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President Barack Obama’s address to Congress this evening was moving along fairly smoothly until he pledged that there was nothing in the legislation that would provide health care to the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the nation. A cry of “You lie!” was audible from the Republican side of the aisle. The Associated Press reports that the heckler was South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson. “It’s not true,” the president responded to the outburst, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seated behind the president, offered her mother-of-five glare towards the Republican side of the chamber. First Lady Michelle Obama was...

The sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives has accused the CIA of lying to Congress. She is ensnared in a web of conflicting accounts. Her very hold on power could be under a cloud. Meh. Guess we can find some room on A20. But pot pies need to be heated to 165 degrees to be safe? Hold the presses: put it on the front page! Such is the news judgment of the New York Times. The Morning Joe crowd had a field day with Gray Lady and Pelosi’s travails during the show’s opening half-hour today, Joe Scarborough having great...

Krauthammer also provides some overwhelming factoids regarding Pelosi's charge that the CIA lied to her: "Her charge of the CIA lying to her is utterly implausible. Why would it lie to her and tell all the others the truth? It makes no sense at all; and it was refuted by the black and white Obama CIA memo –– not a memo out of the Prince of Darkness: Bush and Cheney; but Obama CIA –– would show that in the briefing in which she says none of this simulated drowning occurred, they had specifically told her about the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques...

For Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), it’s a new week of old questions: What did she know about harsh Bush administration interrogation techniques, and when did she know it? Usually a master of message discipline, Pelosi has been thrown off balance by a mounting firestorm over whether she or her staff learned six years ago that intelligence officials were using extreme tactics such as waterboarding. For weeks, the Speaker has insisted she didn’t, though a declassified report last week suggested otherwise. And Republicans, sensing a rare opportunity, are moving to keep the heat on the discrepancy over competing versions of what...

In addition to a sympathy tour on Oprah Winfrey’s show, Elizabeth Edwards was interviewed by National Public Radio on Thursday. But All Things Considered co-anchor Michele Norris deserves credit for channeling some of the resentment of voters – both Edwards voters and others – who feel defrauded not just by John, but by Elizabeth, who consented to completely fraudulent media stories celebrating her wedded bliss. Deep into the interview, Norris asked the toughie:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.” “My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.” The dust-up comes at a time when top Democrats are trying to make Limbaugh the face of the...

Sweetness & Light (S&L) has the goods (HT Michelle Malkin) on yet another instance of resume enhancement in a Barack Obama book. It is also yet another example of something an inquisitive media has failed to discover in the 21 months since an Obama presidential run became likely. It's too bad. It's clear, from an underlying 2005 post at Analyze This, and other information S&L gathered, that had anyone in the media undertaken an effort to speak to Obama's co-workers at Business International, the firm where he worked after earning his bachelor's degree from Columbia, they would have found that...

Ethan Winner Responds: Claims He Produced Video Ethan Winner responds. Written like a VP in a public relations firm that specializes in crisis management and grassroots organization. I'll post the whole thing below. He produced the video? He paid for the voice-over narration which he found through a talent agency? The voice-over artist has never done any work for the Obama campaign? Uh, yeah, right.He then goes on to sidestep the question of the lie he puts forth in the video: that Palin was a member of the Alaskan Indepence Party -- which she wasn't. That is empirical fact. Instead,...

ABC Radio news just announced Sen. John Edwards will admit to the affair with Rielle Hunter in an interview with the network, but insists the child is not his. We return you to your regularly-scheduled FReeping.

Bill Clinton, speaking at a Vegas YMCA last night, made more charges against Obama and claimed to have, with Chelsea, personally witnessed voter suppression by the Culinary Workers: There is this whole business of the new politics. Well I got a taste of the new politics today. We need a new politics where we all love each other. You’ve heard all that. There’s a radio ad up in the northern part of Nevada telling Republicans that they ought to just register as Democrats for a day so they can beat Hillary and go out and be Republicans next week and...

Susan Englander, assistant editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University, who is editing the King papers from that era, told the Globe yesterday: "I researched this question, and indeed it is untrue that George Romney marched with [Dr.] King." She said that when he was governor of Michigan, George Romney issued a proclamation in June 1963 in support of King's march in Detroit, but declined to attend, saying he did not participate in political events on Sundays. A New York Times story from the time confirms Englander's account. A few days after that march, George...

