The 'Anything to Win' video... ...is right here! Now also available in RealPlayer and MPG formats! Please keep spreading the word! |
The 'Anything to Win' video... ...is right here! Now also available in RealPlayer and MPG formats! Please keep spreading the word! |
W is for Women! Please. For the love of all that's good...Send this man home.
Oh. My. God. Did he just say that? |
Bush Guard Records Missing! Yes. This is a NEW story...
AP is reporting that Dubya's National Guard record is "mysteriously" missing many important documents... Documents that should have been written to explain gaps in President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service are missing from the military records released about his service in 1972 and 1973, according to regulations and outside experts. For example, Air National Guard regulations at the time required commanders to write an investigative report for the Air Force when Bush missed his annual medical exam in 1972. The regulations also required commanders to confirm in writing that Bush received counseling after missing five months of drills. No such records have been made public and the government told The Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that it has released all records it can find. Read the whole story for more details on the documents that should be there, but aren't. None of the 600 to 700 troops in Bush's unit in Alabama ever actually saw Bush report for duty there during the time he went missing (other than a dentist who gave him a check-up), and despite a $10,000 reward offered for the last year to anyone who can come forward to prove that Bush served, we don't have an "Alabama National Guard Vets for Truth" group out there to set the record straight. We do, however, have some very clear hints, and even a Lt. Col. in the Guard as eye-witness as to what happened to those now-missing records. (See this mostly-ignored CNN story for details.) But without the a bunch of veterans willing to make television spots to the effect, the American media apparently doesn't feel it's worth reporting on. During a "time of war" when National Guardsmen are being called upon to serve unprecedented duty in Iraq, for a questionable war -- or "miscalculation" as Bush himself called it -- I strongly disagree. |
The 'Miscalculation' Continues... 9 US Troops Dead...Scores Injured... (thump, thump...is this thing on?...)
7 US Troops killed yesterday by car bomb in Fallujah. 2 US Troops were killed yesterday and 16 injured in a mortar barrage in Baghdad. Iraq remains on course to hold landmark elections in January, but violence could force authorities to exclude hotspots such as the western city of Fallouja from voting, a top U.S. general said here Sunday. All of this information should be common knowledge to Americans during "war time" if we had a responsible media who were interested in giving us NEWS rather than SPIN and political horse races...Particularly since last month -- August -- was the bloodiest month so far in Iraq! Who knew? So the "miscalculation" by the guy that wants you to re-"elect" him -- based on his sound judgement and resolute convictions -- continues. But unless you pay attention to folks like me, with blogs like this one, you'd have no idea. And, of course, that's just how George W. Bush would like it to continue. So do something. |
The Human Toll of the Moment
The war rages on. Pay no attention, please..."These aren't the droids you're looking for"... THE HUMAN TOLL as of Friday, 9/4/04... U.S. Military Dead: 979 Amputees, Wounded, Injured: 26,750 Iraqi Civilians Dead: 20,000 Now go take on the day! |
War? What war? This war...
1,100 U.S. troops injured in Iraq during August alone! The bloodiest month yet for injuries to U.S. Servicemen and women! |
George W. Bush: Anything to Win. A BRAD BLOG Campaign Commercial
Time for another campaign commercial from The BRAD BLOG! It's been too many month since our "Priceless" ad from months ago. |
Republican 'Family Values' Hide the bitch! She's gay!
Mary Cheney, the "Vice-President's" own daughter was nowhere to be found in the "Family Portrait" shot at the end of the Republican National Convention. That's Dick, pictured at right after his speech at the RNC with all of his NON-GAY children and grandchildren accompanying him. |
'Real Time' Last night's "Real Time with Bill Maher" was top-notch from top to bottom. If you have access to HBO, make an attempt to catch one of the reruns today and for the rest of the week. Howard Dean was worth the price of admission alone, but the whole show was great. Excellent panel. Good interview with Pat Buchanan. "New Rules" as sharp as ever. If I have time later, I'll try and post some of the highlights. |
The NeoCons and the Cookie Jar Scandals soon to be discounted, no doubt. Not nearly sexy enough for Television 'News'.
