Le Show; 2004-03-21

For information on joining, call 310-450-5183 or visit KCRW.com. Did you ever think that if you had a sex change, you wouldn't have to change your name? No, I never thought that. I'd change the spelling, maybe. I see. And when would the next news be here on KCRW? It would be at 5 o'clock, all things considered. See, he handled both questions with equal aplomb, ladies and gentlemen, that's Chris. Thank you, Chris. In 10 seconds, it'll be 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. With equal aplomb, we will broadcast the La Show program. From deep inside your radio. Well, maybe we don't have him surrounded. Maybe we don't have him cornered.

The number two in Al-Qaeda? Yeah, maybe he hasn't in custody. Just yet, ladies and gentlemen, you've been following this story, breathlessly reported by the cable news networks all weekend. One source they haven't turned to, oddly enough, for a story on what Pakistan, our friend Pakistan, is doing. Is the times of India. They have an interesting slant on it. And I say slant, advisedly. Pakistan hasn't yet delivered Al-Qaeda number two, Aiman al-Zawarhiri to the United States. In exchange for its recognition as a major ally, but the diplomatic bananza will yield rich pickings, including arms and ammunition in the coming days. This is what the Times of India says. Reports from Pakistan say accounts of the Pakistani military having cornered a high-value target now appear to be misplaced. But Islamabad's ability to milk Washington of military supplies with promises on various issues remains undiminished. The chatter of high-value target also succeeded in hoodwinking Colin Powell from bringing up Pakistan's nuclear synanigans.

Some reports suggested. Following its designation, I missed this entirely, but the times of India didn't, apparently. Following Pakistan's designation as a major non-NATO ally earlier this week. This despite the fact that its former head of nuclear program sold nuclear information to North Korea, Libya, and Iran. Pakistan is now eligible for purchase of excess defense articles and equipment the US may leave behind once it leaves the region. And it allows a country to purchase depleted uranium from the United States. This could mean an expanded flow of US military hardware to Pakistan. So it's worth it, you know, to say you have a high-value target for a couple of days and it's all darned. I look, please, I'm not throwing any stones. I know the feeling. It's basically Pakistan just arrived five minutes late at the Barney's sale.

Hello, welcome to the show. Every day she takes a morning back to its end. Wrap the dollar around there as she's heading for the bed. Chair assistant on her day. Slippin' into stockings, steppin' into shoes. Gippin' in the pocket of her raincoat. It's just another day. At the office where the paper scrolls, she takes a break. Brings another coffee and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day. It's just another day. It's just another day. So sad, so sad. Sometimes she feels so sad.

The only apartment she dwells till the matter of her dreams goes to break the spell. Oh, stay, don't stand her up. Then it comes, then it stays. But it leaves the next day. So sad. Sometimes she feels so sad. At the office where the paper scrolls, she takes a break. Brings another coffee and she finds it hard to stay awake. Brings another coffee and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day. It's just another day. It's just another day.

It's just another day. So sad, so sad. Sometimes she feels so sad. The only apartment she dwells till the matter of her dreams goes to break the spell. Oh, stay, don't stand her up. Then it comes, then it stays. But it leaves the next day. So sad. Sometimes she feels so sad. Every day she takes a morning back to her head. Raps the tower rather than she's heading for the bedroom. Jerry's just another day.

Stepping into stockings, stepping into shoes. Stepping in the pocket of a rainbow. It's just another day. It's just another day. It's just another day. We do it down on camera, sense, and do it at our feet. Lazing about the beach all day at night, the crickets creep me. Sweaty faces of the sky. A hary rock is paperback. So it's dropping, wasn't dry. And everybody wants a hat. But behind the shadow, the heart of the day is complete.

I feel like will you tell me? And I'm hurt to don't feel it. Pulling muscles for my shell. Pulling muscles for my shell. Drinking in the sea so cold. Top of the state is never worth it. A evening in a sunshine, shadows from the rain. You wish you had a motorboat to pose around the hall of ball. When the sun goes off to bed, you hook it up behind the car. But behind the shadow, my heart of the day is complete. I feel like will you tell me? And I'm hurt to don't feel it.

Pulling muscles for my shell. Pulling muscles for my shell. Pulling muscles for my shell. Drinking in the sea so cold. And I'm hurt to don't feel it. And I'm hurt to don't feel it. Drinking in the sea so cold. Drinking in the sea so cold. Drinking in the sea so cold. Drinking in the sea so cold. Two five ladies window shop.

Some people no matter please. If I've been on a night to pan up the sweet little knees. Coats drive the stand about. Looking at a local man. About the boy he's gone away. Down to next dog's caravan. But behind the shed. A heart of a day's complete. And I feel like will you tell. Maybe I'm hurt to don't feel it. Pulling muscles for my shell. Pulling muscles for my shell. But behind the shed. A heart of a day's complete. And I feel like will you tell. Maybe I'm hurt to don't feel it.

Pulling muscles for my shell. Pulling muscles for my shell. You. You love to the stars, but answers. Your face. Glow in the blue. You smile. And I thought that there's something out there. Suddenly a smile turned to a star. A million tiny life of shine. You say a lot across the country.

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Man. I shielded with a shake. And the women screaming. And wander. Who's there? Who's there? Who's there? Green. Man. I shielded with a shake. And the women screaming. And I thought that there's something out there. And I thought that there's something out there.

Gather. And wander. Who's there? Who's there? Who's there? Who's there? Who's there? From the edge of America, from the home of the homeless, I'm Harry Scherer. I'm here with this edition of the show. Hey, let's look back like everybody else is doing one year ago right now. What the show sounded like one year ago right now. That's right, because so many stations pre-entered it. With new exciting theme music. News from Beyond the Bubble.

Now this can't qualify as news, except that a news agency is printing it. But it's the news agency of Iran. So I say that to you with full disclaimer. Don't take this. Well, don't take anything as gospel. But especially this. This is from the Toronto Mayor News Agency. Not Mayor Mayor. But you know, and it's probably BS. It wouldn't be great if more news began that way. Ladies and gentlemen, it's probably BS. But tonight, endlessly nightly news is prepared. This is probably BS. But just in case it isn't, I don't know that this is going around from Iran. Quote. Very clear a quote this now. Over the past few days, in the wake of the bombings in Carbala, Iraq,

and the ideological disputes that delayed the signing of Iraq's interim constitution, there have been reports, see they won't even stand by it, that US forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction in the southern ports of Iraq. A reliable source from the Iraqi governing council, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the mayor news agency in Iran that US forces with the help of British forces stationed in southern Iraq had made extensive efforts to conceal their actions. He added that the cargo was unloaded during the night. The source said that in order to avoid suspicion ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo, which consisted of weapons produced in the 80s and 90s. Imagine the fact the United States had facilitated Iraq's WMD program during the Iran-eraq war and said that some of the weapons being downloaded are similar to those weapons, although international inspectors had announced Saddam Hussein had destroyed all its WMD. Most of these weapons are of Eastern European origin.

US obtained them through confiscations during sales of banned arms during the past two decades. So that's from Iran, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, that deserves a little theme. That is so far beyond the bubble. Again, this may be BS, but or CBS for that matter. This, though, comes from a somewhat more reliable source, and again, is news from beyond the bubble. But, you know, since the news from beyond the bubble sometimes is so grim, I think we need to tear it up here. Okay. Dramatic corroboration of the massacre, just by way of explanation of why this might be interesting. Given the fact that we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction, the rationale for our Iraqi operation has changed to, hey, all those mass graves.

True enough. So where else in the world might there be mass graves, ladies and gentlemen? The British newspaper, The Observer reports today, dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the US back Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001, as this weekend, been provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the UN. So American pathologists are saying the Afghan allies conducted massacres. The evidence of which is in, say it with me now mass graves. A vivid account of the slaughter was provided to the same newspaper last week by three Britons who were released from US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay more than two years after they were first seized in Afghanistan. They told how they narrowly escaped the massacre before being handed over to American forces and flown to Gitmo. They were, they've been released with no charges, just like James Yee, the chaplain, US chaplain in Guantanamo Bay who was first charged with spying,

and then the charges were reduced to possession of pornography and adultery, and all those charges have been released. The US says so because to provide the evidence would compromise security. Now you can understand how providing evidence of spying might compromise security. How does providing evidence of possession of pornography compromise security? Anyway, back to this story. Forensic anthropologist William Hagland, who was investigated mass graves in Bosnia, was Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone. Yeah, we invaded all those, didn't we? Because of the mass graves? He said he dug into an area of recently disturbed desert soil outside the town of Shabargan, and exhumed 15 bodies, a tiny sample, he said of what may be a very large total. They died from suffocation, exactly corroborating the stories told by the Guantanamo detainees.

The Guantanamo detainees said they were captured by Northern Alliance forces led by General Dustum, that they tried to get out of Afghanistan. At Shabargan, they were hurted into two of several truck containers, then the doors were sealed. He and the others, this is one of the three detainees, lost consciousness, and when he came to he was lying on top of dead bodies, I'll spare you the details. We lived because someone made holes with the machine gun, though they were shooting low, and still more died from those bullets when we got out about 20 and each container was still alive, he said. Haglund, the U.S. pathologist, visited the mass grave at Shabargan twice in 2002, in the wake of the war against the Taliban. By chance, Dustum had gone to the mountains, leaving behind a military escort, which allowed him to open the grave. The details about the detainees' stories, assumed importance last week after another British newspaper tabloid, the Sun published claims by a U.S. Embassy spokesman, Lee McClenney,

that the three detainees had trained at an al-Qaeda camp in 2000. That would be a reason for detaining them, presumably. They told another British newspaper, the observer, that they had all confessed to this accusation only after months of solitary confinement and 200 separate interrogation sessions, only to have it finally disproved by British intelligence, which brought documents showing they'd been in Britain, at the time they were supposedly training with al-Qaeda. McClenney, the U.S. Embassy spokesman in London, refused to answer questions from journalists. While the U.S. spokesman at Guantanamo Bay said any allegations concerning detainees were highly classified even after their release, I'm violating security by telling you this now, like, apparently, come and get me copper. Okay, so you can understand Hans Blix. We dist him. So you can understand why he's saying the war in Iraq has not made the world safer. Well, is he Howard Dean or something?

And the widening violence there has underscored the need for the UN's backing of military actions. That's what Blix says in an interview. He chastised the Bush Administration for its reliance on what he described as fall of the intelligence. He says independent inspection teams should gain greater credibility because the UN team's work in Iraq has held up so well. The independent inspections that we were able to provide came closer to the truth than ideology-based intelligence from the National Agency's Blix said. He's plugging his book. Okay, so Blix, we'll leave this Blix. David Cave, then. How about David Cave? He cites four major failings of the West's intelligence operation in Iraq, a lack of agents on the ground. Hey, that's a problem with my career. An overreliance on defectors, more about that in a moment, almost all of whom lied. A failure to appreciate the true nature of Saddam's Iraq and a failure in Washington to take an overview of the intelligence.

Okay, but that's David Cave. He's he's quit. He was our chief weapons inspector in Iraq this year, but you know, what about Richard Clark, former terrorism adviser to both the Clinton and Bush White Houses? You know this story is going around the weekend. He's plugging a book, so write him off. He's on 60 minutes. He says he was surprised the attention of administration officials was turning toward Iraq on 9-11 when he expected the focus to be on al-Qaeda. They were talking about Iraq on 9-11. They were talking about on 9-12. He was briefing the highest government officials, including President Bush and Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld. In the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq. We all said, no, no, no, al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan. Says Clark, and Rumsfeld said, there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan, and there are lots of good targets in Iraq. I said, well, there are lots of good targets and lots of places, but Iraq had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks.

Lots of good targets in Mexico, and it's real cheap to get there. He didn't say that. I said that. Clark continues, I think they wanted to believe there was a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda, but the CIA was sitting there, the FBI was sitting there, I was sitting there saying we've looked at the issue for years, for years we've looked, and there's just no connection. But he's plugging a book, okay? J. Garner, Iraq's first occupation administrator for the United States, abruptly dismissed after a month, says he fell out with the Bush administration because he wanted free elections and rejected privatization of the Iraqi economy. My preference, he says, he tells the BBC this, this is still news from beyond the bubble you haven't heard about the J. Garner interview, have you? In an interview broadcast by the BBC, he said, my preference was to put the Iraqis in charge as soon as we can and do it with some form of elections. I thought it was necessary to rapidly get the Iraqis in charge of their destiny.

It would have been better for the Iraqis to take decisions themselves even if they made mistakes. What I was trying to do was get a functioning government. We as Americans like to put our template on things and our template's good, but it's not necessarily good for everyone else. J. Garner, our first pro-consult in Iraq. Describing his dismissal after he called for elections, the night I got to Baghdad, Rumsfeld called me and told me he was appointing Paul Bremer. The announcement was somewhat abrupt. He wanted the Iraqis to decide economic policy for themselves rather than privatization. And apropos of the critique of our reliance on defectors, ladies and gentlemen, the former Iraqi exile group that gave the Bush administration exaggerated and fabricated intelligence on Iraq also fed much of the same information to leading newspapers, news agencies and magazines in the United States, Britain and Australia. This according to night-ritter newspapers.

100 articles based on information provided by the Iraqi National Congress, a US-funded effort to collect intelligence. In Iraq, those assertions and those articles reinforce President Bush's claims that Hussein was in league with Osama, was developing nuclear weapons and was hiring, hiding chemical and biological weapons. Feeding the information to the news media as well as to selected administration officials and members of Congress helped foster the impression that there were multiple sources of intelligence. In fact, many of the allegations came from the same half-dozen defectors weren't confirmed by other intelligence and were hardly disputed by intelligence professionals at the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department. Nevertheless, US officials and others who supported a preemptive invasion quoted the allegations and statements and interviews without running a file of restrictions on classified information or doubts about the defectors' reliability. Night-ritter newspapers reviewed all these news paper citations of the defectors' info.

They made numerous assertions that haven't so far been substantiated, including that charges that Saddam collaborated for years with Bin Laden, that Iraq trained Islamic extremists in the same hijacking techniques used in the September 11 strikes, that Iraq had mobile biological warfare facilities, that Iraq held 80 Kuwaitis captured in the original Gulf War in a secret underground prison, none have been found so far, and so forth. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a reason why the word defector is very closely related to the word defective. New news from Beyond the Bubble. It's Bubbalicious. See and sky and you and I know all blues, all shades of blues, all blues.

Some blues are sad, but some are glad, dark and sad, upright and glad. They're all blues, all shades of blues. Color, a color, the blues are more than a color.

They are a mon of pain, a taste of strife, a sad refrain against which life is plain. Blues can be the living do's, we all are playing here, oh yes Lord, in rainbow, a summer day that's fair. A prayer that's prayed, a lament that's made or good by said, some sheet of blue is there, blue, heavens blue, they are all blues. The sea, the sky and you and I, sea and sky and you and I know all blues.

All shades of blues, all shades of blues. This is the show and a big big story this past week, a little story actually was the revelation that the United States government, health and human services have been a department had sent out a video news release, packaged and prepared to look like a news report, but actually a piece of publicity from the government, that hailing the Medicare, the new Medicare bill.

Now this is one of two controversies in broiling this Medicare bill that was pushed by the Bush administration last November. One is that as we've discussed here, the actuary for the Medicare program was the Ky Bosch was put on him so he wouldn't tell Congress what the real price tag of the bill was and that's going to blow up. And second little less important, this story about the government putting out a video news release made to look like a news story with a person with actors playing Medicare recipients and actors playing reporters. But the real story of course is the government wouldn't put that out if they didn't have a plausible reason to believe that TV stations would arid, which they did, which they do repeatedly. Most local news operations around the country are full of video news releases set out by governments or more frequently pharmaceutical companies.

