BREAKING AP: Harry Reid a nice guy (Bah Humbug edition)

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 3:51 PM PDT

2006/10/17 · 15:51

The AP is reporting that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave Christmas gifts to staff at his condo, including, gasp, his doorman. The gifts were $600 in 2002, $1200 in 2004 and $1500 in 2005 and came from Reid's campaign fund.

The AP report is, of course, the crack work of star reporter John "Oppo" Solomon. Now how, you might ask, did Soloman dig up this delicious dirt? FBI wiretaps? Whistleblower? DOJ search of Reid's office? Giftbaskets in his freezer? No, it was listed on the campaign reports that Reid filed with the FEC. You see this expense is a grey area and Reid's lawyers ruled the Christmas gifts were a legitimate expense. Read More

Pelosi fighting for Net Neutrality

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Wednesday May 10, 2006 · 9:24 AM PDT

2006/05/10 · 09:24

Roll Call is reporting that Nancy Pelosi is working to get her caucus in line in support of Net Neutrality. The vote on the COPE act will come up next week. The bill currently doesn't have any meaningful protections to maintain a free and democratic internet. This bill must be defeated. Whatever you think of Pelosi, she's been good at keeping the caucus together, hopefully this will be no exception. Read More

Net Neutrality: debunking the WaPo pro-telco hatchet job

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Monday May 08, 2006 · 11:11 AM PDT

2006/05/08 · 11:11

Big Telecom wants you to believe net neutrality is an impediment to fairness and innovation on the internet. Of course, the truth is just the opposite; the internet has been a force for innovation because of net neutrality. And nothing would be less fair than giving one company's data preference over another's.

Robert Litan of the Brookings Institute shills for Big Telecom. My rebuttal on the flip. Read More

Network Neutrality: an analogy

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Saturday May 06, 2006 · 5:09 AM PDT

2006/05/06 · 05:09

Arianna points out the term Net Neutrality sounds more like a 'Swiss tennis match' than a conspiracy to take over the internet. But that's just what it is. Big Telecom, companies like AT&T and Verizon who operate the data lines that the internet runs on, want to throw out the first amendment of the internet; they want to auction off the ability for one website to load faster than others. What does that mean? Read More

Iraq moving away from civil war threat

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 5:00 PM PDT

2006/04/27 · 17:00

Reads the headline on this balanced Reuters piece. The article quotes U.S. spokesman Major Rick Lynch who is predicting an easing of sectarian violence after Iraq's long awaited unity government is finally formed.

Attacks on civilians had jumped 90 percent across Iraq since a Shiite shrine was bombed in February, but "ethno-sectarian" bloodshed had more than halved in Baghdad in the past week, U.S. spokesman Major General Rick Lynch told a news conference. [emphasis mine]

Now, I'm no math whiz, but isn't that still something like a 45% increase in violence since the elections in December?

The major continues... Read More

Dear Mr. President, please resign.

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Thursday April 20, 2006 · 9:25 AM PDT

2006/04/20 · 09:25

Last week we learned that Iran has succeeded in enriching uranium and declared themselves a member of the Nuclear Club. This report was followed by 24 hours of frenetic cable news coverage: breathless talking heads brandishing satellite photos and telestrators notching up the fear with each red circle and arrow.

Then I read this: "Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says." OMG! 16 days!!! Next my local television news reported Iran is training an army of 40,000 suicide bombers to be deployed against American and British targets. Good grief!

Is it hype? In a word, yes. We all know Iran is years away from gaining a nuclear weapon. We know this is just another reckless, Rovian political ploy to distract attention from the fiery wreck that is the Republican party. Read More

Dear Senator Kerry,

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Saturday April 08, 2006 · 10:46 AM PDT

2006/04/08 · 10:46

I want to thank you for recently endorsing Senator Feingold's call from last August for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by year's end. That you would stand with Feingold, when so many in our party are afraid to, speaks volumes about your character.

Unfortunately, Senator -- and I'd like to heap nothing but praise upon you for taking this strong, clear position -- but, unfortuntately, you had your chance to stand up and lead this country. It began on January 27, 2004 and ended November 2 of that same year. This was your chance to shine. To show the party and the American people that you were the man to lead us. You are and always will be a great Senator and, as a former presidential nominee, you are granted party elder status and the bully pulpit that accompanies it. You would have made a great president. Your penchant for pragmatic, in-depth policy-making would have enabled you to deftly lead us through these uneasy times. Hey, if you'd won, we may even have withdrawn from Iraq by now. Read More

'Swift Boat' ad still running in MN (Updated)

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Tuesday February 14, 2006 · 7:27 AM PST

2006/02/14 · 07:27

Nick Coleman, columnist for the Star Tribune, calls it the Swift Boating of Iraq. Hesiod calls it Swift Boating in Reverse. Whatever you want to call it, it's a piece of sh*t and it's still stinking up the airwaves in Minnesota.

You can see the ad for yourself.

The CBS affiliate in Minneapolis, WCCO, runs this ad several times a day. I saw it myself at least three times yesterday. Other networks are also running it, but I think WCCO should be targeted because of this: WCCO pulls ad critical of Pawlenty. Tim Pawlenty is our Republican governor. Read More

Truthiness Quotient: 11

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Sunday February 12, 2006 · 4:40 PM PST

2006/02/12 · 16:40

Update: My lastest diary on this subject. Hesiod's latest: Swiftboating in Reverse: Update. Kare 11 issues a statement saying they neither agree nor disagree with an ad which is simply untrue. I will be contacting them today to let them know they must take a position on advertising which is untrue. Read More

Smilin' Norm: Pig in a Blanket

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Saturday January 21, 2006 · 12:42 PM PST

2006/01/21 · 12:42

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) has taken more privately funded trips than any other MN lawmaker link.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Norm Coleman took a dozen privately funded trips last year totaling more than $37,000, visiting places from Armenia to Alaska, an Associated Press review has found. Such trips would be banned under a proposal by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.

In fact, from 2000-2005, Norm took more privately funded trips than all but 5 other Senators. Read More

Sistani: U.S. out of Iraq

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Saturday October 29, 2005 · 10:15 AM PDT

2005/10/29 · 10:15

A.P. is reporting that Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani is considering calling for U.S. forces to leave Iraq after the December 15th elections.

NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric is considering demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops after a democratically elected government takes office next year, according to associates of the Iranian-born cleric.
If the Americans and their coalition partners do not comply, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani would use peaceful means such as mass street protests to step up pressure for a pullout schedule, according to two associates of the cleric.

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Wednesday October 12, 2005 · 2:28 PM PDT

2005/10/12 · 14:28

From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/12/oreilly-rove/

O'REILLY: And then you have Libby, vice president's chief of staff.
SAMMON: Right.
O'REILLY: And you have Rove, all right, both linked into these two reporters.
Now the two reporters are saying one thing to the grand jury. And Rove and Libby are saying another thing.
And now what looks like is Fitzgerald trying to figure out who's telling the truth and who isn't. And if Rove gets indicted, that could bring down the Bush administration, I think.

Holy blowhards! Does he mean bring down as in impeachment or Bush will simply become irrelevant and ineffective without his brain? Will the rest of 'em follow like rats from a sinking ship or is O'Really just trying to play the "I'm actually objective" card?

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