Heads Up! James Risen next on MTP. He broke wiretap story for NYTimes.

[spanone]

n/t

[stray cat]

1. Let us know what you think of him

I'm been thinking about getting his book - has anyone read it?

[spanone]

2. Pretty level headed guy. Calls whistleblowers patriots.

Russert of course is using every right-wing talking point trying to make him look like an enemy of the state. He's holding his own like a man who knows what he's talking about.

[Zen Democrat]

3. Russert must be tied into Abramoff, DeLay, Rove, et al --AT THE HIP.

[spanone]

5. Russert plays the 'devils advocate' for the thugs way too well.

it's beyond shilling. It's Unfair and Unbalanced.

[ewagner]

4. Listening/watching now...

says:

WH sent "signals" of "get tough" policy on AQ...CIA quickly complied with secret programs (my take: to please the WH????)

Good...he has the story about the cia ignoring that the nuc program had been dead for a decade....

hmmmmmmmm....

I think Timmy has Risen on only because he perpetuates the myth that the CIA got it all wrong....e.g. gave Bush* bad intelligence.

If Risen isn't perpetuating the myth then Timmy is mischaracterizing his work to perpetuate it.

[johnfunk]

6. But we have to sit through Kate O'Beirne first!

Kate is plugging her new book, "Women the Right Wing Conservative Ideology Requires You to Hate" — she is on opposite Kate Michelman, whose weird-colored hair and unattractive brown dress are undercutting her articulate, well-argued progressive message. Kate reminds me of an Coulter, only fatter (i.e. stick-thin ass opposed to anorexic), older, and uglier.

[Penndems]

7. John, you took the words out of my mouth

Kate O'Beirne - charter member of the "Women Who Hate Other Women" Club. :mad:

[Mossadeq]

8. Putting me to sleep

flipped over to 'This Week With George' ...yawn.