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When Today Attacks: Israel's 'Pretext', Bush Overwhelmed, $100 Oil
Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/14/2006 5:50:57 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: governsleastgovernsbest

>>>That's when Mitchell passed along criticism that the US should have sent a higher-level envoy sooner. To bolster her argument, she played a clip of one James Steinberg, who blistered as 'inexplicable' the administration's failure to be more directly involved. The screen graphic identified Steinberg by his University of Texas affiliation. But a quick Googling reveals that he was the Deputy National Security Advisor . . . in the Clinton administration. Truth in packaging, Andrea?<<<

Everyone in the world now knows Clinton hired incompetent boobs for his administration (under the assumption their incompetence made him look brighter). So naturally a Clinton-apologist like Mitchell would try to cover up Steinberg's association.


41 posted on 07/14/2006 6:32:18 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

> The Bush administration is not responding effectively to the crisis because it is 'overwhelmed' and spread too thin by involvement elsewhere.


And the Left certainly has done all they can to make Bush's task easier, haven't they?

Thanks, GL.
p.


42 posted on 07/14/2006 6:37:11 AM PDT by Paul_B
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To: rightinthemiddle
Journalists like to think of themselves as intelligent. Most of the are not.

Most of them think they are experts in virtually everything. and therefore qualified to do an instant analysis on any topical issue. Their blather is mostly biased and superficial.

43 posted on 07/14/2006 6:40:26 AM PDT by Starboard (Liberal superiorists hate the system that allows average people to make more money than they do.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Why are liberals always so worried about what happens to terrorists???

Because they have the same goal -- the destruction of the U.S.

Their tactics may be different, and certainly their post-U.S. vision is radically different. But their goal is the same, and their enemies are the same -- Israel, and conservative America.

Folks, we have a winner, you can stop calling the station now.

44 posted on 07/14/2006 6:40:38 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Hartmann

Good post. Nice insight into the liberal mindset.


45 posted on 07/14/2006 6:44:48 AM PDT by Starboard (Liberal superiorists hate the system that allows average people to make more money than they do.)
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To: Military family member

[She sits in a chair a reads what ever comes over the teleprompter.]

This is something everyone should always keep in mind for ALL these anchors...they are nothing more than news READERS, they also use ear buds for backup's. If the prompters go down and the ear buds fail...they are brainless robots.


46 posted on 07/14/2006 6:49:41 AM PDT by RetSignman (New York Times.."All the news that fits our agenda")
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To: All

From updated version of NewsBusters story:

Responding to Lauer's question as to how far the US would go in backing Israel, Mitchell stated: "This is a fragile situation. It could really undermine this fledging democracy in Lebanon which the U.S. Is trying to point to as a show place for the Middle East."

The view of Lebanon as a fragile, fledging democracy is widely-accepted. However, when I interviewed Jed Babbin - former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense in the Bush, Sr. admin - on my TV show 'Right Angle' last evening, he offered another perspective on Lebanon. Babbin, author of a book warning of a likely war with China, pointed out the Hezbollah terror group is an official part of of the Lebanese government. In Babbin's view, it is more accurate to think of Lebanon as akin to the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority.


47 posted on 07/14/2006 6:50:58 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Great report! And Andrea Mitchell continued her "Blame Bush" theory on Imus. He even asked why she would go after our president at a time like this. Oh, she prefaced her criticism with "critics would say....", but that was totallly and obviously just a ruse to cover her own opinion.

Almost 10 am. oh goodie, almost time for The Joe and Val Show. I'll watch it on C-Span, but I do wonder if the networks will break from regular programming to show it live. (just kidding, I'm sure the networks will do it for them)
sure hope, If the Wilsons take questions, that you can give them to us. MSM quesstions will be far more interesting than the Wilsons' answers.


48 posted on 07/14/2006 6:57:55 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123

should read: "I'm sure the cables will do it for them"


49 posted on 07/14/2006 6:59:38 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: freeperfromnj

9/11 initiated World War IV. The "Clash of Civilizations" about which experts like Huntington warned, was on us. The problem with people like Mitchell is that they cannot conceive of the actions occuring in Lebanon and Gaza as part of a single tapsestry being woven by Islamists. It stretches from Indonesia through Somalia to the Holy Land into Europe and the United States itself. They are still convinced that "diplomacy" can resolve individual clashes. The events in Israel today allow the Democrats and their parasites to lash Bush and play a card that is anti-Israel and verges on the anti-Semitic. That Mitchell (a Jew who along with her husband Alan Greenspan would surely hang from a lamppost in Gaza if they lived there today) falls so eaily into this trap, is as Democrat senators like to say, very disturbing.


50 posted on 07/14/2006 7:09:38 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; Yehuda

My most heartfelt wishes for Andrea and the rest of the main-slime media:

May the bleeding piles beseige them. May they get the seven-year-itch, but it last for 49. May their tongues cleave to the roof of their mouths and swell to three times normal size. May their children become Orthdox Jews, Evangelical Protestant, or conservative Catholic. May they fall in the outhouse as a Ukranian regiment finishes a prune stew and 12 barrels of beer. May a beet grow in their stomachs and they pee borscht. May all their teeth fall out of their heads, except one, and that one should get a toothache. And when they are old and feeble, and total wrecks, may their spines fall through their a-holes and break their effing necks!


51 posted on 07/14/2006 7:12:53 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (The Arab League jihad continues on like a fart in an elevator - FR American in Israel)
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To: gaspar
they cannot conceive of the actions occuring in Lebanon and Gaza as part of a single tapsestry being woven by Islamists. It stretches from Indonesia through Somalia to the Holy Land into Europe and the United States itself.

Well stated.

52 posted on 07/14/2006 7:19:54 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: NativeNewYorker

Alan Greenspan - who used to be an Ayn Rand groupie.

Go figure.

He's someone I often use to bolster my argument that the older most people get the softer in the head they think. Greenspan went from Objectivism to Democrat - a long road to travel.


53 posted on 07/14/2006 7:28:42 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: agrace
Don't forget about North Korea, Sudan, or anywhere else that has a problem!!
We can't solve one if we fail to solve them all!!
Similarly, we can't develop SDI unless it's perfect from the start!!

/inane moonbat logic>

54 posted on 07/14/2006 7:33:06 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: kjo
Noam Chomsky is one of the most venomous anti-Semites I've ever heard. Self loathing must be some kind of mental retardation.
55 posted on 07/14/2006 7:34:28 AM PDT by oldleft
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. also

2006israelwar or WOT

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56 posted on 07/14/2006 7:37:02 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Despicable is too good a word for these media whore traitors!


57 posted on 07/14/2006 8:00:05 AM PDT by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As bad as things are right now in the Middle East how much worse would it be if Saddam was still in power in Iraq?


58 posted on 07/14/2006 8:21:03 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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To: Military family member
Local Fee Range: $20,001 to $30,000

East Coast Fee Range: $20,001 to $30,000

West Coast Fee Range: $20,001 to $30,000

This idiot gets paid this kind of cash to speak her anti-American BS?

59 posted on 07/14/2006 8:34:52 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: soccer_maniac

Oil futures for August (the nearest futures available) hit $79.45 at the open today, but have pulled back to $77.25, still up $.55.

Futures for February and March reached $81.24. All futures for 2007 which have traded today are currently over $80 a barrel.

I hate to say it, but $100+ per barrel is most certainly a possibility in the near future.


60 posted on 07/14/2006 9:18:33 AM PDT by eraser2005
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