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Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner may have done "cartwheels down the hallway" when Apple called him to complain about the Redmond, Wash.-based company's "Laptop Hunters" campaign. But he must have cartwheeled past Microsoft's legal department because, as Advertising Age reports, the company has quietly altered its ad campaign in an apparent response to Apple's complaints. . . . Does it seem disingenuous to boast about Apple's apparently-quite-legitimate complaints one week and then quietly accede to that same request the next? Maybe. But from Microsoft's vantage point, maybe it's better to eat a little crow than stare down an FTC...

Pete Wehner has a great piece about Obama, Democrats, and the Surge. He has gone through the records of nearly every prominent Democrat, pulled their public comments on the issue, and makes them eat 'em. First Chef Wehner serves Obama a big plate of bitch-slap. Sayeth the Messiah: I don't think the president's strategy is going to work. We went through two weeks of hearings on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; experts from across the spectrum--military and civilian, conservative and liberal--expressed great skepticism about it. My suggestion to the president has been that the only way we're going to change...

In the coming months, our national attention will be shifting from political pork to political crow. Democrats have put themselves in a position where they will be eating a lot of it, as it now appears there is a chance of victory in Iraq. All those on the left who have been advocating surrender will have pie on their face or crow on their plates. Major cracks are starting to appear in the ranks of Democrats. A few of the more politically astute are starting to stray off the reservation, eschewing the lockstep Democrat talking points and positioning themselves for...

The Queens district attorneys office said Monday a miscommunication was to blame for inaccurate information it released in a press release last Thursday that was quoted in a TimesLedger story on the newspapers Web site Friday. The DAs office issued the press release about the July 19 arrest of three Far Rockaway youths, who were allegedly found in possession of a bag of cocaine and a powerful handgun, the Belgian-made Fabrique Nationale (FN) 5.7. In the release, the DA said that 425 of the 616 officers killed in the line of duty between 1994 and 2003 had been killed with...

WASHINGTON — In a Wednesday story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his Homeland Security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing.

A restaurant in Østre Bolærne, an archipelago on the outer fringe of the Oslo Fjord, has decided on menu innovation to attract new diners. Manager Rolf Bjarne Sund is not sure if the new additions of crow and seagull to the menu will be a definite hit with visitors, but hopes they will give the rare items a try, newspaper Tønsberg Blad reports. "It has something to do with the feeling that this (crow) is not a clean bird," Sund admitted. "But it is incredibly good. It tastes like chicken with a hint of game. And it is safe to...

Crow eaten here: This is a horror. In a column (Opinion, June 29) I asserted that more Iraqis (civilians) had now been killed in this war than had been killed by Saddam Hussein over his 24-year rule. Wrong. Really, really wrong. The only problem is figuring out by how large a factor I was wrong. I had been keeping an eye on civilian deaths in Iraq for a couple of months, waiting for the most conservative estimates to creep over 20,000, which I had fixed in my mind as the number of Iraqi civilians Saddam had killed. ------------------------------------------------------- There have...

I cannot post from Alternet but Drudge has picked this up so you can get it there. Molly Ivins eats crow over her claims that more civilian deaths have occured since US liberated Iraq than under Saddam''s benevolent care.She was abit off on her math ....New Math? the crow eating begins towards the bottom of the column. Its funny

Unsuprisingly, two columns that appeared recently in the Toronto Star and in Germany's Der Spiegel were ignored by the mainstream media. The Toronto Star column was written by Richard Gwyn, an opponent of American policy in Iraq and the other was written by Claus Christian Malzahn. Gywn rightly pointed out that 'the war against terrorism will now begin to turn into a war for democracy.' He concluded, 'It is now time to set down into type the most difficult sentence in the English language. President George W. Bush was right.''He understood that to defeat an idea, (terrorism) it was necessary...

