This might be a job for the Long Island Lolita, Amy Fisher:
President Bouteflika: Building a minus-hydrocarbon national economy is everybody’s responsibility
Algiers- President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika asserted Thursday in Algiers that the building of a minus-hydrocarbon national economy is everybody’s responsibility and not only the government’s. In a speech [...]
Joe Biden is trying desperately to get back in the news, again; you know, he needs to have his Presidential campaign be noticed. In a backyard in Des Moines, yesterday:
“This guy [the President of the United States] is brain dead,” Mr. Biden said to surprised applause and laughter from [...]
In the wake of the President’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, John Conyers (D-New York) will lead the House Judiciary Committee on a quest to determine if the President has the Constitutional power to pardon people (he does), and whether there are limits on that power (there aren’t).
It’s silly, as [...]
I seems the that Mitt Romney’s current hometown paper, the Boston Globe, has found something to use against Fred Thompson. Thirty-four years ago, in 1973, a young Thompson warned the Nixon White House that he had found out about their taping system.
To make matters worse, Thompson admitted this in [...]
Edwar Ramirez.
It’s the 4th of July, and I am listening to baseball on the radio (XM). It’s John Sterling’s birthday, as the Yankees beat the Twins, 2-1, and the topic of the day is Edwar Ramirez. Ramirez is better known as the answer to all the Yankees’ woes. He’s [...]
It has been a while, and four seven score and four years since Lincoln.
Happy Independence Day!
[...]Beverly Sills has succembed to cancer. I first learned of her illness a few days ago from Robert Aubry Davis, the program director of XM’s Vox Channel. He sent out an e-mail to his listeners.
I’d never met her. I’d never seen her perform. To me, she was recordings and [...]
Joe Biden writes that his followers should flood the WH with phone calls regarding “this blatant disregard for the rule of law.” A Presidential pardon is part of the rule of law. Besides, Scooter Libby’s conviction was not about anything Scooter Libby had done; rather, it was a drunken special [...]
I just posted this at RedState, but it was too much fun not to put here as well.
The San Francisco Chronicle Washington reporter Carolyn Lochhead offers this summation of our Democrat-controlled Congress, big on promises but inept on delivery:
Immigration has joined Iraq, stem cell research, Medicare drug pricing, the [...]
My brother David has a post over at RedState dealing with Dick Lugar’s latest thoughts and J.D. Johannes’s reaction thereto over at NRO.
[...]Sunday, July 1, 2007
Secretary Chertoff was everywhere.
On ABC’s This Week, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned of Europeans who train in Southeast Asia and return to Europe, either to attempt an attack their or to attempt one in the United States. On FNS, host Chris Wallace [...]
Check this out. The AP is reporting that Hugo is in Moscow trying to convince private Russian firms to build a pipeline for his oil. And the oil is, now, his.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called on Russian business leaders yesterday to invest in the construction of a Mercosur-planned 8,000-km [...]
Okay, they closed the first Copacabana, the one where the stars came out at night. The second one, at a different location, was a disco. But not for Lola.
New York City wants to build more subway, so this Copa has been condemned.”
If Mitt Romney is elected President, he’ll raise [...]
For Sunday, July 1, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert talks to Pat Leahy. There’s really no way to spice that one up, to make it seem to hold the promise of even casual interest.
FOX News Sunday (FOX): Host Chris Wallace talks border security with Homeland Security [...]
The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC regulation which required all licensed broadcasters to present all sides of an issue as being of equal merit. It came into existence in 1949 because everyone was frightened of communists. It was justified, though clearly Unconstitutional, because the public airwaves were a limited, governmentally [...]
Although the world was pococurante about the ordeal, the Democrats debated last night. You know, their Presidential candidates, who criticized the Supreme Court for interpreting the Constitution to prohibit the use of race as a factor in determining qualifications for college admission.
I didn’t watch. I neither knew nor [...]
Opponents of the immigration bill have cited polls showing that the American people opposed the measure. The bills supporters cite poll saying that most Americans favor the individual provisions on the bill.
Arlen Specter, a bill supporter, asserted that the guys who hung out at his Philly gym liked the bill, [...]
