The wingnuts try a familiar ploy
Sun Jun 19, 2005 at 10:23:04 AM PDT
It seems that the wingnuts feel that they are able to defuse the disasterous impact DSM with a tried and proven method... debunk the authenticity of the source materials.
Little Green Footballs
The Downing Street memos: fake but accurate.
The eight memos -- all labeled "secret" or "confidential" -- were first obtained by British reporter Michael Smith, who has written about them in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.
Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals."
That news snippet is expounded upon in Captain's Quarters
One fact certainly stands out -- Michael Smith cannot authenticate the copies. And absent that authentication, they lose their value as evidence of anything.
This is a different tactic, perhaps acknowledging the "not really news" slant was being ignored by a public which has a firmer grasp on what they were being told at the time.
Poll to Freep for Durbin
Fri Jun 17, 2005 at 07:19:34 AM PDT
Opposition research: How the right thinks it won the war of ideas.
Sun May 29, 2005 at 08:50:44 AM PDT
Stirring the faithful
Fri May 20, 2005 at 07:15:40 AM PDT
I wandered over to PowerLine to see what was bothering the boys from Minneapolis. The current screed has to do with the reaction to the commencement address by PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi to Columbia University's Business School. The PowerBoys displayed their need to revel in their self-imposed sense of victimhood.
"Yesterday the Web site of PepsiCo flagged what Indra Nooyi's public relations statement on her graduation remarks at the Columbia Business School MBA recognition ceremony this past Sunday. In her statement Ms. Nooyi wrote that her remarks had unfortunately been "misconstrued." "
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
What on earth had she said to illicit such a response?
Hypocrisy #2739
Mon Apr 18, 2005 at 02:08:15 PM PDT
USA-Now's push poll
Mon Feb 21, 2005 at 03:22:28 PM PDT
In the main body of the page (
http://www.usanext.org/full_story.cfm?article_id=114&category_id=4 ) you see the results of their "National Survey on Social Security" with the expected results.
In the left-hand (subliminal?) column is their own little "push-poll":
Voice Your Opinion
Did you know that the AARP has received over $1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars over the past 20 years?
Yes
No
View Results
Want to know why I am calling it a push poll? Because when you vote, you are not allowed to see the results. That could get terribly embarrassing if a group decided to Freep the poll.
A look at what was a domestic issue from across the pond
Sat Feb 19, 2005 at 03:01:58 PM PDT
While we Kossacks have our celebration over exposing G/G, on the other side of the aisle they are proudly hoisting the scalp of a CNN News executive.
Yesterday, the Guardian, in its own unique and distinctive way, took a long at that whole imbroglio from a different perspective.
Journalist group calls US to account over Iraq
Dominic Timms
Friday February 18, 2005
The US government was today accused of hiding behind a "culture of denial" over the deaths of at least 12 journalists who are alleged to have perished at the hands of the US military in Iraq.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1417691,00.html
It is 11:00. Do you know where your nukes are?
Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 04:06:17 PM PDT
US N-strategy calls for outsourcing strikes
- Study says nuclear warheads will be transferred to US non-nuclear allies
- Experts view it as an attempt to skirt international law
WASINGTON: US nuclear strategy calls for outsourcing nuclear strikes, in case of a major conflict in Europe, to NATO allies that do not have such weapons, in what experts view as an attempt to skirt international law, according to an authoritative report made public here.
The study by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national security and environmental think-tank, is based mainly on declassified official documents and provides a detailed analysis of the US nuclear arsenal in Europe as well as of doctrines justifying its presence there more than a decade after the end of the Cold War.
But for the first time, the document revealed on Wednesday a specific number of nuclear warheads which, under US and NATO war plans, will be transferred to US non-nuclear allies to be delivered to targets by their warplanes.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_11-2-2005_pg4_1
Snark-O-rama
Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 07:25:35 AM PDT
"I congratulate Howard Dean on his election as DNC chairman and look forward to engaging in a constructive dialogue with him about the major issues facing our nation. Howard Dean's energy and passion will add to the political discourse in this country, and he will be a strong leader for his party," said Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.
/snark "Besides, that little spitfire is kinda cute," he added. /snark off
http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050213-121441-4897r
The changing game
Sun Jan 16, 2005 at 09:54:32 AM PDT
I have long asserted that China was going to be this century's America, growing to a position of international dominance. That opinion has been echoed in the Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project.
http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020_es.html
"New Global Players
The likely emergence of China and India, as well as others, as new major global players--similar to the advent of a united Germany in the 19th century and a powerful United States in the early 20th century--will transform the geopolitical landscape, with impacts potentially as dramatic as those in the previous two centuries. In the same way that commentators refer to the 1900s as the "American Century," the 21st century may be seen as the time when Asia, led by China and India, comes into its own."
