Posted on 09/30/2006 5:04:17 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Rep. Foley (R-FL) has resigned from Congress after it became known that he had sent a series of sexually explicit messages to pages and high school students.
The two-week old warning on most fresh spinich has been lifted by the Federal Government.
Brazil says that a plane carrying 155 is missing from radar, last seen over the Amazon basin.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
I love your tag line. He needs to do the last part of it for me.
Peach. Prayers continue for you and your family. You and Hubby are truly Peaches.
Poor Bob, he was born with a wish to be noticed. So he wrote another book full of "anonymous" information.
Peach, re: Woodward's book, here's bascially what you need to know:
What accounts for the tsunami of publicity? Three decades after he was portrayed by Robert Redford in the movie version of the Watergate book "All the President's Men," Woodward has become a bankable commodity, his books virtually guaranteed to generate headlines and top bestseller lists.
But for all his popularity and credibility, Woodward has seen his reputation has taken a bit of a scuffing as detractors have assailed his recent books as too sympathetic toward Bush, Vice President Cheney and other officials who have cooperated with him. Woodward also apologized to The Post in November for failing to disclose for more than two years that an administration official had told him about Valerie Plame's status as a CIA operative, a silence he attributed to trying to avoid a subpoena from the special prosecutor investigating the leak.
The very title of "State of Denial" suggests a more sharp-edged approach than "Bush at War" or "Plan of Attack," although the latter, in particular, contained revelations about the administration that were seized upon by John Kerry's presidential campaign after its 2004 release. But the narrative pushed by Woodward's critics was that of a journalist who was an outsider while digging into the Nixon White House but had since become wealthy, famous and too cozy with those in the Bush White House.
The dominant theme of the new book -- that the administration was torn by internal divisions over Iraq and failed to recognize its blunders -- could prompt a reassessment of Woodward's work.
"In my view, his reputation had suffered from the first two books on the Bush administration, and I believe he's a very smart guy and he knows that," said Jay Rosen, a New York University journalism professor. "I think he was used to put out a narrative that was radically incomplete."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901655.html
FR thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711080/posts
That all makes sense; so much for Woodward's ethics. And I've seen an article or two where Andy Card and others have denied they wanted Rumsfeld fired and said flat out that Woodward has told bald faced lies in his book. Which means it will be an instant best seller.
Even John McLaughlin, not a Bush person, has stated categorically that statements and actions attributed to him in the book did not happen.
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Listening to Woodward reruns on Fox.
Ooooo. Henry Kissinger is almost like a member of the family. (Cue spooky music.)
More than anything this makes me think that they are following the Nixon/Vietnam template. I can remember how sinister the left thought Henry Kissinger was.
Good morning.
72 out already. I guess our mild temps are a thing of the past this week.
We're in the 80's today
I like the crisper temperatures of fall, but I also know that come January, I will be thinking fondly of warmer temps!!
We're suppose to be low 90s all week.
I would too if I knew freezing temps were on the way, but down here, it's just not the case.
I was looking forward to no a/c or much lesser use of the a/c. I guess it won't happen for awhile yet.
Good Morning.
I haven't turned the furnace on yet, and yesterday I heard the A/C kick in.
Another day in the 80's today, just like yesterday.
Oh, Tony Snow's on Fox right now!
LOL. Yes, we would say that in KS too.
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