Friday, October 27, 2006

Playing Catch-up

LSB: I’ve neglected this blog for the past couple of days, so I’m attempting to draft some Cliff Notes to highlights the stories that caught my attention.

Stay the Course – Not! Will news organizations that obligingly aired the RNC ad free of charge treat the Democrats' ad the same way? That's an easy one - No!




Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding. Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning. "It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said at one point in an interview.

Hannity to Cheney: Should We Even Debate the Patriot Act and NSA Wiretapping? Sean Hannity asks Vice President Cheney if he's "as surprised as he is that the country is so divided" and, given the all-consuming nature of the terrorist threat, if we should "even be debating the Patriot Act and NSA wiretapping". Video Democrats, liberals and even some Republicans don't oppose the Patriot Act because we're "soft on terrorism;" it is the egregiously curbed civil liberties, idiot.

Bush Among Friends The president met with "Kuds" and seven other conservative columnists on Wednesday, and declared, among other things, that we had to invade Iraq because they attacked us. "Don't write me down as trying to always put lipstick on the pig," he instructed.

Wesley Clark and Billy O O’Reilly got very angry at Wesley last night because he thinks he's the expert on everything. Billy O might be the Culture Warrior, but he forgot that Clark was the NATO Supreme Commander at one time and knows a thing or two as well. Clark told Billy that George Soros is a good man which almost made O'Reilly's head explode. Video

Confession that formed base of Iraq war was acquired under torture: journalist An Al-Qaeda terror suspect captured by the United States, who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network, confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC. FYI, “W”, like you’ve been told many times before, torture doesn’t work!

US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War? The exercise, set for Oct. 31, is the 25th to be organized under the U.S.-led 66-member Proliferation Security Initiative and the first to be based in the Gulf near Bahrain, across from Iran, the officials said.

U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go. Plus: More than 100 current military personnel join a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq -- now.

Vote for Corker, he's whiter Bob Corker, the Republican candidate for US Senate from Tennessee, is now running ads about his African-American opponent Harold Ford and playing jungle drums in the background every time Ford's name is mentioned. You can listen to the ad here.

How would Jesus vote? Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford Jr. goes after the GOP's faithful base in the state with the most white evangelicals in the nation. Polls show his campaign is resonating in the pews.

Rove Protégé Behind Racy Tennessee Ad A protégé of White House political guru Karl Rove produced the controversial Republican National Committee ad targeting Tennessee Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr., that some have called racist.

State of the unions Religious conservatives seize on New Jersey's ruling for same-sex couples -- but it won't save Republicans at the polls.
G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage Republicans across the country have seized onto the threat of gay marriage in a desperate attempt to hold onto Congress. Now that the “security” issue no longer offers the boost it once did, the GOP is counting on homophobia to drive voter turnout.

The GOP Florida governor candidate is not gay, really. I mean it.GOP frontrunner in FL Governor’s race declares, “I have never had sex with a man.” Jason Wetherington, a 21-year-old GOP staffer, and Bruce Carlton Jordan, a convicted thief who recently worked for Kathryn Harris in her long-shot Senate bid, beg to differ. Crist Denies Trysts.

Killing gay men is OK, says British imam The leading imam in the English city of Manchester confirms that he thinks the execution of sexually active gay men is justified.

Mark Foley scandal grows - Former House Clerk says GOP Rep. Kolbe was a problem as well, apparently this was known for years So now we have a potential cover-up of two GOP members of Congress who were "overly-friendly" with Pages.

Sen. Clinton: She Feels Gay Pain Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated that she would not oppose efforts by Eliot Spitzer, the odds-on favorite to become the new governor, to enact a same-sex marriage law in New York. She’s had "many long conversations" with "friends" and others says her advocacy on LGBT issues "has certainly evolved."

In Nevada, Gibbons Maintains Edge Huh? Drunk, Gibbons assaults his “date” (a woman who is not his wife); the battered woman alleges Gibbons tried to bride her to keep quiet; Gibbons hides an illegal immigrant nanny in his basement; and his wife commits perjury about the alleged illegal immigrant in the basement… and he’s still up six points in this contest?

Limbaugh physically mocked Parkinson's patients What the media didn't show, but Keith Olbermann did, was that Rush Limbaugh didn't just make fun of people who suffer from Parkinson's, he even threw in a little physical comedy to show how funny people are who have Parkinson's. Check out the video.

Michael J Fox makes a fool out of Limbaugh Will Rush apologize to MJ Fox after he told Katie Couric that he was on his medication while filming an ad promoting embryonic stem cell research? Video Limbaugh will never apologize or honestly regret what he's done because it's part of a long term strategy to once again attack the messenger.

Lauer: "Didn't Rush Limbaugh just say what a lot of people were privately thinking?" NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer suggested that when nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh "said [that] perhaps [actor] Michael J. Fox was exaggerating or faking these effects of Parkinson's disease" in a recent campaign ad. [LSB: That never crossed my mind, Matt. What did cross my mind was, that like Limbaugh, you're an asshole - and a lot of people are not so privately thinking that!]

Speaker Hastert Lies About Leader Pelosi Embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), in a transparent attempt to scare the wingnuts, released a statement fabricating a complete lie that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) plan is to leave our borders open, grant blanket amnesty and provide Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants.

Mean Jean’s Denny Hastert letter Jean Schmidt is very proud of showing us how little she knows. In a letter to Speaker Hastert, Schmidt blasted Democratic candidate Victoria Wulsin for allegedly breaking a U.S. House rule that prohibits using the broadcast of House floor proceedings in campaign ads. Schmidt apparently doesn't quite grasp the concept that Coach Hastert has no control of Victoria Wuslin because — she's not part of the House – yet! [Here's the Wuslin ad.]

Ohio GOP Smears Al Franken In Press Release With Doctored Photo, Fabricated Quote The Ohio Republican Party sent out a news release attacking Rep. Sherrod Brown (D) for enlisting the support of comedian Al Franken. The problem: the quote used in the news release is taken from a fictional exchange that the Ohio Republican Party represented it as fact. Likewise, the accompanying photo was doctored as well

Michael Steele's subway attack backfires Maryland's Republican Senate candidate, Michael Steele, had a press conference yesterday to attack his opponent, Ben Cardin, for not knowing the exact route of a proposed now subway line. Steele's attack, however, was misplaced: Steele held his media event at a Metro station that was part of an old proposal – four miles from the actual site of the new line.

IRS Gets Political The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has delayed the collection of back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after the election in order to avoid political fallout. Four former IRS commissioners called the move “improper and indefensible.”

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