I loved this little bit of stupidity from Ruth Marcus:

Fifth, focusing governmental energy on uncovering and punishing the actions of the past will inevitably drain energy and political capital from the new administration. /i>

Excuse me, but the government had plenty of time and energy to bust Tommy Chong on a trumped up charge of selling bongs across state lines. If Chong can stand trial, so can the thugs of the cheney-Bush Junta.

Glenn, I think you made a HUGE mistake by using the pro-torture crowd's terminology on FOX. They use the terms "rendition" and "enhanced interrogation techniques" to hide what they are up to:

KIDNAPPING and TORTURE and MURDER!

You're not the only one to make this mistake. I wish those who opposed torture in the media would use the blunt and forceful words to describe what these people did.

It's not surprising they are trying to incite the assassination of Barack Obama. After all, the McCain/Palin campaign's speechwriters used lines from Westbrook Pegler in Sarah Palin's acceptance speech. Pegler was a Jew-baiting crackpot and a supporter of lynching who called for the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Kennedy. So yes, they know exactly what they're doing.

This is eerily similar to what happened in Israel, when the right-wing Likkud party ginned up a campaign to smear Yitzhak Rabin (whom they couldn't beat at the polls) as a traitor, terrorist and even a Nazi camp guard. The smear didn't win for Likkud but then again, it wasn't meant to. What id DID succeed in doing was inciting a young ideologue named Ygal Amir into assassinating Rabin, which he did.

For more:

http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=160

Martin isn't the only Jew-baiter Sean Hannity treats as a respected guest on his show. He practically turned his two TV shows and radio show into infomercials for anti-Semitic crackpot Jerome Corsi for two solid weeks. In 2004 Corsi wasn't just content to lie about John Kerry's war record, he also attacked him as being untrustworthy because of his partial Jewish ancestry.

Here's a quote from Corsi:

"After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"

You can read more of Corsi's filth here:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200408270004?f=s_search

In fact, he's a disgrace to ANY uniform. Yes, Burger King, too.

Oliver North has a a 40-year track record of lying and covering up war crimes and atrocities. He was a character witness in the court martial of his buddy, fellow Marine Randy Herrod, who was on trial for the murder of civilians at Son Thang in Vietnam. North also appeared on TV whining about all the coverage My Lai was getting. He lied to cover up the numerous atrocities of the Contras, too.

As this article points out, it's rather two-faced for Fox News to attack Obama for being on an educational board that Bill Ayers sits on, when Fox has a show hosted by a man linked to the La Penca bombing in Costa Rica that killed four and wounded thirteen in 1984.

http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/index.php?s=son+thang

I saw the new ad from the Republitards, where they paint Obama as the second coming of Mandingo, out to attack white women. It also likened Obama to a wolf and his campaign to a pack of wolves.

I wouldn't be surprised if Michael Vick endorsed Sarah Palin. Both take pleasure in killing canines for "sport".

Kinda sums it up, doesn't it?

I'm watching the live feed here:

http://theuptake.org/

The police are making it a point to attack reporters and have just pepper sprayed three -including two AP reporters- with direct shots to the face.

Next time someone asks you what a concern troll is, point them to The New Republic.

Left-Benny Anderson, Front-Frida Lyngstad, Back-Agnetha Faltskog, Right-Bjorn Ulvaeus

The reason ABBA still rules is because they had a gift for song hooks and melody that hasn't been matched since. It helps that Frida and Agnetha were great singers (not just pop singers, but singers in any genre) and unlike so many American singers, they don't ham it up by over-singing (i.e. enunciating every vowel in a one syllable word -I remember a re-make where the singer cycled through O-U-E-I-A while singing the word "I" in "I Will Survive").

Short of staying home on election day and withholding money this late in the campaign, we need to compile a Shit List of the members of Congress who voted for this abomination and the MCA. Primary their asses and make their lives hell. Heckle them at public meetings and if necessary, run 3rd party candidates to make sure that even if you can't win, they will lose.

There's a reason no member of Congress will cross the gun and Israel lobbies. Anyone who does so has a load of bricks dropped on them.

MAKE 'EM PAY!

The Senate postponed the vote for Helms' funeral. In other words, a dead Jesse Helms did more to stop this fascist FISA bill than a live Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi COMBINED!

http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=130

Like any schoolyard bully, the Republitards can spot an easy mark and will be back for the Democrats’ lunch money again and again until they learn to fight back.

It’s analogous to football, when a receiver chickens out and drops a pass because he’s afraid of getting hit. What does this do? It encourages defenders to hit him that much harder next time, since they know now that he is a coward and afraid of taking a hit. Also, no defensive player wants to be shown up by a known coward, so they make sure that if nothing else, they beat on the guy with “alligator arms”.

Isn't Olbermann on thin ice by basing his argument on the Appeal to Authority fallacy? Especially when that legal authority (John Dean) was disbarred?