things that make you go hmmm...

June 2, 2004 1:53 PM

The truth, hard as it is to accept, is that Bush is an Iranian agent.
Time to ask where our president's loyalties lie? (taking a page from our Republican friends, of course) And The Logan Act--who does it apply to?
posted by amberglow (30 comments total)

Of course... It all makes sense now! What appeared to be blustering incompetence is actually quite staggering hypercompetence! Brilliant!
posted by UKnowForKids at 2:06 PM on June 2, 2004

So that's why he hired all those Iran-Contra folks...
posted by callmejay at 2:34 PM on June 2, 2004

I'm pretty sure there's enough real Bush=bad evidence that we don't need to post made up shit on the front page.
posted by BlueTrain at 2:36 PM on June 2, 2004

"...taking a page from our Republican friends..."

I don't have any Republican friends.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:54 PM on June 2, 2004

C'mon, BlueTrain, it's good for a chuckle. It reads as fairly tongue-in-cheek to me (while at the same time seriously pointing out things that the author sees as problems with the Bush administration).
posted by hattifattener at 2:58 PM on June 2, 2004

BlueTrain is obviously satire-intolerant. I wonder if they make pills for that.
posted by solistrato at 3:04 PM on June 2, 2004

they make pills for everything.
posted by Satapher at 3:36 PM on June 2, 2004

BlueTrain, you seem a pretty reasonable guy: I understand that you don't like "Bush is Bad" content. but have you noticed that by now most of your input to this site is "you guys suck"/"this thread sucks"/"suckity suck"?
you know, that gets even more embarrassing than the Bush=bad content.
posted by matteo at 3:51 PM on June 2, 2004

B-b-but Crash, I thought you lived in Utah?
posted by dash_slot- at 3:53 PM on June 2, 2004

I don't have any Republican friends.

I do, and all 2 of 'em aren't voting for W in November.
posted by moonbird at 4:03 PM on June 2, 2004

you know, that gets even more embarrassing than the Bush=bad content.

Is that an implicit admission that you are embarrassing this site?
posted by BlueTrain at 4:05 PM on June 2, 2004

ROWR!!!
posted by solistrato at 4:14 PM on June 2, 2004

Heh. When the Logan act got mentioned, I had a mental picture of Sandman Michael York gunning down people over 30.
posted by unreason at 4:18 PM on June 2, 2004

Sanctuary! ; >
posted by amberglow at 4:30 PM on June 2, 2004

The real beneficiaries of a fiscal crisis would be none other than America's enemies abroad.
posted by thomcatspike at 4:44 PM on June 2, 2004

here you go, BlueTrain--is this better? BUSH CONTACTS OUTSIDE ATTORNEY IN LEAK CASE: ABC News' Kate Snow reports that President Bush has contacted an outside attorney in case over leak of name of CIA operative Valerie Plume, wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson...--from here (definitely not as funny tho, but just as treasonous)
posted by amberglow at 4:44 PM on June 2, 2004

CBS has that story too.

Not sure exactly what the implication is.
posted by CunningLinguist at 5:14 PM on June 2, 2004

I wonder if Cheney has a private lawyer?

and it means--Bush is in trouble, i'm thinking. I smell a Grand Jury questioning.
posted by amberglow at 5:22 PM on June 2, 2004

make that an indictment, for him and Cheney.
posted by amberglow at 5:31 PM on June 2, 2004

So far, no one is suggesting that President Bush had anything to do with the leak or even knew about it until it became public.

i am! i am! once again, nobody asks me ...

the big question, of course, is why now? what's happening in that grand jury? leak it!
posted by mrgrimm at 5:38 PM on June 2, 2004

they supeonaed(sp?) Novak and Russert the other day too.
posted by amberglow at 5:45 PM on June 2, 2004

subpoenaed : >
posted by amberglow at 5:49 PM on June 2, 2004

It's an amusing take, but ultimately not terribly credible. Juan Cole, no FoB(ush) puts it this way:

Indeed, the likelihood is that the Iranians were also victims of Chalabi's lie factory. The INC peddled the story to the US that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program. It must have peddled the same story to the Iranians. In fact, what if the lies of Chalabi & Associates about the non-existent nuclear program so alarmed Iran that it redoubled its efforts to get a nuclear weapon, conducting an arms race against a phantom? If so, Chalabi and his group have single-handedly destabilized the entire Persian Gulf region. And for what? So that Ahmad could be president for life. And now that will not even happen.

posted by dash_slot- at 7:23 PM on June 2, 2004

but doesn't that still help Iran--having nukes?
posted by amberglow at 7:55 PM on June 2, 2004

PEOPLE! IT'S SATIRE!!! YOU'VE BEEN STARING AT THE BLUE SCREEN TOO LONG!

(Watch it turn out to be true...)
posted by solistrato at 9:29 PM on June 2, 2004

"B-b-but Crash, I thought you lived in Utah?"

What, you think I have friends here?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:34 PM on June 2, 2004

from Newsweek: One Bush administration official said that in addition to harboring suspicions that Chalabi had been leaking sensitive U.S. information to Iran both before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, some U.S. officials also believe that Chalabi had collected and maintained files of potentially damaging information on U.S. officials with whom he had or was going to interact for the purpose of influencing them. Some officials said that when Iraqi authorities raided Chalabi’s offices, one of the things American officials hoped they would look for was Chalabi’s cache of information he had gathered on Americans.
posted by CunningLinguist at 5:25 AM on June 3, 2004

Is that an implicit admission that you are embarrassing this site?

no, it's a veiled (and extremely polite, much more than you deserve) suggestion to you: your "you guys suck" routine has worn out its welcome.
I don't like flash-friday threads. I just don't read them, I skip them and read other threads.
Instead, unable to provide some remotely interesting content (not to mention links) you just shit on the threads you don't like.

at least flush after you're done. and remember to wash your hands.
posted by matteo at 7:21 AM on June 3, 2004

You're so cute when you're annoyed, matteo. Do me a big favor...ignore my comments the same way I ignore yours. We'll both be better off, because quite frankly, I'm not going to silence myself based on your opinion. I hardly consider you a model poster here.

::blows kiss::
posted by BlueTrain at 7:35 AM on June 3, 2004

That second link to the MITCHnews site was some scary stuff... Apparently it's based in my current state of NC, or at least the principal 'writer' is. All the uber-conservative propaganda out there would be hilarious if it weren't so sad...

But really, if a website claims it has 'Honest News', how could it be wrong?
posted by skechada at 9:03 AM on June 3, 2004