Huffpost: "Russert Watch: Smokin' The Good Stuff "

[leftchick]

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The disconnect between reality and the dialog on this morning's Meet the Press was so acute I thought the dog had chewed the remote once again and tuned me in to Mystery Science Theater 3000.

First up was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace who seems to be the only man in America who thinks things are going, and I quote, "very, very well" in Iraq. He believes the only problem is the bad rap being given to to the war by a media obsessed with dwelling on the negative:

"I don'’t think we'’re getting the goodness out to the American people the way we should. Somehow we need to find a way to have balance in the amount of reporting that we're able to get out."
Pace then takes a detour into Bizarroworld and declares that the militias "are not a long term problem," poo-poohs the notion of escalating violence and impending civil war and takes heart in the active participation of the Iraqi people in fighting the insurgency:

MR. RUSSERT: General, many observers -- objective observers say that you cannot have an insurgency this robust without being enabled by the population. Now, Lawrence Kaplan in The New Republic, who'a supporter of the war, said that he wrote on a story of a young man that called emergency line 130 to report insurgents shooting mortars; no one answered the line. And then he said you don'’t do it again because if you call that emergency line, insurgents get a hold of your phone number and come kill you

... This is priceless. Jane gors on to prove what a worthless piece of crap Timmeh and his show are. And as Jane points out Edwards was pretty pathetic.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. Russert should just stay home and write more books about his dad.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1401359655.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

He could reveal that Big Russ was actually a British Secret Agent who drove a gadget-laden car, enjoyed his martinis shaken and not stirred, and had a license to kill.

Big Russ could travel all over the world, face interesting and quirky villains, and romance beautiful women.

That's what I think Tim should do. Stay home and write books about Big Russ.

[TNOE]

2. I had to mute it

it was THAT ridiculous - it should have been obvious to any with a brain that the soldier was being just that "a good soldier" - lying his ass off for his masters. It was pathetic.

[DrRang]

3. "getting the goodness out" = "truthiness?"