Saturday Morning Thoughts

Noel brings up a great point about Scott McClellan’s book:

Without peeking, do you think the now infamous excerpt from White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s not yet written book specifically referred to Valerie Plame Wilson, or anything to do with that scandal?

While you ponder, it is quite conceivable that this entire media frenzy is not only much ado about nothing, but an example of what happens when today’s so-called journalists see what they believe to be Republican blood in the water despite the presence of red dye #2.

As cleverly pointed out by Lee Hempfling Thursday (emphasis added): (follow the link guys and gals..hhere is another clue though

Do you see Valerie Plame Wilson’s name anywhere in this excerpt?

No.

So, why were media outlets - in particular, MSNBC - so quick to conclude that this had anything to do with her?

Bryan points out: Red Cross training Palestinian “militant groups” in the finer points of international law

I wonder if they covered the fact that, as they have operated since their beginning, the Palestinian “militant” groups are in and of themselves violations of international law?
They don’t wear uniforms. They target civilians and launch unguided rockets at civilian targets including schools. They hide among their own civilians. They use civilian and religious sites to stage attacks and launch their rockets. These are all violations of international law in one way or another.

Remember when Howard Dean was the biggest problem for the Democratic party? The Irritable Elephant made the following observation:

One has to wonder that, for a party that has built its platform on an anti-war set of planks, what on earth will the Democrats do if — gasp — the situation calms down and we can, as Pelosi and Harry Reid have called for BRING THE TROOPS HOME.
Be careful what you wish for. Instead of America retreating from the Middle East in disgrace, a defeated superpower, we may just “BRING THE TROOPS HOME” having remade some of the DNA of the Middle East - and shown that President Bush may have been right after all.

Remember when Chirac was the President of France and he waved the white flag at the mere hint of civil unrest from the workers? Captain Ed tells you about Sarkozy’s Triumph:

Even the core of the old movement — the universities — has begun to crumble. Most students have other aspirations beyond perpetual petulance. They have belatedly discovered that the French business establishment completely mistrusts them, and considers university graduates as wholly unprepared for employment. They have no prospects after college under the current system, and they want that system changed. Students have little enthusiasm for using their universities as another front for the trade unions; they want a real education instead.

Sarkozy didn’t win his election in a vacuum. The French people want significant change, even if they balk somewhat at the bill. The unionists completely ignored this rather obvious shift in the wind and tried to roll back the calendar 40 years. They exposed themselves as out-of-touch anachronisms of that earlier age. They want to continue to play as radicals, while France wants to get back to business.

Lebanon faces another crisis as Pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud left office Friday, with no replacement.
Rick calls it “COUNTDOWN TO CHAOS” While Redstate summarizes it this way:

the President of Lebanon’s out, the Prime Minister doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the way he left and the Iranian regime, Syrian regime, and fellow terrorist group Hezbollah don’t recognize the legitimacy of the Prime Minister’s disapproval. Meanwhile, the Lebanese military would very much not like to be involved, please - and while both sides aren’t reaching for their guns, the situation is not what you’d call relaxed. On the bright side, the French still* have their priorities straight on this….
…which should mean that the quote-unquote “international community” might actually refrain this time from peeing in the soup because they like the flavor better that way. Hey, every little bit helps.

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