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Weekend Update - Idiots of the Week
- Let's start with this religious note: With 200,000 people dead after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Bad Hat Idiot of the Week Pat Robertson blames it all on the Haitians for making a deal with the Devil. Pat Robertson should know about all this, of course, because he IS the Devil. Click here for more on this story, from the French point of view.
- By the way, Bad Hat's Idiot of the Week Runner Up is former Clinton Administration Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. Ritter, who angered neocons in Washington years ago by stating flatly that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and thus became a bit of a hero of the anti-war crowd, allegedly got caught with his pants down while attempting to seduce a 15 year-old on the internet. And apparently this isn't the first time.
- Our friend Mark Morford is having a hard time deciding which story struck him harder, Haiti or the multiple murders in Mexico.
- Rush Limbaugh didn't make the running for Idiot of the Week because there were just too many others who deserved it, and besides, Rush could win it every week if we let him. But Roger Ebert has written an open letter to El Rushit that sums it all up.
- Republican Party Chairman and rodeo clown Michael Steele has demanded that Harry Reid resign for calling President Obama a "negro." Frank Rich comments on "The Great Tea Party Rip-Off."
- Now here's some good news: In a remarkable rebound from the depths of the financial crisis, JPMorgan earned $11.7 billion last year, more than double its profit in 2008, and generated record revenue. The bank earned $3.3 billion in the fourth quarter alone. Those cheery figures were accompanied by news that JPMorgan had earmarked $26.9 billion to compensate its workers, much of which will be paid out as bonuses. That is up about 18 percent, with employees, on average, earning about $129,000. And how did YOU do last year?
2 comments:
"....former Bush Administration Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter,..."
An egregious error, my friend, about his benefactor. He resigned his UN inspection position in 1998. He became a critic of the Clinton containment program and then harsh critic of Desert Storm in what many saw as an unexplainable flip-flop from his inspection days.
In the moderate liberal mag, New Republic, he made this quote in Dec. 21, 1998:
"Meanwhile, Iraq has kept it's entire nuclear weapons infrastructure intact through dual-use companies that allow the nuclear-design teams to conduct vital research and practical work on related technologies and materials. Iraq still has components (high explosive lenses, initiators, and neutron generators) for up to four nuclear devices minus the fissile core (highly enriched uranium or plutonium), as well as the means to produce these. Iraq has retained an operational long-range ballistic missile force that includes approximately four mobile launchers and a dozen missiles. And, under the guise of a permitted short-range missile program, Iraq has developed the technology and production means necessary for the rapid reconstitution of long-range ballistic missile production."
Yet he now says Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are largely dismantled and pose little or no threat and appears on every possible anti war venue possible.
There was a prurient rumor explanation about this 180 turnaround which says he was compromised by Saddam's secret police who threatened to expose his pedophilia with young Iraqi girls unless he changed his tune on WMD.
Maybe now it seems more believable.
I assume that you will print a retraction of your editorial error.
Thanks in advance.
Egregious? Hardly. Bad Hat misspoke about Ritter being one of Bush's boys, (he was one of the UN's top weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998.) However he did tell us again and again in 2002 and early 2003 as Bush and Blair prepared for war in Iraq that there were no weapons there.
You're welcome.
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