Where's the accountability, Allan Nairn?
You LIED. You PIMPED.
Take accountability.
We're not in the mood for you. We can't afford your sickness. You take accountability or you take your tired whoring ass off the public market because we don't need it.
Today, Allan Nairn wants to talk about all the deaths Barack's responsible for. Today. When it mattered? Let's drop back to "2008: The Year of Living Hormonally" and we're talking about Allan's sit down with Amy Goodman:
Goody had another Drooling Over Barack Teeny Booper in January: Allan Nairn. Nairn wanted the whole world to know that, if asked, he would gladly be pinned by Barack but he would even settle for Barack's letterman's jacket. Here's the moment that resulted in Allan becoming a 2008 homecoming nominee:
He actually doesn't need to finance his campaign, to go to the hedge funds, to go to Wall Street. But he does anyway. And he does, I think, because if he doesn't, they wouldn't trust him. They might think that he's on the wrong team, and they might start attacking him. He is someone who, in terms of the money he needs for his campaign, he could afford to come out for single-payer healthcare, for example, but he doesn't. He doesn't need money from the health insurance industry, that's wasting several percentage points of the American GDP in a way that no other industrial rich country in the world does, yet he chooses not to do that, because he doesn't want to be attacked by those corporations.
This was back when everyone (except The New York Times) was lying about Barack and pretending he was being made by small donors. He was a corporatist even then and, hopefully for Allan, the blood of East Timor (Barack buddy Dennis Blair) will wash off the white formal he wore as a duchess to the Barack Ball.
That blood won't wash off your formal, Allan. You own it, Prom Queen. You whored and you lied and you put him into power. Get accountable, piece of s**t. I'm not in the mood for you or you lies.
Today, Allan wants to tell you that Barack's actions have ended up no different than what Sarah Palin would have done. Sarah Palin?
What she would have done?
When?
Sarah Palin didn't run for president. John McCain ran for president.
Hillary Clinton is not president, Barack Obama is.
But to listen to whores like Patrick Cockburn (see Mike's "Idiot and Coward Patrick Cockburn" from last night), you'd think Hillary was president and to hear whores like Allan today, you'd think Sarah Palin was running for president in 2008. What's going on?
Moving to "2009: The Year of Living Sickly:"
In 2008, strains of sexism and homophobia dominated. From the left. That's the kicker, from the left. Was it stress? Was it tension? Fear over the outcome? Could have been. But when 2009 rolled around and we were still seeing it on a daily basis, it was obvious that the two forms of bigotry were deeply entwined in the DNA of many on the left and 'left.'
[. . .]
Because they're sick. They're not healthy and they shouldn't be even trying to lead a movement. They are sick. Past leaders lifted the people up, past leaders celebrated differences and demanded equality. Today's clerical pool sneers at the average person, isn't interested in equality and stigmatizes differences.
They don't need to assume leadership roles, they need to seek professional help. Even when they should have been dancing in the streets, they couldn't be happy. They're sick and they are active in their diseases and, as a result, they will pull everyone else down with them.
I owe Allan a thank you for his crap on Democracy Now! today. Usually, you toss out a hypothesis and its tested in a lab and the results aren't widely known. Allan has run with my hypothesis publicly and demonstrated its validity. Allan staged a public clinical trial today. He's sick. He refuses to take accountability.
"I'm a journalist." Journalists shouldn't be endorsing candidates. And journalists damn well shouldn't be giving repeated passes to one candidate. That's what Allan did. Now I'm not going to play it nice or be modest or anything like that. It matters. Lives matter. And when honesty was needed, I didn't lie, I didn't give cover to Barack. We talked about Dennis Ross, Sarah Sewall, Samantha Power and all the other War Hawks supporting him and advising him. We didn't give it a pass. We didn't make excuses for him.
