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Falling out with the President: the devious world of George Bush
2008-05-30 10:13:00 Sudhan @10:12 CET As presidential spokesman until 2006, Scott McClellan had the task of defending some of the administration?s most unpopular decisions. But his new book reveals what he really thought of his master By Rupert Cornwell, The Independent, May 29, 2008 Getty Images For the 43rd President , a decision once taken is always right. The approach ... More About: Bush , World , George Bush , George
Olbermann Talks With McClellan On Countdown 5-29-08
2008-05-30 05:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 8:30 PM MST Scott McClellan On Countdown : Talks To Keith Olbermann About His New Book (Video) | May 29, ...
Exploding Elephants In The Room
2008-05-29 23:56:00 By- Bob Cesca 04:21 PM (EST) I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the very serious corporate media’s reaction to Scott McClellan’s book, so let me know if I’ve got this straight. ? The Bush administration lied about the justifications for the invasion of Iraq, and each lie was obfuscated by an active propaganda apparatus and ... More About: Propaganda , Room
Jeff Peckman: Alien Video Will Be Revealed To Media Tomorrow
2008-05-29 22:05:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 1:05 PM MST Alien Video To Be Revealed To Media Tomorrow , Man Claims Rocky Mountain News | May ... More About: Jeff
Afternoon Jukebox? Martian Boogie
2008-05-29 22:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 1:00 PM MST Brownsville Station- Martian Boogie More About: Jukebox , Afternoon
Truth To Power
2008-05-29 21:41:00 by Geezer Power …12:41 pm The truth is quiet, eternal and unchanging. Scott McClellan has spoken the truth, and documented it in writing, so it doesn’t really matter how much noise and disharmony we hear from these desparate cronies who are worried only about their own a$$. We will hear whining, moaning, and the gnashing of teeth, ... More About: Truth
McClellan?s Biggest Revelation? Bush Personally Authorized Leak Of CIA Agen
2008-05-29 21:13:00 anthony @ 20:12 BST By: emptywheel Thursday May 29, 2008 7:08 am Scottie McC doesn’t know it yet. But that’s basically what he revealed this morning on the Today Show (h/t Rayne). During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pissed him off with the Bush Administration. First, being set up to lie by Karl Rove ... More About: Valerie Plame , Identity , Treason
Speak Now or Cash In Later
2008-05-29 20:36:00 anthony @ 19:46 BST White House Photographers Truthdig | Posted on May 28, 2008 Scott McClellan takes the Bush administration to task in his new memoir, but he had quite a different tune when he was the president?s mouthpiece. Here?s what he had to say about Richard Clarke?s post-administration book: ?Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all ... More About: Speak , Cash
White House Officials Are Calling McClellan ?Traitor?
2008-05-29 16:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 AM MST From: Think Progress MSNBC: White House Officals Are ?Flat Out Angry,? Calling McClellan ?Traitor ,? ?Benedict?» When Scott McClellan resigned as Press Secretary on April 19, 2006, his White House officials colleagues heaped praise on him: President Bush: ?And I thought he handled his assignment with class, integrity. He really represents the best ...
Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted
2008-05-29 08:59:00 Sudhan 09:00 CET AP Photo/Reed Saxon Disabled Vietnam War veteran and antiwar activist Ron Kovic, subject of the film ?Born on the Fourth Of July,? reaches out to touch fingers with an admirer during a massive protest against U.S. involvement in Iraq. The demonstration occurred in downtown Los Angeles in September 2005. By Ron Kovic, Truthdig, May ... More About: Military , Machine , War Machine
UBS Has Warned Employees Not To Travel To U.S?They Might Be Arrested
2008-05-29 05:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 PM MST From: Daily Kos UBS: Warns some former employees not to travel to U.S. by Spud1 Wed May 28, 2008 at 04:26:07 AM PDT A quick diary to add more to the growing UBS/John McCain story, MarketPlace reports this morning that the bank that caters to the very wealthy has warned some of its ... More About: Elections , Travel , Arrested , Employees
McCain Staff Questioned By Federal Prosecutors In Renzi Probe
2008-05-29 04:06:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 PM MST McCain Staff ers Questioned in Corruption Probe By Andrew Tilghman - May 28, 2008, 3:19PM Federal prosecutors questioned staffers of Sen. John McCain as part of their corruption investigation of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ). U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa and fellow prosecutors disclosed the interviews with ...
Breaking News: Monbiot fails to ?arrest? Bolton
2008-05-28 23:57:00 anthony @ 22:57 BST Up until this evening, I despised Monbiot for his characterization of 9/11 truthers as morons who believe in magic, when he hasn’t even seriously looked into the question. Last Sunday, when I posted the story about Monbiot calling for someone [else] to make a citizen’s arrest of Bolt-On, I thought, “Who does he ... More About: News , Breaking News , Arrest , Breaking , Bolton
Faux News: Scott McClellan Exposes Toasted Porkrind
2008-05-28 18:35:00 by Geezer Power…9:35 am On Hannity and Colmes the throwing of Scott McClellan under the bus starts immediately with Karl Rove trying to say he was out of the loop and that the quotes he read don’t sound like the Scott he knows, and instead sound like a left wing blogger. Let the smear campaign begin!!…lol. Here’s ... More About: News
Reports: Osama bin Laden has been ?located?
2008-05-28 16:05:00 anthony @ 15:09 BST Matthew d’Ancona | Spectator | Tuesday, 27th May 2008 The Dubai-based satellite TV channel Al Arabiya is reporting that Osama Bin Laden has been ?located? by US intelligence in the Kararakoram ? a mountain range that spans the borders of Pakistan, the Kashmir and China (K2 is one of its peaks). There was ...
40,000 Troops Have Been Diagnosed With PTSD
2008-05-28 16:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 AM MST Wartime PTSD cases jumped roughly 50 pct. in 2007 May 27, 2008 09:36 PM EST | WASHINGTON ? The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildup in Iraq and increased violence there and in Afghanistan. Records show roughly ... More About: Troops
Ex-Press Secretary Throws Bush Under the Bus
2008-05-28 13:28:00 anthony @ 12:25 BST Truthdig | Posted on May 27, 2008 White House / Eric Draper Scott McClellan was one of George W. Bush ?s most loyal aides, so it is surprising to learn that he savages the president and his administration in his new memoir. Among other bombshells, McClellan refers to the administration?s ?propaganda campaign? to sell the ... More About: Press , Press Secretary
Anti-Gay Website: Marrying Same-Sex Couples Is Same As Nazis Gassing Jews
2008-05-26 00:45:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 3:45 PM MST From: Think Progress By Amanda at 4:23 pm Anti -gay website removes comparison of marrying same-sex couples to helping the Nazis .» Reacting to the California Supreme Court?s decision allowing gay marriage, the website of the far right group Campaign for Children and Families recently compared county clerks issuing same-sex marriage licenses to Nazis gassing ... More About: Website , Jews , Couples
Evening Jukebox? You Better You Bet
2008-05-26 00:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 3:30 PM MST The Who - You Better You Bet More About: Jukebox , Evening
Hay festival: George Monbiot calls for citizen?s arrest of John Bolton
2008-05-25 19:58:00 Toby Manhire | guardian.co.uk | Sunday May 25, 2008 Grumbles over Wednesday’s scheduled appearance by John Bolton at the Hay festival turned caustic last night as the activist and journalist George Monbiot called for a citizen’s arrest of the man George Bush controversially appointed to the UN in 2005. The Guardian columnist’s demand - greeted with ... More About: Arrest , Calls , Festival
GOP In Panic Mode?
