Jon Stewart Nails Cheney In An Outright Lie

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This is from the June 21, 2004 program.
Stewart: “Mr. Vice President, I have to inform you: You’re pants are on fire.”
Cheney said he never stated that it was “pretty well confirmed” that meetings had taken place between Saddam’s Officials and Al Queda members. The Daily Show dug up the Meet the Press coverage from December 9, 2001 that proves otherwise.
As a blogger and “traditional” journalist, I always hesitate to throw the word “lie” around unless I can validate my statement. How wonderful that we live in an age where I can present my case and back it up with evidence all on one interactive medium (for those that have quicktime, anyway…)
I also had the luxury of having the Daily Show With Jon Stewart to do my homework for me.
Here’s the Complete Video Clip of the contradicting statements as presented within this larger daily show clip. (The larger clip also contains footage of the Shrub and Rummy making excuses for their past inaccurate statements.)
Here’sa tiny clip of Cheney denying he ever said the meeting was “pretty well confirmed.
(Source: CNBC)
CNBC: “You have said in the past that it was quote “pretty well confirmed.”
Cheney: “No, I never said that. Never said that. Absolutely not.”
Here’s a little clip of the Meet the Press footage
where he clearly did say just that such a meeting was “pretty well confirmed.”
(Source: Meet The Press, December 9, 2001)
Cheney: “It’s been pretty well confirmed, that he didn’t go to Prague and he did meet with a Senior Official of the Iraqi Intelligence service.”

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Daily Show On “The Connection”

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This is from the June 21, 2004 program.
These should be up by 1pm CA time today. (Uploading now.) I’ve got to run.
Here’s the interview with Stephen F. Hayes, the guy who wrote The Connection, the new book claiming that there’s a connection between 911 and Saddam.
Turns out that his book is based on a single report by none other than Douglas Feith — the Shrub’s Undersecretary of defense, and one of the most notorious members within the Administration known for helping companies he used to work for to cash in on the Iraqi Gold Rush. (See the Bill Moyers Story all about it.

Bill Moyers On The Insider Business Deals Between Shrub Administration Officials And Iraqi Reconstruction Companies
Specifically, between Douglas Feith, the Undersecretary of Defense and several companies (many related to his “former” business associate Marc Zell), including: Zell, Goldberg and Company, Diligence, New Bridge Strategies, Barber, Griffith and Rogers, SAIC (courtesy of current Shrub Administration Official and former SAIC Senior Vice President Ryan Henry), and The Iraqi International Law Group.

Anyway,
Here’s the interview in two parts.

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Daily Show On Shrub Administration’s Bogus Terror Report

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This is from the June 14, 2004 program.
Colin Powell was on Meet the Press apologizing for this last weekend — the Shrub Administration released a War On Terror update report that had 8 pages of errors and retractions and lots of other questionable material throughout.
(Colin said he wasn’t a “happy camper” having to apologize for it.)

The Shrub’s Bogus Terror Report (Small – 9 MB)

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New Daily Show Clips Up

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I’ll be linking to them over the course of the day. But here’s the directory where you can look for them (whether I’ve linked to them or not)
Update 11:30 pm – didn’t get to this today. Not sure when I will get to it because I’ll soon be offline for a couple days. But I’m going to try to generate some more clips before I go.–lr
I tend to have about a 2-4 day lag in uploading something and linking to it. Sorry.

http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/
There’s also an interview with Tim Russert in there in the May directory….

PayPal Can Hold Your Money For 180 Days If It Doesn’t Like The Content On Your Website

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I had just signed up for a PayPal account too, and was in the process of verifying my bank account. Now I think I don’t want to get involved with these guys.
Mark Perkel learned this the hard way, when PayPal gave his account “limited” status after deciding it didn’t like some of the content on his website. Furthermore, right before it shut down his account, it reversed a deposit that one of his clients had transferred to his PayPal account, but it did not return the money to his client’s bank account after removing it from Perkel’s bank account.
According to PayPal’s User Agreement, (It’s probably the Accessible Use policy regarding adult material that he violated.), if it chooses to make your account “limited,” (PayPal has the authorization to do so at any time based on its own discretion), it can and will hold the funds in your PayPal account for 180 days.
Turns out that money is in limbo until Perkel writes PayPal in a secure email on its website and asks for this to be done explicitly. This is despite the fact that he asked them to do so over the phone. (And why wouldn’t they have already done so anyway? – if they were reversing the transaction, when the money left Perkel’s account, it should have gone back to where it came from.)
PayPal claims that they hold the money for 180 days to “protect ourselves from potential reversals” to the accounts. But there’s a free speech issue here – why is PayPal going around making judgements about it’s customers’ websites anyway? Who’s going to be next? Is your PayPal account something you don’t want to keep too much money in at any one time, since they can freeze your account and hold it up for 180 days?
These are the questions going through my mind after listing to this MP3 of Marc Perkel talking to Paypal.
If you’re listen to the MP3, and in a hurry, the relevant portion is at about 6 min 50 seconds into it. But if you’ve got a minute, listen to the whole thing. It’s pretty interesting.
So Perkel may have violated their user agreement, but closing his account without giving him a chance to take his money out, and then holding on to not only the money he had in his account, but the money his client had transferred to him the day before the account was closed doesn’t seem right.
Marc’s started an anti-paypal website, to let people know about his experience, but I’m not telling you to boycott these guys necessarily. I just want you to know about this so you can make your own decision. Maybe there’s a perfectly good reason why PayPal works for you. Fine.
(This MP3 might also have some great samples in it for you Dee Jay/Audiophile types. Don’t say I didn’t tell ya 🙂
Here’s some information for anyone who is interested in the news story about PayPal and their lawsuit settlement over freezing customer’s accounts:

PayPal settles customer suit

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Video: The Fall Of Bushville

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Here’s footage of the June 3rd eviction of “Bushville,” an encampment of 30 homeless families on the outskirts of Jersey City, NJ, who wished to make a statement about the Shrub’s policies and how they are slowly killing American families with the lack of affordable housing in this country. They feel that he is wasting billions of dollars on this senseless war in Iraq while millions of families across the country are wasting away.

