Funny little photoshop.

I love that picture. You can do so much with it.

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Like f'n' clockwork.

As TVGasm suggests, we should encourage the Emmy voters to vote for Rosie, just because it would be so embarassing for all involved.

At the very least, I think they should give Riding the Bus With My Sister an award for special technical achievement in wacky t-shirts.

Thanks to Nathan.

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10. George Bush's hometown is Crawford, Texas, not "Fuckhead Junction," as Mr. Krguman maintains

9. Alan Greenspan's most recent testimony stated that the economic growth is "strong with some risk of inflation;" he did not say "If I were you, I'd start investing heavily in diamonds, guard dogs, and automatic weapons"

8. Dick Cheney is not "a man so mean he once shot a man just for snorin'"

7. Contrary to Mr. Krugman's suggestion, the Treasury is not researching the possibility of replacing the dime's image of FDR with Adam Sandler from Billy Madison (although it is true that Bush is "a big fan")

6. It was a highly misleading use of statistics for Mr. Krugman to conclude that "By the year 2008, you'll all have to sell your children into a Thailand psycho-sexual circus just to pay for a pack of Lucky Strikes"

5. No administration official every said the Iraqi people would great us with "sweets and flowers;" certainly no high-ranking Bush official said "The Iraqis will be so happy we're bombing them they'll rub their palms raw giving our boys erotic foot massages and/or 'whirling dervish handjobs'"

4. Bush has no plans to hyperinflate the US currency to both obliterate the deficit and "just so he can impress his fat-cat Enron buddies by making a paper-mache statue of Travis Tritt from thousand dollar bills"

3. Mr. Bush gets his intelligence information from highly-qualified national security professionals, and not by gleaning old episodes of Quantum Leap for "coded messages" from Ziggy "about the future"

2. There is simply no truth to the claim that Bush has any attention of appointing "Constantine" from American Idol as Ambassador to Pakistan because "the guy just drips sex" and "really killed on that cover of Bohemian Rhapsody"

...and the Number One Other Paul Krugman Error, Distortion, or Flat-Out Lie...

1. Social Security will go bankrupt no later than 2042 and not, per Mr. Krugman's calculations, "sometime around the age of Logan's Run, when the Carousel will take care of the pension problem anyway, and I'll finally get to bang Jenny Agutter"

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Daniel Okrent went far too easy on this lying liar who tells lying lies, but still, he's created a bit of a stir, and that's all for the good.

Okrent:

...I learned early on in this job that Prof. Krugman would likely be more willing to contribute to the Frist for President campaign than to acknowledge the possibility of error. When he says he agreed 'reluctantly' to one correction, he gives new meaning to the word 'reluctantly'; I canÂ’t come up with an adverb sufficient to encompass his general attitude toward substantive criticism.

and

...I laid off for so long because I also believe that columnists are entitled by their mandate to engage in the unfair use of statistics, the misleading representation of opposing positions, and the conscious withholding of contrary data. But because theyÂ’re entitled doesnÂ’t mean I or you have to like it, or think itÂ’s good for the newspaper.

Don Luskin is in hog heaven, and he recaps some of Krugman's most egregious errors, deliberate distortions, and wholesale inventions.

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Stocks rise on news on slower-than-expected manufacturing growth, because the fear is that too much growth would lead to inflation.

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I see a lot of conservatives questioning the motives of Deep Throat/Mark Felt.

Why?

Yes, the man seems to have mixed motives. So what? I gotta tell ya, re-fighting Watergate does not seem to be a smart move for us.

What Nixon did was pretty bad, even if you assume the best (that he was only involved in trying to cover up for rogue operatives, learning of the break-in after the fact). Worse still was his use of "national security" as an excuse to cover up domestic lawbreaking that would be politically damaging to himself if revealed.

Talk about mixed motives.

It's interesting to learn Felt's motives, but honestly, they don't have much to do with the main story. Most leakers have mixed motives-- as do most human beings, generally.

Knocking Felt for being a fairly normal bureaucrat more concerned with career advancement than with the Fate of the Republic is petty sniping-- what the hell else are bureaucrats worried about?

