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The United States has come in for strong criticism from former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for advising other countries against acquiring nuclear weapons while refusing to destroy its own arsenal. In his first public appearance at the UN since his historic "glasnost" address to the General Assembly in 1988, Gorbachev said the United States was "hypocritical" over nuclear armaments and not prepared to eliminate its own such arms. "I think Russia is ready to cooperate. Now the question is, is the United States -- the only remaining superpower -- ready to do this? I think not myself," he said at...

Sunday, February 27, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ACADEMY AWARDS Scorsese disses Oscar ceremony Director warns of Christians' impact, rise of political correctness from left -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 27, 2005 5:56 p.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Martin Scorsese After three decades of waiting to win an Academy Award, film director Martin Scorsese says a victory tonight for "The Aviator" would be meaningless. In an interview with London's Sunday Times, Scorsese was asked if there would still be any impact on him were his name to be read as the winner of the best director award at the Hollywood event. "No...

Did you guys catch that? I like the song, but thought that the context was demeaning considering the "theme" of the pregame is a salute to veterans and serving members of the armed forces. That song has a meaning them and now. And with the purposeful ending over and over. What a jerk!

Garofalo: Fingers with ink comparable to Nazi salute Actress, liberal radio host calls Republican gesture 'disgusting' Posted: February 3, 2005 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Janeane Garofalo makes a Nazi salute on MSNBC to mock Republicans who dipped their fingers in paint Actress and liberal talk-radio host Janeane Garofalo is taking issue with congressional Republicans who dipped their fingers in ink for President Bush's State of the Union speech as a sign of solidarity with Iraqi voters, likening it to a Nazi salute. Garofalo actually made the salute last night as she provided post-speech commentary on MSNBC's "After Hours"...

Sen. John Kerry [related, bio] yesterday described the elections in Iraq as ``significant'' and ``important'' but said they should not be ``overhyped.''       ``It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote,'' the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview on NBC's ``Meet the Press.''      Although the Bush administration has said the mere fact that elections take place is a huge sign of progress, Sen. Kerry said the next step is more important.      ``What the administration does in these next few days will decide the outcome of Iraq. And this...

When she became the first black woman to win the best actress Oscar, Halle Berry hoped she would be the first of many. Three years on, however, no woman has repeated her success. So Miss Berry, 38, has launched a savage attack on Hollywood producers and directors, accusing them of racial prejudice. "The struggle for a woman of colour to find good material is still very present, and it's a struggle I fight every day," she said. Miss Berry said there was such a shortage of decent roles on offer that she had resorted to buying the rights of books...

Sean Hannity at Hannity.com Sean Hannity seems to me to be the most ambitious guy in talk radio and on TV. His conservatism and optimism have taken him right to the top. I must say when I first heard Sean Hannity I thought, wow this guy is gunning for Rush LImbaugh's top spot, and is going to catch him in no time. He has big, big guests, always wins his arguments, and is a genuine nice guy. Then something happened - I started getting annoyed. It's not that I really disagreed with the guy, but I'm just having trouble listening...

US Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who had hoped to replace George W. Bush as president yesterday, instead sat in the cold and clapped as the Republican began a second four-year term. Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin patted Senator Kerry on the back shortly before the inauguration Senator Kerry had hoped would be his. As Mr Bush delivered his inaugural address, Senator Kerry, about 10m away on the steps of the US Capitol, joined other lawmakers and the crowd in repeated applause. Senator Kerry looked relaxed, at times wistful. He frequently smiled, able to hide any disappointment over what...

COLUMBUS -- As Republican officials stonewall subpoenas and subvert the recount process, Rev. Jesse Jackson has pronounced Ohio's vote fraud fiasco "the biggest deal since Selma" and has called for a national rally at "the scene of the crime" in Columbus January 3. Another major national demonstration will follow in Washington on January 6, as Congress evaluates the Electoral College. Should at least one US Representative and one Senator challenge the electors' votes, a Constitutional crisis could ensue.

