In Brief - March 28th, 2007

Here is today's quick news digest:

• Here's John McKay on the suggestion he be given his job back as a United States Attorney with the Department of Justice: Thanks but no thanks.
• Sam Fox's nomination to be ambassador to Belgium withdrawn. The swift boat scum is thankfully gone. And hey, Belgium is next door to France.
• Former Gonzales aid Kyle Sampson tries to defend attorney firings in advance of his testimony tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And the hearing is being aired live on C-SPAN 8, the "ocho." (Actually it's on C-SPAN 3, which at last count is available in tens of American households.)
• John McCain's campaign learns a lesson about the internet pipes, thanks to a Seattle business.
• Put me on TV or I'll beat you up. The rough and tumble world of a Fox TV cameraman in The Couv.

Finally, it turns out that the two Iraqi bloggers quoted by George W. Bush as proof that things are improving in Iraq actually wrote those words three weeks ago - in The Wall Street Journal.

From Editor and Publisher columnist Greg Mitchell:

Only hours later did the White House reveal that the bloggers were brothers, Mohammed and Omar Fadhil, and these supposedly little-known average Joes had met Bush in the Oval Office in 2004. They are dentists and write an English-language blog from Baghdad called IraqTheModel.com, also available via Pajamas Media.

The White House admitted that Bush had plundered the lines from an op-ed that the brothers wrote for The Wall Street Journal way back on March 5. The White House couldn't even get the date right, as it turned out it actually appeared on March 7.

The noise machine is starting to sputter quite badly. You kind of wonder how reporters can keep from bursting into laughter when Bush Republicans open their mouths. Most things about this administration have had an absurd, surreal quality about them, and it never stops.

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