Molly Ivins: Didn't you get the memo?

Say, that was some "historical memo" there, containing, as the president said, no "intelligence that said there was going to be an attack on America." Except for the title and contents, of course.

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Speaking of reality not being like television, I had the surreal experience of watching the release of the Aug. 6 "historical memo" on Fox News. I sat there listening to a bunch of juvenile clowns react like paid political operatives, as though this had nothing to do with anything but Bush's re-election.

Ho, ho, this is so nothing, they chortled. They were so busy pooh-poohing it, you could barely figure out what it said. My favorite moment was when Geraldo Rivera, who apparently passes for a deep thinker at Fox, solemnly announced: "I have a dream. A dream that someday George Bush and John Kerry will stand together holding hands and say that the most important thing is to fight terrorism."

We live in an amazing country.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16754

In an administration polka-dotted with nepotism, it is unsurprising to learn that several little nepots are running around the place, which is in the happily named Republican Palace. The television contractor Gordon Robison, who helped build the Pentagon-funded television station Al-Iraqiya, told the Herald, "I had the impression in dealing with the civilians in the green room that they viewed their job as essentially political, promoting what the Coalition Provisional Authority is doing in Iraq as a political arm of the Bush administration."

That is a hoot and a half!

Apparently in the spirit
of the British civil servant who put out a memo on
Sept. 11 advising all departments that today would
be a good day to unload any bad news lying
around, we now learn that Abu Musad al Zarqawi
has two legs.

This will not strike you as a stop-the-presses
moment unless you remember that al Zarqawi was
one of Osama bin Laden's Number Two men (we
seem to have captured several "Number Two" men
already, with more still out there.) Pre-war, the
administration claimed the reason it was so certain
Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda was that
Zarqawi had gone to Baghdad to get his leg
amputated. But now, oops, he has two.