MIDI - FROSTY THE SNOWMAN - 2nd version Chevy the has-been is a very troubled soul F-bombs he had thrown but he stood alone And then crawled into a hole Chevy the has-been for our president has hate With his potty mouth his career heads south He is mocked in the red states I guess he thought the PFA would love the things he says Results of the election had taught them lessons by our Prez Oh, Chevy the has-been must have been high on pain pills Perhaps he was drunk...oh, well who'd a thunk Norman and his gang...

DIRECTOR Michael Moore, whose anti-Iraq war film Fahrenheit 9/11 touched off a firestorm of controversy, topped an annual list today of Hollywood's least-intriguing celebrities. The outspoken documentary-maker ranks No.1 on this year's Frigid 50 published by online movie magazine FilmThreat.com. The website, known for an anti-establishment take on the entertainment industry, said its list named the stars it found to be the "least-inspiring, least-intriguing people in Hollywood". Ranked No.2 was actress Halle Berry, who followed up her Oscar-winning turn in Monster's Ball with less critically lauded roles in such films as Gothica and Catwoman. "The Frigid 50 ice pack have...

Singer Linda Ronstadt, who made headlines during this year's presidential campaign by expressing solidarity with filmmaker Michael Moore, is now comparing current U.S. political trends with events in Nazi Germany. Linda Ronstadt "People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves," Ronstadt told USA Today regarding the race for the White House. On the issue of the ongoing battle in Iraq, Ronstadt added, "I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took...

GOOD MORNING: Michael Moore met with Harvey Weinstein and Moore says they plan to start working -- now -- on "Fahrenheit 9/11½." "We want to get cameras rolling now and have it ready in two-three years," Moore says. "We want to document and commercialize it. Fifty-one percent of the American people lacked information (in this election) and we want to educate and enlighten them. They weren't told the truth. We're communicators and it's up to us to start doing it now. The official mourning period is over today and there is a silver lining -- George W. Bush is prohibited...

Dear Friends, If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact.

While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios matched the Kerry/Bush vote, and so did the optically-scanned paper ballots in the larger counties, in Florida's smaller counties the results from the optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - seem to have been reversed. In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in...

This is hilarious!

Moore means less (Filed: 06/11/2004) Not since Moby Dick has a great white whale been so bloodily harpooned. It took a shocked Michael Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, until yesterday to comment on the US election result. When he did, he made a lame joke, offering "reasons not to slit your own throat". But if John Kerry's strategists feel like slitting anyone's throat right now, it is Mr Moore's. This was supposed to be the victory that the podgy sage of Flint, Michigan, delivered for the Democrats by winding up students into paroxysms of anti-Bush rage and propelling them into...

LMAO!! CONGRATS EVERYONE

Bob Smith of New Hampshire calls the Bush Presidency a failure.

FLINT - Former Vice President Al Gore will encourage Democrats to continue working through Election Day in an "Every Vote Counts" rally Sunday. It will be a return to familiar territory for Gore, who visited Genesee County three times in three months leading up to the 2000 election he lost to George Bush. He ended up beating Bush by 62-34 percent in Genesee County. This time, Gore is campaigning on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, who has come to Genesee County once this year, in February, before the Michigan Democratic caucus. The public is invited to the...

NEW YORK - Madison Avenue had unwelcome news for John Kerry's campaign yesterday as advertising executives said Bruce Springsteen, who is campaigning with the Democratic presidential hopeful, turns away more votes than he attracts. The campaign trails have begun to look like Hollywood Boulevard as both presidential candidates inject star power into their campaigns, with Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger appearing with George W. Bush in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. While many stars have spoken out about their presidential preference, with most opting for Mr. Kerry, a major ad industry study shows most voters prefer candidates who keep their distance from Hollywood....

Hunt gives voters... Well... AN image of Kerry. Really Unbiased Media Program (Filed by pool reporter... special to RUMP News) BOARDMAN, Ohio Oct 21, 2:01 PM (ET) Democratic presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry went goose hunting today in an effort to connect with the common voter. Kerry adviser Mike McCurry said it's important in the final days of the campaign that voters "get a better sense of John Kerry, the guy. We only have 12 days to get the message across that even though the Senator may LOOK like an effete elitist Massachusetts Liberal snob, he can be just as...

