The White House just makes sh!t up about Al Gore, and the lapdogs in the media squawk it like brain-dead parrots.
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Now is the time for all good men to list all the abuses of the…
BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA………
Now that it is officially ON TOPIC, there is no reason to swoon at
the prospect of having to prove your OPINIONS, ATTITUDES AND
BELIEFS regarding this man of straw the wicked witches of the east
like to pluck for maintaining their brooms of flight and fancy.
Go get ‘em.
Al Gore – Savior of the Democratic Party!
Oh, I can hardly wait…
Media Matters? Isn’t it unethical to blog about your employer without a disclaimer?
The AP has updated their story, which now represents THE TRUTH rather than WH spin.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/17/ap-reports-facts/
Yeah, I’m a little tired of the retractions a week later, or the page 5 corrections. Once they put the false info out there, the Right-wing echo chamber just pounds it into the ground, day after day, even after they know it to be false.
I’d hazard a guess that this misinformation is planted for that very reason, to feed the echo chamber.
As usual, this adminstration gets caught in a lie and the so-called “liberal media” shams for them. I wouldn’t look for another Woodward, Bernstein or Ben Bradley any time soon. They are all on the take and worried about thier jobs and the ratings rather than trying to get the truth out the American People.
Hey sparky, look at the right hand side notice on my site that’s been there for almost 2 years.
How do you know a Republican is lying…?
…their lips are moving.
Speaking of bias, OliverWillis.com is curiously devoid of any comments concerning New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin’s pronouncement that God sent hurricanes to punish America, and that it was God’s will for New Orleans to be a “Chocolate City” once again.
I thought the only people who relayed messages from God were kooks and extremists on par with the Taliban. Is Ray Nagin a member of the “American Taliban” now? And will his next racial metaphor include black jelly beans?
Anyone out there? Anyone at all? Bueller? Bueller?
You mean the Mayor that is actually a Republican but ran as a democrat so that he could win in Louisiana? That fact aside, what he said was disgusting and African Americans are not particularly happy either. Nagin is floundering under the pressure of rebuilding.
Bullsh-t, Frank, yet again. Gonzalez wasn’t interpreting, he was lying. And when TV stations and newspapers present his lie without the balance of facts as presented by Media Matters, they are assisting in the lie. That’s not responsible journalism, that’s assisting the spread of government propaganda.
We all know Gonzalez is a smart lawyer, one who knows how to skirt the truth and clear his footprints with plausible deniability. He was doing that when he and his peer John Yoo ‘redefined’ torture so that the Bushies could see fit to get away with it. Now, though, he’s just openly hacking away.
I hereby take back my suggestion that you should be going to schools trying to talk young Republicans into joining the military. If the above comment is any indication of the sort of lily-livered parsing you’d be doing to sell your Master Dubya’s war, the kids will laugh you out of the room.
Before we change topics, sports fans, the news reports I read, despute the italicization and bold print, were intended to convey Gonzalez’ interpretation. The news was Gonzales’ interpretation.
He wasn’t lying. He wasn’t supposed to say, “What Albert Gore, a member of the opposition Party, and one of my boss’s most outspoken enemies, said, had a lot of merit. Although I disagree with most of it, I wouldn’t want to speak out against it and dilute the message.”
And Media Matters can ediotorialize all they want, but a legitimate newspaper is supposed to report what people say and do contemporaneously, and, after a short time, come forth with an editorial, of they so choose.
Or should every newspaper in the country change their name to The (Fill in the blank of location) ______ Daily Record of Occasions When We Thought a Conservative Lied, a subsidiary of Media Matters
You guys really do think there is no room for a Conservative point of view in the world, don’t you?
We all know Gonzalez is a smart lawyer, one who knows how to skirt the truth and clear his footprints with plausible deniability
Corrigan: That’s how politicians talk. What color is the sky on the planet you come from?
I hereby take back my suggestion that you should be going to schools trying to talk young Republicans into joining the military.
Thank goodness. I was just packing up my old uniform.
Head on back to the Firehouse — I think Wednesday is “Stew Day”.
Or, are you auditioning for the “Hamburglar” today?
Yeah, we need to return to the days of Janet “No Partisanship Here” Reno.
Corrigan: That s how politicians talk. What color is the sky on the planet you come from?
That’s right, politicians lie, and the job of the press is to call them on their lies.
And thanks, frank, for admitting that Alberto Gonzales is a lying partisan politician rather than our chief law enforcement officer.
No, thank you for showing us that you are so naive as to think that the AG is the Town Marshall, and not a political appointee.
And thank you Frank for showing us, once again, that you really don’t care about our system of government, as long as you think your side is in charge. The officials, appointed or not, are supposed to work for the American people, not lie and mislead them. Enablers like you are the reason our country is falling apart.
Hmm, gonazales, the chief law enforcement officer of the united states, backed by a virtual hive of attorneys, many of which specialize in just this area. The aforementioned gonzales says all these attorneys have looked at this law, and they think what the president did is legal.
