MIA on AWOL
Greg Palast blasts Dan Rather for waiting years to come clean about covering up President Bush’s military history.
In the suit filed Thursday, Rather tells us that Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom, owner of CBS, was “enraged that the [Air Guard] Broadcast had hurt CBS in the eyes of the Bush administration.” Viacom then set out [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“You have some sick offence within your mind.”
—Julius Caesar, 2.1.268
Down the Rabbit Hole
Someone in the Bush White House called Senator Barack Obama intellectually lazy:
As for Obama, a senior White House official said the freshman senator from Illinois was “capable” of the intellectual rigor needed to win the presidency but instead relies too heavily on his easy charm.
“It’s sort of like, ‘that’s all I need to get by,’ [...]
New And Improved!
That old war getting dingy and expensive? Not whitening teeth and freshening breath? Don’t worry—they’re planning an all-new war, and it’ll be a cakewalk!
The US Air Force has reestablished the elite fighting force which planned the 1991 Gulf War’s air campaign and tasked them with “fighting the next war” as US-Iran tensions bloom, the London [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Thou wear a lion’s hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calve’s-skin on those recreant limbs.”
—King John, 3.1.54-55
Gratuitous Video Feed
Beck: “Magnolia”
Gratuitous Video Feed
Ali G at Comic Relief, interviewing the Beckhams.
What Goes Around
The Senate’s cowardly, time-wasting and toothless condemnation of MoveOn’s “BetrayUs” ad, followed by the president’s self-righteous posturing on the matter, have generated a huge windfall of donations (including my very first), and will no doubt finance the next advertising blitz by MoveOn.
Dear MoveOn member,
Yesterday, an amazing thing happened. After the Senate’s shameful vote, and after [...]
Sign of the Times
A military cemetery in Kansas is full.
“We are full,” said Alison Kohler, spokeswoman for the Fort Riley U.S. Army post, home of the 1st Infantry Division.
U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both Kansas Republicans, on Thursday sent a letter to William Tuerk, the under secretary for memorial affairs at the Department of Veterans [...]
Bubble Boy Circles the Wagons
President Bush called for reinforcements, inviting a select group of conservative columnists to help him refine his talking points:
Not enough sycophants and enablers in the West Wing? Bush called in reinforcements yesterday, inviting a slew of conservative columnists to the Roosevelt Room for a 90-minute group grope in which he tried out a lot of [...]
