The Nightmare Before Fitzmas
In this wonderful parody of the classic children's poem, we see what is happening the day before the grand jury is set to expire.
For those Candians who may not be following things, Patrick Fitzgerald is the special prosecuter appointed to investigate the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by columnist Robert Novak. After a two year investigation and interviews with several high Bush administration officials (including Bush and Cheney), conventional wisdom is that Cheney's chief of staff I. "Scooter" Libby and top Bush advisor Karl Rove are prime targets. Tomorrow (Friday, October 28), the grand jury is set to expire and so Fitzgerald must name any he intends to indict. Some on the left have dubbed this day "Fitzmas."
There are plenty of in jokes in the comic. I'll explain them in comments so as not to give anything away.
Classified under: politics, Valerie Plame
For those Candians who may not be following things, Patrick Fitzgerald is the special prosecuter appointed to investigate the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by columnist Robert Novak. After a two year investigation and interviews with several high Bush administration officials (including Bush and Cheney), conventional wisdom is that Cheney's chief of staff I. "Scooter" Libby and top Bush advisor Karl Rove are prime targets. Tomorrow (Friday, October 28), the grand jury is set to expire and so Fitzgerald must name any he intends to indict. Some on the left have dubbed this day "Fitzmas."
There are plenty of in jokes in the comic. I'll explain them in comments so as not to give anything away.
Classified under: politics, Valerie Plame
posted by Davíd at
6:44 PM
2 Comments:
"Freedom Pundit", the guy it stars is meant to be a typical right-wing blogger. Obviously, they aren't all overweight diaper-wearing freaks living in their mother's basement, but this is satire. I actually believe calling him "Glenn" implies that he is Glenn Reynolds of instapundit.com
The "Would soon be imprisoned like a WWII Jap" of course refers to the American internment of Japanese during world war 2. What you may not know is that the woman in the bottom right of the picture is Michelle Malkin. She is a right-wing pundit and of Filipino origin and has written a book arguing that such internment was a good thing.
The sparkle ponies are an in-joke reference to how giddy big indictments would make liberals. Like how the thing young girls most want in the entire world is a sparkling pony, liberals want the indictments.
Vince Foster was a friend of the Clinton's who all investigations found to commit suicide, but some conservatives were convinced that the Clinton's were involved in a nefarious plot that led to his murder.
Harriet Miers is Bush's recent supreme court nominee (now withdrawn) whom all conservatives hate, ostensibly for lack of experience, but likely because she has not proved she is conservative enough.
Robert Bork was a Reagan adminstration nominee to the supreme court who was not confirmed due to his extreme views.
Ahmad Chalabi was the self-proclaimed leader of Iraq in exile before the war and fed intelligence (much of which is now found to be false) to the US about what was going on in Iraq (a lot of that about WMD was based on his word alone).
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Davíd, at October 27, 2005 7:06 PM
Your kung fu is strong. I bow to the master.
By
Rob, at October 27, 2005 9:49 PM
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