Smackdown. This is good stuff.
Michael Moore went off on Wolfie and CNN for a hit piece they aired about “Sicko” right before he came on. He was hot! He slapped the beard around pretty good…He says he’ll post the facts refuting their claims on his website tonight. He then attacked CNN and Blitzer for not doing their job in the [...]
Here is Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s “Sicko Reality Check” segment that preceded Michael Moore’s heated interview with The Beard, earlier this evening on CNN.
And, Moore’s dissection of the CNN "facts" –
PEEK: "Sicko" Truth Squad Sets CNN Straight
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What more can you say?
ABC News reports that White House is “in panic mode” over the recent defections of Republican senators on the President’s Iraq policy: Senior Bush administration officials are deep in discussion about how to find a compromise that will “appease Democrats and keep wobbly Republicans on board,” a senior White House official tells ABC News. The official said [...]
Quick Update: It’s not just one, single, report…
There are money quotes floating around today. Keepers. And headlines, too. Like this one: ‘Crack in the Dike’: White House in ‘Panic Mode’ Over GOP Revolt on Iraq from ABC News. That’s never a good sign. Take a read…it’s got gems like this: The official said the White House "is in panic mode," despite Monday’s on-the-record briefing by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who played down any concern over the recent spate of GOP senators who have spoken out publicly in support of changing course in Iraq. The Republican. [...]
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Whooo Hawww! This could be getting really interesting!
Taylor to appear anyway?
Salon’s Alex Koppelman adds an odd twist to the White House/Congress conflict over testimony of former Bush aides. We just got off the phone with Tracy Schmaler, a spokesperson for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority. Schmaler told us it is her understanding that — despite President Bush’s invocation of executive privilege in regards to the [...]
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Fantasy world. Plain. And simple. How else could anyone believe this?
Rove: Iraq Will Not Be A Big Issue In The Next Election
Yesterday on NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent John Yang said that Bush’s senior political aide Karl Rove has apparently calculated that Iraq will not affect the 2008 elections. Rove, who spoke Sunday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, reportedly said “Iraq may not be a big issue in the next election because, he hopes, troops [...]
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Or lack, thereof. The trinket trade ain’t doin’ so hot down Crawford way…
Whither Goes Bush, So Too, Goes Crawford
There’s a delicious sense of schadenfreude to this story. Houston Chronicle: From a wooden bench in front of a shop selling mementos of “The Western White House,” tourist Chuck Yorde wondered aloud why he seemed to be the only visitor in town.[..] The Youngstown, Ohio, resident was almost apologetic about his own presence in the town that [...]
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So, let’s see now. The Army can’t recruit enough people. And, now, DHS is short-handed. REALLY short-handed.
You Sleep Well Tonight, Y’Hear?
Well, I for one can’t think of any particular reason why this should scare the bejebus out of you: The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security, creating a “gaping hole” in the nation’s preparedness for a terrorist attack or other threat, according [...]
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Two in a row. Again.
Army Missed Recruiting Goal Again
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and Luis Martinez report: Already stretched thin by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is having a hard time finding new recruits. ABC News has learned the Army missed its recruiting goal in June for the second month in a row. It’s the first [...]
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The Bush Administration may be truly backed into a corner on the issue of Iraq. When pressure from Republicans becomes strong enough, rumors like this start to float around…and I recall sometheng about "the sound and the fury signifying nothing…
White House Debating Whether To Announce "Intention" To Begin Withdrawing From Iraq Someday
File this one in the "I have some lovely real estate in Florida to sell you" department. According to this morning’s Times, White House officials are debating whether they should say that they [...]
Whether you believe him, or not…
White House denies considering Iraq pullbacks
President Bush’s spokesman on Monday denied a published report that described intensifying debate among White House officials over whether to begin a gradual pullback of U.S. troops in Iraq. White House spokesman Tony Snow said a story in The New York Times [...]
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Not unexpected, but some were holding out hope for real cooperation this time.
Take Them To Court Now
Gee, they must be hiding something. Bush, as expected, invoked executive privilege this morning to prevent former White House aide and Rove assistant Sara Taylor and former White House counsel Harriet Miers from testifying to Congress on their role in the sacking of federal prosecutors. The Bush White House, under former Nixon attorney Fred Fielding counsel is fully in bunker mode now, and the sooner the Democrats [...]
Reaction? You want reaction?
