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Bartcop knew his BFEE
BFEE Scorecard
Bartcop coined the term "Bush Family Evil Empire" to denote the 60-year pre-eminence of one family in the formation of the political philosophy in the United States, that of the War Party. The first to do so to my knowledge on the World Wide Web, Bartcop chronicled their ascension to the top of the national security state by hook and by crook. At least three generations have held high national office, while also making big money off war and looting the public Treasury. The last president of the United States, a man who wasn't elected fair and square by any stretch of the imagination, actually said: "Money trumps peace" at a press conference. For some reason, not a single "journalist" had the guts to ask him what he meant by that.
Bartcop did. And We and Democracy are better for it.
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Thank you, Helen Thomas - one of the few heroes of journalism left.
Thanks to whoever got/sent this - I suspect Mindpilot.
Nobody gets better celeb sticker pics than Mindpilot.
SOURCE Bartcop: http://www.bartcop.com/1185.htm
Iraq Links Germs for Weapons to U.S. and France
Click Here
Excerpt:
"A.T.C.C. could never have shipped these samples to Iraq without the Department
of Commerce's approval for all requests," said Nancy J. Wysocki, of the American
Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit organization that is one of the world's leading
biological supply houses. "They were sent for legitimate research purposes."
Unka Dick - is that true?
Why did you and Daddy
give Saddam some anthrax?
SOURCE Bartcop: http://www.bartcop.com/1021.htm
Click Here
Excerpt:
"A.T.C.C. could never have shipped these samples to Iraq without the Department
of Commerce's approval for all requests," said Nancy J. Wysocki, of the American
Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit organization that is one of the world's leading
biological supply houses. "They were sent for legitimate research purposes."
Unka Dick - is that true?
Why did you and Daddy
give Saddam some anthrax?
SOURCE Bartcop: http://www.bartcop.com/1021.htm
Not Malloy. Not Bartcop.
Not ReRe. Not DU.
Not anyone who knows:
How False Narrative Works
by Sam, Nat and Robert Parry
consortiumnews.com
Excerpt:
When released on May 25, 1999 - shortly after the Clinton impeachment battle had ended - the Cox report was greeted by conservative groups and the national news media as another indictment of the Clinton administration.
By then, the Washington press corps had long been addicted to "Clinton scandals" and viewed almost any allegation through that prism, regardless of the details.
The Cox report gave weight in the public's mind to the suspicion that there was something far more sinister behind earlier allegations that a Chinese government front had funneled $30,000 in illegal "soft money" donations to the Democrats in 1996.
[font color="red"]Cox pulled off his sleight of hand with barely anyone spotting the trick card up his sleeve. The key ruse was to leave out dates of alleged Chinese spying in the 1980s and thus obscure the fact that the floodgates of U.S. nuclear secrets to China - including how to build the miniaturized W-88 nuclear warhead - had opened wide during the Reagan-Bush era.[/font color]
While leaving out those Republican time elements, Cox shoved references to the alleged lapses into the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
"We know they're going to lie - the trick is fighting back,
but that trick was never learned by Gore or Kerry." -- Bartcop
SOURCE Bartcop: http://www.bartcop.com/2072.htm
... repeat a lie three times and it's a fact. 
Thanks to you knowing, GP6971, and those you tell, democracy has a chance.
Here's a vital story that Bartcop covered, missed to the shame of Corporate McPravda...
Bush's Document Gap
nywhoretimes.com
Excerpt:
The dismissal of eight United States attorneys has elicited a long and ever-growing list of theories by Democrats
about ulterior motives and suspicious coincidences. Now there is a new one: the document gap. Democrats urged
reporters to press the crooked Bush administration to explain why in the thousands of pages of e-mail messages
and documents turned over to investigators, there is almost nothing from Nov. 16 to Dec. 7, the day seven of
the firings occurred. In contrast, there are hundreds of pages from the weeks after the dismissals. One of the last
e-mail messages before this period was sent by D. Kyle Sampson, then chief of staff to Tortureboy Gonzales,
to Bush's Maid Harriet, and includes a request that the White House approve the plan. "We'll stand by for
a green light from you," said the Nov. 15 e-mail message."
"If they're innocent,
why can't they talk about it under oath?" -- Bartcop
SOURCE Bartcop: http://www.bartcop.com/1948.htm
Where's everybody else on the corruption at the Department of Justice?
Our good friends at BuzzFlash honor our good friend from Bartcop.com!
