Author: Dean Pajevic

Both air at the same time. Wilson is on NBC’s Today Show live tomorrow morning, and then with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Situation Room tomorrow.

Lanny Davis is doin’ the limbo! Check this out from BTC News:

While Davis [in the NYT today] admonishes Republicans for their “criminalizing politics” mantra, he likewise chastises Democrats for finding an indifference to national security in the Plame leak.

Similarly, the Democrats are playing up the idea that White House officials may have endangered national security in playing hardball politics. Well, I can remember all the times I picked up the phone and talked “on background” to reporters, “pushing back” against rumors damaging to President Clinton and citing information that I thought was “out there.” I don’t remember ever worrying about whether the facts that I felt were public knowledge might have been classified….

Don’t move that limbo bar … You’ll be a limbo star… How low can you go. (Chubby Checker) … OPEN THREAD:

Bonddad just e-mailed this Fox News shocker to me. Do you also — like Bonddad — find Hume’s putdown of Juan Williams to be “racist and insensitive”?

Via Crooks & Liars, which has the video:

Juan Williams should know better than to go after the Bush administration on Brit Hume’s watch.

Think Progress has the story:

JUAN WILLIAMS : “You can try to minimize it, but the fact that you have Scooter Libby, so involved in justifying going to war, and in the posture of trying to smear a critic of that justification. I think is pretty revealing and pretty damaging to the Bush White House….”

BRIT HUME: Juan, somebody needs to hose you down.

Skiddlybop diaried this exchange at Daily Kos, drawing on a good discussion at Democratic Underground: “Of course, this house slave might just say, ‘Thank you Sir, may I have another’… or maybe he will say that this kind of neo-con racism proves that he all along has been unworthy of being called a journalist or an American.”

This just in from Rick the Peanut Guy: FireDogLake‘s Reddhedd is stocking up on popcorn for the show, and I’m tossin’ fresh hot peanuts for the — which inning is it now? — of this monumental muthah of all ballgames.

According to the WaPo, the only folks known to have been on that July 12, 2003, flight from Norfolk to DC on Air Force II are Cheney, Libby and Catherine Martin. Well, now isn’t that interesting?

Barton Gellman has put together one hell of a narrative that raises a whole lot more questions than supplying answers. But in reading through this article, one thing becomes very clear to me — those questions are going to be asked over and over again until they are answered. Somewhere between Katrina and the Libby indictment on Friday, the last bit of curtain got pulled up.

And an awful lot of the questions are about Dick Cheney. Not just here on this blog and other progressive spots in the blogosphere, but everywhere. And now the WaPo puts him smack dab in the middle of a conversation with Libby and Martin on how to deal with the “mosquitoesque” critic Joe Wilson — with a sledgehammer just a few hours after the flight […]

… Cheney was suddenly feeling directly threatened, not just the Administration as a whole, and that just can’t be allowed to stand unchallenged? Wonder how it feels to be left hanging by the boss that you’ve served with all you have? Wonder how the others working for the VP are feeling now? Watching your back can get exhausting after a while. […]

… Could be any number of people trying to twist the knife deeper for Libby to save their own skins: Grossman, Rove, etc. Or it could be Tenet or McLaughlin or someone at CIA trying to pull out the Libby knife and plunge it into Cheney’s heart of darkness. (Emphasis mine.)

Do you like your popcorn buttered?

Want your hot nuts salty? … Watch now … I’m tossin’ the peanuts with the knuckle ball Fitz taught me.

[editor’s note, by susanhu] For non-Mariners fans, Rick “Peanut Man” Kaminski is famous “for throwing bags of peanuts to his customers at pro sports events in Seattle, along with a tennis ball sliced open enough for the patron to place his money inside for the return toss.” (Seattle Times)

So said Dana Milbank at the start of Howie Kurtz’s now hour-long Reliable Sources on CNN.

The panel’s first topic: How careful we (the WaPo) were about the Karl Rove indictment story … as opposed to some other careless journalists. (The implication, of course, is that the “responsible” journalists have concluded that Fitz is essentially done. Fitz doesn’t have a knuckleball, they’re smugly certain.)

“The mainstream media was responsible,” says Dana Milbank. “… as opposed to some of the wacky stuff by the ideologues and the blogs.” (FU, DM.)

Update [2005-10-30 12:31:25 by susanhu]: Via Crooks and Liars‘ Blog Round-up, “”On or about July 10, 2003, LIBBY spoke to NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert to complain about press coverage of LIBBY by an MSNBC reporter.” Guess who that reporter was.

I can’t guess who the reporter is — David Shuster? — and I haven’t looked yet It can’t be Norah O’Donnell. No way. Can you guess?

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If you’re watching, comment away … i wonder how many more distortions and falsehoods will be spun. If you’ve watched Meet the Press or This Week or other Sunday shows, report in. Even though we’re “wacky,” we are curious little buggers.