FOX News lies! [gasp, I know you're shocked]

But here’s some good documentation of some recent lies passed off as “fair and balanced” news. Watch the video and then go take action at Brave New Films.

Country First? That’s a First for McCain.

McCain tries more P.R. Spin

So John McCain’s handlers are trying a new tact to make him look like he’s not totally incompetent. “Country First” is his new slogan as he tries to show off his foreign policy expertise (I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Karl Rove was in the Black Sea region just before the Georgia/Russia dustup — and one of McCain’s lobbyists [also known as campaign advisers in the McCain camp] is the top lobbyist for the country of Georgia).

Because we know that John McCain has always put his country first. Like when American citizens were suffering and dying during Hurricane Katrina, let’s take a look at how John McCain was putting America first.

McCain and his buddy putting Country First during Hurricane Katrina. "Let them eat..." how does that old saying go?

Special thanks to Firedoglake for highlighting this issue.

The Antichrist Calling the Kettle Black

Appeared in the 1904 "Plays of our Forefathers by Charles Mills Gayley

John McCain’s latest desperate attempt to shift focus from issues to personal attacks is his despicable “The One” ad.

This is despicable on so many levels, but the most frightening is the way it tries to imply Barack Obama is the Antichrist as portrayed in the Left Behind series of books. The language used is clearly a conscious effort to send a secret message to the millions of readers of those books.

Of course calling your opponent the Antichrist is exactly the kind of thing you’d expect the real Antichrist to do.

‘A surprisingly immature politician’

Steve Benen has a very insightful piece on the McCain disaster-in-the-making over at Crooks and Liars. Take a look at: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/04/a-surprisingly-immature-politician/

Comparing George W. Bush to Caligula?

From today’s House Judiciary Committee meeting on the impeachment of George W. Bush.

Rabkin (George Mason University School of Law professor Jeremy Rabkin and Bush apologist) said. “You should all remind yourselves that the rest of the country is not necessarily in this same bubble in which people think it is reasonable to describe the president as if he were Caligula.”

And he’s right, that’s a ridiculous comparison. Caligula wasn’t afraid of horses.

The free market zealots: an analogy

Imagine a city experiencing a robbery spree and the free marketeer mayor decides the obvious solution to people having their homes broken into is to ban locks on the front doors to your home.

When the crime spree gets worse, he claims that his logic isn’t flawed, it just didn’t go far enough so he suggests they should now ban doors.

Welcome to McCain-enomics (the horrifying sequel to Reaganomics and Bush-enomics)

Soviet-style political prisoners in America

Free Don Siegelman

Okay, so Don Siegelman was the incumbent governor of Alabama. He went to bed on election night having won a narrow victory in his reelection.

But in the middle of the night, at a lone precinct in Alabama, after all the Democratic poll workers went home, some Republicans magically found thousands of new votes for the Republican in an electronic voting machine. The election was flipped.

He was warned not to rock the boat, but he proceeded to protest his stolen election. Luckily for Republicans, the wife of his opponents campaign manager was one of Bush’s special appointed federal prosecutors so Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama was charged with false crimes and actually sent to jail!

He actually was sent to jail by the wife of his opponent’s campaign manager!

This happened in America in the 21st century.

He’s out now, thanks to congress finally paying attention, but he still has enormous legal issues to be resolved thanks to Karl Rove and other friends of the Bush Administration.

Go to http://www.donsiegelman.org/ to find out more specific details and to donate to this patriotic American’s legal defense.

Jackson’s too late for cutting them off

Jesse Jackson recently said he wanted to cut Barak Obama’s n**ts off.

After Obama’s vote for the blatantly unconstitutional FISA bill that also happens to let our felonious president off the hook as well as granting retroactive immunity to telephone companies for felonies they committed in concert with the Bush Administration I’m starting to think someone beat Jesse Jackson to it.

Like many of his supporters, I’m livid with our candidate right now.

That being said, I still think we should all vote for him for president and I even think he will make a great president. I just wish he had shown a little more backbone or integrity with that FISA vote. As a constitutional scholar, I would have expected much more from Obama.

But even with such a big flaw, Barak Obama will bring a dignity and gravitas to the White House that we haven’t seen there in my lifetime.

And that’s something America desperately needs right now.

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows Unite to Fight FISA Deal

Ron Paul supporters, the ACLU and liberal blogs are uniting
Contact: Liz Rose (202) 675-2312 media@dcaclu.org
For Immediate Release: June 18, 2008

Washington, DC — A sham spying deal could be rammed through both the Senate and House this week. It’s moving that fast. If we don’t stop this, telecom companies that broke the law by supplying mountains of personal information to the government without a warrant will be let off the hook.

A broad alliance of strange bedfellows is now forming to support a campaign to fight the gutting of FISA (The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) with the intent to work together on all civil liberties, constitutional rights and rule of law issues.

The ACLU is joining with activists from the Ron Paul campaign, represented by Break the Matrix, Rick Williams and Trevor Lymon, and civil liberties writer Glenn Greenwald of Salon, and leading liberal bloggers including, Jane Hamsher of firedoglake, Matt Stoller of Open Left, John Amato of Crooks and Liars, Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny, Digby, Josh Nelson of The Seminal and activist Josh Koster to tell Congress that we will not let them ignore the Constitution or give immunity to telecoms which deliberately broke our laws for years.

This group of Strange Bedfellows is mobilizing a broad-based left-right coalition of office holders and candidates, public interest groups and individuals who are devoted to preserving basic constitutional liberties to join in the fight. The goal is to work together to impede the corrupt FISA/telecom amnesty deal.

Glenn Greenwald said, “The Beltway establishment has made clear that they support the Bush administration’s assault on our basic constitutional protections and the rule of law. Constitutional rights and the rule of law are not liberal or conservative principles. They’re American principles, and this broad-based alliance is devoted to defending them from the bipartisan political class that wants to trample upon them.”

Lust for freedom can lead to some pretty strange bedfellows

For more information:

thestrangebedfellows.com
http://www.breakthematrix.com/node/10780
http://fearistyranny.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/breaking-the-matrix/
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/17/hoyer/index.html
http://www.theseminal.com/2008/06/18/say-no-to-fisa-compromises/
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/06/jaccuse-steny-hoyer-has-betrayer.html
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=975&page=UserAction
www.aclu.org/fisa

The Real McCain

John McCain would be an absolute disaster for the country if he gets elected president… an even bigger disaster than the past 7 years of Bush.

Here’s one example disproving ridiculous notion of his “straight talk express.” The fact that the corporate media buys into this absurdity is more proof of how corrupt the state of journalism has become.