Peacock Network Goes Atheist
The Peacock Network must have become atheistic. Based on what NBC has done to VeggieTales, the initials "NBC" now stand for "No Bible Cartoons".
VeggieTales is a popular children's video series that teaches children lessons from the Bible, and that teaches children to believe in God. The video series is so popular with children, that NBC decided to start airing the series on its Saturday morning cartoon line-up.
Buth there is just one problem. NBC decided to edit out references to God, which contradicts the reason for the creation of VeggieTales.
Michelle Malkin has more on this story (Link) .
Originally posted at Dodo World.
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EXCELLENT point by NRO reader
Lazy media at it again:
Much of the press (ABC, CBS, CNN) were stating yesterday that a "central argument" made by the White House for removing Saddam Hussein from power was the alliance or links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
Granted, the White House has made the claim that al-Qaeda and Iraq has some sort of "relationship."
But was it a "central argument" for the war?
Remember the Iraq war resolution that Congress voted on? A resolution that the press, in reporting on this story, didn't mention?
Here:
http://hnn.us/articles/1282.html
Nowhere in the resolution does it say that one of the reasons, much less a central or key reason, for liberating Iraq was the cooperation between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The only reference to al-Qaeda in the resolution reads:
Whereas members of al-Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;
So, the actual law authorizing force never states that al-Qaeda and Iraq were allied.
Curious omission by the members of the Fourth Estate.
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Iger a Hottie
Who knew the guy the left is trying to lynch was this handsome!
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David Gregory is a Schmuck
Don't point your finger at me...waaaaaaaaaa...
What a whiney little bitch.
Q Actually, Tony, I don't think that's fair, if you look at the facts. If you look at the facts.
MR. SNOW: Well, I do, because -- no, because, for instance --
Q No, no, no. No, I don't think you should be able to just wipe that, kind of dismiss the question --
MR. SNOW: Well, let me --
Q It's not a Democratic argument, Tony.
MR. SNOW: Let me answer the question, David.
Q But hold on, let's not let you get away with saying that's a Democratic argument.
MR. SNOW: Okay, let me -- let's not let you get away with being rude. Let me just answer the question, and you can come back at me.
Q Excuse me. Don't point your finger at me. I'm not being rude.
MR. SNOW: Yes, you are.
Q Don't try to dismiss me as making a Democratic argument, Tony, when I'm speaking fact.
MR. SNOW: Well, okay -- well, no --
Q You can do that to the Democrats; don't do it to me.
MR. SNOW: No, I'm doing it to you because the second part was factually tendentious, okay? Now, when you were talking about the fact that it failed to adapt, that's just flat wrong. And you will be -- there has been -- there have been repeated attempts to try to adapt to military realities, to diplomatic realities, to development of new weapons and tools on the part of al Qaeda, including the very creative use of the Internet. So the idea that somehow we're staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.
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Crocodile Hunter Dead
I don't know what else could possibly be more wrong about this:
Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said. He was 44.
Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state when the accident occurred, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on its Web site.
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I am utterly speechless
I don't know what to say or make of Rush working with the Perky One:
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN SEPT 03, 2006 19:41:35 ET XXXXX
BUSH, CLINTON, LIMBAUGH, CRONKITE TO LAUNCH COURIC
**Exclusive**
Plans for the opening week of CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC have surpassed network executives' wildest dream: Presidents Bush and Clinton, radio king Rush Limbaugh and broadcast legend Walter Cronkite have all agreed to appear, a CBS insider reveals!
A top network source says scheduling of "guest editorials" are still in flux.
But the addition of Rush Limbaugh to the CBS EVENING NEWS is bound to generate maximum commotion and tune-in hits.
"It was Katie's idea to bring Limbaugh in," a top CBS source said on Sunday. "She is very excited he has agreed to appear."
Rudy Giuliani and Bill Maher have also signed on for early editions of Couric.
CBS will issue a press release on Monday confirming details of the EVENING NEWS all-star line-up.
Developing...
The ratings she is going to rake in with the addition of Rush Limbaugh is a coup.
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If this is true
If this arrest turns out to be correct--and I was the Ramseys!--I would unleash a flurry of harsh and obscene statements to all the people that said I did it.
I would go on Oprah, the View, Leno and give tragedy TV the finger.
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Where is her pulitzer?
Where is Claudia Rosett's Pulitzer? Many have asked this question. The fact that political hack and terrorist informant Dana Priest can win a Pulitzer for a story about "Secret CIA Prisons" in Europe (of which she has no evidence) while Ms. Rosett, who has reported vigilantly on the "culture of corruption" at the United Nations, has not should tell you something about the state of journalism.
She drafts a follow-up resolution to UN Res 1701 that is not to be missed!
UNSC DRAFT RESOLUTION 1701-Plus
The Security Council,
Recalling that all its previous resolutions on the situation in the Middle East have failed to evict terrorists and Syrian toadies from Lebanon, failed to stop Iran’s terror-sponsoring and nuclear-bomb-building projects, failed to protect Israel from unprovoked attack, and failed to bring peace.
