Imus is ALL OVER the WaPo/Dana Priest/Bldg. 18 story.

[babylonsister]

And I'll just bet he'll call some of his guests on it, what they've done, and why haven't they done more. For once, I'm loving the old curmudgeon!

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

1. He's going to have Dana on!

[babylonsister]

3. I don't think today; David Gregory is coming up. But yes, they're

going to book her.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

5. Well, David is always good on Imus. Will have

to watch for when she gets on. Thank You.

[babylonsister]

9. Keep watching! Dana Priest IS coming up! My bad! nt

[bklyncowgirl]

2. Good, this is a disgrace. Imus has been a big supporter of wounded vets.

I don't agree with a lot of what the guy says and does but on this he's dead right on.

[izzie]

4. Some one should. It all goes back to how the Far Right runs things.

When you think every thing should be run by private business, for profit, it pays not to run govt. well. We can be sure this man running it was going to the right Church, born again into the how to make a profit for my self Church, that Bush loves so.:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Dinger]

6. Bldg. 18 Story?

I'm sorry, but apparently I'm uninformed.

[babylonsister]

7. Dinger, you need to read this! HEre's the link; it was in the WaPo

on Sunday. There's a follow-up story from yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html


Here's a link to the second story:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=9233

[kstewart33]

23. Go to the Washington Post website.

You can easily obtain all 3 stories on their front page.

The series started Sunday. On each day, the Post has devoted the top half of its front page to this series. It's a bombshell.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Yea Imus is blaming everyone but his good buddy Joe Lieberman n/t

[babylonsister]

10. Has he said that? I'm thinking he's blaming the entire admin, and all of

Congress. But I could be wrong, just didn't hear him point to anyone specifically that's not culpable.

[NNN0LHI]

12. He listed them. Mostly Democrats of course. Feck Imus n/t

[durrrty libby]

17. Right now he is talking about his good friend Susan Sarandon

He does not just call out dems. He calls Cheney a war criminal for heaven's sake

[NNN0LHI]

30. You sound like a regular Imus watcher. Did he mention Lieberman with the others?

You know, that guy he helped beat an anti-war Dem last election in Connecticut? Did Imus ever call his pick for the Senate, Joe Lieberman a war criminal? All I remember Imus saying was that the anti-war Dem running against Lieberman reminded him of admitted child molester John Mark Karr?

These feckers like Imus and his minions who do their best to get people blown to smithereens and then act like they are concerned after the fact make me sick.

Don

[durrrty libby]

38. He doesn't "act like they are concerned after the fact "

He has helped raise millions for the Intrepid Foundation, ( and he and his wife champion Autistic children and kids with cancer)

He puts his money where his mouth is

If that makes you sick...seek help

[Olney Blue]

13. He is blaming all of Congress.

[babylonsister]

15. Thanks. I know Imus has his favorites, but this transcends all imo. nt

[Skidmore]

40. As we all should--for this and much more.

I'm tired of the bad policy of Republics and equally tired of being expected to defend Democratic legislators when they support the same bad policy with equal measure.

[SoFlaJet]

11. and of course his buddy

John McBush-who will be given a pass-put your money where your mouth is Imus-it's guys like McCain who are guilty by their INaction and lack of oversight the past 6 years

[babylonsister]

16. He just called out McCain as a culprit, among others. nt

[mloutre]

14. Good. The story needs to be propagated as far and wide as possible.

I'm not the only one who's referenced it at DU, obviously, but in addition to writing about it at the other blogs I create top-page content for, I did post two parallel threads about it here as well (in different categories, to catch different thread surfers):

In GD-P, titled "This story SHOULD transcend politics -- please make it so"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3119683&mesg_id=3119683

and in GD, titled "Yes it's redundant, but this travesty needs to be blogswarmed as far and wide as possible."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=240203&mesg_id=240203

I wouldn't normally push a single story so hard across the various venues that I write for, but this one really needs to be spread as far and wide as possible.

Whenever I hear the wingnut bloviators claiming that progressives don't "support the troops", I want this horrorshow to be thrown right back in their faces until they step up and do the right thing.

The troops sure as hell deserve a whole lot better than the lip service they're getting on the back end from all the self-righteous neokonzertruppen, White House parasites, and shameless war profiteers responsible for such egregious abuses of the national interest.

[SoFlaJet]

18. I'm gonna make some calls today

to Rep Wexler and maybe my senators Nelson and Martinez.What NEEDS to happen is the president needs to go down there TODAY and look for himself and DEMAND action.Of course it won't happen.This is a national disgrace and congress MUST take up this issue immediately

[calimary]

28. If you need 'em, here are some TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers:

Check my sig line down at the bottom. If they're listed here, they're still good. I try to keep the list updated.

Yes. EVERYBODY. DO IT.

