April 09, 2004

It's a time-zone conspiracy!
Posted by Jon Henke

Silliness....

Rice's testimony is at 9am Eastern today. For what it's worth, I can't imagine why they would have made her testimony so early. It's being carried live but that's pretty early for us on the West Coast, we've gotta be up at 6am to catch it. Don't they want us to see it?

Oooooh.

Yep, the 9/11 Commission interviewed Condoleeza Rice at 9am, so nobody would see it. What a brilliant strategy! I mean, they've just disappeared the whole thing. Did they even mention it on the news last night?

Alternately, it might be due to the fact that the 9/11 commission meetings begin at either 8:30 or 9am, and the first subject testifies at 9 or 9:30am. Here's who they "didn't want us to see" last time....

Tuesday, March 24, 2004
9:30 - 11:00 AM
The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright
Former Secretary of State
Submitted Testimony
...
Wednesday, March 24 2004
9:00 - 10:30 AM
The Honorable George J. Tenet
Director of Central Intelligence
Submitted Testimony
Muhahaha.

And who did those devious scoundrels put on later in the afternoon for maximum exposure?

Tuesday, March 24, 2004
2:00 - 3:30 PM
The Honorable William S. Cohen
Former Secretary of Defense
Submitted Testimony

3:30 - 5:00 PM
The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
Submitted Testimony
...
Wednesday, March 24 2004
1:30 - 4:00 PM
Mr. Richard A. Clarke
Former National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, National Security Council
Submitted Testimony

4:00 - 5:30 PM
The Honorable Richard L. Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State

Please adjust your conspiracy theories accordingly.

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Comments

I lived there for six of the last 12 years and that's Californians for you; it's always all about them.

Posted by: Dodd at April 9, 2004 10:05 AM

So this Ezra Klein person can't get her lazy ass out of bed at 6am. And this is news how?

Posted by: Bill Herbert at April 9, 2004 11:31 AM

I believe that it's his lazy butt, actually. Ezra's all right, though: he got properly indignant over the $10B loan cr*p that the Democratic Senators tried to pull last year...

Posted by: Moe Lane at April 9, 2004 12:33 PM

These people ever heard of a vcr?

Posted by: Jamie at April 9, 2004 09:20 PM

It was 0600 in Arizona, too, yet I was not only awake, but at work.

Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds at April 9, 2004 09:46 PM

Let me guess, this asshat Pandagon is too stupid to know how to program a VCR or Tivo? Perhaps he wants a government grant to hire a flunky to do it for him? Some of these lefty f###nozzles are way beyond satire.

Posted by: John Cunningham at April 9, 2004 11:33 PM