Recalling also that Israel in 2000 withdrew entirely from Lebanon to the satisfaction of the U.N., and that Hezbollah deliberately provoked this war by killing and kidnapping Israeli soldiers inside Israel’s borders, and — in some cases using children as human shields — has since fired into Israel with the intent of maximizing destruction and civilian deaths more than 3,300 missiles, from an arsenal at least four times that size brought illicitly into Lebanon under the gaze of U.N. peacekeepers who have been at best passive and at times have been caught actively collaborating with Hezbollah,
Expressing its alarm that Hezbollah has established itself over the past 23 years as one of the world’s most ruthless, unscrupulous, and barbaric terrorist groups, even though the United Nations due to the pressures of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference has failed completely to define “terrorism” and therefore in surreal fashion does not consider Hezbollah’s murderous Islamic fascists to be terrorists,
Emphasizing that Hezbollah is a creation of Iran, abetted by Syria; has infested Lebanon to the extent that it effectively serves as an Iranian terrorist militia bordering on Israel and explicitly dedicated, like the president of Iran itself to the annihilation of the democratic state of Israel,
Recalling that the current “Situation in the Middle East” as emphasized in the paragraph above is a violation not only of umpteen U.N. resolutions, but also of the U.N. charter itself, which spells out that membership in the U.N. is open to “peace-loving states” — a condition that clearly excludes Syria and Iran,
Mindful that despite the courage and desire for healthy democratic government shown by the majority of the Lebanese people in last year’s Cedar Revolution, the current Lebanese government and parliament are still packed with Syrian toadies such as President Emile Lahoud and Speaker Nabih Berri, as well as with cabinet members and parliamentarians who serve as a political front for Hezbollah’s heavily armed protection rackets and terrorist militia,
Suggesting that Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fouad Siniora stop addressing his lamentations, condemnations, and demands to Israel, stop playing the gutless victim, take some responsibility, show some integrity and place the blame where it belongs — on Hezbollah, and its sponsors in Syria and Iran, whose aggressive and unprovoked attacks forced Israel into a war to defend itself,
Regretting the U.N.’s own role in causing this war, by way of offering false and misleading promises to disarm Hezbollah and keep the peace, while in fact ignoring a buildup that was an obvious and growing threat both to Lebanese democrats and to Israel,
Click on the link above; there's more!
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Chrissy Matthews is a Racist
How many Fox News people or conservative Republicans would get away with this comment?
The body language of the two is so different. You have this very wasp-y fellow, Lamont, very calm, very casual, very St. Paul's almost in the prep school sense, Lieberman of course is the schmaltzy ethnic guy, the Uncle Tonoose, you know, the guy that's very much kind of lachrymose in his almost postnasal drip voice of his, but he doesn't look happy.
Bigot.
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"Green Helmet" Exposed
The media just pass this stuff along editing out the staging. If that is not support for terrorists, I don't know what is....
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Where is the dust on this man?
More questionable photography from the NYTimes picked up by BizzyBlog and Gateway Pundit (and Brainster):
There is only dust on the man's feet (from probably walking to the rubble) and on his hands (which he probably used to get into the rubble). It also looks like he was greased up with baby oil for the photo...
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Reuters finds corrected Lebanon Photos
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AP and Reuters Keep photographing the Same Grieving Woman
The readers are in a gleeful mood on the post below because I was incorrect that rigor mortis didn't happen in the same day - it happens in 12 hours. I could argue like a Democrat and say by day I meant when the sun was up and therefore meant about 12 hours, but I didn't thing that. I thought rigor mortis happens after a few days. I was wrong. My bad and I apologize.
Thank goodness I never claimed to be a doctor or a journalist with a public responsibility and yet, any time I am wrong I have admitted so and apologized - all of 5 times in the last 18 months and about 1000 posts.
Sorry to further rain of leftists parade: our media is complicit in terrorist propaganda, again.
How is this same woman in all these photos?
So in the last week, we've show instance after instances of journalistic forgeries...five different ones!
1. Fake Qana Massacre photos
2. Fake smoke photo
3. Fake flare photo
4. Fake Alaska pipeline worker photo
5. Staged grief photos
5 in as many days...I've made five utter mistakes in 18 months.
I am a blogger; I pass on to readers links, captions and thoughts of what I find interesting (and sometimes what interests readers). I've never claimed impartiality.
Nothing, of course, would support the lie that I am a hack that just makes things up. I'll leave that title for the media and leftist agitprop.
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The AP Now Busted for Fake Photos/Terrorist PropagandaBlood in the water
Well, looks like another one bites the dust!
Notice the boy sitting up 2/3's of the way back?
Here's one that blown up.
And people wonder why the Right trust nothing from the Drive By Media...
UPDATE: Opinion Journal links to a blog that makes OJ doubt their original story (but the bandwidth has currently be exceeded so I cannot read the refutation).
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Time Puff Piece on Harold Ford, Jr.
The Congressman who is running to replace retiring Bill Frist as Senator from Tennessee has voted to outlaw gay marriage and to repeal the estate tax, and wants to amend the Constitution to ban flag burning. He supports getting rid of the handgun ban in the nation's capital and says the Ten Commandments should be posted in courtrooms around his state. He favors school prayer, argues that more troops should have been sent to Iraq and wants to seal the border with Mexico. He likes to tell a story about the time he campaigned at a bar called the Little Rebel, which had a Confederate flag and a parking lot full of pickup trucks adorned with National Rifle Association bumper stickers.
I do like Harold Ford, Jr. But he too often goes to leftist Dem talking points when he is on TV.
An examination of his votes demonstrates he is a true moderate from the South. The only problem is that he is a Democrat.
Too many moderate Democrat and Republican politicians tend to move to the left when they enter the Senate. Ford will want committee seats and will understand that as a real moderate, he will always be second torch to Barack Osama, er, Alabama Obama, er, Osama bin Bama (as Ted Kennedy likes to address him).
Barack Obama is a liberal, slip and fall trial attorney from Chicago. He hasn't been in the Senate two years and everyone wants him on the ticket for President in 2008.
Ford is going to learn the hard way (if he wins, which I doubt) when there are too many black folks (read: two) in the uppercrust of the Democratic Party establishment.
I think if Ford's positions on all these issues are in such stark contrast with the Democratic Party's platforms, he should follow Ann Coulter's advice and simply switch parties.
[H]ost Larry Kudlow brought in Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tennessee) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) to discuss the chances the former will win his bid for the Senate. Coulter was ready for the test:
And it's especially bad for me because you know how I hate saying anything kind about a Democrat. Harold Ford is one of my favorite Democrats, but the problem is he belongs to the Democratic Party. And if he does not, as reasonable as he sounds today--and you do, Representative--if he does not toe the lunatic anti-war, high-tax line, he'll end up being primaried like Joe Lieberman.
Beinart parried:
No, but where Ann is wrong is the Democratic Party has actually showed enormous pragmatism in supporting candidates in red states, who were to the right of the national Democratic Party. Representative Ford is a classic example. The Democratic candidate in Montana, the Democratic candidate in Missouri--the Democratic Party has been in Pennsylvania, as you know. The Democrats are nominating an anti-abortion candidate to go up against Santorum. The Democratic Party--there is a kind of purism that plays out in blue states like Connecticut where people figure, `Well, it's a blue state so we can go as far as left as we want.' But in those red states, the party has nominated candidates who appeal to those states. And it's one of the reasons the Democrats have a really decent chance of winning the Senate.
Coulter saw here opportunity, and took full advantage of it:
But--by the way, you were talking in the earlier segment about whether the Democrats will raise taxes. It's a frivolous question. Of course, they will raise taxes. But now that Bush has taken out that veto pen, maybe he will get that vetoed. And, by the way, what Peter just said is that Democrats are, you know, openly trying to fake out the American people. They run people like Daschle and, you know, go back to the home states and pretend to be standing with Bush and supporting the war on terror and supporting conservative judges. And then soon as they get to Washington, they vote along with Nancy Pelosi and Teddy Kennedy. That's the problem with Harold Ford's party.
You have to admit; he's a handsome man!
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Reuters Admits Altering Photo!!!
The blogs keep racking up wins! Two in one day! At least Reuters had the guts to admit this one.
The following photo was photoshopped by Reuters to make the smoke look darker and worse.
Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out 'blatant evidence of manipulation.' Reuters' head of PR says in response, 'Reuters has suspended photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to photograph.' Photographer who sent altered image is same Reuters photographer behind many of images from Qana, which have also been subject of suspicions for being staged.
And yet, the left wonders why the right doesn't trust what we see on the news??? They accuse us of not wanting to face reality, but time after time, we demonstrate that it is the leftist media who are trying to CREATE a reality that does not exist.
Forged memos
Death threats
Massacre staging
Bush hating
Photoshopping
And on and on....
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Happy 18th Anniversary, Rush!
The Excellence in Broadcasting Network (i.e. the Rush Limbaugh Show) turns 18 today.
The Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies maitains its role as the premier school in logic, reason and life!
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MSM in Full Effect
Next week's issue ala Rush:
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It really is an art
The people who craft the text to explain their polls are truly artists in the way they try to spin the results for Democrats.
Republicans are in jeopardy of losing their grip on Congress in November. With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard and profess a desire to see Democrats wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule.
3 to 1 margin! Holy landslide, Batman! This sentence is quite deceptive in its construction, however. The trick is the use of the word "and." This sentence would lead you to believe that 3 out of every 4 Americans said they desire to see Democrats win in November. What they are really saying is simply this: Americans hold CONGRESS in low regard by a 3 to 1 margin and a simple MAJORITY of Americans have a desire to vote for a Democrat this fall.
