Archive for November, 2003
Preemption and Patriotism Redux
Waaaay back on November 13, I wrote a post about the Republican strategy of pushing the President’s “Doctrine of Preemption” and painting the Democrats as weak-willed, indecisive and perhaps unpatriotic. Well, it looks like we won’t have to wait too long to see the first examples of this campaign. According to the New York Times, [...]
A little bit more than a little bit of a problem
Separated at birth? From the Cleveland Plain Dealer Because of an editing error, a story on the front page yesterday misattributed a quote from the speaker on an audiotape purportedly of Saddam Hussein as coming from Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. It was the speaker on the tape, not Daschle, who said, [...]
The media wakes up?
Previously we’ve taken a looks at faulty intel claims by The Pentagon here and the official denial by the Department of Defense here. It’s good to see other outlets picking up on the sham that the Weekly Standard and Fox News tried to run. Exibit A, Exibit B, Exibit C. All three ask important questions [...]
At least his money is clean
Money laundering now? Stylin’, profilin’ Authorities say they became aware two years ago, during an investigation of New York bank US Trust, that Limbaugh had taken between 30 and 40 cash withdrawals from his account in amounts just under $10,000. Structuring withdrawls to get around the $10,000 federal reporting threshold is also a felony. Drugs [...]
Justice and Injustice
Justice Here is a Department of Defense statement calling reports of a Iraq-bin Laden connection “inaccurate”. The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions. I wrote about the Weekly Standard‘s piece a few days ago, as well as Fox [...]
The Ill Biz
My Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, And they’re like “It’s better than yours” Damn right, It’s better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge I can only really guess what Kelis is talking about here, but it is of little matter. How I missed this when it came [...]
$euss
Enough chit-chat — where’s my $%@!ing check? It hasn’t even been released yet, but I already want to throw a brick at my television every time something relating to the “The Cat In The Hat” movie appears. It’s bad enough that another Dr. Seuss book has to get brutalized by Hollywood (wasn’t “The Grinch” bad [...]
More from my favorite media outlet
Ah, the beauty of the internet… Here is an invaluable link to some pure entertainment courtesy of Fox News. First, a Fox anchor questions Wes Clark about his quote about the Iraq war being a “sideshow”. The anchor, in true Fox fashion, tried to equate Clark’s criticism of the war with not supporting the troops. [...]
The Facts, yo
1. Jay-Z has no skills. I know that many people think he’s top 5, but they are just wrong. Tupac was/is horribly overrated. 2. Adaptation was a crap movie. If you liked this flick, you are pretentious. 3. Hip Hop slang took a wrong turn about 2 years ago. Calling everything “the jump-off”, saying “holla [...]
Confusing “Proof” with “Repetition”
Just like Fox News, but for people who can read The time between waking up and full brain function can sometimes be more of a journey than it should be. This weekend that journey was made considerably more difficult by The Weekly Standard via Fox News. “We found the link between Saddam and bin Laden” [...]