And we wonder, well, people in the media wonder why public trust in the media is an all time low. Well, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. Now ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast, the apologies of the week and an end to the dots can connect and must end them. Signing public concern, Virgin Atlantic has scrapped plans to install urinals in the shape of a woman's lips. You heard me at the air, you got a problem at the airlines clubhouse of New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Everyone at Virgin Atlantic was very sorry to hear of people's concerns about the design of the kisses urinals, the airline said. We can assure everyone who complained to us that no offense was intended. The urinal was designed by Netherlands based company Bathroom Mania, which markets the product as, quote, kisses the sexy urinal makes a daily event of blushing experience. This is one target men will never miss. The design is of a one's mouth with bright red lips opened as if waiting to be kissed.

Next, what can Brown do for you? Sound tasteful, isn't it? Apologies in the academic realm, the University of California Davis has issued an apology to 6,000 admitted students who received an erroneous email indicating they were awarded a prestigious scholarship. The email incorrectly indicated the students had been awarded a regent scholarship. The mistake was quickly identified when three hours of second email was issued correcting the error and congratulating the students of being admitted to UC Davis, but without the scholarship. We take this unfortunate mistake very seriously and deeply apologize for the errors that UC Davis chancellor Larry Vanderhoof issued a personal letter of apology to the students and their families. Hey, I didn't know that scholarship was prestigious. I got one. Look at my lack of prestige. A Connecticut college president facing claims that he plagiarized material for an op-ed column published in the Hartford Current, announced his retirement on Friday, Richard Judd, president of Central Connecticut State University, apologized this week to the university's faculty senate,

he cited health concerns as the reason for his retirement. He plagiarized from three sources of an op-ed an opinion column he wrote for the newspaper. And that can give you health problems. I plagiarizing his tough work, ladies and gentlemen, take it from me. A high-flying conservative member of parliament was under attack for using the insulting term, well-shing during a BBC interview with radio whales. He should be under attack for stupidity for that. You know, say that to radio Scotland, but not radio whales. Alan Duncan said the problem Tony Blair is going to face from his own party in the House of Commons will say, look mate, you can't do that. You promise something democratic and representative and you're welching on that.

Challenged by Felicity Evans, the host of the program about his use of the term, Duncan said, I beg your pardon. I will choose a better word. I never associated with Welsh people. I have to say. Viacom President Mel Carmason has apologized for a racist comment, phoned into Howard Stern's radio show, but said the remark did not violate federal indecency regulations. I apologize that such an offensive racist term was broadcast on one of our radio stations. He said in a letter to Senator Sam Brownback. Stern had an on-air interview with Rick Solomon who had been filmed having sex with hotel eras Paris Hilton. Stern and Solomon discussed sex acts at one point a caller asked, Stern's guest, if he had had sex with any famous blank chicks. While offensive this language does not fall within the ambient of the indecency definition Carmason said. Hey, isn't it hip that Howard Stern has discovered politics? So late in his career. Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour delivered this apology for those who were watching two nights ago.

Discussion about Iraq ended up not being as balanced as is our standard practice. While unintentionally it was indeed our mistake and we regret it. That was an apology for a guest. Who was an author of an upcoming book on Iraq. And he was saying that he, Christian Parenty, the guest was saying that Halle Burton and Bechtel have failed to provide meaningful reconstruction and that U.S. occupation might actually be contributing to the instability in Iraq. That's the comment Jim Lehrer was apologizing for. Go figure department. We have so many apologies here. Microsoft is apologized to jurors for his past anti-competitive practices during opening statements in a case in Minneapolis. An Islamic rights group has filed a federal complaint against LA talk radio station KFI after it broadcast a skit mocking the new Iraqi constitution saying it advocated killing Jews and banning such Western teachings as bathing on a regular basis. The U.S. station issued an on air apology.

More university new hamster professors been disciplined. It's another plagiarizing professor. We don't need two of those in one day. KCRW's general manager Ruth C. Moore apologized to Sandrit Singh Lo and reversed her decision to terminate the commentator for using a four letter of profanity. She would turn down the station's offer citing what she called a toxic environment there. Excuse me. The parents of a mad car. Yes, the parents of a mad Carmel area high school student who was among six female students strip searched. During a high school gym class over the alleged theft of 27 dollars, planning to file a lawsuit. The school officials have apologized. First lady of Taiwan. Wushu Chen apologized for failing to report five huge stock transactions. And finally. We got a move, ladies and gentlemen.

We got to move from the supplier of certain merchandise to the Bush Cheney campaign to Mr. Tom Johnafiac, General Counsel of the Bush Cheney campaign. Dear Mr. Johnafiac, I am writing to apologize and accept responsibility for the recent distribution of foreign goods in our Bush Cheney merchandise program. Unfortunately, in one of our recent shipments, a vendor inadvertently supplied us with foreign goods. And our own company did not discover this mistake before distribution. The purchase orders for these items included a statement specifying made in USA products. We received an acknowledgement from our supplier substantiating that it was their factory mistake. Of the 60 fleece jackets in stock, only two were from Burma. Less than a total of 10 items from Burma were ever shipped to the public. We have taken corrective action to ensure this would never happen again to Ed Jackson, President Spalding Group. Yes, the Bush Cheney fleece jackets were outsourced, ladies and gentlemen, to Burma.

No mass graves in Burma, that's not a mean old dictator or anything. That's not a tyrant oppressing his people in Myanmar. But this outsourcing thing is becoming huge, ladies and gentlemen, as you've already observed. And some try to deal with it with politics, with protectionism, or some try to deal with it by supporting it as a Bush administration official did by saying it was good for the economy. But there's really only one way to deal with outsourcing. And that's to turn it into television. This man leans a double life. Hello, by day, he's Jack. Now, I want you to go ahead and restart your computer, okay? Okay. How do I do that? Don't ask me. As Dr. Phil. By night, he's Vijay. What's for dinner? The Empress chicken with tandoori potato cakes and the cauliflower biryani.

Again, every night we did biryani. By day, he's an American. No, the prongy things, they go into the wall. Anywhere in the wall, or do I need to find a stud? Wait a minute, if you've got studs there, why don't they fix your computer? By night, he's an Indian. And you're not going to watch the cricket again? No, and why not? I don't know, honey. I just thought I might have... We get the dinner and sticky myself. Let me call my friend Sanjay. No three sons. Sanjay, in the next cubicle, is the one who sells the online viagra. Me, Vijay, Chuck Banerjee. He's live in the dream. But it's covered in curry. Outsourcing was never like this. Dillard got Fox Attitude. Welcome to Bangalore.

Can you find the manual? I'm it. I wrote it. Where even the in-laws are spicy. Vijay, when will you come back to the old ways? I'm talking on the phone or night to people. I have a world of ways. No life for my son-in-law. I make good money. Let me set your up in my business. Oh, no way. That cardboard box isn't big enough for two bankers. You're not losing a job. You're gaining a hip comedy. Honey, I'm Hindu. Tuesday, right after the premiere of American Idol Memories. Because this year is way Fox. Who are we here? Lay on my pillow. Can't rest your troubles with my troubles for the time. I know you're not here.

Who are we here? Lay on my pillow. Can't rest your troubles with my troubles for the time. I know, I know the feeling that I'm seeing. When you lay your body next to mine. Well, the quest for love is lost For the pilgrimage broken hearted road. Just a sight. You tell a story. Echo and town at the town you leave behind. I know, I know the feeling that I'm feeling. When you lay your body next to mine.

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John Kerry supposedly flip flops. The Democrats are coming out with a bunch of statements about how the Bush administration is reversed itself. But have a flip flops try the New York Times in a story about the U.S. paying Iraqi civilians survivors of the Iraqi civilian victims of U.S. attacks accidental or otherwise during the Iraq war. Captain Jonathan Tracy hands out $1,000 for an injury $2,500 for death. He checks each claim a civilian files against a database of military incident reports according to another according to the New York Times reporter. Quote we do keep records of innocent civilians who were killed accidentally by coalition force soldiers said Brigadier General Mark Hurtling. Later in the same story a Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Commander Jane Campbell says we don't keep a list.

It's just not policy flip flop. Also from the same building the Pentagon this week it reversed course telling Congress it will look into whether an anti-malaria drug developed by the army might be causing the wave of suicides among soldiers returning or in Iraq and Afghanistan. Only one month after the Pentagon asserted the drug couldn't possibly be a factor flip flop. And this week just as Antonin Scalia gave the final word he will not recuse himself from a case before the Supreme Court involving his good friend vice president Dick Cheney. The 21 page explanation on Thursday Scalia said it was not improper for him to go duck hunting in Louisiana with Cheney in January soon after the court agreed to consider the case which is a Sierra Club appeal. Challenging Cheney to provide information about his energy task force.

Scalia recounted other cases in which presidents and justices socialized despite the fact that that wasn't now. He wrote of a time when Justice Harlan Stone tossed around a medicine ball with members of the Hoover administration mornings outside the White House and when Chief Justice Fred Vincent played poker with President Truman. He wrote that Scalia a rule that required members of this court to remove themselves from cases in which the official actions of friends were an issue would be utterly disabling. Many justices he said were appointed to the court precisely because they were friends with the president or other senior officials. Is it wrong or right for Scalia to have gone duck hunting with Cheney only one real way to find out ladies and gentlemen? Next, dueling dramatizations from radio's premier venue of bifurcated possibilities. Alternative scenario playhouse.

Today, Justice Scalia joins Dick Cheney on a duck hunt. Scenario 1. Here it is, Tony. Nobody knows about this place except the Villa-Shay family in the Secret Service. And now me. I'm very flattered, Dick. Hey. You got to come here with somebody. Lucky there was space on the plane. No kidding. Because the train doesn't come here. I know I was just getting tired of you borrowing my frozen ducks. Time to earn your own. You got it? Inhand. You got a couple. Yeah. Winged him. Not a clean kill. It's amazing that this area hasn't been developed.

They, my friend, this is Louisiana. What they put here. Just more of this. Now, Wyoming. No, I don't think you want to go there. That weight lies the topic of energy. You are so right. Way to spoil a perfectly good morning of poultry death. These are mine. They decide to retire. Have you had the prescription in those lenses changed lately? That's why we have oral argument. So peaceful. Unless you're a duck. As Mrs. Ricken on a new book. About how cultural liberals are killing the First Amendment by overuse. Oh, oh, recuse me. Okay. We'll focus on the matter at hand. One other at bat.

I was just wondering. Was that? Shouldn't somebody have brought along a dog? No, not really. This might feel trippier. I haven't hit anything yet. And now, scenario two. On alternative scenario playhouse. So here it is, Tony. Nobody knows about this except the Delishay's family and me. We have to talk. They know about this? I had to tell them why I needed this swamp. I suppose so. Hell, they're the ones who supply the ducks. I haven't been any wild ones here since they built the pipeline. Water? Natural gas. No, right. That's in the brief about your... Your little energy thing.

Yeah. My little energy thing. Okay, there was space on the plane. Yeah. And only 30 more members of my staff had shown up. You'd have had it. Fly commercial. So obviously, I wouldn't presume to exploit our long and mutually productive friendship for the sake of one vote on a nine person court. Of course not. Nor would I insult the dignity of the court by suggesting that gratitude for this trip or the ducks or the ducks should play any role in your deliberative process. Goes without saying. On the other hand, serious constitutional issue here. Oh, you bet. Which one in particular? Well, I was hoping you could maybe suggest one. Take it, privilege.

Okay, I got my quarter. Next one's yours. Sure. X-Priv. Does that recall... That's in the brief. Hey. Extra ducks for reading brief. Jimmy, more ducks. Very beautiful out here. It's the sound of the ducks and the executive privilege being preserved. Yeah, it's God's country, all right. And God's pipeline. One thing occurs. Not about the brief, because I... Brought along a dog. Oh, hell. If you want ducks, just call me when we get back to DC. I got 20 in the freezer. Again, next time, symmetrically differing interpretations of a controversial event. On Alternative Scenario Playhouse. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's going to conclude this edition of the show.

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I did not buy any CDs or books this particular week. What'd you do? You want the whole week? No, I really don't have 10 seconds. I thought maybe you had a quick. When's the next news here on KCRW? The next news is all things considered at 5 o'clock. See, he had that. Chris, thank you. You're welcome. In 10 seconds, it'll be 10 a.m., still Pacific Standard Time, still time for a show. Still. From deep inside your radio. Well, ladies and gentlemen, what a fun old week this was, huh? It's spring, which is fun. And the Republicans have now decided that lying to Congress is a bad thing. Which, you know, we were waiting for that. Way back in the 80s when Oliver North. Yes, the very same Oliver war stories north was convicted of lying to Congress. If you can imagine that.

His defenders were saying, well, you know, it wasn't. First, he was freed on a technicality by appeals court, so he never served any time. But B, it was just lying to Congress. It's not like a federal case. This week, Bill Frist, Friday, Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader got on the floor. I mean, it took the floor. I mean, stood up on the floor of the Senate and said, we're going to declassify Richard Clark's testimony before the House Senate Joint Intelligence Committee. Richard Clark, of course, the man of the week who made all the headlines, criticizing the Bush administration's pre-9-11 terrorism preps and post-9-11 Iraq war. Just two little things he criticized. Just two little quibbles he had. And the roof fell down. Richard Frist is on the floor of the Senate saying, we're going to declassify this testimony that Richard Clark gave under oath. And if there's any conflict between that testimony under oath

and the testimony Mr. Clark gave this week before the 9-11 commission under oath, he's guilty of lying to Congress and said, Bill Frist, that's a very serious thing. I certainly hope that somewhere in the bowels of Fox News, Ali North is weeping today. But my bet's not on it. Hello, welcome to the show. And yes, Fox News is all bowels. I'm coming up.

I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm saying. You want a friend to get real out. One who will never fade away. And if you search for answers, it's around my head. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up.

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I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. The world is just a great big onion. And hey, that's fear of the spices that make you fly. And the only way to get free of this great big onion is to play and love seeds until and down. Hey world, we got a great big job to do.

Yeah, we need you and everybody pull us through. Oh, we got to clean up this place and reach my heart. Oh, yeah. Yes, we do now. We got to be strong about riding the road and make a lot more happy songs. Oh, make a world. The world is just a great big onion. And I don't care if it's a face people like to wear. Oh, there. And the only way to get free of this great big onion is to play and love seeds until and down. Tell about it.

Let's come on. Let's not go down the door. Tell them love is the answer. Whether they're right or wrong. Oh, yeah. And we don't care what you do. How you look. All your stars are waving. No, no. I'm done. Is the plane of seeds? No, everybody got the fan of love seeds. Come on in the plane of love seeds until it dies.

The world is just a great big onion. I like onions. Hello, from the edge of America, from the home of the homeless. I'm Harry Chiro, welcoming you to Lesho. Can you hear the fan of the background? Yeah, he's just hanging out for an autograph. No, it's just, it's very hot in here. Or is it just Rob Lowe? I don't know, but it's, it's warm. It's springtime warmth all over the Lesho dough. Hey, the, the focus of White House obliquie, if you will, if they did. This week has been, of course, on Richard Clark for those two little quibbles he has with the Bush administration, the pre-9-11 preps and the post-9-11 war on Iraq. It's just those two little things.

And so they've been, been a full court press against him, as you'd think. But is anybody standing up for Richard Clark? Flint lever it, a former CIA analyst and Middle East specialist who was on the National Security Council staff of President Bush until a year ago, says, quote, Clark's critique of administration decision making and how it did not balance the imperative of finishing the job against Al Qaeda versus what they wanted to do in Iraq. Is absolutely on the money, unquote. He said that Arabic speaking special forces officers and CIA officers who were doing a good job tracking Osama bin Laden. I'm in Al Zawahiri and other Al Qaeda leaders were pulled out of Afghanistan in March 2002 to begin preparing for Iraq. I put the people out who could have caught them, but even if we get bin Laden or Zawahiri now continues, lever it. It is two years too late. Al Qaeda is a very different organization now. It has had time to adapt.

The administration should have finished this job, unquote. It just tells you something. If in two years Al Qaeda can adapt that dramatically and CBS has stayed the same. There's other people. Pat Lang, head of the Middle East and South Asia intelligence department of the defense intelligence agency for seven years, says when you come to me, he doesn't stutter when he says it. But he says, quote, when you commit as much time and attention and resources as we did to Iraq, which I do not believe is connected to the World Wide War against the jihadis, then you subtract what you could commit to the war on terrorism. You see that especially in the Special Forces commitment as we have only so many of them, unquote. Today on CNN Richard Pearl says, those people just have an outdated view of the war on terrorism. You got to go after the countries that support terrorists.

And so, of course, we attacked Syria. No, we didn't. We attacked Pakistan. No, we didn't. From the dog trainer. Wow. The Bush administration's pre war claims that Saddam Hussein had built that fleet of mobile chem bio weapon labs. It was based chiefly on information from a now discredited Iraqi defector codenamed curve ball curve ball. Let's believe. Let's go to war because of what curve ball told us. I'm not making this up, ladies and gentlemen. I don't even think the dog trainer is making this up. US officials never had direct access to the defector and didn't even know his real name. Hey, with a codename like curve ball, what do you got to know? What do you have a real name? Real name Scroogey. Didn't even know his real name until after the war. Instead, his story was provided by German agents. His story is since crumbled under doubts raised by the Germans and the scrutiny of US weapons hunters who have come to see his codename as particularly apt. UN weapons inspectors hypothesized that the mobile labs might exist.

This is where it all began. They wrote a memo saying, well, they could have this because they don't have that. They then asked former exile leader. Here he is again. Ahmed Shalibi, a bit of enemy of Hussein to help search for intelligence that supported the theory soon after. Here comes a young chemical engineer in a German refugee camp claiming he had been hired out of Baghdad University to design and build biological warfare trucks for the Iraqi army. Based largely on his account, President Bush and his age repeatedly warned of the shadowy germ trucks dubbed Winnebago's of death or Hell on Wheels. And they became part of Secretary of State Powell's dramatic presentation to the UN Security Council last February. With photos, I should say, mit photos. Only later did the CIA learn that the defector was the brother of one of Shalibi's top aides and began to suspect he might have been coached to provide false information. Congressional investigators fear the CIA may have inadvertently conjured up and then chased a phantom weapon system.

David Kay, former Bush administration chief weapons inspector in Iraq, said the case of curveball was the most was particularly troubling out of all the intelligence failures in Iraq. This is the one that's damning, Kay said. This is the one that has the potential for causing the largest havoc in the sense that it really looks like a lack of due diligence and care in going forward. Kay said the defector was absolutely at the heart of the matter of intense interest to us, but curveball he said turned out to be an out and out fabricator. Dick Cheney is recently as January. This January, after the doubts were raised already, referred to the trucks as conclusive proof that Iraq was producing weapons of mass destruction. The CIA director tenet later told the Senate committee he called Cheney to warn him the evidence was increasingly suspect. Chalibis, Iraqi national congresses blame most often for lies or distortions by Iraqi opposition groups contributing to numerous misjudgments about WMD. The rival Iraqi national court and various Kurdish groups also responsible for sending dubious defectors to Western intelligence.

So they were all doing it wasn't just a chalibi. Don't point to finger Mr. Chalibi. One focus of the ongoing investigations, whether the CIA should have known curveball was not credible. Well, how about that? How about if a code name isn't fastball, you put one strike against him right there. A former US official who's reviewed the classified file said the German intelligence warned the CIA last spring. It's after Colin Powell spoke that it had various problems with the source. Well, the German intelligence sent the warning after Powell gave his security counsel speech. You can imagine the consternation that kicked off said the US official. It suggested that what the Germans had been passing to us was false. They were backing away. K, our weapons inspector until he quit saying there were none. Powell's account was quote, disingenuous.

K added if Powell had said to the security council, it's one source. We never actually talked to him when we don't know his name as he's describing this to the security council. I think people would have laughed us out of court. Powell said at the UN that two other Iraqi sources who he said were in a position to know had corroborated the eyewitness account. K said the debriefing files on that pair showed they had never had direct contact with the bio warfare trucks. None of them claimed to have seen them. They said they were aware of the mobile program they had heard. There was a mobile program objection here say. Another Iraqi defector and engineer who'd worked with curve ball, according to the CIA, specifically denied they'd worked on such facilities. Powell did not cite that defector. The CIA acknowledged last month the fourth defector, the Powell cited. A major Iraq's intelligence service had lied when he said Baghdad had built mobile research labs. The Pentagon's defense intelligence agency twice debriefed that defector in early 2002.

But then concluded he did not have first hand information and was probably coached by shalloby. The agency posted a fabrication notice on a classified computer network to warn other US intelligence agencies that this defector had lied. But CIA officials said that notice, the fabrication notice was overlooked. And his information was cited in Powell's speech as well as in the CIA's national intelligence estimate to Congress before Congress voted for the war. So if a fabrication notice doesn't reach, doesn't, doesn't flag it for the CIA, what would? Oh, by the way, his name is curve ball. Britain's arm, this on the subject ladies and gentlemen of whether having attacked, having invaded Iraq and now being responsible for the aftermath. Boy, that's nice neutral language.

Whether the West, the United States and the UK are in a position, let's say, let's say Syria says, you know what? I'm not impressed. I'm not, yeah, you invaded Iraq. They'd been weakened by 12 years of sanctions. Guy had no weapons. There's a paper tiger. You beat him. Big deal. I'm not impressed. I'm going forward with my, my little thing. Let's, let's just hypothesize. Let's make up a world in which Syria says that. What do we do? Dateline London from the telegraph, a conservative newspaper. Britain's armed forces will not be able to mount another operation on the scale of the Iraq war for another five years. According to the chief of defense staff, General Sir Michael Walker told the House of Commons Defense Committee, the Army in particular, would not be able to recover from operations in Iraq until 2008 or 2009. So, Syria, you got, you got five clear years there, babe.

I think we've already accepted we cannot do another large scale operation now. He said we are unlikely to be able to get to large scale much before the end of the decade. The Army has been stretched to breaking point by its involvement in the war on terrorism and a series of operational commitments in the Falklands. Excuse me. That's important work. Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. The Army was still reconstituting units from the Iraq conflict and at the same time undergoing reorganization. He said if he was asked to send the same number of troops to another trouble spot urgently, he would have to tell his boss, the defense secretary, that quote, something will have to give. Even the problems have already affected the deployment of extra troops to Afghanistan to back up the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Defense chiefs have been considering sending 1400 commandos and paratroops to support the U.S. Special Forces operation in Afghanistan. But British troops cannot be committed to the hunt for more than six months.

One of the two units going to Afghanistan possibly was due to be sent to Basra, so if it goes to Afghanistan, another infantry unit will have... So, if I'm the head of North Korea, I'm thinking, hey, hey, I got five years. I can watch all my daffy duck cartoons and make trouble. Meanwhile, in Baghdad, the United States will transfer power into Iraq to a prime minister. And that's sound European to a hand-picked prime minister. Well, if we're doing the hand-picking, why isn't it president? Prime minister, it's so European. We are thus abandoning plans for an expansion of the current 25 member governing council. This is according to coalition officials in Baghdad who talk to a liberal British newspaper, the Guardian. Fear of wrangling among Iraqi politicians has forced Washington to make this latest switch in strategy.

