I posted some, in the early hours of April 1, But other than that. I didn’t post much at all.
I’m still wrestling the Days and Nights being mixed up thing.
I went to bed last night at like 12:30 and now I’m back up at 3:30 A.M.
So, I apologize for the spotting Blogging here.
Hopefully, I can get this crap straightened out.
Transcript: (via Media Matters for America)
From the March 31 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe:
SCARBOROUGH: You know, Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it’s a man, to be a real man. They — 1984, I remember Ronald Reagan goes to South Boston. He holds up that beer mug —
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: — in that South Boston pub, and everybody’s like, "He’s a real man," and I guess Barack Obama’s trying to do the same thing, too.
BRZEZINSKI: Stop it. Oh, come on.
SCARBOROUGH: Awful. Good Lord.
GEIST: He’s going to have to try a little harder than he did in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night —
SCARBOROUGH: Oh my God —
BRZEZINSKI: Really?
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, this is awful.
GEIST: — at the Pleasant Valley Rec Center. He went bowling, and let’s just take a quick look at it here. I guess I’ll just give you the final numbers. Started out nicely, got the Velcro shoes.
BRZEZINSKI: Looking good, looking good.
GEIST: But then he started bowling. The score you’re really after in bowling is 300; that’s a perfect score.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, OK.
SCARBOROUGH: That’s perfect score.
BRZEZINSKI: Good, good, good.
SCARBOROUGH: But, you know, if you get 200, you’re a good bowler.
GEIST: Sure. You know what?
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Two-fifty —
SCARBOROUGH: You get 150, you’re a man —
BRZEZINSKI: OK.
SCARBOROUGH: — or a good woman.
BRZEZINSKI: Stop it.
GEIST: Out of my president, I want a 150, at least. Barack Obama bowled — well, you can see his form here —
SCARBOROUGH: Hee!
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
GEIST: A 37.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh.
GEIST: That’s a three, next to a seven.
SCARBOROUGH: Baby, if you go to Altoona, Pennsylvania, on a Saturday night and you’re going to try to bowl —
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, that’s so dainty. Ugh.
GEIST: Get there, get there.
SCARBOROUGH: What a dainty —
GEIST and SCARBOROUGH: Oh!
BRZEZINSKI: A gutter ball, that’s like me bowling.
SCARBOROUGH: That is such a dainty release.
GEIST: If you’re the president, you want — you don’t want them to have to put those bumpers in the gutters.
SCARBOROUGH: Look, here we go, look at this. OK.
BRZEZINSKI: All right now.
[Scarborough squeals]
GEIST: Oh, it’s like a children’s birthday party.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, guys.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got a feeling he —
BRZEZINSKI: That was useless and stupid and [unintelligible].
SCARBOROUGH: — he didn’t go bowling in Cambridge that much. That’s a guy that’s been studying a lot of — reading a lot of books.
[…]
FORD: One thing I thought he did a great job of this week — he’s done a lot of great things but —
SCARBOROUGH: Not bowling.
FORD: No.
SCARBOROUGH: Have you ever bowled before, Harold?
FORD: I do, I have.
SCARBOROUGH: You ever bowl?
FORD: I’m embarrassed to say, but I do.
BRZEZINSKI: Harold, make your point.
FORD: My other point is just —
SCARBOROUGH: No, no, I’m curious. If you were running for president in Altoona, Pennsylvania —
FORD: They can walk him through —
SCARBOROUGH: He got a 37 —
FORD: — feed milk to him —
SCARBOROUGH: Harold, he got a 37 bowling in Altoona, Pennsylviania.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, Harold.
GEIST: So sorry.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
FORD: He probably shouldn’t do that again, but I tell you, it showed a human side to him. I mean, it showed a very humble side to him.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: He is a politician.
SCARBOROUGH: A very human side? A prissy side.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, stop it. Now, that’s just not nice.
SCARBOROUGH: Anyway, make your point.
FORD: He’s a heck of an athlete, by the way.
SCARBOROUGH: Is he really?
FORD: Actually, heck of an athlete.
SCARBOROUGH: It sure didn’t look it, the way that he was just —
BRZEZINSKI: Oh my God.
