Sean Hannity Stoking A Fear Of Islam And Arabs

1. Show scary bearded men.
2. Film explosion's aftermath.
3. Link jobs, board seats and social causes to a terrorist organization.
4. Look under every rock for any Muslim relatives, friends or associates.
5. Use inflammatory words like unrepentant, occasional and radical.
6. Throw money into the mix.
7. Make statements using questioning inflection.
8. Say the names Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO and Al-Qaeda as many times as you can.
9. Don't tell the viewers your Middle East expert is a Pro-Israel Bush appointee who writes for a right wing think tank.
10.Research every citizens background in the city of Chicago for connections to Barack Obama. (that's not in the piece I just added it myself)

Let's make sure that we are afraid of everything Islamic or Arab. They're all terrorists and extremists you know.

Sean Hannity's "investigative reporting" for Fox News earns him a Hannity Head.

And She's A Small One

A female Komodo dragon lizard. A French tourist has told how he and four other European divers spent two nights on a deserted Indonesian island eating shellfish and watching for komodo dragons as they awaited rescue.
(AFP/Andrew Yates)

It's nice to know there are a few things out there still bigger than ourselves.

Extension Of the Bush Policies? Absolutley

What Senator Kerry is pointing out is that the corporate tax rate is 35% and the effective rate that corporations are paying is sometimes as low as 17.2%

Bush Policies Drive Surge in Corporate Tax Freeloading
82 Big U.S. Corporations Paid No Tax in One or More Bush Years
In case you need a refresher on the Bush Corporate Tax Policies I know I did. Oh and John McCain distancing himself from President Bush, looks like Senator Lindsey Graham didn't get the memo.

We'll Do It Live Re-Mix - Enjoy

I never did get around to posting Billo's meltdown from back in the day when he hosted Inside Edition but here it is re-mixed and you can dance to it. It's got a good beat and I give it a 10. Thanks Mike!!

Who's Got Blood On Their Hands? Rev. Wright Or Charlie Black

Charles R. Black Jr., Senior Adviser to John McCain's Campaign

Sorry Big Brown Not This Year

Da' Tara, with Alan Garcia in the irons, (L), races against Big Brown with jockey Kent J. Desormeaux during the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, June 7, 2008.
REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES)

Obama Starts The General Election Campaign

Barack Obama heads to Appalachia to try and win over Hillery Clinton's biggest group of supporters.

Right Wingers Say Michelle Obama Racist Exposed

Why would people want to hurt such a beautiful family. The right-wingers, pro-Hillary and anti-Obama blogs have finally gotten a copy of Michelle Obama's "Whitey" rant filmed at a conference held at Trinity Church. It's being praised as the "Obama Take-down" HERE and at evil ex-CIA operative Larry Johnson's blog No Quarter.

I don't think the Obama Campaign has released a statement yet and I don't think it's that bad.

John McCain Is Just Racking Up The Positive Reasons To Vote For Him

I am Bi-Polar, Class II and I thank God that my wonderful husband and family have been able to help me decrease the stress that triggers the awful depression associated with Bi-Polar and Anxiety Disorders. I can't even imagine what these men and women of our military in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeing and going through on tour after tour of duty and missing their family, friends and loved ones.

This sad story, America's Medicated Army can be found in Time Magazine.

Polls Say A Dead Heat

Poll: Obama And McCain In Dead Heat As General Election Begins
By Greg Sargent - June 6, 2008, 4:55PM TPM Election Central

CNN releases more numbers from today's poll:

The general election season opens with a neck-and-neck race between Barack Obama and John McCain, with more than one in five voters admitting that they might change their minds between now and November.

Pres '08
June 6 CNN
Obama (D) 49%, McCain (R) 46%

Newest Poll Numbers:
Pres '08
June 8 Gallup
Obama (D) 46%, McCain (R) 44%
Pres '08
June 8 Rasmussen
Obama (D) 50%, McCain (R) 43%

Pundits, Naysayers And Abraham Lincoln

My comedy writer at Monkeywrench's Toy Shoppe is going to strike unless I lighten up the blog a little now that the primaries are over. He borrowed this video from friend and fellow writer Jon Stewart for your enjoyment.

Barack Obama Doesn't Need My Protection And I Don't Listen To These Hacks

Howard Dean, said in an interview, “Many of the most prominent people on TV behaved like middle schoolers” toward Mrs. Clinton.

But wait Howard what about the fair and balanced group on Fox News that the Clinton Campaign was always giving interviews to? Let's start with the morning bunch at Fox and Friends with Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade. They reminded us over and over that Barack Obama's middle name was Hussein and lied when they said as a child he attended an Islamic Madrassa.

In the late afternoon we have Brit Hume and his Special Report with Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer. Brit Hume sets himself up as the good guy in the questions about Obama. For example, "Was this a gaffe or just a slip of the tongue"? or "Obama wasn't in the church at the time of the sermon so how bad is this"? What a Republican tool.



Fred Barnes

Charles Krauthammer

We have Bill O'Reilly in the evening, enough said.


Saving the worst for last is Sean Hannity of Hannity and Colmes. When I volunteered for the North Carolina Primary I would come back to my host's house and we would catch up on the late news like what were the latest poll numbers and what did the candidates do and say on the campaign trail. Did Sean Hannity talk about any of that? No every night he started his program off with something about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Every night!!


Howard you should have cried racism and spanked them all including Terry McCauliffe for gushing "you guys are fair and balanced" so that Fox could use him in a commercial. Let's hope he's now a registered Independent.

Did You Forget About This Too John?

From McCain's foreword to David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest:
"It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn’t support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay. No other national endeavor requires as much unshakable resolve as war. If the nation and the government lack that resolve, it is criminal to expect men in the field to carry it alone".

I'm still waiting for the candidate to be asked about this, The Cunning Realist
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