Libby Thread - Friday Afternoon [OK, Thursday]

I apologize for the blackout - I have been having a mix of Typepad and ISP problems.

However, here is a new thread.  Finally.

The NY Times had a front-pager on the firedoglake site. so congrats to them.  Clarice Feldman of The American Thinker was also mentioned, so we are nearly famous.

Arianna Huffington and Jeralyn Merritt were not mentioned, so I was in excellent company.  And it is remotely possible that I am not on the Times's Christmas card list because of my Wake Up Calls to Neil Lewis, which has become a regular feature.

Or perhaps my post-trial lapse back into well-deserved obscurity has begaun a few days early.

Comments

[Joe]

So let me be the first to ask.
Is there any news?

[Javani]

Libby Thread - Friday Afternoon

Friday?

[Lew Clark]

You were mentioned on Ace of Spades HQ. That's bigger than the NYT!

Javani,
It is Friday Afternoon in that "special place" where the MSM get their facts.

[Rick Ballard]

Javani,

"Tomorrow's news today." is the JOM motto. We're always way ahead.

[tom maguire]

News? I can barely check the weather.

Back later.

[M. Simon]

I'll still visit even when Friday comes on Thursday. Or is it the other way around?

Could you do a post on that? LOL

[M. Simon]

Ace mentions me every once in a while.

I guess I've hit the bigtime.

[M. Simon]

Heck I got a mention at American Thinker once.

[centralcal]

posted on the other thread, am posting here too:

Oh. My. Gawd. Olbermann not only renewed his contract with MSNBC, he is going to cross-over and "report" for NBC News too!

http://media.nationalreview.com/

[Gary Maxwell]

Tom

I sense a Joe Namath moment here. In fact his book title " I cant wait for tomorrow, cuz I get better looking every day" seems like at least a great subtitle for this thread!

[Other Tom]

I suspect the exquisitely insightful Prof. Juan Cole has loaned Tom his time machine.

[Jane]

The Moody Blues would be mortified!

[clarice]

WOuldn't do to cite to the best bloggers and blog on the subject, especially one which has pantsed Neil Lewis daily.

Next time, invite the pros at the NYT to your pad full of swampettes, salami and crackers so he can still feel cuperior to someone.

[clarice]

***Superior*******(p.s. there was no link to the AT so readers could actually see what I wrote.)

[Extraneus]

Cheney the New York Times.

[jwest]

Clarice,

Have you found any flights out of the snow?

[centralcal]

John Dickerson on Slate today:

"There was applause, like the tentative clapping at the end of a wedding. What to make of this? I think it's good news for Scooter Libby. This has been a tedious case, with lots of little irritating details, and yet the jury is still upbeat. And uncynical. Valentine's Day is the most contrived holiday in the calendar, and the jury seemed ready to press sugared hearts into the palms of strangers. People with this kind of cheeriness could be open to the human side of Scooter Libby—the dedicated if fabulously forgetful fellow portrayed by the defense. The one questionable juror is the art curator who in the backward style of old newsmagazines speaks. She wore no red shirt."

[centralcal]

more Dickerson:

"Just after 4 p.m., the defense rested and the day dribbled to a close. The air has come out of this case so completely I wouldn't be surprised if the court reporter finished the day's entry by typing: pffffft."

[clarice]

jwest, Saturday morning I escape out of Dodge.

Dickerson has summed up this lady juror well. I saw her in the voir dire and described her voice and theatrical speaking style as something straight out of The Little Foxes.

[SaveFarris]

How in the world could they not mention you. Don't they realize you were Time's 2006 Man of the Year?

[pete]

Clarice

Now that your name has been connected in print to the defense of one of the handmaidens of the Iraq catastrophe my question is: What will you do next to sabotage your reputation and career (assuming you have one)?

I have some suggestions!

[A.S.]

"And it is remotely possible that I am not on the Times's Christmas card list because of my Wake Up Calls to Neil Lewis, which has become a regular feature."

Also, I would note that the last "wake up call" was directed at Neil Lewis AND SCOTT SHANE, who is the author of today's front pager.

[clarice]

Heck, pete, when you put it like that? Aren't you saying that he should be convicted on foolish charges after a laughable"investigation" because you disagree politically with him? I think you are.
Free Mumia in reverse.
Leftists are so funny.

[Old Dad]

pete,

Others are, perhaps, too polite to tell you, but let me do you a favor and let you in on a little secret.

Your posts here suggest that you are humorless and mean spirited. In other words, a prick. That's no way to go through life.

[Chuck]

.......don't Pete, don't reply. Quit now while you're behind.

You are vastly overmatched here, vastly.

Good 'un Clarice.

[Rick Ballard]

"Leftists are so funny."

Shh. Don't discourage Pustule Pete. Every time he fires his popgun in comments, intelligent readers are reinforced in their certainty regarding the complete intellectual bankruptcy of the left.

Go Pete, go!

[maryrose]

You have summed up pete exactly clarice. I would love to hear from him when the Libby verdict comes down. Either way it should provide a humorous post. Stll defending NYT pete? You poor lost lamb... All roads don't lead to NYC. I know New Yorkers think that way but we in the Midwest-who can survive big time snow- are laughing at these clueless people of which you are one.

[Javani]

Pete:

"I have some suggestions!"

I have one for Clarice too...if you want to drive your self-appointed enemies crazy, follow up on the Plame/Aluminum tubes story. Throw in some Joe at EPIC on WMDs.

That knowledge will make their minds explode.

[Sara (Squiggler]

Yikes! This Anna Nicole Smith case is crazy. Televised judge hearing where everyone is yelling at each other over who gets the decomposing body, crime scene investigators at the house, etc. Why can't someone just snag one of the baby's dirty diapers and get the DNA from it?

[Rick Ballard]

"That knowledge will make their minds explode."

Implode, we're talking about a vacuum.

[clarice]

Sara, I really, really, really, really don't care about that case. Really.

[jwest]

If you get a kick out of reading really crazy leftists, check out this article by Lawrence O”Donnell:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/libby-is-guilty_b_41313.html

He almost makes the FDL folks look sane.

[Javani]

Sara,

"Where to bury the body" disputes are more common than you might suspect, but everything else about the Anna Nicole case is bizarre beyond belief. And interesting. Jurisdiction issues alone are wild.

[KenS]

Doesn't look like Larry O'Donnell agrees with Byron York's piece today at National Review.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/libby-is-guilty_b_41313.html

Wouldn't it be nice to see Larry have another meltdown on Hardball once the verdict doesn't go his way?

[clarice]

pete, was born too late. In the 60's guys like that with the Manifesto tucked under their filthy army surplus parkas and straggly beards and angry with the immoral world of corporate bloodsuckers and wrmongers had a certain appeal to less intelligent coeds. These days I suspect the hot chicks go for MBA candidates and the lefties really get the dregs..

[KenS]

jwest .... "great minds ...

[lurker]

Closing arguments are next Tuesday, then Wednesday the jury decides?

"End Game", by AJStrata:

link: http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/3371

"Too many today forget the horrors of the last year of WW II, when Europe was nearly destroyed as the Allied forces pushed the Nazis back into Berlin. The bombings and killings were horrific. The destuction on a scale never before seen on Earth. It was similar in Japan, just more abrupt because the atom bomb arrived to do in a week what took months to do in Europe.

The point is the end game of a war is when the fighting is at its most intense. I had the data once before, but 1945 was one of the most deadly years of the war (if not the most deadly). The intensity at the end makes sense if you think about it. One side is cornered and is fighting back with all they have. And the other side, after giving up on all the fantasies about quick and easy endings, keeps pummeling the one in the corner so as to end the fighting once and for all. I was surprised to read that in WW II, , 80% of the deaths were on the Allied side - the winning side.

So for all the neophytes and slackers on History who are destined to repeat history (or continue to be surprised by how many things repeat themselves) the headlines out of Baghdad might impart a different view than from what history has shown happens when these world wide conflicts of ideals come to a head:

"

How is this so-called Iraq catastrophe any different from the last year of WWII?

