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Times cited House GOP accusations of wrongdoing by Holder, but not Dem response http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/wash-times-cited-house-gop-accusations-of-wrongdoing-20081127525.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/wash-times-cited-house-gop-accusations-of-wrongdoing-20081127525.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:03:26 GMT A November 20 Washington Times article by Jerry Seper repeated accusations in a House Republican report of wrongdoing by Eric Holder, who is reportedly President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general, in the context of President Clinton's 2001 pardon of Marc Rich. In doing so, Seper suggested that Holder had illicitly worked with Rich attorney Jack Quinn to bypass career Justice Department officials and falsely suggested that Holder had written an email telling Quinn that "the 'timing is good' for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon." In fact, Holder did not write the email that Seper cited, and according to testimony by former White House counsel Beth Nolan, pardon applications were directed to the White House because the Justice Department's pardon office stopped handling new applications in the fall of 2000. Seper reported that "[t]he former prosecutor whom President-elect Barack Obama wants to run the Justice Department bypassed the agency's career lawyers during one of the most controversial final decisions made by President Clinton in January 2001 -- the pardon of billionaire fugitive financier Marc Rich, congressional records show." He later claimed that evidence in a Republican-led House Government Reform Committee's majority report on the pardon "included an email in which Mr. Holder told Mr. Quinn to 'go straight' to the White House and that the 'timing is good' for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon." In fact, the email was not written by Holder. Rather, Quinn sent it on November 18 to several recipients not including Holder. According to the majority report, the subject line of the email was "eric," and the body of the email said: "spoke to him last evening. he says go straight to wh. also says timing is good. we shd get in soon. will elab when we speak." The majority report said, "assuming the 'eric' referenced [in the email] is Eric Holder, this e-mail contradicts the heart of Holder's defense." While Seper noted that Holder "told lawmakers during the investigation that he thought he had done nothing wrong" and that Government Reform Committee report "was approved by Republicans, led by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, over the objections of Democrats," Seper did not note that the Minority Views Report -- signed by 14 members of the committee -- stated that it is "unclear that 'eric' even refers to Eric Holder" and that "[a]ssuming the e-mail accurately reflects the words of Mr. Holder, it shows that he advised Mr. Quinn to submit the pardon petition directly to the White House. But this is not proof of wrongdoing." The minority report continued: "As Beth Nolan testified, the Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department had indicated by then the he would not process any more pardon applications, while the President was continuing to accept clemency applications at the White House." Indeed, according to the Nexis database transcript of a March 1, 2001, Government Reform committee hearing, then-committee ranking member Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) asked Nolan: "Did the pardon attorney's office tell the White House in September or October of 2000 that they couldn't take any more pardon applications and that they weren't going to be able to review them or get the information to the White House?" Nolan responded: "They told us that sometime in the fall, I'm not sure of the exact date." From the Minority Views Report: The evidence before the committee also does not prove the majority's accusation that Mr. Holder worked with Mr. Quinn to cut other Justice Department officials out of the pardon review process. In retrospect, it is clear that Mr. Holder should have done more to include other Justice Department officials in the review process. Indeed, Mr. Holder conceded as much during testimony. This mistake in judgment is not evidence of misconduct. The majority points to a November 18, 2001, email message as proof of a conspiracy between Mr. Holder and Mr. Quinn. The subject line reads "eric." The text of the message reads: "spoke to him last evening. He says go straight to wh. Also says timing is good. We shd get in soon. Will elab when we speak." Neither Mr. Quinn nor Mr. Holder testified about this message, however. Indeed, as the majority itself acknowledges, it is unclear that "eric" even refers to Eric Holder. Assuming the e-mail accurately reflects the words of Mr. Holder, it shows that he advised Mr. Quinn to submit the pardon petition directly to the White House. But this is not proof of wrongdoing. As Beth Nolan testified, the Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department had indicated by then the he would not process any more pardon applications, while the President was continuing to accept clemency applications at the White House. Seper also reported that "[t]he House committee concluded in the March 2002 report that Mr. Holder played a significant role in facilitating the pardon, first by recommending Mr. Quinn to Mr. Rich's legal representatives." Indeed, the majority report read: "After numerous failed attempts to have his case settled, Marc Rich hired Jack Quinn to represent him. Quinn was hired after a recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder." Seper did not note that the minority report, however, stated the following of the claim that Holder "recommended" Quinn: "To reach the conclusion that Mr. Holder 'recommended' Mr. Quinn to Mr. [Gershon] Kekst, the majority ascribes great significance to a chance social encounter in late 1998 between Mr. Holder and Mr. Kekst, who had never before met." It continued: According to Mr. Kekst, he found himself seated next to Mr. Holder at a large corporate event. After Mr. Holder indicated that he "worked at Main Justice," Mr. Kekst recalled asking him general questions about the system of accountability at the Department of Justice and, in particular, to whom U.S. Attorneys were responsible. Mr. Holder apparently responded that they were accountable to him; that was his job. He recalls asking Mr. Holder what a person would do if he believed he was the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. Mr. Kekst said that Mr. Holder suggested hiring a lawyer in Washington, D.C., who knows the process. He recalled that Mr. Holder then spotted Jack Quinn and said words to the effect of, "There is Jack Quinn, someone like that." According to Mr. Kekst, Marc Rich's name never came up in the conversation. From the House Committee on Government Reform's March 1, 2001, hearings on President Clinton's pardons (from Nexis): REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D-CA): Did the pardon attorney's office tell the White House in September or October of 2000 that they couldn't take any more pardon applications and that they weren't going to be able to review them or get the information to the White House? NOLAN: They told us that sometime in the fall, I'm not sure of the exact date. WAXMAN: And so around the time that the pardon attorney's office at the Justice Department was telling the White House that it would process no more pardon applications, the president was seeking out more applications and there was also an increase in pardon requests. Isn't that right? NOLAN: Right, there