[paulat]

...couldn't happen to a nicer bunch....

[Prime Choice]

“Thirty-three days in this hell-hole feels like thirty-three years,” said a bitter long-time White House correspondent.

Think of it as a trial run for where you're likely to spend eternity, Mr. Candy-Assed Correspondent.

[CyberAnt]

"... Rove held up a copy of the magazine and made sinister flushing noises. The correspondent was treated for shock at the local hospital and released later in the day."


I hope that's true!! It's lovely!

[SevenofNine]

Is this a joke by Arianna Sweet darling get up for air you making jack*** of yourself

MAN I got ping Daily Dosers on this LOL!

[dts32041]

This sums up why they hate GWB so much, he rather be in texas in August instead of Martha's vineyard.

Of course GWB could have gone to Iraq and taken the white house press corps with him there.

What a vacation spot that would be.

[Tall_Texan]

I'm sure Dickie Durbin would compare it to Auschwitz.

[okie01]

One of them, at least, has a sense of humor.

Texas in August: heaven on earth.

Though, to some, it might seem like hell...

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

why is yahoo news posting a blog article?

[nightowl]

Maybe the judge should pack up Judith Miller and sentence her to "Camp Crawford" for the next 30 days. I bet she would be singing like a bird in a week.

It's quite hot here in Texas these days.

[RayChuang88]

Can somebody dig out the original version posted on Free Republic back in early August 2001? That one was a classic.

[Allegra]

“Thirty-three days in this hell-hole feels like thirty-three years,” said a bitter long-time White House correspondent. “You’re away from your family. We’re all billeted into these crappy Waco motels—you know, the kind they hose down with antiseptic every day and you’ve got one lousy blanket which is made of recycled Coke bottles or something. There are huge fights for the cells with fast Internet connections but not many have them. The networks always get those. We didn’t mind the facilities in Santa Barbara or Martha’s Vineyard. Even Kennebunkport was more endurable than this.”

Oh, how my heart bleeds! Poor thing!

Let's see....I've been in Iraq for a year and a half, away from family, in less-than-spectacular living conditions, the food is...well, edible...

This is not a complaint. I signed up for this. Just like these whiney scumbags signed up for White House correspondence duty.

So, the amount of sympathy they get from me is

ZERO.

[Allegra]

Hey, Valerie...look at the flattering terms in which the whiney, loafer-wearing, cappuccino-drinking media scum are describing your neck of the woods.

You're going to need a giant fumigation system after all that vermin leaves.

[Salamander]

I'm amazed that somebody could sob into their apron and type a blog entry at the same....:)

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is very funny.

[Semper Paratus]

If only Kerry had won they would be wind-surfing on Nantucket right now.

[OESY]

THERE'S MORE:


The new documents obtained by the ACLU indicate that reporter abuse at Crawford went beyond anything the government acknowledged. For example, in one e-mail, dated July 16, 2004, an FBI agent, whose name is deleted, reports seeing a journalist at Crawford "sitting on the floor of the interview room with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud music being played and a strobe light flashing".

In another, dated August 2, 2004, an unidentified FBI agent reports "on a couple of occasions" entering interview rooms at Crawford and finding one of the journalists "chained hand and foot in a fetal position to his typewriter, with no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, figuratively speaking, and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more, until they met their deadlines. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room that the baldfaced journalist was shaking with cold. When I asked the MPs [military police] what was going on, I was told that interviewers from the day prior had ordered this treatment."

Another document reports that a female US military interviewer stroked and applied lotion to an older schmuck reporter, yanked his thumbs back, causing him to grimace in pain, and then "grabbed his Geritol". Some of the abuse "apparently involves allowing the journalists to engage in sexual activity between themselves," a gross misapplication of the standards of professional courtesy. Charges are being investigated that not a single female reporter was involved.

[chgomac]

The MSM start many of their broadcasts with "It's 5:00 o'clock in New York, 2am in Baghdad....."

I can tell the time difference on my own....wish they'd tell me:

"it's 90 degrees today in New York.....______degrees where our troops are serving in Iraq"

[hispanarepublicana]

I always laugh my a55 off when I think of Pres. Bush coming down here in August to introduce the pansy, pasty, Presidential press corps to a few thousand of his mosquito friends in 105 degree, 90 percent humidity Texas. And no fresh tofu for miles!!!