The Senate leadership attempted to invoke cloture, and they were trounced, 46 to 53 against. It needed 60 to move on, and it fell 14 votes short. All things being equal, it did not even have the fifty votes which would have been needed for final passage had cloture [...]
I posted this earlier at RedState.com:
House Democrats are having the time of their lives, a regular glee club, defending the spending in their appropriations bills. Check out this transcript:
REP. TOM PRICE (R-GA): “If I may inquire of my good friend from Washington if you have any speakers on this amendment?
REP. [...]
Or he might be too senile.
The Iranians had taken U.S. hostages under Carter’s nose, and he feebly watched. Gasoline prices in 1980 were, adjusted for inflation, the equivalent of $3.07/gallon today.
Police armed with batons and walkie-talkies guarded fuel stations but for some the protection came too late [...]
I posted this just now at RedState.com:
Last week, I thought I’d learned that Fred Thompson was going to announce his Presidential bid on this day (Tuesday, June 26). Erick quickly learned that this was not the case. No major announcement today.
And there wasn’t. The story had been that [...]
Don’t start looking for bogeymen until the bill gets its real Senate vote. It is a lunatic bill, is the immigration measure, but I personally don’t see it as the most important thing on which the Senate has voted this week, let alone this year or ever. The fence is [...]
In lieu of intelligent commentary in the midst of insanity.
Dick Lugar is a punk rocker.
Lugar is… a punk rocker.
Lugar is… a punk rocker now.
(The Ramones sang about Sheena, but the has-been is now donning his punkish kids’ garb for his last chance to seem serious before he leaves [...]
Ron Barnett of the Greenville (S.C.) News loves laws and regulation. He thinks they are the answer to most of what tragedy befalls us.
In what is supposed to be a straight news article, Barnett tells us the sad story of a child who died when his ATV overturned. He [...]
Octogenarian Senator John Warner of Virginia, the leading Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will probably quit after this term expires in January, and he’s been holding off saying so because the delay supposedly helps the guy he wants to succeed him, Republican Rep. Tom Davis.
For his part, [...]
Jacques Chirac’s term is over. He is no longer President of France.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Paris, meeting with Nick Sarkozy’ and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who said that the more France and the U.S. cooperate, the better for everyone.
France has promised to do something in [...]
This one is from General Robert E. Lee of the erstwhile Confederate States of America. It’s pretty good, though:
It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw [...]
Sunday, June 24, 2007
This morning on FOX News Sunday, Trent Lott explained that talk radio hosts and their listeners did not know what is in the immigration bill and were reacting from ignorance. Diane Feinstein agreed and said that she is thinking about restoring the [...]
For Sunday, June 24, 2007
Welcome to the long, hot summer.
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert hosts, and he’ll open his show with the Pat Buchanan book tour (State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America). PJB will holler about immigration and them Mexicans [...]
There is some denial, but Fred Thompson’s entry into the GOP Presidential nominating race seems all but certain.
The Palmetto Scoop sends:
WSMV-TV Nashville has just broken the news that former Sen. Fred Thompson
(R-Tenn.) will formally toss his hat in the ring in the GOP presidential
race at a [...]
The Investor’s Business Daily published an editorial Thursday: Extreme Prejudice which is required reading.
It deals with the MSNBC piece I mentioned yesterday, the one in which journos give to Democrats, 9-1, and it picks up on a few things:
Here, for instance, is how New Yorker writer Mark Singer defending [...]
MSNBC is pleased, and they list “144 journalists [who] made campaign contributions from 2004 through the first quarter of 2007.” Donations went to Democrats by a 9-1 margin.
Investigative reporter Bill Dedman attempted to get comment from the donors, and that’s all in the story.
Here’s one:
(D) Fox News Channel, Codie [...]
From the New York Times:
He travels with an entourage that includes two or three “operations” guys who serve as advance men and a security detail. (Between stops in New Hampshire, this reporter found himself trailing the former governor’s S.U.V. on a back road, only to be led to the shoulder [...]
This is from the WashPost:
The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
Archaeologists sensed they had unearthed an important [...]