had been in fact a great increase all through the year in applications, so the pardon attorney's office had more applications and hadn't been able to move them in any significant, faster rate. WAXMAN: In December and January, did you feel overwhelmed by the amount of pardon requests that you were asked to process? NOLAN: We were really inundated with pardon requests, and, in fact, sometime around Christmas week, I think, I spoke with Mr. Podesta and said, "We have to have a cut off. We can't possibly finish what we have, if more pardon requests come in and..." WAXMAN: Where were they coming from? NOLAN: They were coming from everywhere, Mr. Waxman. We had requests from members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and both Houses. We had requests from movie stars, newscasters, former presidents, former first ladies. There wasn't anybody -- I refused to go to holiday parties because I couldn't stand being -- nobody wanted to know how I was, thank you very much. They wanted to know about a pardon. So I just didn't go. WAXMAN: So let me make sure I understand this. The White House was involved in closing up its operations, but still trying to issue new regulations and negotiating a Middle East peace agreement. The president was insisting that you consider as many pardon applications as possible, despite the fact that the Justice Department wouldn't take any more applications after October of 2000, and you were being besieged by members of Congress and others to consider an ever-growing number of pardons. And on top of that, I suspect you weren't even aware of some of the pardon activities. Is that a fair statement of what was going on at the White House? NOLAN: I think that is a very fair statement. I would add that we were also doing this shortened transition period and trying to work with the incoming administration, so that was another... WAXMAN: And, Mr. Podesta, is that an accurate statement from your point of view? JOHN PODESTA (former White House chief of staff): I think that's accurate, yes. WAXMAN: You were hearing from members of Congress, and I even called you on behalf of a constituent, who I thought deserved consideration for a pardon, Mike Milken, who did not get a pardon. NOLAN: That's right. WAXMAN: And I understand you got calls from congressman and senators. Did any of them suggest you not follow the Justice Department Guidelines? NOLAN: Yes, certainly. Several of them suggested that they knew it was too late, really, to go through the Department of Justice, but they wanted to send the pardon application directly to the White House. WAXMAN: How many contacts, if you know, did you get from members of Congress, House and Senate? NOLAN: I don't no, sir. I had probably 30 or 40 phone calls. And I think I took less than half of the calls. I just couldn't possibly respond to all the calls I had. WAXMAN: Mr. Podesta, do you have any idea of how many calls you... PODESTA: I would guess it's in the high double or in the triple digits. WAXMAN: Were there any examples that stand out in your mind of congressman or senators that were asking you to issue pardons and not follow the Justice Department guidelines? PODESTA: Well, let me clarify one thing. I don't think that members of Congress said, "Please issue a pardon, and, by the way, don't follow the Justice Department guidelines." I think they basically just didn't care whether we followed the Justice Department guidelines. For example, I think in one particular case in which we did issue a pardon for Mr. Lake, that was done at the end, and I think did not go through the Justice Department. I think both the chairman and the Senate Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the counterpart committee to your committee in the Senate called on his behalf, or at least made their views known on his behalf. WAXMAN: Senator Hatch? PODESTA: Senator Hatch and Senator Thompson. I don't think they really cared whether that had gone through the Justice Department guidelines or not. From the Times article: The former prosecutor whom President-elect Barack Obama wants to run the Justice Department bypassed the agency's career lawyers during one of the most controversial final decisions made by President Clinton in January 2001 -- the pardon of billionaire fugitive financier Marc Rich, congressional records show. Eric H. Holder Jr., then the deputy attorney general, worked with former White House Counsel Jack Quinn to ensure that department officials -- particularly federal prosecutors in New York who handled the Rich case -- "did not have the opportunity to express an opinion on the Rich pardon before it was granted," the Republican-led House Government Reform Committee concluded in a 467-page report in 2002. The committee's evidence included an e-mail in which Mr. Holder told Mr. Quinn to "go straight" to the White House and that the "timing is good" for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon. Normally, pardon requests are reviewed by career prosecutors before a recommendation is forwarded to the White House. Mr. Quinn responded in a typewritten note to Mr. Holder, just 10 days before Mr. Clinton issued the pardon, "Your saying positive things, I'm told, would make this happen. Thanks for your consideration." Mr. Holder was not available for comment on Wednesday. But he told lawmakers during the investigation that he thought he had done nothing wrong. [...] The House committee, which finished its investigation in 2002, concluded from its interviews and the documents that Mr. Holder helped bypassed the normal procedure for pardons in Mr. Rich's case. The report was approved by Republicans, led by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, over the objections of Democrats. "The evidence amassed by the committee indicates that Holder advised Quinn to file the Rich pardon petition with the White House and leave the Justice Department out of the process," the report said. [...] The House committee concluded in the March 2002 report that Mr. Holder played a significant role in facilitating the pardon, first by recommending Mr. Quinn to Mr. Rich's legal representatives, and by delivering what it called a favorable opinion of the last-minute pardon to the president from a position of authority. Mediamatters.Org Wash. Times cited House GOP accusations of wrongdoing by Holder, but not Dem response {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - A November 20 Washington Times article by Jerry Seper repeated accusations in a House Republican report of wrongdoing by Eric Holder, who is reportedly President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general, in the context of President Clinton's 2001 pardon of Marc Rich. In doing so, Seper suggested that Holder had illicitly worked with Rich attorney Jack Quinn to bypass career Justice Department officials and falsely suggested that Holder had written an email telling Quinn that "the 'timing is good' for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon." In fact, Holder did not write the email that Seper cited, and according to testimony by former White House counsel Beth Nolan, pardon applications were directed to the White House because the Justice Department's pardon office stopped handling new applications in the fall of 2000. Seper reported that "[t]he former prosecutor whom President-elect Barack Obama wants to run the Justice Department bypassed the agency's career lawyers during one of the most controversial final decisions made by President Clinton in January 2001 -- the pardon of billionaire fugitive financier Marc Rich, congressional records show." He later claimed that evidence in a Republican-led House Government Reform Committee's majority report on the pardon "included an email in which Mr. Holder told Mr. Quinn to 'go straight' to the White House and that the 'timing is good' for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon." In fact, the email was not written by Holder. Rather, Quinn sent it on November 18 to several recipients not including Holder. According to the majority report, the subject line of the email was "eric," and the body of the email said: "spoke to him last evening. he says go straight to wh. also says timing is good. we shd get in soon. will elab when we speak." The majority report said, "assuming the 'eric' referenced [in the email] is Eric Holder, this e-mail contradicts the heart of Holder's defense." While Seper noted that Holder "told lawmakers during the investigation that he thought he had done nothing wrong" and that Government Reform Committee report "was approved by Republicans, led by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, over the objections of Democrats," Seper did not note that the Minority Views Report -- signed by 14 members of the committee -- stated that it is "unclear that 'eric' even refers to Eric Holder" and that "[a]ssuming the e-mail accurately reflects the words of Mr. Holder, it shows that he advised Mr. Quinn to submit the pardon petition directly to the White House. But this is not proof of wrongdoing." The minority report continued: "As Beth Nolan testified, the Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department had indicated by then the he would not process any more pardon applications, while the President was continuing to accept clemency applications at the White House." Indeed, according to the Nexis database transcript of a March 1, 2001, Government Reform committee hearing, then-committee ranking member Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) asked Nolan: "Did the pardon attorney's office tell the White House in September or October of 2000 that they couldn't take any more pardon applications and that they weren't going to be able to review them or get the information to the White House?" Nolan responded: "They told us that sometime in the fall, I'm not sure of the exact date." From the Minority Views Report: The evidence before the committee also does not prove the majority's accusation that Mr. Holder worked with Mr. Quinn to cut other Justice Department officials out of the pardon review process. In retrospect, it is clear that Mr. Holder should have done more to include other Justice Department officials in the review process. Indeed, Mr. Holder conceded as much during testimony. This mistake in judgment is not evidence of misconduct. The majority points to a November 18, 2001, email message as proof of a conspiracy between Mr. Holder and Mr. Quinn. The subject line reads "eric." The text of the message reads: "spoke to him last evening. He says go straight to wh. Also says timing is good. We shd get in soon. Will elab when we speak." Neither Mr. Quinn nor Mr. Holder testified about this message, however. Indeed, as the majority itself acknowledges, it is unclear that "eric" even refers to Eric Holder. Assuming the e-mail accurately reflects the words of Mr. Holder, it shows that he advised Mr. Quinn to submit the pardon petition directly to the White House. But this is not proof of wrongdoing. As Beth Nolan testified, the Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department had indicated by then the he would not process any more pardon applications, while the President was continuing to accept clemency applications at the White House. Seper also reported that "[t]he House committee concluded in the March 2002 report that Mr. Holder played a significant role in facilitating the pardon, first by recommending Mr. Quinn to Mr. Rich's legal representatives." Indeed, the majority report read: "After numerous failed attempts to have his case settled, Marc Rich hired Jack Quinn to represent him. Quinn was hired after a recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder." Seper did not note that the minority report, however, stated the following of the claim that Holder "recommended" Quinn: "To reach the conclusion that Mr. Holder 'recommended' Mr. Quinn to Mr. [Gershon] Kekst, the majority ascribes great significance to a chance social encounter in late 1998 between Mr. Holder and Mr. Kekst, who had never before met." It continued: According to Mr. Kekst, he found himself seated next to Mr. Holder at a large corporate event. After Mr. Holder indicated that he "worked at Main Justice," Mr. Kekst recalled asking him general questions about the system of accountability at the Department of Justice and, in particular, to whom U.S. Attorneys were responsible. Mr. Holder apparently responded that they were accountable to him; that was his job. He recalls asking Mr. Holder what a person would do if he believed he was the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. Mr. Kekst said that Mr. Holder suggested hiring a lawyer in Washington, D.C., who knows the process. He recalled that Mr. Holder then spotted Jack Quinn and said words to the effect of, "There is Jack Quinn, someone like that." According to Mr. Kekst, Marc Rich's name never came up in the conversation. From the House Committee on Government Reform's March 1, 2001, hearings on President Clinton's pardons (from Nexis): REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D-CA): Did the pardon attorney's office tell the White House in September or October of 2000 that they couldn't take any more pardon applications and that they weren't going to be able to review them or get the information to the White House? NOLAN: They told us that sometime in the fall, I'm not sure of the exact date. WAXMAN: And so around the time that the pardon attorney's office at the Justice Department was telling the White House that it would process no more pardon applications, the president was seeking out more applications and there was also an increase in pardon requests. Isn't that right? NOLAN: Right, there had been in fact a great increase all through the year in applications, so the pardon attorney's office had more applications and hadn't been able to move them in any significant, faster rate. WAXMAN: In December and January, did you feel overwhelmed by the amount of pardon requests that you were asked to process? NOLAN: We were really inundated with pardon requests, and, in fact, sometime around Christmas week, I think, I spoke with Mr. Podesta and said, "We have to have a cut off. We can't possibly finish what we have, if more pardon requests come in and..." WAXMAN: Where were they coming from? NOLAN: They were coming from everywhere, Mr. Waxman. We had requests from members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and both Houses. We had requests from movie stars, newscasters, former presidents, former first ladies. There wasn't anybody -- I refused to go to holiday parties because I couldn't stand being -- nobody wanted to know how I was, thank you very much. They wanted to know about a pardon. So I just didn't go. WAXMAN: So let me make sure I understand this. The White House was involved in closing up its operations, but still trying to issue new regulations and negotiating a Middle East peace agreement. The president was insisting that you consider as many pardon applications as possible, despite the fact that the Justice Department wouldn't take any more applications after October of 2000, and you were being besieged by members of Congress and others to consider an ever-growing number of pardons. And on top of that, I suspect you weren't even aware of some of the pardon activities. Is that a fair statement of what was going on at the White House? NOLAN: I think that is a very fair statement. I would add that we were also doing this shortened transition period and trying to work with the incoming administration, so that was another... WAXMAN: And, Mr. Podesta, is that an accurate statement from your point of view? JOHN PODESTA (former White House chief of staff): I think that's accurate, yes. WAXMAN: You were hearing from members of Congress, and I even called you on behalf of a constituent, who I thought deserved consideration for a pardon, Mike Milken, who did not get a pardon. NOLAN: That's right. WAXMAN: And I understand you got calls from congressman and senators. Did any of them suggest you not follow the Justice Department Guidelines? NOLAN: Yes, certainly. Several of them suggested that they knew it was too late, really, to go through the Department of Justice, but they wanted to send the pardon application directly to the White House. WAXMAN: How many contacts, if you know, did you get from members of Congress, House and Senate? NOLAN: I don't no, sir. I had probably 30 or 40 phone calls. And I think I took less than half of the calls. I just couldn't possibly respond to all the calls I had. WAXMAN: Mr. Podesta, do you have any idea of how many calls you... PODESTA: I would guess it's in the high double or in the triple digits. WAXMAN: Were there any examples that stand out in your mind of congressman or senators that were asking you to issue pardons and not follow the Justice Department guidelines? PODESTA: Well, let me clarify one thing. I don't think that members of Congress said, "Please issue a pardon, and, by the way, don't follow the Justice Department guidelines." I think they basically just didn't care whether we followed the Justice Department guidelines. For example, I think in one particular case in which we did issue a pardon for Mr. Lake, that was done at the end, and I think did not go through the Justice Department. I think both the chairman and the Senate Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the counterpart committee to your committee in the Senate called on his behalf, or at least made their views known on his behalf. WAXMAN: Senator Hatch? PODESTA: Senator Hatch and Senator Thompson. I don't think they really cared whether that had gone through the Justice Department guidelines or not. From the Times article: The former prosecutor whom President-elect Barack Obama wants to run the Justice Department bypassed the agency's career lawyers during one of the most controversial final decisions made by President Clinton in January 2001 -- the pardon of billionaire fugitive financier Marc Rich, congressional records show. Eric H. Holder Jr., then the deputy attorney general, worked with former White House Counsel Jack Quinn to ensure that department officials -- particularly federal prosecutors in New York who handled the Rich case -- "did not have the opportunity to express an opinion on the Rich pardon before it was granted," the Republican-led House Government Reform Committee concluded in a 467-page report in 2002. The committee's evidence included an e-mail in which Mr. Holder told Mr. Quinn to "go straight" to the White House and that the "timing is good" for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon. Normally, pardon requests are reviewed by career prosecutors before a recommendation is forwarded to the White House. Mr. Quinn responded in a typewritten note to Mr. Holder, just 10 days before Mr. Clinton issued the pardon, "Your saying positive things, I'm told, would make this happen. Thanks for your consideration." Mr. Holder was not available for comment on Wednesday. But he told lawmakers during the investigation that he thought he had done nothing wrong. [...] The House committee, which finished its investigation in 2002, concluded from its interviews and the documents that Mr. Holder helped bypassed the normal procedure for pardons in Mr. Rich's case. The report was approved by Republicans, led by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, over the objections of Democrats. "The evidence amassed by the committee indicates that Holder advised Quinn to file the Rich pardon petition with the White House and leave the Justice Department out of the process," the report said. [...] The House committee concluded in the March 2002 report that Mr. Holder played a significant role in facilitating the pardon, first by recommending Mr. Quinn to Mr. Rich's legal representatives, and by delivering what it called a favorable opinion of the last-minute pardon to the president from a position of authority.
Media Matters - Wash. Times cited House GOP accusations of wrongdoing by Holder, but not Dem response {...} In a Washington Times article, Jerry Seper repeated accusations in a House Republican report of wrongdoing by Eric Holder -- reportedly President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general -- in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich. In doing so, Seper falsely suggested that Holder was the author of an email telling Rich's attorney that "the 'timing is good' for Mr. Rich's request for a pardon," and did not report the refutation of the allegations by House Democrats. {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - That was then ... Matthews lauded "experience" of Bush's Cabinet picks in 2001, but says Obama's selection of prior administration vets is "crap" http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/that-was-then-matthews-lauded-experience-of-bush-20081115322.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/that-was-then-matthews-lauded-experience-of-bush-20081115322.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:10:54 GMT On the November 18 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate Clinton Justice Department veteran Eric Holder to be attorney general, host Chris Matthews said, "This is what you do when you don't have elections. You simply promote the people ... who had the deputy jobs. You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union. ... You don't need elections for this crap." But in 2001, responding to then President-elect George W. Bush's selection to his cabinet of veterans of prior administrations, Matthews offered a very different assessment of such actions. Purporting to quote "an NBC driver" on the January 3, 2001, edition of Hardball, Matthews said the driver, a Vietnam veteran, is "like a lot of guys you meet," and said, "They want guys who've been around and survived." Matthews then said of then-President elect George W. Bush's Cabinet picks: "You've got it in this Cabinet. There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience." At the time, Bush had nominated Donald Rumsfeld to be secretary of defense, the same position he held under President Ford, and Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H.W. Bush, to be secretary of state. He had also named Dick Cheney, defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, to be his running mate. While Matthews raised the question of whether, in his Cabinet picks, Bush "risk[ed] being overwhelmed by their maturity and veteran status," he did not suggest that Bush was mimicking "the old Soviet Union" in selecting people who had served in previous administrations. From the January 3, 2001, edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews (retrieved from the Nexis news database): MATTHEWS: Let's talk about this big fight over the Cabinet. First of all, it's -- the most impressive Cabinet appointment in the world right now is -- is Colin Powell, your friend. BILL BENNETT (secretary of education under President Reagan): Well, obviously... MATTHEWS: Clearly. BENNETT: ... hailed worldwide and everyone in America loves him. MATTHEWS: Probably the most impressive Cabinet appointment since Jefferson or whatever back in the early days of our republic. Do you think he might find his way into a vice-presidential nomination in four years? BENNETT: Sure he can. And who knows what Cheney wants to do? He could have found his way into a presidential nomination. If you remember, some of us were encouraging... MATTHEWS: But this will be the less -- this would be less dramatic. This would be a smooth transition. BENNETT: Yeah, this would be an easy transition. Exactly right. MATTHEWS: And he -- I've been thinking about this overnight. The Bush people have a tremendous ace in the hole. It's Colin Powell. He may run the next time. That ticket would be undefeatable. BENNETT: Well, it's an ace in the hole for that. It's, also, an ace in the hole, I think, for some serious issue of foreign policy. If we need an appeal to the nation, the president makes it. Colin Powell can also speak and persuade a lot of people. MATTHEWS: I had an NBC driver the other day, I was doing the TODAY show, and he said something really powerful to me, like a lot of guys you meet. You know what he said? He said people -- and he was in Vietnam for -- he said people like to be around veterans. They like to be with a guy who's been there 10 months. They don't want to be surrounded by raw recruits, and... BENNETT: That's right. MATTHEWS: ... and guys that -- you know, just guys who were brought in -- grunts, as they were called. BENNETT: Right. MATTHEWS: They want guys who've been around and survived. You've got it in this Cabinet. There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience. BENNETT: Yeah. MATTHEWS: Does your guy, the president elect, risk being overwhelmed by their maturity and veteran status? I mean, you've got Dick Cheney in the room. Don Rumsfeld, the former secretary of Defense. You've got Colin Powell, a world hero. And you're the least... BENNETT: Right. MATTHEWS: ... impressive guy in the room. BENNETT: Well, I don't think so, but very strong. I -- you know, when I went to a university once, the president of the university told me if your department chairman -- there's only one test for a good department chairman -- hire people whose -- who are -- whose light will shine brighter than his, that's a secure guy. This is a very strong bunch of people. It's also -- and a lot of people are somewhat surprised -- a conservative Cabinet. I mean, it's... MATTHEWS: Very. BENNETT: ... diverse and all this, but this is a very strong, conservative Cabinet. From the November 18 edition of Hardball: MATTHEWS: But first tonight, as President-elect Obama assembles his governing team, some of the members of the new administration charged with change look awfully familiar. Joining me, MSNBC's political analyst Pat Buchanan and American Prospect editor and author of Obama's Challenge Robert Kuttner. Pat, let's take a look at some of these faces. I mean, they are not the new kids on the block. Eric Holder tonight, for attorney general. Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. Joe Lieberman stays on as senator from Connecticut and prime member of the Democratic caucus. Look at this list. We've got Lieberman on, [John] Podesta [co-chairman of Obama's transition team], [Rahm] Emanuel [incoming White House chief of staff], Holder, Clinton -- the list goes on. I'm looking for the new face. Pat? BUCHANAN: Well, we're in -- look, we're in retread city, is what's going on. This is the Nixon -- I mean, the Clinton alumni association showing up here. MATTHEWS: No, you're a Nixon alumni association. BUCHANAN: I'm Nixon alumni. But you know, but Eric Holder is, I mean, he's a very competent, able man, but the thing he's most famous for, as you mentioned, is a pardon -- Frank Rich's pardon, which he expedited on behalf of Bill Clinton. He was going to run for mayor of D.C. He's as local as you can get. I mean, I don't see anyone from outside, real change here. I mean, these people are undeniably competent, but this is what you'd expect if someone else had won. MATTHEWS: This is what you do when you don't have elections. You simply promote the people -- Robert Kuttner -- who had the deputy jobs. You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union, do it anywhere you have a bureaucracy. You don't need to hold elections to promote deputies to the top job when it comes time, right? You don't need elections for this crap, do you? Robert? KUTTNER: Well, I was disappointed -- MATTHEWS: You just keep promoting people from within in any old, tired bureaucracy. That's what you do. You don't think. It's very Republican thinking, Pat, by the way. By the way, he didn't pardon Frank Rich of The New York Times; he pardoned Marc Rich. BUCHANAN: It was Marc Rich. MATTHEWS: I know you've got Frank on your mind. But, uh -- just kidding. We all make mistakes here. Mediamatters.Org That was then ... Matthews lauded "experience" of Bush's Cabinet picks in 2001, but says Obama's selection of prior administration vets is "crap" {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - On the November 18 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate Clinton Justice Department veteran Eric Holder to be attorney general, host Chris Matthews said, "This is what you do when you don't have elections. You simply promote the people ... who had the deputy jobs. You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union. ... You don't need elections for this crap." But in 2001, responding to then President-elect George W. Bush's selection to his cabinet of veterans of prior administrations, Matthews offered a very different assessment of such actions. Purporting to quote "an NBC driver" on the January 3, 2001, edition of Hardball, Matthews said the driver, a Vietnam veteran, is "like a lot of guys you meet," and said, "They want guys who've been around and survived." Matthews then said of then-President elect George W. Bush's Cabinet picks: "You've got it in this Cabinet. There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience." At the time, Bush had nominated Donald Rumsfeld to be secretary of defense, the same position he held under President Ford, and Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H.W. Bush, to be secretary of state. He had also named Dick Cheney, defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, to be his running mate. While Matthews raised the question of whether, in his Cabinet picks, Bush "risk[ed] being overwhelmed by their maturity and veteran status," he did not suggest that Bush was mimicking "the old Soviet Union" in selecting people who had served in previous administrations. From the January 3, 2001, edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews (retrieved from the Nexis news database): MATTHEWS: Let's talk about this big fight over the Cabinet. First of all, it's -- the most impressive Cabinet appointment in the world right now is -- is Colin Powell, your friend. BILL BENNETT (secretary of education under President Reagan): Well, obviously... MATTHEWS: Clearly. BENNETT: ... hailed worldwide and everyone in America loves him. MATTHEWS: Probably the most impressive Cabinet appointment since Jefferson or whatever back in the early days of our republic. Do you think he might find his way into a vice-presidential nomination in four years? BENNETT: Sure he can. And who knows what Cheney wants to do? He could have found his way into a presidential nomination. If you remember, some of us were encouraging... MATTHEWS: But this will be the less -- this would be less dramatic. This would be a smooth transition. BENNETT: Yeah, this would be an easy transition. Exactly right. MATTHEWS: And he -- I've been thinking about this overnight. The Bush people have a tremendous ace in the hole. It's Colin Powell. He may run the next time. That ticket would be undefeatable. BENNETT: Well, it's an ace in the hole for that. It's, also, an ace in the hole, I think, for some serious issue of foreign policy. If we need an appeal to the nation, the president makes it. Colin Powell can also speak and persuade a lot of people. MATTHEWS: I had an NBC driver the other day, I was doing the TODAY show, and he said something really powerful to me, like a lot of guys you meet. You know what he said? He said people -- and he was in Vietnam for -- he said people like to be around veterans. They like to be with a guy who's been there 10 months. They don't want to be surrounded by raw recruits, and... BENNETT: That's right. MATTHEWS: ... and guys that -- you know, just guys who were brought in -- grunts, as they were called. BENNETT: Right. MATTHEWS: They want guys who've been around and survived. You've got it in this Cabinet. There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience. BENNETT: Yeah. MATTHEWS: Does your guy, the president elect, risk being overwhelmed by their maturity and veteran status? I mean, you've got Dick Cheney in the room. Don Rumsfeld, the former secretary of Defense. You've got Colin Powell, a world hero. And you're the least... BENNETT: Right. MATTHEWS: ... impressive guy in the room. BENNETT: Well, I don't think so, but very strong. I -- you know, when I went to a university once, the president of the university told me if your department chairman -- there's only one test for a good department chairman -- hire people whose -- who are -- whose light will shine brighter than his, that's a secure guy. This is a very strong bunch of people. It's also -- and a lot of people are somewhat surprised -- a conservative Cabinet. I mean, it's... MATTHEWS: Very. BENNETT: ... diverse and all this, but this is a very strong, conservative Cabinet. From the November 18 edition of Hardball: MATTHEWS: But first tonight, as President-elect Obama assembles his governing team, some of the members of the new administration charged with change look awfully familiar. Joining me, MSNBC's political analyst Pat Buchanan and American Prospect editor and author of Obama's Challenge Robert Kuttner. Pat, let's take a look at some of these faces. I mean, they are not the new kids on the block. Eric Holder tonight, for attorney general. Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. Joe Lieberman stays on as senator from Connecticut and prime member of the Democratic caucus. Look at this list. We've got Lieberman on, [John] Podesta [co-chairman of Obama's transition team], [Rahm] Emanuel [incoming White House chief of staff], Holder, Clinton -- the list goes on. I'm looking for the new face. Pat? BUCHANAN: Well, we're in -- look, we're in retread city, is what's going on. This is the Nixon -- I mean, the Clinton alumni association showing up here. MATTHEWS: No, you're a Nixon alumni association. BUCHANAN: I'm Nixon alumni. But you know, but Eric Holder is, I mean, he's a very competent, able man, but the thing he's most famous for, as you mentioned, is a pardon -- Frank Rich's pardon, which he expedited on behalf of Bill Clinton. He was going to run for mayor of D.C. He's as local as you can get. I mean, I don't see anyone from outside, real change here. I mean, these people are undeniably competent, but this is what you'd expect if someone else had won. MATTHEWS: This is what you do when you don't have elections. You simply promote the people -- Robert Kuttner -- who had the deputy jobs. You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union, do it anywhere you have a bureaucracy. You don't need to hold elections to promote deputies to the top job when it comes time, right? You don't need elections for this crap, do you? Robert? KUTTNER: Well, I was disappointed -- MATTHEWS: You just keep promoting people from within in any old, tired bureaucracy. That's what you do. You don't think. It's very Republican thinking, Pat, by the way. By the way, he didn't pardon Frank Rich of The New York Times; he pardoned Marc Rich. BUCHANAN: It was Marc Rich. MATTHEWS: I know you've got Frank on your mind. But, uh -- just kidding. We all make mistakes here.
Media Matters - That was then ... Matthews lauded "experience" of Bush's Cabinet picks in 2001, but says Obama's selection of prior administration vets is "crap" {...} Amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate Clinton Justice Department veteran Eric Holder to be attorney general, Chris Matthews criticized Obama on Hardball : "You could do this in any bureaucratic state, you could do it in the old Soviet Union. ... You don't need elections for this crap." But in 2001, Matthews said of George W. Bush's Cabinet picks, which included veterans of past administrations: "There's some real heavyweights in terms of experience." {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov urges fans to stop the Eric Cantona comparisons http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/football/news-and-media/manchester-united-s-dimitar-berbatov-urges-fans-20081189114.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/football/news-and-media/manchester-united-s-dimitar-berbatov-urges-fans-20081189114.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:06 GMT Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov has urged fans to stop labelling him the 'new Eric Cantona'. Telegraph.Co.Uk Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov urges fans to stop the Eric Cantona comparisons {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov has urged fans to stop labelling him the 'new Eric Cantona'.
Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov urges fans to stop the Eric Cantona comparisons: Football - Telegraph {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Recreation and Sports > Sports > Football > News and Media {EUROPE > COMPUTERS AND INTERNET} - Google's Schmidt not looking for a new job http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/business-and-economy/computers-and-internet/google-s-schmidt-not-looking-for-a-new-job-20081122511.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/business-and-economy/computers-and-internet/google-s-schmidt-not-looking-for-a-new-job-20081122511.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:43:49 GMT So who will be America's Next CTO? Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, said he was not interested in becoming chief technology officer for the nation under President Barack Obama.? Theregister.Co.Uk Google's Schmidt not looking for a new job {new window}   Www.Theregister.Co.Uk - So who will be America's Next CTO? Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, said he was not interested in becoming chief technology officer for the nation under President Barack Obama.?
Google's Schmidt not looking for a new job ? The Register {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Business and Economy > Computers and Internet {LITERATURE > RSS FEEDS} - Heroes, Villains Past Revealed http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/heroes-villains-past-revealed-20081135817.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/heroes-villains-past-revealed-20081135817.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT NBC's Heroes digs into the past and Eric Roberts' previously deceased character, Company bad guy Thompson, returns in the Nov. 10 episode "Villains," creator and executive producer Tim Kring told SCI FI Wire. Scifi.Com Heroes, Villains Past Revealed {new window}   Www.Scifi.Com - NBC's Heroes digs into the past and Eric Roberts' previously deceased character, Company bad guy Thompson, returns in the Nov. 10 episode "Villains," creator and executive producer Tim Kring told SCI FI Wire.
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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Science Fiction > RSS Feeds {COMPUTERS > INTERNET} - After a tough year, BitTorrent replaces CEO again http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/after-a-tough-year-bittorrent-replaces-ceo-again-2008118087.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/after-a-tough-year-bittorrent-replaces-ceo-again-2008118087.htm Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:19:00 GMT Naming of Eric Klinker to file-sharing wunderkind's top post is accompanied by a 50 percent layoff and plans to close its media store, according to the Times. News.Cnet.Com After a tough year, BitTorrent replaces CEO again {new window}   News.Cnet.Com - Naming of Eric Klinker to file-sharing wunderkind's top post is accompanied by a 50 percent layoff and plans to close its media store, according to the Times.
After a tough year, BitTorrent replaces CEO again | Latest Digital Media News - CNET News {...} Naming of Eric Klinker to file-sharing wunderkind's top post is accompanied by a 50 percent layoff and plans to close its media store, according to the Times. Read this blog post by Zoë Slocum on Digital Media. {...}
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Category: Computers > Internet

]]> Computers > Internet {BY SUBJECT > INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY} - Top Candidates for Barack Obama's White House CIO Square Off http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/by-subject/information-technology/top-candidates-for-barack-obama-s-white-house-cio-20081123613.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/by-subject/information-technology/top-candidates-for-barack-obama-s-white-house-cio-20081123613.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:02:56 GMT Who's in the running to be Barack Obama's chief technology officer? Who isn't? Leading technology CEOs such as Google's Eric Schmidt, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer have all been mentioned to fill the post, along with former Bill Clinton FCC chiefs Reed Hundt and William Kennard, just to name a few. The most likely frontrunner, though, is Julius Genachowski, the man in charge of selecting the nation's first CTO. - While President-elect Barack Obama meets in Chicago with his transition team, all of tech waits to hear if Obama will name a cabinet-level chief technology officer, as he championed during his campaign for the White House. InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski and Sonal Shah of Google.or... Eweek.Com Top Candidates for Barack Obama's White House CIO Square Off {new window}   Www.Eweek.Com - Who's in the running to be Barack Obama's chief technology officer? Who isn't? Leading technology CEOs such as Google's Eric Schmidt, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer have all been mentioned to fill the post, along with former Bill Clinton FCC chiefs Reed Hundt and William Kennard, just to name a few. The most likely frontrunner, though, is Julius Genachowski, the man in charge of selecting the nation's first CTO. - While President-elect Barack Obama meets in Chicago with his transition team, all of tech waits to hear if Obama will name a cabinet-level chief technology officer, as he championed during his campaign for the White House. InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski and Sonal Shah of Google.or...
Top Candidates for Barack Obama's White House CIO Square Off: Who's in the running to be Barack Obama's chief technology officer? Who isn't? Leading technology CEOs such as Google's Eric Schmidt, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer have all been mentioned to fill the post, along with former Bill Clinton FCC chiefs Reed Hundt... {...}
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Category: News > By Subject > Information Technology

]]> News > By Subject > Information Technology {COMPUTERS > INTERNET} - Google, Xerox CEOs on Obama economic team http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/google-xerox-ceos-on-obama-economic-team-20081171111.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/google-xerox-ceos-on-obama-economic-team-20081171111.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:21:00 GMT A 17-member economic advisory board for the president-elect includes Eric Schmidt, Warren Buffett, Paul Volcker, Larry Summers, and other notable figures. News.Cnet.Com Google, Xerox CEOs on Obama economic team {new window}   News.Cnet.Com - A 17-member economic advisory board for the president-elect includes Eric Schmidt, Warren Buffett, Paul Volcker, Larry Summers, and other notable figures.
Google, Xerox CEOs on Obama economic team | Latest News in Politics and Law - CNET News {...} A 17-member economic advisory board for the president-elect includes Eric Schmidt, Warren Buffett, Paul Volcker, Larry Summers, and other notable figures. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Politics and Law. {...}
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Category: Computers > Internet

]]> Computers > Internet {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Stalking Bigfoot http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/stalking-bigfoot-20081128812.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/stalking-bigfoot-20081128812.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:39:22 GMT My friend Eric Spitznagel took on the Bigfoot beat for Vanity Fair and filed: "Everything's Bigfoot in Texas." From the Texas Bigfoot Conference in Jefferson, Texas, he reports: Drawing on interviews with dozens of eye-witnesses, [Sasquatch expert Dr. Henner] Fahrenbach went on to say that Bigfoot?s diet is rich in mussels, clams, peacocks, and the ?hindquarter? of deer. He insisted that Bigfoots enjoy wrestling, tickle fights, and, most surprisingly, gangbangs. He assured us that even a horny Sasquatch has an impeccable sense of orgy etiquette. ?When an especially large male came onto the scene,? Fahrenbach said, describing a sexual pileup involving one willing female and lots of dudes, ?he didn?t try to buck the line but simply stood there and took his turn in good time.? In the beginning of his lecture, there was some nervous giggling from those in the audience. After a while, they just stared at Fahrenbach, a few with jaws agape. Somewhere in the back row, a woman turned to her husband and whispered, ?I can?t tell if he?s kidding.? It?s been a rough few months for Bigfoot true believers. "Everything's Bigfoot in Texas." (Illustration credit: John Hogan.)... Boingboing.Net Stalking Bigfoot {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - My friend Eric Spitznagel took on the Bigfoot beat for Vanity Fair and filed: "Everything's Bigfoot in Texas." From the Texas Bigfoot Conference in Jefferson, Texas, he reports: Drawing on interviews with dozens of eye-witnesses, [Sasquatch expert Dr. Henner] Fahrenbach went on to say that Bigfoot?s diet is rich in mussels, clams, peacocks, and the ?hindquarter? of deer. He insisted that Bigfoots enjoy wrestling, tickle fights, and, most surprisingly, gangbangs. He assured us that even a horny Sasquatch has an impeccable sense of orgy etiquette. ?When an especially large male came onto the scene,? Fahrenbach said, describing a sexual pileup involving one willing female and lots of dudes, ?he didn?t try to buck the line but simply stood there and took his turn in good time.? In the beginning of his lecture, there was some nervous giggling from those in the audience. After a while, they just stared at Fahrenbach, a few with jaws agape. Somewhere in the back row, a woman turned to her husband and whispered, ?I can?t tell if he?s kidding.? It?s been a rough few months for Bigfoot true believers. "Everything's Bigfoot in Texas." (Illustration credit: John Hogan.)...
Stalking Bigfoot - Boing Boing {...}
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Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - >>STORYBOOK SONOMA WINE COUNTRY VACATION COTTAGE W/SPA & VINEYARD (sonoma) $195 2bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/gt-gt-storybook-sonoma-wine-country-vacation-cottage-2008114874.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/gt-gt-storybook-sonoma-wine-country-vacation-cottage-2008114874.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:01:11 GMT Eric & Jessie Rotsten | The Maple Cottage | 925 680-4950 Story Book Cottage, Kenwood, CA Story Book Napa/Sonoma Wine Country Cottage in the Vineyard with Spa Furnished 2BR/1BA Vacation Single Family House $245/night Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 1 full, 0 partial Sq Footage 1,000 Parking 3+ dedicated DESCRIPTION View our website, www.themaplecottage.com The Maple Cottage & Vineyard is located in the village of Kenwood California. Kenwood is an idyllic country town in the center of the Napa/Sonoma wine region. There are 13 wineries and tasting rooms within walking distance of the cottage and several hundred world class wineries within a 30 minute radius of Kenwood. It's easy to spend several days visiting local restaurants and wineries without ever taking your car out of the garage. Central Sonoma county is a great bike riding area and we've provided several bicycles (including a tandem bike) with our compliments. The cottage was completely renovated from the ground up in 2007 to brand new condition. There is a 160 vine vineyard planted on the property and the landscaping is right out of better homes and gardens. Private french doors lead from each bedroom to the rear yard which features meandering paths with a central fountain and colorful azaleas and rhododendrums. There you will find a secluded patio and arbor with a whirlpool spa and outdoor shower facilities. The interior of the cottage is comfortably decorated in French Country style from Elegant Clutter Designs with all of the ammenities you'll want.... A flat screen HD TV with cable service. Wireless internet is provide free of charge. The kitchen is well stocked and features granite countertops and new stainless steel appliances. We invite you to accept a bottle of local wine from the cottage cellar upon your arrival with our compliments. see additional photos below RENTAL FEATURES Air conditioning Central heat Fireplace Hardwood floor Living room Dishwasher Refrigerator Stove/Oven Microwave Granite countertop Stainless steel appliances Washer Dryer Balcony, Deck, or Patio Jacuzzi/Whirlpool Cable-ready High-speed internet RENTAL RATES 2008-2009 Non-Holiday Rates: Dec-Feb Sunday-Thurs Nights - $195, Friday/Saturday Nights $295 March-November Sunday - Thursday Nights - $245, Friday & Saturday Nights - $295 Rates are for 2 persons, Add $25/night for additional occupants Small pets considered ($25 night) 9% County Tax in addition to room rates. 50% Deposit due with booking. Balance due 14 days before arrival. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Renter contact info: Eric & Jessie Rotsten The Maple Cottage 925 680-4950 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Oct 12, 2008, 8:01am PDT Sfbay.Craigslist.Org >>STORYBOOK SONOMA WINE COUNTRY VACATION COTTAGE W/SPA & VINEYARD (sonoma) $195 2bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Eric & Jessie Rotsten | The Maple Cottage | 925 680-4950 Story Book Cottage, Kenwood, CA Story Book Napa/Sonoma Wine Country Cottage in the Vineyard with Spa Furnished 2BR/1BA Vacation Single Family House $245/night Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 1 full, 0 partial Sq Footage 1,000 Parking 3+ dedicated DESCRIPTION View our website, www.themaplecottage.com The Maple Cottage & Vineyard is located in the village of Kenwood California. Kenwood is an idyllic country town in the center of the Napa/Sonoma wine region. There are 13 wineries and tasting rooms within walking distance of the cottage and several hundred world class wineries within a 30 minute radius of Kenwood. It's easy to spend several days visiting local restaurants and wineries without ever taking your car out of the garage. Central Sonoma county is a great bike riding area and we've provided several bicycles (including a tandem bike) with our compliments. The cottage was completely renovated from the ground up in 2007 to brand new condition. There is a 160 vine vineyard planted on the property and the landscaping is right out of better homes and gardens. Private french doors lead from each bedroom to the rear yard which features meandering paths with a central fountain and colorful azaleas and rhododendrums. There you will find a secluded patio and arbor with a whirlpool spa and outdoor shower facilities. The interior of the cottage is comfortably decorated in French Country style from Elegant Clutter Designs with all of the ammenities you'll want.... A flat screen HD TV with cable service. Wireless internet is provide free of charge. The kitchen is well stocked and features granite countertops and new stainless steel appliances. We invite you to accept a bottle of local wine from the cottage cellar upon your arrival with our compliments. see additional photos below RENTAL FEATURES Air conditioning Central heat Fireplace Hardwood floor Living room Dishwasher Refrigerator Stove/Oven Microwave Granite countertop Stainless steel appliances Washer Dryer Balcony, Deck, or Patio Jacuzzi/Whirlpool Cable-ready High-speed internet RENTAL RATES 2008-2009 Non-Holiday Rates: Dec-Feb Sunday-Thurs Nights - $195, Friday/Saturday Nights $295 March-November Sunday - Thursday Nights - $245, Friday & Saturday Nights - $295 Rates are for 2 persons, Add $25/night for additional occupants Small pets considered ($25 night) 9% County Tax in addition to room rates. 50% Deposit due with booking. Balance due 14 days before arrival. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Renter contact info: Eric & Jessie Rotsten The Maple Cottage 925 680-4950 Equal Opportunity Housing Posted: Oct 12, 2008, 8:01am PDT
>>STORYBOOK SONOMA WINE COUNTRY VACATION COTTAGE W/SPA & VINEYARD {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging