Friday, October 8, 2004

Russert shills for Cheney The Daily Howler catches him in the stunningly dishonest act ... and what a tired act it is. 11:53:45 AM    comment [] Freeway Free Speech Day The Freeway Blogger has declared October 13, 2004, "Freeway Free Speech Day": On October 13th, hundreds of activists nationwide will post signs critical of the Bush Administration on area freeways, reaching millions of voters in states from Maine to California. The Freeway Blogger has posted more than 2000 such signs over the last year. In addition to coordinating activists, we will launch a nationwide media campaign to promote the fact that hundreds (if not thousands) of these signs are going up across America on the same day, and to highlight this newest, and oldest, form of civic dialog. We anticipate wide-spread news coverage about this powerful grassroots effort. The ultimate goal is to increase voter turnout and defeat Bush. Be on the look out for signs in your area, and if you have the inclination and especially if you live in a swing state, join the fight with Freeway Blogger and activists across the nation! Click here for instructions on how to start your own freeway blog. 11:28:22 AM    comment [] Do we have a Milli Vanilli president? Salon asks the question after picking up the "Is Bush Wired?" story (mentioned previously here). The Salon article does some fact checking and adds the following tidbit: Danny Schechter, who operates the news site MediaChannel.org, and who has been doing some investigating into the wired-Bush rumors himself, said the Bush campaign has been worried of late about others picking up their radio frequencies -- notably during the Republican Convention on the day of Bush's appearance. "They had a frequency specialist stop me and ask about the frequency of my camera," Schechter said. "The Democrats weren't doing that at their convention." Cannonfire has been following the "Promptergate" story closely and has several posts on the subject. I'd start here. 2:26:06 AM    comment [] Shorter Bremer I believed we needed more troops in Iraq to prevent looting. The military commanders disagreed. There's no need to mention the reasons for my conclusion. Suffice it to say, they had a reasonable point of view and may have been right, but we'll never know. What's important is that I believe President Bush is right nowadays about Iraq and the War on Terror. Trust me. I'm right. Even Shorter Bremer We needed more troops to prevent post-war anarchy in Iraq. But now that Iraq is the central front of the War on Terror, I think we should outsource the job to the Iraqis. 1:30:10 AM    comment [] "'Denial' is not just a river in Egypt" David Kay plays Stuart Smalley to the Bush Administration and its views on WMD's in Iraq: The White House has insisted Saddam was a threat to the United States and had weapons of mass destruction capability, but Kay told NBC television: "All I can say is 'denial' is not just a river in Egypt." "The report is scary enough without misrepresenting what it says," he added. Iraq "was not an imminent and growing threat because of its own weapons of mass destruction," he added. Bush said Wednesday there was a risk that Iraq could have transferred weapons to terrorist groups. But Kay told CNN television "Right now we have a lot of people who are desperate to justify the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq. "They will focus on issues such as intent. You will also hear that although we haven't found the weapons or manufacturing capability, they could have been shipped across the border. You can't ship that which you haven't produced. You can't bury that which you haven't obtained or produced." "Look, Saddam was delusional. He had a lot of intent. He wanted to be Saladin the Great, of the Middle East yet again. He wanted to put Iraq in a preeminent position to remove the US from the region," Kay added. "He had a lot of intent. He didn't have capabilities. Intent without capabilities is not an imminent threat." Honestly, who is more delusional? If Saddam thought of himself as Saladin the Great, Bush thought of himself as Richard the Lionheart. Unfortunately, this is the 21st Century. 1:16:01 AM    comment [] Round 2 Judging from comments on the right, the champ is in big trouble. He barely escaped round one, woozy and wobbily, with a cut above his right eye. Howard Fineman says he sounds desperate. Pat Chastain (WND columnist and radio talkshow host) says he's on life support (and chalks it up to that "classic Republican disease" of "terminal niceness"!). 12:09:34 AM    comment []

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