Former vice-president now gone chubby, who dropped out of law school says “no,no,no it’s illegal….”
Papers report both of these events, and the paper is supposed to call bullsh*t on the attorney general?
Tell soros he should be spending his sheckels elsewhere, the american people aren’t interested.
The only chief law enforcement officer of the US to be convicted and
serve time;
“As attorney general, Mitchell believed that the government’s need for “law and order” justified restrictions on civil liberties. He advocated the use of wiretaps in national security cases without obtaining a court order”
Yes, I’m sure John Mitchell also had a bevy of bed-wetting yes-men
nodding their approval. It doesn’t prove jack about what will be finally
decided about legality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell
Wilbur: No, thank you for showing us that you are so naive as to think that the AG is the Town Marshall, and not a political appointee.
Being a grown – up can be difficult, eh, Willy?
When you think “non – partisan” Democrat Reno, remember this.
When you think non – partisan Democrat Reno, remember this.
Ah…the old republican argument, two wrongs always make a right.
First of all, curmudgeon, you are partially right — surprised you, didn’t I?
I don’t care much for our current system of government, despite who is in charge.
They are spending way too much money on silly, unnecessary projects of every type and description. This money is sucked out of the economy, where individuals and charitable collectives, not to mention small businesses could do much more with it.
They get involved in a war, which seems to have a good purpose, and still does, and then kowtow to those with last minute “stage fright.”
Another reason I dislike our system as it is currently constructed, is because it has mysteriously given leftists a proprietary sense that the government is “theirs”, to protect from the ravages of conservatives, as if conservatives are undeserving outsiders.
So you see, it is very important to me that “my side is in charge.” It is more important that your side is not.
The example of Janet Reno was, of course, not that two wrongs make a right. It was that the AG as political animal was not invented by the Republicans.
For the purposes of debate in these threads, it is fortunate for Republicans that the Clinton administration left no stone unturned in the “political sin” department.
Enablers like you are the reason our country is falling apart.
Evidence, please.
Plus, when Gonzales is no longer attorney general he can run for any office he wants, just as Reno did. What he can’t do is run the Justice department at the behest of Rove and the RNC
pedro: Between Gonzales and Gore the issue is not which one has the better law credentials, the issue is which one is lying. Answer: Gonzales.
Janet Reno followed the letter of the law in the Gonzalez case. The boy is with his father, where he should be, and not in the hands of the crazies in Miami.
Evidence, please.
Well, when you say things like, “So you see, it is very important to me that my side is in charge. It is more important that your side is not.” I get the distinct impression that you’ll do nothing to hold your party accountable as long as they hold power. Which is, again, why we currently see the mountain of scandals rocking the GOP power structure to it’s very core. Republican constituents, like yourself, let their party get fat gorging at the public trough. They’ve become more corrupt than the Democrats you constantly seek to villify. It’s taking a heavy toll on the American economy, our morale, and our image abroad. Hopefully in ‘06, it’s going to take it’s toll on the GOP, and conservatism at large, as well.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
“You mean the Mayor that is actually a Republican but ran as a democrat so that he could win in Louisiana? ”
Must explain why he also mentioned the “We’re in Iraq under false pretenses” argument during his screed.
Yep, he’s absolutely a Republican wolf in Democratic sheep’s clothing.
“The boy is with his father, where he should be, and not in the hands of the crazies in Miami.”
While I agree that parental rights should prevail in in all cases like these, I don’t think it’s necessarily crazy to suggest that the kids relatives thought he’d have a better shot at life in the United States than he would in a communist island country like Cuba.
But that’s just me. Maybe Oliver thinks differently than I do.
Actually the craziness was the mad cult-like activity they engaged in in Miami, where it was all about hurting Castro and not about helping Elian.
As a father I saw only one way for the Elian episode to be resolved — to return the kid to his living parent. I don’t understand why the ‘family values’ sector tried to force any other arrangement.
As for Castro, if any peresident really wants to get rid of the guy, all he needs to do is allow American tourists to travel there directly. Open up trade. Move a baseball team there. What is happening in China can happen in Cuba. The US trade embargo, in effect since 1959 or ‘60, has obviously done nothing to hasten Castro’s departure. Time to do something else.
What a great argument you’ve made: Them brown-skinned people in Cuba jest ain’t as pragmatic as the yellow-uns in Asia. I wonder what the cee-gar of choice is on K Street? A Hanoi corona?
Opening up relations with Cuba is how you help Cuban people be less oppressed. Not opening up means you don’t care about them.
Castro has survived 45 years of US embargo getting rich, as you say. That’s the most patient piece of US foreign policy I can think of. (Contrast that with Bush, who had so little time for those UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.)
The reason for continuing the embargo is the Cuban-American vote in Florida plays a role in some of our closer elections — it is not to prevent Castro from becoming a wealthier individual.