Christopher Hitchens isn’t very impressed with the New York Times theater critic’s latest blast at George Bush:
Now, “truthiness” is a laugh-word invented by Steven Colbert who (along with his friend Jon Stewart and the other heroes of Comedy Central) is the beau ideal of what Rich considers to be the ironic. In this book and in his regular column, he gives “truthiness” a workout whenever he can. He clearly wishes he had coined it himself, and he has kept it going for perhaps a touch longer
Christopher Hitchens isn’t very impressed with the New York Times theater critic’s latest blast at George Bush:
Now, “truthiness” is a laugh-word invented by Steven Colbert who (along with his friend Jon Stewart and the other heroes of Comedy Central) is the beau ideal of what Rich considers to be the ironic. In this book and in his regular column, he gives “truthiness” a workout whenever he can. He clearly wishes he had coined it himself, and he has kept it going for perhaps a touch longer
They seem to continue to rediscover the same “fact” every year or so:
Finally! The first time the Bush administration ever acknowledged global warming! At least, since 2001, when President Bush said:
First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. [
They seem to continue to rediscover the same “fact” every year or so:
Finally! The first time the Bush administration ever acknowledged global warming! At least, since 2001, when President Bush said:
First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. [
They seem to continue to rediscover the same “fact” every year or so:
Finally! The first time the Bush administration ever acknowledged global warming! At least, since 2001, when President Bush said:
First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. [
Nothing to see, move along.
The religion that dare not speak its name. Or rather, the name that the media dare not speak.
Ron Cass asks why the Sandy Burglar story isn’t one of the top political stories of the decade:
We all have a pretty good idea what the money was doing in Representative William Jefferson’s freezer. But the questions about President William Jefferson Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, just keep piling up.
It’s time we got some answers.
I can’t understand why the Republican Congress didn’t demand hearings into the Justice Department decision to let Berger off with a slap of the wrist. I can only surmise that it was because it was a decision of a Republican Justice Department. Now, they might be more curious, particularly with the new revelations, but they no longer control Congress, and I assume that the new majority will want to keep this dirt safely and deeply under the rug.
Ron Cass asks why the Sandy Burglar story isn’t one of the top political stories of the decade:
We all have a pretty good idea what the money was doing in Representative William Jefferson’s freezer. But the questions about President William Jefferson Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, just keep piling up.
It’s time we got some answers.
I can’t understand why the Republican Congress didn’t demand hearings into the Justice Department decision to let Berger off with a slap of the wrist. I can only surmise that it was because it was a decision of a Republican Justice Department. Now, they might be more curious, particularly with the new revelations, but they no longer control Congress, and I assume that the new majority will want to keep this dirt safely and deeply under the rug.
Ron Cass asks why the Sandy Burglar story isn’t one of the top political stories of the decade:
We all have a pretty good idea what the money was doing in Representative William Jefferson’s freezer. But the questions about President William Jefferson Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, just keep piling up.
It’s time we got some answers.
I can’t understand why the Republican Congress didn’t demand hearings into the Justice Department decision to let Berger off with a slap of the wrist. I can only surmise that it was because it was a decision of a Republican Justice Department. Now, they might be more curious, particularly with the new revelations, but they no longer control Congress, and I assume that the new majority will want to keep this dirt safely and deeply under the rug.
Joel Mowbray talks about the apparent double standard at play, in the Justice Department and the media, about Sandy Berger:
The mainstream media’s palpable disinterest in the Berger case is hardly justified. Many questions remain unanswered. Of the few explanations Berger and his defenders have actually provided, none passes the laugh test.
Berger claimed in court last year that smuggling classified documents out of the National Archives was about “personal convenience,” but the inspector general report states that he walked out of the building and down the street, found a construction site, looked to see if the coast was clear, then slid behind a fence and hid the documents under a trailer.
Which part of that elaborate procedure was “convenient”?
According to the New York Times story last April following Berger’s guilty plea, “Associates attributed the episode to fatigue and poor judgment.” While lying to authorities is poor judgment, it is also illegal. And how exactly did fatigue drive Berger to use his scissors to shred three versions of the top-secret document?
I think we know how this would have been covered if it had been a former Republican National Security Advisor. One of many reasons to not allow the Democrats near the White House at war time.