The Libby Mess

From UPI:

Prosecutor: Libby lied repeatedlyWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The former chief
of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's staff lied over and over to the FBI about
the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a federal prosecutor said.

I. Lewis
"Scooter" Libby's trial on five counts of perjury, making false statements and
obstructing an investigation began Tuesday with opening statements, The
Washington Post reported. Libby is not charged with actually disclosing Valerie
Plame's identity to reporters. But the suggestion that Libby and Cheney blew
Plame's cover as part of a political effort to discredit her husband, former
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, is the subtext of the trial.

"How could we
reach a point where the chief of staff for the vice president was repeatedly
lying to federal investigators?" Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald asked the
jury. "That's what this case is all about."Fitzgerald said that Libby
deliberately lied when he told investigators he learned that Plame was a CIA
agent from Tim Russert of NBC and then gossiped about it to other reporters. He
said Cheney was Libby's actual source of information about Plame.

Theodore Wells, Libby's lawyer, said his client made honest mistakes
while trying to give "his best good-faith recollection."

This is going to be huge....

Our video cavalcade is on it...

Here is NBC on how obsessed these guys were with MSNNNNNNBC'S Hardball:



Here's the K.O. Kid on this...



Here's Air America's Young Turks on it all.

As Drudge would say.....developing

Is NoNeck Secretly.........well, you know...

Once again, my e-mail has been darkedned with another one of Donald "NoNeck" Wildmond's screeds against homosexuality and the Ford Motor Company. I keep at this because (A) you need to know the type of vermin who are trying to influence YOUR choices in what you watch, listen to, and read and (B) the man's vast ignorance and multi-phobias are just breathtaking to observe.



But as I look upon his latest spew of vitrol, one cannot help but notice something that, to me, has become highly ovious in the months since I started chronicling this bastard's rages.



Donald Wilmon is secretly gay.



Actually, I think that Wildmon is inherently a neuter, and his wet dream is to make us all neuters...asexual beings. But I don't think one can help looking at his latest target and how he points them out and not wonder.



You see if something is really, really offesnive to you, you hesitate to display it. You don't show it. You may say you have seen it, but you would not "inflict" that on others.



But Team Tupelo has discovered YouTube. And as such may have outed thier master.



Recently, wildmon on his website and e-mails have targeted three "blantant" homosexual scenes that wound up having Ford branded products advertised.



The first was from an episode of Cold Case.





This was obviosuly a man looking back ata relationship he had several years ago, maybe in the 60's. It was tastefully done, and......as per Wildmon's way....he shows no context to the scene.

Next one.....same Cold Case episode....



Again, probably in the case of the show, it probably explained what happened.....but for some reason a kiss effected NoNeck....hmmmmmm.

Finally, I got this in the mail this morning:

Dear Donald,

Rather than backing down from its support of homosexuality,
Ford Motor Company has apparently taken a "rub it in your face" attitude.

On the January 16 episode of "Dirt," which airs on the FX channel, Ford
helped sponsor one of the most explicit, sickening homosexual scenes ever shown
on television. Because it is so explicit, I could not even include a description
of it here. I hope you will simply trust me. However, if you want to read our
review of the scene, or to see the video of the scene, click
here.

Be forewarned, it is extremely graphic.

Ok....let's see....





Ok....I know that maybe getting a blow job on TV is something you don't see every day, but apperenly you were drawn to it enough to post it on YouTube.





With all of the stupidity that is going on TV, two guys kissing, holding hands, and getting blown seems to be the thing that gets Donnie's attention.





That, and the fact that he only mentions one sponsor.



This is getting old. Ford sponsors shows the way most companies sponsor shows, through Run Of Schedule. FX gets the money, then they distrubut the ads thriought the schedule. My question is what were the other advertisers of these shows? Why are THEY not singled out for Wildmon's attacks?

Or maybe Donnie got laid by a woman in a Taurus one night and he's never been able to get that horrible moment out of his mind.

In any event, the guy continues take credit for Ford's woes. He holds up letters from Ford dealers calling on the company to stop "supporting the ho-m0-sex-shu-wul ah-gen-duh" Dealers from Texas. One would have hoped that he would have gotten dealers from a more enlightened state.

The bottom line is that Donnie is still pissy about the fact that Ford came to its senses and decided not to lay in bed with bigots and homophobes. In fact, AFA's website states that Ford's actions were based on principle. You know......something that trancends profit and loss. Doing the right thing.

This is something, I guess, NoNeck knows nothing about.

Or maybe he is too busy pouring through old issues of Blueboy to care.

The Myth of Free Speech

This morning, I went to one of my newer social networking groups. I should have not been surprised, but I found that a number of groups had been eliminated from that website. Too....shall we say....salacious.

Another group on Yahoo! is grousing about witch-hunts targeting people of certain lifestyles and preferences. Entire websites have disappeared. There are close friends on places such as Yahoo 360, MySpace, Multiply, and even supposedly sex-friendly networks like SmutVibes who I fear could disappear because they are a bit too honest about sex and sexuality......among other things.

Since the last time we spoke online about this, not much has changed for the positive. So-called anti-smut crusaders are out and about, upfront and in stealth, with the goal of making this country as neutered sexually as possible. They are convinced that if we make this country sexually bleached, that the children would be protected from all this horrible smut.

Yes, the same kids that are currently engaged in such behavior with no help or encouragement from media.

They also feel that by de-sexing this country, they can save marriage. And they cite figures that purport to show that the more people stayed in traditional, neutered marriages, the more they stayed together.

None of these surveys showed how happy these people are.

More and more those who choose a less traditional route to relationships and sexuality are being told that they are miserable, unhappy, bound-for-hell heathens. Conform or else. And that "or-else" can be anything ranging from a mild-finger wagging, banishment, loss of job and status, jail, maybe even death (In Dallas, for instance, they are tracking the murders of men who do not act like traditional men, aka "gender queers."

The hypocrisy overflows. A very well-known talk show host parades a teenage kid on her show and questions him about being sexually abused, but seems ashamed of her own pregnancy at 14. A man is forced into community service because he had sex with his wife, simply because the wife was 15 (he was 22). Everyday teachers and students are having mutually-agreed upon sexual liaisons, and no one endorses those pairing, either real or fictional...unless you are Cate Blanchette.

And it goes and goes. If this sounds disjointed, it's because this crap goes on and on every day, and frankly I am getting tire of dealing with it. Tired of waiting for the ax to fall on good friends. Tired of being afraid to comment on things I know are true because the Stepford contingent of the web would not like to hear it. Tired of watching the retched scene knowing the the only true action of family-friendliness is the truth.

I'm tired of teens not being able to get important sexual information, let alone enjoy it, but they CAN be allowed to play the most violent games I've ever seen. I'm tired of sexuality being vilified instead of exalted. I'm tired of being told that I CAN talk about certain things, or feel certain things, as long as I preface it by saying "I know that this really is wrong......" even though I believe that is a bunch of bull.

But mostly, I am tired of watching what I say, walking on egg shells, keeping my mouth shut, because if I let the truth out, I might be the Prude Patrol's next victim.

My friend, Candee, continually refers to this Rodgers and Hammerstein song from South Pacific that fits so well with this....

You've got to be taught

To hate and fear,

You've got to be taught

From year to year,

It's got to be drummed

In your dear little ear

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid

Of people whose eyes are oddly made,

And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught

before it's too late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people

your relatives hate,

You've got to be carefully taught!

We need new teachings.