UPDATE: More from Laura Rozen. UPDATE: If you haven't seen Rep. Jane Harman's post for the Agonist, it's a worthy read. She takes a strong stance against any war with Iran. It's the latest political game show. You know, like trading nuclear rods for mangos. But if you believe Bush really wants to talk to [...]
Taheri Invited to the White House
Wait until you read this one. It is simply incredible. I've been all over the Iranian badge story, as you undoubtedly know by now. But this latest development defies all rational thinking. The man who fabricated the whole story was invited to the White House as an “expert” yesterday. You just can't make this stuff [...]
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Laura Ingraham’s Hotel Balcony
Laura Ingraham's Hotel Balcony I'd like to shove the latest tragedy about reporter Kimberly Dozier, the CBS correspondent who came close to dying in Baghdad, down Laura Ingraham's pie hole. Lord knows, it's big enough. Ingraham, back from the war a few months ago, was all high and mighty after her hack radio Iraq tour, [...]
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Al Gore is Such a Tease
Al Gore is a Tease UPDATE: Here's a “draft Al Gore” blog that looks like just a very basic start up effort. Al Gore delivers his speech at the Guardian's Hay Festival in Wales. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images I know he's a “recovering politician,” but this is killing me. He's saying all the right things [...]
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The ‘War on Terror’ is for Girlie Men
The “War on Terror” is for Girlie Men General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the National Press Club on Monday that he had “objected to the use of the term 'war on terrorism' before, because if you call it a war, then you think of people in uniform as being [...]
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At Least they Didn’t Talk About S-E-X
At Least they Didn't Talk About S-E-X I'm still waiting for Chris Matthews to make Rudy a subject of \”Pornball.\” After all, who could be a more titillating candidate? Rudy had an affair with his aide while still married. Then, when his wife got fed up and kicked him out, he lived with two gay [...]
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What Now for Terror Guy?
What Now for Terror Guy? It's a man! It's the president! It's Terror Guy! Two in a CBS news crew killed, with one person seriously wounded. Afghanistan is in flames. Iraq needs more troops! In the latest installment of the Adventures of Terror Guy, things have gotten very grim for our anti-hero. The “war on [...]
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MEMORIAL DAY: The Republican Military Myth Revealed
MEMORIAL DAY: The Republican Military Myth Revealed Lt. John F. Kennedy with other crewmen on board USS PT-109, 1943. As President John F. Kennedy said, “the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie … but the myth.” Nothing defines this more than the Republican myth that they are stronger on national security [...]
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Count the Women Sunday
It won't talk you long. I do it every week. But today it was really easy. There is only one woman invited on the Sunday talk shows today. Oh, and she's a conservative: Kate O'Beirne. That's all, folks. FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Sens. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Staff Sgt. Alfred Lanier, [...]
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The Other Message on Memorial Day
Circa 2004…We still don’t know the half of it. My uncle suffered from PTSD after flying continuous mission in WWII. My brother was a Marine waiting for word from President Kennedy during the Cuban crisis. But nobody in my family had to face what Iraqi war veterans are facing. I cover the military all the [...]
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Kerry’s Hog Farmer Challenge
Kerry's Hog Farmer Challenge Al Gore and John Kerry are new men these days. Gone is the tongue tied Al Gore and his stage fright. John Kerry's inability to make a declarative sentence is kaput. But since Gore keeps saying he's not running, let's take another look at John Kerry. As regular readers know, I [...]
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Gonzales and Mueller Threatened to Quit Over Documents
UPDATE: Steve Soto reels out this story a bit. Like me, he also thinks the threat from Gonzales and Mueller was real on this one. I know many are cynical about this, but this element is serious. Soto's take on Cheney is good, but frankly, I didn't even pay the Post story any mind, because [...]
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Pornball with Chris Matthews
“… You had to be Dan Brown to decode the story. No offense to your newspaper, but I mean, it was kind of written in code. … Readers get annoyed when newspapers don't just come out and say what they know.” – Jonathan Alter on “Hardball” MEDIA MATTERS has the story! Matthews was downright hilarious [...]
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Bush’s Theater of the Disingenuous
Bush's Theater of the Disingenuous Wolffe: ..And for me the big giveaway was at the end of that answer, I don't know if you can see it on camera, but the President flashed a big grin to those of us sitting in the front rows. It didn't seem that he was quite as contrite as [...]
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United Nations: Badge Story is Bogus – FINAL
The story continues to develop and not in a good way for Amir Taheri, the neocons, or for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which was instrumental in giving this story its legs. I just heard about this and also received a heads up from Greg Sargent on this development. A letter received today by Wiesenthal Center [...]
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Scrambling to Get the Story
UPDATE II: Breaking News! It was a “construction crew,” who tried to blame the elevator, but the Capitol Police were having none of it. Good for them. They exonerated the elevator! UPDATE: The “all clear” has been given. Evidently, after five hours, the word from MSNBC is that it was an irate elevator that made [...]
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FOR THE TROOPS: Talk Redeployment
General Wesley Clark is talking about a transition in Iraq and not for the first time. It's way past the moment to listen. But talking about having no permanent bases, well, now that's news, especially since we've got football fields of them already constructed. How Clark talks the neocons out of this one will be [...]
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Hillary and All the Gossip that’s Unfit to Spit
He’d be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. – Chris Matthews (date unknown) “I love these topics,” said a salivating Matthews today on “Hardball.” Oh, but only because it has everything to do [...]
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Karl and the Prince of Darkness
UPDATE II: Jonathan Turley (of George Washington Univ. Law Center) said today on “Hardball” that, “Everything ends up at Dick Cheney's desk. His right hand man is indicted. He's intimately involved in the Niger allegation with weapons of mass destruction. He's the one who seems to have instructed Libby. The biggest question is not whether [...]
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Pelosi Gets it Right on Jefferson
Pelosi Gets it Right on Jefferson UPDATE II: Bush orders documents sealed. UPDATE: Jefferson seizure, “Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution.” But the FBI had no other choice than to search Jefferson's office, Gonzalez says, because the congressman refused to provide them with documents after a subpoena was filed. [...]
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