20/20, that is. I bet every bar in the Beltway's going to be full of staffers riveted to the screen, taking notes, and Blackberry-ing to each other.
And since I don't own a TV, I'm going to have to rely on the kindness of alert readers to tell me what's going on....
So, it turns out that authoritarian militarists are assholes. What a surprise. Take Harlan Ullman--please:
The doctrine of Shock and Awe was developed by [Harlan] Ullman and James. P. Wade and was a product of the National Defense University of the United States. It technically is known as " rapid dominance" and is a military doctrine based on the use of "overwhelming decisive force," "dominant battlefield awareness," "dominant maneuvers," and "spectacular displays of power" to "paralyze" an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy his will to fight.
Doctor Freud, will you please pick up the white courtesy phone?
Either Ullman's (1) overcompensating madly or (2) he's, er, he's a practitioner of shock and awe in the sack, too. I'll go with door #2:
Phone records provided to ABC News by [Beltway Madam Deborah] Palfrey show Ullman was a repeat customer, who Palfrey says was known by her women as "Mr. U" and is well-remembered.
"He was a disagreeable character," Palfrey says, "and there were some complaints about him." She said some of the women refused to service him a second time "because he was an unpleasant person."
Authoritarian militarists "unpleasant?"
Say it isn't so!
NOTE Harlan Ullman's ideas helped kill many thousands of people, piss away a trillion dollars, and usher in a militaristic, authoritarian, anti-Constitutional regime. Who are the bad people here? Not Pamela Martin, or her associates.
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Shocking. Awesome.
More of these dominoes are definitely going to fall. How many thousand pages of telephone records are there? This is gonna be so much fun. Booo yaaaa.
Rumor last night was that one of the names
was (paraphrase) "head of a conservative think tank." A source the writer (diarist at dKos I think but can't swear) claimed was reliable said it was Grover Norquist.
Hilarity, and a certain amount of unkindness, and a positively vulgar list of uses for bathtubs, and some other stuff ensued.
Of course we here are above that sort of thing and put such speculations firmly into the It Would Be Irresponsible Not To category. Which makes it sheer rumor and uninhibited youthful fun if any libel attorneys come sniffing around.
[scatters cayenne pepper and dried lavender around the perimeter of the Corrente Building]
hahahaha
I think Pamela Martin and her associates are, indeed, "bad people". They may not be nearly as "bad" as Harlan Ulman, but they are still a pimp and a gaggle of prostitutes. Nobody forced these girls into prostitution, they were lazy and didn't want to have to actually work for a living. Instead they wanted to sleep with disgusting old men for money.
Pamela Martin
It was disappointing not to have Grover Norquist singled out on the program, because I believe earlier reports had tied him to the ring. But I was dismayed by the story about the University of Maryland professor who ended up committing suicide after being arrested for her participation as a masseuse. Weren't her activities her private business? Only a fundamentalist, puritanical nation like ours criminalizes such activities, with such tragic, unnecessary results.