Media Matters catches CBS doing something outragous: CBS is apparently set to run a new TV advertisement attacking former President Bill Clinton that appears to violate the network’s stated prohibition on “advocacy” ads that deal with “controversial issues of public importance.” Under the headline “Citizens United Launches New Anti-Clinton Ad Campaign to Air during ’60 [...]
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CBS Shilling for Conservatives
Posted in Politics on June 18, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Those who claim that WMDs (specifically nuclear weapons) and al-Qaeda links were not the primary reasons we were told we needed to go to war, have a listen to this July 17, 2003 story about the President and Prime Minister Blair defending their case for war. Notice that they never say that WMDs weren’t the [...]
Another Good Recap of Bush's WMD Claims
Posted in Iraq, Legal Issues on June 18, 2004 | Comments Off
This is a little over a year old, but it’s got a good summation of the claims Bush made about the threat posed by Iraq. It also discusses the potential legal implications of those claims.
California Does the Right Thing
Posted in Politics on June 18, 2004 | 2 Comments »
It is now requiring a paper trail on all its voting machines. The standards (PDF) come six months after Secretary of State Kevin Shelley mandated that all new e-voting machines purchased in the state produce a paper trail by July 2005. The mandate came in the wake of two reports by computer security experts that [...]
Judge Rules Admin. Stonewalling
Posted in Legal Issues on June 18, 2004 | 2 Comments »
A judge has ruled that the government has not met its obligation to show why it wants to keep information about a no-fly list form the ACLU: U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer has reviewed in private all the data the government has called sensitive and ordered it to further explain why certain documents are being [...]
Which is Why he then Boarded a Plane and meandered Around the Country Out Of Touch For the Rest of the Day
Posted in Politics on June 18, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Washington > Panel Says Chaos in Administration Was Wide on 9/11″ href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/politics/18PANE.html?pagewanted=2″>Whatever The report also provides an explanation of one of the lingering mysteries of Mr. Bush’s actions on the day of the attacks: why he remained in a meeting with pupils at the Florida elementary school for between five and seven minutes after he [...]
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