60 thoughts on “karl vs. carl”

1. This is for everyone………….
   If you haven’t already done so, you need to e-mail or write your opinions about this whole Rove/Plame/Wilson issue to all three of your elected representatives. What’s happening right now is extraordinarily important and the House and Senate needs to stay on top of it. Unfortunately, all they are doing at the moment is flinging mud and lies at each other. We need to tell them do DO THEIR JOB or get fired!

2. This is for everyone………….
   If you haven’t already done so, you need to e-mail or write your opinions about this whole Rove/Plame/Wilson issue to all three of your elected representatives. What’s happening right now is extraordinarily important and the House and Senate needs to stay on top of it. Unfortunately, all they are doing at the moment is flinging mud and lies at each other. We need to tell them do DO THEIR JOB or get fired!

3. This is for everyone………….
   If you haven’t already done so, you need to e-mail or write your opinions about this whole Rove/Plame/Wilson issue to all three of your elected representatives. What’s happening right now is extraordinarily important and the House and Senate needs to stay on top of it. Unfortunately, all they are doing at the moment is flinging mud and lies at each other. We need to tell them do DO THEIR JOB or get fired!

4. Just so we’re clear here… even if a Congressional investigation into the Plame scandal would be time better spent than a Congressional investigation into a video game… can’t we agree that both are a colossal waste of time!!!!!!
   I mean, come on… who cares? Aren’t there some bills to pass? Energy bill? Highway bill? Social Security?
   We’re wasting time with a covert/non-covert CIA agent and a video game?
   Get to work, please. These calls for more investigation don’t help either… IMO.

5. Andrew – mention them. In the past Wil has acknowledged the various acts of 9/11, the Madrid attrocities, the shuttle disaster(s) and various unpleasant acts perpertrated by the US government. As well he should.
   But still, he has ignored the London Bombings. I did not expect him to put forth a diatribe against terrorist factions, but given his past behaviour, I did at least expect him to acknowledge that it happened,(perhaps by having a .gif of a Union Jack on his main page). And I am disappointed that he did not.

7. I think lots of people are missing the real point.
   Rove may have mishandled classified information (whether he did and what action may be necessary is the purpose of the Grand Jury investigation). And from my training and experience (I was the security manager/intelligence officer for a combat engineer battalion in Germany in the 1980s), if there is even the slightest doubt that someone has mishandled classified information (or even some doubt about their ability to handle it) their security clearance is to be immediately pulled (or not granted in the first place). Were I the (White House) security manager there wouldn’t be any waivering and there wouldn’t be any speculation about if he used her actual name (come on! saying it’s so-and-so’s wife is tantamount to pinning a name and if that’s your defense you should be laughed at all the way to your prison cell) or if he knew she was operating covertly (if it’s known then there’s no possiblity of ever using her covertly, is there moron?) or if he meant to (no, stupidity isn’t a crime, but are there some times and places where it should be?), the security clearance would be gone (with no possiblity of parole).
   [That leaves aside doing what you’ve promised people you would since this Administration (and perhaps the Clinton one too, to cast my stones fairly) has no problem lying and backpedaling. And if he is guilty that’s a matter for the investigation. What the media is doing is just part and parcel for “modern” “journalism” (since facts and impartiality have little to do with it these days).]
   Given that we have military operations in two theaters right now, what other classified information is he going to find it politically expedient to release? And how many soldiers, airmen, sailors (and even civilians) will die because of it?
   I don’t trust him enough to take the chance.

8. Getting back on-topic for a few seconds, did anyone notice that Wil has a credit in the game? He’s listed under “Radio Station Caller”.
   While probably not the highest paying gig, and while I agree completely with Wil’s stance on the issue at hand, it does kind of put the letter in a slightly different light in that “don’t mess with my income”/conflict-of-interest sort of way.
   I don’t check the WWDN site all that frequently, so I’ll have to search a bit to see if he’s posted anything about his work on San Andreas. Full disclosure is always a good thing…
   And before everyone hangs me out to dry – I have nothing but respect for you, Wil. Every time I read one of your “fatherhood” stories, I can’t help but give you a quiet little cheer for taking the time to help your kids grow up right. I can only hope I do half the job you’re doing. Keep on keepin’ on!

9. I think Wil hit it right on the head this time, both in terms of content and delivery.
   We live in a soundbite culture. Politicians don’t seem capable of delivering a message unless it’s four syllables or less so why should we assume they can understand one that’s much longer? In any case, I’d be willing to bet the odds of a full-page rant getting anything but assignment to the circular file by Mrs. Clinton’s staff are next to zero.
   Anyone who has been following the controversy around GTA in the popular press knows that this is pure political posturing because the game is played from the point-of-view of a criminal in a world where explicit and extreme sex and violence are the norms.
   Big deal. “The Sopranos” does the exact same thing on TV and it’s hailed as dramatic genius; the Bush administration is doing much of the same in Iraq, and it’s called American foreign policy.

10. Wil,
    This post was just quoted in The Washington Post. Well, at least in the Express edition, which is the free abridged version they hand out on the DC Metro.

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