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roland hedley alert
So I waited patiently and then decided to pounce with a sharp follow-up. From just a few feet away, I could see in his body language that the normally calm and cool president was perturbed. But it's in moments like that we sometimes find out what's really on a president's mind. In this case, he's not happy about the scrutiny on AIG. So he did slap me down a bit.
man, john stewart is very reasonably carving up jim cramer. i give cramer credit for showing up and taking his lumps even though it was essentially a face saving exercise.
crame game
Bobby Jindal was pretty funny last night. I am hoping one of the TV comics picks up on the fact that in the first half of his speech he sounded almost identical to the actor who plays the page on 30 Rock. Comedy gold here. Somebody run with it.
In completely unrelated Louisiana news, in New Orleans yesterday, between 2pm and midnight, 11 people were shot, only two seriously. Seven in one incident, and 4 others separately.
billmon on the financial meltdown.
obama be frontin'
fair is fair except when its unfair to me.
Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House
Vice President Dick [GO FUCKY YOURSELF] Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.
Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.
Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.