1. Fact. Bush had more czars than Obama.
2. Fact. The number of czars a given administration has means absolutely nothing.
3. Fact. The term “czar” is a media fabrication. There is no official title of “[Something] Czar” in any administration.
4. Fact. Most of the “czars” Glenn Beck is fixated upon actually WERE vetted and approved by Congress, contrary to his claims.
…except for the catastrophic events of 9/11, and the anthrax attacks against Americans, and terrorist attacks against U.S. allies, and the terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Bush’s inability to capture those responsible for 9/11, and waging an unnecessary war that inspired more terrorists, and the success terrorists had in exploiting Bush’s international unpopularity, the Bush/Cheney record on counter-terrorism was awesome.
Is there a less legitimate news outlet than the New York Post?
In an article cleverly titled “Tail to the Chief” (that headline writer’s parents must be so proud), the New York Post echoes Matt Drudge in claiming that Obama was caught looking at a 17-year-old’s butt at the G8 summit in Italy.
Alas, the truth rears its ugly head as it turns out the picture is a freeze-frame of a video that actually shows Obama turning to help a woman down the steps. Even Fox News, infamous for its deceitful cropping and/or misrepresentation of any quote, picture or video of President Obama, debunked this nonsense when reliable wingnut Greta van Susteren described it as a “lying picture that’s going around the Web.”
Even after said debunking by van Susteren, other shows and personalities on Fox continue to harp on this non-story.
As usual, my favorite commentary comes from the Rude Pundit:
When we in Left Blogsylvania laughed our asses off at Bush’s stupid facial expression when he couldn’t open a Chinese door or when he massaged the shoulders of the leader of another country, it was because he actually did those things.
UPDATE: Still going. And the right-wing analysis just gets worse and worse.
By mocking the legal recount in Minnesota, conservatives indirectly erode any legitimacy of Bush’s 2000 recount win in Florida.
By mocking Franken’s career in entertainment, they indirectly mock the elevation of a Hollywood B-lister to the Presidency in 1981.
This is all that needs to be said:
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001852/
Fox News is a bad joke, told by an idiot who forgets the punch line.
Hmmm…”unprecedented.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
“The more the right wing tries to justify the torture policy, the worse they look. Using national security to justify torture is just a bald-faced attempt to hide the truth. What really went on was simple. The Bush administration felt that Al-Qaida could not be defeated while still preserving what America stands for.”
Sorry for the massive blockquote, I just couldn’t pare down what he’s saying any more than this. It’s all so good and, as they said in My Cousin Vinny, dead-on-balls accurate.
As far as I can tell these days, there are only three events Republicans remember throughout history, and those three events are the basis for every decision they make. The events are WWII (in which a damned furriner, Churchill, is the conservative hero), the Reagan administration, and the Republican take-over of Congress in Clinton’s first term. It doesn’t matter that they “misremember” those three cherished memories and don’t seem to have the ability to accurately assess those time periods. If you are wondering why the Bush administration and the past eight years is not one of those three memories, it is because they decided the day he left office that he is not a true conservative. Down the memory hole with you, George, and take those damned dogs with you!
Let’s just take one of these to prove the point. As WWII is one of the pivotal moments Republicans remember, every enemy is Hitler.
Saddam Hussein? Hitler.
Putin? Hitler.
Kim Jong Il? Hitler.
Barack Obama? Hitler.
Likewise, anyone who does not do precisely what the wingnut crowd wants is instantly an appeaser and akin to Chamberlain.
Barack Obama- appeaser and Chamberlain.
Iraq War Critics- Appeasers.
Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter- Appeasers.
And on and on. So what you have is a movement centered on a fictional history based on three events they don’t remember too well, and they are completely at the mercy of the echo chamber, which has them completely dumbed down by talk radio and the circle jerk of self-referential pundits that tells them exactly what they want to hear. If you remember correctly, the wurlitzer was telling us after the last electoral drubbing that this is a center-right nation, despite the fact the GOP got hammered.
In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive. But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual, but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what is bad. On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common. They are not wise. They do not represent the truth. They threaten to widen the divide across the Atlantic and leave us both more isolated. They fail to acknowledge the fundamental truth that America cannot confront the challenges of this century alone, but that Europe cannot confront them without America.
— President Obama in Strasbourg, France, 4/3/09
Why was this so hard for George Bush to get?
The temerity and prevarication of the Bushies never ceases to amaze.
Condoleezza Rice has lied to the American public before, of course. But she was on Charlie Rose Wednesday night and she flat out lied about her lies.
She said, “No one was arguing that Saddam Hussein somehow had something to do with 9/11…I was certainly not. The President was certainly not…We were not arguing that.”
This, of course, is false. She herself and numerous other Bush administration officials (including Bush himself) made several statements attempting to connect Iraq to 9/11, implicitly and explicitly. Many of these came in the form of attempts to link Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, whom the 9/11 Commission concluded had “no collaborative relationship.”
Nevermind the fact that as recently as last week, Bushies were still pushing a Saddam-9/11 link. Ari Fleischer asked Chris Matthews, “After September 11th having been hit once how could we take a chance that Saddam might strike again?”
There are numerous other examples. Frankly too numerous to list, but here are a few:
…on October 14, 2002, Bush announced that “We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.” On the eve of the war, the President told Americans that Iraq “has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.” And as hostilities commenced, Cheney on March 21, 2003 decried Iraq as the “geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.”
When you say something that you know is false, that’s called lying. Condoleezza Rice is a well-educated, relatively smart person. It is nigh impossible for her not to remember the statements she and her colleagues have made in the past. Therefore, it is clear that Condoleezza Rice is lying.
Fuck you Condi.
PS: And fuck Charlie Rose for not calling her on it. There’s nothing biased about a journalist who points out when someone is lying. Rice is on the record making these statements! There’s video in most cases! What’s so fucking hard, Charlie?
