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Archives-- Installments for
June, 2005, through June 10, 2005, starting below in reverse chronological order.
June
7, 2005--
Washington
Post publishes interview with Hillary Clinton: "I stay awake at night" worrying
about the harm in Washington caused by "people who have never been acquainted with the
truth."
Hillary Clinton told the Washington
Post: "I stay awake at night thinking about all the mistakes and the wrong direction and all the bad decisions being made in Washington," Clinton said at the fund-raiser. "It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It's very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth."
Apparently, due to a publishing error involving archived issues, the article published in today's
(June 7, 2005) issue attributing such quotation to Hillary Clinton was originally published on
August 18, 1998, the day after Bill Clinton addressed the nation (on
August 17, 1998) to admit that he had been lying in deying that he had "sex" with
Monica Lewinsky. Through the Political-Web-Way-Back-Machine, PoliSat.Com has obtained exclusive
video of the original, on-line publication of the August 18, 1998, article.
Presidential historian Doris Kearns Good-Wind marveled at the technical prowess of PoliSat.Com's
Political-Web-Way-Back-Machine and wondered if it might be able to retrieve pre-plagiarized versions
of some of her work. John Kerry left a voice-mail indicating a willingness to say kind things
about PoliSat.Com in exchange for use of PSC's Machine to retrieve his tour of duty in Cambodia during
Christmas, 1968, on orders of the warmongering then-President-Elect Richard Nixon. PoliSat.Com
declined both requests as being violative of the Second Directive: Don't mess with the
time-line.
--Jim
Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.
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June
6 then and now-- June 6, 1944, and June 6, 2005; D-Day and T-Day; Loose Lips Sink Ships; ACLU--
American Careless Lips Union.
Common-sense self-restraint exercised by the media, other organizations and the American people in
general during our World War II struggle against totalitarian fascism didn't prevent us from
becoming a freer, better country following the defeat of such enemies of freedom and human
rights. Today, too many in the dominant media and too many organizations professing to serve
the public interests exhibit a serious lack of such common sense. (Some,
but too
few, in the media
are willing to condemn such abuse
of common sense.) Why else in the midst of a world-wide, no-front-line war against
the totalitarian, fascist and fanatical perversion of Islam would so many in the dominant media and
in organizations (such as the ACLU) professing to serve the public interests think it sensible to
find as many ways as possible to disseminate as widely as possible as many flaws, errors and
mistakes as possible with respect to American conduct of warfare against such global
threat?
Would the ACLU, for example, be willing to adopt a policy requiring all its members traveling abroad
in Islamic countries to wear signs on their backs identifying themselves as members of an
organization in which at least a significant percentage of its members (if not many or most)
consider all religious believers to be "morons"? Of course not-- their common sense
would motivate them to attempt to minimize rather than maximize the dangers to themselves
that such form of self-identification would create.
Why, then, are they so patently callous with respect to the fact that their efforts to overemphasize
mistakes (such as instances of mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib) is the equivalent of putting
targets on the backs of our troops in this war without a front line? It's because their ivory
tower existence made less insecure by the risks being undertaken by our troops (whose faith
they smugly disdain) affords them the luxury of engaging in intellectual preening in an effort to
distinguish themselves from the rest of us. What do they deserve for their conduct so utterly
contemptuous of the lives of our troops and sacrifices being made in our behalf? At they very
least, they deserve our utter, unqualified contempt.
--Jim
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June
5, 2005--
Deep
Analysis of reports about Deep Throat Mark Felt exposes deep contradictions about perceptions of
whistleblowers raising question of whether media have tripped on their biases.
The current,
dominant-media accolades for Mark Felt's recent self-exposure as Deep Throat prompt deep
analyses of years-ago
media perceptions of the role of a whistleblower. To state the dominant
media's professed view of whistleblowers abstractly, it is to honor, rather than vilify, a
government employee who exposes to the press efforts by agents of the employee's superiors to
pressure the employee into cooperating with, rather than exposing, efforts by the superior to
falsely deny allegations of wrongful conduct-- unless, of course, the "whistleblower" were
to be Linda Tripp rather than Mark Felt.
What's an important difference between Deep Throat Mark Felt and Linda Tripp? The latter,
unlike the former, had the courage to identify herself and expose herself to merciless attack by
media sympathizers with Bill Clinton. In contrast, Mark Felt stayed safely in the shadows for
more than three decades before "coming out" to the laudatory accolades of the very same
media that heaped calumny on Linda Tripp. Another important difference? Deep Throat
never claimed that Nixon or his agents directly asked him to obstruct justice or commit perjury, but
Linda Tripp steadfastly maintained that the reason she decided to become a whistleblower (and to do
so openly rather than as a covert source) was that agents of Bill Clinton had urged her to lie on
his behalf rather to tell the truth. Another important difference? Mark Felt was a
top-level FBI official hardened by decades of service under J. Edgar Hoover, but Linda Tripp was a
lowly, single-mother employee of the federal government. Who had the most to "fear"
from whistleblowing in public? Who had more courage? The answer is obvious to all but
the oh-so-predictable dominant voices in the dominant media. (Dare I say
"once-dominant" media?)
Paradoxically, the liberal elite in the media, who worship at the shrine of the judiciary,
considered Bill Clinton's attempt to corrupt the judicial process (in the kind of litigation which
he and his supporters had ardently supported through legislation empowering judges in civil actions
by subordinates alleging sexual harassment by superiors to require superiors to truthfully answer
questions about prior instances of alleged sexual harassment by them against other subordinates regardless
of how "embarrassing" or "humiliating" such disclosures might be to the
superiors' families) to be far less "serious"
than Nixon's agents' commission of criminal acts (burglary) to search for evidence of criminal
activity (use of call-girls for political blackmail) by Nixon's opponents. One would think a
criminal offense against the system of justice would be at least as serious as a criminal offense
against a criminal offense.
--Jim
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When Mark Felt, now age 91, was asked why he waited more than thirty years before identifying
himself as "Deep Throat," he said, "I can't remember why I waited so long."
Meanwhile, the controversy intensified between those viewing him as a hero and those viewing him as
a heel.
When Woodward and Bernstein were asked why they picked the name "Deep Throat" for Mark
Felt as their confidential source, each gave a different answer. Woodward claimed it was the
deep, mellow tones of Felt's voice that inspired him to pick the name. Bernstein said the name
was inspired by their recognition of how far down their source would go to undermine Nixon. Of
course everyone else in the world claims the name was inspired by a movie lauded at Cannes as
the head of its class (or, as they say in France, "genre"). Being the only person on
the planet who missed seeing that movie (the babe I was dating at the time told me it was an
extremely boring movie about the efforts of a bass singer trying to make it in the world of opera),
I can't judge the whether such world-wide theory may be correct. However, as this sound-video
obtained exclusively by PoliSat.Com reveals, Woodward and Bernstein were right in predicting the
effects that Deep Throat would have on a President tempted to seek unlawful means to enlarge the
Executive Branch .
We were unable to reach Richard Nixon for a comment, but we did the next best thing. We gained
exclusive access to this just-declassified video soon to be on display in both the Nixon
Library and the Clinton
Liebrary. Click
the above-right image to view the full-size sound/video version. If you don't have software
such as WinAmp or Windows Media Player to view the sound-video version, click the image at the left
to view the silent version. If you're too impatient to view the full-size sound-video
version, click the smaller, landscape-oriented image to the right to view a smaller, faster-loading
sound-video version.
--Jim
Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com
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