DOWNING STREET: WRITE ON, BLOGGERS! RIGHT ON!

WRITE ON, SISTER. RIGHT ON!
And Write on Bloggers Because Bloggers Are the Ones Who Need to Continue to Press on With The Downing Street Story.  PBecause for all its seeming promise on Sunday, the Mainstream Media dropped the ball on Monday. Scott McClellan was asked one question with no followup at the White House Presss briefing yesterday. Briefing is exactly what the story got, brief and not enough attention. 

Q    Could we go back to the press availability with Prime Minister Blair last week?  In response to a question, the President said, about the Downing Street memo, "My conversation with the Prime Minister was, how could we do this peacefully."  And then later on he says, "And so we worked hard to see if we could figure out how to do this peacefully."

"How to do this" -- that refers to regime change or just to weapons inspections?

MR. McCLELLAN:  Well, regime change was the policy of the previous administration -- remember, that goes back to the previous administration.

Q    But the policy of previous administration was --

MR. McCLELLAN:  I addressed the threat posed by Iraq.

Q    Right, which was not to do it using military force at that time.  The decision by this administration was to use military force. So when talking about this --

MR. McCLELLAN:  Not at that time.

Q    But when talking about this, and this response, is the President referring to regime change or referring to inspections of weapons --

MR. McCLELLAN:  The threat posed by the regime in Iraq.

Q    So regime change.

Q    What, with the defeat of CAFTA -- what kind of a signal did that send to --

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FROM: WHITE HOUSE

So bloggers will have to continue on in pressing the story. Bush has things to worry about besides impeachment.  There are the 2006 elections first.  Here is how Juan Cole sees it.

 

The bloggers have forced the issue into the corporate media, and are helping create a real buzz around the Conyers hearings scheduled for Thursday.

Conyers and his staff are well aware that ordinarily hearings held by members of the minority party in Congress (which therefore are unlikely to have teeth) are routinely ignored by the corporate media. They are placing their hopes in the blogging world to cover the hearings and get the word out. They are planning to release further documents corroborating the Downing Street Memo.

This entire affair could be a harbinger of what is coming in 2007. If the Democrats can take back the Senate in 2006, all of a sudden they could schedule real investigatory hearings at the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Senate Armed Services Committee, into Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans, into Cheney's pressure on the CIA analysts, into the fabrication of intelligence and the political lies that dragged this country into the Iraq quagmire. Imagine what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton for merely fibbing about a desultory relationship (13 meetings) with a young woman that did not even involve intercourse. What would be the appropriate punishment for lying about Iraq's non-existent nuclear weapons program? Or launching a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter? Bush knows very well he will be a lame duck by January 2007. The real question is whether he will end up being roasted duck.

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FROM: JUAN COLE: REVENGE OF THE BLOGGERS 

RIGHT ON, BLOGGERS!  WRITE ON!

 

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[eRobin]

Don't forget me - I'm pissed off at how transparently the NYT is getting BushCo's back on this. Here and here. More "really good journalism" for the paper of record. And I wouldn't care except they fucking are the paper of record and what they write gets picked up and spread around like the shit it is all over the corporate media - especially NPR, which seems to use the NYT as a news aggregator.

[Chuck Ismyname]

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[KathyF]

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