I just saw the most wonderful little movie. If you have not already, go rent Big Fish.
Of course, I cried. But it was still a sweet movie.
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I just saw the most wonderful little movie. If you have not already, go rent Big Fish.
Of course, I cried. But it was still a sweet movie.
by John Cole| 66 Comments
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The other day, I was quite shocked to see in the comments section to the torture outrage post this statement from Ted Barlow:
I appreciate this, John. It’s good to know that the mainstream left and right are essentially on the same side.
I don’t want to sound crazy here- but I never thought this was a political issue or something that even deserved a second thought before making a judgement. Torture is wrong. Period.
I guess when you are a paid political pundit, you are not paid for your thinking. You are paid to sound like you are thinking while cranking out shrill agitprop. Thus, barely a week later from the scandal being blown wide open, we find the Calpundit sounding all the right partisan tones:
MSNBC has posted the full text of the Taguba Report on abuses at Abu Ghreib prison. I haven’t examined it yet, but wanted to point it out to anyone who’s interested in reading the full text. Maybe someone can email a copy to Richard Myers, Don Rumsfeld, and George Bush.
This is an election cycle, so maybe Mr. Drum is just following the faxes from Hyannisport:
The horrifying abuse of Iraqi prisoners, which the world has now seen, is absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable. And the response of the administration, certainly the Pentagon, has been slow and inappropriate.
Get it guys- this is not a human rights issue. It is campaign fodder.
And like sand through the hour-glass, my opinion of the Democrats gets worse.
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The only real comments I have about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is that:
A.) Kerry brought this all on himself.
B.) Kerry brought this all on himself.
C.) Kerry brought this all on hismelf.
D.) The delicious irony that the party whose main platform is “Anyone But Bush” now has a group countering with “Anyone But Kerry.”
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I guess character only matters when you are attacking Democrats. That is why the libs are gleeful about their newly funded ‘fact-checker,’ David Brock.
And how many ways to not get something are these guys going to come up with before they figure out what people are talking about? The right is generally not concerned with errors in OPINION PIECES. It is when the opinions are masquerading as news that the right gets pissy.
Would we bother to fact-check Air America? Hell, no. First, we wouldn’t want to pay a fact-checker to double their audience, second, who has that kind of patience to listen to that all day long?
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So Ted Rall pens an offensive cartoon about Pat Tillman, and MSNBC pulls it. Business as usual, although this statement from MSNBC made me giggle:
MSNBC.com pulled a cartoon by syndicated political cartoonist Ted Rall on Monday.
Rall