Wow. Things move fast on the tubes. Hot off the heals of Chris Crocker’s emotional Britney Spears defense (see here and here) comes this video, via Chris Hayes, defending President Bush’s speech last night. Kind of hysterical, enjoy:
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Petraeus has licensed himself out to the right-wing noise machine.
By all accounts he’s one of the most knowledgeable people on counter-insurgency in the US military. But he’s reduced himself to being no more than another White House press operative, with all that entails for his credibility.
–Josh Marshall, on the news that General Petraeus will give an exclusive one hour interview to Brit Hume of Fox News after his congressional testimony today.
Via Gabe Roth I learn that one of my favorite books, and one of the better books I’ve read on the Iraq War, Generation Kill is being turned into a 7 hour miniseries for HBO. Even better, its being co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns of “The Wire” fame. I don’t want to get my expectations up too high but I hope they do justice to the book. It’s really good.
“It’s certainly true that conservatives today are more divided than liberals about whether the Iraq war has been a fiasco. I simply disagree about what this fact tells us. Conservatives see their split on this proposition as evidence of intellectual acuity. I see it as evidence that roughly half of all conservatives are barking mad,” - Jon Chait
(via Andrew Sullivan who got it from Matt Yglesias)
…we were told major combat operations in Iraq were over by the President of the United States. How’d that work out?
And via Atrios we get the Media Matters look back at the media coverage of President Bush’s aircraft carrier PR stunt. Every member of the media, every single one, should be ashamed.
Interesting chart of Friedman Units (every time Thom Friedman says we should give Iraq six more months). Are people starting to figure out that this guy is a moron? (via Chris Hayes)
99% of my focus on the media is how much it sucks but it wouldn't be fair to ignore instances when they do a good job. So here's a little story MSNBC did that, while hardly groundbreaking or newsworthy, will pull on the old heartstrings.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVcH4oqrgsk[/youtube]