SCARBOROUGH: He was pushing it this way, right there.
BRZEZINSKI: You have to take it and run with it, Harold.
FORD: But he looked like — I mean, he looked like folks, he looked like an American. A Pennsylvanian — he looked like someone, day in and day out —
[crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: No, no, no.
SCARBOROUGH: He was bowling in his tie —
FORD: — except the bowling. The bowling hurt it.
BRZEZINSKI: Harold, take my advice.
FORD: The bowling — I mean, I thought it was 137. You sure it was 37?
SCARBOROUGH: It was 37. That is awful.
BRZEZINSKI: You have to — there is no way. There is no way out of this one.
[…]
SCARBOROUGH: So Harold, so Harold, though —
FORD: He’s my buddy. I can’t believe you make me laugh at –.
SCARBOROUGH: But you say he’s a good athlete?
BRZEZINSKI: He’s a dancer.
[crosstalk]
FORD: He’s a heck of a basketball player.
SCARBOROUGH: Is he really?
FORD: Heck of a basketball player.
SCARBOROUGH: OK.
FORD: As a matter of fact, I spent a little time with his brother-in-law over the weekend who can also play.
BRZEZINSKI: I’d think you’d have a hard time against him —
SCARBOROUGH: How tall is he?
FORD: How tall is Barack?
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
FORD: Barack’s probably 6’2".
SCARBOROUGH: Really?
FORD: 6’2", 6’3", yeah. He’s a big guy.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: Well then, I better be quiet because —
FORD: Yeah, probably.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, I think you should.
SCARBOROUGH: I mean, I’m bigger than he is.
BRZEZINSKI: I still think you should be quiet.
FORD: You should reach out to a bowl-off.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll challenge him to a bowl-off. But basketball — he looks like he’s in pretty good shape. I would just have to post low.
GEIST: Right.
FORD: And I’d throw him a pass on you, too. I’ve seen you. I think he could probably take you down the sideline on a post route.
BRZEZINSKI:
Oh no. Please don’t, don’t don’t don’t go there. You didn’t just do this.
[crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: Wait, wait. I’m sorry? You talking football now?
BRZEZINSKI: Guys —
FORD: I mean, that’s one sport y’all can still play at Florida —
[crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got 5 yards.
BRZEZINSKI: Harold?
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got 5 yards, bump and run. He’s not going down the field.
FORD: Oh, Joe.
SCARBOROUGH: You know what my nickname was in college?
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, Lord, help me.
SCARBOROUGH: The "Round Mound of Rebound." On the basketball court, you just go low and lean.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, well, 15 million Big Macs later, I don’t think that name applies, honey.
[…]
SCARBOROUGH: Let’s bring in right now David Axelrod, he’s chief strategist for the Obama campaign. David, we have to ask a question, what did you know, when did you know it —
BRZEZINSKI: And what were you thinking?
SCARBOROUGH: What were you thinking? Why did you allow your candidate to bowl a 37 in Altoona, Pennsylvania? America waits for your answer, sir.
AXELROD: Well, if you’re going to bowl a 37, Altoona’s a good a place as any, Joe. No, listen. I think it was tremendously insightful of the candidate not to try and show up any of the other bowlers there.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll tell you what —
AXELROD: I mean, that’s the kind of political sophistication that you want —
GEIST: There you go.
AXELROD: What’s worse, I mean, listen, what made that worse was that right after that, Hillary Clinton revealed that she had bowled a 300 with the prime minister of Uzbekistan. So —
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, here we go.
[crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, that’s harsh [unintelligible]. David —
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll tell you what, that is some spin, my man.
BRZEZINSKI: No, you didn’t.
SCARBOROUGH: First of all, you say he got the 37. That’s why he gets the big bucks. He says —
AXELROD: So he didn’t bowl 10 frames, Joe. He didn’t bowl 10 frames, and as he’s proven, he’s a strong finisher.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, OK.
AXELROD: So —
BRZEZINSKI: No. David?
AXELROD: Let’s put the whole thing in perspective.
