Of course he did

Of course he did
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We usually don’t have much use for Washington Post White House correspondent Dana Milbank, but let’s give him credit for getting off this line today,

A Day of Firsts, Overshadowed

By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, September 13, 2005; A07

Yesterday’s opening of the John Roberts confirmation hearings was a time for historic firsts.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) made 49 first-person
references in a 10-minute statement that was, ostensibly, not about himself.

Enough Said.

Last evening, on the 4th anniversary of September 11, Pundit Review Radio took a look back at that terrible day, remembered how we felt and then took a look ahead to where we are today, what we’ve accomplished and what we have done wrong in the war on terror. We also examined the rise of the new media since 9-11 and the impact that they have had on politics and the media.

Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Burglar walked yesterday and was fined $50,000 for committing a serious felony that would have landed anyone else in prison for years.

So what did Sandy Burglar do? Let’s go right to the man himself,

In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with requests by the September 11 commission, I inadvertently took a few documents from the Archives. When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded.

What does it say about a guy who was National Security Advisor if he could,

A: stuff classified documents down his pants
B: “accidentally discard” documents that were important enough to shove down his pants.

I only wish this outrageous breach of national security got the same kind of attention as Kanye West’s pretzel logic.

The fact is, this story has been underplayed since day one. In August 2004 on the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather introduced the scandal this way:

Sandy Berger, who was national security adviser under President Clinton, stepped aside today as an adviser to Sen. John Kerry. CBS’ John Roberts reports this was triggered by a carefully orchestrated leak about Berger, and the timing of it appears to be no coincidence.

It seems the old newsman was missing the story entirely. He’d be missing a lot more than that in a few weeks. One year ago today Rather made a fatal mistake, the infamous 60 Minute II Bush National Guard story. ‘Buckhead’ from Free Republic, Scott Johnson from Powerline, Bill from INDCJounal, and Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs were leading the citizen journalist charge.

The fallout ended Rather’s career. Blogs made it happen.

In the earliest days of this evolving scandal, Scott Johnson from Powerline came on
Pundit Review Radio and broke the entire incident down for us starting with his intial post, The Sixty First Minute.

Listen to the interview here.

Check out this photo blog from a New Orleans resident. There are a lot of great pictures in here, and this person aptly describes what happened, from the approach of the storm, to the apparent luck of New Orleans to miss the worst Katrina had to offer to the realization a day or so later, that they weren’t so lucky at all. This is well worth your time.

Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan

This week we interviewed National Journal’s Danny Glover, the editor of Beltway Blogroll, an excellent new blog that looks at the growing number of policy blogs shaping Washington debates.

Why did National Journal decide to start a blog? What impact are blogs are having on policy debates on Capitol Hill? What issues have blogs had an impact on? What issues they did they miss an opportunity to make an impact? What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned since starting Beltway Blogroll?

Those are just a few of the areas we covered. We hope to have Danny back as the SCOTUS debates heat up in the next few weeks.

Our favorite crusading poseur is back with some Oscar-worthy unintentional comedy.

Sean Penn’s rescue bid sinks

EFFORTS by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by
Hurricane Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to
launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.Penn had planned to rescue children
waylaid by Katrina’s flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the
bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.

The actor, known for his political activism, was seen wearing what
appeared to be a white flak jacket and frantically bailing water out of the
sinking vessel with a red plastic cup.

With the boat loaded with members of Penn’s entourage, including a personal
photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: “How are you going to get any
people in that thing?”

Enjoy the whole article. Every word of it.