[font size="1"]From the Bartcop Collection[/font size]
May 16, 2007
BartCop
WINGS OF JUSTICE AWARD WINNER
He was blogging against the right-wing deadheads before there were blogs. Yes, in 1996, the man called BartCop led the charge for democracy by beginning his own site, a combination of rant, humor, and idiosyncrasies (such as his fondness for poker).
No, BartCop is obviously not his real name. He has a day job he needs to keep in the Midwest, so he has posted under a pseudonym for 11 years now at BartCop.com.
BartCop, who we've met, refuses to be branded or fashionable. He just purveys his own brand of outrage, entertainment, and political irony. He started so long ago that his slogan is "a modem, a smart mouth and the truth." A modem?
Nothing will change BartCop. When the Internet was a vast wasteland of right-wing shills, Bart was out there pretty much alone, never pulling a punch.
No one will ever accuse Bart of being politically correct (he has a section called BartCop "hotties"
, but you got to love him for coming out swinging against the GOP jihad while the rest of us were just cursing at our television sets.
BartCop, for your perseverance and maintaining your own character in an age of branded ideas, you truly merit this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.
* * *
Nominted by Robert Carlson of Hannibal, MO.
LINK BUSTED. Something better from the great MonkeyFister:
http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/2007/05/congratulations-bartcop.html
Courage our Corporate Media never had. So people like Bartcop were like finding gold when you thought you were the only one who sensed the evil.
Even ordinary people who were just commenting on the Bush/Cheney criminals were met with death threats and accusations of being traitors or just plain 'haters'. Liberals were under assault, and many were afraid to say anything. So I can imagine what kind of attacks he was receiving.
Sadly liberals are again under assault, this time not just from the right, but people like Bartcop taught ME not to be afraid of speaking out. And I thank him for that. I will never be bullied into silence about what is destroying this country. He was an inspiration to all of us.
He will be missed. But his spirit will live on. The Internet was like the wild west back then and there were very few voices to counter the propaganda, much of it aimed at Liberals. He was one of the few.
Thanks for posting this, Octafish.
So long Bartcop ... 
Here's a link to the resources at the Bartcop Archive:
http://www.bartcop.com/back.htm
It's a trip back in time...
[font size="5"]So Bush Did Steal the White House[/font size]
By Robert Parry
ConsortiumNews (via Bartcop), November 22, 2001
George W. Bush now appears to have claimed the most powerful office in the world by blocking a court-ordered recount of votes in Florida that likely would have elected Al Gore to be president of the United States.
A document, revealed by Newsweek, indicates that the Florida recount that was stopped last year by five Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court would have taken into account so-called “overvotes” that heavily favored Gore.
If those “overvotes” were counted, as now it appears they would have been, Gore would have carried Florida regardless of what standard of chad – dimpled, hanging, punched-through – was used in counting the so-called “undervotes,” according to an examination of those ballots by a group of leading news organizations.
In other words, Bush lost not only the national popular vote by more than a half million ballots, but he would have lost the key state of Florida and thus the presidency, if Florida’s authorities had been allowed to count the votes that met the state’s legal requirement of demonstrating the clear intent of the voter.
The Newsweek disclosure – a memo that the presiding judge in the state recount sent to a county canvassing board – shows that the judge was instructing the county boards to collect “overvotes” that had been rejected for indicating two choices for president when, in reality, the voters had made clear their one choice.
“If you would segregate ‘overvotes’ as you describe and indicate in your final report how many where you determined the clear intent of the voter,” wrote Judge Terry Lewis, who had been named by the Florida Supreme Court to oversee the statewide recount, “I will rule on the issue for all counties.”
Lewis’s memo to the chairman of the Charlotte County canvassing board was written on Dec. 9, 2000, just hours before Bush succeeded in getting five conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Florida recount.
Lewis has said in more recent interviews that he might well have expanded the recount to include those “overvotes.” Indeed, it would be hard to imagine that he wouldn’t count those legitimate votes once they were recovered by the counties and were submitted to Lewis.
The “overvotes” in which voters marked the name of their choice and also wrote in his name would be even more clearly legal votes than the so-called “undervotes” which were kicked out for failing to register a choice that could be read by voting machines.
Misguided Articles
This new information indicating that the wrong presidential candidate moved into the White House also makes a mockery of the Nov. 12 front-page stories of the New York Times, the Washington Post and other leading news outlets, which stated that Bush would have won regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling.
