That’s not good.  If you pay the terrorists millions of dollars… the terrorists win.

‘Course the source is WorldNetDaily- they shovel even more horseshit than FOX…

I just watched the morons on Fox & Friends read Drudge’s factually incorrect article about other presidents who have ordered warrantless searches.

They didn’t credit Drudge as their source- no doubt on account of his credibility problems, but they read the entire thing start to finish.

ThinkProgress details Drudge’s stupidity.

Here’s some of The Daily Show’s continuing coverage of the fake war on Christmas:

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Now, that’s not a very nice thing to say about your son’s boyfriend, Mike.

Howard mentioned this morning that he was going to be appearing on O’Reilly’s show- he ended up ripping on him for the next ten minutes.

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Don’t forget for THE HOLIDAYS:

“The Red Rain Stops Here!” Umbrella thing is kind of funny- it shows just how poorly designed his product site is…

What a heartless bastard…

Here’s Keith Olbermann’s coverage of O’Reilly’s recent fatwa issued against San Francisco-

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My take on O’Reilly’s threat against San Francisco is that it started as another stupid comment among hundreds crapped out of this buffoon’s mouth every day… he got in trouble for it so now he’s attempting a weak swipe at Al Franken by claiming that his comments were satire.

It took him an entire weekend to come up with that argument.

Hilarious.

I heard O’Reilly say he was on a “satiric rift” today when he was trying to explain his comments about how al-Quaeda should destroy San Francisco- then when he came back from commercial he started saying “satiric riff” instead…. I wonder which one he meant?

Say what you want about Al Franken- at least the guy’s got better than a fourth-grader’s vocabulary.

Man, I wish those Andrea Mackris tapes went public- if only for the hilarity of hearing Bill O’Reilly talk about loofa-ing her bajina.

It’s been one year since Bill O’Reilly paid his one-time producer Andrea Mackris an undisclosed sum to stop talking about how much he wanted to fuck her sideways.

Happy anniversary Bill! Sad to think those tapes are probably sitting in Bill’s attic collecting dust…

Gosh… when you think about it, isn’t it suspicious that Valerie Wilson’s neighbors didn’t know what she did for a living? Sure… now everyone knows she was an undercover agent… but why didn’t any of her neighbors who claim they knew her so well ever bother to ask her if she was a NOC earlier?

More ridiculous spin from this morning’s Fox & Friends…

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E.D. really should read up on this stuff… if she’s really never heard of Brewster Jennings & Associates they should fire her ass right now for incompetence… if she has heard of them they should give her a raise, because she’s obviously a company gal.

I put together this short video- I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch much FOX & Friends lately, but I tuned in for a few minutes this morning and this is the result:

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These people are scum. Every death is worth noticing, you despicable bastards.

Wow… great clip over at C&L.

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Salon.com with the caption that says it all:

Gimme a fucking break.

(I swear this is real.)

I think I just heard Shepard Smith begging to leave New Orleans… I don’t have time to post the video this morning, but I’ve got it sitting on my TiVo…

Here’s the video.

Partial Transcript:

Anchor: Shep, What do you see?

Shepard Smith: …out the window here, see the window to your left? There are people standing in the windows and watching as the storm comes ashore, meteorologists are telling us that the worst of this is yet to come and that there will be much stronger winds on… Uuuuaaaagh… It’s just hard!

Technician: I understand.

Shepard Smith: Have [inaudible] come get me. One more time.

Anchor: Shepard? Shepard? Shepard? We’re live on the air right now, Sh.. Sh…

Shepard Smith: How was that?

To be fair, he might have been taping a piece and despairing about screwing it up, but in any case it sure sounds like he’s ready to go home.

Here’s a new feature on The Daily Show: “The Less You Know.”

Tonight’s topic– the recent torture picture coverup. Bill O’Reilly lays out his bullshit defense of torture to John McCain of all people.

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Hannity may not be aware of it, but he’s fucking hilarious.

Reading this interview with Joe Wilson this morning reminded me of another travesty on yesterday’s edition of FOX & Friends- they were, as usual, trying to seed doubts about Mrs. Wilson’s status as an under cover agent. Funny part was, they didn’t know their terminology.

Steve Doocy (the one who looks like Lorne on Angel) was desperate- he said that there were doubts about her undercover status because her cover was referred to as “non-official.” Dude… non-official cover? That’s a NOC. That’s as undercover as it gets.

