http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0808/House_Dems_turn_out_out_the_light_but_GOP_keep_talking.html?showall
…and win.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/state/epaper/2008/08/01/0801obama1.html
This is unbelievable.
Seymour Hersh, who won a Pulitzer for exposing the Mai Lai Massacre coverup in Vietnam, recently wrote an article in the New Yorker in which he described how there was a meeting in the White House shortly after the overblown standoff with Iranian boats in early January. A former official at the meeting revealed that the subject was “how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington”. This was actually at the bottom of the article(!), and when Hersh was questioned about it, he mentioned that he had been told that he “really buried the lead in that story,” which is quite an understatement. When prodded for details, Hersh revealed that one of the ideas to start the war was to build four or five boats that looked like Iranian PT boats, put Navy SEALs on them with a lot of arms, and start a shootout between the “Iranian” ships and our own! The New Yorker wouldn’t let Hersh print these important facts, according to him, because the idea was ultimately rejected (as if it only would have mattered if the plan had been approved!!).
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/01/cheney-wanted-to-dress-up-navy-seals-as-iranians-and-shoot-at-them-to-get-his-war-with-iran/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all
Here’s an idea of how badly conservatives are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their attempts to get their propaganda passed off as legitimate science and legitimate “news.” Conservative circles became very excited about the American Physical Society apparently making an about face to their long-held stance supporting the science behind global warming. The story was pushed off by Drudge Report, Jonah Goldberg, and conservative blogs on — of all days — the same day Gore is giving a speech on the subject, using headlines like “Group Repping 50,000 Physicists Opens Global Warming Debate…” and “Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate”! The title of this “exploding” news story should actually read: “Washed-Up British Viscount Manages to Publish Crackpot Theory on Non-Peer-Reviewed Online Newsletter.”
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/19/the-rights-misguided-frenzy-over-the-american-physical-society/
The editor didn’t even bother to get a scientist. “Lord Monckton” has no degrees in the subject. He inherited his title from his dead father and was a former policy adviser to Margret Thatcher. The bogus news story has forced the association to put a disclaimer on both the header of the article and the front page of their website. The front page points out the newsletter is from the “APS Forum on Physics and Society, one of 39 units of APS.” Hardly something that represents all 50,000 members. The writings themselves are not new and have long been debunked as a “sleight-of-hand.” Quoting from the Sunday Times and the Times, Monckton’s science is “self-taught and his paper qualifications nonexistent” and “he is trying to take on the global scientific establishment on the strength of a classics degree from Cambridge.” One of the models used by Monckton was made up by himself, but another one comes from JunkScience.com, a front end for Steve Milloy, a long time tobacco, drug, and oil industry lobbyist, which has published other ‘cuckoo science’ pieces over the years.
http://climateprogress.org/2008/07/19/american-physical-society-stomps-on-monckton-disinformation-thank-you-climate-progress-readers/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton%2C_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley
http://www.aps.org/
If you recognize the name, that’s because Lord Monckton is the same guy that the Heartland Institute was using as their resident expert when they were trying to double dog dare Gore to get into a debate with him in that ludicrously-titled article “Gore Confronted by Own Scientists- ‘Confusion Between Hypothesis and Evidence’,” which was raked over the coals in one of the first posts I made on this blog. (Although only 5 short paragraphs long, I still somehow managed to elicit 5 pages worth of explainable errors with the article.) It kind of gives you an idea about how pathetically low conservative hacks are stooping that they aren’t even bothering to switch out the henchmen they use to fictionalize the news.
Here is a good article by a real scientist:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/27/global_warming_deniers/index.html
Here’s what CNN’s Glenn Beck had to say about the latest Gitmo ruling:
Beck: “This court has done some frightening. frightening things….If I’m president of the US, I would go on National television and say—’ladies and gentlemen, the Supreme Court said that we don’t have Gitmo so that is over. We’re going to release all of them, but I want you to know from here on out our policy is to not have prisoners. We’re going to shoot them all in the head.’
“If we think they are against us, we’re going to shoot them and kill them—period because that’s the only thing we’ve got going for us—cause we can put them away and get information. If we can’t put them away and they’re going to use our court system—kill them.”
Just another example of the “Liberal Media” for you. But I guess we shouldn’t take Beck too seriously whenever he talks about shooting people. He went on camera talking about how he wanted to kill himself over the pain of the butt surgery he had last year. Not that that was the first time he’s admitted to contemplating suicide. But, hey, it’s not like it’s easy to find a conservative commentator with some sort of respect for human life.
Personally, I think you can’t have it both ways. Either the “War on Terror” really is a war and we have to abide by the Geneva Conventions, or it isn’t a real war, and we have to provide them with a fair trial.
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/sen_larry_craig_co_sponsors_defense_of_marriage_amendment/C108/L108/