for that! I never heard it, since I don’t know Leonard Cohen’s music at all. The most I have been exposed to it is his songs that were used in Natural Born Killers. I am going to have to get into him!

     This song works perfectly for the theme of that video, and is better than any anti-Bush songs that have come out, I’d say. That’s probably because it’s theme is that our problems run deeper than just the Bush administration, as today’s front-page diaries make clear.

     This live version at YouTube is also worth checking out, by the way.

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       anna in philly on May 22, 2007 at 7:11 pm

       leonard cohen is in my top 10

       i listen when i am depressed

       this song was in the movie Exotica in the stripper scene…the movie was kind of dry but that scene is haunting because of the song.