<p>Two weeks ago Thursday, I agreed to participate in the “Day of Defiance” on April 25, which is a counter protest to the now national “Day of Silence”. This “observance” takes place in many high schools around late April nationwide. I planned on reading redacted paragraphs from the Little Black Book. I made this public statement on the MassResistance radio program, pre-recorded on Thursday, April 18.</p>

Former president Bill Clinton angrily defended his administration's counterterrorism record during a Fox News interview to be aired today, while accusing "President Bush's neocons" and other Republicans of ignoring Osama bin Laden until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Clinton had planned to discuss his climate change initiative during his appearance on "Fox News Sunday," but he turned combative after host Chris Wallace asked why he hadn't "put bin Laden and al-Qaeda out of business." Clinton shot back that "all the conservative Republicans" who now criticize him for inattention to bin Laden used to criticize him for over-attention to bin...

TODAY the greatest problem which Islam is facing is its presumed linkage with terrorism. It is very disturbing to note that an impression is there among western nations and countries that Islam is a militant religion and it was spread by sword and still its religious theory is based on fundamentalism and on so-called terrorism. Islam is misrepresented by western media in this regard. It is very ironical that western pundits linked the most peaceful religion of the world with terrorism and violence. They always projected Muslims as aggressors, tyrants and despots who trampled the human rights under their feet....

Hillary Clinton's claim that she wanted to be an Olympic athlete and NASA astronaut is part of an effort to humanize the NY Senator, says the editor of a controversial new quote book. What other tall tales has Hillary told?Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 4, 2006 -- Olympic athlete. Astronaut. Doctor. Scientist. All dream careers for the young Hillary Rodham, or so she claims…dreams squashed because NASA “[didn’t] take girls.� While all children go through phases of wanting to do something exciting and glamorous, these reminisces sound unbelievable coming from Hillary Clinton. This according to Thomas Kuiper, editor of the...

Ex-President Bill Clinton said Monday that he had to assure world leaders that there was nothing seriously wrong with America after the Congress impeached him in 1998. "During that time, a lot of world leaders would ask, 'What is going on? Is this serious?'" he told New York magazine. "I kept assuring them that nothing bad had happened to America," he recalled, "but that we periodically went through spasms." Interviewed while traveling in Africa, the ex-president claimed, "Africans saw [my impeachment] for exactly what it was: an abuse of power." "They got it here," he insisted. The magazine noted that...

WASHINGTON The husband of the C-I-A agent whose cover was blown is clearing up some confusion over a comment he made to C-N-N. Joseph Wilson said yesterday that his wife, Valerie Plame, "was not a clandestine officer the day Bob Novak blew her identity." Today, he says he was only pointing out that once her identity was blown, his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent. He says he wasn't suggesting that she had stopped working undercover for the C-I-A beforehand. Wilson is continuing his attack on White House adviser Karl Rove, for discussing his wife with columnist...

This is really an incredible story. Back on June 8 and again on the 21, Franken attacked as "scandalous," Bill O'Reilly as having taken an interview of Joe Biden by "stephy" Stepahnopoulos on the issue of prison abuse at Gitmo and whether the prison should be shut down, and edited out key words from the interview. Among the points that O'Reilly "edited" out was Biden's calling for a commission to investigate the accusations. But O'Reilly himself has called for a commission and it looks like, according to Franken, that O'Reilly claimed Biden's idea as his own. Further, Franken claimed that...

Ebaum, "My sister-in law is from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is when all of the fur hanging down below the cat's tummy is taken off (because it gets matted or snarled). When she moved to Chicago with my brother, one of the cats fur got all tangled up during the move so she took it in for a line cut. She was quite surprised when she heard the...

You have asked that I discuss some memories of President Clinton and my relationship with him. There are several that immediately come to mind. First, I remember being on the last Arkansas Traveler trip of the 1992 election. We had gone to the state of Kansas and returned to Little Rock on the night before the 1992 election. My wife, Susan Turner Purvis, also a Hope native, picked me up as we arrived back into town and told me I absolutely had to see this scene in downtown Little Rock. I remember driving into downtown Little Rock at night and...

"Bad Humor" Man Coming To Your Town... came to mine last nite! I happened to see this scary DemoFascist thing drive through my town, Kennebunk, ME, twice last night. Once down at our beach and once near the center of town. No doubt it made its way to Kennebunkport past Walkers Point as well. Only thing missing was gigolo John driving it. It is sponsored/paid for by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's. There are actually TWO of these "PantsOnFire"-mobiles driving around. Here's the schedule of where they are going next: http://www.pantsonfire.net/itinerary.htm I didn't hear anything coming out of it...

Saturday, August 14, 2004 Vets' evidence against Kerry ironclad Posted: August 14, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Henry Lamb © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com John McCain dishonored himself when he appeared with John Kerry to denounce the statements of the Vietnam veterans who say John Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief. McCain obviously spoke before he knew the facts. The Kerry campaign and much of the media went ballistic when a television ad featuring several veterans who oppose Kerry's candidacy was aired by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Kerry campaign immediately launched a campaign to get TV stations to bar the ad,...

