Entries from February 2007
When stories about Gore’s huge electric bill hit the news, I did like any good reporter would do, and asked to see the records. I called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, and asked them to fax copies of the Nashville Electric Service records on Gore’s energy usage.
“Actually, we don’t have those records,” the person answering the phone told me, “But if you call NES, they’ll give them to you over the phone. All you have to do is tell them the address.”
I called Nashville Electric Service, and they told me they could not release any such information. No wonder the TN Center for Policy Research didn’t have copies of the records to fax me.
I wonder why no other reporter asked the basic question I did – “Let’s see the records.”
Categories: Gore · journalistic integrity · smear
From Election Central at the TMP Cafe we get this interesting report.
Some new poll numbers suggest that the conventional wisdom — which holds that Hillary Clinton will suffer badly in the primary from her war vote and unwillingness to call it a mistake — may be questionable or even wrong.
The new numbers are buried in the big survey released this week by the Washington Post. Democrats were asked whether given “what was known at the time,” it was the right thing for Hillary to vote for war authorization, or whether it was a mistake. A surprising 52% said her vote was the right thing to do at the time, versus only 47% who said it was a mistake.
What’s more, when even those who said it was a mistake were then asked if Hillary should apologize, a mere 31% said yes. And guess how many said an apology wasn’t necessary? Sixty-eight percent. And remember, these are potential Democratic primary voters.
Stick to your guns, Girl!
Categories: Hillary · campaign · polls
When stories about Gore’s huge electric bill hit the news, I did like any good reporter would do, and asked to see the records. I called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, and asked them to fax copies of the Nashville Electric Service records on Gore’s energy usage.
“Actually, we don’t have those records,” the person answering the phone told me, “But if you call NES, they’ll give them to you over the phone. All you have to do is tell them the address.”
I called Nashville Electric Service, and they told me they could not release any such information. No wonder the TN Center for Policy Research didn’t have copies of the records to fax me.
I wonder why no other reporter asked the basic question I did – “Let’s see the records.”
Categories: Gore · journalistic integrity · smear
With Gore being honored on stage at the Academy Awards last night for his role in inspiring the making of An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of the Grammys won by President and Mrs. Clinton. From The New Zealand Herald:
LOS ANGELES – Former US President Bill Clinton won the second Grammy Award of his career, when he was honoured in the spoken word category for his best-selling memoir My Life.
Clinton, who was not present to accept his award at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, also won a Grammy last year in the spoken word for children category. His wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, won a spoken word Grammy in 1997 for her memoir It Takes A Village.
Between President and Senator Clinton, they have three Grammys. Amazing. Between Cheney and Bush, on the other hand, there are three DUI convictions.
Categories: Bush · Cheney · DUI · criminals · jail
With Gore being honored on stage at the Academy Awards last night for his role in inspiring the making of An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of the Grammys won by President and Mrs. Clinton. From The New Zealand Herald:
LOS ANGELES – Former US President Bill Clinton won the second Grammy Award of his career, when he was honoured in the spoken word category for his best-selling memoir My Life.
Clinton, who was not present to accept his award at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, also won a Grammy last year in the spoken word for children category. His wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, won a spoken word Grammy in 1997 for her memoir It Takes A Village.
Between President and Senator Clinton, they have three Grammys. Amazing. Between Cheney and Bush, on the other hand, there are three DUI convictions.
Categories: Bush · Cheney · DUI · criminals · jail
As the 2008 campaign warms up, we’re going to see lots of accusations of candidates having shifted their positions on this matter or that. It might be helpful to remember how the great “Decider in Chief” has taken different sides on the same issues.
Here, thanks to Jackson Thoreau, is a fairly comprehensive listing of some famous Bush flip-flops. See also here and here, or even here.
Categories: Bush · flip-flopping · politics
As the 2008 campaign warms up, we’re going to see lots of accusations of candidates having shifted their positions on this matter or that. It might be helpful to remember how the great “Decider in Chief” has taken different sides on the same issues.
Here, thanks to Jackson Thoreau, is a fairly comprehensive listing of some famous Bush flip-flops. See also here and here, or even here.
Categories: Bush · flip-flopping · politics
According to this article in the Niagra Falls Reporter, Bush and the US are hated around the world. Seems everything Bush touches turns to shit.
The Reporter’s Bill Galagher writes:
DETROIT — President George W. Bush has managed to alienate nearly the entire world, and in a relatively short span of time the United States has become an international pariah. Forget about the terrorists who “hate us because of our freedom,” the “axis of evil,” the “Islamofascists,” or whatever label Bush uses to demonize people and spread fear.
The true measure of just how much Bush has systematically nurtured antipathy toward the United States is found in Europe, and especially in Italy. It is stunning how shattered the relationship now is.
I asked a friend, an Italian-American who often visits family there and had just returned from a Christmas trip, what Italians are thinking of Americans these days. His answer was grim and crisp: “They hate us.”
It will take decades to undo the damage done by Bush to America’s reputation.
Categories: Bush · politics
