POWELL FINDS HIS BALLS I had heard that Colin Powell was attempting to distance himself from the remarks he made to the UN last year about the reasons for going to war and then last night on News 24 I saw a report that he was mad as hell with just about everyone else in the Bush administration for allowing him to make such an arse of himself. It now looks like he is determined to put the record straight: "This is pretty unbelievable. Colin Powell's press aide attempted to put an early end to the interview by suddenly moving the camera away from Powell (right after Powell addresses the torture situation and right before Russert asks a hard-hitting question about the fake nigerian yellow cake WMD evidence he cited within his U.N. speech). Powell gets her out of the way somehow, manages to get the camera pointed in the right direction, and resumes the interview. You can hear him say "Emily, get out of the way."" You can download the clips here but here is a quick transcript: EMILY MILLER, STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS AIDE: You're off. SECRETARY POWELL: I am not off. EMILY MILLER, PRESS AIDE: No. They can't use it, they're editing it. SECRETARY POWELL: He's still asking the questions. EMILY MILLER, PRESS AIDE: He was not ... SECRETARY POWELL: Tim, I am sorry I lost you. MR. RUSSERT: I am right here Mr. Secretary. I would hope they would put you back on camera. I don't know who did that. EMILY MILLER, PRESS AIDE: He was going to go for another five minutes. SECRETARY POWELL: We've really scre... MR. RUSSERT: I think that was one of your staff Mr. Secretary. I don't think that's appropriate. SECRETARY POWELL: Emily, get out of the way. Bring the camera back please. (Camera returns to the interview subject) I think we're back on Tim, go ahead with your last question. (via boing boing) Corran also has an interesting Powell related post over on his site: Please let us suck your cock Mr.Powell...mmmmm *slurp slurp slurp* we're on your side ok? *slurvf slorp* can you shit on our chests again like you did last year? Mike is blogging to: Nation of Ulysses