This is -- my God this is wrong. Via Atrios: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Have you gone to see [Brokeback Mountain] yet? I’ve seen everything else but that. I just— DON IMUS: No, I haven’t seen it. Why would I...
Author - Bob Cesca
Shut up about Nagin and Clinton
Really now -- how important is this story considering everything else going on right now? CNN, which is rapidly becoming Fox Lite, had a lower-third banner on this morning which read "Chocolate-Gate"...
The Bush-Franklin Debate
Bill in Portland Maine on Daily Kos: The Great Franklin-Bush debate...in 6 rounds: Bush: America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for...
Mr. President
Can I say it or will I jinx us all? Ah, what the hell: GORE FOR AMERICA! Speech highlights here. It's mandatory viewing.
Doofus
President King Idiot today: "It seems fitting on Martin Luther King Day that I come and look at the Emancipation Proclamation in its original form. [Seems fitting?] Abraham Lincoln recognized that...
Americablog buys Gen. Clark's cell calls for $89
I... There aren't words. Read.
No Dems on MSNBC during Alito hearing coverage
Media Matters has the pathetic news. Write to MSNBC here: viewerservices@msnbc.com Then on Hardball (minus Tweety tonight) I caugh back-to-back Republican assholes. First Mehlman then Schlaffly clone...
Dean debunks "Dems took Abramoff money" myth
Howard Dean wiped the floor with Wolf Blitzer yesterday. Watch.
Another reason why Peter Jackson rules
He's helping to save the African mountain gorilla from extinction. Full story. There are only 706 mountain gorillas left in the wild -- and now the Ebola virus might be spreading into its population...
Frank Rich on Bush's illegal wiretapping
Must read Rich: ALMOST two weeks before The New York Times published its scoop about our government's extralegal wiretapping, the cable network Showtime blew the whole top-secret shebang. In its mini...
AP wire tap poll gets the language right
So the first wire tap poll out of the gate neglected to mention the "warrantless" or "without court approval" part. The obvious result? 64 percent of Americans support it. But the issue here has...
Tweety sounds like he's on the GOP payroll
Chris Matthews via Atrios. Note the obvious pattern: Suddenly, the man who handed out campaign cash like Johnny Appleseed is watching those ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR gifts being sent back to charity like...
Midget asshole steps down
Full story.
The Bush Empire
Bush claims that during wartime he can do whatever is necessary -- even breaking the law and violating civil liberties -- in order to protect the nation. Some thoughts... Okay. The war on terrorism...
Yo Bushie! Happy Bad News Year!
Digby: I know this will come as a great disappointment to Republicans who have taken to saying that the NSA spy scandal boosted Bush's approval ratings ten points, but the new CNN/USA Today poll has...
Bush drinking again
I dare you not to laugh at this clip from the Craig Ferguson show. Here.
Voice of Reality 2005: Keith Olbermann
For being the only cable news reporter to cover what's truly important and to do so with a depth which is in short supply elsewhere on televison. For being the only reporter to cover the...
Assholes Say the Darndest Things
Media Matters has compiled their list of the most outrageous statements of the year (in the media): Former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black...
Allawi breaks out his tin foil hat
Funny how when a Bush ally cries electoral fraud, he's acting in the best interest of democracy. But when progressives here do it, we're all loony and sour-grapes. Nevertheless, all hell is about to...
Meanwhile, results in the Iraq election
The SF Chronicle: Soon after Bush spoke of the Iraqi election as "a landmark day in the history of liberty," early returns representing 90 percent of the ballots cast in the Iraq election established...