Ah, Super Tuesday. The talking heads will be all atwitter watching the polls in 22 states and waiting to see which Democrat/Republican comes out on top at the end of today’s primary bonanza.
There will be a news blackout in this house (as always) until after 10pm. I can’t stand play-by-plays, so watching the talking heads [...]
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In May 2005, Vanity Fair published a brilliant article about the ‘04 election and the Republican Noise Machine, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – The Disinformation Society.
I was thinking about what Obama said on Face The Nation today that “he didn’t expect immunity from Republican attacks, but could diffuse them with his message of unity and capacity to [...]
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The Bush administration has just lost their number one excuse to bomb Iran. All the posturing and blustering from Cheney and crew has been proven to be based on lies and propaganda:
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, [...]
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Perhaps it’s simply a bad day, but I’m fed up.
* I’m fed up with Senator Obama saying his experience between the ages of 6 and 10 years old is a prime reason he understands international relations better than his opponents. Jesus goddamn christ, Buddha-in-a-skirt, Moses-lost-on-a-hogfarm, (there did I miss offending anyone?),how simply stupid have our [...]
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Some how this seems likes just desserts to me… The conservative authors who penned propaganda pieces like “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” “Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security,” and “Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror” [...]
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I think we all know it — next year the Republican Party is going to run as dirty an election campaign as we’ve ever seen in this country. I’ve seen it first hand, and their shadowy front-groups are going to be out in force.
And it won’t just be the Presidential race, but the entire apparatus [...]
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Mr. Gannon has objected to my characterization to him as a “fake White House reporter.”
According to Merriam-Webster “fake” means “counterfeit or sham” when used as an adjective. Following this line, “counterfeit” is defined as “made in imitation of something else with intent to deceive”. And “sham” means “an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be [...]
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In today’s WaPo is a must read post on “soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.” The 1st Batalion just happens to be the same Battalion of the now infamous Scott Beauchamp, who the wingnuts have virtually crucified for months in the blogosphere. Here’s a few quips from the must read of the day:
Their line of [...]
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Thomas Jefferson had it right when he wrote:
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. [...]
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E&P reports today that former Sen. Rick Santorum is getting a ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ column. Good gracious some newspapers will obviously give anybody ink including recently defeated former Sen. Santorum, known right wing nutjob.
A press conference will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick [...]
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