Here's the latest O'Reilly snippet I put together- Click Here.
O'Reilly still owes us an apology- I suppose since David Kay has quit looking and has announced that the WMD didn't exist we should be hearing that apology on Bill's next show.

Watch this space for a full report.

Genius. Pure genius.

Peter Jennings quizzing Wes Clark about Michael Moore:

At one point Mr. Moore, said in front of you that President Bush, he was saying he'd like to see a debate between you the General and President Bush who he called a deserter. Now that's a reckless charge not supported by the facts so I was curious to know why you didn't contradict him and whether or not you think it would have been a better example of ethical behavior to have done so.

Clark did a good job of answering the question, admitting he didn't know the specifics but that the charge was irrelevant to his campaign. I imagine he's read the articles about Bush not showing up for a year of national guard duty, but it was obvious from the question that whatever Clark said would be dismissed as rantings from the tin-foil hat community.

It's a documented fact that Bush was AWOL. The term "deserter" was used by Moore as a term of art, AWOL is probably more applicable. Why is this claim suddenly a surprise? Will reporters finally be taking another look at it? (I noticed Drudge has a quote from Kerry during the last campaign bringing it up, since Drudge isn't a reporter so much as an aggregator that doesn't count.)



Michael Moore has a great collection of evidence on this page at his site.

Also the Straight Dope has an article summing it all up.

Richard Belzer had a great line on Real Time with Bill Maher the other night- someone had mentioned that Dean was skiing while Vietnam was going on and Bush was in the National Guard. After pointing out that Bush was AWOL from the guard, the Belz also pointed out that Bush was, "dealing with a different type of snow."

Limbaugh didn't mention it on his show.

The prosecution laughed Limbaugh's lawyers out of the room- they say they have enough evidence for ten felonies.

Are they still gonna call the report on WMDs in Iraq the Kay report? I guess I wouldn't want my name associated with the biggest mistake in this country's history either.

Remember when the hawks were calling Hans Blix blind for not finding all those huge stockpiles of weapons? Now Kay goes out with a wimper after finding nothing. "Hans Blix was right." That should be Kay's last official statement from his post, followed swiftly by another apology from the President.

Note that this news was released on a Friday night after the national news. This is an attempt to bury the story.

Announcing the first ever Overspun.com caption contest! What was really going on Thursday night following the Dem debate? Submit captions through the reply button or by bribing one of the site's administrators for access through Blogger. The winner will receive the knowledge of knowing they have won. Here's the photo:

From TPM:

"When you hear his talk about ‘the two Americas’ (with one living in perpetual insecurity and another ‘having whatever they need whenever they need it’) you think: Yes, he explains it all exactly right, in a way that would cut right into the president’s deepest political vulnerabilities."


This is a great comment. I had a very similar reaction to Edwards' "Two Americas" speech, and love the message of the Bushies forming a divide within society. This is something I could see all Democrats rallying around in the upcoming elections and recapturing their rightful image as budget and socially conscious leaders who care about people rather than causes or corporations. With the recent shakeup, it wouldn't surprise me to see Edwards emerge as the nominee. For now, I could live with that, even though Presidentmatch.com tells me I'm more in line with Kucinich and Sharpton.

I put this together to demonstrate on a base level what Bill O'Reilly does every night.

Enjoy-
Link

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.

From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.

Darth Frist is involved- you know, the guy who rigged that poll.

This is so unfortunate. The moment one of these candidates shows a little emotion, little fucking passion the media calls it a meltdown, a freak-out, and an angry tirade.

It wasn't any of those things. Iowa was a disappointment, what should he do, cry?

Thanks to the media smackdown we can look forward to a bunch of Vulcans running for president from here on out- show even a little emotion or passion and you will be destroyed.

This is going to be really fucking boring.

They initially denied they shared data. They's in trouble now...

Here's a quick rundown of the deadlines Bill O'Reilly has set for his apology about there not being any WMD in Iraq (pretty much stolen from rotten.com):

June 5, 2003- "Talking Points just asks one thing from President Bush: an update on the situation in the next few weeks. "
DEADLINE: July 1, 2003

June 11, 2003- "We the people deserve an extensive update from the President before he goes on summer vacation."
DEADLINE: August 1, 2003

July 31, 2003- "We're confused about the WMDs. And Mr. Bush has an obligation to clear this up by the end of the year."
DEADLINE: December 31, 2003

October 8, 2003- "All Americans should demand within the next nine months -- before the Presidential candidate, uh candidates, really swing in -- for an explanation of what exactly happened."
DEADLINE: July 1, 2004

"Can you imagine what the Republicans would be doing to a Democratic president who was a CEO of a company that now has gotten billions of dollars worth of contracts -- no-bid contracts -- without competition?" Costello, D-Belleville, was quoted as saying.

"There would be hearings day after day. And my prediction to you is that you will see in this session of Congress ..., there will not only be hearings, but I think there ought to be impeachment hearings."

So far, Haliburton has earned more than $2 billion from the war contracts.

Cheney headed Haliburton from 1995 to 2000, when he quit to become George W. Bush's running mate.

Because I'm sure he'll delete this embarassing rambling as soon as he re-reads it, here, for your amusement and for postarity is Matt Drudge's idiotic assessment of Howard Dean's speech to his troops after placing third in Iowa:

DEAN GOES NUTS
Stinging from his third place finish in Iowa, which robbed him of his frontrunner status, Governor Howard Dean tonight gave a red faced concession speech in which he vowed to go all over the country fighting to defeat George Bush. He named the states in which he said his campaign would fight, and as he rolled out the names of the states his face became red, his gestures sharp and angry. For a few moments, it appeared Dean had slipped into an unnatural state... Developing...

Sharp and angry gestures? Slipping into an unnatural state? What exactly does that mean?

I saw the speech, but I must have missed part with the unnatural state. Dean was excited, energetic, optimistic, but not angry, as Drudge wants you to believe. Drudge's take on the event shows us why he can't be an actual reporter- it's plainly obvious he can't write.

Drudge will of course be busy scouring the wires tomorrow night looking for another picture of Bush with a halo over his head whilst giving the State of the Union.

George W. Bush has killed thousands of people... somehow Dean's the angry one.