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Edward R. Murrow would roll over his grave with the nimrods in journalism.

First: Gloria Borger

Crooks and Liars:

CNN’s round-table on the new revelations and clarifications coming from Scotty McClellan’s book publisher really exposed Gloria Borger’s egregious White House shillery for what it is.

Gloria thinks that because “nobody wants to see the President accused of lying” over a leak that was really just a “technicality” anyway that we ought to just wait until Bush writes his memoir to find out the truth (I’m so not kidding. I wish I were) about whatever happened because really “nobody cares anymore.” Thank heavens we had Jack Cafferty to help set the conversation straight.

Suzanne Malveaux: Jack, let’s start with you. With a bombshell accusation like this, what does it say about the administration?

Jack Cafferty: Well, a couple of things occur to me. The first one is, whoever is doing the PR for McClellan’s book ought to get a raise, because he’s doing a masterful of creating buzz and interest in a book that won’t even be out until next April. The second thing is, it doesn’t really seem to me like it’s breaking news that the administration, the White House, may have misled one of their own about something. After all, they’ve been lying to the rest of the country about a whole bunch of stuff for the better part of six and a half years. You remember when the story broke about the CIA agent and President Bush said I will fire anybody in the White House who was involved in compromising the identity of a CIA agent? Well, that was a lie wasn’t it? Because Karl Rove and Scooter Libby and some of those folks, they were up to their armpits in the compromising of Valerie Plame’s identity. so the President changed and he said I will fire anybody who is convicted of committing a crime in conjunction with the outing of a C… So I mean that place has turned into an oil slick a long time ago and I don’t believe a whole bunch of anything that comes out of there these days. … [snip]
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2. Joe Klein

Memo to TIME: Spare us Klein's spin on FISA.

For context I’ll do a Flashback to Joe Klein way back on April 16th, 2006 when he appeared on THIS WEEK while talking about Iran.

Klein: We should not take any option including the use of nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons off the table…

Stephanopoulos: Keep that on the table?-That’s insane…

Yes it is an insane position, but that’s Joe Klein for you…I don’t think he appreciated it that much because after my posting and a pile on by other bloggers he was forced to admit that he was an idiot.

A few weeks ago, I made a mistake while bloviating on the Sunday morning television program This Week With George Stephanopoulos. I said that all military options, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons should remain on the table in our future dealings with Iran. I was wrong on three counts.

He had to make himself feel better by calling us “screechers,” though because he couldn’t take the heat like a man.

I probably would not be writing this were it not for all the left-wing screeching …

I write this because Glenn Greenwald took Joke Line to school over his nonsense about FISA the other day and he strikes a chord about the Villagers that we can’t emphazie enough in the liberal blogosphere.

For the sake of its own credibility, Time Magazine needs immediately to prohibit Joe Klein from uttering another word about the eavesdropping and FISA controversy. He simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about and he publishes demonstrably false statements.

Klein’s latest article in Time does nothing more than what Klein and most Beltway “liberal” pundits always do and have been doing for the last twenty years — namely, warn Democrats that they will lose elections unless they renounce their beliefs and act as much as possible like Republicans on national security issues. The article is entitled “Still Stumbling on National Security” and contains every 1980-2003 cliche about how Democrats better not oppose the big, mean, tough George Bush on war issues or else Rush Limbaugh will attack them and they’ll lose. More on that in a moment…read on