Sunday Night Linkage
By - Did Rumsfeld rigorously present a realistic, non-rose-tinted picture of Iraq? Julia reports, you decide.
- Mark Schmitt on Holy Joe: “Politicians can be superficially supportive but also cruelly contemptuous toward colleagues who can’t take care of their own business. I think that some of the establishment figures have to be noticing that not only did Lieberman put himself in this situation, but he did absolutely nothing, at any point, to get himself out of it. From attacking Lamont, acting peevish and entitled, declaring the independent bid, refusing to say anything that would show any difference between his view of Iraq and Bush’s (even with George Stephanopoulos this morning he was mouthing the WH line that the only threat to a unified, stable Iraq was “the terrorists”), to finally trying a clumsy imitation of Lamont’s enthusiastic rallies, the only result of which was that the face of his campaign for a day was a loudmouth DC lobbyist who looked like an understudy for the “Billionaires for Bush” comedy troupe, Lieberman didn’t make one right move in six months. He doesn’t even seem to realize that if he denounces his opponent for voting with Republicans and calls him “center-right” he can’t credibly also say, “That’s something that separates me from my opponent – I don’t hate Republicans.””
- Scott offers a loving tribute to Mel Gibson.
- Zuzu and Amanda on this chilling article about “Girls Gone Wild” poobah Joe Francis. Teh creepy. (See also Hilzoy.) On a funnier (if still creepy) note, McBoing on the mysterious “porn fairy” that seems to visit the customers who call his cable company. (Via Lindsay.)
- Aspazia has more on the late Iris Marion Young.