From the 10 a.m. ET hour of the March 31 edition of MSNBC Live:
HALL: Well, Barack Obama — his friends say he’s a whiz on the basketball court and he can hold his own on the dance floor — and he’s got a gift, of course, for speaking. But one thing Barack Obama cannot do, and I think it’s official — he can’t bowl. Mr. Obama scored a 37 when he hit the lanes this weekend. And yes, he bowled all 10 frames. That’s impossible. Well, voters in Pennsylvania will give him some pointers for his effort.
I do sometimes catch his show in the mornings. But I think the guy is a fucking dick, quite frankly. Someone who picked on kids in school, a spoiled rich kid who thought he was something big. I would love to see nothing more than some beat the living fucking shit out of Joe right on the air, on his own show.
I honestly do not know how Mika Brzezinski puts up with it. I wouldn’t, I’d bitch and have his ass fired. He’s said so much offensive stuff to her, as a woman, it is unbelievable.
He’s the kind of Republican, that I cannot stand. The kind with the "I am better than you", Attitude.
Others: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Reaction, The New Republic, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Gateway Pundit
Obama 51%, Clinton 43% So says Gallup Poll.
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That is the report from "Danger Room", A National Security Blog at Wired.com.
Quote:
A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent Bloggers."
Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs — and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops’ time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad.
This report does not surprise me, nor is a huge revelation. I believe that US Military in Iraq, at some point, when the Iraq War began to turn sour, began to instruct some of it’s Military personnel to sign up for Blogs, say on Blogspot and WordPress, under false Iraqi names, like Omar and Mohammad, and to begin to preach the good values of this War and the Bush Administration.
One of these blogs already exists. It is called "Iraq, The Model"; it has been in existence since November of 2003. It is "supposedly" run by someone in Iraq.
Sorry, I am not buying it. The English is too good. I accused the person that owns this Blog of being a covert American once and he flew into a rage and called me a liar, and then amazingly my comments on the Blog disappeared. As if he did not want to arouse anyone’s suspicions, I suppose.
My question is, does the Bush Administration really believe that the American people are that damned gullible? That we are just going to blindly buy the lie that this war is just going along smoothly and everything is perfect. I mean really!
Coupled with that and continued moving of the Goal posts as to why we should be there! First, it was to topple Saddam, and then it became to fight against Al-Qaeda, and so forth. I mean, somewhere along the line, the American people realized that the Bush Administration was full of crap.
It just cracks me up, that George W. Bush and his Administration actually sit up there, in the White House thinking of ways that they can deceive the American people into believing that this war was even remotely justified. Everyone knows, that actually reads the news, which is good percentage of America, that the whole invasion of Iraq was an abdication of U.S. Intelligence, from the ground up. Does anyone remember, "Slam Dunk"?
Mr. President, in case you have been away or a bit busy, this is not 1941! We do have the thing called the Internet and a thing called Blogs and various other kinds of Alternative news sources! You cannot control the type of news that comes out of Iraq. No matter how hard you try! You would think a man that ended up in the White House would be smart enough to know this sort of a thing. But then again, we are talking about George W. Bush, the former cokehead, the former womanizer, the former Drunk, the guy who walked away from the Military, the Former Black sheep of the Bush Family, are we not?
Of course, upon further reflection, this is the mindset of the Republican Party, the party of the wealthy in our society. The sick and twisted mentality of "They are just stupid common people, they’ll believe anything we tell them.” The sad part is, within the Republican Party, there does exist a certain amount of that sort of Mentality. It is generally made up of the viewers of the Fox News Channel. In fairness, there are liberals like that too. "Believe what you are told and shut up and accept it and get back to work!" is the mentality of the good part of America. Thank God for people like Edward C. Marrow, and Keith Olbermann and many others, including those in the Blogging community, that have stood up and said, "No More!" and have sought to expose this Administration for what it is. Corrupt.
I am not sure how I feel about this story, angry or sad. Angry because of the Blatant stupidity that it exhibits, or sad for our nation, sad because the American government is having to stoop to the level of hiring professional Bloggers to print lies about this war.
November 2008 cannot come quick enough for me.
Others: THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, Think Progress, Shakesville and Left in the West (via Memeoradum)