The National Republican Campaign Committee has put up a redesigned web site at www.nrcc.org. As advertised, it includes “prominent social networking tools, an online action center, original web videos, a blog featuring guest contributors from around the country and research-driven content. The new site will [...]
I just posted this at RedState.com:
Look at what the latest Rasmussen dragged in, nationally:
That’s 618 likely Republican voters, +/- 4 percent, 95% level of confidence.
Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee score 2% each, with everybody else chucked together polling [...]
So says the UN Secretary Genera, Ban Ki Moon.
With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing.
“For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out,” he said.
A UN peacekeeping force may stop the fighting, he said, [...]
Sunday, June 17, 2007 – Happy Father’s Day!
General David Petraeus gave host Chris Wallace an exclusive interview on FOX News Sunday. The general explained that the surge was only now beginning, as much of what they had been doing was “shaping operations” in preparation for the [...]
For Sunday, June 10, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert hosts United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker to discuss, in the words of NBC, “the increasing violence in Iraq.” He will probably also ask a question or two about aluminum tubes.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris [...]
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has admitted that he’s a jerk and has promised to resign.
Breaking down in tears at his ethics trial, Mike Nifong abruptly quit as district attorney Friday after admitting he got “carried away” with statements during his discredited rape prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse [...]
The House GOP is dancing on the Dems over earmarks — oh, “legislatively directed spending” — and it’s about time. The House Majority is incompetent. (And they are not even military generals, dingy Harry.)
Great Quote (from Bronx Banter):
Pettitte probably could have finished the game, but, get this, Scott Proctor [...]
Last Friday, we switched to a Motorola SBG900 modem/router. I turned off my Comodo firewall and and did my thing. For a week, my browser kept giving me “cannot contact the web site” (FF) or 404 (IE) errors. A streaming ballgame would be interrupted after about 10 minutes. Trying to [...]
David Bianculli of the New York Daily News rips into Katie Couric, while taking a cheap shot at President Bush.
Moonves and “The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric,” like George W. Bush and Iraq, is in sore need of an exit strategy.
Katie had been brought in to attract [...]
From John Bresnahan at Politico.com:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “incompetent” during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.
Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, [...]
Said candidate Al Gore to candidate Bill Bradley to Wolf Blitzer in 1999:
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”
From the BBC today: Web inventor gets Queen’s honour.
The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, [...]
He has not been President for twenty-years, and one would think his personal diary would not be of as great an interest as A RELEVANT DOCUMENT DEALING WITH OUR NATION, THE WORLD, AND LOTS OF CRISES!!!!
Right?
FLASH: REAGAN BEATS GORE IN 3RD WEEK OF BOOK SALES… BERNSTEIN ‘HILLARY’ SLOW [...]
The latest Rasmussen poll of 633 Republicans judged to be likely voters has show that Fred Thompson is the first choice of 24% of respondents. Rudy Giuliani is the same, at 24%. Good news for Mitt Romney, as he’s finally caught John McCain. Both are tied at 11%.
It’s June [...]
Spokesmodel Anna Kournikova evidently played tennis and wishes she were able to do so again.
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“Nothing will ever compare to being on the court,'’ she said Monday. “I miss the actual matches and 7-6 in the third, and playing in front of 20,000 people and the adrenalin rush.'’
Kournikova, speaking [...]
I’ve some Katie stuff today. Broadcasting & Cable asks the CBS Evening News question: “How low can Katie go?”
CBS stands steadfastly behind its star and is working the angles. [Executive Producer Rick] Kaplan hopes to get all of CBS’ 200-plus affiliates to go “seamless” between local news and Couric’s [...]
Joe Scarborough has apologized for comparing Fred Thompson’s wife to a stripper and implying that was a trophy. Sort of. Offensive stuff.
In what has to be one of the WORST apologizes of all time, MSNBC Joe Scarborough ATTEMPTED to make amens - through a series of condescending [...]
In Bulgaria yesterday, chatting about his good friend AGAG, President Bush mistook himself for Tony Blair:
“They can have their votes of no-confidence but it’s not going to make the determination about who serves in my government,” Bush said Monday. “This process has been drug out a long time. … [...]
We are having a shed installed into our back yard this afternoon.
