Notice something about Kate O'Beirne?

[Neecy]

Like, her disappearance?

For years her sneering lies and insults were featured on cable news as often as Viagra ads. Yet suddenly, once the role of her husband in the Iraq reconstruction debacle was exposed, *poof* Kate has disappeared like magic.

Not that I believe the corpo-media has any shame when it comes to pushing whackjob RW viewpoints on us, but I find it interesting that she's disappeared from cable radar. Surely she herself has no shame. Could her Republican friends now find her somewhat of an embarrassment, and told her to pull the plug?

I know it's early, but I think it's might be nearing the time to toast to the end of this repulsive shill's career in cable punditry.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. Some house fell on her from the sky?

[Olney Blue]

2. Probably nursing their wounds on a tropical island somewhere....

[SpiralHawk]

3. Ah me, the travails of the well-paid republicon propaganda corps

pitiful excuses for Americans, falsely claiming to be "journalists"

When they are just propagandists...

[Bozita]

4. Absence does NOT make the heart grow fonder.

Especially if it's hers.

[asjr]

5. I knew she waited too long to

have her teeth fixed.

[AlCzervik]

6. she's still over at Nationial Review and i bet you just beetlejuiced up a spot on tv

for her.

[Supersedeas]

20. cronies all stick together -- she'll be back

[DainBramaged]

7. GOD, you just brought back her image like a nightmare

I had forgotten completely about her, oh Jesus what a dreadful memory.

[Neecy]

8. I added a photo for you!

Be thankful it's a memory, and not a daily guest on Hardball.

:)

[housewolf]

9. Who's her husband?

That picture makes her look as if she's had a stroke or something!

[Neecy]

10. here ya go...

Major Bush wingnut...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193_pf.html

[Bozita]

12. copied from your link -- read it and weep.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...


To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration.

O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror? Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .

Many of those chosen by O'Beirne's office to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq's government from April 2003 to June 2004, lacked vital skills and experience. A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Good Grief!!!

"A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting."

Yes but did they have expertise in running an international horse association? Bremer the Chimp Fluffer threw out of their jobs most of the Iraqis who actually knew how to run the place and they were replaced by Bush zombies, people who had no expertise other than the ability to bow before the Monkey God and squawk the kind of ideological dogma the neocons like to hear. These are major stories that somehow have failed to attact the public's consciousness, alas.

[Bozita]

15. Says a lot about Defense Dept procurement, doesn't it? Now I know how Blackwater ...

... flourished.

The America I grew up in didn't look anything like this.

[Kurovski]

11. Off enjoying the foul fruits of her fetid career in shitbaggery.

[tabasco]

14. Look up "corporate media whore" in the dictionary.

There's her pic!

[SoCalDem]

16. Republicans like the cuter young ones this time around

They are enamored of Katie cutie-pie right noqw.. She smiles so sweetly as she twists the stilletto..

[Flying Dream Blues]

26. I was unfortunately watching Katie C. the other night and her smile has gotten

downright SCARY. She's got kind of an evil-eye/smirk combo plate going on these days that's just chilling.

[DainBramaged]

17. Kate Oburnmyass is the queen of scumbags

[Kurovski]

23. It's real nerve to caricature Sen. Clinton's teeth that way on the cover of Kate's book,

considering O'Beirne has choppers like a Barracuda's grin run through a blender.

On the other hand, I'm free to shit on her without looking like the bigger asshole.

[peekaloo]

18. that she looks like Penny Marshall after a major bender?

like a turd that refuses to surrender she'll float back to the surface any day now.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. I never understood how she had a job

she's just awful. She was ALWAYS 100% predictable. Whatever republican talking point had been faxed out that week, that's what she said. Never fail. I used to surprise my boyfriend by pausing and telling him exactly what she would say before she said it.

George Will, Charles Krauthammer - they're capable of occasionally surprising you. But not O'Beirne. I don't think she's ever had an original thought.

[burythehatchet]

21. What? That she can eat corn on the cob through a chain link fence?

:shrug:

[JerseygirlCT]

22. Whatever the reason, thank goodness she's gone. What a hateful

person!

[librechik]

24. How can you hide a body that large?

she's like 8 ft tall!

[karlrschneider]

25. Well, I generally don't much think about cockroaches unless I see one.

:P