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Friday, Jan 29
Conservative 'Lion' Henry Hyde Was Targeted by Feds in a Four-Year Bribery Investigation [Exclusive]
This December 1972 memo reports the results of a wiretapped phone call in which the unnamed middleman says he spoke to Hyde and that Hyde told him that, since things had "quieted down after the election," Computer Specifics could "finish up the deal." The memo also shows that Richard Ben-V...
Osama Bin Laden, Global Warming Activist [Inconvenient Truth]
All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming," he says in the tape, which has not been verified but is thought to be Bin Laden, according to the BBC. "This is a message to the whole world about those who are causing climate change, whether deli...
Tony Blair Denies He and George W. Bush Had a Deal to Invade Iraq [Hindsight]
Well that's that solved then — Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction, Colin Powell was right to scare people with a 'vial of anthrax' prop and everything is fine. [BBC]
Thursday, Jan 28
Barack Obama's State of the Union Was Awesome [Analysis]
Barack Obama's first State of the Union was not a particularly soaring or pretty speech. But it was really the model every future president should look to when composing their own. Remember when he made the entire Supreme Court look super awkward? That was awesome.)
Wednesday, Jan 27
Andrew Breitbart's Horrible Track Record of Picking Right-Wing Heroes [Teabuggers]
Back in the wonderful Clinton era, Matt introduced Andrew to Arianna Huffington. At the time, Arianna was a famous conservative pundit. She was also well-known, even by 1994, as a loopy new-ager and cut-throat bitch. Eventually her husband, a former Republican Senate candidate, came out...
Sunday, Jan 17
Obama, Clinton, Bush: The Superhero Trifecta of Presidents for Haiti [VideUhOh]
Yesterday, Barack Obama announced that George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were going to be appointed to head up a major fundraising effort for Haiti. Bush and Clinton appeared together on Face the Nation after. Cute presidential hijinks ensued.
Monday, Dec 28
Presumed Nigerian Terrorist Joins Ill-Timed Bathroom Break Hall of Fame [Hall Of Fame]
George W. Bush Begs Condi to Halt U.N. So He Can Pee At left is a note that President George W. Bush wrote to Condoleezza Rice on September 14, 2005 during a United Nations Security Council meeting. In case you can't make out his pee-pee dance chicken scratch, here's what it says:
Thursday, Dec 10
Obama's Nobel Speech: Pretty Damn Good [Speeches]
Including Norway" is not quite as bizarrely memorable a piece of odd Presidential justification as "you forgot Poland," but we will make an effort to quote it mockingly in our foreign policy coverage from now on. Even NORWAY, people!
Sunday, Dec 6
The Nature of President Obama's Death Threats: Peaked Early, Still Bad, Mostly ...
The further we go, the deeper the hole to fall: especially after the presidency of George W. Bush, which openly encouraged and provoked fanaticism and ... Threats Against Obama Spiked EarlyNew York Times all 18 news articles »
The Nature of President Obama's Death Threats: Way Worse Than You Thought, Peaked Early, Still Worrysome [Death Threats]
Touchy subject of would-rather-not proportions: threats made against the 44th American President. There are fine lines between free-speech and danger. The New York Times reports on the people who draw them seeing an early peak, but still being strong concerns.
Monday, Nov 2
Giuseppe Cipriani, Hero Liberal [The Rich]
What could happen to him if he went back today? "I don't know," he says. "There are enough lawyers working on it. So I let them work." He blames a lot of what happened to him in America on the eight George W. Bush years. "America has always been a country of dreams, and it became a country of hate."
Sunday, Oct 11
Scoring Sunday's Nuptuals: The Kerry/W. Bush Rivalry, Extended [Altarcations]
Do you remember the bloody battle between Dubya and Kerry? Phyllis Nefler does. So do the NYT's bitchy Weddings & Celebrations editors, who love a juicy broadsheet when they can make one. The battle royale continues. Also, look: meerkats!
Monday, Oct 5
Unlike Bush, Obama Won't Meet Dalai Lama [Seriously?]
Not yet, at least: White House officials have reportedly asked Tibetan authorities to keep their distance when the Lama visits next week. This is the first time a President has refused to meet with the spiritual leader since he first came to the U.S. in 1991. Even Bush met with him, and he was evi...
Sunday, Jul 19
Obama's Glad Bono Refused To Hug George Bush [Nobody Likes You]
World Savior, Futuristic Superhero, and pioneer in the field of Mononames, Bono, dished last night on a BBC show a nice little anecdote: he dodged a hug from George W. Bush, once, and Obama was there to congratulate him. To Obama's delight, Bono admits he sidestepped a hug from George Bush [I...
Thursday, Jun 18
Bush Slams Obama in Horrendously Edited Washington Times Exclusive [Conservative Journalism]
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," he said to huge cheers. Bush Takes Swipes at Obama Policies [Washington Times]
Thursday, Jun 11
George W. Bush's Happy Birthday Letter to His Father, Analyzed [Men Of Letters]
I guess all of this only serves to prove that George W. Bush is no Joan Didion, but then again, we all probably knew that already, didn't we? And oh yeah, Happy Birthday to George H. W. Bush! Your humble editor had no idea he was a fellow Gemini!
Saturday, Mar 28
Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore Say Barack Obama Is Just Like George Bush [Betrayals]
The attack from Obama's left flank began in earnest yesterday, as two reliably liberal forces openly compared Barack Obama's plan for escalating the war in Afghanistan to Bush's fiasco in Iraq. When Rush Limbaugh was accused of being the leader of the Republican Party, conservatives lo...
Tuesday, Feb 17
Cheney's Secret Plan to Make You Like Bush [Politics]
Ever since the Bush presidency ended with everyone oddly feeling kind of bad for our Worst President and Dick Cheney riding out to his undisclosed Virginia office building in a wheelchair like Mister Potter, Cheney has said evil things to anyone with a microphone or notepad who happens t...
Monday, Feb 9
Barack Obama Is America's New Billy Mays [Salesmanship]
Republicans are a lot better at seizing on crises. 9/11 and Katrina both gave them opportunities to ram through bills tangentially related to those disasters filled with stuff they'd had on the wish list for a decade or more, all of it sold with conviction that it'd fix the nation. Democrats...
Friday, Feb 6
Opinion: You're Welcome America: It's Saturday Night Live, Live! On Stage! [Stage]
Granted, the generally lowbrow humor of "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush" is hardly cutting-edge political satire. Basically a (nearly) solo extended sketch, it's theatrical comfort food for Broadway audiences who want to see one of their favorite comic actors...
