Monday, September 27, 2004

"DON'T LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"

You have to love the editorial staff at the New York Times. Well, not really, I don’t, but whatever. The Times has their dress up over their head because the investigation, the investigation they wanted so much, into Valerie Plame’s outing as a CIA desk jockey has ended up with subpoena’s to reporters asking for their sources.

Seriously, take a step back and think about this. The Times demands that the government find out who gave the name of Valerie Plame to Robert Novak. Ask yourself, what’s the easiest, quickest and most reliable way to do this? ASK NOVAK!!! No, you can’t ask a reporter who his source was; that’s immoral. You need to shuffle around the Pentagon (the world's largest office building) and the White House, asking everyone you see if they spilled the beans. That’s what the Times wants:

“The focus of the leak inquiry has lately shifted from the Bush White House, where it properly belongs, to an attempt to compel journalists to testify and reveal their sources. In an ominous development for freedom of the press and government accountability that hits particularly close to home, a federal judge in Washington has ordered a reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller, to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the covert operative's identity and to describe any conversations she had with "a specified executive branch official." (emphasis mine)

We also get this:

“This chilling rejection of both First Amendment principles and evolving common law notions of a privilege protecting a reporter's confidential sources cries out for rejection on appeal, as does the undue secrecy surrounding the special prosecutor's filings in the case.”

The First Amendment doesn’t give a reporter special privileges when it comes to a court subpoena, as much as the Times whishes it would. Reports are people, too and need to follow all of the rules. What the Times wants is to stonewall investigations and at the same time complain about how long it’s taking.

Sounds a bit familiar, doesn’t it? Hillary?

Thursday, September 23, 2004

MY CUP RUNNETH OVER

Well, I’ve been out of the loop for a long time and I was wondering how to come back. I thought maybe the CBS Danron scandal might do it, or maybe it would be the ongoing Kerry, “I’m for it” and “I’m against it “ stance on Iraq, but no. Nothing was inspiring me to write again, nothing was sending me back to the blogsphere.

Finally, there was IT. That story that inspired. That story that resonated. That story that said, “Mike, this is it. This is what inspires YOU.”

Russ Meyer has died at 82

Who? Who, you ask? Why he was the King of all things breastly! If you like your girls, umm… well represented, you like Russ Meyer.

And I like Russ Meyer. A lot.

Goodbye, King Leer, good by, you who dispelled the myth that more than a mouthful is a waste. More IS better and A LOT MORE is A LOT BETTER!!

And he brought us the best movie title ever, "Faster Pussycat! Kill!, Kill!". What's not to love about him?

The peace loving Muslims who behead contractors and blow themselves up think they will be met by 72 virgins – may you be met by 72 pairs of DD cups.