Jay Bookman

By RW-(the original)

August 27, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this

Oddly we have two links to this very same blurb, but not one link to the details. When a liberal like Jay doesn’t link you to any source material you can take it to the bank that the story is questionable and I’m being polite using the word questionable.

By the lovely mrs. catfish

August 27, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

So much for supporting our troops!

By the lovely mrs. catfish

August 27, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this

RW…. it sounds like you were watching the “details” on Fox which is why you are looking for a link. Why don’t you turn on C-Span and get an unfiltered version of what is going on???

By JAY BOOKMAN

August 27, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this

No links needed, RW. Reality exists separate from links.

I saw the short film showing on CNN, a tribute to veterans narrated by Tom Hanks; I switched to Fox, which had its talking heads talking with the sound of the film barely heard in the background. So you tell me….

By RW-(the original)

August 27, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this

Jay,

So what you’re claiming Fox “refuses” to show is something that CNN chose to pick up live from convention footage and Fox had something else on at the time? As much as I try to have some respect for you it’s very difficult.

The catfish above you is right, if you want nothing but the actual convention then switch to one of the channels covering just the convention.

OMG…Biden just finished and I think it might be a dead heat in your earlier contest.

Anyway, back to your premise that life exists beyond links. True enough, but you said Fox refused to show the video without offering one iota of proof. All you have is that they didn’t take it live. Where’s the proof that they refuse to show the video?

I trust you’ll use the same standard next week.

/Actually I don’t.

By JAY BOOKMAN

August 27, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this

Fine, RW. Then let’s reverse the situation.

Let’s say CNN “declined” — since you don’t like the word “refused” — to show a film tribute to U.S. veterans next week, preferring to televise its own talking heads while the tribute played in the background.

What do you think would be the reaction?

By the lovely mrs. catfish

August 27, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this

Refuse…didn’t take it live…come on RW…quit splitting links! the way Fox typically goes on and on and on ad nauseum it is strange indeed that they didn’t show the tribute to the troops…which I agree was incredibly moving.

By RW-(the original)

August 27, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this

Jay,

My reaction would be that CNN had a programming schedule that they were trying to keep. If it later came out that they actually refused to show a piece of tribute tape then I would call them out. I certainly wouldn’t make the claim that CNN should be damned because they didn’t mirror the directorial decisions of Fox News.

Like you did, albeit in reverse.

By Bosch

August 27, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this

After hearing Biden speak, I wanted to stick a knife in my gut.

By the lovely mrs. catfish

August 27, 2008 11:47 PM | Link to this

is that because you were busy multi-tasking?????

By atlpaddy

August 27, 2008 11:56 PM | Link to this

Please do, Bosch. That way it’ll be one less Republican voter in November.

By Bosch

August 28, 2008 12:00 AM | Link to this

No, Polly, now I know why it’s not:

Biden/Powell ‘08

or

Powell/Nunn ‘08

but I DO love some catifsh with Old Bay - of course wrapped in nouri leaves

By @@

August 28, 2008 12:08 AM | Link to this

I have no idea what you’re talking about Jay.

I do know that Fox said they would not be airing the ad showing the personal relationship between OBlahMa and his terrorist buddy, William Ayers.

That oughta make you happy.

By Bosch

August 28, 2008 12:12 AM | Link to this

Oh, but atlpaddy,

I’m a “liberal,” no more so, than Jay (I still hold a Republican member card in my wallet -I was a rebellious kid) - funny how GWB makes a person a “liberal,” but Jimmy Carter is still, and always will be my hero

Biden’s speech was bad………………………………

By "The Corporal"

August 28, 2008 12:22 AM | Link to this

Jay:

Liberal Democrats in general despise the military. Few of them serve or have served in it. They see that as being beneath them and the military is at best a necessary evil. How many Ivy League graduates are going in as officers? This is all propaganda aimed at the unwashed, ignorant masses.

“For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the *protected will never know”* Anonymous - found written on a C-rations box at Khe Sahn - 1968

If the shoe fits - wear it!

