You just knew that it was eventually going to come to this.

The sooner we take back America the better. And I suggest that we all start this coming November. If you are not registered to VOTE you still have time to register in most states, and if you are, make sure you get out there and VOTE!!!! The future of your nation is at stake.

OCU

Can't wait for the rightie spin on this. It will probably be funnier than usual.

Greg is easier to catch than Osama.

For a journalist, not a very well-written article.

Maybe Greg should have went to Saudi Arabia. Seems the Bushites have trouble catching people who go there... like Osama.

It is, however, an interesting advertising piece. Noted that he has a book and a DVD for sale, even was kind enough to let us know where to send the money.

Nice to see that the persecution complex isn't limited to religious fundraising groups.

Maybe we should waterboard him to find out if he's a polygamist too.

Greg should never have pointed out that the NO evacuation plan(Everybody has Their Own Car, So No Problem) was written by incompetents whose only skills were in making fat donations to Bush and the GOP.

Nice to see that the persecution complex isn't limited to religious fundraising groups.

Posted by rightisright at 2006-09-14 03:00 PM

Where have you been for the past several decades? The entire "Conservative Movement" is built upon pathetic, unrealistic feelings of persecution.

I don't recall exactly who, it was either Time or Newsweek. They had an article a few weeks ago about how DHS and local law enforcement has been harrassing anyone taking pictures, and things journalists have been doing to protect themselves.

In a really nice Orwellian touch, most journalists have been getting permission to take pictures beforehand, and carrying around written approval.

"PAPERS!! PLEASE!!"

There ought to be limits to freedom.
-- George W Bush, May 21, 1999

"PAPERS!! PLEASE!!"


Uhhhhhh, I only have a pipe, man.

Homeland Security now reserves the right to read over your shoulder at the library; therefore, the more our agents are forced to read this subversive material, the more likely we can convince them to come in out of the cold.

I love this line.

"For a journalist, not a very well-written article."

C'mon RIR, it was entertaining, witty, scary, provactive.... whats not to like??

And this catch phrase, which I intend to incorporate into my everyday speech....

"Bush's Terror Terriers"

I seriously laughed out loud at that one, great alliteration.


Oorah -- I think I remember something about some guy taping stuff in California, like the golden gate bridge and stuff?? Dunno if thats what you are referring to.. and then another guy in Chicago I think, arrested for doing the same (Sears tower, in Chicago right?). Never heard anything else about either, maybe they are in Guantanamo now =)

Isnt the title a little redundent "Lib Journalist"?

I don't know if that cleared the DORD...

the Department of Redundency Department.

"Isnt the title a little redundent "Lib Journalist"?"

Yeah, that "Lib" Brit Hume.

Or Armstrong Williams.

Or Jonah Goldberg.

Or George Will.

Or Clarence Page.

Or Robert Novak.

Or ...

Hans

I'm sure those human leaches living in that "prison camp" would much rather be somewhere else, so why are they still there over a year after the hurricane?

As to the writer...Boo Hoo. Your fedora with the 3x5 "press" card in the ribbon don't make you immune to laws. If there was a sign quit bitching. If there wasn't then sue for unlawful arrest, if you were even really arrested and aren't promoting your book.

Does anyone check before posting threads? Was he arrested or not? I have yet to find any AMERICAN newspaper covering this so called arrest story.

Posted by crispee_oc at 2006-09-14 04:03 PM

I just created a automated 'Google alert' on this topic and if anything pops-up from a 'legitimate' source in the next week or so, I'll post it.

OCU

"It's been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW's (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere."
Ya think Mr. Palast might have forgotten the thousands of people in FEMA trailers in Punta Gorda Florida...since September 2004!....but since they are mostly white folks....it don't play well on Link TV

Thanks OCU. I did find some stories in some American News outlets. The problem was they all posted the same article. Written by who? GREG PALAST.

Sounds like a Reuters story planting pictures.

Damm liberal media, the turrrists gonna get us now!!

What the F is wrong with people, are you scared of your own shadow?

Boo!!

Went to Democracy Now and did a search for Greg Palast and to my dismay NOTHING about him being arrested, detained, questioned.

Talk about yellow journalism...

Clarence Page? LOL. He's as lib as they come. You have to be thinking of someone else.

Just a lousy article, a pathetic attempt to sell what is probably a lousy book.

Free country, though.

Free country, though.

Posted by rightisright at 2006-09-14 05:41 PM | Reply

Less and less every single day.

