Saturday, January 31, 2004

Daily Kos || Media not doing it's job. Good.

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.: "The media has one overriding job this campaign season -- to whittle the field. For several decades now, the mass media has had the power to drive candidates out of the race by simply ignoring them, by pulling coverage and by showering attention on the perceived front-runners. "

Friday, January 30, 2004

Thursday, January 29, 2004

The SC Debate: A to Z by Iddybud

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"Buy American or Bye-Bye American!" - Dennis Kucinich

Debate: "George W. Bush must be held accountable"

Democratic Contenders Attack Bush on Iraq, Terrorism, Trade and Economy: "President George W. Bush must be held accountable "

U.S. Military 'Sure' to Catch Bin Laden, but Bush Unsure of the Consequences

Yahoo! News - U.S. Military 'Sure' to Catch Bin Laden

Is it time to say "yeah"? Or is it a time to reflect upon the potential consequences?

I am frankly a little tired of all the dying.

As the Tao te Ching says, "a victory is a funeral". May we all have wisdom.

Mother of All Cousins Calculators

Mother of All Cousins Calculators

Clyburn turns back on ML King

Wesley Clark vowed to continue in the legacy of Martin Luther King. But I guess that wasn't good enough for Mr. Clyburn. I wonder how much he was paid for his endorsement?

Rush Limbaugh goes insane, screams, pounds fist

Rush went crazy on his show today, making Dean's so-called scream -- which was really an attempt to be heard above the roar of applause --
sound like whispers. Rush is a hypocrite. He is a hothead. Moreover...he is obsolescent.

Why is the media blackballing Clark? Contact them!

Clark Community Network || Contact the media about Clark - Bombard them all

I personally think Edwards should take Clark under his wing, and vice versa. Since Clark has more votes than Edwards, and is order and more experienced...they ought to team up under Clark/Edwards. This way the Media could not ignore Clark.

Just a thought...

Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data on Children (washingtonpost.com)

Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data on Children (washingtonpost.com): "Makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence as they weigh fresh fears that such medicines may cause some children to become suicidal. "

Guardian UK - In full voice against Bush

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | In full voice against Bush

Can Bush sustain the frontal assault from every direction? I hope not...

Salon.com News | Edwards rejects a Kerry-Edwards ticket

Salon.com News | Edwards rejects a Kerry-Edwards ticket
But a Clark/Edwards ticket? Could this be just the correct synergy to win America?

Nurse Griswold takes on Bush & the Chickenhawks

She also puts Peter Jennings and the sandbrain Media for not doing their homework

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Big Media Kills Dean and Clark. What to Do.

Americans have a right to be pissed. The elite 1%ers in the Big Media have killed off two of our great bretheren, and are about to kill off yet more.

Dean and Clark are the most recent casualties. ABC News, to their credit, showed a tape of Dean's famous scream recorded by a member in the crowd. You couldn't even hear Dean. And why? Because Dean was using a unidirectional mic...and it filtered out the roar, and I mean ROAR, of the crowd. Were that the tape that was played and replayed and replayed and replayed and replayed...Dean would be Number 1 today. Guarantee it. Business attracts business. Excitement breeds excitement. And the ROAR was proof of the excitement.

The Big Media killed, or are killing, Dean. It is a disgrace.

But they have killed, or are in the process of killing off, Clark as well.

They realize how formidable opponent he would be, just as they know how contagious Dean can be.

It is a disgrace. It is substandard. And Clark is right. We need a higher standard.

Don't let the Media convince you of their game that says the game is over before it actually is. Why not use the entire time? Keep everyone in the race.

One thing is crystal clear. Television is obsolete. Use the net, Luke! Say no to your TV.

Editorials Question Bush's Role in 'Cooking' Up a War

Editorials Question Bush's Role in 'Cooking' Up a War

"I'm not afraid of big, evil corporations. They're my partners." - Rush Limbaugh

Rush confesses his participation in axis of evil corporations on his radio show today. Poor, desperate, beholdened druggie! Let me guess...pharmaceutical corporations??

Text: Senator John Edwards’ Speech to His Supporters

Text: Senator John Edwards’ Speech to His Supporters

Curious that it is just a small snippet. I smell fear...

Text: Gen. Wesley Clark's Speech to His Supporters

Text: Gen. Wesley Clark's Speech to His Supporters

The Republicans and Media are scared shitless of General Clark rising. They are doing everything in their power to write him off, hoping we will think he cannot get the job done. But he CAN get the job done. And I'm sick of the Media and Republicans picking the players....

