Daily Show On Rummy’s Tortured Testimony

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This is from the May 10, 2004 program.
Highlights include Rummy forgetting to bring the chart of the chain of command with him to the hearings:
Mc Cain: “Mr. Secretary, I’d like to know…I’d like you to give the committee the chain of command from the guards to you. All the way up the chain of command.
Rummy: “I think General Myers brought an indication of it…”
General Myers: “We did not bring it.”
Rummy: “Oh my. It was all prepared.”
Myers: “It was!”
Jon Stewart: “Let me get this straight: The two guys in charge of proving that the military has its shit together forgot to bring the chart proving it had its shit together?”

Daily Show On Rummy’s Tortured Testimony (Small – 12 MB)

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Switching Everything Over To Another Server

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In case you haven’t noticed, my entire server went down (again) this last week (this time for a different reason than the usual reason).
No worries though. I’m moving my entire archive to another server with a bigger pipe for easier distribution. Everything should be moved over in a few days.
After the move, I’m going to really need your help looking for bad links. So please, when I give the word (after a big global replace in Movable Type), go to your favorite categories and verify that all of the videos are linked OK.
I’m also very interested in working with others to create some kind of P2P distribution network that might take some of the load off of the server to begin with. It is my hope to be reaching thousands upon thousands over the next few months leading up to this year’s presidential election — when distribution of these materials will be more important than ever to help educate voters about the issues affecting their lives.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
After the move my archive should be “bigger, stronger, faster…”
–That kind of thing 🙂
Sorry for the hold ups. I know how important access to this material is for many of you. It should be smoother sailing from this point on.
Peace,
lisa

Daily Show On Torture Of Iraqi Prisoners By U.S. Military

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This is from the May 6, 2004 program.
Update 05/11/04: new links that work!
Jon clarifies for us, among other things, that this isn’t “abuse” as Rummy and CNN like to call it:
“This is fucking torture.”
(Can you say “electrofied genitals?” I knew you could.)
He also clarifies that, despite all the headlines last week saying “President Bush Apologizes,” he actually did no such thing. He let his press flak do it for him.

Daily Show – Giant Messopotamia (Small – 10 MB)
Rob Courddry also gives us follow up commentary:

Rob Courddry On The US Torture Of Iraqi Prisoners
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Great Video Tutorials On Video/Animation/Graphics Software From Lynda.com

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One of you suggested that I check out the $25 a month video tutorials at to ramp up on my Final Cut Pro.
That’s the best $25 I’ve spent in a long time. I’ll probably keep my subscription up to help support (not to mention that there are other titles of stuff I want to learn).
It took about a lesson and a half for me to get off and running on my project. (About 30 min of instruction at most.) I’m pretty impressed.
The way the courses are organized, I can move ahead to find out what I need to know, and go back to learn more of the introductory stuff, as needed. There are little 15 minute movies for everything. You can just pick what you need from the index.
Leave it to you guys to hook me up with another great resource!
Thanks again for all the great advice.
(What would I do without cha? 🙂

NY Times: Donald Rumsfield Should Go

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It’s been a long time coming on this one. I sure never thought he’d go out with *such* a bang.
But here it is — something I’ve been saying for a long time now 🙂

Donald Rumsfeld Should Go
(a ny times editorial)

The world is waiting now for a sign that President Bush understands the seriousness of what has happened. It needs to be more than his repeated statements that he is sorry the rest of the world does not “understand the true nature and heart of America.” Mr. Bush should start showing the state of his own heart by demanding the resignation of his secretary of defense.
This is far from a case of a fine cabinet official undone by the actions of a few obscure bad apples in the military police. Donald Rumsfeld has morphed, over the last two years, from a man of supreme confidence to arrogance, then to almost willful blindness. With the approval of the president, he sent American troops into a place whose nature and dangers he had apparently never bothered to examine.
We now know that no one with any power in the Defense Department had a clue about what the administration was getting the coalition forces into. Mr. Rumsfeld’s blithe confidence that he could run his war on the cheap has also seriously harmed the Army and the National Guard.

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Let Congress Know You Don’t Oppose Gay Marriage

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This just in from my pal Bobby Lilly.
Bobby’s trying to get the word out about the Million for Marriage.org website and petition in favor of same sex marriages.
It’s all from the Human Rights Campaign.
From Bobby: Got this request and am passing it on to friends I think might support the issue. So, if you haven’t signed the petition yet, please use the link they offer in the body of the message below and maybe pass it on to a friend.
Click the following link to sign a petition that will be delivered to Congress in favor of same sex marriage:

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/ct/3daiyNY1FBPx/

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Human Rights Campaign/MillionForMarriage.org
Let’s get to a half-million by May 17

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/ct/37aiyNY1FBP3/
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Dear Bobby,
In just 10 days, same-sex couples will be issued marriage licenses for the first time in Massachusetts. As the newlyweds celebrate their marriages, we know that our ultra-conservative opponents will use this historic moment to viciously attack them and all GLBT families.
We – all of us who support marriage equality – must demonstrate our strength and unity at this critical time. Here’s one important way you can help: Right now, almost 450,000 people have signed the Million for Marriage petition. By May 17th, we’d like to get to 500,000 – a half-million people.
Please, take a minute to think of one more person that you could persuade to stand up for equality. Click here to send them a message right now:

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/ct/37aiyNY1FBP3/
Or forward this e-mail to your friends and ask them to click the following link to sign the petition:

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/ct/3daiyNY1FBPx/
Our voices – 500,000 loud and strong — will help counter the right-wing extremists’ wave of fear and lies, and will give hope and support to the couples about to marry in Massachusetts. Thank you, as always, for your actions today.
Many thanks,
Cheryl A. Jacques President
**************************** (c)2004, Human Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-3278 Phone: 202/628-4160 TTY: 202/216-1572 Fax: 202/347-5323, membership@hrc.org

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press

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This is from the May 2, 2004 program of
Meet the Press.
This directory contains the entire interview in one big file and three smaller files:

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press.
Check out Joseph Wilson’s new book:
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir.
One thing Joseph said that sticks out in my mind is that daddy Shrub said whoever leaked the information about Wilson’s wife was an “insidious traitor.”
Does anyone know where he said this or when? Update: Oh okay. He said it in 1999. But it still applies — to Karl Rove and the Cheney gang in this case:
“I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our [intelligence] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”

Have I Promised You Some Video Footage In The Last Two Months?

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This is just a note to anyone (I know there are at least 3 of you) that I have promised a reel of footage to over the last few months. If you haven’t received it in the mail yet, I have “forgotten,” and it’s not coming.
Please email me again and I’ll put it in the kitty for next weekend. I’m trying to catch up on everything, and I’m sure that I’ve dropped the ball on a thing or two (or three). So please, feel free to drop me a line and remind me.
In general, if I tell you I’ll send you something in a week or two, and it’s not there after two weeks, it’s not coming. Even if I am just about to send it, you’re never bothering me too much sending me an email reminder. I know a lot of you are working on projects that I heartily support, and I’m happy to contribute footage to them. It’s really the whole reason I started this archive!
So thanks! (And sorry if you’re one of those people still waiting for footage!)

Thanks For The Video Timecode Advice

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Hey gang. Thanks for all the great advice regarding this post.
I ended up buying an Academic version of Final Cut Pro. (I am, after all, a graduate student 🙂
I could use links to any good tutorials anyone might know of. I’m just trying to do really simple stuff: edit clips, over dub music, stuff like that.
Thanks again everybody. There doesn’t seem to be anything you guys can’t fill me in on!