Liegirls: phone sex for deluded conservatives.
(For the inevitable one percent of the audience which will somehow manage to miss the point — it’s a joke. I think.)
New advertiser
I’ve got a new ad up, over to the right, from Three Rivers Press, which is publishing the latest book from my friend Peter Kuper. Now, of course, I would always urge you to do a little click-through on all my advertisers (and those of you aren’t bothering should really take the time, because it is quite literally the least you can do to help keep this site afloat). But I especially urge you to check this one out. Peter Kuper is one of the most talented artists it has ever been my privilege to know, and if you are not familiar with his work, you owe it to yourself to take a look.
Say what?
The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, “We’re not going to have any casualties.”
Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He described Bush in the meeting as “the most self-assured man I’ve ever met in my life.”
Yet another outrage
Overloaded yet?
It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general’s office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the Congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.
“It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed,” an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that “the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren’t interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward.”
Safire
Extraordinary. An entire column on fearmongering — by Democrats. The day after Dick Cheney once again invokes the spectre of nuclear terrorism.
They — and by “they” I mean Bush supporters in general — honestly do seem to believe they can just create their own reality, that saying something makes it true. It would be laughable if the consequences weren’t so tragic.