NPR's Nina Totenberg eats her shoe. Asked on Inside Washington over the weekend if President Bush deserves credit for the democratic movements rising in the Middle East, Totenberg, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy, replied that "if I had a hat I would have to eat it." Then, as she briefly brought a shoe to her month, she noted that "I've got my shoe here" and conceded that "I really did not think that this election in Iraq would make that much difference and I was wrong." She quickly added, however, that "it really does help that Arafat died and...

It looks as if George W. Bush might have defeated his most implacable enemy. No, not the Taliban. Not Saddam's murderous Baathist regime. I'm referring to . . . his Democrat critics. Witness the remarkable episode of "The Long & the Short of It" that just concluded on Fox & Friends Weekend. Former RNC communications guy Cliff May sat in for Jim Pinkerton, and as an aside was very good, IMO. Talk turned to the situation in Syria and Lebanon. May stated that W was handling the Syrian situation well, and that the Prez is doing the right thing to...

The New York Times approached a plate of crow Tuesday, took a few nibbles, then pushed the plate away. In its editorial on the "Cedar Revolution" in Lebanon, the Times said: "This has so far been a year of heartening surprises — each one remarkable in itself, and taken together truly astonishing. The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance. And for all the negative consequences that flowed from the...

BY MARK BROWN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Maybe you're like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started -- not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood. You didn't change your mind when our troops swept quickly into Baghdad or when you saw the rabble that celebrated the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue, figuring that little had been accomplished and that the tough job still lay ahead. Despite your misgivings, you didn't demand the troops be brought home immediately afterward, believing the United States must at least...

Maybe you're like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started -- not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood. You didn't change your mind when our troops swept quickly into Baghdad or when you saw the rabble that celebrated the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue, figuring that little had been accomplished and that the tough job still lay ahead. Despite your misgivings, you didn't demand the troops be brought home immediately afterward, believing the United States must at least try to finish what it...

Jon Stewart, late in the Daily Show last night to Newsweek pundit Fareed Zakaria: "I’ve watched this thing unfold from the start and here’s the great fear that I have: What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may, and again I don’t know if I can physically do this, implode. (Hat tip: David Frum).

Maybe you're like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started -- not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood. You didn't change your mind when our troops swept quickly into Baghdad or when you saw the rabble that celebrated the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue, figuring that little had been accomplished and that the tough job still lay ahead. Despite your misgivings, you didn't demand the troops be brought home immediately afterward, believing the United States must at least try to finish what it...

Some of the things said at the Democratic fund-raiser on July 8: Paul Newman "I am a traitor to my class. I think that tax cuts for worried, wealthy thugs like me are borderline criminal. I live very high off the hog.," and the notion they produce trickle-down benefits for the poor is "rubbish. I put my tax cut in my sock and buried it away. In November, let's sock it to them." "There is serious and dangerous stuff out there and something's gotta change." John Mellencamp sang "Let me tell you a story about the Texas Bandito: Texas Bandito,...

In this television frame grab provided by NBC, Democratic strategist James Carville cracks an egg on his forehead to demonstrate he's got egg on his face after his projection of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election was wrong on NBC's 'Meet the Press' during a taping at the NBC studios November 14, 2004 in Washington, DC. Carville projected 52 percent of vote for U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), 47 percent for President George W. Bush and 1 percent for Ralph Nader

It is time to make a list of those who can kiss our collective A$$es. I nominate Michael Moore and Al Frankin. Post election photos are a must.

At least 15 million more voters are expected in the 2004 Presidential election over 2000. These voters are expected to break 2:1 for Kerry. The result will be 53% Kerry, 45% Bush, 2% Nader & other. Expected Electoral vote will be Kerry 320, Bush 218.

WASHIGTON, D.C. – Billionaire investor, donor to radical causes and political activist George Soros, speaking at the last hurrah event of his whirlwind anti-Bush tour, told a luncheon audience at the National Press Club: “Now that I am at the end of my tour, I am not reassured... The race is too close for comfort.” “I embarked on the tour because I was worried that the dramatic deterioration in Iraq did not produce the decisive lead for John Kerry I had confidently expected,” Soros conceded. Asked what he will do if George W. Bush wins another term, Soros lamented, “I...