Excerpts: Sen. Fritz Hollings, the 82-year-old South Carolina Democrat, is sitting on his office sofa, telling stories in his inimitable style, which is funny and caustic. Suddenly, his eyes close and his chin drops to his chest. He looks like a man who's about to drool on his impeccable blue-and-white pinstripe shirt....So, after 38 years in the Senate, Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings is heading home to Charleston with his wife, Peatsy.... Reporters: "They just look for a smart-ass remark. They already got their stories written, and they're just looking for filler to show they did a little bit of work."...

Well, folks, it's not just the Palestinian Authority that is in the business of indoctrinating young people through vile martyrdom videos. Now, the artist formerly known as Prince has jumped into the murder-promoting, terror-sympathizing act. I just finished watching "Cinnamon Girl," which can be viewed online here. (Warning: You need to download AOL's media playback software to watch the video). There's news coverage of this female suicide bomber video here. Excerpt: It’s a chilling social statement from a musician better known for talking sexy: Prince’s video for the song “Cinnamon Girl” depicts an Arab-American girl detonating herself in a crowded...

KVI, Fox News Partner For First Fox-Branded Radio Station KVI Talk Radio 570 in Seattle and Fox News have partnered to provide the first Fox News branded radio station in the country. KVI will feature Fox News personalities and radio news updates. The station's new moniker will be "KVI Talk Radio 570…Fox News and talk radio." KVI's lineup will include shows hosted by Fox News personalities Tony Snow, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes. "We're thrilled to be the first station in America to partner with Fox News in this way," said KVI Radio Program Director Paul Duckworth. "Our listeners love...

Outspoken liberal comedian Whoopi Goldberg, who has served as the spokesperson for the weight loss product Slim-Fast since November, was summarily dropped by the company on Wednesday for her incendiary remarks regarding President George W. Bush at a Hollywood fundraiser on behalf of the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA). In a statement, Slim-Fast General Manager and Vice President of Marketing Terry Olson announced that the Florida-based company does not condone the manner in which Goldberg conducted herself at the Kerry fundraiser that took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York last week and...

Pat Buchanan: The New Michael Moore? By E & P Staff Published: June 29, 2004 NEW YORK Is Patrick Buchanan the new Michael Moore? One might wonder, to judge by a letter from the conservative columnist that St. Martin's, the publisher of his upcoming book, is circulating to booksellers this week. Buchanan promises his book will show how, "A cabal of neoconservatives inside and outside the administration hijacked U.S. foreign policy, beat the drums for war in Iraq, and may have ignited a 'war of civilizations' with the Islamic world that could last a generation." The book, "Where the Right...

CLINTON'S PRESIDENCY: WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Sat Jun 26, 8:00 PM ET By Cynthia Tucker Bill Clinton hopes to be acquitted by history. Fortunately for him, though, no subject of history is ever around to hear its verdict. Scholars will probably wonder what drove legions of conservatives to hate Clinton with such fury that they wasted years and spent a king's ransom trying to drive him from office. They will no doubt note that Clinton accomplished much despite the "vast right-wing conspiracy": He righted the nation's finances after decades of dangerous deficits. He drove the initiative that stopped a pogrom...

MADONNA today compared US President George Bush to deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The 45-year-old pop star said the two men were "alike" because they both behaved "in an irresponsible manner". Madonna made the comments during an interview in which she tried to draw a line under her wild days, vowing to be "part of the order, not the chaos, of the world". Madonna's current Re-Invention tour carries a strong anti-war message and her recent video for the song American Life was clear in its opposition to the Iraq conflict. In the final scene of the video, a President Bush...

Thousands of tickets are still available for the Material Mom's six-night stand at Madison Square Garden that begins tonight — many at cut-rate prices. Late yesterday, Ticketmaster, the official retail outlet for Madonna concert tickets, had seats in all price ranges ($50 to $300) for all six nights.