It's been nearly four years since Bush's invocation of "The Axis of Evil". During that time -- while we tackled (sorta) the non-threatening tinhorn dictatorship of Saddam -- the actually dangerous regimes of North Korea and Iran have been allowed to continue their atomic weapons programs virtually unabated. In regards to Iran specifically, we still have no formal policy 3 1/2 full years since they were declared part of that "Axis". |
Zell Thrown Overboard
As I postulated previously, the Republicans have now officially thrown Zell overboard. He served his political usefulness to the party who will use anybody and, like a Reservist sent to die in Iraq, is no longer useful to the them. Sleep with the fishes, Zell. GOP backs away from Miller’s blast
Democrat ‘speaking for himself,’ Bush aide says After gauging the harsh reaction from Democrats and Republicans alike to Sen. Zell Miller’s keynote address at the Republican National Convention, the Bush campaign — led by the first lady — backed away Thursday from Miller’s savage attack on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, insisting that the estranged Democrat was speaking only for himself. Late Thursday, Miller and his wife were removed from the list of dignitaries who would be sitting in the first family’s box during the president’s acceptance speech later in the evening. Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, said Miller was not in the box because the campaign had scheduled him to do too many television interviews. There was no explanation, however, for why Miller would be giving multiple interviews during Bush’s acceptance speech, or what channels would snub the president in favor of Miller. Nor was it made clear why Miller’s wife also was not allowed to take her place in the president’s box 24 hours after his deeply personal denunciation of his own party’s nominee. The change was made only a few hours after Laura Bush, asked about Miller’s speech, said in an interview with NBC News that “I don’t know that we share that point of view.” Aides to President Bush and his campaign said. |
Republicans. Dishonor. Disgrace.
Your Republican Party... |
Toon Flurry of the Moment Commemorative Republican National Convention Edition!
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An Honest West Texan! An honest West Texan! I knew there had to be at least one out there! |
More 'Conservative' Fiscal Fantasies Debunked The Red State Welfare Queens
Again, we hate to spoil the fiscal fantasies of the Fake Conservatives, but for all those "red" states out there who voted for Bush last time and calling for tax breaks, fiscal responsibility and decrying the "welfare state", you'd think they were subsidizing the "blue" states with all of their hard-earned tax dollars. [I]t is actually blue states (states that former Vice President Al Gore won in 2000) that subsidize red states (states that President George W. Bush won in 2000). An August 2003 report by the Tax Foundation -- a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that monitors fiscal policy at the federal, state, and local levels -- compared the federal tax burden in each state with the flow of federal funds back to that state for fiscal year 2002. As former Gore speechwriter Daniel H. Pink pointed out in a January 2004 New York Times op-ed citing the Tax Foundation report, out of the 33 states that received more in federal spending than they contributed in federal taxes (what Pink calls "taker" states), Bush won 25. Out of the 16 states that paid more in federal taxes than they received in federal spending (what Pink calls "giver" states), Gore carried 12. Is it any wonder then that "red" states want to keep their guy in office so they can keep sucking disproportionately off the Federal Government tit without anybody noticing? Red state welfare queens. |
Real Conservatives Not Dead Yet! (Sssshh...Don't tell Dubya supporters!)
And on the topic of "Words speaking louder than Actions"... How to say something without meaning it Well, the Bush acceptance speech went off last night. And it was a good one. For someone who never held the office. But for someone who has had 3 1/2 years in office, it was an exercise in willfull ignorance. A Conservative -- a real one, with character, courage and conviction -- reviews Bush's con job from last night. (Fake Conservatives need not click through. Far be it from us to spoil your illusions by dropping a big reality turd into your fantasy soup.) |
Words Speak Louder Than Actions Your 'Daily Show' Moment...
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Fair & Balanced! Case Closed! Or, as O'Reilly would say, 'Shut UP!'
FOX News Primetime Convention Speech Coverage |
Program Note for Fox Viewers
Dear Fox News Watchers, |
Osama who?
Just a few miles from Ground Zero. Where "the people who knocked down these buildings" would hear from "all of us soon."
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Bush Live (for the most part)
He sounds like he's answering the "platform question" at the Miss America Pagaent, no? |
Hannity & Who?
