Don't you wish 60 Minutes was like that every Sunday night?

[SHRED]

Just like the old days?

Follow the link to the Plame segment video:

http://dissent.blogspot.com/2005_10_30_dissent_archive.html#113072194899662296

[AX10]

1. kick

[Cha]

2. Kick for later!

Thanks! :bounce:

[bigwillq]

3. It was very good tonight.

When Joe Wilson was speaking, it really set in when these bastards did to these poor people. Poor Valerie, her career is over. All those hard years of work. What a shame.
Anyone involved in this leak really needs to pay the ultimate price.

[SHRED]

4. Treason carries a nasty penalty but...

someone has put our country in more danger.

[bigwillq]

5. Yes indeed.

Hopefully he'll have to pay too.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. I agree

Thanks to whomever got the video of this. I was wanting to see it but forgot all about it. :) And yes this is about national security. Not just her career. Remember her job was WMD's and tracking terrorist groups. Didn't Brewster Jennings almost catch BinLaden in 2003? This was all about Brewster Jennings and not just Valerie Wilson. I wonder how they knew to target her specifically.

[Zen Democrat]

21. What struck me is how we've lost a nuclear proliferation expert.

Someone deeply involved in keeping nuclear weapons from the wrong hands.

[TahitiNut]

24. Far more than one, I'm afraid, in addition to their contacts.

Illicitly motivated companies and countries have certainly 'cleaned house' of anyone thought to be networked into BJ&A.

[H2O Man]

28. That's right.

As Fitzgerald made clear in his press conference, we all lost because of Scooter's actions.

[bigwillq]

25. And that's something that this misAdministration

seems to care so deeply about.:eyes:

[Chevy]

6. Don`t know about

all of you but I left feeling really pissed off after watching that segment. Those thugs in that whitehouse are morally corrupt.:grr:

[FreedomAngel82]

14. And anybody defending them

and/or making excuses for what they did.

[xxqqqzme]

20. I was majorly pissed!

nofacts should be strung up immediately. That that rat bastard is skating drives me wild...that cnn didn't fire him the instant that ink hit the page exposes their complicity.

[Mme. Defarge]

32. After seeing this

my husband said he finally understood why I have been so obsessed about the the Bush regime. This story upset himso much, he actually yelled at the television multiple times.

He (my husband) is a Korean War era male, and he was particularly disturbed that the administration would deliberately hurt a woman in this manner. So, I can't help wonder how many others out there watching 60 Minutes last night had a light bulb go on.

On another note, if the Bush administration doesn't work out, do you suppose the Brits could loan us Prince Charles? Had no idea he was such a sensible, public spirited sort of guy.

[cynatnite]

7. Nominated!

Everyone should see this!

[INdemo]

8. Yes,

but Im betting that Insanity and Slimebaugh will be harping on this all week saying that it was nothing but Liberal propaganda..

[LiberalPartisan]

12. Oh they will

especially Hannity: "She wasn't overseas undercover for over five years...and she voted for Clinton!!"

[autorank]

9. That wil take care of their conscience for another decade. Good work!

It was refreshing while it lasted. They should have done an hour. It was excellent, great interview subjects. Fascinating, compelling. I'd feel a lot better if they were still at work.

[gordianot]

10. CBS still has a few of the old school left.

That is the difference between a Ed Bradley and a Matt Lauer.

[wtmusic]

16. Good -- where was Ed Bradley before the war started?

Humming the "Star-Spangled Banner" like everyone else. Ed Bradley is worthless, as is the whole crew except Rather.

[stevebreeze]

11. The sad thing is most of this was known before the last election...

to those of us paying attention.

[spindrifter]

15. Yes.

But hopefully now a lot more eyes are open and will be watching what's happening.

[Supersedeas]

31. True, the Corporate Media really takes its obligation to keep the public

informed seriously, do they (Johnny come lately).

[proud patriot]

17. Thanks I missed the first part of 60 minutes

Saw Prince Charles and Andy Rooney

[Emit]

18. Thanks so much for the video link and the site-good stuff n/t

[yowzayowzayowza]

19. Thx for the link!!!!

:kick: & R!

[Ksec]

22. It really WAS good.

I love investigative journalism that gets the bad guys.

60 minutes does that, and tonights Plame story was a fine example of that..

[Douglas Carpenter]

23. everyone must see this...I only wish CBS would have been doing

more responsible journalism like this over the past 4 years.

