The official "Guy James Show" thread--keep kicked please

[BeachBuckeye]

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Guy

[Catshrink]

1. Looking forward to another great show today, Guy!

[nostamj]

2. the MUST READ article of the month! (krugman)

this article (long! yeah! extra Krugman!!) is a review of Suskind's PRICE OF LOYALTY and Phillip's AMERICAN DYNANSTY. it is just brilliant!

Guy if you haven't seen this I WISH I had found it sooner. Have a great show!


The Wars of the Texas Succession

Old-line Republicans that I know cling to the belief that the Machiavellianism is only temporary, that it's embraced in service to a higher goal. Once the 2004 election is over, they say Bush will show his true colors as an idealist, someone who genuinely believes in small government and free markets.

But if Phillips is right—and I think he is—there is no higher goal. Bush's motivations are dynastic—to secure his family's rightful place. While he may have some policy biases—like that "instinctive policy fealty" to the investment business—policy is basically there to serve the acquisition of power, and not the other way around.

According to people who observed him in Texas, Karl Rove is a devotee of Machiavelli, and particularly of The Prince. And as Phillips points out, "Twenty-first-century American readers of The Prince may feel that they have stumbled on a thinly disguised Bush White House political memo." For Machiavelli's book was all about how to gain and hold power, not about what to do with it.

So what is the state of the union? Let Phillips have the last word:

The advent of a Machiavelli-inclined dynasty in what may be a Machiavellian Moment for the American Republic is not a happy coincidence.... National governance has, at least temporarily, moved away from the proven tradition of a leader chosen democratically, by a majority or plurality of the electorate, to the succession of a dynastic heir whose unfortunate inheritance is privileged, covert, and globally embroiling.

[Terwilliger]

3. kick

[soup]

4. Wow-

Off to a great start, Guy!

[eleny]

5. I sure wish these CIA folks

had come out with the info they knew before we went to war against Iraq. Maybe when the administration was poisoning the nation's opinions with the lies and inuendo would have been a good time for their revelations. Too bad it took the Plamme affair to bring them out of the woodwork.

If I'm all wet, I apologize in advance. But as I was making breakfast this morning, the whole thing just got me ticked off. So many of our soldiers have been killed or wounded and so many innocent Iraqi lives have been wasted.

Well, that's about it.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Excellent guest for D.U. Guy Jamesians!

Thanks, nostamj, for dropping off a promising link for reading later.
It looks wonderful.

[nostamj]

7. here's a quote that sums up mediawhores AND bushco...

“Integrity is for paupers!”

- TIM RUSSERTT

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/020109_...

if you don't use it, I might... but with the big "interview" coming up tomorrow on MTP... you should go for it!!

[soup]

8. June Cleaver

[soup]

9. caller John from Cape Coral

uh,oh -

comparing *bush to Hitler... gonna rile up the *bushbots-

[eleny]

10. Great call! n/t

[soup]

11. Can't figure out where this guy is going.

Smack him down Guy!
Good job!

[Catshrink]

14. Clinton bashing...

Guy cut him off before he could blame the Clenis.

[BuelahWitch]

12. Guy is making this Rick guy look like the idiot he is! n/t

[nostamj]

13. god, the stream is awful for me

not even hearing 50%

probably useless AOHELL which has been extra HELLING today.

damn. may have to wait for the archives for this one.

[BuelahWitch]

15. Nope, I'm on SBC DSL and it's bad for me too n/t

[Catshrink]

16. Cox slick as snot Cable and it's fine!

[SoCalDem]

17. Using IE.."open in separate windoe format".. working great

[OneTwentyoNine]

21. Bump! Running smooth on Cable modem

[soup]

20. Sorry to hear that.

Verizon dsl here, great connection.

I'd share if I could.

[nostamj]

23. sssssshhhhhhhhhh.....................

<it's stable now>

<tip toeing back>

[nostamj]

18. i nominate johnny for "Canadian Bureau Chief" ! n/t

[soup]

22. second that.

great call. Finally a voice of reason.

[JohnyCanuck]

46. What's the pay scale?

Will I make as much in salary as The London Bureau Chief? I know he can play the Big Ben chimes whenever he comes on the air, which to the shallow thinkers in the audience might lend his views an air of importance and gravitas, but I don't think that warrants he get higher pay than me. As long as I can offer the same level of penetrating analysis of the Chimp's latest screw ups as he does, I expect the same salary as the London Bureau Chief. Guy contact my agent and we'll talk.

[BeachBuckeye]

47. You can get the same pay I get

I'm in the hole this past year about$27,000 paying for my portion of the expenses. Pony up pal!! LOL!!

[nostamj]

48. i'll give you half of my salary as NY BC

that would be half of 'thank you'

which do you want?

[JohnyCanuck]

49. Well I guess it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. n/t

Ok, I'll take the job.

[BeachBuckeye]

50. If you do a good job

You can move on up to 3/4th's of Jeffs salary

[Judi Lynn]

19. Finally a voice of reason, Johnny Cannuck. Not a moment too soon. n/t

[Catshrink]

24. Is Steph at the computer today? Haven't seen her post...

[soup]

25. Fred-

calling Guy a liar?!

danger, Fred, danger.

[JohnyCanuck]

26. Re the Israeli role in not passing on info about non-existence of WMD

The Guardian mentions that an Israeli special intelligence unit operating within Sharon's office was meeting with the OSP and passing on questionable intelligence re Iraq and WMD.


The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.

"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.

The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.h...

[SoCalDem]

27. Russert Information that people need to know about :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[nostamj]

28. "No More Headaches"

just caught that! LOL! but thanks......

[Terwilliger]

29. certainly an interesting show so far

[soup]

30. Dave McMichael

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
here's one link for info. (many out there)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran_Intelligence_Profe...

[JanMichael]

33. He's nailing Powell now

.

[nostamj]

31. damn. lost the feed again

buffering buffering buffering
sputtering sputtering sputtering

thank BEN for the archives!

[soup]

42. I can hear you now.

"Integrity is for paupers." Tim Russert



geeze louise.

[LWolf]

32. Checking in

right in the middle of a discussion with someone talking about national intelligence.

[eleny]

34. I'm glad Dave finally said that one shouldn't laugh

...because I was getting pretty irritated at his chuckling throughout this conversation. I was getting ready to just shut it off. I don't find anything humorous about this whole matter.

Here we go - Valerie PLamme. It took that mess to spring the CIA out from the comfortable inner sanctum shadows. They had to be thrown on the poop heap with the rest of us before they came forward with their insights.

[Catshrink]

35. I love you, Guy!

Yes, please pay us teachers more! I made more teaching training classes at CompUSA of all places. But I love my hs kids.

[JanMichael]

36. kICk

[eleny]

37. Republican Love!!!

[soup]

39. love those wacky wingers -

they even make me sound intelligent. (not an easy task)

[soup]

38. kick

for some republican

[Judi Lynn]

40. "Integrity is for paupers," from Tim Russert. Grotesque. n/t

[SoCalDem]

41. Yeppers.. 'Ole Timmy hasn't missed too many meals, has he??

He's not gona be a pauper...no matter what

[Judi Lynn]

43. What a terrific show. We could really use more hours a week

with this program.

Thanks a lot.

[nostamj]

44. the krugman quote

that Michael referenced is from the article I linked earlier.

it is an amazing read.

www.nybooks.com/articles/16911

[soup]

45. Good show, Guy and Michael!

Thank you so much for what you are doing.