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  • Webb Seeks Freeze on Iraq Propaganda Effort [no information warfare in Iraq]

    10/10/2008 3:18:48 PM PDT · by SJackson · 9 replies · 235+ views
    Virginian-Pilot ^ | October 10, 2008
    U.S. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia wants the Pentagon to freeze up to $300 million in contracts with companies the military is hiring to place pro-U.S. news stories and entertainment programs in the Iraqi media . Webb wrote Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday to ask that the deals be suspended until they can be reviewed by the Senate Armed Services Committee and the next presidential administration. A freshman Democrat, Webb sits on the Armed Services panel. With the United States in "a grave economic crisis" and Iraq's government carrying a $79 billion budget surplus drawn from oil exports, "it...
  • The Rise and Fall of Fox News

    10/08/2008 6:29:21 PM PDT · by BGHater · 68 replies · 1,569+ views
    AIM ^ | 05 Oct 2008 | Cliff Kincaid
    The coverage of the financial crisis has been helpful in demonstrating that many of the “conservatives” in the media are not so conservative after all. When the going gets tough, they are quick to abandon their principles. Several commentators on the Fox News Channel joined Senators Barack Obama and John McCain and most congressional Democrats in supporting the socialist-style bailout scheme.  Exhibit number one is Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, who declared on “Special Report with Brit Hume” on Fox News on October 2 that conservatives in the House of Representatives opposing the plan were crazy, nuts, and idiots. This...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 5 October 2008

    10/05/2008 4:55:17 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 554 replies · 11,667+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 5 October 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Brooks Jackson, director of FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gwen Ifill, PBS journalist and moderator of the vice presidential debate. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Reps. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Heather Wilson, R-N.M.THIS WEEK (ABC): Govs. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., and Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; Sens. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.LATE...
  • Professors Against the Bailout

    09/29/2008 1:57:06 PM PDT · by bs9021 · 4 replies · 274+ views
    Campus Report ^ | September 29, 2008 | Bethany Stotts
    Professors Against the Bailout by: Bethany Stotts, September 29, 2008 Politicians opposing the $700 billion bailout, known as the Paulson plan, got support from an academic venue on Thursday, September 25. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) met before the press that day to explain his opposition to the plan. “I don’t know if you have this, but I have…five pages of the leading economists in America that wrote to me and the leadership saying ‘the Paulson plan is a bad plan, it will not solve problems, it will create more problems, we’re rushing to judgment, and that we do have stress...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 September 2008

    09/28/2008 4:54:16 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 484 replies · 10,525+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 28 September 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Kerry, D-Mass; Cristian Samper, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former President Clinton; David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist; Steve Schmidt, senior adviser to McCain; Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo.; former Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colo. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
  • Indian sparks off bailout protests in the US

    09/27/2008 8:37:46 AM PDT · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 9 replies · 265+ views
    Rediff ^ | September 27, 2008 | Rediff
    Arun Gupta was enraged as he learned the details of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan to fix the U.S. banking system with $700 billion in taxpayer funds. The 43-year-old copy editor and freelance journalist, who publishes his own alternative newspaper, The Indypendent, needed to channel his angst but couldn't find a live protest to attend. So on Sept. 22, he sent an e-mail to some politically active friends in New York. Within days, they'd planned a protest against the bailout in New York and at 80 other locations in the U.S. on Sept. 25.   "I couldn't sit back while...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 21 September 2008

    09/21/2008 4:57:31 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 532 replies · 272+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 21 September 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chair of the American Red Cross. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Paulson; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Paulson; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.THIS WEEK (ABC): Paulson; Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Douglas Holtz Eakin, adviser to John McCain; Austan Goolsbee, adviser to Barack Obama; former Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.; Gene Sperling,...
  • A Veteran's Reply to Matt Damon

    09/20/2008 1:21:44 PM PDT · by JaguarXKE · 72 replies · 65+ views
    Self ^ | 20 Sep 08 | JaguarXKE
    Every time I watched Matt Damon's idiotic assessment of Sarah Palin, and his reference to a parody that was done about her as if it were fact, I just wanted to scream. So I felt compelled to make this video reply to MAtt Damon. I only hope that somehow he manages to see it.
  • Rasmussen 9/19/08: 48-48

    09/19/2008 6:37:21 AM PDT · by CatOwner · 2 replies · 9+ views
    See link.
  • Which news to watch?

