Scotty WH Daily Briefing coming up (1:18 EDT now)

[soothsayer]

www.whitehouse.gov

The bastards are still sneaking these in at the last minute with nearly no warning!

[soothsayer]

1. no video yet, but you can hear reporters making small talk

[ticapnews]

2. Who has the bingo cards?

[soothsayer]

3. uh oh, my link just crapped out

Is anyone else still connected?

[Spazito]

6. I can't stay connected either

Hmmm, maybe Snotty Scottie had to go change his depends so they have postponed it? lol

Oops, just got it now, guess Scottie is all cleaned up now.

[soothsayer]

7. ok, thanks, me too now!

[tridim]

4. Why doesn't CSPAN broadcast them any more?

Did the WH kick them out?

[soothsayer]

5. my guess is that the WH stopped givng them advance notice

Just as they no longer do on the WH site. I have to check that thing every 10 or 15 mins to catch it!

[Spazito]

9. It's on CSPAN 3

Here is the link:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan3_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

[soothsayer]

8. scotty says "bawkins" -- means "Balkans"?

[soothsayer]

10. More and more iraqis participating int he political process. sunnis,

shiities. things going well for the dec 15 election. thousand of polling stations, lots o'candidates. security preparation underway, military going on offensive against al qaeda leaders, blah blah, economic challenges.

[soothsayer]

11. q. what are prezzy's thoughts on aircraft incident? does he see

any diff between a real threat and perceived threat?

Scotty: (snidely) perceived threat?

Might learn more later of course, but looks like this team of air marshalls used their training, etc., standard investigation going on now, will learn lessons.

[soothsayer]

12. we'r e appreciative of all our air marshalls do day in and day out

If you look at the facts we know to this point you'll see they followd the protocols. they receive extensive training.

[soothsayer]

13. q. why don't we interview passengers like israel does?

A. might want to talk to aviation security experts about that. afer 9-11 we put in air marshalls, stronger cockpit doors, screening for explosives, defednding the homeland blah

[soothsayer]

14. Q. iraqi insurgents say they've killed a us contractor. any confirmation?

A. i don't have any info

Q. did the prez try to do anything ot help this man?

A. i don't have any confirmation or info on this

[soothsayer]

15. We don't torture, we abide by our laws and values and treaty

obligations.

[ClayZ]

17. He does not even believe himself! I think.

[soothsayer]

16. Q. seemed like Rice expanded the definition by saying that it

applies to any (US0 employee working anywhere in the world.

A. prezzy made it clear we'll do all we can within law to protect us. he remembers 9-11 very well, blah blah

[ClayZ]

20. Like we can engage in ours? Diebold is our political process!

[soothsayer]

18. Politics is breaking out all over the country (iraq)

huh?

[Spazito]

19. Man, who does he think he is fooling?

The more the bush admin lies about torture, the more it confirms it.

[ClayZ]

22. The agony of de FEET!

[Spazito]

34. LOL!

[soothsayer]

21. q. what about dean's comment that his quote was taken out of

context?

A. (getting snotty) what, that we can't win in iraq? highlights teh disarray in the dem party

[soothsayer]

23. q. is leiberman getting a holiday invite to the ranch? (laughter)

[ClayZ]

24. Bomb them to PEACE?

[Loonman]

25. Good one, Scotty

Right out of the Vietnam playbook.

[soothsayer]

26. q. saddam brutally murdered son in laws in front of daughters and

millions of others in iraq, but he still thinks he's in power and

Doesn't matter as snotty went back to bashing DEMS! Some will appease portion of party by attackng us, some are being driven to wanting to cut and run in the face of historic oppty to achieve lasting peace in the M.E.

THe dems are trying to search for a plan. the prez has a clear plan barf barf barf

[ClayZ]

27. Spread Freedom like bloody jam on toast.

[soothsayer]

31. really bloody jam

[soothsayer]

28. fighitng the terraists in iraq so we don't have to fight 'em a thome

[soothsayer]

29. q. now that rice says US will not torture, will * still veto mccain

amendment?

A. working on it. we face difficult issues in this war we're engaged in, blah blah

[soothsayer]

30. uh oh, my link just crapped out

[soothsayer]

32. anybody still watching?

[ClayZ]

33. Mine crapped out too.. Trying to re up it

[Spazito]

35. Damn terra-ists ruining Scottie's press briefing

Must be because of all his 'truth-tellin', lol

[ClayZ]

36. The Truth will now disconnect

[soothsayer]

37. lol!