I should have known we were in trouble when Alan Colmes said "Senator Miller, I'd like to talk about the substance of your speech last night". He then went on to fire the only bullet that Sean allowed him, I guess, accusing Zell of having called Kerry "an authentic American hero" in 2001. |
More True Lies... from Arnold at the RNC
There has been so many blatantly and provably incorrect statements on the RNC's podium this week, that it's becoming almost tiresome to point them out. Schwarzenegger was incorrect in his GOP convention speech on Tuesday when he asserted: "The president didn't go into Iraq because the polls told him it was popular. As a matter of fact, the polls said just the opposite." A majority of Americans supported the idea of the invasion of Iraq before Bush made the decision to commence military action in March 2003. Gallup's March 14-15, 2003, poll showed that 64% of Americans favored "invading Iraq with U.S. ground troops in an attempt to remove Saddam Hussein from power," and 57% agreed that the Bush administration "has made a convincing case about the need for the U.S. to take military action against Iraq." A March 17, 2003, CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll asked: "Do you approve or disapprove of Bush's decision to go to war if Saddam Hussein does not leave Iraq in the next 48 hours?" Sixty-six percent of Americans approved; 30% disapproved. Provably and factually incorrect statements at the GOP Convention. One after another after another. Feel free to "liberally" use the "Email it to Someone!" link at the bottom of ALL the entries here on the BRAD BLOG! It's game time, folks! And someone's gotta show up to play! How about you?! |
Zell Walks the Plank?
Is it not possible that the Republicans knew exactly what they were doing by allowing the angry and ugly Zell Miller to be their counterpoint keynote speaker to the Democrat's hopeful and positive Barack Obama? |
The Marshall Pan and a few other bits and pieces from last night...
- Josh Marshall, on the entirety of RNC Night 3, demonstrates why he's at the top of the blogging food chain. |
The Face of the Party Or, the Ugly Rightwing American
It's tough to wrap one's brain around what happened last night. No doubt, the Dems are rightly indignant about the vicious and fallacious smears of the GOP. And perhaps it'll spur them, and the rest of America, to step up to the plate. Bile of that sort frequently does. |
Hellstorm Headed for Florida!
Is it just me? Or does it seem that even the National Weather Service has turned partisan this year? |
Moron Keyes! I mean, More on Keyes...
Wow...that Alan Keyes interview where he called lesbian Veep daughter Mary Cheney a "selfish hedonist" for her lifestyle, along, presumably with any other heterosexual couple who can't, or chose not to mate, is even more astounding than just the quotes I gave you earlier. |
'Fairness and Balance' Graph of the Moment RNC Day 3
FOX News Primetime Convention Speech Coverage |
Zig Zag Zell Putting the 'Con' in the RNC Convention!
Tonight, in Zell's wacky keynote address at the RNC, he said: "For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure. As a war protester, Kerry blamed our military. As a Senator, he voted to weaken our military." "My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend. He was once a lieutenant governor - but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984. -- U.S. Senator Zell Miller (Introducing John Kerry to the Democratic Party of Georgia Jefferson Jackson Dinner 2001) "In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment." -- U.S. Senator Zell Miller (Remarks to the Democratic Party of Georgia Jefferson Jackson Dinner 2001) Whacky, huh? Well, perhaps only if you bothered to watch Zig Zag Zell (as they call him back him on George for being on all sides of every issue) tonight at the Republican Con-vention. UPDATE: For more fun Zig Zagging with Zell, go here! |
And speaking of 'True Lies'... One for you Ahnold fans out there!
