Archive for February, 2008
One Of Them’s Not Telling The Truth
Who are you going to believe? Those lying, cheating folks over at CBS‘ “60 Minutes”, or that bastion of morality, that poster boy of rectitude, that grand poobah of the upright citizens’ brigade, Karl Rove? (For the record, it is not clear that even his own mother would pick Karl in that pairing.) Here’s the [...]
My Country ’Tis of Thee
There’s the land of the free, and the home of the brave. And then there’s 21st century U.S.A.: CBS aired its long-awaited feature on the prosecution and imprisonment of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman this evening at 7:00. In a stunning move of censorship, the transmission was blocked across the northern third of Alabama [...]
McCain And The FEC: Enter the DNC
John McCain‘s problems with respect to having his cake and eating it too when it comes to public financing are about to get worse. To recap, the sainted election-reform straight-shooter wanted to lay claim to federal matching funds, but leave himself the option of backing out (and escaping associated spending-limit restrictions) if his presidential prospects [...]
“My mentality is somewhere between armageddon and apocalypse”
McCain hopes Castro to “meet Marx soon” – Reuters (2/22/08): Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die soon and said Castro’s brother will be a worse leader. “I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon,” McCain told a town-hall style [...]
The Sordid Truth About Madonna Constantine
Remember Madonna Constantine? She’s the Columbia University professor who jumped into the headlines last fall, and was lionized by the media and blogs, after a noose was found on her office door in the aftermath of the racist nonsense that went down in Jena. Well, she’s in the news again, and this time she’s probably [...]
Cut From The Same Cloth
In case you had any doubt, John McCain is advertising that his attitude to questionable legal issues is exactly the same as George Bush‘s. Namely, if you can get one person (preferably, on your own payroll) to rubber-stamp what you want to believe (can you say John Yoo?), that certifies what you want to believe [...]
Calling A Spade A Spade: By The Numbers
I was struck by how most accounts I read insisted on describing the alleged McCain-Iseman impropriety as a “romantic relationship” rather than “adultery“. So I did a little Google News search. McCain Iseman “romantic relationship” produces 1475 hits; McCain Iseman “adultery” generates only 13 hits, and most of those are blogs, not news outlets. So, [...]
Our Word Is Not Our Bond, Ha-ha!
At some point in the future, I’m sure, someone will be able to explain all this to us: CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the Sept. 11 attacks had used British airspace or [...]
Delegate Math: It Ain’t Exactly Rocket Science
David Espo writes for AP. At least he used to. He produced a piece for them yesterday that should by rights have him cringing in shame. It should also have them changing their legal name, and moving to a different country, and entering a totally different line of business. So it’s perfectly possible that Espo [...]
Surprise, Surprise!
The NYT informs us that John McCain — who has built some kind of reputation for himself for a) lustful fornication outside the sacrament of marriage, and b) blithely abandoning principles he himself has piously espoused in the past — seems to be a dishonest randy old sod. Go figure! And if you can muster [...]