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The Charles Sykes Show

       Ken Brosky (10/01/06)

I have actually chosen Charlie Sykes as my Conservative Douchebag of the Week, but I feel this issue requires a lot more discussion, especially for people who live in Milwaukee.

Look. Something in this city needs to change, and it needs to start with the radio. Charlie Sykes shares the radio with one other big-name talk show host: Mark Belling. Belling, also a conservative, is even more insane than Sykes, and these two pretty much monopolize the talk show market here in Milwaukee, along with national idiots like Sean "Hannitize" Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.

So listeners in Milwaukee have a choice: they can listen to Mark Belling, who occasionally lets his racist side slip out. Or they can listen to Sean Hannity, who shits out every conservative talking point he gets. Or they can listen to Rush Limbaugh, whose drug addiction has made him so far gone that he literally is losing touch with reality.

Or they can listen to Charles Sykes. It didn't take long to find a particularly juicy tidbit on his blog that was easy to attack:

And orders the release of the full National Intelligence Estimate (which had been selectively leaked by anti-Bush partisans to the MSM over the weekend.)

"Powerline has some details and a great report on Presidents Bush and Karzai this morning.

***UPDATE
Here is a link to the NIE...

Among the things you did not read in the NY Times:

We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere.

The Iraq conflict has become the "cause celebre" for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement. Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.

Puts it all in a rather different light, doesn't it?"

(Read the blog here)

The point, obviously, is that the NIE leak is partisan-driven and really didn't tell the whole story. You want to know the real reason there are so many leaks coming out? Because everybody's scared out of their goddamned mind. Nobody wants to be close to the Bush administration because President Bush is a failure in every sense of the word, and he's abusing his power to a level never seen in the history of the United States.

The other point is that the leak itself didn't tell the whole story, and this is supposed to clear it up. It doesn't. Why? Because there were no jihadists in Iraq before we invaded! The jihadists already think they're winning because the Bush Administration had bungled the reconstruction so bad. Iraq is in a state of civil war, and the jihadists are rejoicing.

Here's another blog that is borderline laughable:

The RNC breaks down Clinton's rant on terrorism. Some good detail on Clintonian revisionism.

Byron York deconstructs his excuses.

And, if a single question could send him into a purple rage, imagine what would have happened if someone had asked him about this story:

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at a Rosslyn hotel on March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later. Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts at the time, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.
 

(Read the blog here)

Sykes gets his information, obviously, from the National Review. The National Review writers get their information, obviously, from their assholes. The meeting in question is filled with so many loopholes, the facts so ridiculously stretched that it's almost not worth mentioning. But of course Sykes and other conservatives should be upset: when Clinton was in office, every Republican in the country said he was spending too much time focusing on terrorism. Now, they blame him for not doing enough.

And where was Bush during all this? Well, first he and his administration ignored clue after clue after fact after fact, and then he sat in a classroom and read a book until someone told him what to do.

So where can I listen to this side of the argument? Where can I get this information for myself? I have to rely on Air America Radio to get any relevant information. Milwaukee needs a liberal with balls, and it needs one now.