Want to Earn a Quick $5?
By Callimachus | Related entries in Kitchen Sink, The Plame Game, The War On TerrorismActually, $10 total. But it might not be as easy as it looks.
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April 13th, 2006 at 8:35 am
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April 13th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Well, Cal, like all debates if you hang your hat on picyune details you can’t lose … but you don’t often win either.
Maybe the legacy could be … George bush did a relly poor job, BUT Frank still has his five bucks.
April 13th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
This one is interesting to me, because it seems to me to be one of the places where the left and the right don’t merely disagree or have different priorities, they live in separate realities. I have seen a number of comments and posts from the left that are absolutely firm in the conviction that Joe Wilson reported the truth from Niger, and has told the truth ever since, and that Bushco spun, lied, and denied every word it said on the topic.
My impression is that Wilson did a lazy and half-assed job on his Niger assignment, missed the fact that Saddam was, in fact, shopping there, covered his ass poorly later and fell victim to his own partisan nature. And that the statement in Bush’s SoU address was fundamentally correct, even if the administration, typically, based it on the one bit of evidence that turned out to be fake.
It is often asserted to me here that my impressions of what is thought on the left only reflect the extreme left, not the mainstream. So I’m curious to know whether this perception is right or not. As someone once said, you’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts. Closing up those fact-gaps seems to me an important job for a political center.
April 13th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
I have to agree with you. Providing facts is important. You are probably more qualified to gauge Wilson in terms of quality on his assignment (or at least I trust your word on it) but I am unsure about the fact(?) that he probably(?) missed something and Saddam was shopping(?) and Wilson probably(?) covered it up?
On the other hand, while I am not trained for the research of that stuff, I have an uncanny sense when it comes to reading people. I can tell when president Bush is being “less than forthcoming” and that 6th sense has proven out repeatedly. Sometimes you need to go with your gut feelings, and that is why I concede that Frank has a (as in singular) FACT and his five bucks … and not much else on this one …. but I did like his site, style and attitude and will visit there often. Like you, he has something to say, so I will give him a listen and perhaps learn something.