Bush Invokes Executive Privilege
Way to start the week with a bang: President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews. Great. That [...]
Bush says he won’t let former staff testify about whether he broke the law
Bush to Congress: You’ll get nothing and you’ll like it
Well, I can’t imagine anyone is surprised by this stonewalling. President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides in connection with the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, [...]
It’s A Privilege…
It seems that President Bush has, indeed, invoked “executive privilege” (H/T to twolf1 for the link) to attempt to prevent testimony from former aides regarding the potential WH employee misconduct in politicization worries about the Department of Justice. Reader WB sent me a link this morning to a poignant opinion piece in the Denver Post written [...]
Contempt of Congress? Bush blocks key testimony, Refuses to even explain why
…Worthless. How absolutely worthless. They invoke executive privilage for two people who no longer even work at the White House (as sketchy legally as you can get), and then they refuse to explain why, or on what legal basis they are invoking executive privilage. How utterly absurd. House Judiciary Commitee Chair John Conyers said [...]
And, finally, Bush Channels Nixon
There. You get the picture.
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Today’s notes from the Terror Files. An explanation of why things are the way they are..
‘America is still the land of opportunity to the whole world’
Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria recently noted that the United States has to deal with far fewer instances of domestic terrorism in part because American Muslims “are generally middle class, moderate and well assimilated. They believe in America and the American Dream.” McClatchy’s Matthew Schofield followed up on this point with a terrific piece exploring why the U.S. [...]
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Bad. And continuing to worsen. Imagine, as this blogger does, if the car bombs were happening here…
Hopeless and Taking Lawlessness to New Levels in Iraq
I mention Iraq in the title since it isn’t too much of a stretch for readers to think that I am talking about the situation here in the US as well. And while it is fairly obvious that the situation in Iraq is horrific, we generally only get blurbs about the violence and a ton of effort focused on our troops, contractors or other similar angles. I don’t want to do that, at least not today. What I want to talk about here is the Iraqi civilians. I have written [...]
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The "spin" just doesn’t work…
Bush lies, and AP actually calls him on it
Yes, Virginia, there is a free press still in America…It’s actually been quite rare of late for the media to actually call Bush on his lies. Usually they simply parrot whatever the White House has to say, never challenging what they know to be untrue. In this case, AP refused to simply report a lie. And kudos to AP for that. While the Republicans want [...]
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Pretty impressive..
This is a big deal. Glenn Greenwald’s book A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency debuted today on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list at #31. This is a big deal, something that everyone who bought the book online can feel proud of — with almost [...]
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There’s nothing like it. I’ve really enjoyed reading through the rightwing bloggers, who are quick to point out that the Live Earth concerts were poorly attended in spots because it’s "too cold" (irony?). Well, maybe it’s a new world out there, friends. A new world.
Reuters reports that Microsoft Corp’s Web portal MSN said today that LIVE EARTH’s internet[s] streaming “broke a record for an online entertainment show by generating more than 9 million Internet streams.” As the last two of the nine Live Earth concerts got underway, MSN product manager Karin Muskopf said the number of streams had surpassed [...]
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It’s all politics. Plain and simple…
This morning, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol — who accurately predicted the President’s decision to commute Libby’s sentence — suggested the order was timed to provide political cover for the decision by attacking President Clinton. “Here’s why the president acted the way he did. He knew Bill Clinton was joining Hillary in Iowa on July [...]
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Pretty striking statements, IMHO.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that he spent 2.5 hours “vainly trying to persuade President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by U.S. forces. ‘I tried to avoid this war,’ Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. ‘I took him through the consequences [...]
UPDATE: Some bloggers (especially this one over at Daily Kos) are NOT impressed..
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I agree with the blogger. When pieces like this one start turning up in smaller newspapers, things are changing.
This op-ed appeared last week in a small newspaper and got a pretty big response. I suspect that the author’s feelings are all too common right now and it has to make Republicans nervous: "I supported the Iraq War in the beginning, but as its mismanagement grew, so did my disillusionment. Yet I remained a [...]
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In addition to the one directly below. I’m sure glad somebody had time to dig through the major papers today…
It was a good day for the New York Times. They finally came out forcefully for a withdrawal from Iraq and their public editor exposed their sloppy reporting on Al Qeada in Iraq. It’s not often that the press throws a wet towel over the distortions of the Bush administration. The Times gave them the full treatment today. It’s another sign of a cratering presidency [....]
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