For all of the analysis, parsing, and knee-jerking from Obama’s address to the Muslim world, there was one detail that seemed to bypass the pundits.
Obama acknowledged the U.S. role in the 1953 coup of Iran, when the CIA worked to overthrow a democratically-elected secular leader, Mohammad Mossadegh. This isn’t fringe conspiracy theory, this is a widely known history (not so much stateside). And it is an all-time chart-topper on “Why They Hate Us.”
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Still more details emerge from the Republican National Committee’s effort to thwart President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. This additional page of accidentally-leaked talking points sheds further light on the thinking of the Republican Party: Read More »
It’s no secret that the Republican Party is struggling. Polls show party membership at a low of 21%, the crazies have scared off the credible, and the leading spokespeople are beauty pageant runner ups. The languishing magazine business is even piling it on, suggesting that morbid fascination in the wane of the GOP goes beyond the blogosphere and Op-Ed pages, and is actually tabloid-worthy.
Thus, Republicans continue to assert their irrelevance through the concerted effort to act like it is suddenly so clearly necessary that Nancy Pelosi resign as Speaker of the House. After all, she said the CIA didn’t divulge all of their interrogation tactics seven years ago, and how could anyone question anything the CIA said? Read More »
House Minority Leader John Boehner, from the state of Ohio which I know so well, released a video today called “Do You Feel Safe?” to helpfully suggest why we should be scared shitless.
This video is a less subtle version of John Boehner’s video.
With all of the fanfare for President Obama’s popular first 100 days, he is that much more certain to have a bad day, and soon. Here is Obama’s worst day yet per Politico 44’s daily itinerary of “POTUS” (Secret Service-style code for President!): Read More »
In the end, torture broke them. They could no longer hold it all back. They now realize that their denial does not add up, and their tormentors become convinced of their guilt.
The Architects of Agony in the name of America are aware that their arrogant era has ended. They’ve been tortured enough by the questions about torture.
Dick Cheney is suddenly more media accessible than Susan Boyle. The man who personified “undisclosed location” actually wants to release classified documents on coerced interrogations to prove they yielded some pertinent information at some point. That Cheney would abandon his scurrilously low profile and absolved air to abruptly attempt exoneration of anything is salient. Read More »
While I would prefer to not dignify John Ziegler by writing any more about him, I would like to take the opportunity to respond to his grievances against me while addressing more pertinent issues.
I do not feel the need to rebut every sweeping accusation from him, because as I have already detailed, this individual projects partisan pressure into every context. My lengthy refutation of his film Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted was not so “laughably biased” as he would prefer, but rather a thorough break down of the film as one long subjective rant with news clips plied around it. The only thing “documented” in this documentary was Sarah Palin squirming while Zeigler forces her to watch some of her damaging press clips. She even says to Ziegler, “You’re torturing me, man!”
My opinions never even got a chance to be affected by his film, because Ziegler offers no evidence other than his biased interpretation of news coverage. In fact, I have stretched to keep my mind open to many conservative viewpoints in spite of how Mr. Ziegler has argued them. Read More »
Upon seeing John Ziegler in handcuffs, I was struck by the sheer suaveness of a simpleton who discovered that getting in the face of security with a camera will lead them to apprehend you. It was similar to how he looked on a reality dating show explaining his ideal relationship to a clearly perturbed woman: that marriage should be renegotiated every five years like a business contract. How did this not go over well? Read More »
The Teabagging movement appears to be a dart board of broad complaints about American government today, insidiously co-opted by the Republican party, FOX News and corporate lobbyists.
It’s like the venerable blog, Hot Chicks with Douchebags, devoted to otherwise attractive females attaching themselves to appalling macho cheese. The mantra of the site is, “What is she doing with him?”
Somewhere in the Tea Party outrage are some desperate people asking worthwhile questions you can relate to, such as “Where the fuck is all this government bailout money going to?” and “How come I am so broke?” But before you can answer, you see they are standing next to other people who advocate burning books about evolution. Read More »
This flier was found today posted in the vicinity of the White House.
While the dissonant prose may suggest dictation from Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, the use of pronouns indicate this may have been issued by the POTUS himself, to tell off that showboat dog Xerxes. Read More »
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