2008-05-25 19:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST From: Carpetbagger Report For GOP, panic ?is in the wind? Posted May 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am Six months out, those who feel confident about how the presidential campaign is going to play out are probably kidding themselves. There are too many variables, and the race will take too many twists and turns. Nevertheless, ... More About: Mode , Panic
Exxon-Mobil Stampedes Americans And Redefines The Word Mega Greed!!
2008-05-25 18:07:00 GEF @ 8:48 PM MST Peeved at Prices? Don’t Blame the Dealer Awash in Profit, Exxon Fights for Pennies While Raising the Rent By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station on Chain Bridge Road in Oakton, her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mobil ’s central computers. If ... More About: Word , Exxon Mobil , Greed
Parsley Withdrew His Endorsement Of McSame McCain
2008-05-25 17:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 AM MST From: Think Progress By Faiz at 1:40 am Parsley withdraws his endorsement of McCain.» Last week, John McCain rejected the endorsement of Rod Parsley, the pastor who has derided Islam as a ?false religion? that is the greatest ?enemy of our civilization.? One day after proclaiming that he would not withdraw his ... More About: Endorsement
Gore Vidal Storms the UK
2008-05-25 15:02:00 anthony @13:54 BST A still-vital Vidal says he’s ready to kill! One of my favorite political essayists and commentators, Gore Vidal , is on a brief visit to the UK. I became aware of this on Friday evening, while listening to BBC Radio 4?s Front Row, on which Mark Lawson interviewed him. The BBC website bills this interview thus: The ... More About: Gore Vidal
The Wisdom In Talking
2008-05-25 11:18:00 anthony @ 09:59 BST By John F. Kerry | washingtonpost.com | Saturday, May 24, 2008 As President Bush commemorated Israel’s 60th anniversary by attacking Barack Obama from overseas, here at home he found an all-too-frequent ally: John McCain. When Bush accused “some” — including Obama, Bush aides explained — of “the false comfort of appeasement,” McCain echoed this ... More About: Wisdom , Talking
War Abroad and Poverty at Home
2008-05-25 11:17:00 Sudhan @11:17 CET By Paul Craig Roberts | Information Clearing House, May 23, 2008 The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush?s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring. As the US is broke and deep ... More About: Home , Poverty
The Neo Cons Are Running Scared?
2008-05-25 02:13:00 GEF @ 5:08 PM MST PNAC Think Tank Web Site Shut Down The web site of the neoconservative based Project for a New American Century think tank has been taken down. The think tank in their own documents advocated the virtues of using the U.S. military as a global police force. They also endorsed preemptive war as ... More About: Running , Scared , Cons
The Last Good Campaign
2008-05-24 23:24:00 anthony @ 21:30 BST Increasingly opposed to the Vietnam War, Robert F. Kennedy struggled over whether he should challenge his party?s incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, in 1968. His younger brother, Teddy, was against it. His wife, Ethel, urged him on. Many feared he would be assassinated, like the older brother he mourned. by Thurston Clarke | Vanity ... More About: Campaign , Good , Martin Luther King Jr
John McCain?s Budget Numbers Don?t Add Up
2008-05-24 22:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 1:00 PM MST From: Carpetbagger Report Voodoo economics doesn?t die, it just gets picked up by new GOP candidates Posted May 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm It?s not exactly a shocking revelation that John McCain ?s budget numbers don?t add up. Presidential candidates? numbers are often rather pie-in-the-sky, and political observers have been conditioned to give ... More About: Numbers , Budget , John McCain
Welcome to the United States of Amnesia
More articles from this author:2008-05-24 18:33:00 anthony @ 17:30 BST Gore Vidal tells Mary Wakefield that America has forgotten its constitutional roots, and explains why Bobby Kennedy was ?the biggest son of a bitch in politics? Mary Wakefield | spectator.co.uk | Wednesday, 21st May 2008 To kill time, as I wait for Gore Vidal by the reception desk in Claridge?s, I leaf through the ... More About: United States , United , States , The United States 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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