Richard Miniter from the moonbat blog, Pajamas Media , informs us he’s onto a huge story:
I have more pieces in the works, including an interview with a number of Saddam’s intelligence service who says he worked with al Qaeda, an interview with a key Iranian resistance leader, a humorous feature called “Scenes from the Green Zone” and much more. Stay tuned.
Can’t wait for that one. Perhaps he will do the honourable thing and share his Pulitzer Prize with Melanie Phillips.
BAGHDAD — A sharp increase in mortar attacks on the Green Zone — the one-time oasis of security in Iraq’s turbulent capital — has prompted the U.S. Embassy to issue a strict new order telling all employees to wear flak vests and helmets while in unprotected buildings or whenever they are outside.
The order, obtained by The Associated Press, has created a siege mentality among U.S. staff inside the Green Zone following a recent suicide attack on parliament. It has also led to new fears about long-term safety in the place where the U.S. government is building a massive and expensive new embassy.
The situation marks a sharp turnaround for the heavily guarded Green Zone — long viewed as the safest corner of Baghdad with its shops, restaurants, American fast-food outlets and key Iraqi and American government offices.
The security deterioration also holds dire implications for the Iraqi government, which uses the Green Zone as a haven for key meetings crucial to its ability to govern.
This might explain why the surge is undergoing another round of augmentation. Who needs porn?
And speaking of Pajamas media, one of the writers, Gerard Van der Leun, seems peeved that the Washington Post is not giving Barak Obama’s pictures the Condi treatment.
Glenn Reynolds, the compassionate conservative, feels his pain.
OBAMA GETS The Glow. With, perhaps, a little help from Photoshop. And not the Condi Rice kind.
Oh whatever happened to the good old days?
Pajamas Media is a “moonbat blog”?
Moonbat is not usually a term ascribed to the right-wing, Andre.
Moonbat is a term ascribed to anyone who’s grip of reality is tenuous as Miniter’s Saddam apparent “scoop”. Pajamas Media is just another arm of the right wing spin factory dedicated to saving Bush’s reputation and ongoing ccupation in Iraq.
You have to laugh when these desperate convince themselves they have access o intelligence that has somehow completely bypasses the US government.
I suspect the story that woudl be worthy of front page status, won’t even rate a mention because the alleged link between Saddam and Al Qaeda has been so comprehensively debunked.
There are any number of references to the term which suggest you are wrong. Again.
By all means, continue to smugly use it though. You can also call the sky green and the sea purple if that’s your thing.
Still working on staying on topic BenZ, or is it just beyond you?
OH DEAR.
BenZ, there really are very few experiences in life that are so tragic as witnessing the smug superiority of blundering ignorance.
If you look hard enough, you will find a number of ‘references’ that will claim that the moon is made of blue cheese .. nevertheless, I think we can be sure that there is not a rational person alive who actually believes that it is.
Had you actually bothered to look further than the wretchedly deluded Frontpage Magazine for your purported ‘references’, you would have discovered that the term ‘moonbat’ (or “barking moonbat” if it is precisely rendered) was in fact popularised (in 2002) by Perry de Havilland (of samizdata.net .. which you will be truly embarrassed to discover is a lefty libertarian blog).
Perry de Havilland used the expression to exemplify the fact that certain subjects seem to trigger irrational reflexive responses from a range of quarters (especially - but exclusively - the American right-wing) and that (much as you have just so dexterously illustrated through your own words) these responses are evocative of watching wolves howling ineffectively at the moon.
The fact that you would really accept, as true, the ‘fact’ that your staple diet of right-wing psychosis in point of fact has the inspired astuteness to invent their very own favourite “moonbat” epithet (to be employed against anyone to the left of Attila The Hun) is far more telling of you than it is of anyone you so impotently try to rubbish.
I humbly apologise for straying from the topic, but some things just have to be said (when a barking moonbat gets my goat).