    09/18/2008 5:14:27 PM PDT · by freebird5850 · 33 replies · 13+ views
    Ok my head is spinning. I want to view pro Republican news on tv. I didn't get what FOX was reporting just now and keep panning around. Who do I make my go-to news source besides here?
  • We (Republicans) Are All White Trash Now

    09/18/2008 7:23:19 AM PDT · by combat_boots · 123 replies · 38+ views
    Vanity | 9/18/2008 | Vanity
    The woman on Fox just now interviewed someone from Canada. It seems this post, "A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention," by one Heather Mallick, suggests those who vote McCain/Palin are White trash. Read it here. Please post the Fox interview video if you find it. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html
  • IAEA info suggests Iran worked on nuclear missile

    09/16/2008 4:10:27 PM PDT · by Flavius · 1 replies · 3+ views
    ap ^ | 9/15/08 | By GEORGE JAHN
    so yeah
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 14 September 2008

    09/14/2008 4:51:46 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 497 replies · 152+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 14 September 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Gov. Tony Knowles, D-Alaska; Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, R-Alaska; Jim Laychak, president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y.; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Bob Woodward, associate editor for The Washington Post and author of a new book on the Bush administration.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; former acting Gov. Jane Swift, R-Mass.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Carly...
  • Obama's "community organizer" phase was about political power, not soup kitchens

    09/03/2008 10:42:24 PM PDT · by bahblahbah · 31 replies · 28+ views
    Windy Citizen ^ | July 28, 2008 | John Maki
    If you've heard the term, you likely learned about it through Barack Obama's memoir or one of his speeches where he talks about his time working in poor neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s. He refers to this time in his life a lot. Obama leans on it, hard, while stumping. But what does it mean? What do community organizers actually do? How do they do it? And how has Obama's experience as a community organizer shaped his run for the presidency? Since 2002, I have worked with several Chicago-based community organizers and even done some organizing myself....
  • Anarchists disrupting MSNBC coverage at RNC -- Right Now!!!

    09/03/2008 12:11:48 PM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 76 replies · 27+ views
    Norah O'Donnell is anchoring in an outdoor studio thing, interviewing Sen. Kay Bailey-Hutchison, and you cannot hear a darn thing with all the yelling & screaming from anarchists in the background holding up posters and other 9/11 conspiracy theorists holding up signs that say that the US government is to blame for 9/11. Nice job, MSNBC. Move it inside!
  • Enquirer vs. Palin(plus Media Relations info)

    09/03/2008 12:56:42 AM PDT · by bahblahbah · 11 replies · 10+ views
    The Other McCain | Sept 3 2008 | Robert Stacy McCain
    National Enquirer: Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy. But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.The ultra-conservative governor's announcement about her daughter's pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of...
  • Ike Pappas, Who Broadcast Oswald Death, Dead At 75

    09/02/2008 10:11:31 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies · 16+ views
    www.cbsnews.com ^ | 09/02/2008 | Staff
    Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75. Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, of complications of heart disease, his family said. Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "You have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out. "Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here,...
  • Obama and Biden voted to fund the bridge to nowhere instead of Katrina victims

    09/02/2008 7:42:06 AM PDT · by bahblahbah · 9 replies · 15+ views
    Chicago Daily Observer ^ | August 31, 2008 | John Powers
    Now that Alaska is front and center in the news again, it is a good time to catch up on a favorite story, The Bridge to Nowhere, using the Washington Post US Congress Votes Database. Though Gov. Palin originally supported the earmark spending on the Ketchikan bridge (“to nowhere), she eventually killed the project, chosing to spend Federal money on other infrasturcture programs. However, Sen. Biden and Sen. Obama voted for funding the Bridge, even when given a second chance by Sen. Tom Coburn, who proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief. Sen. McCain did not vote on the Coburn...
  • McCain camp's detailed review of Palin

    09/01/2008 6:21:15 PM PDT · by bahblahbah · 44 replies · 18+ views
    Washington Times ^ | September 1, 2008 | LIZ SIDOTI
    Sarah Palin's path to the Republican ticket started with her name on a list _ and a team of some 25 people poring through public records searching for trouble spots without her knowledge. Then came the 70-question survey and a nearly three-hour interview. The review officially ended Thursday, when John McCain asked the Alaska governor to be his running mate. In the days since, Republicans and Democrats have privately questioned whether the Arizona senator chose the first-term governor without fully looking into her background. McCain's campaign has vehemently defended the review. Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr., the lawyer who conducted the...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 31 August 2008

    08/31/2008 5:14:17 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 1,202 replies · 469+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 31 August 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, August 31th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): John McCain; Mike Miller, director of operations for the Republican National Convention.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., and Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y.; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Carly Fiorina, adviser to the McCain campaign.THIS WEEK (ABC): Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Kerry, D-Mass.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Govs. Charlie Crist, R-Fla., Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.;...
  • Will the Media Cover Palin as much as They Did to Obama? (Vanity)

    08/30/2008 5:35:24 PM PDT · by paudio · 15 replies · 10+ views
    Vanity | 8/30/08 | Me
    Palin is 'New' and Her Candidacy is Historic. One of MSM's excuse for all 24/7 attention toward Obama is that "he is new, so people are interested to learn more about him" (although Obama actually already gave speech in 2004 Convention, which was widely covered). Okay, now we have Palin, who is also 'new'. Will they cover her with glow as much as they did (and still do) to Obama?
  • GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, AND WHO CARES NEWS

    08/27/2008 4:33:20 PM PDT · by Gene Lalor · 3 replies · 3+ views
    http://genelalor.com/ ^ | August 27, 2008 | Gene Lalor
    GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, AND WHO-CARES-NEWS THE GOOD NEWS: As expected, the results are in on Hillary’s lackluster I-have-to-do-this-but-I-don’t-have-to-be-enthused-about-it speech last night: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200808u/hillarys-convention-speech. Senator Clinton did her duty and nothing more. A suggestion for the Hilderbeast: Don’t hold your breath waiting for a SCOTUS nomination! Also in the good news department: Having betrayed their readership for years with their left-leaning slant, “Newspapers are dead:” http://cbs2chicago.com/sports/jay.mariotti.quits.2.803995.html. No loss. THE BAD NEWS: At least 117 American banks are in serious trouble, mainly due to greed-driven sub-prime loans to sub-qualified borrowers: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXGDnqbSdt.s&refer=worldwide. Time to stuff your cash in your mattress or call George...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 24 August 2008

    08/24/2008 5:00:46 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 570 replies · 203+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 24 August 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Govs. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Bill Ritter, D-Colo.; Robert Gibbs, Obama campaign spokesman.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Caroline Kennedy, co-chair, Obama's vice presidential search committee; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Govs. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Kan., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.; Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. THIS WEEK (ABC): David Axelrod, Obama campaign senior adviser; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.; Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Rep. James...
  • Media Credibility Plummets

    08/19/2008 12:11:18 PM PDT · by ME-262 · 26 replies · 8+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | August 19, 2008 - 11:20 ET | Brent Baker
    “Over the last 10 years,” the just-released biennial news consumption survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press determined, “virtually every news organization or program has seen its credibility marks decline” and “Democrats continue to give most news organizations much higher credibility ratings than do Republicans.” Based on past Pew polls, CNN touts itself as “the most trusted name in news,” but the percent who “believe all or most” of what CNN reports has fallen 12 points, to 30 percent, since Pew first posed the question in 1998. Yet, in a sign of how far the...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 August 2008

    08/17/2008 5:12:31 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 519 replies · 110+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 17 August 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa.; Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; White House press secretary Dana Perino.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Govs. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and Tim Kaine, D-Va.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn. THIS WEEK (ABC): Defense Secretary Robert Gates; former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Reps. Eric...
  • Teen who hung nooses sent to prison

    08/15/2008 4:26:20 PM PDT · by devane617 · 44 replies · 93+ views
    WFXL.com ^ | 08/15/2008
    A Louisiana teenager who hung nooses off the back of his truck to intimidate a group of black civil rights demonstrators has been sentenced to four months in prison.
  • John Edwards Scandal: Silly Edwards’ News Before Things Turn Serious

    08/15/2008 1:25:10 AM PDT · by mondoreb · 1 replies · 9+ views
    DBKP ^ | August 15, 2008 | Mondoreb
    John Edwards Scandal News TV Movie Parts, Gary Pearce, Snoop's Scoop, 3 Stooges, Fred Baron Blurbs, Mickey Kaus, Kathy G, and Faith "This is NOT my baby!" [photo: DougRoss@Journal "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy."It's going to get serious in the immediate future for all involved in the John Edwards Love Child Scandal: Rielle Hunter, Andrew Young, Fred Baron, and of course, John Edwards himself. So, before it does, we thought we'd present this collection of odd and ends in the John Edwards Scandal. Deceptive NuggetsDeceiver has bits and pieces--but what nuggets they are! That Moneyed...
  • Tanks headed toward interior (vanity)

    08/14/2008 12:22:24 PM PDT · by eastforker · 111 replies · 14+ views
    fnc ^ | 8/14/08 | eastforker
    Reports of a hundred tanks or vehicles headed toward Georgia's interior, breaking per Shep Smith.
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 10 August 2008

    08/10/2008 5:23:21 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 271 replies · 41+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 10 August 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Amy Zantzinger, White House social secretary.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President Bush. THIS WEEK (ABC): Govs. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and Bobby Jindal, R-La.LATE EDITION (CNN) : T. Boone Pickens, chairman of the energy investment fund BP Capital and creator of an alternative energy plan; Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and...
  • The Media Who Protected John Edwards

    08/09/2008 11:28:17 AM PDT · by Meggers · 15 replies · 25+ views
    Flagged For Removal ^ | 8-10-08 | Meg Kelso
    I planned to write about John Edwards and his amazing proclivity to behave like my ex-husband. Both of them cheat on women, both of them do it when the wife has cancer and both of them lie and lie and lie. But while I was researching the story, I found something even more despicable. Well, maybe not MORE despicable, but certainly more shocking. Lying cheats only abuse the people they lie to. The new topic is something that abuses ALL Americans. It seems as though many, many, MANY media types were aware of the Edwards story and they all spent...
  • Nat’l Post: ‘You’ll Miss’ The Old Media When Its Gone

    08/08/2008 12:51:45 PM PDT · by RogerFGay · 55 replies · 31+ views
    MensNewsDaily.com ^ | August 8, 2008 | By Warner Todd Huston
    Jonathan Kay of the National Post (Canada) is sure that we'll miss the old media when its gone. So sure he wrote a paean to how great the media is... and he missed the target by a wide margin on every point he made. Unfortunately, he took a good point and made a mockery of the truth of the matter with his wrongheaded reasoning. In "You'll miss us when we're gone" Kay asserts that the media exists for "a genuine, altruistic desire for an educated citizenry" and hopes that predictions of its "imminent extinction" are wrong. He also claims...
  • Under President Obama, Whites Need Not Apply

    08/04/2008 8:43:59 AM PDT · by SHEM33 · 10 replies · 3+ views
    buchanan.org ^ | 08/01/2008 | Patrick J. Buchanan
    Under President Obama, Whites Need Not Apply by Patrick J. Buchanan By Patrick Buchanan “Will race be an issue in this campaign?” Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh. For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Obama because he is African-American — even as a Rasmussen poll was reporting that Barack is beating McCain among black voters 94 to 1. What, other than race, explains how Barack rolled up 90-10 margins among black voters while running against Hillary Clinton, wife of the man novelist Toni Morrison dubbed...
  • Horrific attack on Greyhound bus in Manitoba leaves passengers shocked

    07/31/2008 5:19:30 PM PDT · by Mmogamer · 43 replies · 24+ views
    The Canadian Press ^ | JULY 31 2008 | Steve Lambert
    By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press WINNIPEG - Manitoba RCMP had no answers Thursday as to what prompted a man on a Greyhound bus to suddenly stand up and repeatedly stab his seatmate, behead him and carve up his body in front of horrified passengers. Police would only say that a victim was stabbed on the bus that had left Edmonton for Winnipeg, but passengers described a gruesome, unprovoked attack that left them shaken. ((My first news post I hope I did it right if not have mercy,.,))
  • New Premises in Iraq Prospects for Withdrawal Have to Be Viewed Through the Lens of Progress

    07/31/2008 1:43:36 PM PDT · by SHEM33 · 1 replies · 6+ views
    Washington Post ^ | July 31, 2008 | Henry A. Kissinger
    New Premises in Iraq Prospects for Withdrawal Have to Be Viewed Through the Lens of Progress Henry A. Kissinger Washington Post Thursday, July 31, 2008 The U.S. presidential campaign has been so long and so intense that it seems to operate in a cocoon, oblivious to changes that should alter its premises.
  • Bush Calls for New Highway Tolls and Privatization

    07/31/2008 8:23:30 AM PDT · by SHEM33 · 39 replies · 10+ views
    WSJ ^ | 07/30/2008 | CHRISTOPHER CONKEY
    Bush Calls for New Highway Tolls, More Private Funding of Roads By CHRISTOPHER CONKEY July 30, 2008; Page A3 The Bush administration unveiled a plan to impose new tolls on freeways and encourage more private investment to finance road and mass-transit projects, a move aimed at stirring debate as lawmakers prepare for a major overhaul of transportation policy.
  • URGENT ACTION ALERT: PROTEST SF's SANCTUARY CITY POLICY ON WED. JULY 30th!

    07/28/2008 4:05:18 PM PDT · by xlbrl · 4 replies · 13+ views
    The Minuteman Project ^ | 7/28/08 | xlbrl
    Come join the Minuteman and all of us in the Bay Area who are fed up with San Francisco's illegal shielding of alien criminals. PLACE: San Francisco City Hall DATE: Wednesday, July 30th TIME: 11 A.M. We will demand the resignation of Mayor Newsom and criminally negligent District Attorney Kamala Harris, in addition to an end to San Francisco's criminal alien shield - otherwise known as the "Sanctuary City Policy." Three members of the Bologna family are dead as a direct result of this insane policy, and those responsible must be made to feel the heat. Please join us.
  • Ex-Newark Mayor Sharpe James sentenced to 27 months (NJ Democrat)

    07/29/2008 1:13:03 PM PDT · by LdSentinal · 22 replies · 9+ views
    Star-Ledger ^ | 7/29/08 | Jeff Whelan and John P. Martin
    Sharpe James, the five-term Newark mayor and a towering figure in New Jersey politics, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for failing to disclose his romantic relationship with a girlfriend he helped get lucrative city land. "This is a sad day," U.S. District Judge William Martini said, announcing the decision after a four-hour hearing in a packed Newark courtroom. Martini also ordered James to pay $100,000 fine and report to prison Sept. 15. "A sad day for the citizens of Newark who are disappointed in the conduct of the mayor." James, 72, stood stoically as Martini imposed the...
  • Debating McCain's Campaign Strategy...Is it EFFECTIVE!

    07/28/2008 11:33:36 AM PDT · by enewsreference · 7 replies · 10+ views
    www.enewsreference.com ^ | 07/28/2008 | eNews Reference
    Does McCain's attacks on Barack Obama provide an effective method for running a clean campaign about the major issues of our day? News articles on McCain's Attack Strategy:A Defense Of McCain's Strategy Atlantic OnlineMcCain Takes Aim At Obama's Character CBS NewsJohn McCain's Negative Attacks Against Barack Obama Hit a Low Mark US News & World ReportMcCain stays on attack; Obama wants to talk economy International Herald TribuneObama Returns to Economy as McCain Assails Foreign Tour New York TimesChuck Hagel says John McCain is 'treading on some very thin ground' Los Angeles TimesMcCain Backs Away From 'Timetable' Remark ABC NewsMcCain camp...
  • World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #12 Security Watch

    07/28/2008 8:37:15 AM PDT · by DAVEY CROCKETT · 2,806 replies · 1,633+ views
    Homeland Security National Terror Alert ^ | July 28, 2008 | Homeland Security News
    Is U.S. Bioterror Attack Just A Matter of Time? The overriding question is whether the U.S. is “ready” for a bioterror attack. The answer could well rely on the “other” question of what bio-agent and what’s the source? In 1991, 40,000 Russian scientists dispersed throughout the World, with knowledge of what the U.S.S.R. was doing in chemical and biological weapons. The question is to whom did they sell their knowledge? Some believe former Soviet scientists sold technology to countries like Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Lurking is the spectre of al-Qaeda, a group that the Pentagon says continues to pursue...
  • MoveOn.org: Jews Control "Racist" Fox News

    07/27/2008 11:48:44 AM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 4 replies · 7+ views
    MoveOn.org, Please Move On! ^ | 7/26/08 | Winged Hussar 1683
    The following was posted to MoveOn.org's now disgraced Action Forum, with the sanction of the moderators who exercised editorial control over the site. Perhaps this, and not MoveOn.org's false accusation of racism, is the organization's real problem with Fox News. But I can see why you might think you OWN! the media,or are entitled to: 8 JEWS RUN U.S. MEDIA Today, eight Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 27 July 2008

    07/27/2008 5:18:52 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 587 replies · 62+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 27 July 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; actor Ben Stein.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Jack Reed, D-R.I. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill.
  • Where the Ducks Are—Why Can't McCain Court Reagan Democrats Instead Of La Raza?

    07/27/2008 4:50:53 AM PDT · by SHEM33 · 5 replies
    Humanevents ^ | July 21, 2008 | Patrick J. Buchanan
    Where the Ducks Are—Why Can't McCain Court Reagan Democrats Instead Of La Raza? By Patrick J. Buchanan "You go hunting where the ducks are," said Barry Goldwater. The successor to Barry's Senate seat apparently believes that ducks come from Mexico and speak Spanish. For in July alone, John McCain made three separate appearances before Hispanic groups. Last week, he spoke to La Raza (The Race), where rival Barack Obama said, "The Latino community holds the election in its hands." McCain would appear to agree. But are he and the GOP letting go of the bird in the hand to grab...
  • Anti-Catholic Hate Group Accuses Fox News of Racism

    07/26/2008 10:07:41 AM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 3 replies · 8+ views
    The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours ^ | 7/26/08 | Winged Hussar 1683
    MoveOn.org, whose endorsement Barack Obama solicited and accepted (http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html), recently posted a petition with the following content. “FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and its personalities accountable for FOX’s attempts to smear the Obamas.” This is quite an audacious and hypocritical statement from an anti-Catholic (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/catholic.html) (and anti-Semitic) hate group whose now-disgraced Action Forum welcomed statements like “Catholic Pedophiles of America” and “The Catholics are raping your children” while publishing an official anti-Catholic hate cartoon that could have come directly from the pen of 19th century cartoonist...
  • Anti-Semitic and Anti-Catholic MoveOn.org calls Fox News Racist

    07/24/2008 1:38:37 PM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 14 replies · 14+ views
    IsraPundit ^ | 7/24/08 | Winged Hussar 1683
    The following is quite a mouthful from an organization that welcomed the most vicious imaginable anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Evangelical, and even racist hate speech at an Internet forum over which it exercised editorial control, and which published an official anti-Catholic hate cartoon that shows the Pope waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. PETITION AGAINST FOX’S RACIST & HATE-FILLED SMEARS: “FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and its personalities accountable for FOX’s attempts to smear the Obamas.” In 2006, we and others forced MoveOn.org to...
  • Airlines Suffer From High Oil Too; MSM Say they 'Nickel and Dime'

    07/23/2008 8:30:24 PM PDT · by TrickyP · 2 replies · 9+ views
    Business & Media Institute ^ | 7/23/2008 | Fire & Ice Peoples
    The Biz Flog for July 23 covers the cost of jet fuel to the airline industry. While reports like to use the phrase "nickel-and-dime" to describe airline fees, the real story about oil and airlines gets buried.
  • San Fran Mayor Gets City's Network Password From Disgruntled Employee in Secret Jailhouse Meeting

    07/23/2008 11:13:39 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies · 7+ views
    Fox News ^ | Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    The mayor of San Francisco has obtained the password to the city's multimillion-dollar computer network password from a disgruntled employee during a secret jailhouse visit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On Monday night, Mayor Gavin Newsom met Terry Childs, a Department of Telecommunications and Information Services employee charged with computer tampering, in a secret meeting and walked away with the password to the city's new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), the Chronicle said. The system stores such records as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail bookings. Childs has been held since July 13 and had reportedly...
  • Apolitical Good News Drowns in Political Spin

    07/21/2008 10:25:07 AM PDT · by Invisigoth · 5+ views
    North Star Writers Group ^ | July 21, 2008 | Nathaniel Shockey
    With a presidential election looming between, arguably, the most left-leaning Democrat left-leaning and Republican ever, it’s practically impossible to analyze any current event objectively. The term seems to become irrelevant. There are only two ways to consider things – politically and apolitically. Concerning the war on terror, there have been two major developments of late. First, Gen. David Petraeus has suggested that, while Al Qaeda is certainly not going to abandon Iraq, there is reason to believe that the terrorist organization will be shifting some degree of focus back to Afghanistan. Second, the Iraqi government has put increasing pressure on...
  • What do you think of Fox News?

    07/20/2008 7:02:00 PM PDT · by Conservababe · 186 replies · 16+ views
    This was posted on a local forum in my hometown. I am really interested in your comments. "Babe, just like you believe now, several years ago I also thought FOX was fair and balanced when they were rightfully slamming the Clinton's. I now don't think any "news" stations are fair and balanced and probably have never been. CNN, FOX or any of them. They all work for the same corporate masters. Since the huge corporations own them, they are told to obey and report the news slant they are told to do. Once again the people at the top who...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 July 2008

    07/20/2008 5:17:51 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 338 replies · 25+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 20 July 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Earl Morse, founder of Honor Flight, a program of free flights for World War II veterans.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Vice President Al Gore.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. THIS WEEK (ABC): Pre-empted by coverage of the British Open golf tournament. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Rep. Roy Blunt,...
  • Fox News takes aim at MSNBC

    07/16/2008 3:38:43 AM PDT · by ConservativeMan55 · 12 replies · 13+ views
    Variety ^ | July 15th | DANIEL FRANKEL
    Continuing Fox News' war of words with MSNBC, "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace accused its rival of being "in the tank" for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, while further pressing the news channel's case that the mainstream press exhibits a liberal bias.