In The Army Now!

(Updated below...Updated Again)

Watch out liberal newswires, here comes the Malkin, to, like, let truth prevail.

I spoke with Jordan by phone before Christmas to learn more details of his offer, which I'm not going to get into for privacy and security reasons. (He asked that his discussion be off the record.) I let him know that I had received invitations to embed with the military and planned to follow up on some of these offers concurrently with the investigation of the AP's reporting. Since our conversation, things have moved at a fast pace on the embed side. Over the holidays, my Hot Air colleague Bryan Preston and I received word that our embed applications had been approved. We have been busy preparing our families and ourselves for the journey. Our overarching goals are two-fold:

1) to report on how the troops perceive mainstream media coverage of the war (with a particular focus on the wire services relying on local stringers); and

2) to report on progress and interaction between U.S. troops and Iraqi Army trainees.

The "Jamil Hussein" story is one important item on our agenda, but not the only one. As Curt and other bloggers on this story have noted from the beginning, Jamilgate isn't just about "Jamil Hussein." Bryan and I plan to do as much on-the-ground reporting as we can to nail down unresolved questions--not only about Jamil Hussein and the Hurriya six burning Sunnis allegations, but also about the AP four burning mosque story discrepancies and the many other AP sources that our military has publicly challenged--including "Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq" and more than a dozen police officers listed by U.S. military spokesman Navy Lt. Michael Dean. There's also the issue of detained AP photographer Bilal Hussein. And we are looking forward to reporting first-hand on the security situation in Iraq outside the so-called "Green Zone" (International Zone) and talking to as many American and Iraqi Army troops with insights on these and other broader matters.

Please, Malkin, enlighten us with your fair and unbiased reporting.

UPDATE1: 12:11 PM

Jamil Hussein has won the first Battle of Fakraq as he stuns the Malkin Brigade by announcing his existence!

UPDATE2: 9:11 PM

Oooopsie, it looks like Jamil Hussein is really, really real.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.

Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press.

But still, Malkin will be on the scene to convince us that Iraq is really a happy place with prancing bunnies and, like, sand creatures that frolic in the dunes. You know, nothing like the war zone that the liberal media would have us believe it is.


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Morning Roundup

Ahhh, the drunkenness of New Years is over, and it’s time to start full time blogging again.


The funniest news of the day - Judge Blahblahtano on Fox and Friends totally just said “Ghost Ride The Whip”. What a honkey.

In what has to be the most.disgusting.visual.image.ever, The Rude Pundit takes on Nutterdamus.

A couple of nights ago, Robertson celebrated the new year by opening his sticky Bible to the less worn New Testament and yanking his meat to the Gospel of John, the crucifixion scene, his mind a miasma of images from the words of the ancients and the film of the Gibson, Christ's pain and screaming giving him something not unakin to a full erection, his cock like a spitting camel at the end. And God spoke to him, and God told him a horrible thing, but something that, to his mind, was just an inevitability, like the nailing of the Son of God.

Are we all puking are cuts out, yet?

• Yesterday, ABC reported on a report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists, which shows how ExxonMobil has attempted to confuse the American public on the issue of Global Warming, basically by funding Global Warming naysayer, making it appear to the public that there is some sort of scientific debate about Global Warming.

From ABC News -

Jan. 3, 2007 — A new report details what it calls an "enormously successful" disinformation campaign by ExxonMobil that used tobacco-industry tactics to fund groups who cast doubts and deceive the public on the scientific consensus regarding global warming.

The report was released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Massachusetts.

Anybody with half a brain already knew this, and it’s not at all surprising, seeing as ExxonMobil’s livelihood is threatened by Global Warming, but the biggest question still remains, why are others on the Right embracing this idea that Global Warming isn’t real? The only thing I can think of is that they got scooped by the Left on this issue, and we all know that their Party loyalty will never allow them to admit that they were wrong and the other side was right.

I certainly hope that isn’t the reason, but it’s the only thing left that I can possibly think of.

Other Bloggers: Floating Ark•Blue Climate•Dude, Where‘s My Enlightenment?

• Living in Metro Detroit, it’s sometimes hard to realize that there are crazy gay haters everywhere, including my own state, who are so unbelievably insane, they think that simply supporting a high school gay/straight alliance club means you are from teh S@t@n.

From The Bay Area Report -

One day a girl from the middle school came in, and Yale mentioned to her how she hadn't seen her or her friends in a while.

"She said, 'So and so's mom said she couldn't come in here again.' We assumed she was grounded," recalled Yale. But the girl's friend told Yale that "her mom said you guys have the gay store and she can't come in here."

Yale's sin, at least to her neighbors, was sponsoring the homecoming parade float built by the GSA. Her tacit acceptance had provoked a backlash. The community was reportedly shunning her business.

After the parade in late September, sales at her small store plummeted. Many of her shoppers' parents, upset at her decision to sponsor the GSA float, no longer allowed their children to come in to the shop, said Yale.

"All summer long we had so many kids in here it wasn't funny. We would have to kind of limit how many kids could come in at once," said Yale of the store she opened just before Christmas in 2005. "Now if we get 10 kids in a week we are doing good. We'll probably have to close."

There is still so much bigotry out there. Michigan is a funny state, with its liberal Detroit area and its whacky conservative “backwoods”, but still I’m shocked to see this going on in my own state. There’s an entire city that needs to take a step back and look at its own actions, and realize that they are part of the problem, not the solution.



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