Wait. That's not what the sentence was saying, you say. It seems to say that, by a 3 to 1 margin, Americans hold a negative view of the GOP Congress and, by a 3 to 1 margin, Americans profess a desire for Democrats to "wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule," you say. Well, read on and I will highlight the two portions of the survey that are relevant:
The AP-Ipsos survey asked 789 registered voters if the election for the House were held today, would they vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in their district. Democrats were favored 51 percent to 40 percent.
Not surprisingly, 81 percent of self-described liberals said they would vote for the Democrat. Among moderates, though, 56 percent backed a Democrat in their district and almost a quarter of conservatives _ 24 percent _ said they will vote Democratic.
Democrats also held the advantage among persuadable voters _ those who are undecided or wouldn't say whom they prefer. A total of 51 percent said they were leaning Democrat, while 41 percent were leaning Republican.
Now do you see how they lie in the lead? The other thing to notice is that 56 percent backed A DEMOCRAT in their district. A DEMOCRAT could mean someone for the school board or county commission.
Why didn't they include the number of people who are supporting A REPUBLICAN in their district? Probably because the numbers would add up to more than 100 percent!
But the paragraph is totally misleading.
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Rally Against the NYT in NYC
I was there. Check out my post at Blogmeister USA.
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Freeper - AIM Take on NYTimes
I had a great time at the mini-rally outside of the NYTimes' DC office.
You could see people standing in the lobby and looking out windows of the building, but most of DC was on vacation.
I arrived 10 past noon and Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media (AIM) newsletter, was speaking to a flank of cameras. I stood behind a crowd of about 20 people. The signs were great as you can see below. Many of them were taken from the pictures featured on Michelle Malkin's blog.
Halfway during Kincaid's speech, three muslim tourists stopped to watch and began speaking in their foreign tongue. I thought it was a bit ironic. I did get a big kick out of the black spy (from Spy vs. Spy) wondering about his Pulitzer.
There was one moonbat that was running around with fliers and shouting out questions. He was polite and waited until Kincaid finished his speech.
There were plenty of tourists as well. Many stopped and watched. Some DC locals were in amazement at seeing conservatives protest and you could hear them clicking away on their cell-cams and calling their friends to bitch and moan.
The reporters did ask several questions; the most provacative was whether the protestors thought the Times should be criminally prosecuted (the crowd shouted 'yes!').
Kincaid reminded the reporters that the crowd is there to question the Times' judgement and that we should leave it up to the Attorney General to decide whether to press charges.
Then there was this asshole who just barged in front of my good angle. Jerk! (cute though)
Anti-Murtha sentiment was in effect with one vet wearing his opponent's t-shirt.
Unfortunately, there was no sign of Bill Keller, Pinch or Mother Sheehan. I did get to meet a celebrity, however. Who is that in the hat?
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Next TV/DVD Addiction
I just started watching LOST on DVD and I am hooked. Other shows I became addicted to watching it years after its release on DVD were Six Feet Under, the Wire, 24, and Carnival. Surprisingly, this series is like a cross between SFU, 24 and Survivor. Here are my top three reasons to watch the show (in order of importance):
1. Josh Holloway
2. Ian Somerhalder
3. Matthew Fox
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Letter to T-Mobile
It has come to my attention that t-mobile advertises its products and services in the New York Times.
Because of the Times decision to publish national security secrets on its front page that endanger the lives of American citizens, I ask that t-mobile refuse any future advertising in the newspaper.
I would like a prompt response to this as it will determine whether I continue to be a customer of t-mobile (I have been with t-mobile/voicestream for over 5 years).
If you choose to continue to advertise in the Times, I will also ask that members of my family (four) and many friends who also have t-mobile accounts to discontinue service with you.
I also believe that there will be a national boycott of any sponsors of the paper, so you should understand that I am not alone in my opinion of the Times.
I look forward to your response.
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Ann Coulter Finishes NYTimes Crosswords with a Pen
Her fav'rite subject is the New York Times. She's leveled supremely written and devastating attacks in her last two books (Treason and HTTTAL(BOIYM)), so she is right to the point on the NYTimes' 5th release of classified information to aid terrorists. These three cuts are awesome:
Liberals invoke "freedom of the press" like some talismanic formulation that requires us all to fall prostrate in religious ecstasy.
It's really a red harring when someone just says "freedom of the press." You never hear them get any deeper than those three words do you--like what is actually written in the constitution. And they never revere the second amendment in such a way. Could I place an ICBM in my back yard and just say: "right to bear arms!" Hardly.
The First Amendment does not mean Times editor Bill Keller could kidnap a child and issue his ransom demands from the New York Times editorial page. He could not order a contract killing on the op-ed page. Nor can he take out a contract killing on Americans with a Page One story on a secret government program being used to track terrorists who are trying to kill Americans.
Perfect analogy.
Ezra Pound, Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") and Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose") were all charged with treason for radio broadcasts intended to demoralize the troops during World War II. Their broadcasts were sort of like Janeane Garofalo and Randi Rhodes on Air America Radio – except Tokyo Rose was actually witty, and Axis Sally is said to have used a fact-checker.
Why is it called Air America? D'Aquino wasn't called Chicago Rose.
