WB: Entertainment News Tonight

June 9, 2006

Billmon:

Network sources say the Pentagon Channel is weighing a possible sequel to the Abu Zarqawi Hour, featuring an identical plot but a completely different cast. The network and Zarqawi have permanently severed their relationship, these sources added, due to "irreconcilable creative differences."

Pentagon Channel officials declined to respond to questions about a possible sequel, saying only that "all options are under consideration. Things related and not."

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Posted by b on June 9, 2006 at 04:10 UTC | Permalink

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!!!!!!!! fantastic

Posted by: annie | Jun 9 2006 4:45 utc | 1

Zarqawi was framed!

Posted by: R.L. | Jun 9 2006 6:07 utc | 2

Annie, you didn’t use enough exclamation marks and “fantasic” is almost too mild an adjective.
Reading it was such a fantastic (can’t think of a better adjective myself!)antidote to the rage and bile I built up y’day listening to the Danish Foreign Secretary, and then that Bush fellow, prim and preen and ejaculate over this great blow to our eternal enemy.
By the way, Lurch over at Main and Central didn’t do so bad, but Bilmon simply blows everybody out of the water
Rgrds

Posted by: Chuck Cliff | Jun 9 2006 6:17 utc | 3

sorry chuck, adjectives aren’t my specialty(neither are verbs and nouns). i read the post a few times laughing out load w/relief and ohyeahness. i’ll try again
!phenomenally realistic

Posted by: annie | Jun 9 2006 6:48 utc | 4

Now that Zarqawi is in Syndication Heaven, do you he’ll be picked up by Fox?

Posted by: Night Owl | Jun 9 2006 8:45 utc | 5

‘So now that the Demiurge of International Terrorism is dead and most of his assistant devils killed, captured or scattered, isn’t this an opportune time to declare “Victory in Iraq” and pull out?’
If I had any influence in the anti-war movement, I would put the question front-and-center right now.

Posted by: heatkernel | Jun 9 2006 11:09 utc | 6

Sorry, Abe. Fooling some of the people all the time seems to be enough to hold power.

Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 9 2006 12:23 utc | 7

From CANNONFIRE:
Lieutenant Kije must die.

Posted by: beq | Jun 9 2006 14:14 utc | 8

That raging liberal, Paul Craig Roberts
The only reason Americans can look themselves in the mirror is that they are clueless and have little idea of what is being done in their name. One-third of the U.S. population actually believes that Iraq was behind 9/11 and that Bush found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Apparently, a large percentage of the U.S. population believes that Iran has nuclear weapons and that America is in danger of being attacked by Iran. No democracy can work when people take their responsibility as citizens so lightly as to be totally ignorant.
Formerly conservative, now proto-Nazi, publications such as National Review and the Wall Street Journal editorial page keep pounding the war drums, as does right-wing talk radio and neocon propaganda organs such as the Weekly Standard and Fox “News.” The few facts that emerge in the interstices of the war propaganda are quickly spun away.
He even links to those funny Halliburton camps for dissidents, that Gonzales thought was not unreasonable.
just because you’re paranoid, that doesn’t mean your wrong…
(and, hey, Uncca, I have no problem with Truthout. I met Will Pitt a few years ago and he’s trying to fight the good fight.)
I think I’m gonna change my name to Madame Cleo, except I was right when I told the Bushistas they would be guilty of war crimes if they invaded Iraq. They already have my four-one-one, so I guess I’m free to speak…the damage is already done.
The only thing that is going to stop the current progress toward further mess is peaceful sit ins…and the sacrifices that will entail…in Washington. Our local vigils, etc. do not have the impact that a national presence would…and it would. We cannot expect that this administration will not shoot to kill its own citizens…that’s the precedent anyway, starting with the bonus army sit ins and that loveable McArthur.
who has the organizational power to pull this off other than ANSWER…because they do not speak for most Americans who are sick of this shit. Maybe the it’s time for another children’s crusade organized via University networks to draw ppl together.
But blogs should be able to coordinate this at this stage, I would think, with all their networks. Rather than meet in Lost Vegas, why aren’t ppl in DC? Or maybe that should be one of the organizing principles for the bravest soul at the kosfest.

Posted by: fauxreal | Jun 9 2006 15:06 utc | 9

More on programming choices, from the Atlantic article

During my time in Jordan, I asked a number of officials what they considered to be the most curious aspect of the relationship between the U.S. and al-Zarqawi, other than the fact that the Bush administration had inflated him.
One of them said, “The six times you could have killed Zarqawi, and you didn’t.”
When Powell addressed the United Nations, he discussed the Ansar al-Islam camp near Khurmal, in northern Kurdistan, which he claimed was producing ricin and where al-Zarqawi was then based. On at least three occasions, between mid-2002 and the invasion of Iraq the following March, the Pentagon presented plans to the White House to destroy the Khurmal camp, according to a report published by TheWall Street Journal in October 2004. The White House either declined or simply ignored the request.
More recently, three times during the past year, the Jordanian intelligence service, which has a close liaison relationship with the CIA, provided the United States with information on al-Zarqawi’s whereabouts—first in Mosul, then in Ramadi. Each time, the Americans arrived too late.

