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04/08/2004 Archived Entry: "That whirring sound you hear..."
That whirring sound you hear...
...is Condi spinning at roughly 3400 RPM. Talking and talking and talking and not saying anything.
Phrase of the day: 'Structural problems.' Translation: 'Clinton's fault.' Pretty damn nauseating.
Replies: 13 people speak up
did you think she would say anything? am i alone in thinking that she sounded incredibly nervous while making her statement? i don't think they are really asking her the hard questions? must be reserving that for the "private sessions". hmmmm.
Posted by cathcatz @ 04/08/2004 10:55 AM NY
I would love for someone to calculate the signal to noise ratio of Condi's testamony. I'm estimating it at about 1:10,000 (I'm being generous).
Posted by Jason @ 04/08/2004 11:36 AM NY
Roemer is kicking her ass right now.
Posted by Jason @ 04/08/2004 11:38 AM NY
This morning at 6 am West Coast, Air America started with a tape of Condi from January 2001 talking about the evil Saddam who was stockpiling "weapons of mass destruchion" (to quote her boss). Then, they ran a segment of a tape of Sandy Berger's January 2001 speech in which he repeatedly emphasized that the new administration needed to concentrate on fighting terrorism and Osama and briefly summarized what the Clinton administration had been doing. Both segments need to be run again and again in a 60-second commercial with the dates prominently displayed.
Posted by Mike @ 04/08/2004 11:55 AM NY
PDB title; Bin Laden determined to attack US!
Rice says it WASN'T a warning!
Rice says no one asked her to act!
She's NOT a NSAdvisor!
She's a BS artist!
Posted by smkngman1 @ 04/08/2004 12:04 PM NY
my favorite part was when she kept remembering that she was under oath, and kept correcting herself; from "i was not told" to "i dont remember being told" simple difference, but it can keep you out of prison for perjury.
Posted by justin @ 04/08/2004 12:12 PM NY
Cathcatz,
I agree, on the radio her voice came across as quavering. I don't think any reasonable person expected a smoking gun (mushroom cloud?) to come out in this session of the commission.
Rice simply towed the party line, and I must say, I thought she did a damn good job of it. I would pay money to hear Idiot Boy defend his actions. That would be priceless.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 04/08/2004 12:18 PM NY
"I don't remember the al Qaeda cells being something that we were told we needed to do something about," she said.
Unbelievable!
Posted by smkngman1 @ 04/08/2004 12:30 PM NY
I thought she would have done better, a fair performance. Wouldnt you have been nervous talking in front of all those people hopeing you make "the mistake" ?
Posted by Robin Hacker @ 04/08/2004 12:58 PM NY
Hacker,
Truth be told, Rice did a hell of a lot better than I thought she would. I was hoping she'd crack under the pressure, but she held her ground. Sigh.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 04/08/2004 01:22 PM NY
Condi Rice is an incompetent, partisan hack, like most of the Bush Administration. She keeps her job for two reasons only - She is a female and she is an African-American. It gives the Bushies a "two-fer", so they appear to be both gender sensitive and racially diverse. They are, in fact, neither.
My brother is a college professor and knew Ms. Rice when she was a professor and later, provost, at Stanford. She was incompetent in both positions. Her research on the Soviet Union was based on anachronistic Cold War flim-flam and has subsequently been proven wrong. Rice had no credibility with her peers then and she has none now.
Bush may consider her "intelligent and articulate", but he is a brain-damaged dipshit who can't tie his shoes by himself. In a just world, Condi Rice would be waiting tables at IHOP.
Posted by Stephen Kriz @ 04/08/2004 01:34 PM NY
actually, i think she did a much better job than i was expecting. i think that condi is probobly one of the most intelligent people in the administration, at least as far as IQ goes. i cant help feeling sorry for her and colin powell, it must be hard working for the devil, and their ancestors must be rolling over in their graves...
Posted by justin @ 04/08/2004 02:33 PM NY
Stephen,
Condi may be "an incompetent, partisan hack," but she is an incompetent, partisan hack who has the ear of the most powerful man on Planet Earth.
Now I have a dilemma: who do I believe, your brother or the hordes of mediawhores who insist that Condi is a black, female version of Furst von Metternich?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 04/08/2004 03:20 PM NY
