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-Glenn Reynolds
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is about to undergo a procedure to treat a heart condition. Prime Minister Blair has shown remarkable personal and political courage in doing the right thing while many of his fellow European leaders tucked tail and did the easy and expedient thing. Best wishes and get well soon, Mr. Blair. The British people need you, the American people need you and the world needs you and both the leadership and example that you provide.
Well, it took Kerry exactly 2 questions to remind the nation that he served in Vietnam. That said, Kerry is doing well so far. He's got all of the stats and talking points down pat. Bush is off to a bit of a slow and defensive start. So far, nothing but talking points from both sides. Also, interestingly, the cameras are absolutely covering reaction shots. Frankly, I'm glad that they are.
Update: There's Bush's first mis-speak ... said "Saddam" when he meant to say "Bin Laden."
Update: Kerry doesn't answer the "what would you do to increase homeland security" question but does effectively attack Bush. Bush does not respond as well as he could. We'll see ...
Update: Kerry Vietnam references: 2 no, 3.
Update: If you're following this, make sure that you follow the "debate facts" feed on the left.
Update: Kerry Vietnam references: 5
Update: If you break it, you fix it?? I'm guessing Kerry doesn't shop at Pottery Barn.
Important Update: Kerry: No long-term designs on Middle East. Well, that should make Syria and Iran and Saudi Arabia feel better ... there are a few world leaders who no doubt support Kerry.
Update: Nice job on explaining why we didn't join the International Court ... America first is an important point to drive home ... also nice job on Iran and North Korea (especially North Korea). Kerry wants to give nuclear fuel to Iran ... let's see if Bush picks up on it ... he doesn't.
Update: Kerry wants to shut down the tactical nuke program ... and would clean up lost Russian nukes in 4 years .. how, exactly?? And bilateral talks with North Korea ... a horrible idea under Clinton, a horrible idea now.
Final update: Bush just didn't do that well. He missed numerous opportunities to hammer Kerry with his on words. He looked peeved when Kerry wasn't talking and repeatedly stumbled at the beginning of answers. He needed to get into details and didn't. Kerry was solid and articulate. I still think that Bush will win but this helped Kerry, I think. We'll see in the next few days.
Grades: Kerry: B+, Bush: C
Yeah, I know that Drudge and others have done the Oompa-Loompa story to death, but I like this AP picture (more subtle, still pumpkinesque) and the story made me chuckle (click on the pic):
I might as well get it up early. Post your pre/during/post debate thoughts here.
Thought number one: Appearances matter. Nixon's horrible debate look was the difference in his race against Kennedy. Mondale looked like the walking dead against a much older but much better looking Reagan (not that it made a difference ... nothing would have saved Mondale in 1984). Gore looked lousy against Bush and we all know how close that was. Bush always looks like ... well ... Bush (unless he's riding bicycles or eating prezels ... then it's anybody's guess). Kerry, on the other hand ... that's a big question. Which face will he be bringing with him? Will it be old sunken face? Botox to the max? Oompa-Loompa man? This will be interesting.
Well, the votes have been counted and the results are in. Over 90% of TDB readers (221-24) think that John Edwards is not ready to be President. However, I suspect that some people may have voted more than once. How else do you explain 24 votes in favor of Edwards??? 
Anyway, it's time for a new poll. I'll put it up now, but no voting until this evening. The question: Who do you think won tonight's Presidential debate? After you've watched it (and before the talking heads tell you what to think), come back to TDB and vote. Also, if you're near a computer, check us out during the debate. I'll be blogging it as it happens.
Catherine Davis is running as a Republican for Congress in the overwhelmingly Democratic Georgia 4th District. And she can win. Why? Because she is running against the absolutely noxious Cynthia McKinney, patron saint and hero of whacked-out leftist moonbats everywhere. In 2002 McKinney lost in a primary landslide to Democrat Denise Majette who is now vacating her seat to run for Zell Miller's vacant senate seat (something of a bonehead move since it looks like she's going to lose by a fairly wide margin). So now it comes down to McKinney and Catherine Davis. This race is as easy as ABC. Anybody But Cynthia.
Thank God!! I was just thinking, gosh, what could possibly happen to really take the suspense out of the election and, wouldn't you know it, the Reverend steps up.