"John Edwards is the best political talent in years." (So why are we overlooking him?)

John Edwards: Welcome

I keep hearing very smart talkingheads tell us that John Edwards is the best political talent in years...or some variant thereof. So why are Democrats choosing lesser talents? Do they really NOT want to win?

When it comes to raw talent, I also think Wes Clark is doing a great job...and has the added benefit of having a great message. He, like Edwards, are most formidable. MOST formidable.

The Republicans and Media know this, and are demarketing Edwards and Clark. They are, frankly, afraid of a Clark/Edwards ticket. Scared to death. And they are in a hurry for Democrats to remove them from the table.

Don't play into their hands.

Big Media are part of the problem. Not the solution.

Are not Clark and Edwards the real face of America...at its best?

Polls are there to trip you up, on your way to your conscience. Think with your own head and heart. This is not the time to lock out great candidates.

"The press has been eagerly dismantling Howard Dean." - Tod Lindberg on the Diane Rehm Show

So, shall we eagerly dismantle the Press?

Although I tend to think that Clark/Edwards would be the strongest ticket, I like and respect Dr. Dean and would certainly consider him to be in the real top tier, and would would vote for him in a heartbeat. He is a brother Democrat. As Democrats, we should be enraged by the mistreatment of a brother.

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Native Americans Endorse Wes Clark

Native American Times - America's Largest Independent, Native American News Source: "Citing his strong belief in tribes as sovereign governments and stellar military credentials, the Native American Times has endorsed General Wesley Clark in the Democratic Primary. "

This is not new news. It is just new, and important, to me...

Kerry wins, Media Ebullient, Clark and Edwards tie for 3rd

Kerry Wins in N.H.; Dean Second (washingtonpost.com)

wow. can you feel the excitement.

one good thing. Dean, Clark and Edwards are still in! Yay!!!!!!
Go underdogs!!!

KAIT - Jonesboro, AR: Who voted for John Edwards

KAIT - Jonesboro, AR: Who voted for John EdwardsFor New Hampshire voters who cared most about health care, education and the economy -- John Edwards was their man.

In Praise of Love - a film by Jean-Luc Godard

In Praise of Love - a film by Jean-Luc Godard
Thanks to worldly philosopher and social critic, Robert Littlejohn, for leading me to this nugget by the old master. -Anon

CLARK-TV "When you've no time to wait..."

CLARK TV - Watch and share these television commercials with your friends. Watch them in your own time. And as often as you like. Don't be a slave to the TV box!

"George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate."

Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message : Messages: "I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants. In fact, he “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.'
Actually, what I meant to say up in New Hampshire last week was that 'We're going to have Bush for dessert come November!' I'm always mixing up 'dessert' and 'desert' -- I'm sure many of you have that problem.
Well, well, well. As George W. would say, 'It's time to smoke ‘em out of their hole!' Thanks to my 'humorous' introduction of Wesley Clark 10 days ago in New Hampshire -- and the lughead way the no-sense-of-humor media has covered it -- there were 15 million hits this weekend on my website. Everyone who visited the site got to read the truth about Bush not showing up for National Guard duty. "

Thanks to Iddybud for this link.

Pat Robertson says the word "Sperm" on National Public Radio


"Sperm!"



Hide the children! Pat's on!

The 10 Offensives: America's Most Offensive People

Phat Robertson
Jerry Falwell
Rush Limbaugh
Ann Coulter
Tom Delay
Zell Miller
Dennis Miller
Lisa Myers
John Stossel
George W. Bush

Book in progress available for only 9.95.
(Not to be confused with "The 10 Offenses" by infomercialist, Dr. Pat Robertson.

MSNBC - Bush's Secret Weapon: White Yuppie Puppies

Conformist kids of conformist white parents are flocking to George W. Bush, the man who pretends to be President of the Disunited States of the Middle of North America

"We who work in the news media owe Howard Dean an apology "

STAR-TELEGRAM.COM - Fort Worth Dallas news: "Anyway, the reason we owe this man (whom, by the way, I do not support for president) an apology is because we say that we want our presidents to be one of us. But when they act like one of us, then we beat them up and say they are not acting presidential."

