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Posted at 10:40am on May 24, 2008 Dirty Sanchez Award for Most Devious Attack on McCain goes to...ABC news
By goldenboy
This award is named for CNN's own Mr. Sanchez who earlier this year tried to hold McCain responsible for comments made during the primaries by an old lady who called Hillary Clinton a b-word that rhymes with stitch.
The Dirty Sanchez award recognizes journalists who attack McCain for things he has no control over, and in the process create an aura of scandal where none exists.
I would like to present this award to ABC's Michael Rowland for the incredibly rich headline contained in the following story:
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Posted at 3:58pm on May 15, 2008 The Unintentional Enemy Within
By goldenboy
The drama of my continuing love/hate relationship with Rush is starting to wear me out. After listening to the second hour of his show today at lunch, I really felt sad and disappointed. Not because I have disagreements with McCain, but because I am becoming convinced that Rush is doing everything in his power to demoralize Republicans in the run-up to this election.
Rush takes such cheap shots against McCain that it calls into question his credibility on other issues. Today, for example, he actually played McCain’s speech to compare the intensity of applause between McCain’s introduction and his policy proposals.
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Posted at 5:14pm on Apr. 23, 2008 My letter to Simon Jenkins
By goldenboy
After reading this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/23/iraq.uselections2008
Mr. Jenkins,
After reading your editorial, “Despite Iraq, America’s Love Affair with War Runs Deep”, I felt that I had to contact you personally to express my deep frustration with your views of America. I doubt that you have spent much time in America, and even if you have it was probably in a large urban area where people tend to be more “European” in their sensibilities.
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Posted at 12:13am on Apr. 8, 2008 Israel bombing attack on Syria targeted Saddam WMD?
By goldenboy
Has anyone seen this report from the Jerusalem Post?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207486215610&pagename=JPost%...
"An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday.
Furthermore, according to a report leaked to the TV channel, Syria has arrested 10 intelligence officials following the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh."
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Posted at 1:53pm on Apr. 4, 2008 How Hillary could win the presidency--Pull a Lieberman
By goldenboy
As Hillary’s lead in Pennsylvania narrows with Obama, and it becomes apparent from recent polls that no gaff on Obama’s part will ever phase his starry eyed followers, one has to ask the magical question: Just how bad does she want it?
Hillary and Bill Clinton seem to be growing more and more disgusted with a MSM that was once supportive but has now turned sour, a MSM unable to criticize Obama while almost openly ridiculing Hillary on the air, as well as former political allies and democrat old guard who are backing Obama. In a word, it seems the Clinton disgust-o-meter is topping out.
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Posted at 8:53am on Apr. 2, 2008 New democrat Iraq plan same old fluff repackaged
By goldenboy
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=146ed1c2-2e45-4811-b8c6-a05815...
TNR’s Ilan Goldenberg has kind words for the most detailed democrat plan to pull out of Iraq yet, hailing it as realistic and long-awaited. Problem is, the plan’s two main attributes as summarized by Goldenberg reveal the idiocy of the democrats:
“First, the United States must find a way to sensibly end its military mission in Iraq--and use the political, diplomatic, humanitarian, and economic tools at its disposal to mitigate the negative consequences of the war.”
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Posted at 8:50am on Mar. 27, 2008 Window into the lefty view of Basra: There are no good guys, there are no bad guys
By goldenboy
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/expert_curren...
There's only Sadr and Maliki and they just disagree.
A Baltimore Sun blogger pulls an extended quote from Anthony Coredesman and claims that what we are viewing in Basra is really just an attempt by Maliki to destroy the Mahdi army before elections in October. See? The democratically elected govt. in Iraq is just as bad as Iran.
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Posted at 3:56pm on Mar. 24, 2008 Harvard Study: negative MSM Iraq coverage inspires insurgents
By goldenboy
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/FOREI...
The Washington Times reported today that a Harvard study outlines a connection between negative press critical of U.S. support for the War in Iraq and insurgent activity.
