Those of you who watched tonight’s episode of The Daily Show, please share: was that not the most uncomfortable interview you’ve ever seen? The guest, Stephen F. Hayes, appeared to have absolutely no clue what he was talking about, despite being there to plug his book on the subject. Any time that “notoriously tough interviewer” [...]
Archive for June 21st, 2004
The Daily Show, June 21, 2004
Posted in Politics on June 21, 2004 | 9 Comments »
Revisiting the Goal Posts
Posted in Iraq, Terrorism on June 21, 2004 | 3 Comments »
It seems that my last post on the Goal Posts fell on completely deaf ears throughout the right side of the blogosphere. But you know what? That’s okay by me. Because even though it’s not true, I’m willing to concede goal post movement if it makes the Right happy. Yep, you’re right, we moved the [...]
The Republican Talking Points
Posted in Politics on June 21, 2004 | 8 Comments »
Atrios has a copy of a memo Luntz — a Republican pollster who also has his own show on MSNBC — has issued consiting of talking points for Republicans for the upcoming election. Essentially, they are going to do their darnedest to tie Iraq to the war on terrorism directly, and implicitly to 9/11. He [...]
The French, Torture, Algeria and Losing Iraq
Posted in Iraq on June 21, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Another article worth the day pass. The one conflict on which torture is generally assumed to have worked is the Battle of Algiers. However, when one looks at the history, a different story emerges. It is hard to argue with success. Here were professional torturers who produced consistently reliable information in a short time. It [...]
This is not Satire
Posted in Politics on June 21, 2004 | 5 Comments »
And I would remind you that this man is huge Republican contributer and the owner of the Washington Times. Read this and be amazed … You probably imagine your congressman hard at work in the Capitol debating legislation, making laws — you know, governing. But your newspaper probably didn’t tell you that one night in [...]
The Goal Posts
Posted in Bloggin, Iraq, Terrorism on June 21, 2004 | 19 Comments »
UPDATE 6/21: In response to some objections in the comments and trackback links, it’s important to point out that on “CNN Late Edition” this weekend, Democrat Tim Roemer and Republican Jim Thompson both reiterated that their finding was that Iraq and al-Qaeda didn’t work together at all, and that this finding wasn’t specific to the [...]
Bush vs. Employees
Posted in Economics on June 21, 2004 | Comments Off
Nathan Newman has an example of how Bush is making your workplace more and more hostile to you: Pay attention to that “common law right” language– that means that traditional judicial preferences get to trump legislative rights for workers, a classic conservative trope over the years in defending “management rights” that have to legal basis [...]
Safire Still Flogging Away
Posted in Iraq on June 21, 2004 | Comments Off
Safire’s little Iraq/Al-Qaeda connection has been blown to bits by the very commission that Bush appointed, and he cannot seem to come to Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Zelikow Report” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/opinion/21SAFI.html”>grips with it. To start with, Safire lies: But the staff had twisted the two strands together to cast doubt on both the Qaeda-Iraq ties [...]
Gitmo Prisoners May Not Know Anything
Posted in Legal Issues on June 21, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Remember all those desperate and dangerous terrorist s we had locked up in Gitmo? Well, it Washington > U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/politics/21GITM.html?hp”>seems that most of them are pretty useless. For nearly two and a half years, American officials have maintained that locked within the steel-mesh cells of the military prison [...]
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