01.24.06
Late Night TV
Well, maybe it just makes for good television. And good politics. Both clips from The Political Teen. Lighten up, kid. Lighten Up. Clinton really wasn’t the devil. But, you’re really good at going through all the trouble of capturing video and encoding it to post online. There are links to video clips in both posts.
Democratic operative James Carville appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last evening to discuss his book, Alito, and his new sports radio talk show. Carville believes that Alito was nominated to overturn Roe and subsequently, will do. Carville is still used to politics in President Clenis’ administration, where decisions are based [...]Today Show Tries to Steer O’Reilly Off Track With Fast Paced Questions (VIDEO)
Bill O’Reilly appeared on the Today show to discuss Alito and wiretapping. In an attempted to catch him off guard, co-host Matt Lauer asked O’Reilly questions in a fast paced way, and boy [...]
The Abramoff/Bush Pictures
Who has them? Who shopped them around? Could it be…..? J.A.
Great catch by Think Progress. Over the weekend, Time magazine and the Washingtonian both reported on five photos of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, but neither publication revealed its source. Yesterday, ThinkProgress laid out the case for why the source for the photos was likely Abramoff himself. Last night, our hunch was confirmed [...]
Insight: Impeachment
“Insight” is about as conservative a magazine as you can find. But, that’s where the “I-word” is popping up today.
The conservative magazine Insight gives us a story that makes the left drool: The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress. “A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment,” an administration source said. Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings [...]
Checking Facts
Bloggers are hard at work today, checking facts and figures from the latest Administration speeches. It’s a frustrating job, but quite productive. Start reading.
Just to try and keep a few lies documented in one place, here are this evening’s offerings, inspired by today’s Newsday report cited in the first item below:
Katrina:
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
– President Bush, September 1, 2005
WASHINGTON– The Homeland Security Department was warned a day before Hurricane Katrina hit that the storm’s surge could breach levees and leave New Orleans flooded for weeks or months, documents released Monday show.
– Newsday, January 23, 2006
The list goes on. Then, consider these two collections of quips, quotes and reality.
Trying to fact check every speech Bush delivers is too daunting a task for a humble blogger — a typical event includes far too much mendacity to bother. But since yesterday’s speech was supposed to be the president’s latest comprehensive defense of his warrantless-search program, it’s probably worth taking a moment to document the more [...]
The president said something yesterday about the military with which I agree wholeheartedly. “It is really important for the United States of America to have an all-volunteer Army. The best way to keep people volunteering in the Army is to make sure they got good pay, good training, good equipment and good housing for their loved [...]