[Beam Me Up]

26. News media: Bringing up the rear. They are not the vanguard of our freedom

Quite the contrary, they have become the rear guard. In many respects they are the purveyors of our sleep, and potentially of our doom.

Media driven reality structures are inherently illusory and inherently false. That is, they are 'stories' made up by people to 'entertain' the minds of the masses, which may or may not be even factually true. Nevertheless, they are often compelling and self-reinforcing narratives that appeal to the imagination. One 'imagines' that one is participating in the making of history by passively observing. The 'masses' are 'shocked' to discover that their government has petty, human qualities such as "revenge" when, in point of fact, "revenge" is the very least of their crimes.

I don't look to the corporate owned, electronic media to educate me about the composition of our contemporary reality. I don't deny that there is something to be gained from observing it and attending to it, as it certainly does tell 'his-story' as it is currently being unfolded. However, I, and I think more and more people, no longer take the Corporate media seriously as accurate reportage. People who only attend to Corporate media sources are, in the main, either UNinformed or, perhaps worse, MISinformed about the true nature of what is taking place around them. The media also feed back to society at large, and individual sub groups within it, a reflection of itself that is always distorted by those invested in 'selling' not only products in the conventional sense, but a whole sense of social identity wrapped up with a ribbon of 'history'. How we experience ourselves is, in large measure, determined by the 'his-story' one has come to know and believe.

Ultimately: WE ARE LIMITED BY OUR LANGUAGE.

We must learn to speak in a radically new way about our world.

We could start by telling it like it is: The Executive branch of the United States has been hijacked by criminals who have foresworn their Oaths of Office and committed high crimes and treasons against the Constitution and the American People. They are a neoconservative cabal and they are responsible for deceiving the American people into an illegal and immoral war. FAR WORSE one of the means by which they did this, their most heinous lie of all, was the facilitation of 'terrorist attacks' (TM) against the United States on 9/11/01. People can bleat "conspiracy theory" all they want: It is a conspiracy, ongoing. It was not only the lead up to the Iraq war and the threat of WMD that was a lie. The whole 'terrorist event' which radically changed both foreign and domestic policy and led to the transfer of ENORMOUS WALTH from one sector of society to another through the inauguration of the "War on Terror" (TM), took place BECAUSE OF 9/11.

But who wants to CONFRONT those who operate the "shadow government" that lies beneath the already slimy surface of our media driven perception of 'real politic'?

The function of the media in our society today is not to educate us, not to lead us, but to keep us sucking at the tit of corporate culture. We can not regard it as anything other than a very distorted window through which we are given only limited glimpses of the actual channels of power. We can no longer regard it as anything other than a branded and trademarked PRODUCT.

If we don't like that product, we should stop buying it. I think that is why many of us are here, even if quite a few of us are watching TV simultaneously. I for one, am not.

[0007]

27. Thanks much! n/t

[Lasher]

29. They should take Slam-Dunk Tenent's medal & give it to Wilson

Wilson is a true patriot. Can you imagine how much courage it has taken, and still takes, to defy the Bush cartel? Before he ever took a stand, he knew for a fact that he was going to be attacked on account of it.

[IronLionZion]

30. kick for later

[mtnsnake]

33. 60 Minutes was so powerful last night

The show made it really sink into my head just how serious a crime has been committed by Libby and Company. It is really a scarey thing what those jerkoffs did to our country, compromising our national security and the effectiveness of the CIA.

Thank you, 60 Minutes!

[schrodingers_cat]

38. That she was a WMD expert who could have potentially called

them on their sh*t, makes me wonder if this outing wasn't actually a 'two-fer' - get back at Wilson AND silence a potential critic of the regime.

[SoCalDemocrat]

34. DU this piece! Contact CBS with your priase

CBS) 60 Minutes:

ADDRESS:
60 Minutes
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

EMAIL: [email protected]

PHONE: [phone]

I sent them an email commending their work on this segment. If you want to see more like it, do your diligence and write them.

[happydreams]

35. One if not the best 60 minutes I've seen.

It just leaves you wondering how Bush could ignore this most serious threat to our national security. These twisted pukes will do anything to stay in power.
I just hope the public sees this.

[Overseas]

36. Thanks here too... kick...

[Burried News]

37. Yes - it was excellent. It gave the lie to

the ReTHUGlicans as Patriots. The presentation made it clear that they betrayed every government employee who tried to do their job honestly and professionally. Their 'Party befor country Treason' was there for everyone to see.