I am not making this up. I am surprised that the ML didn’t post this sooner

Its from the BBC no less.

back to the trenches

Ok
I know your job is the Propaganda Minister, but could you actually read the links I post instead of skimming them for what you want to get out of them?
Here is the quote of the link you reposted

Editor Mark Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Muslim holy book down the toilet.

The editor ****inaccurately reported****!!!! No US investigator ever confirmed that the Koran had been flushed! THAT IS THE INACCURATE PART!

Hey Geography boy! This story is relating to Guantanamo Bay IN CUBA. NOT Abu Ghraib. RTFP!
thats- read the fucking post.

Are you saying the Right needs lessons from the Left in responsible Blogging?

Dude, if you are serious with your accusations about over the top right wing blogs and news sources, please don’t back up your claims with posts from Salon, Truthout, and Daily Kos!

You are better than that, i know you are.

back to the trenches

According to the Foreign Minister’s own link, Newsweek got the story from a government source and then checked the story with the Pentagon, which did not refute the allegations until after the story was published. Based on the fact that the Pentagon last year had to investigate the possiblity that guards at Abu Ghraib (not Guantanamo Bay, granted, but the Foreign Minister seems to be having a little problem with the geography himself) were sticking broomsticks up detainee’s asses, I can understand why the Koran-flushing story sounded credible to Newsweek.

Now the White House wants as retraction from Newsweek, and the conservative blogosphere is all up in arms. Let me remind everyone that we’re talking about an administration that intentionally manipulated intelligence to manufacture an acceptible reason for a pre-determined war. Furthermore, this administration is guilty of consistent and wide-ranging press manipulation that indicates an intentional disregard for open government and political dissent. Did everyone just forget about the credentialing of online male prostitute Jeff Gannon? Or the leaking of Ms. Plame’s CIA identity? The White House wants to hold the moral high ground because the Newsweek story caused riots in Afghanistan? How about a war where the U.S. fatalities total 1,622 and are still rising? If Bush gets a retraction, I want a goddamn impeachment.

Yes, I would like for news organizations to always get the story right. An open, free and accurate press is a cornerstone of representative democracy. But the hypocrisy of this administration and the people who support them — particularly in the conservative blogosphere — is unfuckingbelievable.

Bush: worst president ever.

Believe.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has wanted to comment on so much today. But he has been innundated with spam. It seems a Grman-language spammer has discovered the nakedvillainy domain and decided to try just about every possible name immaginable in front of the - at - sign to send a message to.

So far since last night around 1:35am your Maximum Leader has received over 18,000 e-mailed messages.

Yes, that number is correct. Eighteen Thousand.

Up to this point your Maximum Leader had designated one of the addresses on the nakedvillainy domain as a “catch all” account. So, if someone couldn’t remember to send a message to “maximumleader” - at - nakedvillainy - dot - com it would still wind up getting to your Maximum Leader. Well, that catch all account forwarded ever trial spam balloon to is regular e-mail account.

It also took your Maximum Leader about 3 hours to remember he had a “catch all” account and turn it off.

So, if on the off chance you sent your Maximum Leader an e-mail in the past 24 hours, it is likely that he hasn’t found it or read it. He is actually reviewing the sender/subject lines of all the e-mails to avoid deleting messages he might want to read. But it might take him a while.

Just looked at e-mail account again. Overlooked a few messages… Spam count approached 20,000 messages before pipe was closed. (19,416 to be exact. Ick.)

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was very pleased to read about todays Supreme Court Ruling in which the high court struck down various state bans prohibiting direct to out-of-state-consumer wine sales.

Your Maximum Leader has followed this case for many years in fact. You may be saying, “Sure you have. Gone ’round the bend too lately?” Well actually, he’s been following this case because Juanita Swedenburg is a client of the Institute for Justice. And your Maximum Leader has made it a point to give some of his disposable income to the IOJ for a number of years now. It is very exciting to see what a motivated band of “merry litigators” can do to protect individual liberties and Constitutional protections.

To celebrate, your Maximum Leader might just order some wine from some New York or California vintners he’s had in the past.

They will taste just a bit sweeter… Even though your Maximum Leader prefers his wine on the dry side. (And even a bit acidic.)

Carry on.

What the hell were they thinking?
Newsweek is now admitting that the may have “got the story wrong” about the Koran being flushed down the toilet to traumatize the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

“We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst”

Hasn’t the unbiased press learned ANYTHING in the last 12 months??? From bogus fitness reports on the President to Reports pretending to being “at the front” doesn’t anyone check their sources anymore?

I mean, I know that the left benefits from making Iraq look bad but, honestly, do you have to make stuff up?

Geeeshhhh

Back to the Trenches

Breathing a sigh of relief, I see that the effort to ban suggestive cheerleading routines in Texas has stalled. Apparently the Texas Senate Education Committee has more pressing business. Go figure.

For more commentary on the topic, please click here.

Believe.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader just finished Victor Davis Hanson’s latest on NRO. You really need to read it.

Victor Davis Hanson on World War II Revisionism on National Review Online

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that Pope Benedict XVI has put John Paul II on the fast track to sainthood.

Whew! That is quick. Without trying to be disrepectful… The body is hardly cold in the ground.

Anyhow… There needs to be a miracle attributed to prayer for John Paul’s intercession before he can be beatified. Generally the miracle needed is one of a medical condition that is healed without doctors being able to explain the cure.

Your Maximum Leader will begin praying for the Smallholder to be less squishy and more conservative. If that miracle occurs, he will start working on the Minister of Propaganda…

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader re-upped yesterday. Re-upped what you might ask? Re-upped his membership in the NRA. He’s now good for another 5 years. One of these days he’ll go and become a Life Member. But now is not the time.

Yes. Your Maximum Leader is a very proud NRA member. Indeed, your Maximum Leader believes that the NRA is one of just a handful of organizations that really care about the protection and expansion of individual liberty. It is a fine organization.

He celebrated this glorious event by going out to the range and blowing through a box of 9mm ammo. 9mm what you might ask? Well, your Maximum Leader owns a little 9mm Makarov pistol. Not a Chinese one. (Heaven forfend!) Not a Russian one either. (Although a Russian one would have been okay.) No. His is an East German model. Your Maximum Leader would be happy to photograph is pistol, but he forgot. So if you need some sort of visual aid, here you go.

Your Maximum Leader loves that little underpowered pistol. It is the only semi-automatic pistol he owns. It is likely going to be one of two semi-automatic pistols he owns. (The other being a nice Colt 1911 model. Which he will buy. Someday.)

When your Maximum Leader purchased his Makarov, it came in a box with lots of papers. He eventually found someone who read/spoke more than conversational German and discovered that his pistol had actually been issued to an East German Stasi officer. It was issued to him new in 1960-something and remained in his posession until his retirement in 1980-something. So the pistol has a little bit of (tolalitarian oppressive) history to it.

On the whole, your Maximum Leader is a revolver man. He owns a few. He owns a British Webley revolver from WWII. (38 cal - not .455.) He would like to acquire a .455 Webley at some point. He also owned a S&W .357 for a while. But eventually he sold it to a friend. His favourite revolver is his .45 Vaquero. Damn, does your Maximum Leader love that gun. It feels right in his hand. It looks good. It shoots wonderfully. It is easy to care for. It is everything you look for in a handgun.

Alas, the cylinder doesn’t seem to rotate as cleanly as it has for years. Your Maximum Leader doesn’t believe it is due to wear. He’s looked over the gun and can’t see anything wrong with it. So, he is going to pack it up and send it up to the good people at Ruger to take a look at it. Your Maximum Leader, while competent at basic gun care, is not a gunsmith. So he doesn’t care to go screwing around with his guns and possibly do something stupid to mess it up or render it unsafe.

Anyway… The trip to the range was fun. It felt good to shoot up the paper targets and smell a little powder in the air. But the outing did demonstrate to your Maximum Leader that he needs to go to the range more often. He wasn’t as good a shot as he once was. Practice is needed. Perhaps your Maximum Leader will resolve to go to the range regularly. (Since he does it very irregularly now.) It would be a good thing to do.

Carry on.

If you need help recognizing him, this should help (safe for work, I promise).

Believe.

UPDATE FROM YOUR MAXIMUM LEADER: Ack! My eyes! They burn?

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is now paranoid for his oak trees after reading an article on the news wire. Here is the article: Officials Fear Spread of Oak Disease.

Some new people moved in near the Villainschloss and planted some new ornamental trees and bushes. Now he worries that they were carriers of the viral spores that could infect your Maximum Leader’s oaks.

Your Maximum Leader hopes they are able to contain any outbreaks on the East Coast.

Your Maximum Leader still mourns the American Chestnut. He hopes that various projects to breed a blight resistant American Chestnut work out and we can replant forests of Chestnuts.

Carry on.

Go here. I’ll let you folks figure out which one is me.

UPDATE FROM YOUR MAXIMUM LEADER: Ack! My eyes! They BURN!

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader may never look at a box of Cheese Nips the same way again. Why you may ask? Well just click on through to the lastest installment of the The Hatemonger’s Quarterly and you’ll learn why.

And if you aren’t reading the HMQ every day… Well you are missing out.

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees on the news wire that Edward Cox (Richard Nixon’s son-in-law) is planning to take on Hillary Clinton in the New York state Senate race next year.

That could be a fun one.

Your Maximum Leader doesn’t suppose that there is any chance of Howard Dean and the Democratic party endorsing Gloria Mattera. Of course it is possible Dean would throw party support behind Jason T. Becker.

If Dean were really daring he would have the Democrats endorse Antonia Novello.

Carry on.