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GOPers Refusing To Say If Obama Is A US Citizen

How do you explain the fact that the Hawaii Dept. of Health (yes, the Hawaii Dept. of Health, not the parents) published Obama’s birth announcement in two Honolulu newspapers back in 1961?

I’d love to hear your explanation of how, or why, that could happen if he wasn’t born in a Hawaiian hospital…

Look At These Liberals Who Want To Destroy America

I’d always pictured the group to destroy America to look a little more villainous. That group looks like the people standing in line in front of me at Starbucks.

Republican Party Less Popular Than Dick Cheney

FOX should give Cheney his own variety show, where he can tell some jokes and sing and dance in little skits and stuff. I’d watch it, even as a liberal.

Anti-Letterman Protestors Blast His Young Son And His Wife

Of course FOX was there. The video is still on foxnews.com’s main Entertainment page, taped during Greta Van Susteren’s show. The biggest difference in the news coverage was FOX did not report how many protesters there were–for other news outlets, it was a big part of the story.

Leading Evangelical: Obama Goes Beyond Tolerance For Gays, All The Way To Pride

I’ve noticed on many political boards that the folks who say that Obama is spending his time on dates with Michelle, pride declarations, and other unimportant things rather than focusing on the economy, also happen to be the same folks who claim that Obama is turning this country into a socialist mess, and government should stay out the way and let the economy take its course.

Texas Congressman: "Greatest Threat To America Is Liberal Media Bias"

To be accurate, the data is

FOX 39% neutral on dems
47% neutral on repubs

ABC 41% neutral on dems
50% neutral on repubs

CBS 39% neutral on dems
43% neutral on repubs

NBC 52% neutral on dems
41% neutral on repubs

PBS 67% neutral on dems
78% neutral on repubs

Thats from the .pdf of data tables from the cited study on journalism.org. So, as I see it, FOX does beat CBS for neutrality, but not the other networks, and doesn’t come close to PBS. Fox, as expected, is the only one who’s “non-neutral” stories slant Republican.

I’m not disagreeing with the media slanting liberal, just clarifying the data in the study.

On Tuesday's Radio Show...

Play a medley of clips from Reagan speeches. That stuff is like conservative prozac.

Prejean: Racy Photos Taken When Wind Accidentally Blew My Way

I can’t believe I come out of lurking to discuss implants.

From what I read, the implants were relatively recent. The reason it was a story was that the California Miss USA pageant paid for the procedure. I believe pictures seen here are pre-implant. Check out a recent picture of her (http://blog.cleveland.com/ent_impact_people/2009/05/medium_miss-swisuit.jpg) and note the difference.

Arlen Specter To Become A Democrat

Moderate Republican Olympia Snow: “Ultimately, we’re heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way things are unfolding.”

That’s what happens when the voice of your base is Rush and Beck (and I don’t mean the musicians).

The Future of the Republican Party?

Oh for pete’s sake. I haven’t posted in awhile, and I guess links are no longer allowed. Sorry about that. Search “fall of the athenian republic” on snopes if interested.

The Future of the Republican Party?

The “study” he sites was from the 2000 election (not 2008), and it was fabricated. The “author” from Hamline University claims to have had no involvement.

Another Republican Endorses Obama

No where near in numbers the pumas and hillary supporters are.

Let’s see, high-profile Clinton supporters who have publicly endorsed McCain. Well, you have Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and, um, hmm. I can’t think of any others.

White Screen of Death

Thanks! I had that problem all day yesterday, but so far so good today. Maybe it did have something to do with the chat stream.

In the “completely unrelated” department: Sarah Palin wears a democratic party scarf–what? Does she know her own party’s symbol?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-election/donkey-wrong-sarah-palin-wears-vote-democrat-scarf-at-republican-rally-14011708.html

Are Conservatives Turning Against Palin?

My favorite Kathleen Parker line from today was “If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”

That quote was on today’s National Review Online.

The McCain Sham

Chris,

Philip J. Berg, Esquire, has previously tried to disbar Supreme Court Justices Thomas, O’ Connor, and Scalia (that didn’t pan out for him). He has tried to sue the Bush administration for covering up the 9/11 attacks (that hasn’t worked). He has also been fined for “a laundry list of unethical actions,” including fraudulent claims “utterly barren of any scintilla of legal principles.”

(law.com) http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1122023117263

The McCain Sham

Brian, are you sure of that quote? You could be right, but everything I’ve seen contradicts that. Reid is no fan of McCain:

“If we lose progress on this because of one person, that’s John McCain,” Reid said. “He’s standing in the way.” At the same time, Reid downplayed McCain’s past contributions, noting that he is “one of 100” and has offered more than one position this week on the financial plan.”

The McCain Sham

According to this screenshot that appeared in on the Washington Post’s site, McCain has declared victory in the debates already. The ad mistakenly appeared on the Wall Street Journal’s website:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/images/26Sep_Friday_WSJ.JPG

Are Onscreen Kisses Immoral?

I agree with William, Um Cara, and others who don’t really see anything wrong with Cameron’s choice. I don’t think Mr. Colmes was doing his best work posting this thread, or even the Palin at church thread, which also is also personal business. Now if Palin were pushing for legislation based on her beliefs, then it’s no longer just her business, and I’d probably have something to say about it.

McCain Wants To Postpone Friday's Debate

(way off topic)

Um Cara, may I ask how you format your posts? Is it just em, strong, and blockquote, like html? I looked for a wordpress tutorial but couldn’t really come up with a good answer.

McCain Wants To Postpone Friday's Debate

“Good for Senator John McCain for being a leader and putting his country over his campaign again! I have just one question for all you liberals…what if Obama decided to do this first? AND NEWSFLASH: Senators McCain and Obama are agreeing on this bailout plan! They are to issue a joint statement. I bet that is eating you up!”

You mean the bailout plan that Obama proposed to McCain six hours before McCain’s statement? That’s great!

“The Obama campaign said in a statement that Obama had called McCain around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to propose that they issue a joint statement in support of a package to help fix the economy as soon as possible. McCain called back six hours later and agreed to the idea of the statement, the Obama campaign said. McCain’s statement was issued to the media a few minutes later.”

Of course, now the McCain campaign is claiming that Obama did call at 8:30, but they didn’t get the message to McCain, who knew nothing about the Obama proposal.