DU in the L.A. Times

[gateley]

From an article about the fire this morning:

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The fire was contained to the closet, but the elaborate floor of mahogany, white maple and cherry in the vice president's office was under water, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said. Thick black smoke "fairly filled" the second through fifth floors, she said. It billowed from an open doorway and cast a pall across the White House's north lawn.

Perino was conducting a briefing for reporters, taking questions about the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations, when firetrucks arrived next door. Smoke was pouring through a corridor of the Eisenhower building, and flames on the second floor could be seen briefly from the White House grounds.

Almost as quickly, the fire took on a political cast.

The website Democratic Underground lit up with comments and questions from readers: "Too many documents to shred," nradisic posted at 9:48 a.m. "What records are being 'cleaned up?' " asked Botany, two minutes later. "What all is going up in smoke?" asked gratuitous, at 9:53 a.m.

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Casting its own skepticism on suggestions from the political left that the blaze was the equivalent of the 1933 Reichstag fire, which Adolf Hitler used to extend Nazi control in Germany, Little Green Footballs, a conservative website, reported: "There was a fire in Dick Cheney's office this morning, and as usual the leftist blogosphere is brimming over with lunatic ranting."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-fire20dec20,1,6394052.story?coll=la-news-a_section

[oasis]

1. Lil' Green Flatballs posters would follow Dick Cheney into hell, but not into Iraq.

Cheers for our guys who keep them up at night. :toast:

[Kurovski]

11. I'd love to see THAT quote in the L.A. Times.

[riona]

2. We certainly shouldn't have been so sarcastic

After all, this administration has never tried to hide anything from the American people.

[Botany]

3. I made the L.A. Times?

"What records are being 'cleaned up?' " asked Botany, two minutes later.







:rofl:

[flpoljunkie]

4. Indeed, you did. Good to know they are paying attention!

[gateley]

5. I'm proud to be associated with you all! nt

[Eurobabe]

8. LOL, good for YOU!

:rofl:

[progressoid]

6. Lunatics-R-us!

[Kurovski]

12. Really.

Next thing you know we'll be starting an illegal, ill-conceived war in some Middle Eastern country.

[Hissyspit]

7. Good thing I didn't post in that thread.

They wouldn't have been able to quote me in a family newspaper for all the profanity I would have used about the VICE president.

[Eurobabe]

9. Be prepared for a new wave of trolls, in case of emergency

break glass and spray liberally:

[earth mom]

10. Which thread was it? nt