Ron Suskind's appearances, starting today:

Friday, August 8

Morning Joe, MSNBC
7:45-7:55 a.m.

American Morning, CNN
Check back later for time

The Ron Kuby Show, Air America Radio
3:30-4:00 p.m.




Saturday, August 9

The Weekend Today Show, NBC
7:00 a.m.

The Thom Hartmann Show, Air America Radio
2:00-2:30 p.m.




Monday, August 11

Anderson Cooper 360, CNN
10:00 p.m.

The Daily Show with John Stewart, Comedy Central
11:00 p.m.

http://www.ronsuskind.com/news/

Check local listings for Tavis Smiley appearance



that's it.....nothing on Sunday...nothing past Monday

hope something else comes up.

anybody think this book is going to be buried? at least he got more coverage than Bugliosi, but I'm CERTAIN he's going to get much less exposure than Corsi and Fredoso

I've seen/heard him on CSPAN, Fresh Air, MSNBC, and Countdown.

anybody see him on NBC, or OReilly?

a kudos where one is due. wonder what's gotten into him? does he see the writing on the wall?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html

if you're not familiar with the detalis of this book, this is quite a good place to start

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/57272

Blitzer: This is an illegal act {referring to the Habbush letter}, it it's true. Why would anyone in the WH be dumb enough to write down on a piece of papern for George Tenet to go ahead and commit an illegal act.

Suskind: ''At this point, in the history of this WH, uh, frankly, Wolf, I don't see how can you even ask this question'' !!!!!

there you go with the grounds for impeachment right there.

he talked about how Benazir Bhutto BEGGED Cheney to call Musharraf in order to protect her before she went back for the final trip to Pakistan. we know what happened. the point is that he described how she, compromised by past corruption, etc., came to the understanding that the only way to solve her country's problems was to understand the way of the world, which, in his book, deals with those on the mountain peaks (the privileged, the US, in large part), and whether they allow those in the valley (the rest of the world, living in poverty and squalor). in so doing, she girded herself (becoming enlightened by the words/works of Gandhi, MIL, etc.) for the fight to bring the people of Pakistan together.

Suskind says that it's OUR job to become aware of the way of the world, and to 'regain' (dunno if we ever had it, except for WWII), our position as moral beacon of the world. he put it much better in his book than I do here, of course, but you get the idea.

is he possibly a Chavezista?

always in admiration of your contributions here, and I hope you're doing well

rtsp://video1.c-span.org/project/iraq/iraq_wj080608_suskind.rm

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/6/14307/27616/828/563625

Ron Suskind really "gets it".

He gets the total failure of this administration to understand the real strength of America.

He gets the real power of Democracy to win any argument, with no need for muscle flexing or military threats.

He also gets the ultimate failure of the Bush/Cheney, neo-Con hubris, and the many ways in which it is destroying the power of the United States to fight the forces that wish us harm.

You can view the entire interview here. It is lengthy, and very detailed. If you watch the entire broadcast, you will even hear a stunning reversal in some the Republican callers! It appears that the mounting evidence against BushCo is gradually sinking in to the consciousness of the most dedicated supporters.

This is a book to buy. This is a book that must be pushed up the Best Seller Lists. This is a book that must not be allowed to sink below the waves as some of the other exposes have.

This is a book, written by a moral poet and gifted wordsmith, that deserves the full attention of this community.

This is also the kind of book, which if passed on to your friends and relatives who read, might well make any suspicion of McCain's similarity to George Bush sink the McCain campaign into immediate oblivion.

There are many way to fight. A poet is not a bad surrogate!

supposedly oppositional interview....I haven't listened to it yet

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93293353

''listen here''

From the dawn of time, human beings have been attentive to signs of distinction — the approach of a tribe with a different manner or dress, posture or skin color. The swift sizing-up of friend or foe, and acting upon it — upon suspicion — was often a matter of survival. Those faculties became finely tuned over thousands of years. Now, in a world of vivid, colliding images and technology's bequest of awesomely powerful weapons, we struggle to leap forward, to reshape instinct enough to reach across the divides of us and them, peak and valley. And to do it in time.