Anyway. Read the whole piece. At least she can discuss the constitution and the law in legal terms instead of rap poetic about third grade notions of the constitution.
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Chloe slipped it into his bag!
Rush busted for drug possession. He had
(are you sitting down?)
a bottle of viagra! Throw him in jail!
Rush Limbaugh was detained for about 3 1/2 hours at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.
The 55-year-old radio commentator's luggage was examined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after his private plane landed at the airport around 2 p.m. from the Dominican Republic, said Paul Miller, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
Customs officials found in Limbaugh's luggage a prescription bottle labeled as Viagra, a prescription drug that treats erectile disfunction, Miller said.
"The problem was that on the bottle itself was not his name, but the name of two Florida doctors," Miller said.
This sounds like a problem that will be solved with a call to his doctors. Was Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin down there in the Dominican Republic with Rush? They had guest hosts the since Thursday as well. Here is Rush's attorney's statement:
Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, issued the following statement today in response to several inquiries by the media:
While going through routine Customs inspection of luggage at Palm Beach International Airport upon his return from an international trip, Rush Limbaugh was detained by customs agents after they noticed a non-narcotic prescription drug, which had been prescribed by Mr. Limbaugh's treating physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes. After a brief interview, Mr. Limbaugh was permitted to continue on his journey.
Seeing as how Air America interns probably rummage through his trash on a daily basis and that Keith Olbermann probably sits outside his house with binnoculars, I totally believe this privacy claim here.
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Secretary Snow to Bill Keller: "You lie."
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow has written a letter to Bill Keller, the managing editor of the New York Times.
The Corner at National Review Online has posted the letter, which you can read by clicking here.
In the letter, Secretary Snow basically says that Bill Keller lied in his public response to the latest controversy surrounding the New York Times.
Meanwhile, Hugh Hewitt tears apart Keller's response in an analysis, which you can read by clicking here.
[Cross-posted at Dodo World]
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Rush, you Dog!
Rush always get's the hotties! Below, he plants one on Chloe O'Brien from 24!
I'll take Keifer myself...
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Tyler who?
WaPo and CNN are running an old news story to cover up the WMD revelation by Santorum and Hoekstra.
LLP talked about this guy in April (see Update II)--and the WaPo is running stories at the end of June?
Everyone tried to say that Santorum and Hoekstra's news that we found 500 chemical weapon shells with Sarin and Mustard gas in various degraded stages was "old news." Everyone knew that there were 500 shells found I guess.
So then why is this old story being reported like it's breaking news?
Remember, there are some elections coming up ;-)
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Is Superman Gay, Jewish, the Messiah?
Browsing around the internet looking at pictures of the new Superman Brandon Routh (like South) when I came across several articles discussing the size of Brandon's package:
The new Superman is giving movie bosses a headache - because of the size of his bulge.
They fear Brandon Routh's profile in the superhero's skintight costume could be distracting, reports the Sun.
Hollywood executives have ordered the makers of Superman Returns to cover it up with digital effects.
The Sun's source said: "It's a major issue for the studio. Brandon is extremely well endowed and they don't want it up on the big screen."
Well, well, well! I don't believe it, however, because there plenty of sites out there that refute this with pictures of his bulge.
What do you think? The guy is HOT, but I don't see anything below the belt to write home about.
But driving this morning, I heard other interpretations regarding Superman's appeal and identity. The one getting most play is Superman's attraction to gay men. Superman is not gay, per se, but gays identify with his double life--his secret identity. I personally believe its the blue leotards.
I think this is true of all superheros and not specifically Superman. You have discussions of Batman and Robin that ultimately led to the SNL parody of Ace and Gary, the ambiguously Gay Duo.
The next interpretation is that Superman is Jewish. He flees certain destruction as a baby in a basket (like Moses). And the name Kal El sounds like Hebrew for Voice of God:
- Superman was created by two nice Jewish boys Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster in 1930s post-depression middle America. The comic book industry was dominated by Jews.
- Superman’s arrival and subsequent success is the story of Jewish immigration and achievements into the US. He is taken in by a kind couple in a strange land and given a chance to make good.
- His story is also the Moses story. Moses is rescued from the waters in a basket. Superman is rescued from a field in a basket-like spacecraft.
- He never forgets who he is: he is being a stranger and being at home simultaneously. This is the heart of Jewish tradition, where every Jew is a boundary crosser and Jews remember the stranger and themselves as strangers.
- The Jewish answer to Nietzsche’s superman who was above moral issues; Superman in contrast is immersed in moral issues.
Many simply see the story of a hero sent to Earth by his father to serve mankind as having clear enough New Testament overtones. Others have taken the comparison even further, reading the “El” in Superman’s original name “Kal-El” and that of his father “Jor-El” as the Hebrew word for “God,” among other theological interpretations.
“Superman Returns,” which premieres June 28, has been drawing its own comparisons to biblical accounts, especially after the appearance of its trailer earlier this year.
The preview shows the hero with his eyes closed as the voice of his father — Marlon Brando’s, courtesy of 1978’s “Superman” — tells him he was sent to Earth because humans “lack the light to show the way.”