Sad. And all RIGHTISRIGHT and OOHRAH can come up with is slamming the article. NOT slamming the actions of OUR government against citizens of the U.S.

Sad. And all RIGHTISRIGHT and OOHRAH can come up with is slamming the article. NOT slamming the actions of OUR government against citizens of the U.S.

Posted by AllAmerican at 2006-09-14 06:32 PM

Maybe because the article is phony.Was he arrested? Has there been charges filed?

I guess you subscribe to any foreign news as fact? Pathetic.

Hmmm..when I was visiting China earlier this, my interpreter warned me that filming "sensitive areas" (his words) might get me arrested or at least my camera confiscated.

...yet another way the US is becoming like China.

And the terrorists have won yet another small victory.

"I guess you subscribe to any foreign news as fact?"

How did you come to the conclusion that it was foreign news?

Your fedora with the 3x5 "press" card in the ribbon don't make you immune to laws.

Posted by 101Chairborne at 2006-09-14 04:21 PM

I belive Matt "I'm Not Gay!!" Drudge is the only person who wears one of those anymore.

Was he arrested?

Was he trespassing on private property when he was arrested?

The guy sounds like an egomanaic. As if getting arrested is the high point of his anti-government life.

I would like to see the arrest report. Or at least an stroy in a more legitimate news source.

That's what I was fixing to ask.

Was he arrested for "filming a refinery"?

Or was he arrested for "Criminal Trespass"?

If the latter, throw his puke, Marxist ass in federal prison.

Maybe he can make a documentary about the "social injustice" and "great inequity" that exists in our nation's prison population.

But from a real neato point of view.

How did you come to the conclusion that it was foreign news?

Posted by dontgetit at 2006-09-14 07:11 PM

Fox News is foreign news.

Shhhh... don't tell the Reich Wingers... it will cause many heads to assplode when they wonder why Cheney prefers to get his news from a non-American corporation.

"Was he arrested?"

Why not read the article and find out.

JSG seems to always include either a Nazi or an anal reference in every post. Strange fetish, that. Kinda like those crazy gay skinheads in Falling Down and Pulp Fiction.

RIR:

I hate having to defend JSG, but it's DKIA who was the anal reference king.

Please...don't make me defend him again. It hurts as much as making me defend Bush. : )

Don't, the article does not say they were arrested. It says a "criminal compaint" was filed against them. Is that an arrest? I don't think so?

The article is extremely confused. Maybe you can explain to us all here what the "criminal complaint" was for and what section of the penal code wad this guy accused of violating.

Awaiting your response.

Please...don't make me defend him again. It hurts as much as making me defend Bush. : )

Posted by Lisa at 2006-09-14 07:57 PM

At least I can string words together into complete sentences, unlike the pretend leader.

Greg Palast is an idiot. There is no prison camp. Thoes people are free to leave and go wherever they please. The US taxpayer does not owe them a new house and new shit to put in it. Hasen't anybody heard of taking care of yourself? Every place you look, there are adds for workers. They even had to import illegals to rebuild the fucking bildings in NO while these poor, lazy people lounged in the "prison camp" wating for another handout. The whole thing just makes my heart bleed.

Can the DHS actually charge people? He doesn't answer that. He doesn't provide the actual charges. He doesn't say what stage they're in. And, so on and so forth.

The "jokes" aren't funny for those of us who don't have all day sift through his garbage trying to find out what actually happened.

sniper.......'right on'

I am sure that some of them feel like they are prisoners here in houston too and really being discriminated against when the fema money runs out...
AFTER A FULL YEAR AND LONGER and they still wont get a job.....and before the bleeding hearts come out....there have been tons of job fairs here where the only people they would talk to were evacuees....it is my understanding that many jobs were never filled...


and back to this subject......

in this day and age, filming refinaries and things like that is a touchy subject
and dont tell me these guys didnt know that......but things like this dont matter when you can get some play against bush with it.....

"For a journalist, not a very well-written article." -RisR

You are correct. It's not full of lies and distortion and self-contradictory nonsense like that of Mr. Snow. It's good that you were able to discern the difference.

Maybe instead of having sympathetic liberals with too much money send in checks to buy a crummy book from a crummy "journalist"--at least what passes for a journalist on the left--they should send some money to New Orleans "Prisoners of W" to rebuild their homes in the lower Ninth Ward, or maybe offer them jobs--in the off chance that there are liberals who are in a position to offer anyone a job.

Nah. What was I thinking.