I’m thinking of purchasing a second shed in which to write. (Not really…)
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was host Tim Russert’s guest on MTP. Russert complained that Walter Pincus knew that Iraq would decline into anarchy. Powell said that he would close Gitmo “this afternoon” and put its inmates into our general prison [...]
For Sunday, June 10, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert talks to Colin Powell. (Then he talks to two men who wrote a book detailing Hillary’s “Hopes and Ambitions.” Of what use is that?)
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to White House Press Secretary Tony [...]
Paris Hilton evidently has to do 45 days in jail. It’s on FNC, but I wasn’t listening. I forget what she did initially, perhaps multiple driving arrests, but the judge had let her avoid prison after she paid a doctor to tell him that she had an undisclosed medical condition. [...]
I could simply repost this hear, but I’d sooner just link it and tell you what I see: The Fred-heads begin to Assemble It deals with the drift which is beginning from various campaigns – McCain, Rudy, Mitt – to Fred Thompson’s camp.
Some folks have decided for whom they [...]
They had a copy of the telegraph, but the National Archives has found the handwritten note from President Lincoln:
The six-line, two-sentence note reminds Halleck, then the Union army’s general in chief, that the besieged Confederate city of Vicksburg, Miss., appears to have fallen, and that if Gen. George Meade’s [...]
Last January, on FOX News Sunday, Newt Gingrich said that there was a one-in-five chance that the surge could succeed in Iraq. He frequently likes to put and integer-out-of-integer chance of something, or integer-to-integer against something else. I don’t know if his numbers mean anything concrete or if they merely [...]
In case you’ve not been following the mainstream media of late, Paris Hilton is in prison. From the WikiPedia entry for Paris Hilton:
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity, socialite, actress, misdemeanant, and recording artist. She is an heiress to a share of the Hilton [...]
At least it looks that way, and it will come in the form of Nebraska A.G. Jon Bruning. And Hagel will likely lose.
This may prompt him to try something else, like run for President and Veep as an indie.
[...]Okay, so now Rudy and McCain are blowing off the August Iowa straw poll, but Mitt’s sticking with it. Why? Mitt’s spent tons of time and money in Iowa, and he’s leading in most polls. Rudy and McCain might have already given up Iowa as lost to Mitt, so they’re [...]
The debate last night was incomplete, of course, and nothing was solved. I watched only the first half, but I though all the candidates – save, perhaps, Tommy Thompson – looked good in respects, even Tancredo, Paul, and Romney. (It wasn’t a surprise that Romney said some good things; rather, [...]
At the debate…
When John McCain was justifying his support for the immigration bill. While he was talking, candidate Mitt Romney was seen shaking his head, rolling his eyes, and anxiously awaiting a chance to talk. This reminded me of Al Gore’s misbehavior during his first debate with George W. Bush [...]
Senator Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming) has succumbed to an infection brought on by his leukemia. Vice President Cheney, the President of the Senate, said the following in a statement:
I am greatly saddened by the passing of my friend and colleague Senator Craig Thomas. Craig was a public servant of the [...]
“Let’s get Fred!”
MSNBC – in third place in the cable news ratings and fading – has moved from Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough into the morning spot previously occupied by Don Imus.
So, NBC hires a “diversity leader” and trades Don Imus in for former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough–who [...]
I cleaned my freezer today; you know, putting the stuff in a couple of large coolers, putting the freezer on law, and scrubbing. My wife, who controls such things, sorted through the stuff in the coolers when I had finished, deciding what would go back in and what wouldn’t.
Big fun.
We [...]
Alright, this story from this morning’s open thread references The Nation’s Eric Alterman.
In my scribble, I mislabeled the man Jonathan Alter, he of Newsweek.
The story was, a reporter got drunk and tried to crash a post-debate party in New Hampshire last night. He became verbally [...]
Columnist Jonathan Alter [Wikipedia entry] is a longtime Newsweek twit, now with The Nation, who was confused and myopic before the current Bush Administration but has since become deranged.
Alter was arrested last night after trying to crash a private party at last night’s Democrat debate at in New [...]
