Thanks to Ian of The Political Teen for putting up the video of this morning's Reliable Sources blogger segment featuring Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, Reporter bloggerRoger Simon (not this Roger Simon) and me. The topics were the war in Iraq, Harriet Miers and Fitzgerald's indictment of Scooter Libby.

You can watch it here.

Country Joe at Woodstock

You don't have to be in San Francisco tomorrow to see and hear the bands. All you need is your computer. The Chet Helms Tribal Stomp is being live-cast beginning at 9 am PT and rebroadcast at 7pm PT. Here's the link to watch the concert.

If you are in the bay area, the concert is free at Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park.

You can listen along now to Country Joe's "I feel like I'm fixing to die rag" here. Lyrics are here.

Here are the bands. Chet Helms would be so proud.

by TChris

J. Dorrance Smith wrote a whacky opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal accusing the broadcast networks and the cable news networks (including Fox!) of being in “partnership” with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda because they occasionally report stories that have aired on Al Jazeera. “This partnership,” Smith fumed, “is a powerful tool for the terrorists in the war in Iraq.”

Rather than helping Smith find the medicine he needs to regain a hold on reality, the Bush administration wants to make him the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs -- the “chief Pentagon spokesman.” After Sen. Carl Levin called attention to Smith’s “over the top” characterization of the news media, his nomination may be in well-deserved jeopardy.

Byron Calame, Public Editor for the New York Times, retraces the Times' misteps in the Judith Miller - Scooter Libby mess. He ends with this paragraph about her future prospects at the Times, that includes a quote from Times Publisher Arther Sulzberger:

What does the future hold for Ms. Miller? She told me Thursday that she hopes to return to the paper after taking some time off. Mr. Sulzberger offered this measured response: "She and I have acknowledged that there are new limits on what she can do next." It seems to me that whatever the limits put on her, the problems facing her inside and outside the newsroom will make it difficult for her to return to the paper as a reporter.

Arianna predicted this yesterday when writing about Keller's memo:

I’m assuming that neither this memo -- nor Calame’s critique -- will put this story to bed. Not by a long shot. I’m assuming, as I’ve been saying for months, that this ends up going all the way to Sulzberger.

Another excellent read on the Times and Miller: NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen.

Here's a free link to Maureen Dowd's Sunday column that ever so politely blasts Judith Miller. It begins with Dowd acknowledging she likes Judy. It then turns devastating and ends with this:

Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered - threats to our country." If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.

Via Atrios: Steve Gilliard translates the Dowd column.

Are you ready for the White Separatist Twins?.

Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans....Known as "Prussian Blue" — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.

"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white … we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."

Not only is their song "Sacrifice" a tribute to Hitler Deputy Rudolf Hess, but they model and promote Happy Hitler t-shirts.

The video's producer is Michael Murrey. They have a weblog, forums and have been hired as models for Aryan Wear . If you'd like them to know what you think of them, why not send them an e-mail.

You can read an interview with the twins here.

Via Raw Story, the Sunday New York Times has Judith Miller's response to Bill Keller's e-mail.

Ms. Miller said in an interview that Mr. Keller's statements were "seriously inaccurate." She also provided The Times with a copy of a memorandum she had sent to Mr. Keller in response. "I certainly never meant to mislead Phil, nor did I mislead him," she wrote to Mr. Keller, referring to Mr. Taubman.

...She added, "As for your reference to my 'entanglement' with Mr. Libby, I had no personal, social, or other relationship with him except as a source."

I think the Times should publish Ms. Miller's entire response to Keller, rather than just a few sentences. Perhaps someone else will.

Crooks and Liars got a copy of the regret-laced memo Bill Keller of the New York Times sent out to his staff about Judy Miller.

I wish that when I learned Judy Miller had been subpoenaed as a witness in the leak investigation, I had sat her down for a thorough debriefing, and followed up with some reporting of my own. It is a natural and proper instinct to defend reporters when the government seeks to interfere in our work. And under other circumstances it might have been fine to entrust the details -- the substance of the confidential interviews, the notes -- to lawyers who would be handling the case.

But in this case I missed what should have been significant alarm bells. Until Fitzgerald came after her, I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign. I should have wondered why I was learning this from the special counsel, a year after the fact. (In November of 2003 Phil Taubman tried to ascertain whether any of our correspondents had been offered similar leaks. As we reported last Sunday, Judy seems to have misled Phil Taubman about the extent of her involvement.) This alone should have been enough to make me probe deeper.

Lawrence O'Donnell, who broke the news that Karl Rove was Time Reporter Matt Cooper's second source, was interviewed yesterday by John Amato of Crooks and Liars. You can listen here.

He was very revealing to C&L about the reasons why he leaked Karl Rove's name when he did and the thoughts that went through his mind before he uttered the name Rove to the world at large. Lawrence also felt that because he leaked Karl's name when he did, it forced his lawyer to take much quicker action than he would have. O'Donnell also stated that there were other people who knew about the Rove-Cooper connection.

Crooks and Liars finds this in today's Daily News:

The New York Times gave Judith Miller 3,454 words in Sunday's paper to defend her actions in the Valerie Plame affair. But we hear Miller didn't appreciate the scourging she got in an accompanying 5,805-word analysis of "The Miller Case." We're told that colleagues heard Miller and executive editor Bill Keller screaming at each other in the hours before the story went to bed. (A Times spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Miller and Keller had traded words.)

Miller is said to have implored Keller to tone down the piece's criticism of her. Nevertheless, it reported that she was "a divisive figure," and that in 2003 Keller told her she could no longer cover Iraq and weapons issues because her reporting about Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction was so far off the mark.

Jane at FireDogLake reacts. Arianna has more unanswered questions about the Times and Miller.

New York Times Editor Bill Kellor spoke in Phoenix last week at the annual Association of National Advertisers conference. Among his comments:

"Most of what you know, you know because of the mainstream media," Keller said. "Bloggers recycle and chew on the news. That's not bad. But it's not enough."

The Times, Kellor asserted, is different:

The Times' assets: "A worldwide network of trained, skilled [observers] to witness events" and write about them, and "a rigorous set of standards. A journalism of verification," rather than of "assertion," and maintaining an "agnosticism" as to where any story may lead.

Arianna calls Keller "Clueless in Phoenix."

by Last Night in Little Rock

CNN talking head Daryn Kagan is today reported by AOL, which is owned by the same company that owns CNN, to have been IM'g Rush Limbaugh while on the air, and Limbaugh has been using her IM's on his radio program, referring to her as his "mistress in Georgia" (the sexist pig).

AOL's posting: