Reply #38: This, I think, is correct.

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I doubt that anybody's been saving stuff up, plotting to release the dirt, bit by bit, when we're 6 months from D-Day. I think it's more like critical mass has finally been reached.

There's just TOO MUCH stuff to ignore, now. People are starting to get upset. There's so much shit that even some true believers are starting to complain. And all but the worst knuckledraggers are starting to recognize that the few times the cavalier would-be king graces us with crumbs from his table, we still don't get squat. It's the same damn crap. And it's no longer endearing. It's starting to look like just what it is: just plain stupid. Further, I think many of them are starting to bristle at the short leash the White House has kept everybody on (OY! Visions of Lynndie England and her leashed Iraqi "slave" come to mind! ICK!). Too much just isn't adding up anymore and even people who've had their noses removed can still tell something's starting to reek. And there is such a huge failure - truly a cascade failure of shit - that is coming down that just has to be investigated.

Meantime, we have Keith Olbermann "outing" the White House by revealing, on camera, the how-to interview notes his office was emailed, THREE TIMES, along with exhortations to "please call me about this" from the White House Communications office. This on the heels of Joseph Wilson "outing" various reporters who have admitted to him that they're afraid either of being "Gitmo'ed" if they dare write the wrong thing, or they're fearful for the future of their kids in their private schools, and the mortgages they still have to pay. When you have this stort of stuff being openly spoken about, and AP Chief Tom Curley announcing a media lobby group to fight against government censorship (all of a sudden it's just becoming noticeably too difficult to get information, or to see documents, because so many are now locked away under various veils of secrecy), and you have other stories citing how the media actually did give georgie a free pass for far too long, and meantime there's just too much more coming out to keep a lid on and not get your dander up and your bullshit detector clanging...

...and there you have it. It wasn't a conspiracy of collusion with the White House or later on, to GET the White House. It was a conspiracy of fear and intimidation. Fear of loss of access, connection, and sources that make for breaking stories and juicy stories and prominently-placed bylines and celebrity status in their own right. It's a DIS-harmonic convergence of a very unfortunate kind - at least for the bushies. The wheels have come off their cart, and the bricks are rapidly crumbling out of their walls. And worst of all, it's out in public and everybody all over the place can see this.

Can you say - "blood in the water?"