Erick’s Birthday — Sunday, June 2, 2007
This morning, Meet the Press was a stop on the Bob Shrum book tour, masquerading as a roundtable of strategists. Mary Matalin observed: “If no one is excited [about your candidacy], it doesn’t matter how much organization you have.” Mike [...]
For Sunday, June 3, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert hosts his leg of the Bob Shrum featuring history’s ultimate political loser, Mary Matalin and Jimmy Carville, and media guy Mike Murphy (who’s worked with such as Romney, McCain, and Arnold). Another noisy roundtable, this time to [...]
This morning, the New York Times registers a complaint:
The Bush budget strategy boils down to never-ending tax cuts for the rich, big increases for the Pentagon and spending cuts for everything else.
Any tax cuts are good, stimulate the economy, increase growth, and add additional government revenue. Often, what the [...]
posted at RedState.com:
Like Luke Skywalker coming out of the Death Star, John McCain is the maverick once more! Climb on board the Straight Talk Express, etc. The John McCain of 2000 is back.
Yeah.
That’s the word according to GOP strategist David Carney, who told Bloomberg that McCain is “trying to [...]
It is a curious song to reference on the front page of RedState.com, Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and I will not link the lyrics. However, to a New York Yankees fan, it’s not about nasty dreams or drummer Lars Ulfsbane throwing fits at the old Napster. Rather, it usually means [...]
NBC’s Matt Lauer didn’t learn his lesson from interviewing New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine about the governor’s near-fatal car crash while riding without wearing a safety belt.
A few weeks after that chat, there was Lauer on “Today” on Wednesday, sitting in the back of a moving [...]
According to Lindsay Lohan’s Wikipedia entry, Lindsay Lohan is “an American actress and pop music singer.” My knowledge of Lindsey Lohan’s current predicaments, and the extent of my familiarity with Linday Lohan, can be attributed largely to cultural osmosis.
Here is a photo of Lindsay Lohan:
According to that Wikipedia [...]
NASA administrator Michael Griffin, in an interview with NPR, accidentally brought the wrath of the Earthies upon himself by questioning lefty writ:
“I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists,” Griffin told Inskeep. “I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a [...]
WSJ muses today on President Bush’s poll numbers in April, according to Harris. Let’s see, 28% of adults currently within the borders of the United States approve of the job the President is doing, while 70% will have none of it.
As Harris polls go, Bush is still not hanging [...]
The Miss Universe pageant is, by some accounts, about babes, and bods, and bikinis. It is being held in Mexico City this year, and word is that Miss U.S.A., Rachel Smith, was booed off the stage Monday night.
The boos started as soon as Smith stepped forward for the interview [...]
He’s not his daddy Hafez al, but Syrian dictator Bashir al Assad has won his second second seven-year term, capturing 97-percent of the vote.
The question was: keep him or not. Almost 20,000 people (deceased) voted to boot him, while he refused to count over 250,000 ballots.
Obligatory, from the hosts: [...]
‘T was a holiday, a day to remember those on whose shoulders our way of life is maintained.
I was going to write an essay about my black cat; though his skin be pink, I assume, his appearance is black and he has dealt with the hassles involved with that. He [...]
Let’s remember everyone who has given everything to create, preserve, protect, and defend our nation against those who would see us dead.
And, for those of you who frequented the old Rathergate.com site, it seems to be back. I’ve posted this morning’s open thread.
[...]Sunday, May 27, 2007
On MTP, Candidate Bill Richardson said that he wants to “deauthorize” the war, and that it is his idea to do so. Joe Biden has said that it is his, and as far as I know, it was Bobby Byrd’s senile idea. He [...]
For Sunday, April 22, 2007
From President Reagan’s diary – Sunday, September 14, 1986.
Nancy was on “Meet the Press” and did very well on the subject of drugs. Most of the shows dealt with the Daniloff matter and a number of the media & press involved launched a [...]
The media bias is not new. This is from President Reagan’s diary – Thursday, September 6, 1984:
The big event in the A.M. was an address to the Nat. B’nai B’rith Convention. I know I was following Mondale who it had been rumored was going to do a job on me. [...]
Elizabeth Hasselbeck has chased Rosie O’Donnell from The View television show with three weeks remaining on her contract.