Posted by: small coke | Jun 9 2006 20:16 utc | 10

That trophy, puffed and bruised head shot of supposedly Al Zarqawi that CNN is showing every two minutes all day long looks more like a Mussolini style assassination than the result of a blast that would completely destroy a reenforced concrete building. What gives??
My guess is that a bounty hunter did him in and presented him to the US military to collect the 25 million on his ‘head’. The attack on the ‘safe house’ where others where killed and presumably blown to smithereens was unnecessary and was staged for no other reason but to divert attention away from (as Billmon seems to suggest) atrocities committed by Americans.
Sorry, I just don’t believe anything I hear from the Bushites or the US military anymore.
.02

Posted by: pb | Jun 9 2006 20:20 utc | 11

is it std practice for the military to display their kills in such fancy frames? wtf? is it going directly from the press conference onto a wall in some secret room in the white house or dubya’s ranch prop? unreal.

Posted by: b real | Jun 9 2006 21:10 utc | 12

Cheap frames. dubya’s style.

Posted by: beq | Jun 9 2006 23:28 utc | 13

faux news is trying to steal billmon’s thunder. this is the kind of shit you can’t make up.
GIBSON: You know, we talked about it a minute ago before we went on the air. Out in Las Vegas, the far-left-wing Daily Kos is having its big convention. Every major democratic leader — Howard Dean, Harry Reid, John Kerry — is coming out to speak, and they have been defeated in Southern California, [Brian] Bilbray won.
ROLLINS: Right.
GIBSON: Zarqawi was caught the day their convention opens. This is — the left is demoralized by this.
ROLLINS: Well, they’ll claim it’s a conspiracy theory. That we knew their meeting was going on and that’s why we did it.
GIBSON: Well, they are claiming that. They are claiming at this moment that they were saving Zarqawi to kill at an important moment.
ROLLINS: Well, you know, obviously, that’s not true. And obviously, it makes them unhappy, so be it. It gives them something to talk about. The key thing here, though, is that it does show that our intelligence and our special services are working very well, and that’s what I think is the most positive thing involved.
GIBSON: Republican strategist Ed Rollins. Ed, thanks very much.
ROLLINS: My pleasure.
GIBSON: It’s always good to see you.

Posted by: conchita | Jun 10 2006 0:11 utc | 14

fauxreal, if you are still around – saw your post on OT-49 – i completely agree about the sit ins in dc. we need to take it to them. feel a bit like a broken record here with the ned lamont stuff, but the other night he repeatedly said that we need to go to washington (and hold them accountable). they can ignore the local actions, but they cannot ignore us if we go to dc en masse and refuse to leave. the blogs should be able to pull together. i saw signs of it happening around the alito fight and i think that yearlykos has brought bloggers together will contribute to this effort. it also will not hurt that the politicians are in attendance as well. i think it is just a matter of time. it is such an obvious idea, you and i cannot be the only ones to have come to this conclusion. i too hope someone in vegas is thinking the same way.
also, must say i hope you do not disappear. i value your contributions and would miss reading your posts. very much appreciated your thoughts on OT-49.

Posted by: conchita | Jun 10 2006 0:20 utc | 15

b real
i imagine like all tawdry hoods – bush will place – sd shot – in place of the mirror he now has above his bed – i imagine in his happier moments he imagines himself a zaqarwi – without the wounds – it is clear he likes his passion – without wear & tear – fallling off bicycles is about as hard as its gotten for that sorry excuse for a man
i imagine even his drunks were of a pedestrian kind
one imagines nothing could illuminate his face except a fistfull of fives

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jun 10 2006 0:20 utc | 16

feel a bit like a broken record here with the ned lamont stuff
conchita,
Thank you very much for the info in OT-50. After much research I’ve decided to volunteer for his campaign so I, for one, am always interested in the Ned Lamont stuff 🙂

Posted by: Amurra | Jun 10 2006 13:45 utc | 17

Conchita:
Hannity is already claiming Haditha never happened, or was “staged”. They are already in firm denial about Abu Ghraib. They never mention Gitmo, or that across the US, military facilities and veteran benefit programs are being shut in, in the face of an GWII Black Hole sucking our hard-earned tax money out of every domestic and international nook, including the reconstruction money our President publicly pledged to rebuild the war damage that we deliberately caused, now cancelled by his Republican Congress.
Nothing. Dead air.
Nothing too about the deepening losses in the US economy during the Bush II Reign of Terror, $90B worth of debt created for every $10B of personal income.
I wonder if in some future time, when oil is going for $400 a barrel, and the Middle East all looks like Dubai, and Iraq war memorials are built, like the restoration of Dachau and Buchenwald, what the plaques will say?
“Arbeit Macht Frei?”

Posted by: paris hohoentep | Jun 10 2006 14:20 utc | 18

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