Bush has a fork in him. Look at the polls. You see them. What makes you think it's gonna get any better for the appointed one? Only the dedicated neo-cons support this clown. Your boy is toast. I hope you guys won't do anything rash after he loses horribly on November 2. President Kerry will make this country much better. Just keep that in mind and you'll be fine. Better yet, jump on the Kerry bandwagon and support a return to peace and prosperity. Come on guys, I'm on your side.

We have no shortage of shortages. There's the much-publicized shortage of oil, which in turn creates a shortage of dollars in consumer wallets after filling up the gas tank. The shortage of jobs, particularly in swing states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio, may produce a shortage of votes in President Bush's re-election bid. But of all the world's shortages, the most important is the shortage of doubt, which has reached crisis proportions. Of that, I am absolutely certain. That crippling shortage shows up in many ways and places. Listen to the sparring on talk radio and cable TV — or...

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Your voice: George Clooney It's recently been brought to my attention that my father, Nick Clooney, has been running for Congress from the 4th District of Kentucky. Although he told me, I didn't really believe him until I started reading all the stories about myself in the paper. It seems the best way to campaign against my father is to go after me. The head of the Kentucky 4th District GOP, Marcus Carey, is quoted in the Enquirer as saying that because of me, my father and I will "go down with my ship" - a reference to a film...

I distinctly remember a few weeks ago someone on NPR saying with disdain that there was no way that a movie about Christ done in a couple of dead languages would attract much of an audience. Unfortunately, I don't recall enough to quote it. But there's PLENTY of critics who should be eating crow now about the Passion. Plenty of people who were DEAD WRONG about the impact and interest of this movie. Please post the best (or worst, I suppose) predictions about the Passion from those who wanted America to hate or ignore the real message of the Gospel....

Tuesday morning on NBC’s Today, Paul O’Neill backtracked from some of his more incendiary comments as recited by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind in a new book. But while the NBC Nightly News, as well as CNN and FNC picked up on O’Neill’s backpedaling, neither ABC or CBS did so on Tuesday night. CNN’s King highlighted how “others in those early national security meetings took issue with suggestions Mr. Bush was predisposed to war,” but ABC’s Peter Jennings ignored what O’Neill said on Today and cited how an “official in the meetings,” whom Jennings did not identify, “confirmed...

The frontman of Jethro Tull has apologised for remarks made in a newspaper interview that seemingly criticised displays of the American flag. In a posting on Jethro Tull's Web site, Ian Anderson further explained what he meant when he told the Asbury Park Press newspaper in New Jersey that "I hate to see the American flag hanging out of every bloody station wagon, out of every SUV, every little Midwestern house in some residential area." Anderson said his concern was not specifically displays of the US flag but "the flag-waving mind-set" across the world. He said he regretted the tone...

A University Of Texas At San Antonio associate professor who improperly used State computers for political and commercial purposes has apologized for his actions, sort of. Following an exposé, which appeared in the San Antonio Lightning on August 22nd, the official website of Neal Richard Wagner, assistant chair of UTSA Computer Sciences, was purged of dozens of pages because of political and commercial content. UTSA rules and regulations ban employees from using State facilitities and UTSA's name to further such ventures. While an individual may feel that identification with UTSA will add weight to his or her views on a...

<p>Gov. Gray Davis deserves to be recalled. His performance has earned him record-low poll numbers because voters believe he is too arrogant, too nasty &#8212; and that he would sell them out to any special interest that could help his career. Rather than shape up to fend off the recall, Mr. Davis has been acting as if his main goal is to prove to skeptical voters that they have been too kind to him.</p>

Liberal anti-war activist and actress Janeane Garofalo was presented with Free Republic's Golden Garofalo Award today in Washington, D.C. at the studio of CNN's Crossfire program by members of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic.The Garofalos--stuffed crows on a platter--were awarded to ten individuals for their over-the-top predictions of disaster if America went to war to remove the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. The Garofalos were awarded based on nominations and voting by members of Free Republic after the fall of Baghdad last April.The winners were announced in a ceremony outside the White Correspondents Dinner on April 26 and featured...