Rosie O’Donnell will not be back on “The View,” ABC announced Friday, two days after she and co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck got into a huge political dust-up live on the talk show.
“We had [...]
At his presser this morning, a lady reporter asked Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) something akin to: “How does it feel to retreat and capitulate, caving to the will of the Democrats on benchmarks for the Iraqi government?”
The concept of benchmarks for the Iraqi government, however, does not belong [...]
CNN’s American Morning show, the one with Kiran Chetry, will now also feature Lola Ogunnaike, whose name is delightful. She used to be a culture reporter with the New York Times — hedonism, etc. — so it ought to be a good fit.
Prior to joining CNN, Ogunnaike spearheaded The New [...]
Al Franken is not on the ReLaunched Air America radio network, but Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer recently reminded him, if indirectly, to whom he should be thankful:
If and when Al Franken is elected to the US Senate from Minnesota, he should be sure to thank the kids.
After all, [...]
One of those still standing in the cargo hold at MSNBC is Chris Matthews of the Hardball, a moonbattish look at quasi-political opinion. From MediaBlog comes this item:
Chris tells Senator Joe Biden that he “look[s] great” and that he even “look[s] dandy.”
They have vid, and one should never trust [...]
CNN will be ditching the “premium” parts of its web site beginning on July 1.
Previously, users were permitted access to CNN video only if they first subscribed to the site’s Pipeline service, which launched in 2005. Pipeline video streams were available for $2.95 per month or $24.95 annually, although [...]
Well, House Majority Leader John Boehner doesn’t much care for the Kennedy-McCain-Bush immigration bill, and he’s evidently said so:
Boehner spoke last night at a small reception for the Republican Rapid Responders on Capitol Hill.
“I promised the President today that I wouldn’t say anything bad about … this piece of [...]
Here’s a story the media will absolutely adore. From CNN:
Liberty U student plotted to set off explosives, police say.
You know: Even in death, Jerry Falwell remains a dangerous figure in America.
Pox on ‘em.
What’s on your minds?
[...]NBC has stuffed the old Dateline infotainment program on Saturday nights, and the network has fired longtime anchor Stone Phillips effective when his contract expires in June. The network says that they’re trying to save some money.
NOTE: If they want to have enough money to employ the celebrities [...]
I’m not sure of the status of the Rathergate.com site, but I’ve asked Mike to redirect the traffic here, my personal blog, until things are fixed. We’ll keep our eye on our friends in the MSM.
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, suggestions, backtalk, or whatever, my e-mail address is [...]
The Democrats sent the President a bill funding the troops in Iraq but setting a timeline for surrendering beginning this fall, and the President vetoed it.
Jack Murtha and others snickered that the Democrats would pass a bill which fully funded combat operations through July, at which time they would hold [...]
I assume you remember Air America, that Al Franken network which broadcast vicious rants™ at anything not lefty with rabies. I wouldn’t call what they had an ideology so much as an anti-Republican dose of [a nasty disease].
They went Chapter 11 in search of an audience or anyone who cared [...]
The Syrian Lebanese army is battling al Qaeda in Tripoli, and I just saw a shot on FNC: a large plume of smoke rising. I’m waiting for a Reuters photog to get a still and photoshop more smoke into the scene, blaming Israel and Bush.
Someone call Colonel Khadaffy. Get [...]
Sunday, May 20, 2007
On MTP, there was some argument between Newt Gingrich and the team of Tim Russert and Chris Dodd regarding Iraq – “date certain” but no “aluminum tubes” this time — and New said he is “thinking about thinking about running” for President. Dodd [...]
Rookie Scott Rasner started the game, but he left in the first inning after a line drive broke his right index finger. The Mets are repaying the Yankees this afternoon for everything.
I shut it off.
Tomorrow night against the Mets, the Yankees start a kid named Tyler Clippard. He will [...]
For Sunday, May 20, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert and Senator Chris Dodd debate the Iraq war with Newt Gingrich. (Mike Deaver and Ed Meese appear later to chat about “The Reagan Diaries.”)
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will talk immigration, Iraq, and Alberto [...]