Thanks to "Berry's World" for this item. I'd heard it referred to last night, but didn't have the exact quotes: The L.A. Times reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger became a Republican whilst listening to the famous Nixon-Humphrey debates. Here are two classic quotes from the story:
Fresh from Austria, a socialist country, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to become a Republican after listening to "the debates of Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon when they were debating for the presidential race," or so he told television talk show host Bill O'Reilly in May 2001. " Hubert Humphrey spoke about things I heard in Austria under socialism." "having watched a 1968 presidential debate for which a friend provided the translation. "[Hubert] Humphrey stood for the government [that] will solve all your problems," Schwarzenegger recalled. "[Richard] Nixon said no, free to choose, let the people decide. So I said to my friend, which party is Nixon? He said Republican. OK, I said, I'm a Republican." The Times also points out that the Nixon-Humphrey debates are famous, mainly, for the fact that they never took place. |
The 'Big Tent' Sham In the words of a Teddy Roosevelt Republican
It's not often that I repost BRAD BLOG comments here as their own item. Paul, I am one of those socially-moderate fiscally conservative people you have mentioned. I was a Republican ever since I was in the third grade and we held an election between Reagan and Carter (not surprisingly, Carter was trounced). And for a long-time, I believed in the "big tent." But no more. The big tent is a sham, a myth and a lie. This Administration has gone out of its way to demonize and marginalize every moderate Republican. Calling them "RINOs". Dennis Hastert mocking John McCain on the steps of the Capitol. Trying to pass anti-gay Constitutional Amendments. Ignoring every call to fiscally responsibility made by McCain, Snowe et al. The "new" Republican Party doesn't want moderates like me, Paul. So fine. I'll leave them, just like TR did when he saw corruption spreading throughout the party he once loved. And maybe, just maybe, others will join me. Not only disaffected GOP moderates, but those moderate Democrats who feel marginalized as well. And God willing, we'll stomp out both parties, because they've become walking jokes, available to the highest bidder. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, Paul. Keep up the good fight, Teddy. Your party and country will thank you some day. The BRAD BLOG goes ahead and thanks you now. We also thank Paul for his contributions here, making the difference between your father's GOP, and George W. Bush's GOP painfully clearer each and every day. |
Lesbians, Procreation and Alan Keyes Does the GOP have anyone else left to slur?
The Republican Party had the entire United States of America from whom to chose their nominee for the US Senate seat in Illinois. Demonstrating quite clearly the kind of party they are, they chose Alan Keyes. From Maryland. "The essence of … family life remains procreation. If we embrace homosexuality as a proper basis for marriage, we are saying that it's possible to have a marriage state that in principle excludes procreation and is based simply on the premise of selfish hedonism." Asked whether that meant Mary Cheney was "a selfish hedonist," Keyes said: "That goes by definition. Of course she is." So there ya go. You folks in the "married state" out there who have no children, are apparently "selfish hedonists" along with lesbian Mary Cheney. You, like those homosexuals who'd like to simply be recognized as a legitimate American family seem to have an "improper basis" for your marriage according to your party's national pick for the U.S. Senate. Bush/Cheney '04: What's not to be proud of? |
When Republicans Tell the Truth And why Arnold didn't.
Teddy, the erstwhile BRAD BLOG commentor and author of the excellent "Bull Moose Forum", a right leaning blog in the true TR/Conservative sense (as opposed to the "Fake Conservative" nonsense one often sees parrotted in comments from the Right on this blog and elsewhere) has an excellent analysis of last night's speech by the Governator. Schwarzenegger applauds Bush for taking a hard line on terrorism. So do I. Bush's clarity on this subject is his finest quality. But it doesn't make his foreign policy wise, any more than liberal piety about compassion makes liberal social programs effective. In Iraq, Bush has confused a mortal enemy with a less urgent one, and he has botched the worthy idea of American military leadership by biting off more than we can chew. On the nosey, my boy. And this one... I'm no huge fan of John Kerry. He sees two sides of every one-sided issue, and four sides of every two-sided issue. But the alternative is a president who sees one side of every issue, no matter how many sides it has. Given the how many sides there usually are, and given how little effort Bush makes to learn about each issue, the odds are that, on average, he'll pick the wrong side. Right again. And, as the Bush daughters might say, "it's like, provenly knowable!" |
Toon of the Moment FLASHBACK! (Originally published 6/24/03 after the GOP announced their convention site)
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Question of the Moment
I've heard it suggested of late by several Conservative commentators that the real reason the RNC has chosen to give all of their primetime speaking slots to their largely Pro-Choice, Pro-Gay, Anti-Gun superstars like McCain, Schwarzzeneger, Guliani etc., is because they are the most popular Republicans in America. |
'Fairness and Balance' Graph of the Moment RNC Day 2
FOX News Primetime Convention Speech Coverage |
Laura's Bush
"Franklin Roosevelt didn't want to go to war, but he knew defeating tyranny demanded it. And my husband didn't want to go to war, but he knew the safety and security of America and the world depended on it." |
The Pacific Northwest Photo Finish!
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Schrock and Awww... The Gay Homophobic Republican In case, unlike the McGreevy story, you missed this one...
"You're in the showers with them, you're in the bunk room with them, you're in staterooms with them," Schrock told the Virginian-Pilot. "You just hope no harm would come by folks who are of that persuasion. It's a discipline thing." |
Bush Supporter of the Moment (Actually, the moment was last week, but I was out of town!) Supporting the 'President' in Portland, Oregon...