“For this reason,” continues the voice, “I have sent them you, my only son.”
Online message boards and Web logs quickly latched onto the biblical resonance of those lines.
“The allusion to Jesus Christ could hardly be accidental,” wrote Christian blogger Tom Gilson.
“Is this a new Superman for the new Evangelist red state America? Superman as Jesus?” asked one contributor to the Portland-based blog site Urban Honking.
The poster is also getting a lot of attention as well. The caption from canmag.com is:
Look at this image... they might as well of placed a cross behind him.
I just think it is really great when you have a character that can be so much to so many people. Ultimately, I believe Superman's appeal is his goodness and sacrifice. Who cannot like that?Posted by Aaron at 02:47 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
What's the Big Deal?
I could care less if our soldiers beat this fool to hasten his death. If I had a pocket knife, I would be inclined to take his head off with it. But I want you to take a look at how this is reported:
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene after an airstrike that led to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told Associated Press Television News that he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader.
The witness said he saw the man lying on the ground, badly wounded but still alive. He said U.S. troops arriving on the scene wrapped the man's head in an Arab robe and began beating him. His account cannot be independently verified.
Cannot be independently verified? Then why the hell is a news organization printing it???
And did you know that there is a theory out there that Haditha could be a result of the same shoddy reporting by Time magazine? Check it out here.
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Is WND Lifting from Material from LLP?
This is a wierd "coincidence."
For the record, my post on Google was up three hours before theirs article was posted.
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USA Today Slight of Hand
You have to love how USA Today likes to title its headlines:
That's great! Now read the entirety of the results--and pay close attention to the little nugget burried at the end of the survey. Here are questions that could lead to different headlines:
1. Do you think the Bush administration has gone too far, has been about right, or has not gone far enough in restricting people’s civil liberties in order to fight terrorism]?
Too far 41
About right 34
Not far enough 19
No opinion 6
Headline: Most Americans (53%) believe the Bush administration has not gone too far in restricting people's civil liberties.
11. Do you think the news media should -- or should not -- report information it obtains about the secret methods the government is using to fight terrorism?
Yes, should 47
No, should not 49
No opinion 3
Headline: Most Americans (49%) believe that the media should keep its yapper shut when it gets a hold of secret information helping the country fight terrorism.
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That's a shame
I was actually looking forward to seeing Apocolypto, but I will now have to pass and wait for it to come to DVD:
Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.
The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.
Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.
He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".
That's nice.
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Rush Might Be Mistaken
Oprahism did not prevail in the Moussaoui hearing:
Now, I've got the New York Times story here: "Moussaoui Given Life Term By Jury," and don't worry, Kristen Breitweiser is coming up, but I want to save Ms. Breitweiser for after the break. "It was a 42-page verdict given to the judge, and the jurors listed how many of them agreed with each of the more than two dozen mitigating factors put forward by the defense." Now, the jurors, they didn't go out there and speak, and they didn't explain, but if you look at the juror cards, the juror forms, you can get a pretty good idea what it was that moved them.
"The form said that two mitigating factors drew the greatest agreement, with nine jurors finding there were valid issues to be weighed in their decision. The first was that Mr. Moussaoui suffered an unstable early childhood and dysfunctional family life and a hostile relationship with his mother that led to his being placed in French orphanages." Now, does that not sound like the couch on the Oprah Winfrey show? What in the world does that have to do with the war on terror? And, by the way, I am not suggesting he should have been put to death. I don't want anybody to get confused about this because that's not my point here.
We are trying this case in the midst of war on terror and we are applying our own guilt-laden societal screw-ups and our own invented traumas and our own invented dysfunctions, and we are applying them to an enemy combatant and excusing his behavior. This is reminiscent to me of the Menendez jury, when one of those Menendez kids went out there and shot his mother and she wasn't dead yet so he went out, reloaded, and shot her again from point-blank range, and the jurors, "Aweee," felt so sorry for him because he "wasn't going to have his mother" anymore. Well, yeah, that's because he killed her! Well, but he's such a good boy, and he's just... He's not going to have his mother!
But this interview with the jury forewoman sheds some light on the seriousness of the deliberations:
The foreman, who said she voted for the death penalty because the government proved its case, was the second juror to be interviewed by The Washington Post since the trial ended last week. The first juror said he voted for life in prison because he thought that Moussaoui's role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was marginal. He said some other jurors shared his point of view, but he would not reveal the vote. Questioned again after the foreman's comments, the first juror said that he is "happy someone else came forward" and that the 12 jurors "differed in the way we interpreted the things we saw and heard." He declined to discuss the deliberations further.
The foreman said deliberations broke off April 26 when one juror questioned why they should take another vote. "What for?" the foreman remembers the juror saying, "We all know how it is going to come out."
The next day a juror called in sick, and there were no deliberations. That Friday, the jury returned. The foreman told the group that she wanted to send a note to U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema stating that the jury was "not holding deliberations in the true sense of deliberations because the con arguments were not being thrown out on the table so we could investigate them as a group."
