Scott McClellan’s new kiss and tell memoir is the talk of the town. And it ain’t pretty for poor ole Scott.
You have to admire, at least a little, the fact that he KNEW they were going to ballistic on him the minute this dropped. Maybe I’ve just always pitied the pudgy bastard…
TP has the story… […]

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Josh Silver covers the FCC’S declaration of TMZ and 700 Club as “Bona fide Newscasts” via The Huffington Post
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Looks like the Right-Wing FUD Factory Freedoms Watch is not doing too well these days…
(Read article on TPMMuckraker)

When Ari Fleischer (Dissembler Extraordinaire) was trotted out as the face of Freedoms Watch, they had the UFC swagger of Tito Ortiz. Now, they look a little bit more like Horseshack on Celebrity Boxing getting smacked around by […]

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If you want to discuss the hidden costs of the Iraq war, you better have your cup on, because you WILL get kicked in the nuts.
Think Progress » White House Smears Nobel Economist: ‘Lacks Courage’ For Ignoring ‘Cost Of Failure’ In Iraq
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So this douchey kinda guy on Tucker Carlson’s show (he still has one?) postulates on the air about how he thinks Chelsea Clinton is being “pimped out” for the campaign and all HELL breaks loose…
He’s suspended from all NBC broadcasts except for apologies, which he’s making everywhere over and over again…

Take away lesson: this is […]

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Juan Cole has a great post on the Iran Speedboat video controversy that erupted after the US charged that Iranians were intimidating naval vessels and threatening to blow them up…

That sounds pretty bad… Then, we saw and HEARD the video…

In a accent somewhere between Steve Martin’s “Wild & Crazy Guys” SNL character and that cuban guy who rolls cigars on Miami Beach, the ominous voice is heard saying: “I am coming to YOU…” and “You will explode after a few minutes…”.

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Uh oh. Break out the falafels… Looks like by O’Reilly’s standards, the president has just declared War on Christmas!
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Seems Karl Rove is not going to be sitting quietly on the sidelines. Indeed, it’s hard to figure out what to make of the new, available, accessible, public and on the record Karl Rove, columnist, talking head and blogger.
Rove may have royally screwed the pooch with his revisionist version of the lead up to war […]

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Citizen_of_Earth left an amazing and important comment on ThinkProgress this morning in response to a ridiculous article by Family Security Matters claiming that “multiculturalism exposes the U.S to terrorism“. It’s one that everyone should read, so I’m posting the comment here:

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There’s a growing thread over at WebmasterWorld today about the very much unsettled legal matters involving blog and web publishers being held legally responsible for the comments and content posted by other users.
In our burgeoning social media internet, online defamation, libel and slander are becoming an enormous problem - both because of the very […]

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