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Flip-Floppery of the Highest Order Bush Spins, Rush Helps The "Liberal" Media Takes the Year Off
As has been pointed out by Josh Marshall and several others, imagine if it was Kerry who said about the "War on Terror" that "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world –- let's put it that way." See, I think it's very important for your listeners to know, Rush, that the commander-in-chief ought to try all avenues of diplomacy prior to committing troops and we did that. And so I'm sitting in the Oval Office, and I've seen a threat. I now see that he's ignoring the demands of the free world, he had no intention of disarming, as a matter of fact was systematically deceiving inspectors, and so I made the decision, a very difficult decision. So exactly how was Saddam "systematically deceiving inspectors"? How is it, that with no arms in the first place, as we've since discovered, Saddam had "no intention of disarming"? I, personally, refuse -- no matter what the rules are about it -- to give up my Assault Rifle to the Authorities! Trouble is, I don't have an Assault Rifle. According to the practicalities of the "Bush Doctrine", it sounds like someone needs to throw me in jail! It's amazing how the "Commander-in-Chief" can lie and the media says and does nothing about it. But a War Hero can tell the truth, and he's held accountable and charged with lying by the same media. There is no more 4th Estate. There is no more investigative journalism. There are only sychophants who repeat the Press Releases of those in power. And those, like Rush and Bush, who complain about the Free Speech of Americans as expressed through the legal 30 second ads of 527's even while they have 24 hours a day of 30 seconds ads around the clock, on every radio (and virtually every television) frequency in the land where they can express any and every lie they feel like. Over and over again. But take heart America Lovers! Don't be cowed by liars, sycophants and spinners! As Bush might cynically say, whereas I actually mean it; Have faith that Good will triumph over Evil. It will. There is no doubt. I just hope it happens by November 2nd. |
The Meaning of 'It' or, the Bush on the Bus Goes Round and Round...
Today, George W. Bush told Matt Lauer on Today that the "War on Terror" cannot be won. Lauer: “You said to me a second ago, one of the things you'll lay out in your vision for the next four years is how to go about winning the war on terror. That phrase strikes me a little bit. Do you really think we can win this war on terror in the next four years?” President Bush: “I have never said we can win it in four years.” Lauer: “So I’m just saying can we win it? Do you see that?” President Bush: “I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world –- let's put it that way." Not being able to win this "war" is a new position for Bush who has said over and over that "we will win" it. As recently as July 30th of this year he said in Springfield, MO., "We have a clear vision on how to win the war on terror and bring peace to the world." And yet that's not what he said on the bush to Matt. So the rest of the day Team Bush went apoplectic contorting to explain that Bush didn't really mean we couldn't win the war on terror...he was...referring to something else. To not being able to win, because there is nobody available to sign a surrender document. But other than that, we'll win. Or something. They said a lot. They apologized a lot. They spun and danced and twisted and flip-flopped. Even McCain and Guiliani had to change their speeches to try and make sense of the torturued logic and apparent lack of clarity from the "Commander-in-Chief" they tell us should be re-"elected" due to his "clarity of vision". Or something. Much was said. I'll let you go and figure out how they're now trying to spin it. Spinning is what they do well. The statement (and I not only read it, but saw it several times) seemed very clear to me, but the Bushies say it wasn't. Bottom line: Apparently, it all depends on what the meaning of "it" is. Go figure. |
Run, Rudy, Run!
Tonight, Rudy Guiliani successfully began his run for the White House. |
The Human Toll
I know it doesn't exactly account for whether John Kerry was actually in Cambodia on Christmas Eve or a few days later, but if you've haven't noticed, there is still a war going on... The human toll as of 8/27/04... U.S. military dead in Iraq: 971 U.S. military amputees, wounded, injured, or psychologically disabled: 26,400 Iraqi civilian dead: 19,700. Now back to your regularly scheduled distraction from the issues. |
A Bush in 'Time'...
