"If you saw the video from Thursday, you can tell the brain is just about gone," said one experienced pathologist. "I’m fairly sure there was gray matter in that stuff his corpse was puking up. You can see it all over that big book on the table next to Henry. I doubt at this point that Novak could do much more than type out a few random, incoherent letter sequences."
But Novak’s editors at the Chicago Sun Times say they hardly expect to see that kind of improvement in the columnist’s work, given his condition.
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August 6, 2005
WB: Death Takes a Holiday
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The image of Novak eating the bodies of dead American soldiers is over the top. Billmon has no greater fan than me, but that paragraph will provide fodder for the looney right.
Posted by: arbogast | Aug 6 2005 7:46 utc | 1
Oh man…….guess that explains the drunken demeanor.
Fun to watch the wingnuts try to explain how their little Frank Booth is just another innocent victim in the culture wars, who ran out of gas.
Posted by: anna missed | Aug 6 2005 9:09 utc | 2
@arbogast
“…that paragraph will provide fodder for the looney right.”
Oh, piffle. What are they going to do? Call him a liberal? Start a whisper campaign about how he doesn’t support the war like a true patriot? The looney right aren’t going to like anything we say or do, so you might as well call a spade a spade. Whether Novak is literally eating dead US servicemen to fuel his putrefying corpse or figuratively eating dead servicemen to fuel his putrefying career…
well… this is bullshit! I hate this…!
*getting up and wobbling off camera*
Posted by: Monolycus | Aug 6 2005 9:10 utc | 3
WaPo
“Over the top” is a relative term, arbogast. For my money, the Pentagon and the American congress, as described in the WaPo article linked here, are much, much further “over the top” than Billmon could ever be, even in his most agitated and imaginative moments. When I read an article like this, words simply fail me.
Posted by: alabama | Aug 6 2005 11:11 utc | 6
“little Frank Booth” – LOL
Sssssssssssssst – MOoooooooMMmmmmmmmY
Posted by: gmac | Aug 6 2005 11:29 utc | 7
[T]he zombie propagandist’s decaying flesh will be “temporarily” entombed in a lead-lined refrigerated crypt at the Hanford Nuclear Energy Reservation in Washington State.
I have it on good authority that his crypt is actually across the Columbia river from the Hanford site, under Jackass Mountain.
Soldiers of Christ II
Read it
http://www.harpers.org/FeelingTheHate.html
Posted by: Friendly Fire | Aug 6 2005 16:08 utc | 9
The George Magazine reviews are trickling in….
“More Matter … Less Art!”
“Content Over Noise!”
“Words are Simple, Action is Pure!”
George Bush, wasting more time on his Funny Farm than any president in recent history, here during a period of violent global change unparalleled in the last sixty years, never mentioned in his latest Thousand-Day Plan radio address, the sad news last week that several dozen of our young sons and daughters in harm’s way in Iraq, won’t live to see the Dukes of Hazzard remake.
That’s just sad.
Neither, for that matter, did any of US, snipe attackers that we are, lollygaggers, sidewalk superintendents, peep show Internet fun parkers.
It’s more fun to slash at dead Novak corpses!
http://anysoldier.com/
I’m not saying sending care packages to our kids is aiding and abetting the Bush War on Humanity, but if that’s bothering you, then there’s plenty of opportunity to help them back here in CONUS.
http://www.dav.org/
Even simple long-distance calling cards, you can buy a half-dozen while you’re at the checkout counter at the grocery store, and send them to the local VA hospital, so our injured and maimed child-soldiers can call their families.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
And if that’s still too much “mil” for you, then consider Doctors Without Borders. I’ve seen them first-hand, there are no finer disciples for our Call to Care campaign. CAFTA alone will create hundreds of thousands, no, millions of destitute campesanos throughout Central America, displaced off their land so you and I can have cheap sugar and bananas and coffee.
What a f–king sick parasitic society America is! We can’t even help our own poor, sick and dying,
and here on the anniversary of Hiroshima, BushCo just dropped another trade nuke on the world.
