Eric Florack on September 21st, 2007

I see Mary Mapes posted a note for Dan Rather, over at HuffPo last night. And of course, it’s all OUR fault…

Here we go again.

It has been three years since we aired our much-maligned story on President Bush’s

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Eric Florack on September 21st, 2007

Am I the only one embarrassed by the dingbat brouhaha over Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s attempt to visit Ground Zero to lay a wreath?

No, Josh Marshall, the sad part is, I expect you’re not.

So what’s the problem exactly?

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Eric Florack on September 21st, 2007

Bruce over at Q&O reminds us:

 Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee reminds us that today is the two month anniversary of Franklin Foer’s promise that TNR would get to the bottom of the Scott Thomas Beauchamp thing.

*crickets*

Yeah,

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Eric Florack on September 21st, 2007

Here we go again, with more indication of a serious split in the Democratic party.

This time, TPM’s Election Central is reporting:

The GOP-introduced resolution condemning MoveOn just passed by a huge margin, 72-25. Roughly half the Democrats in

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

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Prompted by the following action alert from GDG contributor Kenneth Timmerman, I discovered that Iranian president Ahmadinejad still plans to visit ‘ground zero’, despite the NYPD’s refusal to allow it for “security

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davidl on September 20th, 2007

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“Hillary Clinton had a choice. She could stand with our troop commander in Iraq, or she could stand with the libelous left wing of her party. She chose the latter. The idea that she would be a credible commander-in-chief of

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007
  • Someone whose judgments I value told me here just recently, that it’s not how many hits you’re getting that really matters to the stature of a blog, but who is reading. I’m starting to understand what he meant. The recent

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

I’ve taken Megan McArdle to task on several occasions in these spaces in the recent past.  This isn’t going to be one of those days.  Our topic, this time, is a bounce off from rabid foamer Cass Sunstein, who

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

A rather startling comment from Jawa Report, this morning:

We won the war, so Iraqis have finally come to believe. Only on the streets of Europe and America is there really a question over “if” we can win.

Again:

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

ahmadinejad.jpgMichelle Malkin suggests giving Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a real New Yawk welcome.  Michelle asks is it “Time to organize an Ahmadinejad welcoming party?” For her part, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, is organizing the party.

A truely appropriate

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Eric Florack on September 19th, 2007

There is an old saying that states that there is a limit to smart, but there is no limit to stupid.  Apparently, Dan rather fits the latter category rather nicely. But I’m not so sure about it.

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Eric Florack on September 19th, 2007

NASIRIYAH WATER PLANT TURNED OVER TO GOI

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NASIRIYAH WATER PLANT TURNED OVER TO GOI

SUSPECTED SHEIK SATTAR ASSASSINATION PLANNER CAPTURED

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SUSPECTED SHEIK SATTAR ASSASSINATION PLANNER CAPTURED

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Eric Florack on September 19th, 2007

I find myself more than vaguely  insulted by Michael Gerson’s column in the Washington Post this morning.

It is a strange spectacle. Conservatives are intent on building a more appealing, post-Bush Republican Party. But their most obvious change so far

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Eric Florack on September 19th, 2007

Says Boortz:

This one was for our BBC friends: Muslim dentist in the UK told a patient that she had to wear a headscarf in order to be treated.

The Jawa Report notes the same story and quotes the story

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davidl on September 19th, 2007

What goes around comes around.  Hardly a day goes by without Henry Waxman or Senator Depends mourning about the Bush administration lack of response to congressional subpoenas.

Well now the shoe, on the other foot.  It is congressmen who being

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