At least some of the broadcast networks are providing primary election coverage for Super Tuesday. But come on, guys:

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I know you MSM types are addicted to your horse race coverage, but that’s just mean.

(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)

As Bat stated in one of the comment threads, Philip Shenon, author of ‘The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation’, was on Fresh Air yesterday. You can listen to the interview here.

Excerpt from Chapter I of the book:

Washington, DC, May 30, 2002

Sandy Berger walked down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the row of massive Corinthian columns that were the most notable architectural feature of the National Archives. The public entrance to the archives was around the corner on Constitution Avenue, and it would normally be jammed with throngs of boisterous tourists on such a bright spring morning, eager to gaze upon the great documents of -American democracy. But on the day of Berger’s first visit, the few out-of-town visitors who did not have special permission to enter the archives were turned away. The building had been closed to the public for months, undergoing a $125 million renovation. The pair of 6.5-ton bronze doors at the public entrance were locked tight. The archives’ most precious documents-the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights-had been removed from their display cases in July 2001 and placed in storage at a secret location as part of the renovation. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the archives was in no hurry to return them to public view, since the building was considered a potential target if al-Qaeda carried out a second wave of attacks. The new goldplated titanium display cases being built for the documents would seal the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights in argon gas beneath layers of bulletproof, bombproof glass, protecting them from anything that Osama bin Laden’s terrorist followers might have in mind.

It was May 30, 2002, eight months after the terrorist attacks, and Berger walked unnoticed into a separate entrance on Pennsylvania Avenue that was used by the archives staff, who had continued to work in the building during the renovations. Berger had special permission to visit the archives that day, although he was hardly pleased to be there. The archives employees who encountered Berger that morning would remember that he made little effort to hide his annoyance with the assignment he had been given there by his old friend and boss Bill Clinton.

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Note to Bat: I’m thrilled with all the posts you’ve done this week, but DUDE….. clean it up!!

Dandelion Salad has a bunch of videos posted from Senate debate on the FISA bill. Check them out…… you’d even think Harry Caveman Reid grew a spine.

HILLARY CHOKES UP AGAIN……ABOUT HERSELF……AGAIN

LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW U.S. FORCES CROSS IRAQ BORDERS

PENTAGON DISPUTES NATIONAL GUARD/RESERVE REPORT(but of course they do)

WELCOME TO POTTERSVILLE: “IT’S GOT A BUNCH OF NUMBERS IN IT”

THE UN DECEPTION: WHAT EXACTLY COLIN POWELL KNEW FIVE YEARS AGO, AND WHAT HE TOLD THE WORLD

JUDGE REINSTATES RULES ON SONAR

IRAQI SCIENTIST GAVE CIA INFORMATION THAT SHOULD HAVE PREVENTED WAR

REPUBLICANS HAVE BECOME THE CREDIBILITY-FREE PARTY

REP. MURTHA: IRAQ WAR LIMITS ABILITY TO CONTAIN CHINA

FRESHMAN HOUSE MEMBERS PROPOSE CANCELLING PAY RAISE

IT’S SUPER TUESDAY COAST TO COAST (it’s also superbowl parade Tuesday and Fat Tuesday)

MELLENCAMP ASKS MCCAIN TO STOP USING HIS TUNES

FOOL
We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee
there’s no labouring i’ the winter. All that follow
their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and
there’s not a nose among twenty but can smell him
that’s stinking.

[King Lear, 2.4, 66-71]

This post consists of three parts, all on Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations five years ago about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. Please feel free to skip over any or all of it, as is your wont. Check out Day of Shame for more on this blogswarm. Thanks to VastLeft of Corrente for organizing this, and to Blue Gal for spreading the word.

I. Only a Frenchman Could Doubt Him

Despite a number of glaring problems with it, Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations earned widespread praise in the mainstream media at the time. Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy/PR Watch have a book, The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq (Sept. 2006), that offers a superb rundown of the reactions. From chapter three, “Big Impact”:
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I’ve mentioned this one before, but for my “Day of Shame,” post I wanted to reference it, and it deserves its own post. The best write-up I’ve seen is from The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. They’ve written a number of good books, and you can see some of their other work at the website for the Center for Media and Democracy/PR Watch.

From chapter five, “Rewriting History”:
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