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The Beads of Sweat

February 13, 2007 |

My secret time wasting activity is that I am a Plameomaniac. The first step is to admit the problem, the second will be Scooter’s acquittal, the third will be assorted American lefties’ heads doing the IED thing.

At the indispensable Just One Minute (and don’t event think of trying to catch up) we can see what real citizen journalism is about:

The NBC lawyer was sitting in the front row (Prosecution side), where he had been seated last week during Russert’s testimony. However, after that business was taken care of and before Pincus was brought into the courtroom, he moved to the far back row in the courtroom. I could see when he made notes and when he received incoming messages on his blackberry. There was a part in Pincus’s testimony which was of keen interest to the NBC lawyer. It was when Pincus testified that on Saturday, July 12, while at his WaPo office writing up his article about Niger and WMD he received a call from a government official asking him “Why do you keep writing about Wilson?” Defense asked “Who was the government official?” Pincus replied “Ari Fletcher” at which point the NBC lawyer whipped out his blackberry and typed away. This was the first time he used his blackberry and then subsequently received incoming messages intermittently from this point forward in the trial until the break. I didn’t copy down all the times he wrote down notes, but here are the ones I recorded: a) When Pincus talked about Rice’s appearance on June 8, 2003 MTP; b) when Defense wrote down on the easel the specific words Ari used with Pincus; c) when Pincus talked about his Sept 2004 subpoena and whether Ari had given him a waiver. just one minute

Where MSM would go with the fact that Libby’s counsel is destroying Fitz, a fearless citizen is reporting the NBC lawyer’s Blackberry use.

There was a moment back in the 80’s when it looked like the ability to write history would be lost because everything was being done by phone. No more. Now we have direct observation recorded at a level of detail unprecedented in human experience. And published to the world.

Astonishing.


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