It's time to ask Talent if he's a "Rush Limbaugh Republican"

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 9:11 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 21:11

Like many Americans, I was incensed beyond words by Rush Limbaugh's absurdly insensitive comments directed towards Michael J. Fox, words which he still stands by, despite the best efforts of the media to pretend that he apologized.

But I have no use for that man anymore, or for any rage that his words inspire in me. He's a clown, a buffoon whose words should be mocked rather than seriously contemplated or debated.

Of course, there's also this response ad, which misses the point entirely, given that Fox was NOT commenting on the proposed Amendment. He was targeting Jim Talent and his voting record specifically. So, the question is now burning in my head ... the question that, if the roles were reversed, every talking head on TV would be pounding down McCaskill's throat if, oh say, Michael Moore had pulled a similar stunt.

THE QUESTION: Does Jim Talent stand by the comments of Rush Limbaugh, or will he publicly denounce such hateful rhetoric? Is he a Rush Limbaugh Republican?
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So Scalia ... what do you think of Bush then?

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Sunday February 19, 2006 · 8:00 PM PST

2006/02/19 · 20:00

I was checking out The Daou Report over at Salon.com, and I wondered right-ward to a post from the rabid Pardon My English blog.

The blog entry amounts to a giddy slap at the Justices inspired by another one of Justice Scalia's immature outbursts at his colleagues - Scalia Dismisses 'Living Constitution'" See, the Justice apparently called half of his fellow Justices "idiots," and of course the Right Wing giggles in delight at the chance to slur some of the most accomplishes jurists in the country. After reading the article through, I recalled a statement made by the President ... and I wondered what Scalia would make of Bush's argument that FISA no longer applies for him because it's outdated ...

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Spot the spin before it makes you dizzy!

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 9:49 PM PST

2005/12/20 · 21:49

Heads up - here's the latest spin from Drudge (via Atrios):

Clinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"
...
Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Order on May 23, 1979: "Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order."

Oh, gee, I guess Democrats are just as bad, huh? Okay, so the picture isn't PRETTY, but it's still the "same ol', same ol'" you've come to know and love from Drudgey ... Read More

Karen Hughes gets a beat down in Turkey

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Wednesday September 28, 2005 · 1:55 PM PDT

2005/09/28 · 13:55

From the Washington Post, Turkish Women Blast Karen Hughes With Iraq War Criticism:

ISTANBUL, Sept. 28 -- A group of Turkish female activists confronted Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes Wednesday with heated complaints about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, turning a session designed to highlight the empowering of women into a raw display of the anger at U.S. policy in the region.
"This war is really, really bringing your positive efforts to the level of zero," said Hidayet Sefkatli Tuksal, an activist with the Capital City Women's Forum. She said it was difficult to talk about cooperation between women in the United States and Turkey as long as Iraq was under occupation.

It gets "better" (that is to say, worse) ... Read More

St. Louis Post Dispatch takes a bite out of Bush

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 11:07 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 11:07

HURRICANE KATRINA: Troubled waters

President George W. Bush thinks he's found just the right person to run the investigation into what went wrong with the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina - himself.
With all due respect, that's like appointing Donald Rumsfeld to investigate what went wrong with the Iraq War or Bill Clinton to investigate the Whitewater scandal. There's a certain degree of independence that could be lacking.

It's a fine enough read, though maybe not worth a whole diary page - it is, after all, just another editorial from a generally leftist paper from a basically Democratic city. But having grown up in St. Louis, I took away certian impressions of the city that the Post-Dispatch has been reliable about reaffirming ... until I read that editorial.

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A Brush with Bush in NO

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Sunday September 04, 2005 · 9:45 AM PDT

2005/09/04 · 09:45

This is a redacted report from a friend on the ground in Lafayette, LA. It's verbatim (minus the names), and according to the author, "written in the heat of anger and is put together from subjective impressions rather than 'hard' news sources (I'd hate to realize later I got some of this wrong); on the other hand I think it's an accurate representation of what a lot of us were feeling over there on Fri & Sat."

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Gentlemen, we have a meme!

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Saturday September 03, 2005 · 11:58 AM PDT

2005/09/03 · 11:58

Welcome to the Freeper Frame Shop. I visited Free Republic against my better judgment, and I saw a headline that struck me as a little off-key for the site.

Why aren't there enough troops in New Orleans? Because they're all in Iraq!

When I clicked on it, I found out the thread had been pulled (wonder why), so I'm quoting the headline from memory. In its place on the site was the following ... Read More

What if we donated to the RNC ...

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Thursday August 11, 2005 · 8:53 PM PDT

2005/08/11 · 20:53

... on behalf of Sheehan to buy her an hour's time with the President?

Hey everyone. First time blogger, long time surfer. I was just reading an blog entry by The Peking Duck on Maglalang, and I came across this sentence from The Rude Pundit:

Maybe if she donated $100,000 to the Republican National Committee, he'd find some more time.

That got the wheels in my head a'turning, and now I'm thinking out loud (or at least online) ... Read More

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