It's third in six months. The search is now on for an Iraqi to serve as prime minister. Hey, how about Ahmad Chal? No. He will almost certainly be from the Shia Muslim majority and probably a secular technocrat or a secular technocrat. There will be no Paul Bremer and there will be a prime minister, a coalition official, said that will be the biggest change. The choice of prime ministers become the main, hey me, me, choose me. I'm secular. And I run the board. I mean, that's kind of technocratic. This has become the main focus of concern for the occupation authorities. Initial plans for enlarging the governing council have been downgraded in favor of letting the president members get on with their job. This latest shift in focus follows a visit by Robert Blackwell. No, not me. President Bush's special envoy in Iraq for talks with Bremer. Plants to create a three-man presidency. Now you're talking. It's presidential and it's got the Trinity. That's American. Are still underway, but its powers would be mainly symbolic.

Officials hope the man appointed will be a technocrat to avoid rivalry between competing politicians. Yeah, we wouldn't want that. That would be like what happens in a democracy. The interim government will serve until direct elections are held at the end of the year. Bet's end of the year. All right, so we're going to have a prime minister even though it sounds very European and we're going to pick him. That's this week's plan on another topic here at the top of the news where it's where the air is always thin. It's not exactly from outside the bubble. Well, Boston's pretty close to outside the bubble. They don't hear the show. That's how outside the bubble can you get 49 retired generals and admirals this week. Make urged president Bush to suspend plans for a national missile shield and use the money instead to safeguard nuclear materials abroad and ports and borders at home. But we're already. Oh, no, we're not. The Bush administration plans to put up that nationwide missile defense system starting in September.

3.7 billion this year for the start of the project. The 49 former senior military leaders. What do they know, ladies and gentlemen? Let's just former senior military leaders. Excuse me. We're supposed to listen to you guys now. When Dick Pearl says this is a good idea. They say the system remains unproven. They also said it is more likely that terrorists with smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the United States. Then a country would launch a missile at the US risking a devastating retaliatory strike. So deterrence still works, except for the guys that the missile defense won't defend you against. Aside from that, good plan. As you have said, Mr. President, our highest priorities to prevent terrorists from acquiring and employing weapons of mass destruction wrote the former officers, including retired Admiral Crow, William Crow, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under Reagan. What does he? They added militarily responsible course of action is to use the funding for the missile shield to secure the multitude of facilities containing nuclear weapons and materials and to protect our ports and borders against terrorists.

The General Accounting Office, the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress recently concluded only two of the anti-missile systems, 10 key technologies, have been fully tested. To make the September deadline, the Pentagon has waived some testing requirements. Hey, why don't we try that for no child left behind? I know you kids aren't reading well, but we like your school. We're waiving the testing requirements. Just because it's a nice looking school. The military's top weapons tester stated earlier this month that testing further testing is not planned, quote, for the foreseeable future. Till after we deploy, I guess. But as long as we're sending the top, you know, that's weapon related gentlemen, as long as we're sending the very best troops in the very best physical condition. Well, this just in from Washington.

To meet the demand for troops in Iraq, the military has been deploying some National Guard and Army reserve soldiers who aren't fit for combat. This is the United States military, ladies and gentlemen. More than a dozen members of the Guard and reserves told night-ritter newspapers, they were shipped off to battle with little attention paid to their medical histories, including ailments such as asthma, diabetes, recent surgery and hearing loss. Shoot the plane down. What? Once in Iraq, the soldiers faced severe conditions that aggravated their medical problems and the medical care available to them was limited. David Lloyd, a 44-year-old mechanic with a Tennessee National Guard died of a heart attack in August last in Iraq last August. His wife said her husband didn't know he had a problem, but his autopsy showed three blockages in his coronary arteries. He should never have been deployed, she said. He was supposed to have been given a thorough physical. He had none. The only thing he had was the shots. Well, the shots worked. They funneled us through the medical part, boom, boom, boom, said Michael Scott on Iowa National Guardsman who has a herniated disc. They let it be known they weren't real interested in hearing about stuff.

No, you're fine right now. It sounds like the doctors worked in the draft in the 60s. A memo from the European Regional Medical Command in Germany where many injured soldiers were sent, criticized the pre-deployment medical screening and said soldiers who were unfit for Iraq were having to be sent home. This was an added cost for the military. Michael Kilpatrick, a top Pentagon health official acknowledged some medically unqualified troops have been sent to Iraq, but said, quote, the percentages are extremely small. And he said the Pentagon is taking steps to improve medical screening. I guess they want those numbers to be extremely smaller. Several sources said many soldiers weren't given physicals, but only were asked a few cursory questions about their health by medical screeners. I know that doctor. He works in town.

Gary Mosley, a retired first sergeant with a reserve unit from Mississippi, said the practice of sending medically unqualified troops was widespread in the Guard or reserves. It wasn't about healthy troops. It was about the number of troops. Soldiers with medical conditions that would be adversely affected by deployment were rubber stamped as fit for duty, he says. Medical profiles were ignored. But the numbers are extremely small. Extremely small. And we like extremely small numbers. And finally, the Department of Energy has failed to keep accurate count of worker injuries at nuclear waste cleanup sites across the United States. Its records often downplay the dangers of cleanup work. So says a draft report by the department's own inspector general. Let's see if this report actually makes it through. This is a draft released to the Washington Post. Any bets on whether it actually gets to be published for nine out of ten private contractors that perform environmental cleanup at old bomb making sites. The audit found the Department of Energy maintained inaccurate and incomplete accident and injury data.

Some of the department's safety performance statistics were overrated. That is, performance had been reported to be better than it actually was. The investigation also found instances in which major cleanup contractors were not required to report any information on how many workers were hurt or second while working around nuclear waste. Well, of course, if you had to report that, then there would be numbers. It found the department also fails to record a number of significant number of workplace injuries that contractors themselves have documented. The most serious example was at the Iowa lab where the main contractor Bechtel, Bechtel, reported 463 days lost to injury. The Department of Energy's database says it was 166 days. The inspector general's investigation comes amid reports of increasing injuries to workers at Hanford, the largest and most expensive nuclear waste cleanup site in the history of the universe. This week alone, three more workers were seen from medical evaluation after smelling a sweet odor, chemical vapors from underground tanks.

A sweet odor. Department of Energy spokesman says the draft audit from the inspector general is, quote, incomplete and, quote, wrong. There shouldn't be a rush to judgment on a draft report that does not consider all sides of the issues. We believe that we have systems in place as the spokesperson that accurately reflect the recording of safety at our sites. It's a political season, he concludes. Yes, it is. And now ladies and gentlemen, if you're in any doubt about which direction we should be going, this is from the White House spokesman Scott McClellan's briefing with reporters this week in the wake of Israel's targeted assassination of the head of Hamas, the was a paraplegic or quadriplegic anyway, he's dead. He's not he's no plegic and the Israelis center rocket and killed him. And here is the white daily White House briefing Scott McClellan, president, Bush's spokesperson.

Basically got one thing to say which direction we want to go in. Let's do a point of view. What is the peace process? Is it a set back? Well, it's always important to keep in mind that there are possibilities for moving forward. I mentioned one important aspect and that is that the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Prime Minister and Cabinet act to crack down on terrorism. That is a foundation for moving forward on the two-state vision. You also have some ideas that have been presented by Prime Minister Sharon. We've been in discussion with the government of Israel about those ideas. Those certainly have the potential to help move forward on peace in the region. Do you have any words for countries or groups who maintain that nothing can be settled in the rest of the Arab world on the field of the Israeli Palestinian issues? Are they using that as a falling fact?

