Wednesday’s CBS Evening News lead story featuring the BP oil disaster was sickening. Katie Couric‘s report included new video of a second leak site that adds brings the estimate of the total leakage by independent scientists to 95,000 barrels day, 19x the official BP-US government calculation (recall that it took over three weeks just to get the first 30 seconds …
We won’t say how we came by this picture, but we think this image is genuinely indicative of Ms Couric’s awesome ability to shake that money-maker, rather than all the wild and crazy photochopping that’s being done to Katie’s celebratory bump’ngrind lately, thanks to the gentle prodding of Blue Gal.
Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse would be served …
Should Sarah Palin be dropped from the Republican ticket? David Brooks at The New York Times: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president? Most conservatives say yes, on the grounds that something that feels so good could not possibly be wrong. But a few commentators, like George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Frum and Ross Douthat demur, suggesting in different …
It’s a dog-eat-dog world these days it seems, and when a presidential candidate throws down with, “You can actually see Russia, from land, here,” you should know you’re dealing with a Hockey-momming pitbull in lipstick. HOCKEY MOM PITBULL V. BULLDOG BIDEN What are some other supreme court decisions you disagree with? “Hmm; Well; Let’s see; there’s huhhhhh, in the great …
Palin is “Religulous,” but Maher is “RiDICKulous.” Bill Maher‘s new mooovie, Religulous, is not going to make it on Sarah Palin’s “to do” list this year, or any other. And it’s a shame too, because Sarah Palin, if she had been willing to talk to Maher, would have been just the sort of interview he should have put in the …
