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You probably know that we at Agitprop have been somewhat obsessed with L'Affaire Vitter.  Really really obsessed.  No.  Really.

Much of the fun has come from a NOLA-based blog - Your Right Hand Thief.  Today, Oyster blogs about yet another bit of news that could at last sink David Vitter:

My memory about the events in 2002 [Vitter's withdrawal from the governor's race] was jogged while reviewing James Gill's T-P column from 7/11, which discusses how Vitter's enemies are enjoying his current discomfort. One of those enemies is Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee:

Lee has been waiting for this moment for years, and has indeed more than once threatened to reveal dark secrets about Vitter, although never following through. Lee pulled back at the last minute, for instance, after threatening to expose Vitter for nameless sins when he first ran for Bob Livingston's old U.S. House seat in 1999.

Didn't Harry Lee also threaten to "reveal dark secrets about Vitter" again in 2002? If memory serves, didn't Lee either schedule or threaten to schedule a press conference in May of 2002, just prior to Vitter's announcement that he would "put family first" and opt out of the Governor's race? Like the calls from Hustler and Time magazine, did Sheriff Lee have something to do with Vitter's decision in 2002? Actual reporting and commentary on this is scant, so please feel free to send any confirmations or refutations about this recollection in the comments or to YRHT contact email.

Agitprop suggests you make Your Right Hand Thief a daily stop.

photo: Wendy Vitter chastises reporters for reporting on her husband's extramarital activities.

EXTRA:  Allegedly Wendy Cortez Yow (alleged Vitter hooker):

 

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Give It Back Pat ...

Your Tax Dollars Helping Pat Help Himself!

Think Progress links to a Carpetbagger report on Pat "Bring Me the Head of Hugo Chavez" Robertson. It appears that not only might Pat's "charity," Operation Blessing, have used government largesse to fund his diamond mining, that largesse has increased from $108,000 to $14.4 million per year under Bu$hCo.

Excuse me? Our tax dollars helping Pat (and pal Mobutu Sese Seko) mine diamonds and call for the death of Hugo Chavez and the destruction of Dover, PA? No no no no no! Write to Pat and tell him to pray that someone or something will cause him to give the money to Katrina victims. We did!

tags: pat robertson operation blessing george bush religious right hurricane katrina

A Bit O' Sunday Blogrollin'

What should you read today? Well, if there's nothing new at Agitprop (and trust us, there's not), you should read:

Fafblog, wherein the Medium Lobster saves the Democrat party ... again;

Shakespeare's Sister, wherein she redesigns her blog ... again;

Lily, wherein she dissects Bu$hCo recess appointees ... again;

The General, wherein he plumbs the depths of support for the Dear Leader even as the same Dear Leader kills kitten with a hammer ... yet again; and

Neil Shakespeare muses on Our Fair City back when we had the Twin Towers.

photo of Central Park tree (now deceased) by blogenfreude

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Just watch it. Click here. I see this sort of thing and wonder why I bother to blog.

tags: iraq war on terror impeach bush george bush

The Blair Watch Project

Surf on Over ...

So bloggers, if you had a chance to publish the Bush/Blair "Let's Bomb al-Jaazera!" memo, would you do it? You might just get that chance. After surfing over to the excellent BlairWatch (via Don't Bomb Us, al-Jaazera's latest production), blogenfreude signed up to publish the memo (click here to do the same) if called upon to do so.

So will all of us that publish in the U.S. get sent to Guantanamo? Only the Dear Leader knows for sure ...

tags: war on terror george bush tony blair iraq al jazeera impeach bush impeach blair guantanamo

NERDS !!!

Are you a nerd? Do you know who the man pictured on the left is? Have you ever built a computer? Do you think Cate Blanchett hasn't been hot since she took off the Spock ears she wore in the LoTR trilogy? Virtual Pus links to a questionnaire revealing just how nerdy you are. If you care, blogenfreude's nerd score can be found by scrolling down and looking on the right side of the page.

tags: cate blanchett nerds

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We Web Browse So You Don't Have To

Middle of the week, Bu$hCo still lying up a storm (and using chemical weapons to boot) ... what's a member of the Fifth Column to read? Here you go:

Pusillanimous Wankers has a list of 237 lies told by the Bush Administration.

Majikthise links to the "best online quiz ever" at Feministe. And Commandante Agi has links to a few more quizzes of interest.

Raw Story links to a WaPo piece concluding that, oops, Cheney's energy task force got input from oil companies after all (despite industry denials as recently as last week).

At Shakespeare's Sister, you can add to somewaterytart's list of facts about Dick Cheney, and read about why Bob Woodward is a fuckwit. FireDogLake has its own analysis of Woodward.

The Dear Leader saber-rattled at our second-largest creditor after Japan, China, saying among other things that "the people of China want more freedom to express themselves to worship without state control and to print Bibles and other sacred texts without fear of punishment."

The U.S. denied using chemical weapons (white phosphorus) on civilians, even as Italian TV showed proof that it did, before it admitted using them, but then said on BBC 4 that white phosphorus, which liquifies your skin, isn't a chemical weapon and wasn't used against civilians. The Heretik has much more.

Ignorant Hussy lists French products you can buy now to irritate Bill O'Reilly.

thanks to Neil Shakespeare for graphic
tags: dick cheney george bush white phosphorus george bush bill o'reilly france