And you guessed it; the increased activity FOLLOWS high frequency weeks of negative reporting. The incidents are highest in areas of Iraq with access to international news.
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Posted at 9:50am on Mar. 22, 2008 CIA never spoke to Curveball; David Kay criticizes German Intel
By goldenboy
Now that Germany has a right-of-center government more friendly to the United States, the German press seems to be more willing to practice a little self-criticism in terms of what Der Spiegel calls the "fiasco" that is the Iraq War.
In today's Spiegel International edition, David Kay says German Intel lied to the CIA about Curveball's supposed inability to speak English and hostility to the United States in the run-up to the Iraq War. On both counts, the Germans lied and refused to allow the CIA to interview Curveball. Instead, the CIA took on face value Curveball's information via German Intel on Saddam's WMD.
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Posted at 5:12pm on Mar. 20, 2008 The Obama/Hillary war strategy: Spot AQ a few points and then come from behind
By goldenboy
As we are reminded by Andrew Cochran today in today’s counterterrorism.org:
“Ayman al-Zawahiri, laid out in his famous letter in July 2005 to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq:
‘If our intended goal in this age is the establishment of a caliphate in the manner of the Prophet and if we expect to establish its state predominantly-according to how it appears to us-in the heart of the Islamic world, then your efforts and sacrifices-God permitting-are a large step directly towards that goal.
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Posted at 9:11am on Mar. 10, 2008 Bush and Rice should stop supporting Fatah and Give Up on Peace Process
By goldenboy
I blogged here last week on the pathetic article in Vanity Fair that glorified Hamas in its violence and criticized the Bush administration for trying to aid Fatah at Hamas's expense.Although I still criticize the VF article, my thinking on Fatah funding has changed.
Although I see the utility of such a measure, considering the fact that Hamas received over $100 million from Iran last year and continues to send its terrorists for training in Iran, I am forced today to call on the Bush administration to suspend all aid to Fatah and to call off the peace process.
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Posted at 11:31am on Mar. 5, 2008 Vanity Fair: newest propaganda organ for Hamas?
By goldenboy
[Update] Vanity Fair also published a worshipful piece on the Hamas PM back in September. More evidence of propagandistic sympathies. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/09/gaza200609
Many people on the Right were outraged at the credulity of Time magazine in its blatant propaganda efforts on behalf of insurgent terrorists in the reporting of the Haditha "massacre" in Iraq. Vanity Fair seems to have admired this credulity, as they have made their own contribution to quisling journalism.
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Posted at 6:00pm on Feb. 21, 2008 Did the Huckabee camp play a role in the NYT smear?
By goldenboy
I hate to be so jaded as to believe that a politician who sells himself as a God-fearing, salt-a-the-earth pastor could be every bit as ruthless and manipulative as Hillary Clinton. I also hate to be so corrupted as to think someone from Arkansas who has done battle with that machine would ever stoop to such low levels as to exploit disgruntled former aids of one’s competition to plant suggestive stories in the press.
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Posted at 5:59pm on Feb. 12, 2008 McCain, Vietnam and the Grammy Awards
By goldenboy
It has recently been reported that the director of a mental health clinic in Iraq has been arrested for providing AQ with the two unfortunate mentally challenged women who were subsequently detonated in the Iraqi pet market last week.
It seems the said defendant’s predecessor was shot some time back, apparently for not playing ball, by an AQ operative on a motorbike. In a rather macabre note, the writer described the disembodied heads of the women—one showing signs of Downs Syndrome, the other a particularly high forehead and other signs of mental retardation.
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Posted at 1:28am on Feb. 2, 2008 Shameful flippancy: Conservatives who betray those who fight
By goldenboy
Having grown up on military bases, I see "the troops" as real people with real lives and real blood flowing through their veins. They have families and dreams, yet they place all of it on the line to fight our wars and go when our leaders beat the drums of war.
Some in the conservative camp who have been beating these drums have recently stated they would stay at home, or even campaign for democrats, if John McCain gets the nomination. This is shamefully flippant, and it endangers the credibility the right has enjoyed for many years on issues of national security.
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