One of the projects I have been working on for the past six months is now coming to fruition.
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Via the Firedoglake blog:
A virus is dogging three-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman. One of its gestation spots is www.youtube.com, a web site where anyone can post a homemade video.
Go there and search for “Ned Lamont.” He’s the liberal Greenwich businessman staging a spirited challenge to Lieberman for the Democratic nomination.
Up spring a queue of videos posted by bloggers who love Lamont and despise Lieberman. There’s Ned on WFSB-TV. Ned giving a speech in Southbury. Ned on “Beyond the Headlines.” A montage of Ned photos and messages played to the tune of “Rock The Boat.”
Now search for “Joe Lieberman.” Up spring a queue of videos posted by bloggers who … love Lamont and despise Lieberman. Joe on TV defending the war in Iraq. Joe equivocating on Bush’s illegal wiretapping. A montage of Abu Ghraib torture and President Bush and Joe Lieberman photos played to the tune of “Masters of War.” (The fade-out switches to Lamont and “All You Need Is Love.”)
The bloggers who spend untold hours preparing these videos also post articles and comments and campaign information all over the Web attacking Lieberman and enlisting supporters for Lamont’s campaign.
They don’t report to Lamont headquarters in Meriden. They don’t charge a cent.
No wonder Lieberman, who months ago seemed the safest of safe incumbents, has been uncharacteristically testy and stumbling lately, getting booed at the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner, getting into a bizarre confrontation with radio talk-show host Colin McEnroe over the evil of bloggers and The New York Times. (The transcript’s at www.firedoglake.com (search: Lieberman).
The man who was so ahead of the political curve when he entered the Senate 18 years ago is now hopelessly behind it.
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If this isn’t clear evidence of deceit and of the preparations for committing war crimes, I don’t know what is …
Read the whole post at TPM blog.
Think about it.
It’s devastating evidence against their credibility on a slew of levels.
Did you read in any of those reports — even in a way that would protect sources and methods — that the CIA had turned a key member of the Iraqi regime, that that guy had said there weren’t any active weapons programs, and that the White House lost interest in what he was saying as soon as they realized it didn’t help the case for war? What about what he said about the Niger story?
Did the Robb-Silbermann Commission not hear about what Drumheller had to say? What about the Roberts Committee?
I asked Drumheller just those questions when I spoke to him early this evening. He was quite clear. He was interviewed by the Robb-Silbermann Commission. Three times apparently.
Did he tell them everything he revealed on tonight’s 60 Minutes segment. Absolutely.
Drumheller was also interviewed twice by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (the Roberts Committee) but apparently only after they released their summer 2004 report.
Now, quite a few of us have been arguing for almost two years now that those reports were fundamentally dishonest in the story they told about why we were so badly misled in the lead up to war. The fact that none of Drumheller’s story managed to find its way into those reports, I think, speaks volumes about the agenda that the writers of those reports were pursuing.
“I was stunned,” Drumheller told me, when so little of the stuff he had told the commission’s and the committee’s investigators ended up in their reports. His colleagues, he said, were equally “in shock” that so little of what they related ended up in the reports either.
What Drumheller has to say adds quite a lot to our knowledge of what happened in the lead up to war. But what it shows even more clearly is that none of this stuff has yet been investigated by anyone whose principal goal is not covering for the White House.
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.. the big-dog blogs with lots of traffic, like Firedoglake and Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo are getting in on the Net Neutrality debate.
From Firedoglake:
The big ISPs want to control the Internet. The battle is over “net neutrality.”
As soon as this coming Wednesday, it could all be set in motion because Republicans and Democrats are set to make this happen. If you don’t know what it is watch this video now, because it effects you. It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been writing on the web for 10 years. That’s a long time, longer than most. In all those years I’ve never heard of anything quite so dangerous as what’s now being debated in the Congress. Matt Stoller will be blogging about the consequences all this week as it plays out. Another site for information is SaveTheInternet. Josh Marshall has a discussion going on over at TPMCafe. Let me give you an example of how this could play out. If you’re Barnes and Noble and pay the right ISP, your site will open faster than, say, “YourLocalBookStore.com.” There are so many things wrong with this idea it’s hard to know where to start.
The Internet is a free flowing, democratic forum where every site is created equal, big or small, conglomerate or start-up. Congress is about to change all that because they like the money they get from big telco companies.
The threat is bigger than you realize, but there’s more.
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