John Kerry to Tom Brokaw last night: Brokaw: "Did you know that [Berger] was under investigation?" Kerry: "I didn't have a clue, not a clue." Brokaw: "He didn't share that with you? Kerry: "I didn't have a clue."

AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos 3 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By JOHN SOLOMON WASHINGTON - President Clinton (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation after admitting he removed highly classified terrorism documents from a secure reading room during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, The Associated Press has learned. Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI (news - web sites) agents armed with warrants. Some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida...

PROTESTER Q&A: 'I don't feel as helpless' Name: Bodhi Age: 52 Home: New York City and various forests around the country with the Rainbow Family Occupation: Activist Education: Associate's degree in graphic arts Q. What is the Rainbow family? "They're a group of very spiritually minded individuals who gather out in the forests. All kinds of forests. We're everywhere." Q. How long have you been protesting? "Since [Richard] Nixon beat George McGovern [in 1972]. After that, I realized mainstream politics was not the place to go. I was severely disappointed that somebody like Nixon could get a landslide." Q. Why...

Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at El Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.

The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself. "The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, which is raising money for the library, said Monday. One of them may not actually qualify for electronic communication because it was a test to see if the commander in chief knew how to push the button on an e-mail. Former Ohio Sen. John Glenn has the distinction of being the first American to orbit the Earth and the only person to receive an...

Bizzare arrest puts Newark in the spotlight By HOWIE MANSFIELD, Times Staff Writer NEWARK — The village is gaining some unwanted publicity — even a mention on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show — as news spreads about an unusual arrest late last week. Village police charged Darlene H. Humby, 27, of 608 North Main St., with second-degree assault Friday morning after lighting her boyfriend’s shirt on fire during sex the night before. Her boyfriend was taken to Newark-Wayne Community Hospital for second- and third-degree burns to his torso and arms. He was later flown to the burn unit at Strong Memorial...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Clinton praised the capture of Saddam Hussein and said the ousted Iraqi president finally will answer "for decades of tyranny and murder." "I am glad he was captured alive so he can be brought before the bar of justice," Clinton said Sunday in a statement. Clinton saluted U.S. troops, who found the bearded and disheveled former dictator in an underground hide-out on a farm near his hometown, Tikrit. Clinton also congratulated his successor in the White House. "Saddam Hussein's capture is a tribute to the skill and bravery of our troops and the good...

"Greeted like a rock star, Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her book tour...", CBS radio news announcer began his 1PM newsbreak, Rush Limbaugh show today. Mainsteam American Press is a Vast Left Wing PR Agency. Case closed. Press ignores the daily efforts of our troops, yet fills the papers and TV with anti-military Hillary BS. Even FoxNews.www.CENTCOM.mil.

....Jayson Blair caused the Times, august keeper of the flame of daily journalism, to express more self-doubt than the most anxiety-ridden teen-ager. He caused the most righteous introspection among journalists since the publication of the Pentagon Papers brought into question our patriotism and our role in preserving national security. And, because he was black, he caused more racial tension in newsrooms than at any time since the O.J. Simpson verdict. What is the cause of all this hand-wringing? Not some grave principle of integrity or diversity or professional rigor. The Times simply got suckered by a cunning kid fueled by...

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Just now reporting from Kuwait, Fox reporter said that 2 Al Jazeera reporters were chased by Iraqi's angered by their biased reporting, and in fact chased almost to the Kuwait border. I am not making this up.

Sen. Clinton bashes Bush anti-terror program 01/25/2003 Associated Press NEW YORK - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a blistering critique Friday of the Bush administration's domestic anti-terror effort, saying the nation's new homeland security plan is a "myth" and the country is only marginally safer than it was before Sept. 11. "Our people remain vulnerable, nearly as vulnerable as we were before 8:56 a.m. on Sept. 11," Ms. Clinton said at a homeland security conference in Manhattan. "Our vigilance has faded at the top, in the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., where the strategy and resources to protect...

MIDI - IT'S A HEARTACHE He is a liar…Terry is a liar…with his pants on fire Everyone should know Some fabricator…what a fabricator…tells truth see ya later Everywhere he goes That guy is slimy…he is very slimy…he can kiss my hiney Everything's for show He should really be ashamed…he's been taking from this game…big bucks He's defending Clinton still…he's a lowlife scumbag shill…he sucks He is pathetic…Terry's so pathetic…although energetic Wind him up and watch him perform You cannot trust him…no, don't ever trust him…Ashcroft, will you bust him Let us see our FBI swarm (musical break) He should...