Those stories were based on the hypothetical results if the state-ordered recount had looked only at “undervotes.” The news organizations assumed, incorrectly it now appears, that the “overvotes” would have been excluded from such a tally, leaving Bush with a tiny lead.
In going with the “Bush Wins” headlines, the news organizations downplayed their more dramatic finding that Gore would have won if a full statewide recount had been conducted in accordance with state law. Using the clear-intent-of-the-voter standard, Gore beat Bush by margins ranging from 60 to 171 votes, depending on what standard was used in judging the “undervotes.”
Beyond the big newspapers’ false assumptions about the state recount, the news stories showed a pro-Bush bias in their choice of language and the overall slant of the articles.
The New York Times, for instance, used the word “would” and even declarative statements when referring to Bush prevailing in hypothetical partial recounts. By contrast, the word “might” was used when mentioning that Gore topped Bush if all ballots were considered.
“A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots,” the Times wrote, “reveal that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United State Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore.”
Two paragraphs later, the Times noted that the examination of all rejected ballots “found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount. … The findings indicate that Mr. Gore might have eked out a victory if he had pursued in court a course like the one he publicly advocated when he called on the state to ‘count all the votes.’”
Left out of that formulation, which suggests that Gore was a hypocrite, is the fact that Bush rejected Gore’s early proposal for a full statewide recount. Bush also waged a relentless campaign of obstruction that left no time for the state courts to address the equal-protection-under-the-law concerns raised by the U.S. Supreme Court in its final ruling on Dec. 12, 2000.
Note also how the Times denigrates as misguided Gore “partisans” those American citizens who concluded, apparently correctly, that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded the election to Bush.
The headlines, too, favored Bush. The Times’ front-page headline on Nov. 12 read, “Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote.” The Washington Post’s headline read, “Florida Recounts Would Have Favored Bush.”
Spreading Confusion
The pro-Bush themes in the headlines and stories were repeated over and over by television and other newspapers, creating a widespread belief among casual news consumers that Bush had prevailed in the full statewide recount, rather than only in truncated recounts based on dubious hypotheses.
Now, Judge Lewis’s memo undercuts both the tone and the content of those news reports. It is certainly not clear anymore that the state-ordered recount would have favored Bush. It also appears likely that the interference by the U.S. Supreme Court was decisive. Based on the new evidence, the major newspapers look to be wrong on both these high-profile points.
Beyond Gore’s narrow victory from the recoverable ballots, the news organizations concluded – but played down – that Gore lost thousands of unrecoverable ballots because of flawed ballot designs in several Democratic strongholds. Gore lost other votes because Gov. Jeb Bush’s administration disqualified hundreds of predominantly black voters who were falsely labeled felons.
The New York Times also reported that Bush achieved a net gain of about 290 votes by getting illegally cast absentee votes counted in Republican counties while enforcing the rules strictly in Democratic counties. Though the new recount tallies did not include any adjustments for these irregularities, the news organizations estimated that Gore lost tens of thousands of votes from these disparities, compared to Bush’s official victory margin of 537 votes.
For months, the leading news organizations have been bending over backwards to protect Bush’s fragile legitimacy, possibly out of concern for the nation’s image in a time of crisis. Yet, whatever the motivation for trying to make Bush look good, the evidence is now overwhelming that Bush strong-armed his way, illegitimately, to the presidency.
In the days immediately after the election, Bush obstructed a full-and-fair recount in Florida, even dispatching hooligans from outside the state to intimidate vote counters. When Gore pressed for recounts in the courts, Bush sent in lawyers to prevent the tallies. Then, after losing before the Florida Supreme Court and the federal appeals court, Bush ultimately got a friendly hearing from five political allies on the U.S. Supreme Court.
If Bush truly respected the precepts of democracy and what those principles mean to the world, he could have joined Gore in demanding as full and fair a Florida recount as possible. He could have accepted the results, win or lose.
Instead Bush opted for the opposite course, deciding that his getting the White House was more important than the voters having their judgment accepted, both nationally and in Florida. By refusing to hold Bush accountable for his key role in thwarting the voters’ will, the major news organizations are not doing the cause of democracy any service.
It turns out that the thousands of demonstrators who protested Bush’s Inauguration were closer to the truth when they shouted at his motorcade, “Hail to the Thief!”
http://www.bartcop.com/0648.htm
http://consortiumnews.com/2001/112101a.html
¡Salud!