Dropping back to January 2008 for Ava and my "TV: Democracy Sometimes?" (Third Estate Sunday Review):
On January 3rd, Goodman interviewed Allan Nairn and Kelley Beaucar Vlahos allegedly about the advisers working for the presidential candidates. Beaucar Vlahos is a conservative so we'll mainly focus on the embarrassment that was Nairn. But note, Goodman wants to start with Hillary and brings in both guests for that. Then Goodman decides it's time for Obama and she shuts Beaucar Vlahos out of the discussion. She'll move on to John Edwards (tossed to Nairn) and wait until both candidates have been discussed at length before she'll ask Beaucar Vlahos "would you like to add to any of the advisers Allan just talked about? And then we'll move on to the Republicans." After Beaucar Vlahos notes that they are all the same and the immense money that they all have, Goodman will put forth the lie that Obama gets huge amounts of monies from the grassroots (Goodman regularly cites The New York Times, she's aware of their article about Obama calling t-shirt, bumper stickers, and other sales "donations" to create the impression of small donors and she should also damn well be aware of the huge amounts of monies he's receiving from Big Business). She'll toss to Nairn to praise the alleged miracle of small donors and Nairn will get off this howler:
He actually doesn't need to finance his campaign, to go to the hedge funds, to go to Wall Street. But he does anyway. And he does, I think, because if he doesn't, they wouldn't trust him. They might think that he's on the wrong team, and they might start attacking him. He is someone who, in terms of the money he needs for his campaign, he could afford to come out for single-payer healthcare, for example, but he doesn't. He doesn't need money from the health insurance industry, that's wasting several percentage points of the American GDP in a way that no other industrial rich country in the world does, yet he chooses not to do that, because he doesn't want to be attacked by those corporations.
Nairn is (illogically and with no basis in reality) arguing that, yes, Obama does take big money but he only does so because, if he didn't, big money would attack him. It's a laughable 'theory' and a generous one -- one that's not extended to other candidates.
We called the nonsense out in real time when, pay attention, Allan, it still mattered. When something could have still been done.
Allan can't even take accountability for his actions this morning. It's part of the sickness and until these liars can take accountability, no one needs to hear from them. We certainly don't need a lecture from them. They've disgraced themselves. It's as though they'd stopped using coke only to go on a big coke binge and show up the next morning, powder still around their noses, wanting to tell us "Drugs are bad."
Barack got you pregnant, Allan. He didn't marry you. Boo-hoo. It was all so magical on Prom Night. If you could just continue to will yourself to lie everything could still be pretend-perfect. But those of us living in the real world, while you were being swung around the dance floor by Barry, we don't need you, we don't want you and, most important, we can't afford you. We can't take your refusal to take accountability, we can't condone your continued lies and we can't be silent in the face of your never ending sexism.
You need to go. You need to seek help. You don't need to offer 'responses' or 'analysis' because you are SICK and you need HELP. Until you can take accountability for your actions that helped put Barack in the White House, just sit your ass down and try to blend.
For those who only access the transcripts, do not e-mail me that I've misunderstood. I have not. The program uses a teaser at the top which will not be in the transcripts. Before the headlines, Allan Nairn can be heard declaring, "Obama's actions overseas could have been done by Sarah Palin, his Wall St. bailout could have been done by Sarah Palin." That does not appear in the interview, it's the 'pitch' to lure audiences. Amy Goodman will bring up Palin near the end of the interview noting his remarks I just described (noting, not quoting) and LIE that he was speaking of Obama today versus a future Palin presidency. No, he wasn't. Goodman's a damn liar, she can't help but lie. She needs help as well.
I'll play the Cassandra, I have no problem with that role. If I believe in something, I'll say it and it may take a month or years, but I will usually be backed up by reality. And while reality demonstrates our calls about Barack were correct, Allan Nairn refuses to take accountability. Finish your Zima, Prom Queen, and sits your ass down. We can't afford you.
In Iraq, DPA reports, 5 Iraqi women are dead as a result of their car being hit by a US military vehicle in Hilla. AP covers it here.
