Comments on: Bulldog Clarke stares down BushCo pack attack

By: Peanut

Peanut — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 03:25:12 +0000

Wow, that MTP appearance was great. My eyes have never been this wide open that early on a Sunday before.

I’ve read conflicting information about Condi’s 60-minutes interview: one report said the interview was pre-taped. Another said it would be live to respond to the Clarke appearance. (I’m checking around and will update accordingly.) If it’s live — oh baby — finally TeeVee gets some reality programming I can really devour. Condi’s handlers will surely pump her with lots of pharm just to keep her from doing her bang-on expression of The Scream.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 03:04:09 +0000

I second what Mad AZ Monk said. I love you, Richard Clarke!! (no, Seb, I’m not gay) You’re doing a great public service transcribing Clarke’s interviews, Peanut. I hope you do it for his Press the Meat interview too. There’s a misspelling in the last line of the first bit of Clarke’s NPR interview — “principles” should be “principals.”

By: OTB

OTB — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 03:03:51 +0000

“…I can no longer understand this administration sober.”

It’s okay, P-nut, neither can Bush!

By: Blair

Blair — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 02:44:12 +0000

And from the Associated Press:

Clarke told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he “would welcome” that declassification. He also said Rice’s private testimony before the commission should be declassified, as well as e-mails, memos and all other correspondence between Rice and Clarke.

“Let’s declassify everything,” Clarke said.

He also accused the administration of waging a “campaign to destroy me professionally and personally,” and called on the White House to “raise the level of discourse.”

Clarke also fired back at the administration by reading Bush’s response to his resignation letter.

Noting it was in the president’s handwriting, Clarke said the letter read that he would “be missed. You served our nation with distinction and honor,” and had “left a positive mark on our government.”

“He thinks I served with distinction and honor,” Clarke said, while “the rest of his staff is out there to destroy me.”

Another round of Jagermeister, please!

By: Mad AZ Monk

Mad AZ Monk — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:49:32 +0000

Who woulda predicted that someone’s who’s basically a hawk has become my friggin’ hero? What BushCo hasn’t counted on is that Americans basically hate being lied to, especially by elected officials, and have a strong record of punishing those who are demonstrated to have done so.

Oh, speed November!!