Okay, so I’m feeling a little toasty after having posted on this, yesterday. Dorkafork is right. It turns out that Obama was a live birth, and not a fetus who momentarily survived an attempt at an abortion, which would make it ineligible to become president. Damn you, internet, for exposing my gullibility!
July 6, 2008
July 6, 2008
Weather Channel To Become Climate Channel [Dan Collins]
GE/NBC/Universal purchases channel, parcels off staff to cable news concerns, hires Pixar to provide animated penguins, polar bears, robots to present the climate. Also, to animate anchorman Al Gore.
July 6, 2008
Chimpy McHitlerburton’s smirky rodeo ride through history, 25: the last slice of Saddam cake eaten by secret greedy killbots
From the AP: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the
July 6, 2008
The New York Times: An Army of Durantys [Karl]
Commentary’s Abe Greenwald notes that the New York Times has a habit of referring to “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni insurgent group that American intelligence officials say has foreign leadership.” Greenwald notes that al Qaeda in Iraq’s leaders have in fact been Jordanian, Egyptian and Saudi Arabian. Greenwald could have added that referring to AQI as “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia” is one way to divert the casual reader from
July 6, 2008
Lefty blogs got no lovin’ for AP’s Loven [Karl]
Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press did a piece on Barack Obama’s attempted dash for the center that made poor Josh Marshall’s eyes bleed. And a bunch of Marshall’s fellow travelers bleed with him. What really sets Marshall off is that Loven had the audacity to characterize Obama’s position that withdrawing combat troops could take as long as 16 months as “recent,” when in fact, he has been saying it for months. What