See what I’m sayin’?

I think it’s worth pointing something out here- in much of… okay, all of- the coverage I’ve witnessed on FOX where they spell out the details of Matt Cooper’s email they throw in a little FUD that needs to be cleared up-

Here’s the part of the email I’m talking about as it was quoted in the Newsweek article:

Rove told Cooper that Wilson’s trip had not been authorized by “DCIA”—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, “it was, KR said, wilson’s wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.”

I don’t read that as Karl said she apparently works at the CIA- he knew- does anyone actually believe he called a half-dozen reporters with a guess that it seems as if possibly Wilson’s wife was CIA? Bullshit.

I read that as Rove said it was Wilson’s wife works for the CIA. Cooper then reports to his editors that it’s apparent that Mrs. Wilson works at the CIA, not that Karl was unsure if she worked at the CIA. Whether Karl said she authorized the trip doesn’t really matter, it’d just be yet another lie thrown on the pile.

Anyway, sounds like Cooper will clear this up soon enough, and none of it changes the fact that Karl’s gonna fry.

Howard caught a little of Bill O’Reilly’s show a little while back and noticed how much eye-liner the guy puts on..

Robin: “Who does he think he is, a member of Green Day?”

They go on to comment on how much he whores out his products on his show:

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I’m no fan of Ward Churchill and I’m not going to defend the guy just because wingers are attacking him. He’s fully capable of fighting his own battles, Bill O’Reilly’s jihad not withstanding.

That being said, this morning the morons on FOX & Friends reported that Ward Churchill had retracted his controversial “Little Eichmanns” statement claiming that it was a simple spell-check error. They said it turned out he was actually referring to Entemanns doughnuts.

Here’s the video.

They gave no sources for the story, but with a little Googleing I found that (of course…) it was World Net Daily.

But it doesn’t end there. As of this morning the WND article read as follows:

Posted: June 26, 2005
10:39 p.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill suggested to a forum on conscientious objection they might be more effective in opposing war if they supported the “fragging” or killing of line officers.

In a Portland meeting on resistance to military recruiting, Churchill, famous for comparing Sept. 11, 2001, victims in the World Trade Center to “little Eichmanns,” twice suggested anti-war activists should support those who kill their officers.

“For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of supporting a conscientious objector who’s already been inducted [and] in his combat service in Iraq might have a certain appeal,” he said. “But let me ask you this: Would you render the same support to someone who hadn’t conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit?”

Later, in a question-and-answer period, Churchill was asked whether the trauma “fragging” inflicts on that officer’s family back home should be considered, he responded: “How do you feel about Adolf Eichmann’s family?”

Earlier, Churchill blamed the five-month-old controversy over his post-Sept. 11 essay on a faulty grammar-checker.

He did not intend to suggest the 9-11 victims were “little Eichmanns” he claims now. Instead, he blamed the grammar checker for changing what he says he actually wrote: “little Entenmanns” — referring to the brand of pastries.

“My metaphorical use of food in the essay is, of course, complex to the layman, but surely you’ve all heard the expression ‘as American as apple pie,’” he said. “Well, I’d meant to relate the ‘Americanness’ and ‘lovability’ of those poor people who died on 9-11 to the well-known popularity of Entenmann’s glazed donuts.”

As of this evening they’ve cut the highlighted paragraphs without explanation.

So, I guess we know what WND’s correction policy is- “Just change it and hope no one notices.”

Generally speaking, since it’s a little harder to get caught in a medium as temporal as TV, FOX doesn’t seem to feel the need to make corrections, they just stop reporting the lie when someone calls them on it… and then only if they feel like it.

So here’s the sequence of events- a right-wing weblogger composes a satirical article about Churchill, World Net Daily steals the article and incorporates it into their “news” coverage, then FOX News steals World Net Daily’s fake news and reports it as fact.

So far no corrections have been offered by FOX or World Net Daily. Now there’s a shock.

Somehow Al Franken managed to catch Bill O’Reilly in a rare lie last night on his Sundance TV show- here’s the clip:

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This report appeared on last Friday’s Fox & Friends:

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Fox News is engaged in a disinformation campaign to pad whatever impact the smoking gun Downing Street memo is having.

Check out their coverage this morning:

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Classic FUD.