So a bleeding heart held this up. But that is how the court system works and we cannot demand certain outcomes. But when Rush said that the jury let this guy off because of his childhood, I think he spoke too soon. The fact that the jurors listed all these mitigating Oprah-esque factors and 11 still voted for the death penalty says something: Homey don't play that!
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Media Busted Yet Again
If you don't believe that the front page splash in USA Today and the manufactured hysteria by the Democrats (and some jump-the-shark Republicans) was coordinated to coincide with the confirmation of General Hayden to head the CIA, what if I told you that this story was reported almost verbatim in December 2005? Why report it again just a week before the hearings? Could it be that Democrats were backing off the NSA Terrorist Eavesdropping complaints because they knew it was both legal and necessary?
December 24, 2005
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged [because it's a national secret!], the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.
As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said. [emphasis added]
Now, what precisely did we learn yesterday from USA Today that was not in this article printed 6 months ago?
Not a damn thing.
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Michael Kinsley and the Media
He has a fabulous column today on the media's constitutional double standard.
He is a Bush hater for sure, but he is pretty fair when he critiques the media (including himself).
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Ah yes, more biased polling
All you have to do when you see a poll released about "Bush's New Low" is scroll right down to the end of the poll and look at the polling sample:
Total Respondents: 719
Total Republicans 204 (actual) 197 (weighted)
Total Democrats 249 (actual) 254 (weighted)
Total Independents 266 (actual) 268 (weighted)
So there is a 10% spread in favor of the Democrats. That's nice.
So Republicans make up 27% of the electorate (down 10% from 18 months ago), Democrats make up 35% (down only 2% from 18 months ago) and Independents make up 37% of the electorate.
I have bridge to sell you.
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Rush Limbaugh Arrested!!!
Well, he was addicted to prescription drugs and either had a complicent doctor or he doctor shopped. That's my opinion. And let me say that Rush got off lucky. We see what DeLay is going through and I am glad he was able to work this out.
He will plead not guilty and the charges will be dropped in 18 months and it will not go on his record. Here is the statement from his atty, Roy Black:
Settlement Agreement Ends State Investigation of Rush Limbaugh
April 28, 2006
Palm Beach, FL – April 28, 2006 – In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, released the following statement today concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:
"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney's Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.
"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State.
"As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of "supervision" and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
"Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won."
The actions taken today are as follows:
• The State Attorney has filed a single charge of doctor shopping with the Court. The charge is being held in abeyance under the terms of an agreement between the State and Mr. Limbaugh.
• Mr. Limbaugh has filed a plea of "Not Guilty" with the Court.
The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday. The terms of the agreement are substantively as follows:
• Mr. Limbaugh will continue in treatment with the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years.
• After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.
• Mr. Limbaugh has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation.
OF COURSE, liberals will breathlessly report this story like it's a big deal. People have problems for which they are ultimately responsible. Our president had substance abuse problems in his youth and turned himself over to Christ. Rush claims to have kicked the habit and he apologized to his listeners. I accepted his apology and am glad he didn't have to go to jail, because about me and about 20 million other people would have showed up in Florida to listen to him do his show through the window of his prison cell!
Here's a list of the drugs he took over the course of six months:
What I am looking for is which news stations will still insist on using his fatty fatty too much Rush picture from the early 90's...
or
or the more svelt, huggable, loveable little fuzzball he is now (he is quite sexy).
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Got the Boot Butt Good
My wish is that this is the person who leaked Valerie Plame's name:
A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.
CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."
The CIA officer was not in the public affairs office, nor was he someone authorized to talk to the media. The investigation was launched in January by the CIA's security center. It was directed to look at employees who had been exposed to certain intelligence programs. In the course of the investigation, the fired officer admitted discussing classified information including information about classified operations.
The investigation is ongoing.
A Justice Department spokesman said "no comment" on the firing. The spokesman also would not say whether the agency was looking into any criminal action against the officer.
Lock 'em up.
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Unreliable Leaks Can Hurt Also
I still think that if a paper goes forward with a a false story that could harm national security and is based on an illegal leak of classified information, it is treasonous.
We all assumed (including conservatives) that the CIA prison story in the WaPo was true. The European Union finished its commission and found that it probably wasn't:
The European Union's antiterrorism chief told a hearing on Thursday that he had not been able to prove that secret C.I.A. prisons existed in Europe.
"We've heard all kinds of allegations," the official, Gijs de Vries, said before a committee of the European Parliament. "It does not appear to be proven beyond reasonable doubt."
Of course, the Greens are still upset:
But Mr. de Vries came under criticism from some legislators who called the hearing a whitewash. Kathalijne Buitenweg, a Dutch member of Parliament from the Green Party, said that even without definitive proof, "the circumstantial evidence is stunning."
This again shows how leftists view things like facts and evidence; it MUST be true because I feel it! America tortures everyone! I just know it! I read it in the Washington Post so it must be true!