<p>Al Gore will try to boost his party's chances of regaining the White House by criticizing President Bush's Iraq policy in a speech today, in which he will call for the resignation of five Bush administration officials and one military leader.      The event, sponsored by the political action committee of the liberal group MoveOn.org., seeks to motivate the Democratic base. Mr. Gore will argue that Mr. Bush's foreign policy has created animosity against the United States throughout the Islamic world and is putting Americans at greater risk.</p>

1970's songbird Linda Ronstadt, best known for her torch song-style and mellow ballads, is working overtime these days trying to persuade her fellow Arizonans that it's time to dump President Bush "right away." In an interview broadcast on Saturday, Ronstadt was in the middle of explaining to WABC Radio's Mark Simone why she prefers living in Arizona to Los Angeles or New York, when she added one caveat. "The politics are very conservative here and I'm not conservative. I'm having a hard time sometimes convincing people that we need to vote for a new president," she offered. When Simone begged...

Forget Jamie Gorelick. The member of the 9/11 Commission who most deserves the boot — or at least the swiftest kick in the pants — is former Senator Bob Kerrey. The man who told PBS newsman Jim Lehrer four years ago that he needed to retire from political life because "it's time for me to breathe some private air" now won't stop polluting the public's airspace. In the past month alone, he has penned blabbermouth op-eds for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and logged appearances on CBS's Face the Nation, CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, NBC's Today Show...

Some of Buchanan's nonsense: "Neocons believe the Palestinian Authority must be crushed, Arafat eliminated, and the Golan Heights, West Bank, and East Jerusalem held by Israel forever. They want Hezbollah eradicated, Syria denatured, the Saudi monarchy brought down. Let them so believe. But their agenda is not America’s agenda, and their fight is not America’s fight."

TUCSON, Ariz. - Diana Ross was convicted Monday of driving under the influence and ordered to spend two days in jail. The R&B diva, who telephoned into the city court hearing from New York, pleaded no contest to DUI. Two related charges were dropped. Tucson Magistrate T. Jay Cranshaw found Ross guilty of DUI and sentenced her to serve 48 hours in jail before March 9. She also was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation. Ross, 59, originally was charged with driving under the influence, driving with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or more and extreme DUI...

Forget Janet Jackson: The Veterans of Foreign Wars is peeved at Kid Rock . The VFW is upset that media outlets are ignoring the poncho Rock wore during the Super Bowl (search) halftime show, which was made by cutting a slit in an American flag. Rock later tossed the flag into the crowd. The VFW's commander in chief, Edward Banas Senior, says Rock's outfit was "in poor taste and extremely disrespectful." Banas lamented that the NFL, MTV and CBS have issued apologies for Justin Timberlake's ripping Janet Jackson's clothes but have said nothing about Rock.

While Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's stunt that closed the Super Bowl halftime show continues to fuel a national backlash, the Veterans of Foreign Wars is criticizing another halftime performer. Kid Rock donned what appeared to be an American flag slit in the middle so he could wear it as poncho for his part of the show Sunday, and the VFW is outraged. "That is just blatant, disgusting disrespect for the flag," national spokesman Jerry Newberry told the St. Petersburg Times on Tuesday. "We have people dying for that flag right now, and that just goes beyond any realm of...

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...

- EXCERPT - Gore Signs On to New Campaign FOR Al Gore, a politician so famously interested in both the environment and technology, the offer to serve on the advisory board of Falcon Waterfree Technologies must have been hard to resist. "He is very concerned about the world water situation and the crisis that the U.N. is predicting — that by 2026, the world demand for water will outstrip the world's supply by 56 percent," said James Krug, president of the company's international division.

Kathleen Turner tells SR crowd women's healthDenouncing the abortion law signed this week as the latest volley in "George W. Bush's War on Women," actress Kathleen Turner exhorted abortion-rights advocates to fight back during a Thursday night appearance in Santa Rosa. Returning to Sonoma County, where she filmed scenes from "Peggy Sue Got Married," one of about 40 films she's made in her Hollywood career, Turner told 130 Planned Parenthood donors that the future of women's health care hangs in the balance. Temporary restraining orders granted in three federal courts, including one Thursday in San Francisco sought by Planned Parenthood's...

