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First of all, Daily Kos has a full transcript of the Stephen Colbert speech. Dan Froomkin, in the Washington Post, says this: Now the mainstream media is back with its second reaction: Colbert just wasn’t funny. Yes, it turns out Colbert has brought the White House and its press corps together at long last, creating … Read more
Stephen Colbert was the entertainment at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner over the weekend, and he took the opportunity to speak truth to power in a most breathtaking way. George W. Bush was sitting just a few feet away, and he heard some things that if he’s intelligent enough to understand them should give … Read more
There’s a new book, titled Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly, based on the web site of the same name. These paragraphs cribbed from amazon: From Booklist The title says it all. There’s definitely no love lost between O’Reilly, host of the FOX Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, and Amann and Breuer, founders of a Web … Read more
Today’s SF Chronicle has two photos on the front page, with this caption: House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., departs in a hydrogen-powered car … after a news conference on gasoline prices in Washington – and then gets out and prepares to climb into a sport utility vehicle powered by gasoline…. Hastert and President Bush have … Read more
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis This image is also posted on flickr.com along with a complete collection of Grand Lake Theater marquees.
Garry Wills in today’s New York Times: THERE is no such thing as a “Christian politics.” If it is a politics, it cannot be Christian. Jesus told Pilate: “My reign is not of this present order. If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to … Read more
dumpdelay.com is written by Susan DuQuesnay. Most of the pieces were published in The Fort Bend Star, a weekly newspaper in Tom DeLay’s hometown. According to the front page, “Susan DuQuesnay also maintains a website about Fort Bend politics (Tom’s home district) – and some semi-daily comments about Tom DeLay at www.brazosriver.com.” Here’s a sample … Read more
Al Franken’s Midwest Values Pac web site has the transcript of a speech Al gave, sharing the dais with Ann Coulter. An excerpt: Let me give you an example of Ann lying by omission. Also in her book Slander, Ann tells her readers that Al Gore had a leg up on George W. Bush when … Read more
Mark Morford has a great rant in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. His point of departure is a new TV ad for home security systems, but Morford (correctly, in my opinion) recognizes it as another entry in the relentless campaign to Keep America Scared. Fear is good business, as the Republicans in particular and the entire … Read more
I walked into the breakfast room at the Holiday In Express. There was one other couple in there, and I asked them if they’d mind if I turned off the TV. It was tuned to the Oxygen chanel, showing a movie, and no one was watching. No problem, said the couple. As I ate my … Read more