Speaking of reverends, where's Al Sharpton when you need him??? Get that man to Florida! And how about Jesse's friend Reverend Louis Farrakhan? Get him to Pennsylvania, pronto!! O.K., O.K., Farrakhan is probably a bit busy with Cynthia McKinney's campaign right now.
It could happen. Here's how:
Bush/Cheney and Kerry Edwards tie in the electoral college at 269 votes each (which is possible under a number of very realistic scenarios). If that happens, according to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives chooses the President with each state getting one vote and the Senate chooses the VP with each Senator getting a vote. Now, Bush would certainly win the House vote since the clear majority of state delegations are Republican (and will be so after election day ) and California and New York have just as much (or little) say as North and South Dakota (one vote each). The Senate, on the other hand, is a different matter. The Democrats could conceivably take the Senate or make it effectively 50-50 (the VP does not get a tie-breaker vote) and the political wrangling would be epic with moderate senators in both parties eating more lobster and caviar and drinking mor good wine than ever before. The blogosphere would go into convulsions. Conceivably, Edwards could be selected over Cheney and, voila!!, a Bush-Edwards administration.
Well, it would be pretty funny, for a while at least.
According to Nielsen Media Research, more people watched Fox News during prime time in the third quarter of 2004 than watched CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and CNN Headline News COMBINED. If, as Fox's ctitics charge, Fox represents a political viewpoint, I'm afraid that the people have spoken.
Yup. Taking the Kerry campaign's nutty fearmongering to its logical (well, for them) extreme, some demented denizens of Democratic Underground are now speculating that if President Bush is re-elected, "liberals" will be rounded up and put into concentration camps, just like their hero, F.D.R. did with American citizens of Japanese decent (whoops, sorry ... they never seem to draw that parallel when engaging in their rabid victimhood fantasies). Here are some choice quotes from that truly funny thread:
Yup, today's hard left. Hateful, violent, paranoid, and completely, utterly nuts.The thread starter starts with this:
I think most Americans would support relocation camps for liberals
I am frightened by what I am learning about America during this election. I think that a majority have an irrational fear of liberals, and that if Bush wins, and decides to send liberals to camps for their "protection," most would support the move and say "About time too." There would be some dissent, but the majority of Americans see liberals as a threat, and nothing would be done. The press would hold debates, but people wouldn't care. I think that all Bush has to do is say the word, and we'll be rounded up. Who would stop him?And one member of the future LLL resistance joins the fantasy:
I don't own any firearms, or plan to acquire any any time soon, but, I'm smart enough to oranize a "Polish Ghetto uprising" if it ever came down to that.
Of course, there's always the calm voice of reason:Come and try to f***ing take me I guarantee one dead m***erf***er who tries. I may go but one m***erf***er is going with me. Deader than hell. [Edited by Jheka to keep TDB PG-13, more or less]
That's right Pedro, the Yankees are your daddy :
"What can I say -- just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy," Martinez said. "I can't find a way to beat them at this point. ... They're that good. They're that hot right now -- at least against me. I wish they would disappear and not come back."
I just love this time of year.
Update: Magic number: 4
Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement starts right about now here on the West Coast. Religious Jews will fast and reflect upon their sins and ask G_d for forgiveness. Tomorrow evening, Jewish families, throughout all of the world that still contains Jewish families, will gather together to eat and drink and pray and reflect and celebrate their good fortune at having made it through another year (I remember being in Jamaica and standing outside of an old Jewish cemetery which was, oddly, across the street from a pork-themed restaurant, and reflecting on how far flung the Jewish people have always been). Many who are not in Israel will say the ancient Jewish phrase that encompasses the boundless, arguably ridiculous optimism that marks much of the Jewish culture: "next year in Jerusalem." I assure you that, on Yom Kippur in 1943, Jews in Auschwitz and Treblinka and Dachau who were spending their last days mere yards from the ovens quietly said these very words to each other. For many, today is finally next year. Jews finally have their home. Here is a poem about Jews remembering where they came from, which is also something that we do on Yom Kippur:
A Jewish Cemetery In Germany
On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery,
a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs,
abandoned and forgotten. Neither the sound of prayer
nor the voice of lamentation is heard there
for the dead praise not the Lord.
Only the voices of our children ring out, seeking graves
and cheering
each time they find one--like mushrooms in the forest, like
wild strawberries.
Here's another grave! There's the name of my mother's
mothers, and a name from the last century. And here's a name,
and there! And as I was about to brush the moss from the name--
Look! an open hand engraved on the tombstone, the grave
of a kohen,
his fingers splayed in a spasm of holiness and blessing,
and here's a grave concealed by a thicket of berries
that has to be brushed aside like a shock of hair
from the face of a beautiful beloved woman.
Yehuda Amichai
Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
With a couple of quick hits.
First, how great is it that Tim Frisby will have an opportunity to play college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks? Frisby, who has been nicknamed "Pops" by his teammates, is a 39 year old father of six who recently retired from the military after 20 years in the Army. He served in both Kosovo and Desert Storm. Good for the NCAA, USC and coach Lou Holtz for giving Frisby this opportunity. Here's hoping that Pops catches a touchdown tomorrow.
I just heard that Wal-Mart will no longer sell "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," which, as you may or may not know, is among the nastiest pieces of anti-Semitic propaganda ever written (and a perennial best-seller in many parts of the Middle East, not to mention massively popular in Egypt, Malaysia, and even among some Americans). First, I think that it's great that Wal-Mart won't be selling this hateful filth any longer. Second, WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS WAL-MART DOING, SELLING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE????
Update on Wal-Mart: Wal-Mart has just announced that their linens department will no longer sell sheets with eye-holes and sleeves and will also discontinue the sale of the once-popular conical pillow cases which, oddly, never actually fit any pillows sold by Wal-Mart. However, the traditional "flaming lowercase "t" kid's game" will continue to be available in regional Wal-Marts (apologies and props to South Park).
What's the "War on Terror" all about? Cox & Forkum know:
And whoever it was that said that a picture is worth a thousand words was short changing these two by quite a bit.
In reaction to the latest NY Times/CBS poll showing President Bush with a 9 point lead, objective DUer "leesa" declares:
Too funny, indeed. That's right folks. In DU World, The New York Times and CBS are "Bush's Media."Too funny. Like any poll conducted by Bush's media has any value.
If you're not Russian you've likely never heard of Vladimir Vysotsky, who was a Russian poet, singer, songwriter and actor. In Russia, he was a giant. He was Whitman and Hemingway and Elvis and Springteen in one. With a voice like gravel churning and a boundless spirit, he lived a life that fiction writers would be loathe to write about for fear of not being believable and yet, somehow, against all odds and sense, lived to a ripe old age, as if to spite his critics and detractors. Here is one of his later poems from around 1978:
I am awake, yet dream prophetic verses
I am awake, yet dream prophetic verses.
I want to sleep, and swallow pills galore.
No matter - I have taken bitter pills before:
Organisations, institutions, persons -
They've all declared on me a total war
For me disturbing peace and quit, and
For my hoarse singing filling this whole land,
For my disrepute and for my renown;
For being impotent to keep me down;
For my old ballads that come flittering
On short-wave radio from abroad,
With notices attached - I think, Quite fitting -
"Unauthored by author…" Oh, my God!
What else? It may well be my foreign wife.
I should have married Soviet - done my duty.
How dare I choose a foreign way of life?
And, above all, how dare I to survive?
They hate me for my songs about the years
When we beat bloody hell out of the fritzes,
For writing songs of dogfights and of blitzes,
Not having fought, or being anywhere near.
They yell that I have pinched the moon, and will
Find something else again, as valuable, to steal.
So dirty lies keep chasing one another.
With all these blots, I'll soon be blotto, brother!
No, I won't drink myself to death - I will
Tear up or just cross off my testament and will,
And cross myself - God, bear with this offender! -
And go on writing songs, with all my heart and skill, -
And there'll be those whom in my songs I'll damn
But also those to whom I'll home age render,
All those who wrote to me that I dare not surrender.
And though my cup be bitter, I'll be true to them.
by Vladimir Vysotsky.
David Paul Kuhn, the chief political writer for CBS.com, has prepared a bit of pro-Kerry "news and analysis" that could not be any more of a cheerleading piece if a marching band and pom-poms were involved. You'd think that, in light of Memogate, CBS would at least make an effort to appear objective. It seems that old habits are hard to break.
Why won't Lt. Kerry sign the form and allow the Navy to release the 31 pages of his military records that have yet to be released? It's worth noting that President Bush signed this form, allowing for the release of all of his military records, a long time ago.
But Lt. Kerry and friends absolutely refuse to let go of the boulder that's drowning them. In spite of the fact that, inexplicably, Lt. Kerry has managed to turn Vietnam into a negative for his campaign, another pro-Kerry documentary is coming out in October and, predictably, it's all about Kerry's relatively brief Vietnam experience (both during his months there and after he came home and started lobbing ribbons) rather than his decades in the U.S. Senate. The one good thing for Kerry & Co. that came from Memogate and the seemingly unending hurricanes is that people aren't talking about the swiftboat vets as much as they had been. Not being able to see a silver lining with binoculars and a map, Kerry & Co. decide to refocus the nation's attention on the hundreds of Vietnam Vets who loathe Kerry (with good reason) and give what will amount to plenty of free advertising to the powerful anti-Kerry documentary that has already been released but hasn't been seen by very many people.
This is the political equivalent of Michael Dukakis climbing into tanks every day during the last weeks of his campaign and doing a cross-country whistlestop tour with Willie Horton.
Thanks to Marlowe's Shade for the link.
The whole article is most definitely worth a read. An excerpt to whet your appetite:
Read the whole thing. You won't regret it.A few weeks ago, Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe was on PBS' ''Newshour'' explaining why the hundreds of swift boat veterans' allegations against John Kerry's conduct in Vietnam was unworthy of his attention. "The standard of clear and convincing evidence," he said, talking to Swiftvet John O'Neill as if he were a backward fourth-grader, ''is what keeps this story in the tabloids -- because it does not meet basic standards.''
Last week, we got a good idea of what Thomas Oliphant's ''basic standards'' are. Dan Rather and the elderly gentlemen at ''60 Minutes'' were all atwitter because they'd come into possession of some hitherto undiscovered memos relating to whether George W. Bush failed to show up for his physical in the War of 1812. The media had been flogging this dead horse all spring, but these newly ''discovered'' memos had jump-started the old nag just enough to get him on his knees long enough for the media to flog him all over again.
Unfortunately for CBS, Dan Rather's hairdresser sucks up so much of the budget that there was nothing left for any fact-checking, so the ''60 Minutes'' crew rushed on air with a damning National Guard memo conveniently called ''CYA'' that Bush's commanding officer had written to himself 32 years ago. ''This was too hot not to push,'' one producer told the American Spectator. Hundreds of living Swiftvets who've signed affidavits and are prepared to testify on camera -- that's way too cold to push; we'd want to fact-check that one thoroughly, till, say, midway through John Kerry's second term. But a handful of memos by one dead guy slipped to us by a Kerry campaign operative -- that meets ''basic standards'' and we gotta get it out there right away.
The only problem was the memo. Amazingly, this guy at the Air National Guard base, Lt. Col. Killian, had the only typewriter in Texas in 1973 using a prototype version of the default letter writing program of Microsoft Word, complete with the tiny little superscript thingy that automatically changes July 4th to July 4th. To do that on most 1973 typewriters, you had to unscrew the keys, grab a hammer and give them a couple of thwacks to make the ''t'' and ''h'' squish up all tiny, and even think it looked a bit wonky. You'd think having such a unique typewriter Killian would have used a less easily traceable model for his devastating ''CYA'' memo. Also, he might have chosen a font other than Times New Roman, designed for the Times of London in the 1930s and not licensed to Microsoft by Rupert Murdoch (the Times' owner) until the 1980s.
Here's something for everyone who worried that the memogate debacle was just going to get more viewrship for CBS. Dan Rather, the man that America no longer trusts, is also the anchor whose ratings are sinking like, well, an anchor (except, of course, in San Francisco). How bad is it? Take a look at liberal NYC, the nation's #1 media market:
And in the nation's top market, New York, Rather finished not only behind NBC NIGHTLY NEWS and ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT -- but also pulled less audience than reruns of the SIMPSONS, WILL & GRACE and KING OF QUEENS.
Rather finished dead last in New York during the 6:30 pm timeslot among all broadcast channels tracked by NIELSEN on Tuesday.
CBS and Viacom are in the business of making money and, if this lasts even a little longer, they will be in the business of turning Dan Rather into the Invisible Man and doing damage control to recapture some portion of their viewership with a new face. Maybe Big Dan can find a job with the Kerry campaign team ... out in the open, I mean.
They really do try to stir up the Democratic base, don't they? Let's not forget that before trying to influence the Presidential election with the help of amateurish forgeries that any self-respecting, decent forger would be ashamed of, CBS and Dan Rather broke the "Evil Jews Controlling America" story that had the Leftist world all a-twitter only a little while ago. Let's also not forget that this isn't the first time that CBS and Dan Rather have spread lies in the name of a political agenda and ratings.
Jews Control the Pentagon!!!
Bush was AWOL!!!
The Documents are real!!
YEEAAAARRRGGHH!!!!!
Recently, Susan Estrich (the former campaign manager of the oh so dynamic Dukakis campaign), called on Democrats to crawl into the gutter to try to revive Lt. Kerry's moribund run for the White House. It seems that Mary Jacoby and Salon (among others) have taken Estrich's words to heart, publishing a cheap hit-piece against the President under the guise of an interview with one Yoshi Tsurumi, a man who says that he was a professor of George W. Bush's over thirty years ago. Now, Tsurumi, who is in full Bush-bash mode from the start, isn't new to the Bush bashing. He's done the same thing over and over and over again, angling for his fifteen minutes of fame while promoting his leftist, Bush hating agenda. Tsurumi, was once a visiting professor at Harvard Business School and now teaches at Baruch college in the CUNY System (or, as it is known to New Yorkers, UCLA (University on the Corner of Lexington Avenue)).
Now, let's review Tsurumi's claims in the various pieces that I cited. He claims that now, in 2004, he distinctly remembers a student from 1973 who was one of 85 students in his class. He also claims that he could tell that the student sitting in the back of his classroom was a "pathological liar" because, apparently, according to Tsurumi, Bush made statements that Tsurumi did not agree with:
S: What kind of lies would he tell?
T: Lots of times the students, just the eh. For example. One statement that he made still stuck with me. We were discussing how the United States Government should help the lower income group or people on the fixed pension to adjust themselves to the high energy costs during the oil crisis, to bring in the fairness into the US economic policies. And he raised the issues and he said, “People are poor because they are lazy.” Those are the lies.
He recalls that this student "sneered at him" for showing "Grapes of Wrath" in class. You believe that, right? He claims that this same student, who had "sneered" at him and who disagreed with him in the classroom chatted with him outside of class and casually told his professor that his dad pulled strings to get him into the Air National Guard and into Harvard Business School (after the professor asked him how he got in because, you know, professors do that all the time). You believe him, right? He claims that, 31 years later, he recalls the young George W. Bush saying that "greed is beautiful." Sounds truthful, right? He claims that Bush would try to exact revenge on students who had challenged his views in class by telling Tsurumi (who obviously agreed with those students), after class, nasty things about those students, including that they drank too much. Right. What was that supposed to accomplish? Anyway, I'm sure that that actually happened. Why not? One last telling segment, from a "Majority Report" interview linked above:
S: Alright, let’s start with something simple. How was his attendance?
T: Well attendance was not that bad. But his attention span was very short.then, later in the interview ...
S: Welcome back to the Majority Report on Air America Radio. Streaming at airamericaradio.com blogging at majorityreportradio.com. My name is Sam Seder sitting across from me is Janeane Garofalo and in studio with us is Yoshi Tsurumi, who was George W. Bush’s professor back in ’72-73 I think it was at Harvard Business school.
T: ’73-74
S: ’73-74. Now when we left. I posed the question to you. I would not let you answer. How many times did George Bush come drunk to your class, as a student?
(silence)
S: He’s counting on his fingers. He’s counting
G: Hangovers count as well, because sometimes there is residual.
T: Well certainly he missed quite a few.
S: He missed quite a few classes?
T: And when he came to classes some times he stays half-drunk.
G: But wait, we said at the being that his attendance was good.
Crosstalk
T: But, but he I would say never, but he rarely came to class prepared. It’s easy, he has to come to class after he read a least some assignments or thought about some of the question and other things. Then he goes into all kinds of ranting and the flippant statements to cover up his shallowness.
S: That’s called confabulation. Which he still actually has a problem with. So to be fair to George Bush, we can not prove that he showed up to class drunk all the time.
T: Not all the time, no.