Early coverage of Clark's first victory

The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News -
Boston Globe
Guardian, UK
ABC News

ABCNEWS.com : Clark Wins Inital N.H. Primary Votes

ABCNEWS.com : Clark Wins Inital N.H. Primary Votes
First in his class at West Point. Rhodes Scholar. General.
Not bad credentials, really.
Maybe Clark really is the best qualified of the bunch!

May he be given a fair reckoning...

Clark wins early N.H. vote

Clark wins early N.H. vote

Clark Wins Dixville Notch!

Clark Community Network || Clark Wins Dixville Notch!
It's a landslide!

Monday, January 26, 2004

Halliburton's Gig Is Up -

Center for American Progress - Halliburton's Gig Is Up - Page

As Peter Jennings said, this is simply a question of knowing a person by the friends they keep. Halliburton and Cheney are WAY more friendly than Clark and Moore. Will Jennings ask Cheney about his shady friends? What about Enron? So many shady friends, so little time...

Returning female GIs report rapes, poor care

The State | 01/25/2004 | Returning female GIs report rapes, poor care

The US is now in the hands of a group of extremists

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | The US is now in the hands of a group of extremists

Atlantic Unbound | John Edwards: The Real Real Deal

Edwards bests Kerry at every turn...

The Smoking Jet : Teaching the Media to Think

Smoking Jet Campaign

Democrats.com has Bush's number. They also the number and email of a lot of media types who need to hear the truth about Bush's spotchy military record.

Get the word out. Bush is not good enough for America. America needs a higher standard, and a higher standard bearer.

The New Republic Online: On whether Bush was a deserter

The New Republic Online: Standard Issue

Here is that well-crafted piece of bias which may well bring down the House of Bush, if not their house of cards:

General Clark, a lot of people say they don't [know] you well, so this is really a simple question about knowing a man by his friends. The other day you had a rally here, and one of the men who stood up to endorse you is the controversial filmmaker Michael Moore. You said you were delighted with him.
At one point, Mr. Moore said, in front of you, that President Bush--he's saying he'd like to see you, the general, and President Bush, who he called a "deserter."

Now, that's a reckless charge not supported by the facts. And I was curious to know why you didn't contradict him, and whether or not you think it would've been a better example of ethical behavior to have done so.


My rabbit owes his life to Mr. Moore. How dare you, Sir!

For a full year, there is no record that he showed up for the periodic drills required of part-time guardsmen.

from the Boston Globe...

Clark Volunteers Connect Across the Miles


Marlene and Wes exchange useful pleasantries


Edwards Packs the Halls with Bows of Jolly

Due to crowd size Edwards makes two town halls out of one, in a stunning sleight of hand, making even David Blaine genuflect in utter awe. Well maybe.

PoliticsNH.com - New Hampshire's Online Political Network

PoliticsNH.com - New Hampshire's Online Political Network

Kerry, Skull & Bones

Clark Community Network || Kerry's Loyalties: the REAL Story

Sunday, January 25, 2004

craven apology to the right from the left - Tony Hendra.

TAP: Vol 15, Iss. 2. We See That Now. Tony Hendra.: "A heartfelt -- no -- abject -- no -- craven apology to the right from the left for our campaign of hate, anger and malice against God's own president.
By Tony Hendra"

Sentinel & Enterprise Online - United States should investigate al-Qaida's ties to Saudi Arabia, U.S. oil

Sentinel & Enterprise Online - United States should investigate al-Qaida's ties to Saudi Arabia, U.S. oil

AlterNet: The Hidden State of the Union

AlterNet: The Hidden State of the Union By George Lakoff, AlterNet

The 50 lies, exaggerations, distortions and half truths that took this country to war

News: "The 50 lies, exaggerations, distortions and half truths that took this country to war"

Which Democratic Candidate saved 1.5 million people from genocide? Wesley Clark...

Which Democratic Candidate saved 1.5 million people from genocide? Wesley Clark...: "So for the last four months, General Clark has had to spend most of his time not only campaigning for votes but also simply introducing himself - telling people who he is, explaining to them where Kosovo is, and doing other things that might seem beneath a man who, arguably, saved 1.5 million people from genocide."

No offense, but it will take 2 Southerners to beat Bush

Clark Community Network || No offense, but it will take 2 Southerners to beat Bush

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Blogitorial: Thank you for taking my call: Ted Koppel pranked during the North East power outage

I blogged about this right after it happened. I couldn't remember the actual words though. Here they are...