Archive for July, 2008
Where the White Women at?
If you remember Blazing Saddles, you probably know what I’m about to say. The McCain camp tried to inoculate itself against charges of racism this week by, what else, charging that Obama was playing the race card. It’s a trick as old as BushCo — take your weakness and call it the weakness of the [...]
Read More..>>Congress Does its Job, Sort of
Video from the non-impeachment hearing is up on you-tube and it’s very good, if a little sad knowing that for all the legal and ethical intelligence being shown, nothing will come of this.
It’s not that there isn’t time. It’s that Democrats feel it would hurt their chances in November, since Bush is at an [...]
Conyers to Investigate the Executive
In a “strongly worded” press release, the chairman of the House committee most responsible for impeaching (or not) the President and Vice has finally agreed to hold public hearings, starting later this month. It’s not about impeachment per se, but on credible allegations of serious misconduct or something.
You think? The allegations are even more credible [...]
Caught on Tape: Bush Admin Sells US Foreign Policy, Access for Donations to Library
Caught red-handed — a current member of the Homeland Security Council and official Bush advance planner soliciting $250k in “donations” to the Bush Library plus $500k in “fees for his company” from a representative to exiled leader of Krygystan who wants to bolster his public image.
Give them the donation, the Bush aide says, and [...]
Grand Theft Nation
If you thought the S&L crisis was nasty, it was actually just a test of a much larger scheme, the biggest organized transfer of wealththeft in the history of mankind. It was organized, not in the sense of a traditional criminal conspiracy. It was more like a sheep roundup for the meat market, with owners [...]
Read More..>>Seven People Who are Too Stupid to be on TV
Yeah, I know TV makes you stupid. But if you’re too stupid to begin with, and someone gives you a microphone, whole universes may be sucked into self-feeding vortices of sheer inanity. Which reminds me: I think I forgot to include Sean Hannity…
7. Jessee Jackson, thinking he could dis Obama on Fox News and no [...]
Obamanation
I gave the maximum individual amount to Barak Obama this spring to help him defeat Clinton in the primaries. But at least Clinton managed to vote against the FISA capitulation this week. It was a throw away vote for her, probably designed to tweak Obama’s camp or set her up for 2012 (she would have [...]
Read More..>>Well, at least he didn’t lie about a blowjob
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Unpublished
Warning: the stunningly brilliant post that I had originally published in this space has now been unpublished.
I think it [the stunningly brilliant post] may have appeared and disappeared too fast even for Google and the Wayback Machine to catch it. Sorry. It was simply too stunningly brilliant to release on these internets. And I have [...]
I almost wouldn’t have believed it…
if I didn’t see it myself. Here are two examples of how Fox Noose pushes the boundaries of journalistic integrity, beyond all recognition, and well into self-parody.
First, here’s a job listing from their very own job page (scroll down the linked page to view). I’ll paste the relevant bit:
Freelance Fact Writer
New York
Requirements/Responsibility:
FOX News Channel, a [...]