And if I could, might I suggest leaning hard on republi-CONS about this. Put it to them squarely - YOU accuse people like US of NOT SUPPORTING THE TROOPS???????? And yet you'd sit back and let Halliburton steal billions upon billions of our tax dollars with NO accountability (remember, this happened mostly while THEY controlled BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS and chose repeatedly to do NOTHING about it, ask NO questions about it, hold NO hearings about it, and hold NO ONE accountable for it), and then you impugn OUR patriotism because we want to get them OUT of Iraq so they DON'T WIND UP IN VERMIN-INFESTED ROACH-MOTELS LIKE THIS ONE??????? You'd like us to believe that WE'RE the ones who aren't supporting our troops?????????????

That's what I intend to do later this morning. Targetting mainly republi-CONS who did nothing but blindly and stupidly rubber-stamping every misdeed and act of negligence this administration perpetrated - ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT QUESTION. And I'm gonna throw in one more question of my own:

JUST WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE MESSAGE OF NOVEMBER 7th, 2006, THAT YOU DON'T GET????

JUST WHAT IS IT ABOUT "SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS" THAT YOU DON'T GET????

[babylonsister]

31. Thank You, calimary! I wish you'd make a fresh thread with those numbers

and why everyone needs to use them.

[calimary]

35. Will do. I put 'em in my sig line because I figure I post so much around

here that people are bound to see 'em here and there. But I will post a thread on this, too.

:thumbsup:

And, frankly, I think we need to put the heat SQUARELY on the republi-CONS, who sat on this the ENTIRE TIME THEY CONTROLLED BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS. There will be scores of attempts made to spread the blame. Well, I got news for our "news" media (or is that NOISE media?): The Democrats have been in power on Capitol Hill for roughly a big, fat MONTH AND A HALF. THIS DISGRACE DIDN'T JUST SUDDENLY HAPPEN OVER THAT SMALL WINDOW OF TIME, YANNO??? The republi-CONS let this go on, unquestioned, uninvestigated, un-everything'ed, ever since our wounded started returning from the war. Our wounded. The "lucky" ones.

[calimary]

39. Done. I'm gonna do the same thing in GD-P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x250991

[CTyankee]

41. Thank you! You're screaming what I am screaming now and have been

since these stories about the abuse of our wounded veterans have started coming out. I want congressional oversight investigations NOW.

Which committee/s should I write to?

[rodeodance]

26. These vets were Warehoused----simple as that.

[w8liftinglady]

37. warehouses have between conditions-you're right

[w8liftinglady]

19. good-I hope he brings up Novak's 2005 column

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2005/01/10/arrogance_on_the_hill

[babylonsister]

24. Thanks for that link, 'lady. Pretty disgusting, isn't it. Now I need a shower. nt

[w8liftinglady]

25. and it involves all the usual suspects...hastert,delay

[Vinca]

20. Imus will harp on this forever until something is done.

I don't think anything has made him madder.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

21. Imus wants to go down and see Bldg 18 himself.

dog with a bone now. Go Imus!

[rodeodance]

27. come on Imus----you could have done it this weekend.

[babylonsister]

29. Kind of hard to do when the story just broke Sunday. nt

[H2O Man]

33. Also due

to the fact that he was ill at the end of the week, it seems that he made the right choice in not going over the weekend. It really isn't a swell idea to visit folks when you have an upper respiratory system infection.

[babylonsister]

36. I didn't know he had been ill; he's talking about it now. Thanks, H20 Man! nt

[SoFlaJet]

22. He's saying he's going over there

and Dana said GO to building 18

[malaise]

32. The Rethug support our troops slogan

has just been shattered to oblivion. As KOs Vets for Peace guy said last night, a 'made in China yellow ribbon bumper sticker' does not mean support for the troops.

The hypocrisy chickens are coming home to roost and this will backfire big time on the Rethugs.

[babylonsister]

34. Sadly, I'd like a nickel for everytime someone said 'this will backfire

big time on the rethugs'. :(

I'd be rich, I tell ya! And I've said and thought it, too.

[CTyankee]

42. No kidding. I think it doesn't matter until the Repub Noise Machine makes it matter

On its own, such a story doesn't stand a chance. It all gets back to our lily livered press doesn't it?

[babylonsister]

46. I don't know if I'd go that far. Many talking heads are covering this

story. Perhaps they've finally reached a point of outrage themselves? I can hope!

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

43. Friedman is an utter tool.

"How do you look for uranium in Niger?" He completely misses the point - Wilson was not looking for the yellowcake itself, he was using his myriad contacts with the former government to find out if an attmempt to buy uranium. Fool and a tool.

[H2O Man]

44. That was the

strangest thing. He is clearly unfamiliar with Niger.

[alcibiades_mystery]

45. Friedman is an imbecile

The only remarkable thing is how somebody who is consistently SO WRONG can continue to have a public voice. He's a sophist and liar of first order. He is only very rarely correct about anything at all.

[monmouth]

47. Imus was a major player in opening the Intrepid Rehab in Texas.

Maybe he can get some of these guys and gals down there, out of those horrid conditions at WR...

[Jeanette in FL]

48. He was also instrumental in getting the death benefits raised as well

I remember him during railing about that as well. Have to give credit where credit is due.