great Atlantic article: Bush is Screwed!

[janekat]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2003-09-16.htm

And suddenly, against all odds, the president's starting to look a bit vulnerable.

Have you noticed? Since Labor Day, there's been a boomlet in dark, quasi-scandalous news about the administration. It doesn't add up to much yet, but the leading media indicators on President Bush have turned unmistakably downward in the last few weeks. It was as if, all at once, the news class realized that without something fresh and juicy, this was going to be one boring race. And, voila , exactly the kinds of stories we're going to need to make the next 14 months interesting have started sprouting all over the place. We're not talking artificial, trumped-up news, either. Some of this early stuff shows promise.

The most intriguing items are a couple of nebulous 9/11 tales clearly timed to coincide with this week's anniversary. (This itself is evidence of the media sea change that's happened since a year ago, when the terrorist attacks were still a recent memory and it was culturally incorrect to be gunning for the commander-in-chief.)

[einsteins stein]

1. Wow, that's some good shit...

thanks for the link!

[Octafish]

2. Gerald Posner, Media Hog

The unctuous turd is a professional liar of the second rank, the author of "Case Closed" back during the 30th anniversary of the JFK Assassination. His job then was to hog the media spotlight on all the books concerning the anniversary. Now he turns up to hog the press when the "mainstream" media whores are finally starting to ask about BUSH and 9-11. In addition to stating the obvious and failing to draw conclusions from the extant evidence, Poser performs his service to the Washington traitors by putting attention (rightly) on the Saudi-9-11 connection, while diverting attention from the links to the Bush Organized Crime Family.

A bit more from a GREAT (thanks, janekat!) article:

Dovetailing with the VF story is the new book Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, by Gerald Posner. Most of it is a rehearsal of familiar 9/11 reporting, until you get to the astounding final chapter and its allegation that several Saudi princes with ties to 9/11 were fingered last year by a Qaeda operative in U.S. custody. Not long afterward, the book contends, the three princes, who were all under the age of 45, died within days of each other. One, a 25-year-old, was reported to have died of "thirst." A high Pakistani official accused by the same captive later died too, in a plane crash.