We're putting a squeeze on AQ!

[Extraneus]

Dregs?

[verner]

Clarice:"Dickerson has summed up this lady juror well. I saw her in the voir dire and described her voice and theatrical speaking style as something straight out of The Little Foxes."

How funny. Definately not one to wear a groupspeak t-shirt! I'm with her. It has to be one of the silliest moves I've ever heard of from a jury. "Hey, look at us! Aren't we cute!"

They are there to determine a man's future--not have a freaking baby shower. You just have to wonder how serious they are.

Though, when you consider how ridiculous Fitz's case has been...

And JD has a point. If they are going to be all teddybears and cuddles, it's hard to believe that they would send Libby to jail on such a flimsy pretext.

[i]

No comments? The things(Hermans) come over to JOM because they don't allow comments on their own blogs? Why not start your own blogs with comments?

[Sara (Squiggler]

Clarice, I'm with you on the ANS case, but you can't get away from it with the wall to wall TV coverage. My only question is why someone doesn't just get a diaper and be done with all this wrangling. Pay the nanny if they have to or go dumpster diving.

[jwest]

Javani,

The aluminum tubes controversy would be a good issue to jump into.

Eriposte at the Left Coaster has volumes of raw data, quotes and reports – all misinterpreted and twisted in a tinfoil hat narrative. The basics are there waiting for logic to be applied.

(posted on wrong thread previously)

[jerry]

Hey TM, there's still the civil trial to look forward to (if you believe there will be a trial), Tenet's book, and surely some noisemaking by various House Committees over the next few years.

[ordi]

Of course there is always the mystery of why ANS does not what the ID of the daddy known. Why did she move to the Bahamas. Is it out of US jurisdiction? Strange case!

[Sara (Squiggler]

I'm such a hopeless romantic, I thought the tee shirt wearing was a nice gesture. I think one of the jurors made them up and gave them as a Valentine rather than a card. I would have worn one, I think.

Prediction: Hung jury 11 for not guilty, 1 guilty.

[ghostcat]

Sure wish I could have observed the jury listening to the Armitage/Woodward tape.

[verner]

Lurker:"How is this so-called Iraq catastrophe any different from the last year of WWII?

We're putting a squeeze on AQ!"

Amen L. They always talk about "Vietnam" (without of course mentioning the MILLIONS who died after we pulled out of SE Asia, and the democrat congress cut the purse strings so that So. Vietnam and Cambodia had nothing to defend themselves with)and never talk about Germany, Japan or Korea.

They can talk all they want to. We are not leaving Iraq. It would be a complete disaster not only for Iraq, but for this country as well. Every serious person in DC knows it--despite what the polls say.

And if you want to know some of the reasons why, just listen to John Burns' (the only decent reporter at the NYT) interview with Hugh Hewitt.

[Christopher Fotos]

Here's a direct link to Dickerson's piece in slate, being discussed above. Question: Is it not strange he doesn't mention the "we may have no more unanimity" comment? (Or am I missing it?)

[Sara (Squiggler]

ordi: I'm not sure ANS was making any of her own decisions. Howard K. Stern seems very sleazy to me. His phony breakdown on camera the other day was truly a GAG moment. He writes her will as her lawyer, names himself executor, gets her to put his name on the birth certificate and then holds the baby hostage. It stinks to me. Now that is about as invested in the case I care to be.

[Other Tom]

Hell, it's a slow day--why not another Ssidney Blumenthal side-splitter? I recall when this character (more Uriah Heep than Pecksniff, I think) wrote a book about the Clintons after they left Washington. It may have been "The Clinton Wars." I doubt it was read by a dozen people other than those assigned to review it, but among those who did it shot to the all-time pinnacle of fawning sycophancy. The universal reaction of the reviewers was great whoops of derisive laughter--even the New York Times cackled lewdly at his sucking-up. One of the pleasures of another Clinton administration would be that we can watch this clown perform yet again.