Drudge reports selected quotes from a new Bush interview in Time. Among them: "I couldn’t have sat down and said to you, By the way, we’re going to be so victorious so quickly that we’ll end up having to fight another third of the Baathists over the next year in order to bring liberty to the country.“ Of course you could have. That's your j-o-b. You're the "President"! You are precisely supposed to look at all such possibilities. It's called "Leadership" and "Judgement". You know, those things you are running on and trying to trick folks into believing that you actually have! And if you "couldn't" have imagined such a thing, perhaps had your read your own father's own book, you might have had a hint! Look what your Dad said, Junior!: "Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. ... [T]here was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see... Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." To quote you, Mr. "President" -- "Is our children learning"? Apparently they isn't. Back to Drudge/Time/Dubya: On what the most important thing is that he’s learned from the past four years, Bush says, “I’ve learned that Washington is a much more bitter, ugly place, dominated by special interests, than I ever envisioned. I was surprised.” Is it just me, or didn't Dubya work for his Dad in Washington when he was Veep for 8 years, and then President for 4? And yet, Dubya just "learned" this about Washington? He couldn't have "envisioned" it?! Who does he want us to think he is, Gomer Pyle who just flew inta D.C. for the first time!? Sorry, Mr. Smith, we ain't buyin' it. Unless, for some reason, you simply forgot everything that happened to you during the years of 1980 - 1992 for some reason. Which is it Mr. "President"? Are you lying? Do you think we're stupid? Or were you drunk for 12 years? Or is it all of the above? Bush/Cheney '04: You're dumber than us! |
HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN...
Thanks to the BRAD BLOG's three fine Guest Bloggers, Johnhp, Jaime and Bryan for keeping things lively around here for the last few weeks when I've been galavanting about the beautiful Pacific Northwest! |
Register to Vote NOW!
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Swiftie Publisher: Anti-Kerry, Pro-White Supremacy More of 'the company they keep'...
(Blogged by Brad on the road...) The principals in the company publishing a anti-John Kerry book by the GOP-backed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have a long history of preaching and supporting white supremacy. William Regnery II, heir to the Regnery publishing fortune, is moving into a new line of business: match-making for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage." ...the Caucasian dating service would be no ordinary money-making opportunity, but a chance to ensure "the survival of our race," which "depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting." Promoting white nationalism is nothing new for Regnery — or his family. His grandfather, William I, signed incorporation papers for the America First Committee, an organization that opposed fighting Nazi Germany in World War II. His father, Henry, created Regnery Publishing which, besides the anti-Kerry book, publishes right-wing screeds by Anne Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy. William II has made his mark as a major fundraiser in radical right circles as the founder of the Charles Martel Society in 2001. The society publishes The Occidental Quarterly, an academic-looking journal filled with articles by white-supremacist luminaries such as Sam Francis, editor for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens and Wayne Lutton of the hate group The Social Contract Press. The society is putting together conferences, summer schools and a speaker's bureau — all designed to push Regnery's view that the white race is veering toward extinction. And if Bush wins in November, who will he have to thank for that now that this book and those ads and this nonsense has finally helped turn around a few of his polls? |
Toons of the Moment
(Blogged by Brad from the road...though I'll be home soon!)
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Anyone Remember Abu Ghraib? The Bushies Hope Note!
(Blogged by Brad from the road...) A long-awaited Army report released Wednesday implicates 27 members of a military intelligence unit in the alleged abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, well beyond the seven reservist military police already charged. ... [O]fficials did say Col. Thomas Pappas, who was the commander of the 205th Intelligence Brigade, could face criminal action. [Lead investigator, Gen. Paul] Kern said four officers “above the rank of colonel” face discipline for command failures at Abu Ghraib. [T]he number of abuse incidents — they cited 44 cases — and types of abuse were greater than previously believed. Among the incidents: Guards and interrogators competed with dog teams to see which could more quickly make naked teenage prisoners lose control of their bowels and bladders. Military leaders, while “not directly responsible” for the abuses, bear responsibility, Lt. Gen. Anthony Jones said. In addition to the abuse cases, Kern said investigators found eight cases in which prisoners were hidden from the International Red Cross, which monitored prison conditions. “We can't tell you why,” he said. A sharply worded report issued Tuesday blamed top Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for creating conditions that led to abuse at the prison. Okay. Now go back to fighting over whether it was shrapnel or bullets that punctured the flesh of John Kerry 35 years ago while he volunteered to risk his life for our country. Bush/Cheney '04: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. |
Old failed policy... Same dumb Bush
(NOTE: This item guest blogged by Jaime) |
Your 'Daily Show' Does it Again
(Blogged by Brad from the road...) |
More on 'OutFoxed' ...And the loss of the Public Airwaves.