<p>GOV. GRAY DAVIS deserves to be recalled. His performance has earned him record-low poll numbers because voters believe he is too arrogant, too nasty -- and that he would sell them out to any special interest that could help his career. Rather than shape up to fend off the recall, Davis has been acting as if his main goal is to prove to skeptical voters that they've been too kind to him.</p>

<p>The liberals (Paul Begala) on Crossfire were demanding that Tucker eat his shoe because he said he would do so if Hiullarys book sold one million copies.</p> <p>Simon Schuster said that they passed the figure today and after websites started calling Tucker a 'metrosexual' demanding him to come clean Hillary then came on and gave him the cake which he ate.</p>

Stop Cowboy Diplomacy! Show your dissent: show a movie. NEWS FLASH: Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman Join Operation Strangelove Be part of a national anti-war action on May 14. Screen "Dr. Strangelove," and raise money for groups still working hard for peace, justice and relief in Iraq. Pre-emptive strikes. Cowboy diplomacy. Men conspiring in the War Room, bent on world domination. Weapons of mass destruction. And most terrifying of all, an invasion begun for one overwhelming reason: precious fluids. Forty years after its filming, the dark and explosively funny "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the...

The combat in Iraq may be over, but political combat at home threatens to swell. Bitterness is likely to thrive for the duration of the Bush administration, not only because of domestic policy differences between the right and the left, but because of continuing anger on both sides stemming from their fight over the Iraq war. The warriors who supported Bush's Iraq policy, mostly on the right, are still facing off against the antiwarriors, mostly on the left. At first glance, this doesn't look like much of a fight. The antiwarriors mustered large demonstrations but were outmuscled by a Republican-dominated...

Martin Sheen, who thinks he's really president even if he only plays one on television promised Hollywood Reporter correspondent Paul Bond he’d buy him dinner if he was proved wrong about his rabid anti-war stand - and now that he has been, Bond hasn't heard a word from him.It could be he realizes that the main dish he'll be served is a generous helping of crow. As Bond relates on the April 11 FrontPagemagazine.com, he was quizzing Sheen and fellow Saddam appeasers such as Mike Farrell and a host of other activist-actors about how they'd react if U.S. forces were...

The popular FoxNews morning show, Fox and Friends, has scheduled the last segment of the Tuesday, April 29, program for a discussion of the Free Republic Garofalo Awards unveiled outside the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday evening. DC Chapter Co-Leader, Kristinn, will appear on the program with the ready-to-eat stuffed crows Garofalo Awards. Kristinn will be in the FoxNews D.C. studios. Thanks to Interesting Times and the Free Republic Network for helping Fox and Friends to contact the DC Chapter. FReep On, Everyone!

Where has the Hollywood anti-war lobby gone? In the weeks leading up to war in Iraq actors Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn and Janeane Garofalo joined a cast of thousands in a fierce Hollywood resistance played out in protest marches and from the sofas of television talk shows. But with the war in its waning hours, all is quiet on the western coast -- leading conservatives to suggest that Garofalo and her fellow travelers are in full retreat from a public backlash and feeling chastened by a swift American victory... A spokeswoman for Penn, who infuriated many Americans by...

The DC Chapter of Free Republic held its 5th Annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner Freep on Saturday, April 26, 2003. There were 19 FReepers and Lurkers in attendance: W04Man, FreeTheHostages, BushorBust, SpacemanSpiff, Mrs. SpacemanSpiff, sauropod, hellinahandcart, Jimmy Valentine's brother, Exit148, tgslTakoma, kristinn, Doctor Raoul, BufordP, Angelwood, rachelprofiling, ned13 and friend, L_Von_Mises and GunsareOK. We were worried about the weather since rain was in the forecast. We came prepared with lots of plastic coverings for the Garofalo Awards and we had plenty of ponchos and umbrellas to keep us fairly dry. Luckily for us, the rain held off and the...