Mr. de Vries said the European Parliament investigation had not uncovered rights abuses despite more than 50 hours of testimony by rights advocates and people who say they were abducted by C.I.A. agents. A similar investigation by the Council of Europe, the European human rights agency, came to the same conclusion in January — though the leader of that inquiry, Dick Marty, a Swiss senator, said then that there were enough "indications" to justify continuing the investigation.
...The committee also heard Thursday from a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who said: "I can attest to the willingness of the U.S. and the U.K. to obtain intelligence that was got under torture in Uzbekistan. If they were not willing, then rendition prisons could not have existed." But Mr. Murray, who was recalled from his job in 2004 after condemning the Uzbek authorities and criticizing the British and American governments, told the committee that he had no proof that detention centers existed within Europe.
And people throw around this torture term too loosly. What is torture? Some people simply having to look at Bush consider that torture, but is it? Do we torture our soldiers during boot camp?
Is Britney Spears played full blast torture? Is being forced to watch a naked woman torture? Is frat hazing torture? We have no definitive concept of torture--it is in the eye of the beholder.
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KLJ and I Have the Same Radio Schedule
I just realized that Katheryn Jean Lopez and I must have the same radio schedule at work:
7-9am: Bill Bennett
9-12pm: Laura Ingraham
12-3pm: Rush Limbaugh
Anyway, I must have missed this quote on BB this morning, but KLJ caught it and posted it:
"I hope that damage has not already been done. If, however, damage has been done, and if, with the Court's action today, these newspapers proceed to publish the critical documents and there results therefrom 'the death of soldiers, the destruction of alliances, the greatly increased difficulty of negotiation with our enemies, the inability of our diplomats to negotiate,' to which list I might add the factors of prolongation of the war and of further delay in the freeing of United States prisoners, then the Nation's people will know where the responsibility for these sad consequences rests." Justice Harry Blackmun's decision from the Pentagon Papers case
This was in reference to the Pulitzers for Treason handed out yesterday.
And for all that liberal claptrap about "don't you want to know what your government is doing???" I could also make the same argument regarding the CIA leak--but I don't. Someone could easily say, "wouldn't you want to know if a CIA employee was setting up a junket for her husband to politically undermine the elected president?'
But you cannot have it both ways. All leakers (the president cannot leak) should go to jail for violating the law.
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Rumsfeld on Rush @2:33pm
Rush might interview Rumsfeld (schedule permitting) today at 2:33pm to discuss the Generals. Find a station and tune in.
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Drive By Media
My mother asked me the other day what this term, "Drive by Media," means. It was probably one of the better analogies Rush Limbaugh has coined lately:
"[H]ere's what the mainstream media are. They are drive-by shooters. This is exactly what they are. They pull up to a congested area; they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd, causes mass hysteria, mass confusion, mistakes and misinterpretation. Sometimes people or their careers actually die. The mainstream media then smirks and pats itself on the back, says, "Look what we can do," and they ride away unnoticed in the excitement. They are never blamed; they are never held accountable. In fact, they are lauded, they are held up as heroes, mostly by themselves. But they are. They just troll around looking for any issue they can to get everybody all worked up, creating hysteria. It is like a drive-by shooter. It's like road rage every day. That's what the mainstream press has become.
Every time they do this, every time they pull up to one of these congested areas and spray a hail of bullets into the crowd, somebody's gotta mop up the mess that they caused. And at the same time the mess is being cleaned up, the mainstream media is back flying down the highway with the top down laughing and looking for the next bunch of victims to spray their bullets into. This is repeated over and over and over."
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Neal Boortz Apologizes
Radio talk-show host Neal Boortz has apologized for the comment that he made about Cynthia McKinney's hair style.
Here is an excerpt from his website:
Mondy -- April 3, 2006
AN APOLOGY
Talking about stepping in it!
Suddenly, for some people, the issue isn't Cynthia McKinney hitting a law enforcement officer and then screaming racism. Nope. The issue is what I had to say about her hair style. That's entirely fair --- to a point. Last Friday I said that that hairdo ... the wild and crazy every hair going in a different direction hairdo -- made her look like a ghetto slut. Know what? That was wrong. Bad wrong. That was overboard. I know Cynthia McKinney. I've know her for years. I intensely dislike her anti-American politics and her constant race baiting ... but on a personal level we've always gotten along just fine .. kidding each other ... needling each other. I remember her spotting me sitting in the House visitors gallery one day and yelling (with a smile on her face, by the way) "Neal Boortz! Who the hell let you in here?" I've known her father much longer than I've known her. I have said on the air several times this past week that I think that she has an endearing personality and a million-dollar smile.
That being said, I don't think that it was right to use the word "slut" in any description involving her or her hairdo. So ... my heartfelt apologies to Cynthia McKinney. I'll say it here, and I'll say it on the air on today. When I'm wrong I'll admit it with no hesitation.
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Andrew and Laura
Chris Matthews is having Andrew "David Brock II" Sullivan and Laura Ingraham on this morning in about 20 minutes. Be sure to catch it!
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