Attacking the messenger works sometimes (see, Clinton, William J., and Starr, Kenneth), but it sure as hell ain't gonna work here.

Let it go.

Even Nixon said he gave his enemies the dagger with which to stab him and they twisted the blade with relish.

The story is marginally interesting (actually, it's less interesting than the mystery was, but that's almost all true) but there's no percentage in maligning him as some sort of three-bumper-shot to vindicate Nixon.

I have similar feelings about John Dean. I hate John Dean, but I try not to say so, because the implication is that I'd've preferred it if he continued participating in the cover-up. Which really isn't something I'm comfortable admitting.

Hmmmm... Speaking of John Dean, he floated the rumor that Deep Throat was in poor health and that we might soon learn his identity (as W&B famously vowed to never reveal his name until his death).

Maybe a good guess, or maybe he knew something:

Felt, 91, is said to be in poor mental and physical health because of a stroke, and earlier on Tuesday, his family asked the news media to respect his privacy "in view of his age and health."

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And oddly enough, he's not listed on the CJR's masthead.

A bit more at Powerline.

Gee, you'd almost think that they were trying to hide something.

I'm so glad that establishment media outfits have such strict rules of ethics and disclosure that we in the Shadow Media don't.

In the interests of disclosure, I guess it's time for me to admit something: I, too, am a co-owner of The Nation. I bought into it as a tax dodge, about the same time I bought a thoroughbred named "Gimpy."

Posted by: Ace at 10:37 AM | Comments (7)
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If you've kept it clean and noncontroversial, there may be a 50-70 K job out there waiting for you.

Blogging about advances in mobile phone technology. Or in popcorn technology.

Sounds like a scream.

On the other hand, there's money.

Thanks to FatKid.

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I'm not going to read it, but that doesn't mean you can't.

Nora Ephron (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally, among others) has an actual amusing piece over at the Huffington Post:

For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep ThroatÂ’s identity. It has been hell, and I have dealt with the situation by pretty much telling just about anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was. Not for nothing is indiscretion my middle name.

She says she figured it out herself (former husband Carl Bernstein didn't tell her, she says).

Although I have to say the "clues" she says led to this deduction are no more compelling than the various clues fingering, say, Golda Meir as Deep Throat.

Thanks to the National Journal's Blogometer.

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...they continue filibustering Bolton while claiming they're doing no such thing:

Do you remember the point in the Clinton impeachment trial when former Arkansas Democratic Sen. Dale Bumpers, paraphrasing H.L. Mencken, said, “When you hear somebody say, ‘This is not about money,’ it’s about money. And when you hear somebody say, ‘This is not about sex,’ it’s about sex”?

That would be a good idea to keep in mind when considering the Senate debate over the nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

“We are not filibustering,” Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) said last week.

“We are not here to filibuster Mr. Bolton’s nomination,” said Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

“Since the administration has refused to provide [information], the only choice we have is to deny the vote on this nomination until there is full compliance,” said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). “That is not a filibuster.”

With apologies to Dale Bumpers and H.L. Mencken, you know when that many people say itÂ’s not about a filibuster, itÂ’s about a filibuster.

Note that they're filibustering via the non-filibuster supposedly because Bush won't let them see secret intelligence intercepts that Bolton requested. Of course Bush can't let them see those-- which is why they requested them in the first place. They know he can't comply, and thus they can blame the non-filibuster filibuster on his noncompliance.

And prepare for a shock-- the media is covering this up. Not wanting the public to get the crazy idea that the Democrats are filibustering just days after their "moderates" brokered a deal and promised a new era of amity, the media is uninterested in asking any of these moderates why the filibuster continues.

And, drat, I can't find it now, but I think Hugh Hewitt had a fun piece about the Washington Post's coverage of the filibuster last week, in which the article used every possible synonym for "filibuster" while avoiding actually using the word. When the Democrats tell the Washington Post it's not a filibuster, they dutifully report it as being a non-filibuster filibuster. They know who butters their biscuits.

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