Posts tagged with 'George_Bush'

Live Blogging SOTU

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 28 2008 07:57 PM | PERMALINK

Or, The Sitting Duck Quacks

Join us tonight for live blogging with our newest writer, Michael Roston, during Bush's seventh and final State of the Union address. Expect to hear about the economy (don't worry, it'll be fine), the surge (we're winning!), prevention of terrorism (tapping phones of bad guys only, we promise), and education ($$$).

[N.B.: He'll leave out the part about how throwing money at a problem only makes a more expensive problem.]

A little SOTU light reading, though, to get you...
Seymour Hersch: WH Already Knew About NIE

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 06 2007 07:27 AM | PERMALINK

Sy Hersch told Wolf Blitzer Tuesday that the Bush Administration has long known what the outcome of the NIE would be -but proceeded with serious sanctions and military threats anyway. And that's a course that the WH clearly intends to still see through; while it might seem a novel concept - responsibility and accountability - it seems like this would be a good opportunity for Bush to actually apologize. "Sorry, Dinny, I was a little off..."

So we're left to conclude that W knows...
He Also Did A Little Writing

POSTED BY THOM FILE, NOVEMBER 15 2007 02:33 PM | PERMALINK

When Norman Mailer passed away last weekend, it made sense that the ensuing conversation would be about almost everything but his writing. An editorial published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday – however complimentary – praised Mailer for not only owning his masculinity, but for constantly wearing it in the form of a very public persona. Meanwhile, a day earlier, The Guardian took the author to task for exactly these same reasons.

In between such markers rests a host of...
A second helping of Cold War stew? Why, yes, I'd love some, thank you.

POSTED BY ROSEMARY PENNINGTON, OCTOBER 12 2007 01:51 PM | PERMALINK

I was a small child in the 80's when the Cold War was winding down. Between the Smurfs, Snorks and Gummi Bears I vaguely remember seeing commercials about Russian paratroopers stealing our fast food, Gorbachev meeting with , the Berlin Wall coming down. That's my remembrance of the Cold War. No Bay of Pigs for me.

Imagine my political delight upon hearing that Russia wants nothing to do with the United States proposed missile defense system -- which would be deployed to parts of "New Europe". ...
TPMtv: John McCain vs. The Video Tape

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 17 2007 12:50 PM | PERMALINK

John McCain vs. The Video Tape

2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) went on Meet the Press Sunday to debate the war in Iraq with Senator John Kerry (D-MA). And what a show it was. With McCain's deluge of devastating points and dizzying rhetorical takedowns, Kerry was clearly no match. But the real contest was the debate between McCain and videographic evidence of statements made previously in the week. We match the two toe-to-toe, and let the viewer decide the ultimate debate...
Re-enactment of Craig's solicitation

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, AUGUST 30 2007 02:54 PM | PERMALINK

Crooks and Liars has a great video of Keith Olberman's re-enactment Se. Craig's alleged men's room solicitation.