Obama Has a Mandate - but with Whom?
President Barack H. Obama was all over the broadcast map yesterday, reading the usual litany of whoppers, floppers, and gobstoppers that flows from the Teleprompter of the United States. (TOTUS — I picture an object like a Dalek from Dr. Who… “Exterminate! Exterminate!”)
Having nothing better to do (I mislaid my toenail clipper), I [...]
Little Ochs from mighty ACORN grows
The New York Times gets around to the ACORN story today, portraying it as the culmination of months of efforts by conservative to tar the Obama team with ACORN wrongdoing including “voter fraud and other transgressions.” Times reporter Scott Shane is not so much interested in the corruption exposed by James O’Keefe and Hannah [...]
"Comically Dishonest"
Greg Sargent once again reacts to my critique of his argument without responding to its substance. And, after some throatclearing, accuses me of cherrypicking.
Sargent claims that I cherrypicked the IG report “in a comically dishonest way.” His evidence? I quoted part of the IG report on Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, but, [...]
Plumbing the Depths
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent is worked up about the fact that “big news orgs” have not declared Dick Cheney a liar for claiming that EITs were effective. (For the record, many people still consider the Washington Post a big news org.) Sargent argues that “the docs themselves don’t actually prove Cheney’s [...]
Plumming the Depths
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent is worked up about the fact that “big news orgs” have not declared Dick Cheney a liar for claiming that EITs were effective. (For the record, many people still consider the Washington Post a big news org.) Sargent argues that “the docs themselves don’t actually prove Cheney’s [...]
