How Is It That These People Haven’t Been Thrown Away in Shackles?

On Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report concluding that top Bush Administration officials mislead the American people in the build up to the Iraq War.

“There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence,” Rockefeller said in a statement. “But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate.”

“Before taking the country to war, this administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced,” Rockefeller said. “Unfortunately, our committee has concluded that the administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence.”

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The Fruits of George Bush’s Labor Continue to Bloom

Is there anyone out there who still believes that this man has a clue how to manage the economy?
The Dow Plummets.

Thank God for those stimulus checks.

Groan.

How Disturbing is This?

Not for the squeamish, watch this video and tell me we don’t need to start respecting each other and taking care of each other? There is literally no humanity to be found in this video.
Hit and Run Video

Bring it on, Jon McSame

How Is This Even Up For Debate?

Last Thursday the California State Supreme Court kicked off what will surely be the opening salvo of the latest battle concerning Gay marriage by ruling the banning of gay marriage to be unconstitutional.

It would be a safe bet that Republicans will milk all of the opportunity they can from this tender little morsel. It is an election year, after all.

The TV pundits will confer with anchors over how this issue will divide the electorate, and discuss which states will introduce gay marriage propositions in order to bring out conservative voters. Everyone taking part, as well as everyone watching, will have an opinion on whether marriage should be restricted to couples consisting of a man and a woman.

The reality is that the conversation should never be allowed to get that far. Whether marriage is limited to couples of mixed gender is irrelevant.

In the history of this argument, no one has ever (and nor will they ever) be able to make the case of how some Americans have the right to tell other Americans what the restrictions of marriage are.

Religious organizations and the clergý have every right to define marriage within their own belief system, and even to decide who they are willing to marry within their own churches.

Beyond that, the authority to allow gay marriage through the State does not belong to a small-minded portion of the populace.

Social conservatives are sure to disagree.

Imagine for a second that gay americans had the audacity to tell straight americans who they could or couldn’t marry. Social conservatives would be the first in line to decry the merits of such a decision.

On a personal level, watch Ellen Degeneres put it so eloquently to John McCain.

As a straight, married American Citizen, it just all seems so insane to me that other people like myself would assume they have the right to keep others from being happy. It’s downright un-American.

When Conservative Pundits Are Backed Into a Corner

Watch this squeamish, mealy-mouthed Republican squawkbox spin in circles as Chris Matthews asks him a simple question.

Wow, what a perfect example of spreading misinformation without any knowledge of history to back it up

It gets very amusing by the end as he squeals and squawks.

Check it out

This About Sums it Up

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You Almost Feel Sorry For These Guys Sometimes

Once again, Jon Stewart is able to do with the Daily Show what the mainstream media is so often unable to do. That is, to raise the important and difficult questions to those who are never held accountable for actions that affect millions.

It’s almost uncomfortable to watch Jon Stewart blow holes in Douglas Feith’s story.

Watch below:

Part 1
Part 2

For those of you not in the know, Douglas Feith was one of the principal members of the Bush Administration responsible for the invasion of Iraq.

MSNBC is Beyond the Pale

I tend to be someone who defends Chris Matthews when blogs blast him for every little issue. However, as I watch Hardball today I stand in disbelief at the narrative that Chris Matthews and the rest of the press are choosing to tell when it comes to the Democratic primary.

I just stood and watched as Chris Matthews asked his panel of political morons why Barack Obama doesn’t offer Hillary Clinton the deal that he will support re-votes in Florida and Michigan under the condition that at the end of the contest the candidate with with the most delegates wins the nomination. I’m curious why Chris Matthews is naive enough to think that Hillary would honor such a deal. She has repeatedly chosen to set her own goal posts for the competition and change her own rationale for who should win the nomination depending on the situation as it best suits her. Does Chris Matthews also forget that whether Hillary Clinton or Mr. Matthews likes it, the nomination is decided by who earns the most delegates anyway?

Additionally, Chris Matthews and his band of political morons brought up Reverend Wright’s new interview with Bill Moyers. I’ve heard numerous times now on MSNBC that Reverend Wright has come out without being asked. Um, it’s an interview. Didn’t Bill Moyers ask him? I am what you must see as a lowly common voter who prefers your opinion to my own, yet I had already ready about the Bill Moyers interview and saw it for what it is, the Reverend having the opportunity to defend himself from the relentless attacks by the media on his out of context statements. It doesn’t hurt Barack Obama with voters, but MSNBC prefers to say that it does because Reverend Wright points out that the media chose which words of his they wanted to use for their own purposes.

I just heard Joe Scarborough describe that Pennsylvania was one of the worst defeats in Barack Obama’s career. Was he asleep leading up to that primary? Barack Obama lost by almost exactly the spread that everyone predicted. If anything, he vastly improved the spread. Everyone knew how that primary was going to go. Joe Scarborough is quite transparent in preferring Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama yet he refuses to recognize that while Clinton reliably goes down in percentage points with every primary, Barack Obama goes up in the polls. Despite the facts, MSNBC continues to allow someone as clueless as Joe Scarborough to sell the story that Hillary Clinton is pulling ahead.

I hear people like Pat Buchanan ask again and again why Barack Obama can’t “close the deal?” Isn’t the real question why can’t Hillary Clinton “close the deal?” This is her contest to lose. The primary season began with the press all but coronating Hillary Clinton until actual votes started coming in and the people surprised the press.

What is MSNBC doing, holding a contest for who can be the most clueless political pundit on TV? Why not just hire some people from Fox News?

Everyone has long since given up on Fox News, Why is MSNBC trying to become more like them?

A note for the MSNBC. You don’t have to make constant fools of yourselves. It’s OK, and even preferable, to respect your audience enough to report the news and not present the narrative that best serves your long term interests.

Please, please stop. Take some time to do some research, look beyond the spin, fact check your own clueless pundits like Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan and Tucker Carlson.

Is this nothing more than the press showing frustration at the fact that despite the media continues to push its chosen narrative, Hillary Clinton’s negatives continue to climb and her chances at winning the nomination become all but nonexistent?