Hammerdammerung. That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
The friendly face of the Department of Homeland Security.
TPMmuckraker.com’s got the Brian Doyle mugshot.
TPM Reader PJ has a question: “House Republicans are pushing a resolution to praise the Capital police who arrested Rep. Cynthia McKinney — I wonder if they will be as quick to praise the cops who busted Doyle?”
Hmmm. This guy may have a point. Is it a ‘riot’ or a ‘protest’ depending on the ethnicity of the rioters, ahem, protestors?
The best catch may be this lede from the NYT …
A routine traffic stop of a 75-year-old Hasidic driver in Brooklyn escalated into a protest last night by hundreds of Orthodox Jews, who surrounded a police station house, chanted “No justice no peace,” lighted bonfires and set a police car afire. The driver and two other men were arrested, but no serious injuries were reported.
“Escalated into a protest”? That combination of diction and grammar seems a tad strained, doesn’t it?
Sorta like, ‘What started as a minor infection spiralled into a full-blown inconvenience.’
And once you set a police car on fire, isn’t that a riot?
Thoughts?
Okay, I think outgoing Capitol Police Chief Terrence Gainer is the voice of reason on this Cynthia McKinney issue.
Said Gainer, who used to be the assistant chief of police (can’t remember his exact title) in DC: “He reached out and grabbed her and she turned around and hit him. Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, ‘I’m a congressman’ and then everybody moves on.”
I said before that I think that putting out an arrest warrant for this is a bad idea. Simple discretion, counsels against it. I guess I can’t blame Republicans for trying to politicize it since the only other thing for them to talk about is that a bunch of them are going to prison and they’ve been led by a crook for the better part of a decade.
But if he called out to her, she should have stopped and identified herself. If he grabbed her arm, same thing. This isn’t a cause celebre anyone should want to embrace. At best it was an unfortunate misunderstanding and a heat of the moment reaction. But it should never have happened. She should wear the pin and stop if a capitol cop doesn’t recognize her.
Tom DeLay: “This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney”
Has new media finally arrived?
Not sure about that, but this one really got a chuckle out of everyone at TPM world headquarters.
This is a clip from the front page of the CNN website. Can anyone identify that odd logo on the upper right hand portion of Brian Doyle’s mug shot?
Guess they went to the source?
Late Update: TPMmuckraker.com, which published the picture, actually already has a motto/tagline. But now we’re consdering changing it to “TPMmuckraker.com — Where CNN Goes to Get the News!”
Catchy?
Even Later Update: Okay, CNN has now gotten a clean mug shot, shorn of the TPM Media logo, up on their front page. But, psst, don’t tell anyone but you can still see our logo on the story page.
Going as Late as We Need to Go Update: It all actually reminds me a bit of Bert’s work with bin Laden.
Yep, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) is as rancid and despicable as they come. See the details.
Just out from the New York Sun …
A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded “National Intelligence Estimate” on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush, according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case.
The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter.
Read the rest here.