Remember Dan Rather's report on Dubya ducking military duty. Turns out it was true, of course. And much worse than Dan reported.
The government provides flash cards to prospective citizens to help them bone up on US civics. Question 80 goes like this:
Q: Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment.
A: The rights of freedom of speech, of religion, of assembly, and to petition the Government.
Notice anything missing? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Freedom of the press, maybe?
The FBI admits that it uses phone records to track down the folks trying to tell you the truth about the Dubya administration.
So, what is the NSA doing with all those phone call records? Fighting terrorism? Nah. They're using them to determine who's leaking info about their illegal actions to the media.
Buy a DVD copy of Stephen Colbert's wicked flaying of Dubya and the media, or, as C-SPAN puts it:
"...comedian Stephen Colbert made humorous remarks about various current events and the relationship between the press and the White House."
Also includes Dubya's own comedy piece. No, not his administration's actual existence. But it is funny, in a more conventional sense.
Complete transcript of Colbert's reaming of Dubya.
Keep in mind that all this is with Dubya sitting right there, having to take it.
Stephen Colbert rips Dubya a new one at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The few reaction shots of Dubya show him looking mighty displeased.
It's tragic how we have to rely on comedians for any serious criticism of Dubya in the mainstream media.
Right-wing nutjob Michelle Malkin puts the phone numbers of Santa Cruz students protesting military recruiters on her web site.
Predictably, her idiot followers are calling and threatening the protesters.
It's not so much that she printed the contact info. After all, it was originally put in a Press Release marked for "Immediate Release." The problem is the obvious joy she takes in her followers threatening folks for protesting.
Really, the only difference between the Right and the Nazis is one of degree. And that will shrink in time.
Right-wing radio host Brian James wants folks to sit and shoot people crossing the border.
No, he wasn't kidding.
Reporter exposes that police in South Florida don't like to give out complaint forms. Police retaliate by putting out a "Be On The Lookout" alert for him and by posting his personal information on their web site.
Media Matters follows up their analysis of the Right-leaning Sunday morning pundits, looking at guest lists for the first 3 months of 2006.
Still leaning hard to the right.
At least one member of the media is willing to give Dubya the derision and criticism he so richly deserves.
The National Council of Churches USA is following in the footsteps of the United Church of Christ in demanding that mainstream churches get the same media attention as whack-job right-wing churches do.
Everyone knows that O'Reilly lies alot. Here's a real blatant example, where O'Reilly's claims are trivially disproved by simply reading the piece about which he's complaining.
Overview of and commentary on a Media Matters study showing that the networks favor the right when it comes to coverage of religion.
Imus and Matthews discuss how the Dubya administration really did claim a connection between Hussein and 9/11 in leading the US to a misguided war.
Wolf Blitzer asks Bob Dole about why the US is in Iraq. Dole starts laying out the standard 9/11 line.
Blitzer presses him on the lack of a Hussein-9/11 link until Dole admits there isn't one.
But it takes a while. Blitzer has to go back to the question three (3) times before getting an actual answer.
Joe Lieberman basically tells Democrats to shut up about Iraq. Radio host calls him on it during an interview. Lieberman isn't pleased.
Just another classic example of the wretched antics of the right-wing press. In this case, a newspaper criticizes Bill O'Reilly. In retaliation, O'Reilly lies about the paper's position regarding child molestation.
In the early stages of the War on Iraq, all sorts of pundits claimed that those opposing the war were just plain wrong.
Here's a collection of quotes showing just how stupidly wrong all those pundits were, three years ago.
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