"She really gets me high (Amsterdam) You know FOX don't lie (Amsterdam)"*

There's FOX news and then there's the truth.

*with apologies to, possibly, Leadbelly

Don't Tell Me What The Palin Is Doing

Let Shatner! do it.

As we learn The Quitter With The Twitter says either:

a)

"And then the extremes
In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view
Of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though,
Doesn't it split the Cheechakos
From the Sourdoughs?"

or

b)

"And porn speaks to it's splintered legions
To the pink amid the withered corn stalks in them winter regions
While aiming at the archetypal father
He said with such broad and tentative swipes why do you even bother"

Cheat sheet:
a); b)

It's All Obama's Fault!

Except, not really.

"Every Administration spins and sugarcoats the economic truth. But the Bush White House took this disingenuousness to new levels. The surest way to get yourself fired as a Bush economic adviser was to say something that was true. Paul O'Neill was ousted from Treasury for warning about deficits. Larry Lindsey was kicked out of the top White House economic job for predicting in 2002 that the Iraq war would cost $100 billion to $200 billion — far below the actual cost but much more than what the White House was officially projecting. This disdain for reality, and for expertise, pervaded the Bush economic approach, and made it impossible for the Administration to react intelligently to real-world economic problems like the housing bubble."

It's Like John And Paul After The Break Up Except With Less Talent And No Fan Base To Speak Of

Hilarious.

America Has Spoken

And the Mother Whacker's head explodes in three, two, one.

Murtha, Murtha, Murtha!!!

John Murtha, chair of the House Defense Inappropriations subcommittee?

Speciesous Argument

From the Brain Trust at Fox And Friends.

Bailout Package - Republican Style

Ensign runs to mommy and daddy for help.

I Don't Think "Win" Is The Word I Would Have Gone With

CNN ignores the rest of the news better than other networks.

Senator Franken

The Al Franken Decade finally begins.

Congratulations, Emy. Your hard work paid off!

Monsters

Bob Herbert's column:

"No one seems to know how old Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized by Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned over to American custody. Some reports say he was 14. Some say 16. The Afghan government believes he was 12.
...
In a sworn affidavit, Colonel Vandeveld said, “This abuse included the slapping of Mr. Jawad across the face while Mr. Jawad’s head was covered with a hood, as well as Mr. Jawad’s having been shoved down a stairwell while both hooded and shackled.”
...
The colonel said he lacked the words “to express the heartsickness” he felt as he came to fully understand the way Jawad had been treated by American soldiers.

On Dec. 25, 2003, Jawad tried to kill himself by repeatedly banging his head against a wall of his cell.
There is no credible evidence against Jawad, and his torture-induced confession has rightly been ruled inadmissible by a military judge. But the Obama administration does not feel that he has suffered enough. Not only have administration lawyers opposed defense efforts to secure Jawad’s freedom, but they are using, as the primary basis for their opposition, the fruits of the confession that was obtained through torture and has already been deemed inadmissible — without merit, of no value."

As Thers stated in the post I linked to yesterday, "...there are lots and lots of perfectly legitimate reasons to criticize the Obama administration..."

Continuing some of the monstrous misconduct of the Bush administration is certainly one of them.

Hoax Couture

Another rightwing conspiracy theory melts in the bright light of reality.
Whiskey Fire:

It's a very odd thing: there are lots and lots of perfectly legitimate reasons to criticize the Obama administration, but the right wing blogosphere has yet to come up with a single line of attack that isn't totally loony.

Thers actually takes the time to do what wingnuts should have done before buying this latest conservative think tank sponsored attempt at spreading blatant corporate propaganda.
You know, when someone decides not to publish a fiction disguised as a climate science report by two guys with no climate science credentials, I wouldn't exactly call that "suppressing".
In the same way I wouldn't call refusing to let an auto mechanic diagnose my mother when she's had a heart attack "suppressing" a medical opinion.

Paul Krugman's op-ed:

I’d call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists. After all, to believe that global warming is a hoax you have to believe in a vast cabal consisting of thousands of scientists — a cabal so powerful that it has managed to create false records on everything from global temperatures to Arctic sea ice.

To put it into terms they might understand - If these deniers don't get on the right side of this and soon, there won't be a habitable Argentina left to house their mistresses.

Update
Just because this, so far, is the best quote I have read on the story:

"a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at."

The Perversion Of A Persian

I knew it would be only a matter of time before Mr. Wabu used the image of Neda Agha-Soltan, bloody and lifeless (a close up with a comical caption, no less, all you money-shot fans!) to further his conspiracy-laden political something-or-other agenda.
Was it a relief to him that that he found this photo? After all, he can only exploit images of the exploding twin towers so many times before his desensitized fan base start talking about how he just keeps repeating himself.
I'm certain he thinks he's being "Unflinching"™ and all "Up In The Grill"™ of his enemies by posting it but one gets the creepy feeling that it's just porn for this guy.
Just Mother Whackin' insane.

To paraphrase TBogg, Neda is the BFF that Abu Wabu never would have had.

Inglesh Ownlee

Pat Buchanan's Vowel Movement Rawks!

Found In Translation

Meet The Press as heard without the filter.