A fetus (embodied in a “fresh-faced” young rapper named Nick Cannon) raps in “Can I Live?". Alvin the Chipmuck provides backup vocals. More here.
Yellow Elephant Watch
I recently wrote a post (and received a little flak) about Yellow Elephants—specifically, the refusal of College Republicans to run a advertisement advocating military recruitment in the program of their annual convention in Las Vegas. The ad was refused because it was too much of a downer. Family Research Council leader (and KKK Grand Wizard contributor) Tony Perkins addressed the … Read More
Vets Respond To Rove
From Takeittokarl.com: Throughout my adult life I’ve been a registered Democrat and yes, a liberal. As a peacetime veteran and as a wartime civilian who served her country willingly and with heartfelt patriotism, I am deeply insulted by Karl Rove’s outrageous condemnation of those who don’t march in lockstep with the religious right, conservative GOP. How dare this man, who … Read More
U.S. Fesses Up: It’s Torture We’re Doing
GENEVA (AFP) – Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said. The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on … Read More
Cheney Does Clinton
When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pointed out to Dick Cheney that military commanders in Iraq do not characterize the insurgency as being in its “last throes” (see my post here), Cheney backpeddled and pulled out his Webster’s: No, I would disagree. If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a, you know, a violent period, … Read More
More Responses To Rove
Along with my earlier post from 9/11 families, here are some more of my faves: "Well, I think a lot more needs to be said about Karl Rove’s motives, because they’re not the people’s motives, and if the President really believed his own words of unity, then he should fire Karl Rove. If the President of the United States knows … Read More
“Last Throes” Revisited
"Be assured: Baghdad is safe, protected.” “We are in control, they are not in control of anything, they don’t even control themselves!” “They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.” “They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing." Quotes from Dick Cheney? Nope, but I can understand why you might think … Read More
Supreme Court Watch
Monday is going to be fun. The Supreme Court is expected to hand down the final decisions of the term—one of them dealing with the Ten Commandments—and then, it is widely thought, Chief Justice Rehnquist (who is ailing) will announce his resignation from the bench. And then we’re in for months of wrangling about the replacement nominee. Conventional wisdom is … Read More
Invocation of the 9/11 Dead – The Families React To Rove
As families whose relatives were victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, we believe it is an outrage that any Democrat, any Republican, any conservative, or any liberal stakes a “high ground” position based upon the September 11th death and destruction. Doing so assumes that all those who died and their loved ones would agree. In truth, some would and some … Read More
Responses to Rove, the Douchebag
Speaking in a Manhattan ballroom just a few miles north of ground zero, Karl Rove said on Wednesday night that the Democratic party did not understand the consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks. “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Rove said. “Conservatives saw the savagery … Read More
Callous Invocation Of The Dead
Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who really should do more to stay out of the spotlight (he’s under investigation for lots of stuff), is channeling the 9/11 victims. The subject was the passage by the House of a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, and he said: "Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center,” said … Read More
Lying Liars (Drudge/Klein Version)
This is a picture of Bill Clinton kissing an unidentified woman. It appears on Drudge’s site exactly as I show it below. Drudge’s text is about the new Hillary Clinton book and carries the headline “BOOK CLAIM: HILLARY HUMILIATED AS BILL HAS NEW AFFAIRS”, and it seems that this photo appears in the piece-of-shit book as well. The photo is … Read More
Republicans Hate Republicans
It looks like the enemy is engaged in infighting amongst themselves, which means that we are winning. Conservative columnist Neil Boortz writes: There are a lot of listeners out there who really need to make some attempt at growing up. Well, maybe not a lot of listeners .. but quite a few. Yesterday I spent some time on the air … Read More
Tomlinson – Partisan Liar
From the New York Times: Sixteen Democratic senators called on President Bush to remove Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because of their concerns that he is injecting partisan politics into public radio and television. Some will no doubt say that Tomlinson is trying to REMOVE partisan politics from public radio and television, because PBS … Read More
Intolerance – The Reality Show
Here’s the premise for ABC’s new reality series, “Welcome To The Neighborhood”: Three well-to-do white Christians families get new neighbors. The neighbor-families include an African-American family, a Caucasian family, a Korean family, a Latino family, a gay family, plus one family in which husband and wife are heavily tattooed, and another in which mom and dad are devoted to the … Read More