Month: August 2011
National Geographic Trashes Its Brand with Bush ‘Infomercial’ on 9/11
On “Countdown” last night, Keith Olbermann and Markos Moulistsas rightly savaged the National Geographic Channel for producing a Fox News style interview with George Bush on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Olbermann noted that while Bush refers to 9/11 as a “monumental” and “significant” event but he never uses word like “tragic” or “sad.” Moulitsas suggested that the reason Bush did not describe the attacks as “tragic” is because he and his party did not view the attack as a tragedy but rather as an opportunity to install a more authoritarian regime inside the government.
The Bush interview and the release of Dick Cheney’s memoir were strategically timed to come out around the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks next month.
Plastic Bags are a Blight
12
Number of yards (36 feet) a car could travel if it ran on the petroleum used to make just one plastic bag.
Perry Is ‘Like Bush Only Without the Brains’
He’s like Bush only without the brains.
– A former Republican governor quoted anonymously in a story published by right-leaning Politico.com titled, “Is Rick Perry Dumb?”
Paul: Don’t Need Muh FEMA
We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960. I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time.
— Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), to NBC News, slamming the Federal Emergency Management Agency and saying that no national response to Hurricane Irene is necessary.
Prophetess Michele Bachmann: God Sent Earthquake, Hurricane to Smite ‘Politicians’ Because of Govt Spending
I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, “Are you going to start listening to me here?” Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.
– Republican politician Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, campaigning at a megachurch in Florida, making the sort of ridiculous assertion that would have forced a serious presidential contender out of the race just a few years ago.
Why?
Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson lay in a coffin, draped in an American flag, in front of a tearful audience mourning his death in Afghanistan. Soon an old friend appeared, and like a fellow soldier on a battlefield, his loyal dog refused to leave him behind.
Tumilson’s Labrador retriever, Hawkeye, was photographed lying by Tumilson’s casket in a heart-wrenching image taken at the funeral service in Tumilson’s hometown of Rockford, Iowa, earlier this week. Hawkeye walked up to the casket at the beginning of the service and then dropped down with a heaving sigh as about 1,500 mourners witnessed a dog accompanying his master until the end, reported CBS.
How to Talk to Republicans, Part 2: GOP House Chairman Jeered, Booed at California Town Hall
GOP Rep. Dan Lungren, a member of the House Leadership, encountered hostility from his constituents at a second town hall over the weekend. But, unlike an event earlier this month in which a young woman in the audience who challenged him on the issues was forcibly removed, this time it was Lungren who threatened to leave, eliciting a chorus of “boos.”
Ron Paul: We Don’t Need FEMA, ‘That’s Why We Have the Second Amendment’
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After the corporate media ignored his narrow loss to Michele Bachmann in the Ames Straw Poll earlier this month, Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, the Big Government libertarian presidential candidate, and his supporters have been desperately seeking attention — primarily in the form of the same sort of claims of victimhood we hear from the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Sean Hannity and other self-righteous fringe dwellers.
Since when does corporate media filter out politicians’ blithering, nonsensical statements?
In an interview with MSNBC on Friday, however, Ron Paul attempted to insert himself into upcoming coverage of Hurricane Irene over the weekend by saying provocative things about FEMA.
In the interview, Paul, 76, lambasted FEMA and yearned for the olden days when Americans and their local governments were left to fend for themselves in the wake of natural disasters:
