Dumbest fucking publicity decision ever

DFGOTP does The Daily Show. Video to follow.

Reading the book so that you <strike>don't have to</strike> can laugh at its cretinous author

Spencer Ackerman.

The real book on DFGOTP

Back in 2005, the incomparable Athenae of First Draft compiled some of the best blog posts on our subject for a book entitled Special Plans. As the publicity tour gets under way for the DFBOTP, starting with the profile on Sunday's 60 Minutes, her post at Firedoglake is worth a read:

That’s what truly enrages me about the information we all dug up: That despite all that work, despite all that information widely available discrediting this man on any number of levels, Feith remains someone worthy of paying a tidy sum to continue to spew his nonsense for the American people (a sum he claims, by the way, to be donating to the veterans of his war, which is the very least he could do). He should be giving his side of the story from a witness stand in the Hague, not from the comfy chair beside Tim Russert or Chris Matthews. He should be unemployed, not teaching at Georgetown.

The guy’s never gonna miss a meal. The Congressional report published last February said that what Feith had done was inappropriate but not illegal, something Feith's defenders hailed at the time as a major exoneration, “not illegal” being the highest honor to which a Bush public servant can aspire these days. The war is going on and on, even as information continues to come out about how it was planned (or not, as the case may be).

One presumes that DFGOTP will be showing up in the usual places to shill his ass-covering tome. Jon Stewart? We have high expectations.

Assholes are cheap today

As the publication date of DFGOTP's DFBOTP draws near, we get to hear from Philippe Sands QC. The notable quotable, on the moral authority associated with adhering to Geneva obligations:

The principled legal arguments were a fig leaf. The real reason for the Geneva decision, as Feith now made explicit, was the desire to interrogate these detainees with as few constraints as possible. Feith thought he’d found a clever way to do this, which on the one hand upheld Geneva as a matter of law—the speech he made to Myers and Rumsfeld—and on the other pulled the rug out from under it as a matter of reality. Feith’s argument was so clever that Myers continued to believe Geneva’s protections remained in force—he was “well and truly hoodwinked,” one seasoned observer of military affairs later told me.

Feith’s argument prevailed. On February 7, 2002, President Bush signed a memorandum that turned Guantánamo into a Geneva-free zone. As a matter of policy, the detainees would be handled humanely, but only to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity. “The president said ‘humane treatment,’ ” Feith told me, inflecting the term sourly, “and I thought that was O.K. Perfectly fine phrase that needs to be fleshed out, but it’s a fine phrase—‘humane treatment.’ ” The Common Article 3 restrictions on torture or “outrages upon personal dignity” were gone.

“This year I was really a player,” Feith said, thinking back on 2002 and relishing the memory. I asked him whether, in the end, he was at all concerned that the Geneva decision might have diminished America’s moral authority. He was not. “The problem with moral authority,” he said, was “people who should know better, like yourself, siding with the assholes, to put it crudely.”

Crudely, indeed.

Please ensure that DFGOTP is treated humanely when he pimps his book.

The Most Shameless Fucking Book On The Planet

Since 'Dumbest Fucking Book On The Planet' is taken, DFGOTP is forced to enter another category, with the aid of an advance from Harper Collins. The Washington Post has a copy of the interminable MS, and -- surprise! -- it turns out to be a long whine at everybody else who fucked up Iraq.

Oh, and War and Decision? What kind of title is that? Did Whore of Derision get garbled over the phone?