Comments on: Cheney Interview: Pay2PlayPo Losing Its Ability to Report, Too

By: rhfactor

rhfactor — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:52:29 +0000

Marcy, please record this story & commentary/analysis to VIDEO and get it onto YouTube. It’s really important that you extend your media of choice in publishing. The Libby Trial reporting you did outside the courthouse was the best thing I have ever seen from the Progressive Movement. You’re long overdue for recording regularly on video and publishing to YouTube… whether on your own Emptywheel News Channel, or as a featured reporter for an established channel… for example how Josh Marshall initially recorded daily commentary for the funded channel “Veracifier”.

Yes, this is the same pestering nudging I gave you at YearlyKos II in Chicago. But it’s because you are a natural.. and gifted. Let your audience extend beyond the “already progressive” people. Your voice needs to penetrate the mainstream. your pal,

rhfactor

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:24:45 +0000

I also believe he is guilty of conspiring to whack, hit, snuff, eliminate, etc., etc., all the while being one of the most dangerous enemies of the State, The Constitution and The American People. Get with it Obama, times a wastin.

By: JasonLeopold

JasonLeopold — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:04:43 +0000

Oh. Apologies to EW for discussing OT matters on the thread.

By: JasonLeopold

JasonLeopold — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:02:55 +0000

Rayne@29 if you happen to notice anything in your own research that doesn’t square with what I reported or if there is anything in my report you notice that is incorrect or miniterpreted perhaps you can let me know and I will correct it and give you credit for it. I realize this issue is not ”new” per se (war for oil) but I think it offers a new perspective on things knowing what we know now and the information that has surfaced.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:57 +0000

Whoa. Leopold’s reporting means there’s a bunch more cross-checking to do WRT to Council on Foreign Relations, Baker Institute and the Energy Task Force.

Especially note the timing: while the so-called Independent Task Force was working on this report in advance of its April 2001 publication, Enron was tightening the screws on energy contracts, particularly in California.

ALL of the assumptions in this report are colored and shaped by the conditions set up by Enron, whose CEO was a participant in Cheney’s Energy Task Force.

If the Baker Institute/CFR report was intended as a Team B report to Cheney’s Team A, it failed miserably because it was not, could not be independent.

If it was the ONLY report and was a direct result of the work of the Energy Task Force, it is the product of manipulation from the get-go as all assumptions were based on facts generated by an Enron-influenced marketplace.

We went to war for this kind of crap, tortured people because of it, soiled our good name.

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:32:48 +0000

Blue Texan’s regularly scheduled 10:30 post is up and ready on the front page: “At Texas Tea Party, Joe The Plumber Recommends Forced Deportation of Immigrants”

By: phred

phred — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:19:41 +0000

If only Smith had borrowed Milbank’s smoking jacket, he might have had more energy to click & read ; )

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:06:15 +0000

Oh thanks for that, Matt! Nice work that Jason is closing up the other end of the loop, the one at the very forward edge of this mess.

The document he points to, “Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,” must have been the culmination of the Energy Task Force.

What we don’t have are the docs between Bush/Cheney’s inauguration and this April 2001 report which FourthBranch Cheney fought tooth and nail to keep out of the public’s grasp, which would have incriminated all the petrochemical players in the earliest planning of preemptive war on Iraq.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:01:21 +0000

And re the pay-to-play dinners, I’m starting to think Intrepid Investigative Reporter Howie Kurtz may have figured out this was a great idea and run to Katherine Weymouth to suggest it after his experience in April with Rahm:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02297.html

By: perris

perris — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:52:05 +0000

when I say failure, I mean, “did he succeed in anything but breaking things”

your answer is that he broke things quite well, to this I agree but all that takes is a sociopath, it takes not a shred of intelligence

at breaking things Cheney is clearly successful but that doesn’t give any reason to believe there is intelligence involved

in my opinion, anyone who is studied in the Leo Strauss school of sociopathy can be quite successful in breaking things regardless their level of intelligence