Sure George, the economy is doing great! You keep on believing that. Without the war, the economy would suck d–k, you lying evil son-of-a-bitch.
Posted by: lash marks | Aug 6 2005 16:51 utc | 10
You’re right arbogast, that was an entirely inappropriate image. Everyone knows that Novak and the rest of the War Party and looney right subsist entirely on a diet of freshly liberated Iraqi babies and virgins. There aren’t anywhere enough American dead to feed them all. They keep them for special occasions: Thanksgiving will be pretty good this year from the looks of things.
The looney right? Fuck ’em. Accomplices to murder every one.
“WaPo
“Over the top” is a relative term, arbogast. For my money, the Pentagon and the American congress, as described in the WaPo article linked here, are much, much further “over the top” than …”
-Alabama-
Not over the top — plain ignorant enough to disqualify them from any right to holding public office.
The WaPo article brings to mind an account I read of Gogol’s visit to Solovki, perhaps the first camp in the Gulag. Needless to say, when he got there, he found the prisoners well fed and well clothed in a humanely organized facility.
Just what are these inquiring members of Congress expecting to see? The kinds of concubinage, heads on stakes and mutilated bodies that figured so prominently in the Congo and western Amazon during the rubber tapping boom of the later 19th and early 20th centuries? It doesn’t take a rocket scientists to figure out that torture is time sensitive. All of the accounts of our modern military’s techniques that I’ve seen clearly show that it doesn’t require the accouterment of the Spanish Inquisition; although, those do help if you’re going to offer the victim a chance to recant after showing them the instruments (needless to say, the tour alone doesn’t offer the inquisitor the same quality of satisfaction.) When it’s over, the only traces it needs to leave are on and in its victims. After all, those dogs, sleeping bags, amplifiers and speakers, sandbags, electrical wires, rifle butts, sinks, and so on, have mundane uses that make their presence banal.
It’d make more sense if they just took the tour for a bit of tropical sunshine and those catered meals served on the flights down and back. Certainly, there are worse ways to get out of the house and away from the family.
Of course, that kind of a junket is a dubious use of taxpayer money.
Posted by: optional | Aug 6 2005 19:05 utc | 12
Well, Cindy Sheehan got some coverage today. Yo can read about at Yahoo.
Posted by: janeboatler | Aug 7 2005 0:31 utc | 13
Sorry about the typos, but I was trying to get the link right. I did manage to do that.
Posted by: janeboatler | Aug 7 2005 0:32 utc | 14
Cindy Sheehan is the real hero. Her son and 1800+ others died for want of a real commander in chief, one who would honestly look at the facts, honestly hear all views, and have the intellect to come to an honest conclusion.
Posted by: mpower1952 | Aug 7 2005 1:45 utc | 15
Wouldn’t it be a good thing to invite Cindy Sheehan into the ranch house and shower her with kindness? You’d think he could, at least, do that.
Posted by: janeboatler | Aug 7 2005 4:27 utc | 16
That was absolutely delightful. It made my Monday morning. Thank you, Billmon, I’m in such a better mood now.
Posted by: Rob C | Aug 8 2005 13:32 utc | 17
Collage is best done by the underground, and Billmon isn’t the establishment. I agree, go ahead and attach Novak’s hungry head to dead bodies. Now that I think about it, it’s unsettling.
In a Futurama show I saw Nixon’s head taking over Bender’s body. That was unsettling seeing a dead president walking.
Posted by: christo | Aug 11 2005 11:26 utc | 18
Has Novak written a column about his CNN affrontation? I haven’t followed it live from American tv so don’t know what the other princes say. In boolian loops will O’Reilly walk off his show when he’s about to insult his last stated position?
I’m sorry about the boolian loop. It’s supposed to be the loop that a fighter pilot is suppose to make about observing, acting, reacting. It’s supposed to be the tool that Rove uses for his constant disinformation campaign we’re all enjoying. It’s part of the right wing personnel’s love of all things miliary a tactic to use not in combat but in pr. What’s the right name of the loop?
Posted by: christo | Aug 11 2005 11:33 utc | 19