Kristol Meth and Daily Kos (Poll)

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Wednesday July 25, 2007 · 3:17 AM PDT

2007/07/25 · 03:17

You shall know them by their enemies. By that standard Daily Kos is doing spectacularly well. It is under attack by the Murdoch Mafia. First they ignored us. Now they are in the angry stage. Some day we'll win.

Remember, if Daily Kos had been irrelevant Murdoch Mafia would not be coming after us. Take it as an encouraging sign. It shows they are worried. These people are used to monopolizing the airwaves an op-ed pages. Their idea of a liberal columnist is Richard Cohen, a fake liberal in neocon op-ed page of the Washington Post. They are not used to genuine liberals. Their idea of a balanced panel is Bob Novak and David Broder on Meet the Press. And all of a sudden there are all these real liberals all over the Internet; Kos, Josh Marshall, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, Eric Alterman............They are freaking out!

Poll

73 votes Show Results

Murdoch Mafia's next desperate move

73 votes Vote Now!

Murdoch Mafia's next desperate move

Accuse Kos of murdering Vince Foster

4 votes

Blame Iraq loss on Kossacks

28 votes

Get DOJ to illegally wiretap liberal bloggers

14 votes

Unleash US Attorneys on liberal bloggers

15 votes

Rendition!

12 votes

Deranged Harpy caught in another lie! (Poll)

Miri

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Friday June 29, 2007 · 12:57 PM PDT

2007/06/29 · 12:57

Yes, I know it is a dog bites man story. And yes catching Ann Coulter lying is like catching Ann Coulter breathing. She does it all the time. Still, this is an amusing lie and tells us something about how the MSM works.

http://www.mediabistro.com/...

"Ann Coulter responds to John Edwards, and attacks Chris Matthews along the way:

"I doubled the ratings of the lowest-rated cable news show on Tuesday"

This is a complete lie. You can check the ratings here. Coulter's appearance made almost no difference in Slimeball's ratings.

http://www.mediabistro.com/...

Tuesday, June 26th Ratings;

Hardball 5 PM - 161
Hardball 7 PM - 109
Olberman 8 PM - 238

Wednesday, June 27th Ratings;

Hardball 5 PM - 109
Hardball 7 PM - 118
Olberman 8 PM - 274

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99 votes Show Results

What will Tweety do next to improve his low ratings?

99 votes Vote Now!

What will Tweety do next to improve his low ratings?

Invite circus freaks on his show

2 votes

Stupid pet tricks!

4 votes

Mud Wresting featuring the Deranged Harpy, Paris Hilton and Courtney Love

29 votes

Confess his homoerotic fantasies of GOP politicians; Rudy, Ahrnuld, Romney, Thompson

50 votes

Tweety with a baseball bat and a Hillary pinata!

14 votes

NYRB - Bush's Amazing Achievement (Poll)

Miri

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Tuesday May 29, 2007 · 8:45 AM PDT

2007/05/29 · 08:45

It is not a joke. Do not dismiss it without giving it some thought.

The argument goes something like this; Bush has achieved something remarkable through negation. He has united people of different ideologies into a consensus of what not to do. Everything he has done, especially in foreign policy, will be studied in seminars and history books as Exhibit A of what must be avoided at all cost, "never again". Bush presidency will be a cautionary tale, like the decline of the Roman Empire, warning generations to come what can happen to an Empire, how a foolish Caesar can weaken the empire by launching ruinous wars that sap its treasury, ruin its reputation.

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98 votes Show Results

How long will the Bush "achievement" last

98 votes Vote Now!

How long will the Bush "achievement" last

Till the next election

11 votes

A couple of election cycles

17 votes

A generation

32 votes

Several millennia, like the books on the decline of Rome

24 votes

It will all be forgotten by 2008

14 votes

Is Elizabeth Edwards OK?

Miri

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Wednesday March 21, 2007 · 7:16 PM PDT

2007/03/21 · 19:16

http://www.politico.com/...

