April 11, 2008
Previous “Deep Thoughts”
8:12 A.M.
So, the most notable thing this morning seems to be that, based on satellite, Iran has or will shortly have missiles that can reach Europe. Just add nukes.
8:21 A.M.
Oh yeah, the rattlesnake.
8:27 A.M.
Didn’t this go away? Why would this idiot bring this back up again?
10:36 A.M.
The paratrooper who was actually wounded in the Rattsnake/Full Auto Incident will be by shortly to help me finish the story. We’re also working on downloading pitchers.
10:49 A.M.
Excerpted From The Swamp:
Bill Clinton, former president, says his wife, candidate for president and senator from New York, should be excused for overstating the circumstances of her now-famous landing in Bosnia (hold the sniper fire) because she had spoken late at night and she’s – well – 60.
“You woulda thought, you know, that she’d robbed a bank the way they all carried on about this,’’ Bill Clinton said this week about the reaction to Hillary Clinton’s statement about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia in 1996 – with videotape of the landing displaying a clearly different, and cheery scenario, a smiling stride from the belly of a cargo plane, a wave and a reception line with a little girl.
“Some of them, when they’re 60, they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 o’clock at night, too,’’ Bill Clinton said this week of Hillary Clinton’s comment.
The only trouble is, the senator had given this same account of a sniper-fire landing a few times, and not always late at night. The further trouble is that, once again, the former president has succeeded in stirring up controversy for his wife at a critical time in her presidential campaign – within two weeks of a Pennsylvania primary critical to her chances.
“Let me just tell you,’’ Bill Clinton said in Boonville. “The president of Bosnia and Gen. Wesley Clark – who was there making peace where we’d lost three peacekeepers, who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way – both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at.
“And everywhere they went, they were covered by Apache helicopters.’’ He said. “So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.
“Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops,’’ he said, “And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she’d robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them, when they’re 60, they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 at night, too.’’
Obama said this today about Bill Clinton’s comments when asked as he was walking out of a press conference in Indianapolis:
“I will let the Clintons explain Bosnia.’’
11:01 A.M.
Inside scoop is that Katie Couric is strongly considering leaving basically now .
11:14 A.M.
11:18 A.M.
12:46 P.M.
Why is the cheerleaders vid still up in Featured Posts? ‘Cos you guys keep watching it. It spent two straight days as the #1 post, and has still never left the top five. Give the people what they want.
12:51 P.M.
Sorry for draggin’ out this rattler/shooting story. But I realized there’s ways of telling it, and then there’s ways of telling it. So I’m gonna be telling it.
Plus I was out from 3 PM yesterday till this morn.
1:04 P.M.
1:36 P.M.
Jesse Ventura’s looking like Jim Belushi.
2:42 P.M.
Parents fight over which gang toddler should join.
2:55 P.M.
This, as laid out in the links here, is all a very big deal, significant of much. It’s going to be interesting to see how the cards start to fall…
3:06 P.M.
Hussein tries to hide visits to rich people.
3:23 P.M.
Rattlesnake story update: The member of the 82nd Airborne, the actual individual wounded in the whole suspicious and sordid affair, will be here soon enough to flesh out the details of the Second Act. And we will be able to post photos. I was present and a key player in the third act, and a lot of the second act was relayed to me, so I could technically lay it out, but it won’t be the same without that first person direct testimony kind of thing. So just hang in there….it’s big stuff…big, big stuff….
3:43 P.M.
Secretary of State Rice is loving Jimmy Carter right now.
3:45 P.M.
Velly intellesting.
3:59 P.M.
More on the biggest story of the week:
4:02 P.M.
7:42 P.M.
8:16 P.M.
Did Bill Clinton cost Hillary the nomination?
10:28 P.M
Alright, Jared, our rattlesnake boy from the 82nd is hear for the night. We’re getting the rattlesnake story written, plus we have cellphone movie clips of the snake and shenanighans, as well as some stills. We want it all written and displayed right, so expect it all tomorrow. Sorry, but a well researched and written story takes the right amount research, effort and supporting media. As I started it, I realized there was a better way to go, every mission takes unexpected turns and hence we are where we are. But we will deliver the goods in spades. Check it tomorrow.
In the meantime, here’s an oldy but goody:
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