<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Former President Bill Clinton on Friday urged the United States to offer aid and cooperation to other nations to ease terrorism and other ills that globalization can bring.</p> <p>"We are drastically underfunding building a world with more partners and fewer terrorists," Clinton said to applause before a crowd of more than 2,000 at Yale University.</p>

Bill Maher: Mel Gibson and Tom DeLay Are Anti-Semites Controversial TV talker Bill Maher attacked religious conservatives in an early morning interview on Wednesday, claiming that movie star Mel Gibson and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were "anti-Semitic." "I do think Mel Gibson is anti-Semitic," Maher told radio host Don Imus. "So, by the way, is Tom DeLay. So, by the way, are all these Christian right people who pretend to be friends of Israel." Then Maher accused Christian fundamentalists of befriending Israel only because, ultimately, they'd like to see Jews die: "You know, this is the sickest thing. They...

Stop the presses! Decades after retirement, Walter Cronkite can still break a major story. Saying he believes "most of us reporters are liberal," Cronkite is admitting what many on the left have denied fervently for years: that there is a bias in the news media, and that it tips to the left noticeably. Cronkite offers the flimsy excuse that "[t]he perceived liberalism of television reporters [...] is a product of the limited time given for any particular item." Essentially, his argument is that bias stems from short segments: there isn't enough time to be balanced. But if reporters can't be...

<p>NEW YORK — A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel's request for an injunction to block humorist Al Franken's (search) new book, which uses the Fox slogan "fair and balanced."</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said Fox's claim was "without merit, both factually and legally."</p>

<p>Cybill Shepherd is freaked out by the prospect of the Austrian-born action hero in the executive mansion.</p> <p>"That would be the worst tragedy in the history of California," Shepherd hyperventilated to "Access Hollywood."</p> <p>"I think that we are the laughing stock of the world, with Arnold Schwarzenegger running [for] governor," Shepherd said. "I think he's a real hypocrite. I think he has a past that is going to come out, and I'm not going to mention what it is, but it's not going to be pretty."</p>

Liberal hatchet man Al Franken has written a letter of apology to Attorney General John Ashcroft, a frequent target of the self-styled satirist, admitting that he had tried to mislead Ashcroft and trick him into confiding his pre-marriage sexual history. "In the letter, I indicated that I wanted your story for a book about abstinence-only sex education entitled 'Savin' It!' I claimed that I had already received testimonies from several conservative leaders, which I had not," he admitted, according to Fox News. "The letter was sent as part of a satirical book I'm working on, which will contain only...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) Fox News Channel has sued liberal humorist Al Franken and the Penguin Group to stop them from using the phrase ''fair and balanced'' in the title of his upcoming book.</p> <p>Filed Monday in Manhattan, the trademark infringement lawsuit seeks a court order forcing Penguin to rename the book, ''Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'' It also asks for unspecified damages.</p>

Mould Defends Gay Marriage President's comments draw ire from former Husker frontman President George W. Bush's recent press conference, during which he spoke against gay marriage, has prompted a host of rebuttals from many opposing voices, gay and straight alike. Singer-songwriter Bob Mould does not mince words when it comes to airing his feelings for Bush's declarations; the former Sugar and Husker Du frontman was incensed by the President's comments. "Who is he to decide what is right for civilization?" Mould asks. "Who is he to tell the world how we should perceive two people wanting equal protection under the...

Arrest ... Adam is taken from the cafe by police TROUBLED pop star Adam Ant is led away by cops yesterday after going berserk and stripping off in a cafe. Adam, 49, allegedly hurled stones at neighbours’ homes, smashing several windows, before heading to the nearby Curly Dog cafe. Worried diners told how he ranted about children before pulling off his trousers and going into the basement, saying he wanted to sleep. Adam, who has a history of mental illness, curled up in a ball and refused to come out when cops arrived. Heyday ... Adam in eighties But actress...

<p>Madonna is in trouble. Her American Life album drops from number 1 to about number 8 this week, selling a paltry 65,000 copies. That's down from 235,000 the first week.</p> <p>Of course, the whole record business bottomed out last week, with the top 10 albums selling fewer than 750,000 copies. Rapper 50 Cent (search) regained first place, and two albums connected to American Idol did well enough to make the top five. Additionally, Cher (search) continues to astound with her greatest hits collection.</p>