Meanwhile Trudy Rubin (Philadelphia Inquirer) offers this, "Most disturbing, just about every Iraqi friend I speak with by phone expects there will be another military coup after the Americans leave, because Iraqis are so fed up with corruption and political strife. In 2010, we will see whether the new Iraqi political elite can wake up in time, or whether the country will slip back toward nasty, autocratic rule and barely civil relations with the United States." As disturbing as a military coup is in the abstract, what's more disturbing in the hear and now is Rubin's embrace of the "political elite" at the expense of the Iraqi people. Don't wake Trudy, she thinks she's out of Plato's cave.
In London, the Iraq Inquiry resumed public hearings yesterday. Andrew Hough (Telegraph of London) reports:
Britain slowed its troop withdrawal from Iraq after "discussions" with the US government, Gordon Brown's foreign affairs adviser, Simon McDonald, told the Chilcot inquiry.
Mr Brown's chief foreign policy adviser admitted to the Iraq war inquiry that such a decision had been made after the US government had expressed concerns over the early withdrawal plans.
The plan was for that to be the thrust of this entry, the Iraq Inquiry's hearing yesterday (the hearing continues today). I'm not putting up with Allan Nairn's nonsense. We're calling it out when the liars lie. They need to take accountability.
The Iraq War continues. Debra Scott (Central Florida News 13) reports a send-off ceremony "for nearly 2,5000 members of the Florida National Guard". Trenton Daniel (Miami Herald) adds, "The guards boarded several aircraft Tuesday afternoon for almost two months of training at Fort Hood, Texas, where they will learn how to administer first-aid, spot improvised explosive devices and elude sniper fire." Brian Damewood (WSET) reports some members of the 1st Battallion, 116th Infantry Regiment of the Army National Guard in Lynchburg are preparing to deploy to Iraq and quotes David Kipper stating, "Very hard to leave my little girl. She's only six so I'm not really sure if it's clicked how long I'm really going to be gone." And Jeff Matthews (The Town Talk) reports that "all of the soldiers from the Louisiana Army National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, who will be headed to Iraq in a couple months' time, seem willing, even eager, to do the job. About 100 soldiers from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment were honored at a ceremony at Camp Beauregard on Tuesday morning. They are part of the approximately 3,000-soldier force from the 256th that will be deployed to Iraq for about nine months in the early part of this year." The Iraq War has not ended and it certainly has not ended for those deploying or for their friends and families.
Meanwhile, James Cogan (WSWS) reports on suicides in the ranks:
American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. While a final figure is not available, the toll of military suicides last year was the worst since records began to be kept in 1980.
The Army, National Guard and Army Reserve lost at least 211 personnel to suicide. More than half of those who took their lives had served in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army suicide rate of 20.2 per 100,000 personnel is higher than that registered among males aged 19 to 29, the gender age bracket with the highest rate among the general population. Before 2001, the Army rarely suffered 10 suicides per 100,000 soldiers.
The Navy lost at least 47 active duty personnel in 2009, the Air Force 34 and the Marine Corp, which has been flung into some of the bloodiest fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, 42. The Marine suicide rate has soared since 2001 from 12 to at least 19.5 per 100,000.
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com.
Today, Allan wants to tell you that Barack's actions have ended up no different than what Sarah Palin would have done. Sarah Palin?
What she would have done?
When?
Sarah Palin didn't run for president. John McCain ran for president.
Hillary Clinton is not president, Barack Obama is.
But to listen to whores like Patrick Cockburn (see Mike's "Idiot and Coward Patrick Cockburn" from last night), you'd think Hillary was president and to hear whores like Allan today, you'd think Sarah Palin was running for president in 2008. What's going on?
Moving to "2009: The Year of Living Sickly:"
In 2008, strains of sexism and homophobia dominated. From the left. That's the kicker, from the left. Was it stress? Was it tension? Fear over the outcome? Could have been. But when 2009 rolled around and we were still seeing it on a daily basis, it was obvious that the two forms of bigotry were deeply entwined in the DNA of many on the left and 'left.'
[. . .]
Because they're sick. They're not healthy and they shouldn't be even trying to lead a movement. They are sick. Past leaders lifted the people up, past leaders celebrated differences and demanded equality. Today's clerical pool sneers at the average person, isn't interested in equality and stigmatizes differences.
They don't need to assume leadership roles, they need to seek professional help. Even when they should have been dancing in the streets, they couldn't be happy. They're sick and they are active in their diseases and, as a result, they will pull everyone else down with them.
I owe Allan a thank you for his crap on Democracy Now! today. Usually, you toss out a hypothesis and its tested in a lab and the results aren't widely known. Allan has run with my hypothesis publicly and demonstrated its validity. Allan staged a public clinical trial today. He's sick. He refuses to take accountability.
"I'm a journalist." Journalists shouldn't be endorsing candidates. And journalists damn well shouldn't be giving repeated passes to one candidate. That's what Allan did. Now I'm not going to play it nice or be modest or anything like that. It matters. Lives matter. And when honesty was needed, I didn't lie, I didn't give cover to Barack. We talked about Dennis Ross, Sarah Sewall, Samantha Power and all the other War Hawks supporting him and advising him. We didn't give it a pass. We didn't make excuses for him.
Dropping back to January 2008 for Ava and my "TV: Democracy Sometimes?" (Third Estate Sunday Review):
On January 3rd, Goodman interviewed Allan Nairn and Kelley Beaucar Vlahos allegedly about the advisers working for the presidential candidates. Beaucar Vlahos is a conservative so we'll mainly focus on the embarrassment that was Nairn. But note, Goodman wants to start with Hillary and brings in both guests for that. Then Goodman decides it's time for Obama and she shuts Beaucar Vlahos out of the discussion. She'll move on to John Edwards (tossed to Nairn) and wait until both candidates have been discussed at length before she'll ask Beaucar Vlahos "would you like to add to any of the advisers Allan just talked about? And then we'll move on to the Republicans." After Beaucar Vlahos notes that they are all the same and the immense money that they all have, Goodman will put forth the lie that Obama gets huge amounts of monies from the grassroots (Goodman regularly cites The New York Times, she's aware of their article about Obama calling t-shirt, bumper stickers, and other sales "donations" to create the impression of small donors and she should also damn well be aware of the huge amounts of monies he's receiving from Big Business). She'll toss to Nairn to praise the alleged miracle of small donors and Nairn will get off this howler:
He actually doesn't need to finance his campaign, to go to the hedge funds, to go to Wall Street. But he does anyway. And he does, I think, because if he doesn't, they wouldn't trust him. They might think that he's on the wrong team, and they might start attacking him. He is someone who, in terms of the money he needs for his campaign, he could afford to come out for single-payer healthcare, for example, but he doesn't. He doesn't need money from the health insurance industry, that's wasting several percentage points of the American GDP in a way that no other industrial rich country in the world does, yet he chooses not to do that, because he doesn't want to be attacked by those corporations.
Nairn is (illogically and with no basis in reality) arguing that, yes, Obama does take big money but he only does so because, if he didn't, big money would attack him. It's a laughable 'theory' and a generous one -- one that's not extended to other candidates.
We called the nonsense out in real time when, pay attention, Allan, it still mattered. When something could have still been done.
Allan can't even take accountability for his actions this morning. It's part of the sickness and until these liars can take accountability, no one needs to hear from them. We certainly don't need a lecture from them. They've disgraced themselves. It's as though they'd stopped using coke only to go on a big coke binge and show up the next morning, powder still around their noses, wanting to tell us "Drugs are bad."
Barack got you pregnant, Allan. He didn't marry you. Boo-hoo. It was all so magical on Prom Night. If you could just continue to will yourself to lie everything could still be pretend-perfect. But those of us living in the real world, while you were being swung around the dance floor by Barry, we don't need you, we don't want you and, most important, we can't afford you. We can't take your refusal to take accountability, we can't condone your continued lies and we can't be silent in the face of your never ending sexism.
You need to go. You need to seek help. You don't need to offer 'responses' or 'analysis' because you are SICK and you need HELP. Until you can take accountability for your actions that helped put Barack in the White House, just sit your ass down and try to blend.
For those who only access the transcripts, do not e-mail me that I've misunderstood. I have not. The program uses a teaser at the top which will not be in the transcripts. Before the headlines, Allan Nairn can be heard declaring, "Obama's actions overseas could have been done by Sarah Palin, his Wall St. bailout could have been done by Sarah Palin." That does not appear in the interview, it's the 'pitch' to lure audiences. Amy Goodman will bring up Palin near the end of the interview noting his remarks I just described (noting, not quoting) and LIE that he was speaking of Obama today versus a future Palin presidency. No, he wasn't. Goodman's a damn liar, she can't help but lie. She needs help as well.
I'll play the Cassandra, I have no problem with that role. If I believe in something, I'll say it and it may take a month or years, but I will usually be backed up by reality. And while reality demonstrates our calls about Barack were correct, Allan Nairn refuses to take accountability. Finish your Zima, Prom Queen, and sits your ass down. We can't afford you.
In Iraq, DPA reports, 5 Iraqi women are dead as a result of their car being hit by a US military vehicle in Hilla. AP covers it here.
Meanwhile Trudy Rubin (Philadelphia Inquirer) offers this, "Most disturbing, just about every Iraqi friend I speak with by phone expects there will be another military coup after the Americans leave, because Iraqis are so fed up with corruption and political strife. In 2010, we will see whether the new Iraqi political elite can wake up in time, or whether the country will slip back toward nasty, autocratic rule and barely civil relations with the United States." As disturbing as a military coup is in the abstract, what's more disturbing in the hear and now is Rubin's embrace of the "political elite" at the expense of the Iraqi people. Don't wake Trudy, she thinks she's out of Plato's cave.
In London, the Iraq Inquiry resumed public hearings yesterday. Andrew Hough (Telegraph of London) reports:
Britain slowed its troop withdrawal from Iraq after "discussions" with the US government, Gordon Brown's foreign affairs adviser, Simon McDonald, told the Chilcot inquiry.
Mr Brown's chief foreign policy adviser admitted to the Iraq war inquiry that such a decision had been made after the US government had expressed concerns over the early withdrawal plans.
The plan was for that to be the thrust of this entry, the Iraq Inquiry's hearing yesterday (the hearing continues today). I'm not putting up with Allan Nairn's nonsense. We're calling it out when the liars lie. They need to take accountability.
The Iraq War continues. Debra Scott (Central Florida News 13) reports a send-off ceremony "for nearly 2,5000 members of the Florida National Guard". Trenton Daniel (Miami Herald) adds, "The guards boarded several aircraft Tuesday afternoon for almost two months of training at Fort Hood, Texas, where they will learn how to administer first-aid, spot improvised explosive devices and elude sniper fire." Brian Damewood (WSET) reports some members of the 1st Battallion, 116th Infantry Regiment of the Army National Guard in Lynchburg are preparing to deploy to Iraq and quotes David Kipper stating, "Very hard to leave my little girl. She's only six so I'm not really sure if it's clicked how long I'm really going to be gone." And Jeff Matthews (The Town Talk) reports that "all of the soldiers from the Louisiana Army National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, who will be headed to Iraq in a couple months' time, seem willing, even eager, to do the job. About 100 soldiers from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment were honored at a ceremony at Camp Beauregard on Tuesday morning. They are part of the approximately 3,000-soldier force from the 256th that will be deployed to Iraq for about nine months in the early part of this year." The Iraq War has not ended and it certainly has not ended for those deploying or for their friends and families.
Meanwhile, James Cogan (WSWS) reports on suicides in the ranks:
American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. While a final figure is not available, the toll of military suicides last year was the worst since records began to be kept in 1980.
The Army, National Guard and Army Reserve lost at least 211 personnel to suicide. More than half of those who took their lives had served in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army suicide rate of 20.2 per 100,000 personnel is higher than that registered among males aged 19 to 29, the gender age bracket with the highest rate among the general population. Before 2001, the Army rarely suffered 10 suicides per 100,000 soldiers.
The Navy lost at least 47 active duty personnel in 2009, the Air Force 34 and the Marine Corp, which has been flung into some of the bloodiest fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, 42. The Marine suicide rate has soared since 2001 from 12 to at least 19.5 per 100,000.
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