Useless Joe

9:11 am EST November 27th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Just sickening from Joe Lieberman

National Journal, a weekly Washington magazine covering politics and government, asked 101 members of Congress and 137 lobbyists, former government officials and other political insiders which Democrat in Congress they most admire.

The answer: the Connecticut senator who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004.

Of the 89 Republicans who responded, 35 percent picked Lieberman, National Journal reported in its Nov. 11 edition.

Topic: Useful "Liberals"

The Right Belches Again

3:11 pm EST November 25th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 61 Comments

McCarthy apologist and fan club president Ann Coulter once again emulates her idol, this time with John Murtha as the target. Would a progressive get away with this sort of smear distributed by a major syndicate? Never. But for the cons, this sort of thing is just what they do (more of Coulter’s work here).

Topic: Conservative

Well, Dang

10:11 am EST November 25th, 2005 | Movies | 3 Comments

Mr. Miyagi has died.

Happy Thanksgiving

11:11 am EST November 24th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 64 Comments

And things of that nature.

Topic: Oliver's World

USSR 2.0

12:11 am EST November 24th, 2005 | Politics | 12 Comments

I wonder how much longer the American government is going to continue ignoring the world’s second largest nuclear superpower’s continuing backslide into totalitarianism?

Aiding & Abetting

1:11 pm EST November 23rd, 2005 | News | 3 Comments

Every day it seems like there’s more and more evidence that the most influential paper on the planet, The New York Times, simply carried water for the Bush propaganda effort in Iraq

Much of the Sherman article looks at dissension within the Times, principally on the part of Washington reporter James Risen, at around the time Judith Miller was writing her badly mistaken pre-war articles about WMD starting in September 2002.

Several current and former Times staffers recalled Mr. Risen’s complaints about his time at the Washington bureau, Sherman writes. His intelligence sources were telling him that Ms. Miller’s sources were wrong about the presence of W.M.D. in Iraq. One person who was in the bureau at the time recalled that Mr. Risen said that his intelligence sources were saying the administration’s W.M.D. intelligence was ‘political.’

Two of the sources recalled Mr. Risen saying his efforts to get the bureau to question the paper’s W.M.D. reports were rebuffed. The same two recall Mr. Risen complaining that he was having trouble getting his more skeptical line of reporting onto the page.

If that’s the reaction of the “liberal” newspaper…

Topic: George W. Bush

Scales Fall From The Eyes

11:11 am EST November 23rd, 2005 | Politics | 14 Comments

Why does rhetoric from strong Democrats about the administration’s untrustworthiness ring true? Because most of them already believe it

A majority of U.S. adults believe the Bush administration generally misleads the public on current issues, while fewer than a third of Americans believe the information provided by the administration is generally accurate, the latest Harris Interactive poll finds.

Republicans Do What Republicans Do Best

10:11 am EST November 23rd, 2005 | Politics | 29 Comments

Jean Schmidt lied about the letter she read on the House floor, when she called John Murtha a coward.

The Maryland GOP’s lies about Oreos being thrown at Michael Steele has suffered at the hands of the truth.

The White House lied about Congress having the same intelligence before the Iraq war.

The factually incorrect Fox News Channel (details here) has rejected a liberal ad.

Right wing bloggers and Drudge just made s**t up about CNN.

The White House lied about why it has botched Jose Padilla’s prosecution.

The White House slams talking about withdrawing from Iraq when its already phasing in just those plans.

And of course, beloved GOP icon and Supreme Court justice Scalia went back in his time machine and created an alternate reality where it was the Gore team and not the Bush people who petitioned the Supreme Court in 2000.

Steele Gets Support From Serial Liars, Hucksters

10:11 am EST November 23rd, 2005 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Project 21 is one of the conservative organizations set up by rich caucasian right-wingers who back some black faces to spout conservative nonsense (one of them said blacks should thank God for slavery, while another chucklehead said that the NAACP was the Klan). So of course they would magically find a supposed eyewitness to Steele’s made-up cookie incident. Of course, nobody to the left of Atilla the Hun has ever seen this incident, and the numerous cameras in attendance never saw that the air was “thick like locusts” with a hailstorm of Oreo cookies? Why? Because it never happened.

Michael Steele, like so many other black cons, is trying to play victim for deciding to go where the bucks are and be part of an ideology that actively works against his own race. For this choice, Steele and others want to be martyrs. But like the other cons, they’re just phonies.

Topic: 2006 Election

The Cookies & The Noise Machine

5:11 pm EST November 22nd, 2005 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Your “liberal media” has once again carried water for the right wing smear machine, in this instance Michael Steele’s fabricated story about being pelted with oreos, in a blatant play for racial sympathy by a black candidate who continues to do everything in his power to screw over black Americans.

Cookie Monster

A LexisNexis search shows that only people directly connected to the Republican Party have ever been quoted attesting to the accuracy of any version of the Oreo story.

That hasn t stopped The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Sun, the (London) Daily Telegraph, the Associated Press, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, and this paper, among others, from reporting as fact, without transparent sourcing or attribution, some version of the incident over the years.

Of the two newspapers that have most frequently discussed the event, the Sun s reporting has been largely circumspect, typically reporting the incident as a claim made by Republicans. The Washington Times, by contrast, has more freely propagated the most incendiary version of the incident, repeatedly reporting as a given fact that Steele was pelted by cookies at the debate.

Milking a story for all it’s worth, media uncritically report crumbling allegation that Democrats threw Oreos at Steele

A Media Matters for America review of media coverage of the alleged Oreo-throwing incident has revealed little evidence to substantiate the claims originally advanced by Ehrlich, Steele, and Schurick. Reporting on the issue has varied greatly, giving wildly different accounts of the story, but a brief history of the Oreo-throwing legend demonstrates how this baseless allegation made the transition from partisan talking point to a “fact” reported in the media.

Topic: 2006 Election