Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Clark v. Limbaugh - mmm...Fun. Rushing Yardage. One concept that has been hard to explain to people in the Clark movement is the difference between the purely defensive concept of "anti-smear" and the real campaign idea of "rapid insertion". Clark's attack on Rush Limbaugh's bigotted remark about... [The Clark Sphere] Interesting reading here on Clark's attack on Limbaugh's "The liberal media loves Donovan McNabb 'cos he's BLACK!" crap.

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The People Want FROG-WALKING! NOW! The People Speak. 68% want independent investigation. 72% think someone in the WH leaked. [Eschaton] Josh Marshall has this too. He mentions the responses to "How serious is this?" - 48% very serious, 34% somewhat serious, 7% not too serious, 9% not serious at all. The Bushies are SO fucked.
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'Meet the Celtics' night in Lowell. Lowell Sun Oct 1 2003 2:28PM ET [Moreover - Boston news] Woo! I'll be there - I'd be hard-pressed not to take advantage of an opportunity to see the Celtics just outside my apartment...
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Where's The Outrage? I'm suddenly feeling great about the American news media: QUESTION: When did he become aware that -- MR. McCLELLAN: That there was an allegation that someone leaked classified information? When was that first -- QUESTION: No, no, that an undercover official of the United States government had been outed. When did the President of the United States know that? When was he informed of that? And what was his reaction? Where's the outrage, I think, was the question that was asked. MR. McCLELLAN: Well, the outrage has always been made known. If someone leaks classified information -- are you -- when did -- QUESTION: When did the President know it, and what did he do about it? MR. McCLELLAN: When did someone make the allegation that this -- that someone had leaked classified information? QUESTION: On July 14th or 15th, it was clear that -- MR. McCLELLAN: I'll look back at the timing and post the information -- QUESTION: -- that the American taxpayer had invested a lot of money in the undercover status of a woman who had been outed in the newspaper. What did the President know that and what did he do about it? MR. McCLELLAN: I'll look back at some of this and try to get some information for you. QUESTION: Scott, can you have something about how he was informed at that time while you're doing that? MR. McCLELLAN: I will look back at that time. Some of it was before I became the press secretary, but I will look back at some of this time. I picked this up from the always kickass Josh Marshall.

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Red Sox: 11 Wins To Go From the Baseball Prospectus' take on the Sox-A's series, regarding the Red Sox lineup: That's not a lineup. It's a natural disaster of biblical proportions waiting to impose itself on opposing pitchers like some sort of Apocalyptic Incarnation of Holy Vengeance. This is AC/DC, circa 1979, showing up to play your high school battle of the bands. This is David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino teaming up to write the sequel to Leonard, Part 6. This is Ricky Jay showing up as the magic act at your kid's birthday party and using a cat-o-nine-tails to beat the living crap out of Barney the Dinosaur. The Boston lineup is something that causes opposing teams to look over and exclaim "That ain't right." THAT is why I'm so excited and optimistic about this time. They're an offensive juggernaut unlike any we've seen in my lifetime, and they're going to pound their way to the World Series. No doubt in my mind.

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Moonies Say "Wilson Hates Bush! He's Evil!", I Say "You're Sleazy Bastards!" I'm seeing this editorial from the Washington Times floating around the rightist parts of the Internet today - the link will probably not work for that long, but I couldn't find a permanent link. Anyway - they're all going nuts about this quote, attributed to Wilson but without any source provided: Well, what would you think of someone who tells people around Washington — as Mr. Wilson did last week — "Neo-conservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this administration, and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both." So they provide no proof that he said this, no CONTEXT in which he said it...and at this point, could you entirely blame Wilson for wanting to destroy the people who destroyed his wife's career? Later in the column, they cover themselves by saying that this doesn't excuse what happened...but it's pretty slimey to spend 2/3 of the column bashing Wilson. Don't these people realize that it wouldn't matter if Wilson had tried to kill the President with a machete? Even THEN, there'd be no legal justification for burning his wife's cover. Jesus CHRIST, these people are stupid. Frog-walk, baby, frog-walk.

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Excellent Clark Interview at Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has a great interview with Gen. Clark. I'm still reading through it, but he gives a great response to the questions about his party allegiance: I was fortunate. I was well-enough known that both parties invited me to consider them. The Republican party invited me to participate in a fundraiser and run for Congress. The Democratic party invited me to be their nominee for governor of the state of Arkansas. I was tremendously honored by that. And it was clear as I looked at the parties, looked at the culture, watched the dialogue, it wasn't just that I had voted for Al Gore, I really believed in what the Democratic party stood for. And so when it came time to choose a political party, I chose the Democratic party. Another bit that jumped out at me: No reputable economist stands up and says, "Trickle down economics really works." Because we know the marginal propensity to consume of people who are making $100,000 a year and less is much higher than the marginal propensity to consume of people who are making $350,000 a year and more. There's plenty more - go read it yourself. =)

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Looking For A Web Host - Help! Ok, I'm looking for a web host for a site that I can't really tell you about. =) It's the project I mentioned on Monday. At the minimum, I want Apache, PHP, MySQL, and a good modern Perl available on the server, probably 100mb+ of space initially (with the potential to go higher - there'll probably be media files eventually), access to an SMTP server for outgoing mail, and it'd be nice if I could put Movable Type on there too - I've been wanting to play with that for a while, and this could give me the opportunity. I've never had a hosted web site before, and it's been...5 or 6 years since I was working at TIAC and selling hosting space. How do I find a host? What good hosts are out there? What's a reasonable price? What else should I be looking for besides what I mentioned above? And while I'm thinking of it, can anyone who's got Radio set up on a non-Userland/Salon server let me know how much of a pain in the ass that was for them?

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BloggerCon Tidbits Friday Night Party, 7PM, Cambridge. Sponsored by Adam Curry and Dave Winer (me). We couldn't get a big company to sponsor a party without some awful strings attached, so Adam and I are splitting the tab personally on the Friday night party at The Hong Kong restaurant in the middle of Harvard Square. I've not been there myself, but I hear that it's a orgy of drunken college students. We'll be upstairs, schmoozing and trading business cards. You can drink if you want. I said to Palfrey, let's go for quantity over quality. He assures me that's the theme of The Hong Kong. I thought perhaps that could be the motto of the weblog world, sort of "It's even worse than it appears" in response to the usual criticism from the inkstain crowd. ";->" [Scripting News] The Big BloggerCon Blog: Imagine a web service that read all the feeds of all participants in BloggerCon, and present them in reverse chronologic order as if we were all writing for the same weblog. Well, Ross Karchner did exactly that. It's totally worth bookmarking. Thanks! [Scripting News] Hmmm...I'm going to have to think about making to the party. I'll be at BloggerCon all day Saturday, and then early Sunday, followed by the Red Sox game...I most likely won't get to see Arwen all weekend, if I go to this party as well. But it's hard to resist... And that metablog of all BloggerCon blogs is a little disturbing. =)

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More Republicans Get Pissed "It Sickens Me to be a Republican to See This". "IT SICKENS ME TO BE A REPUBLICAN TO SEE THIS"....Thanks to zhermit in comments to this post, here are some excerpts from tonight's NewsHour about the Valerie Plame affair. The comments are from Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and... [CalPundit] If you haven't seem Johnson's comments yet, you really should. Johnson, a Republican and 24 year employee of the CIA, goes to town on the leakers and the spinners. Good stuff. This case just continues to prove the point that the Republican party is most assuredly NOT the party of national security.

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Republican Chairman Says Plame Scandal (could be) Worse Than Watergate! Oct 1, 2003: Worse than Watergate. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Don't you think it's more serious than Watergate, when you think about it? RNC CHAIRMAN ED GILLESPIE: I think if the allegation is true, to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA operative -- it's abhorrent, and it should be a crime, and it is a crime. CHRIS MATTHEWS: It'd be worse than Watergate, wouldn't it? GILLESPIE: It's -- Yeah, I suppose in terms of the real world implications of it. It's not just politics. "Hardball," MSNBC, 9/30/03 [Kicking Ass] This is from the Democratic National Committee's outstanding new blog.

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