Longtime readers will remember Barry’s starring role in shyster/fixer Roy Cohn’s failed effort to tag Jimmy Carter chief of staff Hamilton Jordan as a cocaine fiend.
Italky digs deep, coming up with further details of the episode which point to Landau as more instigator than reluctant witness.
Jordan’s alleged indiscretion prompted a semi-interminable Special Counsel investigation, which the balance-seeking missiles of the press somehow equated with the actual crimes Iran-Contra, bundling the disparate events into a compelling case of we-don’t-care-to-know-what-our-betters-are-up-to.
So the Independent Counsel’s got killed, and the Republic staggered on.
What with the tedious actual issues involved in federal budget fights, don’t we all need time to laugh?Step forward, Representative Scott Womack , sponsor of a World Net Daily dog-whistler to save the American taxpayer by defunding White House teleprompters.
Now tragically withdrawn, the bill still serves a host of uses, reminding the faithful that Obama can’t really talk good without mechanical assistance, that unlike his rough-hewn predecessor Obama is a fancy boy fraud.
Any Number Can Play!Eager Republican National Committee beavers want you to send birthday greetings to the ghost of Ronald Reagan, and appear to be shunting them onto the Twitter without editing.Pranksters have already had at it, and you can join the conversation here.How do you remember Ronald Reagan?
The Washington Postreports another exciting example of our betters communicating with us via the Twitter, fostering new vistas of openness and communication.
Unfortunately her husband the King has his own ideas about transparency.
The Post says magic Kingdom is implementing laws regulating Internet speech which include forced labor to punish infractions. This has not prevented the Queen from emitting on such controversial topics as education [for it!] and micro-finance [splendid idea].
HerHuffington Post column is comparatively hard edged, with the Palestinian descended monarch actually flirting with criticising Israel.
Social Times, “Your Social Media Source,” has discovered a new internet hero, the leader of a nation who engages with his public not just at election time, but online. Meet Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria and Facebook aficionado.
Jonathan is West Africa’s Mohamed Nasheed, a man we’ve never heard of doing ostensibly good things in a country we don’t care about, helped by the magic of the Internet.
The Nigerian President inherited office when his predecessor died, and his version of a listening tour includes writing and reading posts, by someone if not him. Social Times says “Goodluck Jonathan shows The World How How Politicians Should Use Facebook,” citing his vast following and the fount of commentary unleashed by his musings.
Social Times‘s example of Jonathan’s minding the little people is his reversing his own decision barring Nigeria’s soccer team from play after their poor World Cup showing, after the keyboard army mobilized. That FIFA threatened to ban any Nigerian team from any play anywhere apparently didn’t figure in.
And all the transparency Jonathan has emitted on Facebook hasn’t kept his supporters from silencing critics the old fashioned way, by shutting down their political rallies.
