Need to Know is a short roundup of key stories that shouldn’t be missed on your cruise through the blogosphere. The number of links in the roundup may vary but if you find it here you can trust that it’s must-read material.
Right Wing News
Robert Novak:While I was promoting this book, I had an interview with NPR in New York City and they quoted something I had said to Keith Olbermann in an interview and I said, “I have never met Keith Olbermann in my life. I have never talked to him. If he asked me to go on his show, I would refuse.” And the man said, “Well, I read on the internet that you said this to him.” There’s more nonsense on the internet than you can believe. They have lies about me that have no connection with what I really do or what I really am.
Pajamas Media
As Fred Thompson continues gearing up for his long-expected announcement, now apparently slated for just after Labor Day, he is venturing forth more often in public appearances. This week, in addition to his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars opposite Obama, he also speaks to the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference in Indianapolis. Not all his appearances go smashingly well in this shakedown cruise phase of things. Last week, he appeared at the Iowa State Fair and got a lot of gas from Fox News for his choice of footwear. It seems he wore Gucci loafers to the Iowa State Fair.
NewsBusters
Michael A. Fletcher of the Washington Post has a little snippet of a story so full of hyperbole about how wonderful and “crystallizing” so-called “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan has been for the country that unintentional comedy is the result — that or it raises a collective groan for its slobbering sycophancy. He so outlandishly exaggerates the impact of the “antiwar hero” and her protégé in “Camp Casey” that it just boggles the mind. Seems like Fletcher is far from a disinterested “journalist” but has succumbed to outright hero worship here.
Wizbang
Sorry, lady, that ain’t “immigration reform” you are speaking of. While a comprehensive reform might contemplate circumstances under which someone who entered the country illegally might receive a kind of legal status, you came here illegally twice, and committed at least one crime while here. Then you defied a lawful court order to hide in a church.
A Soldier’s Mind
The nonprofit organization called T.A.P.S. strives to help these children cope with the fact that their parent lost his or her life and won’t be returning home. T.A.P.S. was founded in 1994 and began holding camps and adult seminars nationwide last fall, near military bases to hopefully make coping with the grief of losing a loved one a little bit easier.
The Captain’s Journal
A senior Iranian cleric also warns the U.S. not to pick on the Guards. ”“Americans should know that in this field, as with nuclear energy, they are dealing with the whole nation. And the great nation of Iran will never abandon its revolutionary people,” Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Friday prayers in Teheran.”
Neptunus Lex
The US military have had to endure a fair amount of old world sneering from their coalition allies to the south almost from the beginning of OIF. The British were fond of explaining how their experiences in Northern Ireland had better prepared them for the kind of “soft hat” policing that would win hearts and minds in any counter insurgency campaign, while tut-tutting over the harsher measures used by over-armored Americans in Baghdad and Fallujah.
Blackwater Tactical Weekly
Mirror Image is an intensive one-week classroom and field-training program, designed to realistically simulate terrorist recruiting, training techniques, and operational tactics. During the course, participants will receive insight into the mindset and rationale of the terrorist through hands-on experience with the methods and means terrorist employ, education about terrorist ideologies and the cultural dimensions that influence their decision making process. Military, law enforcement, intelligence, and security professionals will, in turn, be able to see themselves as the terrorists see them and understand the weaknesses in their own environment that the terrorists will seek to exploit, and which all too often they miss.
Sister Toldjah
I will never forget the picture of Hillary Clinton standing in the Senate, holding up the front page of the New York Post in May 2002, which bore the headline that read simply “Bush Knew.” That picture (which I can’t find at the moment) came to symbolize to me how the Democrats in Congress were more interested in politicizing the tragedy – ironically, something they later accused the administration of doing – than responding to it forcefully and directly, in the way any honest, decent American, Democrat or Republican, should do in the face of the tragedies that had happened in New York, DC, and PA.
Fred Thompson: Kill, Protect, Punch Part 2
John Hawkins has released two funny pro-Fred videos. Part one can be found here. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share on Posterous share via Reddit Share...
Mark Levin Interviews Fred Thompson
Fred talks about his campaign style, his relationship with the media, immigration, and military spending. Blogs for Fred Thompson has his complete Iowa Caucus day media schedule. Digg this post...
Fred Thompson & Fox News Trade Jabs
Break it up guys. This doesn’t look good or help either one of you. You don’t see Hillary Clinton and Red Sun doing this do you? (Red Sun is actually...
Fred Thompson Running for President – Sorta
Thompson is on my short list so I’m looking forward to this: Thompson’s formal announcement is planned for Nashville. Organizers say the red pickup truck that was a hallmark of...
Cindy Sheehan Gives Up on the Democrats
Apparently the two of us get hate mail from the same group of “peace-loving” lefties: I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially...