The Fall Of Bushville (Quicktime – Small – 29 MB)

“The poor in this country are dying under the policies of George W. Bush, and frankly we can’t afford to be invisible. Our lives are at stake here as poor and homeless families across this country and George W. is responsible for that and we can’t allow it to continue because our very lives are at stake.”

Also mirrored here in my own archive. (For safekeeping)
(Note: this won’t be up for a few minutes)

The Fall Of Bushville (Newsbrief)

Killer 60 Minutes Bumped By Regan Retrospective

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Man oh man am I pissed. The greatest 60 minutes ever got bumped tonight while they all got together to kiss Reagan’s butt for 60 minutes. Damn.
Listen to the show that was supposed to air tonight:

“An FBI whistleblower says that the unit translating information from terrorism suspects deliberately slowed the process; America’s power elite and Yale’s Skull and Bones Society; the frailty of fingerprint evidence.”

That FBI translation story and the skull and bones story better air next week!
Somewhere in the afterlife, Reagan is laughing…

Clinton vs. The Shrubs

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Update 6/5/04 – No, nobody got a clip, and, seemingly, nobody cares.
I also heard Clinton say a couple days ago during some publicity for his book that he “liked” daddy Shrub. So it could have all been in fun anyway.
Hey did anybody grab the clip of Clinton getting pushed by daddy shrub at the WWII Memorial last weekend? This is all I heard about it.
Thanks!!
lisa

Bush I pushes Clinton
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Sat May 29th, 2004 at 16:22:31 EDT
Hmmm, I wasn’t watching the WWII Memorial ceremony, but apparently there was a bit of jostling around. Reef the Dog reports in the Open Thread comments:
It was on CNN. Bush 41, 43, and Clinton were talking at the end of the ceremony. Clinton wagged his finger in Bush 43’s face. Dunno what they were talking about but it seemed at least superficially cordial. Then Poppy suddenly shoved Clinton in the chest with both hands, enough to throw Clinton off balance. I don’t know why, but it was completely inappropriate and almost seemed to me like 41 was trying to prove his manhood or something. I’m not even sure what happened after that, the camera quickly went somewhere else.
I wonder what happened…

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Archive Back Up!

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So I’ve got my archive up till about March 2004 back up online here:

http://www.lisarein.com/videos/
I’ve done a global search and replace to fix the links in my blog. Hope it worked ok.
Do let me know!
I’ll be catching up on the last few months over the next few weeks.
Please alter your links accordingly by replacing this:
http://ftp.archive.org/movies/lisarein/….
with this
http://www.lisarein.com/videos/
Peace,
lisa

Bill Moyers On Relevance Of Shrub Administration’s Policy Of Rejecting The Geneva Convention

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Michael Isikoff discovered
this Shrub Administration memo which outlines a policy of rejecting the Geneva Convention for War On Terror prisoners.
Here’s the Newsweek story that got this all started:

Double Standard?.
This is a big deal guys, and Bill Moyers and Brian Brancaccio do their usual great job of explaining exactly why — and within a historical context. Then Brian interviews Columbia Law School Professor Scott Horton about the frighting implications of this policy.
This is from the May 21, 2004 program of Bill Moyers Now.
Want to mirror these clips?? Let me know! (
Mirror 1 of the complete version.)
This first clip provides details of the memo and some historical context:

Moyers On The Shrub’s Geneva-Rejection Policy – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 10 MB)
These next two clips contain an interview with Scott Horton where he analyses the Shrub’s justifaction for a Geneva Convention “double standard”:

Moyers On The Shrub’s Geneva-Rejection Policy – Part 2 of 3
(Small – 14 MB)

Moyers On The Shrub’s Geneva-Rejection Policy – Part 3 of 3
(Small – 14 MB)

Here’s the whole thing in a huge 37 MB file

David Brancaccio talks to Scott Horton, President of the International League for Human Rights. Horton will discuss the legal basis for the global war on terror and the U.S. government classified memo that puts forth what NEWSWEEK described as “a legal framework to justify a secret system of detention and interrogation that sidesteps the historical safeguards of the Geneva Convention.” Mr. Horton also recently spearheaded a Bar Association of New York report: “
Human rights standards applicable to the United States’ interrogation of detainees.”

More about Scott from his website:

Mr. Horton has been a lifelong activist in the human rights area, having served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, Sergei Kovalev and other leaders of the Russian human rights and democracy movements for over twenty years and having worked with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the International League for Human Rights, among other organizations. He is currently president of the International League and a director of the Moscow-based Andrei Sakharov Foundation. Mr. Horton is also an advisor of the Open Society Institute’s Central Eurasia Project, and a director of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, the Council on Foreign Relations’s Center for Preventive Action and numerous other NGO organizations.
Mr. Horton is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Law and the author of over 200 articles and monographs on legal developments in nations in transition.