By James Hogan

August 28, 2008 2:07 AM | Link to this

“For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know” Anonymous - found written on a C-rations box at Khe Sahn - 1968

If the shoe fits - wear it! “/quote

That’s strange. I have a plaque on my wall that has a very similar message on it. It’s inscribed to me from the officers and men of “Bravo” Company, 1st Battallion, 5th Marines. On the plaque is the emblem of our company—the Bushmasters.

I have enoticed that you seem to regale the masses with your bravado. You sound to me like a person one or two steps removed from the reality of combat. Surely you could never have seen combat, or else you would never have tried to glorify it. No one who has ever been in combat thinks it’s glorious.

Just a thought in the night.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 28, 2008 5:40 AM | Link to this

More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming “tipping point” in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second-lowest level in about 30 years.-Urinal/PMS

A record cold August has no effect on the dimwit environmental terrorists, nope, they have to go look at some insignificant melting at the pole of the Earth where is isn’t growing:

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Growing Thicker. In the mid 1960s, ITT built a power transmission line in Antarctica. The transmission towers stood 115 feet tall. As you can see in these photos, all but the top 30 feet of the towers are now buried in ice.

A layer of ice up to two miles thick covers a continent as big as the United States and Mexico combined. Antarctic ice contains 70% of the world’s fresh water (90% of the world’s ice). If it were divided up, every person on Earth could have a chunk of ice larger than the Great Pyramid.

Isn’t amazing how much more the Duh Report knows then the whole team of “journalists” over at the Urinal does?

Either that or they are propagandizing on behalf of their beloved junk science.

By Fabb4eyes

August 28, 2008 5:42 AM | Link to this

You know, a lot of cats out there wonder why I completely own every single blog I visit. Well, one perfect example of why is that I dont even have to comment and the threads revolve around me, like at 12:00 am above.

I rule this blog, the Wooten blog, and yes, even all the sports blogs. All of them!

I rule because I never sold out. People have to read me, or read things from me in every post they read, whether I wrote the comment or not. People love to try to fool others into thinking that I wrote their comments. I am this blog.

Now, even though it P’s me off that Bookman coddles the serial dented heads and signal crackpots on this blog, and indulges delusional sociopaths like RW and his tag-team tincture-swabbing partner, Duhng, I hold back criticism, giving Bookman the benefit of the doubt, that maybe he has some overall approach to hosting a blog, where he feels sorry for the ignorant sellouts who cant write one word of nonpartisan, non-rushannity.

Bookman isn’t hip to our culture. He doesn’t know when he’s being prattled to or when someone is double-talking him, like RW did in his exchange around 11:19pm last night.

It’s also bothersome that Jay seems not to have a life that would preclude his monitoring his own blog 24/7. But I’m willing, for the sake of the peace, to overlook poor personal habits, lazy writing, and even the occasional onomatopoeia. But coddling trolls? THAT I do not forgive, so let me say this, that should something happen to one of my comments, say, it should be singled out, roughed-up and deleted, by accident of course, or if say, if lightning should strike it in the form of a Duhng flame, or if anything negative should befall one of my gems of blogging acumen, then there will be blogwar. But I promise NOT to be the one who breaks the peace. That is my pledge I give to you on this day.

Now, I must go bury what’s left of my PoFo I.D. There’s a reception with fava beans and nice chianti afterward if anyone’s interested.

McCain 08: Trolls love this guy.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 28, 2008 5:43 AM | Link to this

Bill Clinton Vows to Do `Everything’ He Can for Obama

Is this a threat or an offer of help?

That’s the same thing he vowed to do for Kerry, Bruno, Gore and a host of other lesser lib politicians, that sure helped a lot.

Buh-bye barry.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 28, 2008 5:48 AM | Link to this

Based on the large number of negative vents that are published about Obama, my guess is that the Vent Guy moonlights on Fox News.-Urinal Vent

Anybody want to go back and count them, 2 or 3 weeks of them, anti Obama versus anti McCain?

We can do our own little truth detection exercise rather easily.

