Topic: Media
Last week, The New York Times decided it would print a story regarding the United States using a Belgium-based organization to look for possible terrorist messages in international funds transfers. The organization, SWIFT, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has worked with the Bush administration to locate possible terrorist activity and halt it. However, the NYT figured this was a bunch of crap and violation of privacy and decided to run the article, which crippled, and possibly killed the program.Now people in the government and media are PISSED. Since the organization does not look at private accounts, ATM transactions or personal banking transactions and only at international funds transfers, its advocates are claiming that the NYT's choice to run the story because it was "of interest" did significant harm in stopping possible terrorist funding.
Now politicians like NY Rep. Peter King have come out against the Times, as well as have numerous other publications, lawmakers and people across the country.
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.
And the Editors of the National Review aren't too happy either, and have decided it's time to pull the NYT's press credentials. Bush spokesman Tony Snow had this to say:
"The NEW YORK TIMES and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public's right to know in some cases might override somebody's right to live."
So now there's a press war going on. After the Rove leaks and everything else that's happened at The New York Times, their credibility with anyone that isn't a far left winger is getting a little shaky. While we don't particularly care of the Times (too many words, not enough pictures of puppies - ed.), we think it would be wrong to pull their charter. However, they should think about other things besides creating outrage. After all, we're all people in this country, right?
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American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, makers of such wonder drugs as Viagra and probably a bunch of others, has announced that they're joining your baby's favorite company, Johnson & Johnson, to create possibly the creepiest drug and medical manufacturing firm in the world. The $16.6 billion deal will give Pfizer a whopping $13.5 billion in profits, all of which will be spent on literal ten-foot-tall solid gold penises for all executives at the company.
A Canadian study has just come to the conclusion that the more older brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be a homosexual, proving that your brothers being dicks doesn't just make you a criminal anymore.
When the 2006 World Cup rolled into Germany, the sex workers were primed. Vaginas were clean enough to, gulp, eat off of and everything except the head was waxed. But now, the hookers, strippers and dominatrices are pissed, because World Cup fans have driven off the regulars and stayed away themselves, choosing to celebrate or mope in public, rather than in houses of ill repute.
Our weekly DSCC email arrived just as it does every Friday morning, but this time we were a bit more subdued, seeing that Senator Barack Obama was the "author" of the email (this only means that someone wrote it and then put his name to it - ed.), and since we enjoyed his last note, we were sure this would be the same.
A statement from noted jackass Rick Santorum today has been picked up across the nation, as the Senator claims that U.S. troops have found over 500 WMDs in chemical weapon form since 2003 spread throughout Iraq. True or not?
Six Florida prison guards who were set to be arrested for trading drugs for sex with female inmates answered the FBI's call for their surrender with a hail of bullets. When the firefight was over, three of the guards had been shot and two of them killed.
An electrical contractor working inside a Canadian chemical plant decided to flip a shutdown switch, stopping production for at least two weeks and doing a large amount of damage to the machinery. The company, Nova Chemicals Corp., said in a statement they will lose about $11 million in revenue while repairing the machinery affect adversely when the emergency shutdown switch was turned to the off position.
Tomorrow (today, actually idiot, it's after 1:00AM - ed. whatever prick) is the USA's last chance to get into the second round of World Cup Soccer with their match against Ghana at 8:55AM CST. We played soccer recreationally in college, and for those of you that haven't been keeping up with our blog in the past couple days, have been watching every match possible.
When we first heard of the $1000 martini, we weren't really surprised. There are enough ultra premium alcohols in the world that this is possible. And since every cocktail comes with a ruby in it, this made sense.
The NBA finals come back to Dallas, after a controversial series in Miami which saw multiple phantom calls, rough Miami play, a Jerry Stackhouse undeserved suspension and some of the worst officiating of the post season. The Heat lead the Mavericks 3-2, even though two of the three last games ended with Dallas losing by a total of three points while playing like dreck, meaning that the Heat will have a tough time in the Mavs house tonight and then on Thursday after the Mavericks victory tonight.
Hillary Clinton's possible 2008 Presidential run just took a shot to the balls today as a recent CNN poll showed 47 percent of all respondents said they would "definitely not vote for her" if she were to win the Democratic nomination. The same number said they would definitely not vote for John Kerry either, who has desperately been trying to keep his name in the papers.
A 25-year-old wife in China killed her husband after he refused to cook her dinner. The woman had been practicing swordsmanship for the past three years and had apparently been known to threaten him with death by ginsu if he didn't do as she wanted.
CBS News President Sean McManus announced today that after 44 years broadcasting for his network, Dan Rather is indeed leaving, meaning that we get another "Remembering Rather" special that will make light of all the great things the Whistler did during his career.
We have just recently found a story that has pulled us out of hibernation (beer drinking - ed.) to post about the stupidity. And it occurs in Texas, so it's of double importance.
FIFA is one of the oddest sports governing bodies in recent memory. Besides messing with the design of the classic soccer ball and creating a scoring system that would take a physicist years to figure out, they're sanctioning research studies on fans from around the world. The reason? To see which ones will die from the excitement.
After months of complaining that we've only been receiving emails from the DSCC, current Texas Governor Rick Perry came through, sending us an email message begging for support, probably because he's realizing that people finally know he's a total boob. But also because he's losing ground to the Jewish cowboy that is Kinky Friedman. So what's in the email? Let's take a look: