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America's biggest Olympic hero yesterday accused George Bush of exploiting the Athens Games for his own political advantage in the run-up to the presidential election. Carl Lewis, who won nine Olympic gold medals in athletics in a record-breaking career, condemned Bush for using the presence of Iraqi and Afghan teams in Athens in a television advertisement to boost his chances of re-election.

Howie Jumps the Shark Radio shock-jock, Howard Stern, the self-described "King of All Media" has joined the ranks of other AARP membership eligible celebrities in their crusade to defeat President Bush. In his hey-day he was a paragon of the cutting edge now he sits in the easy chair of conformity, taking his place among the Coalition of the Irrelevant. Yearning to be hip again, he has performed the ultimate in uncool, the political equivalent of putting his baseball cap on backward, and imagining he is a rebel once more.I must admit, there was a point in my life when...

Pat Buchanan: The New Michael Moore? By E & P Staff Published: June 29, 2004 NEW YORK Is Patrick Buchanan the new Michael Moore? One might wonder, to judge by a letter from the conservative columnist that St. Martin's, the publisher of his upcoming book, is circulating to booksellers this week. Buchanan promises his book will show how, "A cabal of neoconservatives inside and outside the administration hijacked U.S. foreign policy, beat the drums for war in Iraq, and may have ignited a 'war of civilizations' with the Islamic world that could last a generation." The book, "Where the Right...

No one in the Beltway thought anyone could be more boring than Dick Gephardt, but San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi hasn't made much of a splash as House minority leader. To nab herself some desperately needed attention Thursday, she hissed at President Bush with a catty remark that "the emperor has no clothes." The Republican National Committee responded Friday by pointing out that the record shows the congresswoman is the one who is naked on national security, taxation and other issues. Bug-eyed Pelosi is even scarier when stripped. Among the dozens of flaws exposed by RNC, she: *sued President G.H.W....

Radio talk show host launches boycott against local newspaper KSEV radio talk show host Dan Patrick went on a crusade against the Houston Chronicle for what he calls a liberal slant. By Tom Abrahams ABC13 Eyewitness News (4/09/04 - HOUSTON) — A local family who lost their son in Iraq recently is upset with the Houston Chronicle newspaper. Marine Leroy Sandoval's family thinks a recent Chronicle article unfairly portrayed the family's feelings about the president. The family's displeasure has now launched a boycott of the paper by a local radio talk show host. Private First Class Leroy Sandoval, Jr., was...

Scott Ritter, formerly the top United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, has long argued that claims that Saddam Hussein possessed biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programmes were massively exaggerated. His public campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq made him a hated figure of the American right, which still demonises him as an apologist for the ousted Baghdad regime. Now, at the very moment when the absence of weapons of mass destruction in post-Saddam Iraq should make Mr Ritter feel vindicated, he faces new questions about his relationship with Baghdad after he quit his UN job in 1998. Mr Ritter...

Roger W. Cressey is President of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, advising clients on homeland security, cybersecurity and counterterrorism issues. He has recently been retained by NBC as their terrorism analyst. Previously, Mr. Cressey served as Chief of Staff to the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board at the White House from November 2001 to September 2002. From November 1999 to November 2001, Mr. Cressey served as Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council staff, where he was responsible for coordination and implementation of US counter-terrorism policy. During this period, he managed the U.S. Government's response to the Millennium terror...

Howard Stern on his radio program today stated that anyone who goes to see the movie "The Passion of the Christ" is stupid & ignorant. He went on to say that these Jesus Freaks have to be kept out of government and that we need to get Bush out of the White house. He blames his problems with his filth on the air on the Bush administration and "hopes that Americans realize that Kerry would do just as good a job as president as Bush and we need to clean house so that his "program" can continue to be on...

The bride said, "I do." Then Rosie did, too. Angered by President Bush's crusade to make it illegal for them to marry, Rosie O'Donnell and her lesbian partner, Kelli Carpenter, joined the rush down the aisle in San Francisco yesterday. "We were inspired to come here by the sitting President and the vile and vicious and hateful comments he made," the former talk-show host proclaimed after planting a kiss on her longtime love. In tying the knot, the country's most famous lesbian couple took center stage in the debate over gay marriage sparked by Bush's call Tuesday for a constitutional...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rosie O'Donnell married her longtime girlfriend Thursday, taking what she called a proud stand for gay civil rights in the city where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since Feb. 12. "I want to thank the city of San Francisco for this amazing stance the mayor has taken for all the people here, not just us but all the thousands and thousands of loving, law-abiding couples," the former talk show host, holding a large bouquet of purple and yellow flowers, said after she and Kelli Carpenter emerged from their brief ceremony inside...

Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank January 22, 2004 By KOMO Staff & News Services Tools Email This Story Printer-friendly Version BELLEVUE - A Bellevue computer programmer is taking credit for a stunt that's making waves in the Internet world. The 'Google bomb', as it's called, leads searchers of the phrase "miserable failure" on Google.com to an unexpected result: the official White House biography of President George Bush. "I'm actually surprised how easy it was to do," George Johnston told the New York Times. "It took about 6 weeks to get Bush's biography as the No. 1 result. I had...

A couple of words we see frequently around the Forum are “Bushbot” and “Bushbasher.” I find them to be useless ad hominems that inevitably detract from whatever valid points the poster using them might be trying to make, or, more frequently, detract from said poster’s lack of any substantial points. By my understanding, a genuine “Bushbot” would be someone who would call the sky green if the President said so, and a true “Bushbasher” would call it purple if the President called it blue. While there are doubtless a few of each on FR, the vast, vast majority don’t fall...

In a shock admission just released by the White House, President Bush announced that he had changed his mind completely on his recent proposal that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. "After much deliberation, I've decided to change my mind about my recent proposal," Bush stated. "I realize that the United States is a country of laws, and I refuse to support and encourage law-breaking. Furthermore, any form of amnesty will act to the detriment of the millions of people around the world who have been patiently waiting for legal immigration for many years. Line-jumping is a fundamentally...

Is Bush’s Sombrero Made in China? Bush said at a news conference in January that he was "firmly against blanket amnesty," or a mass legalization, that what he wants to do is “help match any willing employer with any willing employee" whether citizen or illegal alien, so they can have “legitimacy” and “legalize their presence” (make them LEGAL aliens, not ILLEGAL aliens, per Tom Ridge, who is in charge of our homeland security and protecting our borders and stuff). In other words, if you are a terrorist and an illegal alien wanna’ be, and a “willing employer” on the...

"Nobody in my district is screaming for tax cuts, they are screaming for a prescription drug benefit." Maxine Waters? Nope, try Republican Congressman Steven LaTourette of Ohio. "I'm concerned. This budget is essentially $11 billion under the president's number." Barney Frank? Wrong again-it comes from New York Republican Sherwood Boehlert. "I don't like what I see so far." Nancy Pelosi? Sorry, it's House Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis -- Republican, Virginia. The target of their sniping is Rep. Jim Nussle of Iowa, chairman of the House Budget Committee. It turns out that in writing the FY2004 House Budget Resolution, Nussle...

<p>Federal regulators plan to overhaul fuel economy rules for popular trucks and SUVs, including more stringent regulations that would cover the popular Hummer H2 and other extra-large SUVs for the first time.</p> <p>Two proposals under consideration would revamp what constitutes a light truck starting with the 2008 model year.</p>

Ten months from now he's supposed to preside over the re-nomination of President Bush at the Republican National Convention at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. But that didn't stop "Republican" New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg from playing sidekick to notorious Bush-basher Martin Sheen for the city's celebrated Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center last night. Sheen, a notorious critic of Bush's war policy in Iraq, was supposedly on hand to help turn the ceremony into a what he described as a tribute to "all our servicemen stationed in faraway places." But the star of NBC's "West Wing" has marched and...

Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, may be the all-powerful arbiter of what's hot and what's not in celebrity culture. But having declared Paul Krugman a "national treasure," Carter is now trying to reinvent himself as an angry liberal, devoting his monthly editor's letter to relentless Bush-bashing in a style that is unabashedly School of Krugman. He should have stuck with schmoozing teen idols and British royalty. Just check out his letter in the December 2003 issue (unfortunately, there's no link for this). Carter's so bad at this he makes Krugman look good. His entire two-page letter is a...

(snip) ...The authorities say that Ms. Mixon drove her old gray Toyota Camry — with her three children inside — past traffic barricades and past the law enforcement officials who had blocked off roadways near DeSoto County's civic center in Southavenwhile President Bush gave a speech inside. Then, with the police, sheriff's deputies and Secret Service agents in pursuit, she drove on, the authorities say, finally crashing the car into the side of the civic center. No one was hurt. A three-foot wide panel of bricks in the side of the civic center was crushed. Mr. Bush was whisked away,...

Of our president, Ed Harris had this to say: "I haven’t even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, I’ve got to say that we’ve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. That’s not the definition of a man, God Dammit!" --Ed Harris