This is a beautiful thing. Sacha Baron Cohen -- Ali G -- duped an entire red state crowd at a rodeo in Salem, Virginia. It started when a 'Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy...
Author - Bob Cesca
Washington Monthly: Candidates for '08
Washington Monthly has a great summation of potential and dare-to-dream Democratic candidates for 2008, including Bill Cosby, Tom Brokaw, Tom Hanks, and (strong possibility) Senator Bill Nelson...
Stuart Carlson on CBS vs. Bush
Cartoon By Stuart Carlson
More reasons to hate Ann Coulter
From an interview in the New York Observer via Media Matters: I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the...
What held up last month's intel reform?
The answer begins with the letter "t" and rhymes with "plorture". Remember when the intelligence reform legislation was stymied in Congress despite overwhelming support last month? Turns out the bill...
Bush flubs line at bogus town hall
The White House held a town-hall meeting yesterday to discuss Bush's plan for Social Security. By "discuss", I mean "perform". THE PRESIDENT: Good, thanks. Well done. (Applause.) Now what about your ...
Trade deficit (chasm) at an all-time high
The trade deficit numbers from November are in. The AP: The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $60.3 billion in November as American appetites for foreign oil and even imported food reached...
Don't look directly at Bush, Part II
From the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee: Besides marching bands, the military provides escorts and honor cordons that line the walkway of the president with crisp salutes. "Crisp salutes" would...
Warning: Do not look Bush in the eye
In 2001 and 2002, some friends and I produced one of the first post-9/11 anti-Bush films called "The War Effort". In the third act, I included a joke in which overly patriotic participants in a radio...
Bush and his voters hate the troops
If you voted for the Bush Unit, you can no longer have a yellow ribbon magnet on your car. Sorry. The Washington Post: Veterans programs are also expected to be pinched [in Bush's proposed budget]...
Palast: Meet the CBS independent panel
Greg Palast notes today that the CBS independent review panel was a stacked deck. Who was the two-man panel? Dick Thornburgh, Bush 41's attorney general, and Louis Boccardi: Remember Dickie...
It's official: No WMD in Iraq
In Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack", the issue of WMD was discussed heavily based on accounts from candid White House interviews with Colin Powell et al. About halfway through the book, the issue...
Horkulated graphic: Bush and CBS
Agitprop graphic by Horkulated.com
Chertoff: no lawyers for detainees
The Village Voice, in an article by Nat Hentoff about Steven Brill's book "After", reported in 2003 that Chertoff is in favor of lengthy imprisonment for detainees. Brill and Hentoff also noted:...
Screw terrorism, Bush wants a party!
The District of Columbia will be forced to use nearly $12 million from their Homeland Security budget for the inauguration. The Washington Post: ...the Bush administration is refusing to reimburse...
McClellan: it was an isolated felony
Scott McClellan fired off some great lines this afternoon. The AP: The White House said Monday that the case of the Education Department paying a conservative commentator to plug its policies was an...
The Oath of Honesty in Journalism
The American Prospect has written an oath for all right-wing propapundits: I swear that I have never taken money -- neither directly nor indirectly -- from any political campaign or government agency...
Hardball wastes 90 minutes on Rather?
Watching Chris Matthews tonight, you'd never know that the White House is engaged in a propaganda campaign paying right-wing pundits and "journalists" to shill for them. In fact, strike that. It was...
What about Robert Novak? Of course!
Randi Rhodes just mentioned the name Robert Novak regarding the White House propaganda machine. BOING! Of course! Novak leaps to the top of the FOIA propaganda search. What's promising about Novak as...
Williams: There's other propapundits
Armstrong Williams spilled the beans to David Corn regarding White House propaganda efforts: "This happens all the time," he told me. "There are others." Really? I said. Other conservative...