Posts filed under “Bush Man Date”
Dick Cheney on the mess the Bush Administration created
Coming from the man who thinks he is always right about everything, it is no surprise that Dick Cheney had these words of wisdom to convey to viewers of Fox News Sunday: “I have the sense that [Hillary Clinton's] one of the more competent members of the current administration, and it would be interesting to [...]
What does the National Geographic Channel have in common with Fox News?
You can’t fool all the people all of the time But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind Tell me who’s got control of your mind? your world view? Is it the news or the movie you’re taking your girl to? Dead Prez — “Propoganda” If you watched the National [...]
War Profiteering Inc.
That “Inc.”, by the way, is short for “incarnate”. The company in question seems to embody the very highest traditions of war profiteering. Two and a half weeks ago, Mission Essential Personnel, LLC, (MEP) proudly put out this press release: Mission Essential Personnel, LLC, (MEP) is pleased to announce it has been included again on [...]
When Polls Collide And Minds Explode
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll on Sunday: A new national poll released Sunday indicates that eight in 10 Americans say that the economy is in poor shape, and the number that says conditions are very poor is on the upswing after steady declines through the spring. And according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, more [...]
On Deficit-Financed Wars
This part of President Obama‘s Oval Office address was clearly aimed at Bush: Unfortunately, over the last decade, we’ve not done what’s necessary to shore up the foundations of our own prosperity. We spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, [...]
“Trying To Split The Difference Between The Irreconcilable”
How’s this for most succinct summation of last night’s Oval Office address? President Obama‘s Oval Office address was impressive and perplexing. Politically, I liked the clever pivot to the domestic economy, but he left me utterly confused about the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. Are we to continue to spend trillions supposedly building “democracy” in [...]
Our Collective Shame
Time poll: 15. Do you think that a Muslim should be allowed to … Run for President of the United States? Yes: 61% No: 32% No answer/Don’t know: 7% Serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? Yes: 65% No: 28% No answer/Don’t know: 7% Almost one-third of the country would bar Muslims from running for President? [...]
Videotape And Lies (No Sex)
Well, well, well, well, well! The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects. And they could complicate U.S. [...]
Quote Of The Day
“One-term president” wasn’t the only thing Newt Gingrich had to say about Barack Obama. There was also this: “I think he will replace Jimmy Carter as the worst president of modern times,” said Gingrich. Gingrich apparently doesn’t feel very much need to stay on top of the news, not even political news. When it comes [...]
We-a Culpa! We-a Minima Culpa!
Back in May, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government published an interesting little study of media dishonesty. It examined how four major newspapers — the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today — have covered the topic of waterboarding [...]