(Blogged on the road by Brad...) This is not a pretty picture, but it is a cogent commentary on the state of Fox News. The "deregulation" of television began back in the Reagan administration, aided and abetted by Oregon's own bad-boy Republican Senator Bob Packwood. Prior to that time, news organizations were required to provide free, equal time to candidates to rebut the slanted messages candidates with money could buy. If this topic is ancient history to you, Google it. You may be surprised to learn the airwaves used to belong to the people. Imagine that. (Another, carbon-based way to learn more about the unravelling of real "fair and balance" on the people's airwaves is The Control Room : How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections, a book by Martin Plissner. It's an excellent pre-2000 examination of the breakdown of the "equal time rules" on television, and how the structure of today's Presidential Elections in America are virtually 100% the product of the News Media.) And, of course, you can still purchase the OutFoxed DVD for $9.95 online if the film is not playing near you. Or you'd just like to have a copy to pass around to those "Fox Fans" who may need a reality check. One other point that I'd been meaning to discuss since watching the film, is the study they document showing that people who watch Fox News regularly are far less informed than those who get their news from other sources. The study shows that Fox News viewers get an inordinate amount of simple, fact-based questions -- like, "Was Saddam Hussein responsible for 9/11?" or "Did we find WMD in Iraq?" -- completely wrong. That survey synchs up with one a few years back (I believe it was a Pew study, can't look it up from the road for now) showing that while Rush Limbaugh listeners thought they were the most informed, it turned out that they were instead amongst the least informed of those who followed current events. Makes sense. At this point, to be a Bush supporter, one would have to be either uninformed or misinformed. And that's exactly what Fox News, Rush and Team Bush are all counting on. |
Flip-Flopping on the 527's And other Presidential Distractions...
I've been in the woods for the past three days without cable or radio. When I came out, same old thing as before I went in. |
Good Wood The Rain Forests of Washington state
(Blogged by Brad from inside the Quinault Rain Forest 8/25/04 at 9:42am PT...to be posted whenever I find net access again.) |
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· 09/06/04: "The 'Miscalculation' Continues..."
· 09/05/04: "The Human Toll of the Moment"
· 09/05/04: "Poster of the Moment"
· 09/04/04: "War? What war?"
· 09/04/04: "George W. Bush: Anything to Win."
· 09/04/04: "Republican 'Family Values'"
· 09/04/04: "'Real Time'"
· 09/04/04: "The NeoCons and the Cookie Jar"
· 09/04/04: "Zell Thrown Overboard"
· 09/04/04: "Republicans. Dishonor. Disgrace."
· 09/03/04: "Toon Flurry of the Moment"
· 09/03/04: "An Honest West Texan!"
· 09/03/04: "More 'Conservative' Fiscal Fantasies Debunked"
· 09/03/04: "Real Conservatives Not Dead Yet!"
· 09/03/04: "Words Speak Louder Than Actions"
· 09/02/04: "Fair & Balanced! Case Closed!"
· 09/02/04: "Program Note for Fox Viewers"
· 09/02/04: "Osama who?"
· 09/02/04: "Bush Live (for the most part)"
· 09/02/04: "Hannity & Who?"
· 09/02/04: "More True Lies..."
· 09/02/04: "Zell Walks the Plank?"
· 09/02/04: "The Marshall Pan"
· 09/02/04: "The Face of the Party"
· 09/02/04: "Hellstorm Headed for Florida!"
· 09/01/04: "Moron Keyes!"
· 09/01/04: "'Fairness and Balance' Graph of the Moment"
· 09/01/04: "Zig Zag Zell"
· 09/01/04: "And speaking of 'True Lies'..."
· 09/01/04: "The 'Big Tent' Sham"
· 09/01/04: "Lesbians, Procreation and Alan Keyes"
· 09/01/04: "When Republicans Tell the Truth"
· 09/01/04: "Toon of the Moment FLASHBACK!"
· 09/01/04: "Question of the Moment"
· 09/01/04: "'Fairness and Balance' Graph of the Moment"
· 08/31/04: "Laura's Bush"
· 08/31/04: "The Pacific Northwest Photo Finish!"
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