A year ago, David Barstow reported in the NY Times reported on how the Pentagon was manipulating the news by planting retired generals into major networks as independent analysts, and that in many cases the networks themselves were complicit. What made this even worse was that this story was completely suppressed by the networks in question, including […]
“It’s important not to personally attack the new president. I’ve never done that.” -Dick Cheney on Fox News Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, but in the very same interview, Cheney criticized Obama for shaking hands with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez: I think you have to be very careful. The world outside there — […]
CQ Politics has a must-read article about Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) being caught on tape telling a suspected Israeli agent (i.e., a spy) that she would try to get the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. In return, the (suspected) agent promised to lobby Nancy Pelosi to […]
An interesting article in the Washington Post discusses a speech that Sarah Palin gave at a right-to-life fundraising dinner. Palin talked about how twice in her life she considered getting an abortion, but decided against it. But she did gain sympathy for women who have abortions; “I do understand what these women, what these girls go through […]
“Whew! Last night, I had that great new drink, the Navy Seal. Three shots — boom — and you’re done.” – Jay Leno “How about those Navy Seals, though? They rescued Captain Stubing, Gopher, Doc and guest star Charo.” – David Letterman “Well, you know, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Somali pirates were all […]
Maureen Dowd writes that she was disturbed when George Lucas disagreed with her statement that former Vice President Dick Cheney was Darth Vader. Had Dowd been too harsh on the former veep? Turns out she hadn’t been harsh enough. According to Lucas “George Bush is Darth Vader. Cheney is the emperor.” Which means, in Star […]
There’s a giant gay storm gathering, and before long the winds will be blowing each other.
Republican Governor Rick Perry of Texas put his foot in his mouth earlier this week when he suggested that at some point Texas might get fed up enough by excessive government spending that they would want to secede from the union. Democrats immediately responded that Texas should not let the door hit their *ss on […]
FiveThirtyEight has compiled a list of crowd sizes from all the tea party events, based on nonpartisan sources. They put the crowd size in Sacramento California at 3,500 — compare this to Fox News’ (knowingly fabricated) estimate of 10,000 to 15,000 people. Total turnout across the nation is estimated to have been 311,460 people in […]
John Oliver wants British tyranny to get its due.
I’m feeling overwhelmed with irony the last few days, and not just because of all the teabagging going on. There are a bunch of really good articles that I haven’t had time to report on, so I thought I would just list them here. All of them are worth a read. Over at Salon, Glenn […]
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