Miscellanea - Get Ready for the Whitewash Edition

Jim Geraghty at the Kerry Spot (pardon me, TKS - about time, Jim!) says the Rather report could be coming out tomorrow. Odds of the report calling Dan Rather a pompous blowhard are exceedingly long (hat tip to Patterico's Pontifications)...

Congratulations to Tim Blair on his new job. He is going to be the Assistant Editor (News) at Australia's Bulletin. Celebrate by reading some of his excellent posts...

Debbie Schlussel on Terrorism's American Gigolo and our Weekly Jackass Number Five...

Not content to let Richard Gere get all of the Jackass attention, Mike Whitney at the Smirking Chimp (guess who that's referring to...) has a doozy of a post. Some highlights:

Every facet of the war in Iraq has been painstakingly dissected like a murder victim at an autopsy. Every facet, except one. The only topic that continues to remain off-limits is race, and the racist theology that drove the country to war...

How different is Bush's Global Democratic Revolution [from slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans]; the melodious sounding euphemism for racial warfare and subjugation? Don't deny it; the evidence is everywhere. The third world has entered Bush's crosshairs and racist ideology is fueling the hysteria...

How many Christians are there in Guantanamo Bay? How many Jews? How many white Christians are there in Abu Ghraib, or in any other of Rumsfeld's numerous gulags stretched out across the planet? Find one for me...just one; and I'll consider an argument to the contrary.

...The plundering of nations and the subsequent destruction of their culture is embraced under the sobriquet of "humanitarian intervention"; a general disclaimer for the racist subjugation of third world countries. History is really nothing more than a faithful chronicle of racist wars. The illusion of "western culture" is only perpetuated by concealing the enormous material wealth that was stolen from vulnerable, people of color. Our "civilization" is grounded on plunder...

If anyone knows where I can get a hard copy of Mike's post, I'm just about out of toilet paper...let's see, at the risk of being placed in one of Rumsfeld's numerous gulags stretched across the planet, Mike has delivered this plea for a good grade from Chomsky...uh, Mr. Whitney? One question, if I may..how many Christians were there among the 9/11 hijackers? How many Jews?...Mr. Whitney?...Sorry, I didn't catch your reply...