Tuesday, July 11, 2006
News Countdown
How does the President of the United States become “the moral equivalent of a mafia boss?” According to Andrew Sullivan, when he threatens the wife and children of a terrorist in custody in order to get the terrorist to talk.
Medicare Part D has some serious problems.
Tony Snow debased himself and his office another level by (surprise) bashing Clinton in response to criticisms of the Bush Administration’s progress with North Korea. This is special because it is unheard of for a Press Secretary to insult the foreign policy of a previous administration, much less twice in as many months (readers will remember Snow’s sarcastic and ridiculous criticism of Jimmy Carter’s presidency).
Poland, one of the former members of the “Coalition of the Willing,” rips the Bush Administration’s performance in Iraq.
Senators Graham and Kyl sink to lows not seen “since Nixon’s reign.”
Finally, I must make a note on this blog of Santorum’s and Hoekstra’s bizarre claims of “new” information regarding WMDs in Iraq, touted by Sean Hannity (of course) as “vindication” of the administration’s pretext for war. Every time I hear Sean Hannity speak I wonder why it isn’t against the law to lie publicly and constantly in this country.
Hoekstra is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is he not? Is this the man in charge of “overseeing” the intelligence efforts of this administration? Does it need explanation why this story looks incredibly bad specifically regarding the status of congressional oversight?
Does it require further explanation to make clear that propagandists are in charge of governance is Congress?
Another note (OK, I lied about the “finally” part): since when did cable news viewers get so old? Bill O’Reilly’s viewer’s mean age is 71! Olbermann’s isn’t that much younger. I think someone should inform Bill that his average audience member only has (mathematically) three years to live.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 5:49 PM 