Poppy called George P and his siblings "The Little Brown Ones."
Also from back in the day, a 1991 cover of Lies Of Our Times:
Know your BFEE: War and Oil are just two longtime Main Lines of Business
Sen. Richard Nixon stands still and smiles as Prescott Bush adjusts his hat.
Regarding the BFEE, DUer yowzayowzayowza once asked:
As this phenomenon is MUCH bigger then a hand full of people, doesn't referring to it as the BFEE really diminish and subvert an understanding of the scope of the problem?
The "label" BFEE...
... is just the call-sign, a mnemonic device. It is meant to act as the peg upon which all the many memories, acts of cruelty and criminality that have been caused by these traitors over the past 42 years can be called to mind.
Think about the one thing: the name, and the attributes and characteristics of the noun follow and are called to mind. One of those is the extent of the problem.
I try never to gloss over the criminality, the treason and the genocide perpetrated by what I label the "Bush Family Evil Empire." That moniker, BTW, I discovered at Bartcop. I wish I had it 42 years ago.
The Bush men --, and their Republican and Democratic counterparts in America and their associates around the world -- are but mere stooges and sub-stooges for ther masters, what can only be imagined as ruling global economic elite, capable of buying governments and nations.
So, yes, yowzayowazyowza: The criminality, the treason, the genocide perpetrated by this class of criminal can not be diminished. It must be recognized, however. Giving it a name makes it possible to remember later. For the indictments.
Were we to go after the BFEE for real with a full-court prosecutorial press, it's doubtful the current prison system would have the capacity for all the creeps they'd have to lock up. The Congress alone has several hundred, and the courts and the Pentagon and the rest of the madministration. There are a LOT of crooks. Their number is no excuse not to go after them.
Original DU thread:
Know Your BFEE: Poppy’s CIA Made Saddam Into the Butcher of Baghdad.
And that's why I use the term "BFEE."
Remember that time we talked about James R Bath?
Regarding the BFEE, DUer yowzayowzayowza once asked:
As this phenomenon is MUCH bigger then a hand full of people, doesn't referring to it as the BFEE really diminish and subvert an understanding of the scope of the problem?
The "label" BFEE...
... is just the call-sign, a mnemonic device. It is meant to act as the peg upon which all the many memories, acts of cruelty and criminality that have been caused by these traitors over the past 42 years can be called to mind.
Think about the one thing: the name, and the attributes and characteristics of the noun follow and are called to mind. One of those is the extent of the problem.
I try never to gloss over the criminality, the treason and the genocide perpetrated by what I label the "Bush Family Evil Empire." That moniker, BTW, I discovered at Bartcop. I wish I had it 42 years ago.
The Bush men --, and their Republican and Democratic counterparts in America and their associates around the world -- are but mere stooges and sub-stooges for ther masters, what can only be imagined as ruling global economic elite, capable of buying governments and nations.
So, yes, yowzayowazyowza: The criminality, the treason, the genocide perpetrated by this class of criminal can not be diminished. It must be recognized, however. Giving it a name makes it possible to remember later. For the indictments.
Were we to go after the BFEE for real with a full-court prosecutorial press, it's doubtful the current prison system would have the capacity for all the creeps they'd have to lock up. The Congress alone has several hundred, and the courts and the Pentagon and the rest of the madministration. There are a LOT of crooks. Their number is no excuse not to go after them.
Original DU thread:
Know Your BFEE: Poppy’s CIA Made Saddam Into the Butcher of Baghdad.
And that's why I use the term "BFEE."
Remember that time we talked about James R Bath?
Anytime we lose someone, especially so when we lose a friend and brother.
One part of his legacy, from CrooksandLiars:
This is the end of an era. Bartcop, one of the original liberal bloggers, died this morning of flu, pneumonia and leukemia. He inspired many of us, and left a legacy of hard hitting yet funny as hell attacks on Republicans. I'm still stunned by the news, but the one thing that sticks out is, he was the first (and maybe the best) blogger for running Photoshop memes.
Telling the Truth is a life well spent...
...for the Truth is what Democracy...
... and human progress need.
Bartcop stood up and opposed Bush wars when 91-percent of the nation -- including a ridiculously large number of Democrats and DUers -- stood up with George W Bush's post-911 war fever.
For that alone, the guy was Buddha's friend.
For those interested: Bartcop.com still has some great posters of Truth for downloading.
By the way, what do you stand for? Really.
