the froth estate at work

Watching news readers on CNN dissecting the captured British sailor situation, I noticed that the "most trusted" news network in the world used the following caption, masterfully fonted in extra-scary capital letters:


"WHAT'S IRAN TRYING TO PROVE?"



Offhand, I'd say it's something along the lines of whatever it is that Forrest W. Bush was trying to prove by having spokespeople in his administration use Guernica-sized photos of the dead Saddam Hussein and Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi as backdrops for propag...


...err, press, uh, press conferences.


It's a good thing I didn't have to ask for a clue to answer that question, because it's clear CNN doesn't have one.

Friday Cat Blogging

A day or two ago, my spouse was overheard to say to our cat “Buffy, you’re a narcoleptic cat.”

My response, of course, “Isn’t that redundant?”

minstrel cramp

I had read about Karl Rove's music debut last night at this year's press corps dinner, but I finally got to see the clip on Olbermann tonight. Simply amazing. Reading about the "rappin' Rove" show didn't begin to bear the impact that actually seeing it did. I find myself compelled to borrow a turn of phrase from the immortal Molly Ivins.




"It was probably better in the original blackface."

ba-bu-bow, ba-baow, bu-bi-bewoow

Anybody else get the flash of deja vu from Kyle Sampson's wonderfully Rovian testimony today that they were watching George Costanza having a "was that wrong?" moment while trying to explain himself to the Senate?

is it possible to OD on irony?

From yesterday's Sucker Carlton show during a conversation among Sucker, Pat Buchanan and Bill Press about Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations:

"BUCHANAN: But you hit it, Tucker. It is the feminist thing that is the problem. It’s not that she`s a woman. You get a lot of women out there, men would be very attractive, ready to vote for her. But when that voice of hers goes up, brother, and hits the high pitches, you know, every husband in America has heard that, Bill, and everyone one of them takes off.

PRESS: That is a sexist remark.

BUCHANAN: Have you heard her at the top level?

CARLSON: It may be [a sexist remark], but it’s also entirely, undebatably true."




Let me see if I understand this right. Both Pat Buchanan and Sucker Carlton are bagging on how shrill somebody else's voice is?

These two closet cases are so strident when they get excited that they sound like cast members from La Cage aux Folles. They make Hillary Clinton seem like James Earl Jones in comparison. Don't they ever WATCH themselves?

multiple-choice

MSNBC is reporting that Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani has said that if he is elected President, he wants his wife to sit in on Cabinet meetings.




Hmmmm, is that the first wife, the second wife, the third wife, or the next one?

best served cold

Just read it and laugh. I have done this myself, and it had better results than I hoped!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130177-c,sites/article.html

where NOT to shop

BOYCOTT THIS COMPANY.
CLOSE THEM DOWN NOW.


"March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Circuit City Stores Inc., the second-largest U.S. electronics retailer after Best Buy Co., fired 3,400 of its highest-paid sales people and will hire replacements willing to work for less.

The company said its eliminating jobs that paid 'well above' market rates. Those who were fired can apply for the lower pay, company spokesman Bill Cimino said today. He declined to give the wages of the fired workers or the new hires."


Boy, they're a class act, aren't they? It doesn't seem to indicate whether they are also firing their highest-paid management people and replacing them with folks who are willing to work for less, though.

Veto!

According to MSNBC, our Prez is telling the Cattleman's Club that he will veto any troop withdrawal legislation that passes his desk.

Once again, he vetos the American Constitution and the wishes of the American people.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17828474/

"Members of Congress need to stop making political statements, start providing vital funds for our troops and get a bill to my desk that I can sign into law," Bush was expected to say in a speech at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association meeting in Washington. Excerpts were released in advance by the White House. "If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people will know who to hold responsible."

tragic disappointment

Dennis Miller has turned into Sean Hannity with gratuitous faux-intellectual references.

because I'm a nice guy

The Republican wool-pulling artists have been lamenting poor Monica Goodling's quandary over claiming 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination when she appears to testify about the "overblown personnel matter" scandal that has been throttling them all week. The main talking point seems to be that the nasty old revenge-crazed Democrat party has set a "perjury trap" for her.

