Judy Miller Finds (Neil) Diamond in the Rough (Jail)

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000975711

Judy Miller Finds Diamond in the Rough
Judith Miller




By E&P Staff

Published: July 07, 2005 11:00 PM ET

NEW YORK Judith Miller, in just her first hours in jail after refusing to "sing" for the special prosecutor, has already bonded with one of her guards at the Alexandria (Va.) Dentention Center over a certain aging crooner.

"There is a fellow Neil Diamond fan who is a corrections officer," she told fellow New York Times reporter Lorne Manly. "We've already had a serious discussion" about a concert she will have to miss.

As E&P first reported on Wednesday, Miller's new quarters, where she is serving a likely four month sentence, is considered a somewhat "progressive" jail, with no bars, though still a maximum-security facility. But Manly reports that Miller indicated to her lawyers that it seemed overcrowded and that she was told "she would be sleeping on the floor last night because of a shortage of beds."

Still, the staff there was "extremely professional and very courteous," she said from jail.

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[Moochy]

1. Saving Silverman?

Is Jack Black's character from Saving Silverman guarding her?

He too was a Neil Diamond fan.

[DanCa]

3. Cracklin' Rosie get on board

Dont dis Niel I get tickets to see him at the United Center next month.

[TwentyFive]

4. Lucky you - Neil Diamond is one of my favorites too. n/t

[blm]

24. Neil Diamond is a HUGE Democrat. He's donated entire concert funds to

the Dem party at various times throughout his career.

[Barrett808]

30. Damn it! Now you have that song in my head

Now I'll have to blast it out with some Nirvana...or Beethoven...

[buddha8]

5. miller the mole

Ofcourse one of the best forms of obfuscation and smokescreening is 'the personal interest story'. Sorry but I am more interested in learning whether or not J. Miller is an Israeli mole planted at the NYTimes. Either she has always been a spy and a plant or she is one hysterically bad 'journalist'. Her body of work is beyond bad. They will find room for her in the Jeb administration no doubt and she will sell millions of copies of her autobio when she gets out early.

Her primary function which she understood oh so well was to sell the fear element in the lead up to the Invasion. Her readership in the city was disproportionately Jewish and pro-Israel and she played to it with the full force of all of her propaganda. Even ordinarily rational Jewish intellectuals,well read and reasonably informed were sucked in by all the hysterical bleatings about Sadaam's biowarfare and medium range missles. They suspended their sanity and ability to discriminate innuendo from truth and followed her like so many lemmings over the precipice and into the abyss.

[the_spectator]

7. self-delete

[the_spectator]

8. Hi!

:hi:

[donheld]

9. Welcome to DU buddha8

:hi:

[NeoConsSuck]

13. Welcome to DU !!

:hi:

[sattahipdeep]

16. Even more odd (Dr David Kelly)

scientist Dr David Kelly warned a friend that "dark actors"
were working against him just hours before his death.

http://nuttymango.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/3/17138/30618

In an email to American author Judy Miller, sent just before he
left his home for the last time, he referred to "many dark
actors playing games".

But, according to Miller, Dr Kelly gave no indication he was
depressed or planning to take his own life.

He told her he would wait "until the end of the week" before
deciding his next move following his traumatic appearance
before a House of Commons select committee...

[Jacobin]

18. Well said and welcome

:hi:

Adding this bit from the Rude Pundit:

Judith Miller In Jail:
Today, when jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller, kept snug in Alexandria, Virginia next to Zacarias Moussaoui, heard about the terrorist bombings in London, one might hope that a tinge of regret passed through her. Perhaps she shouldn't have spent as much time being head cheerleader for the powerful in D.C., gobbling up fabricated info on the phantom Iraqi WMDs as hungrily as an old porn star sucking young cock for all she's worth so that the industry will still pay for her bad plastic surgery and AIDS tests. And, oh, how they treated her like their willing dog as she was unquestioningly listening to her masters' voices, feeling the Chalabi leash yank, the Rumsfeld scratch behind her ears, on all fours, ready to fetch them their slippers at the arch of an eyebrow. Good girl, Judy, good girl.

One would think at such moments as this that Judith Miller would bow her head, hoping that her enabling stenography wasn't even a tincture of the reason that those who planted the bombs today were able to plan and carry out this new horror. Maybe Judith Miller doesn't feel so much like Rosa Parks or Daniel Ellsberg today, as her newspaper would like us to think. Perhaps she feels like the useful fool, screaming on the street corners that the end is coming from the sky when, indeed, it is coming from streets themselves.

Nah. Self-righteous whore probably just thinks she's a martyr to the good fight.

[leveymg]

26. I also would like to know if Judy's linked to Mossad or Likud

Is there any evidence of any direct connection? She's certainly been useful to the Likudites foreign policy objectives. If this can be established, Fitzgerald may have some additional charges to file in this case.

However, I think its too broad a brush to indict Jews in general for the crimes of the neocons, Israeli Rightists, and the mechanizations of their various secret services. There have always been splits among Jews that in some ways are deeper and more violent than their differences with non-Jews.

Some of those who have worked hardest to steer this country safely through the neocon disinformation wars are also Jewish.

If you have some specific information about Judy being Mossad, or whatever, please share it. Please hold the innuendo.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. That's touching.

Ever notice that there are only a handful of humans who have bad taste in politcs and good taste in music?

[1932]

6. The trademark NYTimes "ironic eye" style of reporting. Who wants to bet on

the publishing deal Miller will get from Regenery for the book about her incarceration? What's the over/under? A 2 million dollar advance? And who wants to bet that the Times will do its best to whet readers appetities for the book with all these ironic eye stories? (And I'm not saying I would begrudge anyone for doing that -- I'm just trying to predict the future.)

[thebigidea]

12. good point, but this isn't from the NYTimes

nauseating piece regardless. As if anyone is remotely interested in Miller's love of Neil fucking Diamond.

[Rainscents]

10. Is Judy going to do reporting from jail? LOL

Maybe she can do Op-Ed about her life in jail.

[Voltaire99]

11. Miller's lucky she won't be tortured...

...luckier by far than those in Iraq who became the victims of the war advanced by her dishonest, leprous work.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Surely being a Neil Diamond fan...

...is torture enough.

[mac56]

15. Snarf!

Coffee all over the monitor!

[B3Nut]

23. Rag on him all you want...

...but the man can write a song. Some of his later stuff is pablum but his early work is classic. He penned "I'm A Believer" remember...was a hit for both The Monkees and Smash Mouth.

It's not cool in some circles to voice a liking for Diamond's music, but as a musician I have to give him props for writing ability, he has written a lot of good quality songs, so much so that I can excuse "Turn On Your Heartlight". :D

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[shrike]

28. Agree. He's a good songwriter

He sang his stuff well when he was younger, but his voice is pretty much gone now. Oh well, everybody's got to make a living.

Always thought he was a good performer, too. Seems to have a good stage presence.

[Voltaire99]

31. Yes, great pop craftsman

"I'm A Believer" is as tight as 60's-era white bread Top 40 stuff gets.

"Red, Red Wine" isn't half bad, either. Lyrically, "Cracklin' Rosie" has some smokey imagery and evokes the sensibility of working class rebellion that is now long since gone (dissolved in the bile of Reaganism).

I don't care for Diamond, but let nobody say he wasn't a master of throwaway pop.

[Laughing Mirror]

21. Which is why they jailed her in secure VA jail and not unsecure DC

Times Reporter Sent to Va.; D.C. Jail Too Crowded

By Paul Schwartzman and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 7, 2005; A13

New York Times reporter Judith Miller was not sent to the D.C. jail yesterday, in part because of the facility's crowding and reports of safety concerns, according to the U.S. marshal for the District.

Miller was confined to the Alexandria jail yesterday after her attorney, Bob Bennett, implored U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan to keep her out of the District's jail.

George Walsh, the U.S. marshal for the District, said he received "no instruction from the court to provide any special treatment." However, Walsh said, the conditions at the District jail were considered when the marshals service determined where to send Miller.

"There's been discussion that the D.C. jail is extremely overcrowded," Walsh said. "That's not the sole reason. . . . But it was one factor."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070602090_pf.html

What's one more warm body when the hoosegow's already overcrowded?

[Algorem]

17. she really sucks up to the screws,just like on the outside

that fish could get shanked in the big yard

[leftofcool]

19. Hey Brother Love........

Maybe the guard will give her a little travlin' salvation show....on a hot August night.

Left of Cool

[Roland99]

20. I wonder if she's enjoying being Forever in (prison) blue jeans?

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. Did she even happen to notice that 50 people

got killed in London yesterday?

Did she even care that her lies helped contribute to their deaths?

Judy, it's not all about you all the time. I hope jail is an enlightening experience for you. You certainly have lived in your own private bubble for too long, and a good dose of reality is long over due.

[Gyre]

25. she's going to get bored

"bonding" (ie, manipulating) with the correctional officers. She'll talk as soon as the papers forget about her.

Gyre

[Gregorian]

27. This is investigative journalism, post non-Fairness Doctrine.

Whomever decided that this was worthy of print, has overlooked the DSM and other very important stories. But I already knew that America was about comfort and entertainment. It's just hard to believe they'd be thumbing their nose at us in only 24 hours.

[mbperrin]

29. So when do we see this shitass in "Susan McDougal" chains??

Yeah, I know, never.

Ah, well.......