The surge is WORKING -- and you'll never guess what the wacky right is using as "PROOF"!

[johnfunk]

I nearly sprayed a mouthful of Jolt Cola all over the screen when I checked in on Will Bunch's blog this lovely evening:

More proof "the surge is working": Right-wingers claim even the CIA is afraid to go outside without trigger-happy Blackwater


There's been a lot going on this week -- so much that I haven't been able to comment on maybe the biggest story of all, and that is the uproar surrounding the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA and its alleged shooting up of civilians in Baghdad. It's the biggest story because Iraqis are so angry over this, it may be the final tipping point in their relationship with their self-proclaimed liberators.

Tonight I see that Matt Drudge -- the man who "rules our world" in the DC politico-journalism complex -- has decreed that the right-wing version of what went down with Blackwater in Baghdad is the storyline that needs to get out there. And so he's done something he only does in a pinch and linked not to a mainstream news org but to the conservative Pajamas Media, and its correspondent Richard Miniter.

Miniter -- who's written from Baghdad before -- claims that even the CIA can't operate in and around Baghdad without the gun-toting Bklackwater guys, which may well be true, as it's been reported that the State Department has halted many of its outside activities, even in the supposedly safe Green Zone. He also suggests that the people killed were not civilians but "civilians", with quotation marks, and that entire anti-Blackwater campaign is some kind of Iranian plot to undermine the highly successful -- according to Miniter, anyway -- surge:

At any rate, read the rest here. Make sure you're not downing a fine beverage while doing so however; this DUer will not be held liable for damage you cause to your own Internet connectivity device.

[GeorgeGist]

1. The last throes again?

Comical Ali was funny because he told new jokes, everyday. These clowns are like cruise ship comedians.

[johnfunk]

2. Worse than cruise ship comedians...

... and more like the band at the Holiday Inn, playing the same old tunes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...