Rumsfeld, appearing before a Congressional hearing, compares Germany to Libya and Cuba for not supporting an attack on Iraq.

Carpeicthus supplies us with a transcript from Bill O’Reilly, where he attacks the son of a WTC victim for being unpatriotic, for bringing up the fact that we trained the mujahadeens in Afghanistan, who trained al Quaeda.

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O’REILLY: You are mouthing a far left position that is a marginal position in this society, which you’re entitled to.
GLICK: It’s marginal — right.
O’REILLY: You’re entitled to it, all right, but you’re — you see, even — I’m sure your beliefs are sincere, but what upsets me is I don’t think your father would be approving of this.
GLICK: Well, actually, my father thought that Bush’s presidency was illegitimate.
O’REILLY: Maybe he did, but…
GLICK: I also didn’t think that Bush…
O’REILLY: … I don’t think he’d be equating this country as a terrorist nation as you are.
GLICK: Well, I wasn’t saying that it was necessarily like that.
O’REILLY: Yes, you are. You signed…
GLICK: What I’m saying is…
O’REILLY: … this, and that absolutely said that.
GLICK: … is that in — six months before the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, starting in the Carter administration and continuing and escalating while Bush’s father was head of the CIA, we recruited a hundred thousand radical mujahadeens to combat a democratic government in Afghanistan, the Turaki government.
O’REILLY: All right. I don’t want to…
GLICK: Maybe…
O’REILLY: I don’t want to debate world politics with you.
GLICK: Well, why not? This is about world politics.
O’REILLY: Because, No. 1, I don’t really care what you think.
GLICK: Well, OK.
O’REILLY: You’re — I want to…
GLICK: But you do care because you…
O’REILLY: No, no. Look…
GLICK: The reason why you care is because you evoke 9/11…
O’REILLY: Here’s why I care.
GLICK: … to rationalize…
O’REILLY: Here’s why I care…
GLICK: Let me finish. You evoke 9/11 to rationalize everything from domestic plunder to imperialistic aggression worldwide.
O’REILLY: OK. That’s a bunch…
GLICK: You evoke sympathy with the 9/11 families.
O’REILLY: That’s a bunch of crap. I’ve done more for the 9/11 families by their own admission — I’ve done more for them than you will ever hope to do.
GLICK: OK.
O’REILLY: So you keep your mouth shut when you sit here exploiting those people.
GLICK: Well, you’re not representing me. You’re not representing me.
O’REILLY: And I’d never represent you. You know why?
GLICK: Why?
O’REILLY: Because you have a warped view of this world and a warped view of this country.

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Go read the whole thing. O’Reilly eventually has his mic cut rather than debate him, and apologizes to his listeners that he put such a person on his how.

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Update: Tom Tomorrow seems to have a more “official” transcript.

Dozens of big companies are backing the University of Michigan and its affirmative action policy before the Supreme Court, saying such programs help produce better workers of all races and ethnic backgrounds. Microsoft, Intel, American Airlines, Proctor & Gamble, Eastman Kodak and PepsiCo are among more than 40 Fortune 500 companies siding with the University of Michigan.

Great news! Coliseum Books will reopen across from the Public Library on Fifth Avenue in April.

More than one in five of the jobs lost nationwide over the past year were in New York City, according to the Center for an Urban Future, which says that the city accounts for only 2.8% of all jobs in the country.

Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, said on a radio call-in program that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. There are some good posts on this over at David Neiwert, but I can’t link directly because blogspot’s archives are broken.

India and Iran unveil a new strategic partership, bringing hope for a new way towards stability in the region.

Time to start selling ads! The number one result on Google when searching for Williamsburg galleries is me.

… and Go Richard Gere:

From Liz Smith:

MONDAY NIGHT’S American Foundation for AIDS Research fund-raiser, honoring Anna Wintour, Lorne Michaels and Richard Gere, while not by any means a somber affair, seemed definitely more serious and committed to the cause than has been evident recently.

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Gere was typically passionate and fired up, perhaps too fired up. Winding up remarks, he looked at Hillary Rodham Clinton and said, “I’m sorry, Mrs. Clinton, but your husband didn’t help us much.”

You have to love a gossip columnist who started and ended a column a few days ago with quotes by Doris Lessing and Gore Vidal.

Peter Turnley is a photographer who refused to join the pool covering the first Gulf War, because he knew that it was designed to be “a major impediment for photojournalists in their quest to communicate the realities of war”. He has now published his photos of that war online.