Because I believe in fair play, I'm going to give them a freebie and explain, in minute and legally sound detail, how to avoid that tempting piece of peanut-butter-coated cheese bait and escape this barbaric and little-known archaic varmint control device.




Don't break the law and lie about it in the first fucking place.

opposite day

This evening I had occasion to once again read the document that starts thus:

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


When I reached this point in my reading, I stopped, because there was only one horrible question that I could not escape.




Does any of this sound remotely like the country we are living in?

knock me over with a feather

After weeks of waiting, the results are finally in:

Anna Nicole Smith died of a drug overdose.



Damn, who could have seen that one coming?

musta been smokin' Bud

I could have sworn I saw a recent memorial here to the true star of the David Letterman show, the late Larry "Bud" (Calvert DeForest) Melman.

That's what too much TV does to your mind...

good vocabulosity

I more strongly suspect every day that Republicans think that the word "oversight" is synonymous with the word "overlook."


This would certainly explain a lot.

bad credit where bad credit is due

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Death by Googlebomb. I love the internet.

CALL HIS BLUFF, DAMMIT!

I just got the chance to watch Bush's little "bring it on" moment from earlier today. Like a boxer who grins at his opponent after he takes one right on the button, this little weasel is scared. He is shitting his pants that the Democrats won't flinch and will force him to be held accountable to the people of the United States.


The time is now.

He doesn't have a hand to play.




Impeach the bastard.

I miss the virgin sacrifices...

Happy Spring Equinox!

looking back

Four years.

3218 American lives.
25,000 Americans wounded.
150,000 Iraqis as "collateral damage."
400 billion dollars already spent - and no end in sight.

We could have:
Given every American premium health care.
Made the United States energy-independent.
Repaired our crumbling national infrastructure.
Cared for the hungry people of the entire world.
Revitalized our sagging national education system.
AND given everyone in the country a brand-new car.


Instead, we are the most feared and mistrusted nation on the planet. We are becoming the largest banana republic in history. Our "representatives" in government are gorging themselves at the trough of taxpayer dollars and steering the country to suit their private desires. Osama bin Laden is still at large. The "war on terror" has proven to be the most massive fraud and boondoggle ever perpetrated, and this administration has proven to be the most corrupt in history.




Impeach the bastard.

bad juju

I have seen the future and it is bleak.

The trap that George Bush has left his likely Democratic successor is even deeper than the immediately obvious. The only thing that has been keeping our teetering stock market afloat is the economic boost being artificially provided by the war in Iraq. As soon as the next president starts to put an end to the war, the market will experience at least a two thousand-point drop, interest rates will rise, energy prices will go through the roof, the dollar will fall dramatically, and the only option we have is to grit our teeth and bear it. Needless to say, the Republicans will have a field day, heaping the blame for all of the havoc on the hapless recipient of the inevitable fruits of the Bush administration's "policies."

Impeach the bastard now, while we still have the chance. After he's out of office he will suffer no consequences of his misbegotten presidency.

a brief review

Deepak Chopra is a fool and a charlatan.



Although, I do envy him for diddling Heather Graham in that one movie.

o frabjous day!

The amazing "Daily Scribble" is BACK after a long hiatus! Click the link, you won't regret it. This is some of the most penetrating and funny political sarcasm in cartoon form that you will ever see. Don't forget to visit the archives.

http://www.theillustrateddailyscribble.com

Communist Plot

The godless liberals are at it again, trying to take this country down and lead it to Armageddon:

Coins circulating without ‘In God We Trust’
U.S. Mint admits to the goof with the new George Washington dollar

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17501178/

And people are now tittering back and forth that it's a conspiracy....sheesh....they don't have time to read up and follow the news to find out what is really going on in our country, and our world but leave god's name off the edge of a coin and the world is coming to an end.

It's okay to march into another country and kill thousands of people (incuding our own soldiers and contractors) and spend our children into lifetime debt, but a pox upon those strike the lords name from the edge of our dollar coins.

quaking aspens

Scooter Libby - guilty on four of five counts for perjury and obstruction of justice.





Let the squealing begin!

another question, please?

Breaking news is that Dick Cheney is being treated for a blood clot.







Do they know whose blood it is?