“We can’t focus for more than ten seconds on anything at all and we’re constantly exercised about stupid media-generated non-scandals, guilt-by-association raps, accidental dumb utterances of various campaign aides and other nonsense — while at the same time we have no energy at all left to wonder about the mass burgling of the national budget for phony military contracts, the war, the billion dollars or so in campaign contributions to be spent this year that will be buying a small mountain of favors for the next four years.”
Remember how some people said that the nation’s focusing on Clinton and Monica Lewinsky made us avoid other issues that were going on at the time? Issues that have had much more far reaching implications, such as Clinton not going after Saddam at the time. It would have been much easier to do it then.
Well, shortly before the first story about Spitzer broke, our wonderful little president vetoed a bill that would have prevented interrogators from using methods that amount to torture. He said that we still needed to use those methods, that they had already gotten us results and had already prevented some additional terrorist attacks. This is not really being discussed much anywhere, and this is an issue that’s affecting the lives of the guys imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, it’s affecting our foreign relations and standing in the world, etc.
I’m very concerned that this distraction seems to be happening again. This site is about sex, so the discussion of Spitzer is pretty appropriate here. It’s a free country with free speech and all that. It just seems very significant that the way more far-reaching issue of Bush’s veto is getting very little discussion.
yes, david — your production has definitely become a ghost written yawn. it amazes me in observing your site from puny personal management of interesting content to a larger yawn inducing question mark with ghost contributors that appeal to the rubbish that creates the obvious hateful, bigoted, parochial, pretentious, wasteful, and shallow drivel posing as anything remotely constructive or progressive.
raising people to be voyeuristic, selfish, and unwelcome idiots — genius.
This bitch needs an enema. There are enough queens on this site without your flaming nonsense.
*sigh* Richardo, you’re making a fool of yourself trying to ruin the enjoyment the rest of us are having. If you don’t like the site, go away and make one yourself and run it how you think it should be run.
I think that would make far better use of your time and energy than for you to continue to piss and moan here.
Ditto.
Did anyone bring up the fact that that call girl is not alive in the photo? Or is that part of another story?
I really like Matt Taibbi, even if his journalistic liscense sometimes takes him over the top.
“yes, david — your production has definitely become a ghost written yawn.”
As one of the increasing number of hard-working shades still shackled to this mortal coil by my inability to escape my financial burdens even in the next life, I’ll have you know that we prefer the term Phantom American Authors, you Deathist pig.
And Richie, I have a message from the other side on behalf of Reed Irvine: he’d really appreciate if you’d stop channeling him. He just finds it way too crowded in there what with you already being so full of yourself to begin with.