Billmon sees a walking bomb.
UPDATE: 11:15am
The post at the Whiskey Bar is no longer on the front page. The above link goes to the archives.
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October 9, 2004
Billmon: Anger Management
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http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/view/956
That’s the bomb
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Oct 9 2004 8:08 utc | 1
@Billmon
Is that a little wistful glance, a little smile as you walk past, gazing into the sky?
Allthewhile thinking
This is IRRESISTABLE
Come on man, jump in
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 9 2004 8:33 utc | 2
Something is definitely wrong with Billmon…Either he is not controlling his site any more or…I don’t know …but this is not him as we know him…Wouldn’t be surprised in any case.
Posted by: vbo | Oct 9 2004 13:11 utc | 3
‘Tis very strange indeed, the comment is gone now. Perhaps Bush’s unhinged performance in last night’s debate caused Billmon to forget his Early Retirement and post impulsively but to remove it so soon…well, it’s all very odd.
Posted by: ByteB | Oct 9 2004 14:33 utc | 5
Thanks for the clip CP, I watched it, something I almost never do.
Around here that performance wouldn’t count as loosing one’s temper.
Still, it is the loss of control, whatever the conventions, that counts.
But – but – would Bush supporters consider the display in any way odd or reprehensible? Bush’s point, while poorly expressed, was valid. (Kerry knows that perfectly well.)
The US does have allies re. Iraq: willing (GB), willing but undercover (Australia, Israel – not mentioned), originally keen but now wilting (Poland, Italy, etc.), bought and coerced (e.g. Micronesia). Turkey is the interesting case ..
As usual, I found the content expressed by both speakers more worrisome than the manner. They were arguing about a tangential issue, and if anyone was false, opaque and speaking in code, it was Kerry, not Bush.
High-school debate techniques (rattle your opponent!) are all very well in the proper context.
Posted by: Blackie | Oct 9 2004 16:28 utc | 6
@ billmon
why oh why oh why does he have to leave us NOW ?
Posted by: annie | Oct 9 2004 17:00 utc | 7
Richard Cranium at the ASZ has a link to it in Billmon’s archives … here at the Bar
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Oct 9 2004 17:52 utc | 9
I miss Billmon’s wisdom and his remarkable insight. He did a remarkable amount of research for almost every post. He was angry, but that anger was always channeled into productive comments rather than gain saying.
Perhaps it is time for us who have appreciated his work to do the same. I have found myself doing much more research rather than posting comments on someone else’s. After all, wasn’t that what Billmon would like to see in the first place? A few million amateur journalists with well-researched material making wicked people uncomfortable with tough questions? While the press is free, lets give it some bit. I’m not a journalist. I am a historian. But I fear a press that is the victim of one source for news more than any of the evil of the Neocons.
Yeah I’d like to see Billmon get out of the stratasphere and come back down to us grunts. But it would do more damage if a few more of us would do the work as well.
Posted by: Diogenes | Oct 9 2004 23:51 utc | 10
I miss Billmon’s wisdom and his remarkable insight. He did a remarkable amount of research for almost every post. He was angry, but that anger was always channeled into productive comments rather than gain saying.
Perhaps it is time for us who have appreciated his work to do the same. I have found myself doing much more research rather than posting comments on someone elses. After all, wasn’t that Billmon would like to see in the first place? A few million amateur journalists with well-researched material making wicked people uncomfortable with tough questions? While the press is free, lets give it some thought. I’m not a journalist. I am a historian. But I fear a press that is the victim of one source for news more than any of the evil of the Neocons.
Yeah I’d like to see Billmon get out of the stratasphere and come back down to us grunts. But it would do more damage if a few more of us would do the work as well.
Posted by: Diogenes | Oct 9 2004 23:53 utc | 11
To Billmon, wherever you are– smooooches and much happiness to you and yours.
When Bush jumped up and treated Gibson like the field you-know-what, I just stared at the tv thinking…why in hell is this man not eviscerated in the press for the huge fucking mess he’s made of EVERYTHING he’s touched in this country since he stole the freaking election?????
Can’t the journalists see the INCREDIBLE HARM they are doing to this nation by letting the Bush shitters intimidate them, by playing this whole thing as a game…who won the debate…well, who was lying his ass off about the war and the economy, punditheads?
I have to deal with the current “reality” by watching Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man” at loud volume over and over again, just to reclaim my sanity.
Posted by: fauxreal | Oct 10 2004 1:22 utc | 12
As others have already suggested, “curiouser and curiouser”! A relatively tiny post, unlike Billmon’s usual thoroughness, appears and almost instantly disappears at the Whiskey Bar site.
I’m still remarkably skeptical about what’s going on. It ain’t at all like the “barkeep” to play bizarre games. In a nutshell, it’s uncanny. And as vbo said, it doesn’t seem as if Billmon is in full control of his own web site!
Posted by: JMFeeney (USA) | Oct 12 2004 21:15 utc | 13