It’s a sure sign that the media apocalypse has arrived when one establishment hack, Cokie Roberts, has to swat down another– the always execrable Mark Halperin (with a lukewarm assist from yet another, George Stephanopolous). Here’s a bit of “analysis” offered up Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopolous” talking bobbleheads show: Just one of the many painfully biased …
WASHINGTON (C.U.News) Proving that he was a maverick all along, President McCain, on the anniversary of his first week in office, has ordered the re-invasion of Iraq. “The agreement reached by the previous US president and the current Iraqi prime minister to pull US troops out of Iraq on a timetable is not in the best interests of the country,” …
A number of significant economic statistics were announced yesterday: inflation hit a 71/2 year high; consumer earning power declined 3 1/2% from last year; and home foreclosures rose 55%. Fueling these economic fires has been the soaring cost of the Iraq war and occupation. Using credit cards, American taxpayers bought huge amounts of stock in Corporate America‘s colonization of Iraq. …
I was at the gym yesterday when I saw the live broadcast of John McSame‘s press conference, during which he made his risible pronouncement that: [I]n the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations. In my subsequent blog, I missed this angle mentioned by Greg Sargent over at TPM (so many hard bodies to ogle, so little time): At a …
At a press conference today meant to display John McSame‘s superior foreign policy credentials, the Rethuglicans‘ reality challenged presidential candidate either had a senior moment, or he believes that the corporatist media is so in the tank for him that he is free to utter even the most egregious hypocritical pronouncements and escape scrutiny. Case in point: the roiling Russia-Georgia …
“McCain will make Cheney look like Ghandi” -Pat Buchanan. “There’s a lotta people who lie and get away with it. And that’s just a fact.” -Donald Rumsfeld
