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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Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s […]

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Why do people fall for obvious FUD and manipulation so easily? What is it that causes us to suspend rational and intellectual honesty in favor of the emotional “charge” we get out of propaganda?
The quote below summarizes things quite well:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it […]

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John Stossel rips fear mongering in the media
Listening to us, you’d think our growing exposure to pesticides, food additives, and other mysterious chemicals has created America’s “cancer epidemic.” But in truth there is no cancer epidemic — cancer incidence is flat, and death rates have been falling for years. But such good news doesn’t get […]

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“Y’all be scared now, ya hear?”
President Bush yesterday shared previously classified information — that Osama bin Laden has asked al Qaeda operatives in Iraq to plan attacks on American soil — as evidence that U.S. troops in Iraq are defending U.S. national security.
    ”However difficult the fight in Iraq has become, we must win it,” Mr. […]

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Think Progress has the story and it’s essentially a signature case of Fear and Smear.
It’s like this administration have a special “defamation” reflex that spews bile whenever encountering lucid thought. Here, General Sheehan states the absolutely obvious:
We cannot “shorthand” this issue with concepts such as the “democratization of the region” or the constant refrain by […]

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Doesn’t anyone remember Kenneth Starr?
The White House has indicated no willingness to move beyond Bush’s initial offer to let Rove, Miers and their deputies to speak to committee members in private, without being sworn. Conyers , meanwhile, has signed a contract with the law firm Arnold & Porter worth up to $225,000 through the […]

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So, to hear Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tell it, he planned, executed and organized every major terror attack in the entire war on terror. So, hey, we can all just pack it in and go home now, right?
There is growing buzz about the release of KSM’s confession because it dovetails so conveniently with all the bad […]

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Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com’s Managing Editor tries desperately to spin Ann Coulter’s self-targeting verbal IED at this year’s CPAC by employing the weakest defense on Earth: “But they did it too…” .

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Think Progress chews this one up and spits it out quite nicely…
Washington Post Editorial Board Spits Out Baseless Right-Wing Talking Points On Libby Verdict
In a substance-less diatribe, the Washington Post editorial board this morning tried its best to downplay the significance of the Scooter Libby verdict. Here’s a fact-check on some of the Post’s most […]

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