Guest Blogged by DES
SUNDAY, Jan. 14th….
Rightwing Tool of the Week: Washington Times
The White House Organ Faced Stiff Competition, But Managed to Produce the Most Disingenuous, Inaccurate, U.S. Troop-Hating ‘News Report’ of the Week
Tony Snow to Present ‘Award Statuette’ in Appreciation During Secret Rose Garden Ceremony…The White House and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Democrats of suggesting that the secretary’s childlessness, race and sex are to blame for mistakes in Iraq.
MONDAY, Jan. 15th…
MLK: ‘A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal’
“We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest…A time comes when silence is betrayal.”— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1967.
VIDEO – Finally! A Media Outlet CORRECTLY Covers Rice Admission That White House (Supposedly) Made No Casuality Estimates for Iraq Escalation Plan
LAURA BUSH FLASHBACK: ‘Dr. Rice Not Interested in Presidency Because She’s Single, No Parents Living, is Only Child’
PLUS: Nora Ephron’s ‘Condi Diaries’…
TUESDAY, Jan. 16th…
Election Assistance Cheerleader
The EAC and Its Outgoing Commissioner Paul DeGregorio’s Campaign to Plant Misinformation in the American Media…The Commissioner keeps telling the voters that we should have confidence in the election process. He constantly states that everything worked just fine except for isolated incidents. Meanwhile, he ignores the facts about failures that happened across the nation. He ignores data such as that which is reported in “E-Voting Failures in the 2006 Mid-Term Elections” written by VotersUnite, VoteTrustUSA, VoterAction and Pollworkers For Democracy.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 17th…
‘Total Bull’ That Congress Can’t Stop Bush Iraq Escalation Plan Says John Edwards Campaign
Take-No-Prisoners Email by New Presidential Campaign Chief Highly Critical of Bush, Congressional Democrats
Ad to be Placed in ‘Roll Call’, Supporters Asked to Sign Petition Demanding Congress Cut Off Funding for New War PlanI am opposed to President Bush’s plan to send additional troops to Iraq. Congress must act now to block funding of Bush’s escalation of the war “” and demand that the President provide a plan to leave Iraq.Sign the Edwards petition calling on Congress to block funding for Bush’s escalation plan here.
THURSDAY, Jan. 18th…
Jeff Stone: The Coward of Riverside County?
The California County Supervisor Continues to Hide Behind Unrealistic ‘Conditions’ on His Sequoia Voting Machine ‘Hack Challenge’
COLUMNIST: ‘A test that doesn’t allow the hacker to work on the machines as handled prior to the election and after it is no real test at all.’Unless Stone allows a legitimate security penetration test to be held on his systems, as would occur in the commercial world for any such mission-critical, secure system, he is signaling to his constituents, the state of California, and America that even he has no confidence in the security of the equipment supplied to his voters to exercise their precious democratic franchise.…”If there’s somebody that can demonstrate that they can hack into the machines we want to know about it,” he said. “And, then we’ll be throwing away a lot of machines.”
FRIDAY, Jan. 19th…
VIDEOS – Colbert on O’Reilly, O’Reilly on Colbert
Colbert: ‘If you’re an act… then what am I?’BOB NEY SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR BRIBERY SCANDAL
Ohio’s Former U.S. Congressman, Author of Help America Vote Act, Loses Voting Privileges as Felon, Keeps $29,000 Annual Congressional Pension…As a felon, Ney will no longer be able to vote in the state of Ohio, even as America will be stuck with his disastrous and cynical HAVA legislation for years. And despite House Democrats’ plans to remove pensions for convicted members, apparently the action will not be retroactive. So Ney will get to retain his $29,000 annual pension from the House. Forever. Nice work if you can get it.
Congressional Dems – You’re a Co-Equal Branch, the State of the Union Address is the Perfect Opportunity to Point That Out
Pelosi and Reid Should Allow Jim Webb to Address the Full Joint Session in His Democratic Response Next Week…The Democratic party was placed into power last November to take back America. Webb is the perfect representation of that reclamation of power. The State of the Union address gives the Dems, via Webb’s response, the perfect moment to make their intentions crystal clear to the nation. But they need to give Webb the same level playing field they’ve graciously granted to Bush.
SATURDAY, Jan. 20th…
AP: Defense Dept. Retracts Published Claims of Spy Radio Transmitters in Canadian Coins
Apparently these guys are having trouble separating the phony intelligence from the phony intelligence. Luckily, Judith Miller wasn’t around to report it on the front page of the New York Times, else we might have had American troops marching into Saskatchewan by now.United we stand.
Colbert versus O’Reilly was the story of the week. Parody against the government run tv commentator. Stephen Colber went 2-0.