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POPS Tom Tancredo Walks Off MSNBC Set Because Of Markos Moulitas "You're not going to do that. You're not going to try to insult me that way and then pretend like we're just going on and talk about that. You either apologize ..." When Moulitas did not apologize, Tancredo simply took out his earpiece and walked away. As a Republican student activist, Tancredo spoke out in favor of the Vietnam War but did not serve. After graduating from college in June 1969, he became eligible to serve in Vietnam. Tancredo said he went for his physical, telling doctors he'd been treated for depression, and eventually got a deferment.
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POPSfactcheck.org am going to go see what the annenburg school is all about now..............
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POPSMoney For CIA Witch Hunts, Federal Boondoggles, and ACORN But Not For Locking Up Terrorists
with Joshuapundit focusing more on the institutional impacts and Right Truth going after Obama's motives. The reflexive liberal sympathy for terrorist prisoners - a sensibility usually justified with gestures toward the rule of law or toward "our values" - extends all the way into freeing filthbags like Megrahi and coddling rogues like Iran and its proxies. See Soccer Dad's post on that. Bookworm Room described sitting through Julie & Julia. Liberal filmmakers seem to believe they get extra credit for slipping gratuitous anti-conservative stereotypes into their works (they used to in cinema school - old habits die hard). This self-satisfied sneering is a particularly charming aspect of Blue State cocoons, though to get the full experience you really need to go to Broadway. Those tools are still slipping unscripted anti-Bush references into their songs, much to the delight of their aren't-we-oh-so-liberal-together audiences.
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POPSSmartRemarks: "Buttocks or Bullets?" In 2004 six men were arrested for stripping down to their thongs and mooning President Bush, mirroring the infamous Abu Ghraib human pyramid photo. They were cuffed and arrested. And the right wing was OUTRAGED and the disrespect shown to the president. What are we to make of the armed "patriots" showing up to town halls where the President is speaking, holding signs calling for the "Tree of Liberty" to be washing " with the blood of patriots and tyrants ? What message are they sending? One John Wilkes Boothe (Lincoln's assassin) and John Hinckley (Reagan's would-be assassin) would understand loud & clear. The right wing loses an election, and out come the guns and threats and cries of "oppression!" This should be no surprise. They've been shooting and bombing abortion doctors for decades. I'm watching for shrines to St. Timothy of Oklahoma to show up.
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POPSGoose/Gander? Guess It's About Who's Cooked. This article pissed me off. But I was heartened by some of the comments. Some guy does up a poster expressing his opinion and I've seen it all over the place. Personally, I thought it was brilliant. No one had a problem with the anti-Bush, anti-Cheney cartoons and commentary... but I guess that was different. When was the last time - in your memory - that anyone, especially a kid, was taken into custody (but not 'arrested') for a political cartoon posted anywhere? Is satire dead? Is political commentary now a crime? Free speech is now a thing of the past? Or is it that we just can't disagree with the Chosen One? Well, they better come and get me because I don't like the guy, I sure as hell didn't vote for him or any of his cronies and I just might have to put this poster on my lawn.
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POPSGOP in 2007: CIA "Misleading," an "Anti-Bush Cabal" Behind a "Coup d'Etat" Among Speaker Pelosi's interlocutors now is former Intelligence Committee chairman, Republican Pete Hoekstra (R-MI). But as ThinkProgress detailed, years before he claimed Pelosi was "blaming the CIA," Hoekstra blasted "an intelligence community that covers up what it does and then lies to Congress." And when it came to the 2007 NIE which asserted Tehran halted its nuclear program in 2003, Hoekstra insisted the agency was holding back: Similarly, in 2007, Hoekstra described a closed-door briefing by representatives from the intelligence community (including CIA) on the National Intelligence Estimate of Iran's nuclear capability, saying that the members "didn't find forthcoming."
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POPSThe victory of the emotions "The ghosts of the French Revolution stir on our continent. Youths on the internet receive a hundred "up-votes" on social news sites for suggesting that bankers should be slain in the streets, a thousand for suggesting the same of Republicans. When discussing the morality of this, the voice of modesty that suggests that rich people, Republicans and Mormons have done nothing deserving of capital punishment is down-voted into oblivion. The idea that members of unpopular groups ought to have human rights, too, is met with the contention that they have forfeited their rights by behaving in unpopular ways.
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POPSAnti-Bush Ammo? A quick search of this story found no connection to the recent Iraqi shoe bombing of Bush. Maybe it's just me but it's the first thing that popped into my head.
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POPSA Meritocracy Again By electing the anti-Bush—inspirational, articulate and unconnected—we restored the age-old empowering idea that anyone can become president if they work hard, and posses the right combination of intelligence, integrity, guts and guile. And that's good for America.
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POPS'War criminal' Bush blamed for global crisis Why were heads of state prevented from seeing what the protestors thought? I'm sure Bush is not kept completely out of touch with how some people think of his actions. I'm equally certain he just doesn't care.
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POPSTuning out the Braindead Megaphone Post election blah-blah tells us America is (as everyone reasonable surely knows) a center-right nation. But Obama won by twice the margin of GWB when they said Bush had a conservative mandate, and interviews suggest Americans knew exactly what they were after.
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POPSVideo: Bush Might Bomb Iran if Obama Wins
The idea here, some have suggested, is to suggest an anti-war appeal: If Obama is elected war with Iran will start. This incredible twisted suggestion is typical of other new McCain ideas, like he is the one really opposed to Bush policies although he voted for them 90% of the time. The twisted idea, too, that McCain's support for tax breaks for the SuperRich and Corporations is really to help out 'Joe the Plumber,' because the wealth will 'trickle down.' According to this twisted reasoning, McCain is the anti-war in Iran, anti-Bush policy guy, and pro-voice for the Middle and lower classes. ?? Other Republicans also just, seriously, going nuts: that McCain campaign worker who carved a B into her cheek (backwards) and tried to blame it on a "Black pro-Obama mugger." ?? Latest...some Republican arrested for making death threats against the Sec. of State of Ohio (who's in charge of elections) -- because she shut down a Republican attempt at voter suppression. ??
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POPSNiether Dems or Rethugs Deserve or votes! He’s a politician in essence chosen by the mainstream corporate media marketing complex to be their puppet and appeal to the public’s desire for an anti-Bush. Unfortunately he’s not far enough removed from mainstream corporate media marketing complex to represent real “change”.
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POPSW Poster for the Oliver Stone anti-Bush film, "W". The poster contains some of Bush's best quotes
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POPSNH Primary Vote Fraud Part 2: Recount? Diebold vs. Handcount proves error or fraud. The first link will take you to the MSNBC Obermann video on this article, and discusses the possibility of recount or audit. CLG has best anti-Bush news feed on the web, too.
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