That shared effort is, at the very least, a starting point for a working definition of "hearts and minds struggle," that smooth, slippery phrase on the lips of people across the world. Its definitions are often self-interested and oddly narrow, but they nearly always rest on a fundamental two-part question: Can disparate people ever truly understand one another, and is such understanding necessary for them to coexist? There's considerable dispute over the matter. Some knowledgeable observers say that bringing diverse peoples together mostly serves to exacerbate distinctions and fuel divisiveness, something we can little afford in an era of such unleashed destructive capability. They point to countless bitter conflicts along borders, and within them, and recommend tall fences. Others contend that the world is steadily becoming borderless and blended, and that such conflict — the friction caused by the conjunction of opposites — must be endured, and mastered, on the way to discovering shared interest and common purpose.

One rare area of agreement? That the answers — whether proof of insurmountable divides or of indelible human bonds — are found by walking in the shoes of the "other." The other? Could be anyone, really, from the person who seems to hail from a distant planet — the traditional "other" of a different race or status, ethnicity or history — to someone just like you but who's seen things you haven't, illuminating things that alter one's path in the world. All of this, of course, is ancient advice; the shoes are a favored metaphor that underpins everything from "love thy neighbor as thyself " to "know thine enemy." The key is picking some good shoes. And there are some, right now, in the summer of 2006, walking through America.

One pair belongs to Rolf Mowatt-Larssen. He's the man who tries to figure out whether terrorists are about to wrap, or already have wrapped, their hands around this era's Promethean fire — uranium or plutonium — in sufficient quantity to make a nuclear weapon. He's been the government's leading man on this twisting, harrowing task since 9/11, first at CIA and just recently at the Department of Energy. That's means he's spent nearly five years regularly briefing the president and the vice president and kicking down doors here and abroad to ask unsettling questions. Either he's the most important man in the U.S. government or he's Chicken Little. He's not sure himself, which is why his shoes are good for walking. You don't know where they'll lead. Neither does he. When he finds out, we'll all find out — and hopefully it'll be before there's a catastrophic event.

freeperesque gathering of delusional mouthbreathers, drowning in their lake of denial....wonder if they see us in the same light

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/08/07/barnicle-suskind-book-charges-bush-cheney-4000-murders#comments

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26079601#26079601

this really got the wingnuts exercised, cause Barnicle says this was the death penalty for 4000 US soldiers...didn't mention the Iraqis slaughtered, of course.

said it was MURDER by the administration

wingnut panties were twisted high overhead because of that interp

presscreep called him a man who practices "gutter journalism," for which he won the pulitzer prize while working at that right wing rag, the WSJ

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3748175

basis for negating his entire book's plausibility

I doubt if congress would have acted anyway.

but....if Obama can avoid having the election stolen from him, on myriad fronts, he MUST charge these monsters criminally, unless Bush pardons himself and god knows who else in advance

It certainly wouldn't stop a congressional inquiry, if in fact the mood has changed enough there.

But Obamn won't (can't really) do much unless there is at least an impeachment vote in real time. Without it, all these things are "approved."

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use the two conflicting stories as an excuse

I hope I'm wrong, but, even if they do, there will be a firestorm of criticism for politicizing this in the midst of a presidential campaign

later on is the time to go after them

we'll see

This is just the form of spin where you deny allegations that were not made.

Still, it's perfectly good as a pretext for impeachment hearings -- with or without the "conflict" -- though that part probably makes hearings more likely. Feith makes a great "face of the regime" target, as he is both stupid and insane.

And there'll be no "firestorm." That's just more beltway bamboozlement. The smart Repubs know that an impeachment effort could virtually end their party for a generation. If they thought it would help, even the prospect of it would be all over the news. They've been keeping their response to anything impeachment safely "under the radar screen" -- using it only in direct mail and pooh-poohing it when forced to comment.

But if the DC-Dems don't wise up to this, there is no "later on." Obama will repeat Clinton's non-reaction to Iran/contra -- "gotta be forward-looking," "can't get bogged down," yada yada.

We must keep talking impeachment. There's plenty of time and Suskind's book may be that last straw.

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