Lake Allatoona is a runt. You could pour all the water from Allatoona into Lake Lanier and Lanier still would not be full.-Urinal Vent

Anyone else get the feeling the libs are getting angry about all the recent rain?

Another boogeyman bites the dust, buh bye drought.

By Fabb4eyes

August 28, 2008 5:52 AM | Link to this

You know, a lot of cats out there wonder why I completely own every single blog I visit. Well, one perfect example of why is that I dont even have to comment and the threads revolve around me, like at 12:00 am above.

I rule this blog, the Wooten blog, and yes, even all the sports blogs. All of them!

I rule because I never sold out. People have to read me, or read things from me in every post they read, whether I wrote the comment or not. People love to try to fool others into thinking that I wrote their comments. I am this blog.

Now, even though it P’s me off that Bookman coddles the serial dented heads and signal crackpots on this blog, and indulges delusional sociopaths like RW and his tag-team tincture-swabbing partner, Duhng, I hold back criticism, giving Bookman the benefit of the doubt, that maybe he has some overall approach to hosting a blog, where he feels sorry for the ignorant sellouts who cant write one word of nonpartisan, non-rushannity.

Bookman isn’t hip to our culture. He doesn’t know when he’s being prattled to or when someone is double-talking him, like RW did in his exchange around 11:19pm last night.

It’s also bothersome that Jay seems not to have a life that would preclude his monitoring his own blog 24/7. But I’m willing, for the sake of the peace, to overlook poor personal habits, lazy writing, and even the occasional onomatopoeia. But coddling trolls? THAT I do not forgive, so let me say this, that should something happen to one of my comments, say, it should be singled out, roughed-up and deleted, by accident of course, or if say, if lightning should strike it in the form of a Duhng flame, or if anything negative should befall one of my gems of blogging acumen, then there will be blogwar. But I promise NOT to be the one who breaks the peace. That is my pledge I give to you on this day.

Now, I must go bury what’s left of my PoFo I.D. There’s a reception with fava beans and nice chianti afterward if anyone’s interested.

McCain 08: Trolls love this guy.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 28, 2008 5:53 AM | Link to this

“When I turned the TV on,” Tony Blankley writes at the outset of the convention coverage, “the political cable news shows were filled with liberal pundits, liberal anchors, liberal guest historians, liberal weather gals and guys, liberal news you can use chicks, liberal political ‘strategists’ (i.e. out of work Democratic National Committee gofers).” Practically everything they droned on about was stupid.

Blankley was particularly critical of the blah, blah, blah that followed the Prophet Obama’s choice of Senator Joe Biden as his running mate in their Campaign for Change. Joe is a minor Washington monument, completely with stone head. He has been a senator for 36 years. He may have been a congressional page during the administration of Grover Cleveland. Yet, the mainstream moron media were in the raptures over the Prophet’s bold choice.

It’s like virtual DNC Kampaign literature at a “news” paper box near you.

Blah, blah, blah.

America is sick of it.

The libs will be the last ones to figure it out, even after their presidential nominee crashes and burns.

Bwa.

By Mike

August 28, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

“I guess that demonstrates where their loyalties are.”

Questioning their patriotism, Bookman?

How many more ways can you show us you are a hypocrite, Jay?

BTW: You so-called NEWSpaper has refused tp publish any of the positive news from Iraq in the past year. What does that say about the AJC’s “loyalties”, let alone its journalsitic ethics?

By Mike

August 28, 2008 7:05 AM | Link to this

STOP THE PRESSES:

“Jay Bookman hates Fox News”

other shocking news headlines:

“Neil Boortz hates the AJC”

“Keith Olbermann hates Rush Limbugh”

“Sean Hannity hates the New York Times”

“Bloods hate Crips”

You are all a bunch of hypocrites.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 28, 2008 7:24 AM | Link to this

Well, well, now Rove Master sees the same target that I do:

Inevitably, John McCain and Barack Obama will be drawn into these fights. And, although both are sitting senators, the advantage may go to Mr. McCain. Democrats control Congress, so they are accountable. Mr. Reid and Mrs. Pelosi are two of the worst advertisements for Congress imaginable. And Mr. McCain has an impressive record of political reform he can invoke, whereas Mr. Obama, who has yet to complete his first term in the Senate, has no accomplishments to point to that demonstrate that he is an agent of change.

The 110th Congress is an excellent target for Mr. McCain. He ought to take careful aim at it and commence firing.

By Dennis

August 28, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

You are allowed to be biased because you are a commentator rather than a journalist. Your definition of “moving tribute” and my definition are almost certainly very different.

Spielberg’s definition of “moving tribute” and FoxNews’s definition are likely to be different.

Is a Spielberg “moving tribute” news? No, it is propaganda.

By Goldie

August 28, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Fox Noise — once again shaming themselves in front of all America.

By Copyleft

August 28, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

It’s not hypocrisy… it’s giving the hysterical jingoists a taste of their own medicine.

And being on the delivery side, I can tell you: it’s a Sweeeeet experience.

By "The Corporal"

August 28, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

To James Hogan:

I served with India Company 3rd Battalion 4th Marines Vietnam 1967-68

My conscience is clear. You should know better brother.

Many units have adopted that anonymous quote.

By GMAN

August 28, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Faux News does not support our troops, PERIOD! It merely talks about it. The tribute to the troops which I saw on CSPAN should have been shown by EVERY cable channel that professed to have continuous coverage of the convention, PERIOD!

John “I was against it before I was for it” McCain should have the first debate with himself! LOL

By GOPs got to go

August 28, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

That is just weird. I registered as a Republican in 1980, the first year I was able to vote, and voted for St Ronald. I caulk it up to the stupidity of youth and a strong father figure. I saw the error of my ways soon though. Funny how that registration can jump up to bite you in the butt years later. I am getting Republican spam mail now.

I also think Jimmy Carter was a good president in keeping us out of a war, and being the first progressive energy policy president. And hands down the best ex-president we have ever had.

And I am married to a hunk, as you are married to a babe. We have been living in parallel universes all this time. LOL

By Fabb4eyes

August 28, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Bosch, and GOP2go: Nobody cares what you two stuntwits do with your blow up dolls. But if you want to talk about Reagan’s landslide win over Carter, then maybe you should read more.

The evangelical right reared it’s ugly head for Reagan in 1980 after Bobby Jones University’s tax exempt status was challenged, not by Carter, but by the IRS. They wouldn’t allow Blacks on campus. Thus they didn’t deserve the tax exemption due a “charitable organization”. Carter took the fall. The issue was tax money, not abortion or gay marriage.

It was one of a long line of injustices that the right has perpetrated on this country.

Corporal: Dont sell your war. It’s pathetic and mercenary. Just fade away.

‘muff said.

Fox News has some unspinning to do. They’ve labeled the conservatives as surrender monkeys, and have suggested that our troops all died in vain and that the terrorists won. They’ve done this 24/7 365 for five years. Now that Bush has agreed to a surrender timeline.

It will be a while B4 Fox gets back on track.

Hillary had the moment. It’s not about me, it’s about the disenfranchised. Hillary’s selflessness will go down with, “Ask not”, and “Four score”, and “Nuts!”

McCain 08: Was he playing tic tac toe in the dirt with that prison guard? Rush Limbaugh suggests that since Russia and the Vietnamese were allies during ‘Nam, that maybe a Vietnamese prison guard visited a gulag in Russia where Solzhenitsyn was housed. Then, Rush says it’s possible the prison guard related how he drew a cross in the dirt for McCain to a Russian guard while they had a vodka break. Solzhenitsyn then overheard the story and stole it for his “Gulag Archepelago” which the Right has tried to prove every line a lie.

Rush is back on RX, folks.

And I think it’s a damn shame.

True patriots vote Obama in November.

Obama 08: We’ve got a country to save, and a world to convince.

By "The Corporal"

August 28, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

To Fabb4eyes:

“Kept by better men than yourself” …….

P.S. Check out the 13th Floor at Grady. They can help you.