Elizabeth's Health

From the Edwards campaign:

Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards to Hold a Press Conference

Chapel Hill, North Carolina - On Thursday, March 22nd, 2007, Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards will hold a press conference at 12:00pm. Location details to follow.

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I read this and felt sick in the pit of my stomach. Does anybody know anything about this?

I hope Elizabeth Edwards is doing OK.

OMG! William Kristol is right! (Poll)

Miri

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 1:11 PM PST

2007/01/19 · 13:11

I no longer subscribe or buy Time magazine. My list of grievences against this corporate rag is long. Their hiring of neocon godfather William Kristol is the straw that broke the camel's back.

I am also 180 from anything William Kristol says. If he is for something I am against it. That simple.

That said here is a a piece from his latest column about Hillary's candidacy;

"In the end, she may be able to triangulate successfully between the dangers of Muskie-esque centrism and Kerry-esque accommodation to the left. I'd bet on her if her competitors remain limited to candidates like Senators Edwards, Barack Obama, Joseph Biden and Christopher Dodd."

"But what if she faces a rival who spoke eloquently against the Iraq war from the first--yet also has a hawkish national security record? What if that man has substantial experience at the highest levels of government--and can also raise plenty of money as a candidate? What if he ran for President once before--and won the popular vote? Clinton undoubtedly dreams occasionally about the fates of Ed Muskie and John Kerry. But if she stays awake at night, it's because she's worrying about Al Gore."

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198 votes Show Results

Who would be the most serious threat to Hillary?

198 votes Vote Now!

Who would be the most serious threat to Hillary?

Obama

13 votes

Biden

0 votes

Edwards

30 votes

Richardson

4 votes

Vilsack

1 vote

Kerry

1 vote

Gore

105 votes

All of them, she will deflate once the race is on

38 votes

Nobody, she has it in the bag

6 votes

Paul Krugman - Votes disappeared! (Poll)

Miri

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Thursday November 23, 2006 · 10:22 PM PST

2006/11/23 · 22:22

http://select.nytimes.com/...

Krugman shames the corporate media for not reporting what happened in Florida's 13th district. Tom Cruise's wedding is "breaking news", a stolen congressional election is a big yawn.

"The problem is that the official vote count isn’t credible. In much of the 13th District, the voting pattern looks normal. But in Sarasota County, which used touch-screen voting machines made by Election Systems and Software, almost 18,000 voters — nearly 15 percent of those who cast ballots using the machines— nearly 15 percent of those who cast ballots using the machines — supposedly failed to vote for either candidate in the hotly contested Congressional race."

You can read the whole column here;

http://donkeyod.blogspot.com/...

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272 votes Show Results

How did 18,000 votes go "missing"?

272 votes Vote Now!

How did 18,000 votes go "missing"?

Machine malfunction

58 votes

Software tampering by the voting machine co.

34 votes

Software tampering by election officials

66 votes

Part of a larger sinister on-going election conspiracy

107 votes

Nothing to see, election over, time to move on

7 votes

Haggard's prayers answered?

Miri

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Sunday November 05, 2006 · 2:45 PM PST

2006/11/05 · 14:45

http://www.beliefnet.com/...

This was Ted Haggard's prayer during last Sunday's sermon;

""Heavenly Father give us grace and mercy, help us this next week and a half as we go into national elections and Lord we pray for our country. Father we pray lies would be exposed and deception exposed. Father we pray that wisdom would come upon our electorate...""

God works in mysteries ways. Looks like God answered his prayers. I just hope he is aware of this.

Looks like when Gods want to punish you they answer your prayers.

WP Hires Another Right Wing Columnist (Poll)

Miri

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 12:47 PM PDT

2006/09/11 · 12:47

Washington Post editorial page is neoconservative. It has a neoconservative (Fred Hiatt) editorial page editor.

Its op-ed page tilts conservative with such foaming at the mouth right wingers as George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Jim Hoagland, Sebastian Mallaby, Bob Novak, David Ignatius, Rob Samuelson and probably a few others that I am forgetting.

But apparently that is still not enough conservative opinion so the Washington Post has hired another conservative columnist.

We are supposed to believe that somehow this wall to wall right wing echo chamber will be "balanced" by timid centrists like EJ Dionne, the Uncle Tom columnist King and that loathsome liberal hater Richard Cohen.

WP editorial page is fast turning into the WSJ editorial page, a house organ for the GOP. This is not surprising when you consider that the Washington Post company has been getting contracts from the Bush regime for its Kaplan division. They clearly want to kiss the hand that feeds them. Read More

ABC to air 911 Bush propaganda

Miri

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 11:29 AM PDT

2006/09/01 · 11:29

Get ready for the latest corporate media outrage.

http://thinkprogress.org/...

"New ABC Docudrama Blames Clinton For 9/11, Praises Bush"

"On September 10 and 11, ABC will air a "docudrama" called "The Path to 9/11." It was written by Cyrus Nowrasteh, who describes himself as "more of a libertarian than a strict conservative," and is giving interviews to hard-right sites like FrontPageMag to promote the film."
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Why should we care about yet another corporate media felony? Because they were instrumental in getting us to this point. Remember after 9/11 the corporate media started portraying Bush as the second coming of Alexander the Great, a hero, a visionary........Soon the public started believing it and dissent became treason. You couldn't say anything critical of Bush. The fawning media coverage of Bush made him untouchable

Corporate media is desperately trying to bring back those good old days. They keep talking about the "Bush bounce". And it is obvious they intend to use 9/11 anniversary to perpetuate myths about Bush as "wise leader".

Paul Krugman on Lieberman - Beyond Redemption (Poll)

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 10:15 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 22:15

The new Paul Krugman column.

"And that's just one example of Mr. Lieberman's bad judgment. He has been wrong at every step of the march into the Iraq quagmire -- all the while accusing anyone who disagreed with him of endangering national security. Again, on what planet would Mr. Lieberman be considered "sensible"? But I know the answer: on Planet Beltway."

"Many of those lamenting Mr. Lieberman's defeat claim that they fear a takeover of our political parties by extremists. But if political polarization were really their main concern, they'd be as exercised about the primary challenge from the right facing Lincoln Chafee as they are about Mr. Lieberman's woes. In fact, however, the sound of national commentary on the Rhode Island race is that of crickets chirping."

"So what's really behind claims that Mr. Lieberman is sensible -- and that those who voted against him aren't? It's the fact that many Washington insiders suffer from the same character flaw that caused Mr. Lieberman to lose Tuesday's primary: an inability to admit mistakes." Read More

Joe Lieberman Weekly - It's Bill Clinton's fault!

Miri

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Tuesday August 08, 2006 · 8:46 PM PDT

2006/08/08 · 20:46

Read it and laugh!

At first I thought I was reading satire. But no, Martin Peretz is serious. It is all Clinton's fault.

Folks, this is the guy Al Gore took political advise from in 2000!

What was Gore thinking, taking advise from this neocon moron? Just because Peretz has tons of cash (his wife's) doesn't mean he knows shit about politics.

http://www.tnr.com/...

"Worse can be said of Bill Clinton's stumping in Connecticut for Joe (and Hillary's endorsement, too.) When Clinton came into the state, Lieberman and Lamont were running dead even in the polls, more or less. Clinton's appearance began Lieberman's decline. Within two or three days, Lieberman was down by ten points."
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NY Review of Books - MUST READ

Miri

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Friday June 02, 2006 · 5:58 PM PDT

2006/06/02 · 17:58

NY Review of Books has two articles up online and both are must read.

Elizabeth Drew "Power Grab"

http://www.nybooks.com/...

That extraordinary powers have, under Bush, been accumulated in the "same hands" is now undeniable. For the first time in more than thirty years, and to a greater extent than even then, our constitutional form of government is in jeopardy.

Ahmed Rashid - "Afghanistan: On the Brink"

http://www.nybooks.com/...

It is now five years since George W. Bush declared victory in Afghanistan and said that the terrorists were smashed. Since the Bonn meeting, in late 2001, a smorgasbord of international military and development forces has been increasing in size. How is it, then, that Afghanistan is near collapse once again?

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