Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
GET OUT THE VOTE
Want to help get out the vote in Ohio? Have a cell phone, or free long distance at home? Click here.
Your help is needed. Look at what’s going on there:
PAINESVILLE — It is an outright case of election fraud in Lake County.
The phony letter says newly registered voters signed up by […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
TAKING AMERICA BACK
Poignant letter someone sent Josh Marshall:
Still in Florida.
This was one of the most moving, meaningful days of my life.
My job is to get people to the polls and, more importantly, to keep them there. Because they’re crazily jammed. Crazily. No one expected this turnout. For me, it’s been a deeply humbling, deeply […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
PURGE
Oh yeah, a real professional we got there:
Current and former U.S. intelligence officials have said that new CIA Director Porter Goss appears set to conduct a purge of the agency’s Directorate of Operations after the Nov. 2 election, Knight Ridder news service reported Thursday.
Goss has placed at least four former Republican congressional staff members in […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
CLOWNS
Just to show just how bad the Republican internal numbers must be… Duncan got a tip that tomorrow Tommy Thompson will announce that importing drugs from Canada will be legalized.
Now, that’s real leadership: Watching the parade go by and running out in front ahead of it.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
SURGING
Zogby has Kerry up in six of the 10 battleground states:
Kerry leads in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, while Bush leads in Colorado, Nevada and Ohio, according to the Reuters/Zogby state polls.
The state of New Mexico is deadlocked at 49 percent each, one day after Bush held a nine-point advantage.
Most of […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
GAINING
Kerry pulling out in front, even in the ARG poll. Read here.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
SMACKDOWN
Looks like the Republicans may have to back off their intimidation tactics:
CINCINNATI — A state court judge issued a sweeping order Saturday limiting the number of party representatives that could be deployed to challenge voters at Ohio polling places on election day.
In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John P. O’Donnell issued a permanent injunction […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
SIGNS
Packers beat the Redskins. Buh-bye, George.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
FOOL ME ONCE, WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN
Josh points out that Rove’s strategy is to create an aura of inevitability around Bush’s election, just as he did in 2000:
Back then I noted how in 2000 the Bush campaign spent the last week or so confidently predicting a popular vote margin of 6% or 7%. And to […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
YOUNG MOBILE PHONE USERS FOR KERRY BY 55%
In a groundbreaking cell-phone text-message poll by John Zogby in collaboration with Rock the Vote, the numbers look great for Kerry:
Polling firm Zogby International and partner Rock the Vote found Massachusetts Senator John Kerry leading President Bush 55% to 40% among 18-29 year-old likely voters in their first […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
OUTSOURCING ALWAYS LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER, BUT…
Knight Ridder verifies what Kerry’s been saying - top terrorists escaped at Tora Bora:
“Military and intelligence officials had warned Franks and others that the two main Afghan commanders, Hazrat Ali and Haji Zaman, couldn’t be trusted, and they proved to be correct. They were slow to move their troops […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
GAG ME
I accidentally watched Press the Meat this morning and had the unfortunate experience of watching amoral sleazebag Rudy Guliani attack Kerry and slobber lovingly over Bush.
He reminds me of nothing so much as a steaming mound of fresh dog shit.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
DO-OVERS
MoDo:
The Bushies’ campaign pitch follows their usual backward logic: Because we have failed to make you safe, you should re-elect us to make you safer. Because we haven’t caught Osama in three years, you need us to catch Osama in the next four years. Because we didn’t bother to secure explosives in Iraq, you can […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Like me, you probably wondered about the rest of that OBL videotape, and exactly how accurate was the translation. Now you can compare translations from Al Jazeera, CNN and Drudge:
ALJ - “In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors and did not forget to import expertise in election fraud from […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2004
PROTECT YOUR VOTE
The phones are ringing off the hook at Election Protection headquarters:
WASHINGTON — In a bustling downtown conference room, the phones are ringing faster than the volunteers can grab them, as hundreds of people from Florida to New Mexico call daily to ask for help with voting troubles.
With polls open already in a handful […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
HIS MASTER’S VOICE
Remember when I wrote about how Ashcroft shifted the Justice Department emphasis from protecting against voter suppression to attacking voter fraud? Here’s some more:
WASHINGTON — Bush administration lawyers argued in three closely contested states last week that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights set […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
REALITY BREAK - OR IS THAT ‘BRAKE’?
I was downtown tonight for dinner and a movie. As I drove past the Liberty Bell pavilion on my way to the restaurant, there was a college-aged girl talking on a cell phone while she held up a Kerry poster. I beeped and gave her a thumbs up. (I […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
While I was running around my very Republican suburban town today, a half-dozen people stopped me, pointed to my Kerry-Edwards button and said pointedly, “I like your button.”
One older woman, wearing a witch’s Halloween costume while she rang up my order at the card shop, said, “I wish I had one.”
“That’s okay, just vote,” […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Leaving New York,” “Around the Sun” by R.E.M.:
Comes calling backA brilliant nightI’m still awakeI looked aheadI’m sure I saw you thereYou don’t need meTo tell you nowThat nothing can compare
You might have laughed if I told youYou might have hidden a frownYou might have succeeded in changing meI might have […]
Posted in Arts & Music on Oct 30th, 2004
James McMurtry has a new song. You can download it here:
Wow I’m stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart storeJust like the ones we made before‘Cept this one came from SingaporeI guess we can’t make it here anymore
Should I hate a people for the shade of their skinOr the shape of their eyes or the shape I’m […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
DITTO
Duncan has a particularly illuminating compare-and-contrast today. Go read.
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
FREEBIE
If there’s anyone you know who hasn’t seen Farenheit 9/11 yet, send them this link to watch it online.
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
MORE CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE
From the Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON — United Nations weapons inspectors pressed for permission to return to Iraq to help monitor weapons sites on the heels of the US-led invasion but were denied entry by the US-led coalition, according to a former inspector, UN officials, and a letter from the International Atomic Energy Agency obtained […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2004
THE LEADER
Billmon wrote the column I was too lazy to produce on the Bush loyalty oath:
And now we have local GOP Gauleiters in Florida soliciting oaths of allegiance not to the flag, not to the country, not to the constitution, but to the person of the leader — albeit still an elected one, at least […]
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