S: Right
G: But he was probably hung over when he was...you know what I mean he’s hung over. It’s college, that’s normal we can not hold, and graduate school, that just normal drinking especially in that era.
T: Well, he was rare even among the 85 students that I had, and he often had a binge drinking problems.
G: Right, but he’s got the severe leaning disability too. He’s probably frustrated because he doesn’t read very well.
T: Yeah. On top of that. On top of that.
That's it folks. That's the kind of stuff the Left is now peddling. And if you believe that this idiot Tsurumi could diagnose learning disabilities and short attention spans and alcoholism in some random student sitting in the back of his 85 person class in 1973, if you believe that this student casually told him that his dad got him out of Vietnam and into Harvard and tried to get at his peers by saying things to some schmuck visiting professor, then you also probably trust Dan Rather and believe Kitty Kelley when she claims that Laura Bush sold dime bags in college.
What's that smell coming from your left? That, ladies and gentlemen, is the stench of desperation. It's getting pretty strong.
Well, that didn't take long. Initial reports indicate that the source of the CBS forgeries is one Bill Burkett, a former National Guard officer who blames Bush for his personal problems in obtaining disability benefits and who is obsessed with telling anyone who will listen that Bush had his guard records sanitized. Burkett may have decided to "unsanitize" the records and faxed the forgeries to CBS from a Kinkos in Abilene, Texas. Here's a February, 2002 interview with Burkett by Kevin Drum of Calpundit.
Update: More on Burkett, who has a real or imagined but extremely heartfelt personal grudge against George W. Bush. You know, if it does turn out that Burkett acted alone and the documents had no connection to the DNC, the Kerry campaign or MoveOn.org, the Democrats and Kerry and CBS should count their lucky stars.
One more thing. The most disingenuous remark, given very recent history, that I've heard in some time, courtesy of Dan Rather:
Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.Sure, Dan. You're all about stepping up and taking responsibility when you're wrong. You showed that so clearly in the last week, just as you did in 1988 after you smeared Vietnam veterans for ratings.
I wonder if she brought any cake for them to eat. Say what you want about Theresa Heinz Kerry, politically, the woman just isn't very smart.
I'm off to be with the folks for New Year's and I wish all of my friends out there a healthy and happy 5765. A quick link dump before I vamoose:
Via Urthshu.
A real, honest to God, no fooling, not a joke, authentic memo about George W. Bush from Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Actually, not being a document expert, I do not know if it's authentic. It praises George W. Bush, so I do know that it won't be appearing on 60 Minutes. Via LGF.
I love New Orleans. Absolutely one of my favorite cities to visit and one of the most interesting and unique towns on earth. Here's hoping that it's still around tomorrow.
If you haven't done so already, go visit the nice kids over at the Project for a New American Century. Yeah, they're a bunch of starry-eyed, wet behind the ears dreamers, but they're trying to make the world a better place and you should probably take a look at their ideas. Maybe even drop a suggestion or two or just express your support. We should always encourage the idealistic dreamers among us.
I love Spain and Barcelona is one of my very favorite cities but suddenly I'm not so motivated to go back. Seriously, yuck.
The State Department has finally figured out that Saudi Arabia is not a mecca (so to speak) of religious tolerance. It's a step in the right direction, I suppose.
Not to be outdone by CBS, Time tries to help the Kerry campaign: What Kerry Needs to Say. I wonder if they get their check directly from the DNC.
Bush-Cheney: Protecting America's Youth (from sunburn):
No Islamism in women's basketball.
Finally, we end on a happy note.
Gut Yontov all!!
Terrorists, anti-Americanism, Dan Rather ... blech!! Here's something pretty to look at from the resident photographer:
Yeah, that's better.
In 1988 Dan Rather took a page from the John Kerry playbook and smeared Vietnam veterans with a "documentary" that was nothing but lies. The difference between 1988 and 2004? The blogosphere. Oh, yeah, Dan. No more free passes for you.
Cox & Forkum capture Rather perfectly:
I guess it really is a New Year. Russia rejects Powell's calls for restraint intheir reaction to the slaughter of their citizens and children and turns to Israel for guidance on how to deal with Islamist terrorists. From where I sit, close cooperation between Russia and Israel can only be a good thing for Russia, Israel, the United States and the WoT in general.
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