What a great day it was in Metairie, LA (a suburb of New Orleans) for our fifth “Rally for America.” It was shirtsleeve weather, and the sun was beaming down on the crowd of flag-waving patriots who came to our informal rally. We were all inspired by the constant honks and other indications of support from the passing cars. And we are all so thankful that our heroic troops have had such extraordinary success in bringing freedom to the people of Iraq! We are so proud of our American military and so proud to be Americans! Since the war is...

IN THE weeks leading up to war in Iraq, actors Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn and Janeane Garofalo joined a cast of thousands in a fierce Hollywood resistance played out in protest marches and from the sofas of television talk shows. But with the war in its waning hours all is quiet, leading conservatives to suggest that the mysteriously missing Hollywood anti-war lobby is in full retreat from a public backlash. A spokeswoman for Sean Penn, who infuriated many Americans by visiting Iraq in December on his own fact-finding mission, said the actor was not granting interviews. Mr Sheen’s...

They came out to protest the war against Iraq. They did their utmost to demoralize, humiliate and slander everyone and everything from President Bush to the soldier in uniform for even thinking about bringing an end to Saddam Hussein and his monstrous regime. Communists, socialists, terrorists, polititians and anti-Americans from every slimey corner of the country rushed to Hollywood actors to rally their cause acrooss the country. Here are just a few of them at anti-American rallies. What do they have to say about protecting their hero Saddam and his band of hideous terrorist thugs now?

DISCLAIMER: The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by Reuters and its third party content providers for your personal information only. In the weeks leading up to war in Iraq actors Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn and Janeane Garofalo joined a cast of thousands in a fierce Hollywood resistance played out in protest marches and from the sofas of television talk shows. But with the war in its waning hours, all is quiet on the western coast -- leading conservatives to suggest that Garofalo and her fellow travelers are in full retreat...

Comedienne-turned-antiwar activist Janeane Garofalo will be among those honored at a ceremony sponsored by the Washington, D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com outside tonight's annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner. The first annual "Garofalo Awards" ceremony will spotlight celebrities who distinguished themselves in recent months with "histrionic predictions of gloom and doom before and/or during Operation Iraqi Freedom [and who] stand head and shoulders above all others for their shrillness, certainty and apocalyptic ravings," a FreeRepublic spokesman told NewsMax. The award itself - a stuffed ready-to-eat crow on a silver platter - will be given to the top 10 celebrity activists, politicians,...

<p>AIGUES MORTES, France.</p> <p>Cruising down the river, aboard a Rhone passenger barge with a fine (but unpretentious) French chef and a splendid wine cellar, is the idyllic way to savor the idiocies of the know-it-alls who turned out to know nothing about the war in Iraq.</p>

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic invites all FReepers and lurkers in good standing to join us on Saturday, April 26 for our 5th annual freep against liberal bias in the media at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.This is our most fun event of the year. We, the "little people," get to voice our complaints directly to the reporters, editors and executives who distort the news to further their liberal agenda at the expense of the good of the country, in addition to freeping Clintonistas and other 'Rats there.We also get to meet our friends and favorites in the...

The Nominations for Free Republic's Garofalo Awards are listed below. Voting will now commence from the time of this post until 9:00 a.m. Friday morning, April 25. Please choose your Top Ten Nominees for the Garofalo Award. Judges will tally the votes and announce the winners on a new thread. The Garofalo--ready-to-eat stuffed crows on a platter--will be awarded to prominent individuals in the media and elsewhere whose histrionic predictions of doom and gloom before and/or during Operation Iraqi Freedom stand head and shoulders above all others for their shrillness, certainty, and apocalyptic ravings. To be nominated, the person or...

<p>We're only four months into 2003 and it already is heading into the history books as the year of the protester.</p> <p>Given the Iraqi war is all but ended, a demonstration planned for Saturday evening outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner will protest "liberal bias" in journalism — with an Iraqi twist.</p>