Well, I mean there's the greater Middle East and there's the Israeli-Palestinian situation as well. Certainly we are moving forward in Iraq on advancing freedom and democracy in a very volatile region. And that's an important effort that will help bring about stability in the region. But we also have remained very engaged for quite some time on the Middle East peace process. The President has been strongly committed to working with the parties to move forward on the two-state vision. There are always difficulties in this process. But we continue to call on all parties to focus on moving forward on the peace process. Do they use it as a falling tactic? The rest of the Arab world is a Palestinian. Well, all parties have responsibility. We've made that very clear and we've called on all parties to help move that process forward and move forward on the President's two-state vision. Is there a foreign minister after this meeting with Shania says this morning at the White House that this is a message to a lot of leaders that they don't have immunity anymore? Do you think a targeted assassination is the correct way to deliver that plan?

Well, I think where our focus is is on working with the parties and the regional parties, Palestinians, Israelis, as well as Arab countries to move forward on the two-state vision that the President outlined. We continue to believe that the world maps the best way forward to get to that two-state vision. And we call on all parties during this time period to exercise restraint, to help bring about common region so that we can get back to moving forward on that two-state vision. Wait a minute. You've been back just trying to spell it out here. The administration's policy remains unchanged concerning targeted assassination to the United States Department. Opposes that. This was a targeted assassination. So this was wrong in the view of the United States government. Oh, sorry again. During this time period we want to continue to urge all parties to show restraint. That's where our focus is so that we can get back to moving forward on the peace process. Hey, which way should we go? What do you think? I got it. Let's get back to moving forward. Just as James and Frank James, Billy Kid and all the rest, supposed to be some bad cats out in the West.

If those cats could have dug me and mine, I'd love banded ways. They would've hung up their guns challenge, made it to the grave. Well, I'm a love bandit. Don't you know I'm a love bandit. Well, now girls near and far when I walk into the bar says I'm a love bandit. I used to jump on my white horse Cadillac and ride across the borderline. I'd rope 55 girls and kiss them all at the same time. I take 35 of 40 and I put them on a freight. That was a 950 million dollar reward for me in each and every state.

The chef said, is your name Jenny get all watching in a very deep voice? I said, yes, the brother chef. And that's your wife on the back of my horse. Cause I'm a love bandit. Don't you know I'm a love bandit. Well, now the people they all know every, everywhere I go that I'm a love bandit. This is Lesho and now time for the apologies of the week. Dateline Boston in response to protests by the NAACP and other groups. Mike Barnacle. Yeah, it's not as bad as code name curveball, but it is named barnacle Mike Barnacle ready 17 minute apology. Well, that's got to be the record.

On his radio show yesterday sometime this week for using a racially and sexually charged word to describe Janet Langhardt of former news personality in Boston. Barnacle used the word Mendingo to describe Langhardt who was African American and married to former secretary of defense William Cohn who was white. Mendingo's are members of a group of West African people. Mendingo is also the title of 1975 movie in which a black male slave is paired intimately with a white female slave master. The radio station declined to provide tapes of the apology or the original comment, but Barnacle said someone in the studio asked casually during the broadcast if the pair were married. Yeah, I know both Bill Cohen, Janet Langhardt, kind of like Mendingo, Barnacle said. Cohen was in the news because he was testifying at the 9-11 commission. Barnacle said he had no recollection of the slavery aspect of the film.

All I remember is a terrible movie, he said. Barnacle resigned as posted as a Boston Globe columnist in 1998 amid questions about his sources. That's a delicate way of saying he was alleged to have plagiarized. He decided to apologize on the air because he understands how someone might think it was offensive. Mendingo Dayline Montreal High School principal was apologized for the booing of the US flag during an assembly last week. An event that drew a reaction from as far away as Alberta. Gee, imagine that. Principal Michael Christophe Thorough apologized on behalf of Wagar High School's 300 students. This is in Montreal to a US-born 8th grade student who was jeered Thursday by a handful of students protesting the Warner Rack. Apology was made at a special assembly. The booing was so intense the girl burst into tears. An apology assembly.

Dayline Providence, Rhode Island, the record company that released a cover album by the band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people said it had no intention to exploit the tragedy. The company, Comet Records, an Italian firm, said they've told Rock Band Great White that distribution of the album will be halted, name of the album, burning house of love. We had Comet are deeply sorry that our choice of title has disappointed band members, fans, and buyers of the record in general, the company said. A great white manager, they have more than one apparently, said the CD was an unauthorized release. Comet said a producer picked the album title without thinking about any connection to the fire. Why would you think burning house of love as any connection? To a nightclub fire, Dateline Japan, Mitsubishi Fusso Truck and Bus Company says it will recall about 112,000 large vehicles due to defective wheel hubs that have caused a series of accidents. The truck and busmaker officially apologize for taking so long to recognize the design flaw which causes wheels to detach from the vehicles.

Minor little item, they are sold as wheeled vehicles. An accident two years ago left a Yokohama woman dead. We deeply regret the long time of two years it took after that fatal accident to file the recall and wish to apologize for having caused public disturbance. I wish to visit the family of the victim of the accident and extend my condolences and in fact he did. He placed flowers and bow deeply at the grave. Dominative workout guru Richard Simmons allegedly smacked a 255 pound man who made fun of Simmons exercise videos. He was arrested and cited for misdemeanor assault. This is I believe somewhere in Arizona. Anyway, he was posing for photos and signing autographs. While working through the concourse at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

By the way, his real first name, Milton. Then he was spotted by a man according to police report. The man said, hey, everybody, it's Richard Simmons. Let's drop our bags and rock to the 50s. Simmons told cops he took offense and had to quote bitch slap unquote the man. According to a Phoenix police sergeant, the alleged victim 23 year old Chris Farnie claims Simmons bitch slap came with the warning quote, it's not nice to make fun of people with issues. Farnie is a six foot one inch tall Harley Davidson salesman and cage wrestler. What do you want to be when you grow up, Chris? I think I want to be a cage wrestler. Okay, then take lots of math. He was not injured, but he wants to press charges against the five foot seven 155 pound Simmons, despite receiving a personal apology from Simmons. So Richard has apologized. The St. Paul City Council apologized to the city's American Indians on Wednesday acknowledging

it did a poor job of letting them know about opportunities to join the police chief selection committee. The council has been criticized for failing to assemble a more diverse panel. The group is made up of 11 whites, three blacks, one Asian and one Latino. A Hispanic member was added late in the process to broaden the representation said David glass and Ojibwe. The apology is nice, but how many times over hundreds of years can you listen to? I'm sorry we messed up. If they were sincere in their apologies, the next step would be to fix it. Give the first people a seat at the table. It isn't likely to happen according to council staff members because no Indians applied. What about them ending? Sorry. And choking back tears. Former Hartford State Legislator, Hartford Connecticut State Legislator, Barnaby Horton told the Superior Court judge this week he was sorry for misleading elderly voters into casting absentee ballots for him two years ago. I apologize to the elderly residents who put their faith in me and I let them down. This is a hearing whether he should be granted accelerated rehab for the voting fraud charges against him. He didn't deny the charges.

It was arrested on seven felony counts of unlawful possessions of another's absentee ballot and three counts as being present as a candidate when absentee ballots were completed. This was reported to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, Hartford had gone from room to room at the home for low income elderly and handicapped residents providing them with ballots and in some cases encouraging them to check his name on the ballot. Said his father of the request for accelerated rehab. I greatly fear it could crush his spirit if the request is not granted. That's a dad. That is a loyal dad. If I violated the law, I had no intention of doing so said former Hartford State Legislator Barnaby Horton, if I violated the law, if said a former State Legislator of the law that forbids you from taking other people's ballots and completing them. I'm sorry to the people of Connecticut who I represented whom Barnaby whom.

And of course, the apology that made all the headlines, even though he never said, I'm sorry, he never said the words, I'm sorry, Richard Clark referred to more in derision than in familiarity as dick by a lot of the critics who began his testimony at the 9-11 commission by telling the families of 9-11 victims, many of whom were in attendance at the commission hearing that he had failed them, the government had failed them, and he hoped after all the facts were in that they could understand and forgive him. Didn't say, I apologize, I'm sorry, but said that and was derided for grandstanding and was applauded by some of the families for being the first government official to say, hey, it's on me. As noted before, the Bush administration launched a full court press sending out all of the top officials, some of whom did testify at the 9-11 commission, although notably Condoleezza Rice still refuses to claiming executive privilege, she did testify in private, I'm not sure whether that was under oath.

But she will not testify under oath in public, though she will go on every television program, but that doesn't violate executive privilege. She's on 60 minutes this weekend, and as I say, all the other officials went out and basically criticized Clark for being in the book selling business and digging up prior statements by Clark, prior contradictory statements when he was in the employee of the administration. Clark's explanation, of course, I was in the employee of the administration, but it's a serious business, Clark's charge that the Bush administration was asleep at the switch on the subject of terrorism paying more attention to other topics, missile defense, China, Iraq, and it's triggered a lot of response and maybe even a phone call. Leifo Eagle.

Hey, hey, like that code name in honor of the anniversary of the war, I think it's in honor of the way I killed at the correspondence dinner. Did you see any of the footage, 41? So little on C span, cute little slideshow types, you did there, made the dams get their panties and a little bit of a twist. You know, we rehearsed that thing for a solid week. Yeah, look very polished. We played rehearsal tapes for Dennis Miller's audience a couple nights and then we focused group them up to Wassu, not literally. I'm not in a need to know position regarding that four to one, but you know, that enabled me to hone my deliverance. Hey, look, if the dams are attacking you for tasteless jokes, yeah, like a Howard Sternberg or something, then they're not attacking you about Dick Clark's charges. You're ahead of the game, yeah, probably should find some other tasteless jokes to do next week. It may be, maybe do a slideshow at a half time of the NCAA championship game where you're looking for Janet Jackson's breast.

I don't think so, 41. I think you best leave the humor to the professionals, but look, about our friend, Mr. Clark. Yeah. How do you and mom think that, you know, the whole thing is, is, is playing. You know, your mom, she just wants anybody who impedes her son to be spanked till he tosses his cookies. Why would she want me to talk to a guy who impedes her son tosses his cookie? Got it, got it up to speed. But, how about you, 41? I think Lee Atwater would be proud of this little campaign and the pre-death bed, the Lee Atwater. Yeah, the pre-apology Lee Atwater. Deathbed Lee would think this was a little harsh. Harsh! Hey, look, 41, you know darn well what he was trying to do to me. If you're saying I was inattentative to terrorism, if you're saying that Bill Clinton, the man on whose account we had to replace all the plumbing fixtures in the Oval Office was tougher than I am, you're trying to wimpify me.

I know that you think that was a big issue for me. Don't think it. Think I know it. Sir, you won a war and they whipified you. Wasn't going to happen to me on my watch. Just wasn't. No can do Bob. We had no choice but to, to go nuclear on him. And it looked like you were on the defense, isn't it? Just the opposite, sir. Just a complete 360. We were in total comprehensive attack modus. How can you be on the defensive when you're on the offensive? That'd be like intercepting your own pass, isn't it? Suppose, still, you're going to end up having to let Condi Rice testify. Hey, we let Rumsfeld testify. Colin was a good witness. But if you let her go on Larry King, but not under oath in a public hearing,

looks like he got something to hide. Even if you don't get it, we can ask Mr. Hussein what that can lead to. 41. I react to that remark, which severe resentmentification. There's just nothing, nothing in common between George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. You know, just, just for starters, as you well know, we do have weapons of mass destruction. But look, Sprout, whether you know it or not, your guys are already working on a face saving way for Condi to testify in the open. But isn't on your desk now? It will be by Monday. See, 41. I don't mean to suggest that by suggesting I'm out of the loop, you yourself are out of the loop. Never been out of the loops, even when I was. But we're moving the ball way up the field on this Dick Clark thing this week. You are? Yes, sir, in the affirmative. Phase one of operation cut the legs off the sucker,

was digging up every piece of verboog. He delivered while he was working for us and setting that up against what he's saying now. Well, he's just trying to sell a book. The whole Dick Clark versus Dick Clark deal. Yes, sir, exact to Matissimo. Well, I got a fella sitting in the oval with me right now. Gonna make that case even more compedulous. Hold on, 41. Well. Hello, Mr. President. Hey, hey. Who's this? Voice sounds familiar. Dick Clark, sir. From the blooper show. And Ben stand and pyramid and whatever. Yes, sir. How are you? Well, I can't complain. Golf games going in the toy. What are you doing in the executive mansion there, my friend? Tell you a funny story. I was in Burbank taping the wraparounds for the commentary track of the bloopers DVD when I got a call. Would I like to come to our nation's capital and support our commander in chief when he's taken friendly fire? Well, sir, long story short, we wrapped the session early.

I ate the lunch penalty. Car picks me up half an hour later before I know it. Right in the American first class, which is you may know, sir, is not all that the civilians might think it is. And the next thing you know, I'm here in the White House basement, taping some of my own opinions about this administration's response to the war on terror. That was the short answer. I need to hear the long one. Well, so they're just gonna put ads with you on the air. Dick Clark versus Dick Clark, which one do you believe? Mr. President, they made a heck of a case that all the equity I'd built up with the public over the years of doing. Not just the shows, but the commercials for the light rock radio stations all across the country. In their test, 90% of the focus groups believe what I like to call the real Dick Clark. The one without the e. What do you say? The one without the e. Hey, nice talking to you, Mr. President. I'm sure you're busy. I know I am. Take care. $10 million ad buy.

In the next week, our little friend, the other Mr. Clark, going to be selling his books out of the trunk of his car. And we can go back to pounding his cariness. I'm looking French. Pretty neat, 43. I have to admit it. Even the death badly at water would like it. Yeah. Hey, speaking of France, final question, 4041. They got me going over to Paris for the 40th anniversary of the D-Day meeting with the French president and all. Yeah. Then that went by me, you know, me go to France? Well, shouldn't he be coming here? Yeah. No, not for the D-Day thing. Shorter distance for our veterans to travel. See, I really do care about our veterans. Thank you just got to go to France. Yeah, I have to do it sometime in your life. Yeah. I'll tell you one thing, though. I'm not eating any of their damn snails legs. Okay, there you go. Stand on principle. Look, 43, you take care of yourself. Yeah, tell mom thanks about the cookies. Well, do.

Well, I got me a hat and a little guitar. And I made it up, painted on the second head of cars. Got me a job and a radio. Sailing up the money for a fiddle and a boat To do the radio. Okay. All over the dial. With a son of a kid. Red, I pick his Tennessee style. Now, early in the morning, the sun comes up. Pull the fork from the jug. Take a little sun. The sun keeps shining up on the corn. Sturfs deraded, just grind it in the barn. Do the radio. Okay. All over the dial. With a son of a kid. Red, I pick his Tennessee style.

All over the dial. All over the dial. All over the dial. That's got me a job and a fan. I got a friend and a boat.

I got money to spend. Everybody else, hang around with me. Do the radio. Boogie's all they can say. We did the radio. Boogie. All over the dial. With a son of a kid. Red, I pick his Tennessee style. Do the radio. Boogie. All over the dial. All over the dial. Son of a kid. Red, I pick his Tennessee style. Whoo! Ladies and gentlemen, it's a war unlike any other. And it'll go on for years. But we can notch one victory this week in the war on error.

In the wake of September 11th, Condi Rice said, nobody ever imagined that terrorists would think of using planes as weapons. And certain broadcasts heard on this frequency at this time slot said, well, aren't those people paid to imagine? Stuff. And this week in fact, Condi Rice in the face of testimony that there were intelligence reports going back into the 90s speculating on the use of aircraft as weapons by terrorists said she, quote, misspoke. She misspoke. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing, nothing more need be missed. That's going to put the cap on this edition of Le Show. The program returns next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR worldwide throughout Europe on the USN 440 cable system in Japan. Around the world for the facilities of the American Forces Network,

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