Tucker Carlson is on MSNBC asking Al Sharpton if, as a Democrat, he resents the fact that John Kerry is making it "all about himself" a week before the election.
Oh fer the love of Gawd. They just hate it when Democrats like Mike Stark and John Kerry fight back. This is the GOP nightmare one week before the election, that high profile Democrats start saying stuff like this:
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men. And this time it won't work because we're going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq."
Al Sharpton went on to observe that "If John Kerry is smart, he will keep the issue out there about what he said about Iraq" and "thanks be to Tony Snow. He's brought [the war] back front and center." Even the WSJ acknowledges that the war is what's killing the GOP at the polls. The only ones who seem to be proud of their roles in leading us into war are George Bush, Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman.
Ding-Dong Dawn Frantangelo cited the discredited Doug Schwartz two week-old outlier Q-Poll, backed up by nothing either before or since, that said Lamont is behind by 17 points.
Her hair did look rather untended so I can only assume she sucked down all the hairspray fumes beforehand and had nothing left over for her head.
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My toobz were plugged for quite awhile there.Waited and waited.
Sorry for folks having trouble with the site. It’s Crooks & Liars getting hit, slowing us both down. Our tech people are working on it.
It’s not a bandwidth isse.
George Bush: I’m stupid and I didn’t go to Iraq!
Her hair did look rather untended so I can only assume she sucked down all the hairspray fumes beforehand and had nothing left over for her head.
You.Crack.Me.Up
Just heard the same meme on MSNBC– “John Kerry is making this all about him”.
NOT! It is about Iraq and more and Kerry made that crystal clear.
she’s been barfing that line since early this a.m. from Westport.
oh and LOL, Ms. Jane– you are on fire!
Yep. Lotsa worry there for a few hours.
Turns out that the “cw” is passing judgement on Kerry - approvingly - for hitting back, hard.
ot - mydd on tweety now - CHRIS!!
punaise @ 25
It appears that comments are all appearing with one’s very first comment. I had a reply to punaise that got shoved up several minutes to proceed his. Then I made the observation approx 7:49est that comments were being intermingled with original posts, in this case totally supplanting the original post. We will see what happens with this comment timestamp approx 7:54est which is 4:54pacific.
The Chimperor and “Deferment Dick” need to be pounded on, every day.
These two thought themselves too good to bleed and die for another Texan’s nutjob war, but they have no problem shipping off kids by the thousands to bleed and die in THEIR nutjob war.
You know, all that bombing over there is so bad for the ecology too. Our planet just doesn’t need this. Where’s Al?
Props to FDL–even under adversity, the ladies of the lake persevere.
EPUed the end of last thread:
And Republican Infomercial Network MSNBC has been citing that 17% “latest” poll all over the place. Too bad in all their downsizing they didn’t get rid of some honchos and keep a fact-checker around instead.
Call Senator Ted Stevens and tell him to put on the Hulk tie and get to smashing the toobz clean.
Pickles was in NH this week, they are desperate now if they have to send in the pharmaceutical half of the Bush Zombie Squad to save Bass Master.
Also, Alaska has been moved into a close race for the Guv’s seat.
Go Tony Knowles…..
Bush’s wonderful world.
-GSD
I hear rumors Schwartz has some new numbers cooking on the stove to be released tomorrow.
ccmask at 4:26 pm
Ditto
Charles Rangel called Deadeye Dick Cheney a ’son of a bitch’…..Charles, don’t hold back, call him the spawn of Satan….Cause we know he is.
Fire up those shredders Dickie Boy…not the activities of a winner…more like the last days of Enron.
-GSD
ccmask @ 11
Advising the UK on global warming.
*sigh*
They are shameless. They will distort statements, and they will say anything to win an election. I am glad Kerry fought back, and I agree with Al Sharpton’s statement. Now I am off to canvass for a mayoral candidate.
Ned Trotsky!
It’s the little things we savor…
Also, Mouri Al Maliki has just cancelled Bush’s “permission slip” and has called off the US search for the missing soldier…
The Mahdi Army is celebrating the removal of the US troops….
Nice work George.
-GSD
To paraphrase John Kerry:
Jane Hamsher @ 4
Dangerstein is hacking the toobz again?
A Lou Dobbs poll asked if Kerry should apologize to the soldiers in Iraq and 74% said NO. Sweet!
Some brighter news…Behind our manufacturing plant at work, we have a large pond. Everytime the boss looks for us, we’re usually out back feeding the fish (brim, bass, shiners, etc.) We now have a baby alligator. He is so cute and about 4 feet long. The inside of his mouth is pure white and no teeth yet. He kind of lays low and tries to play dead so that he can catch a fish as they go for the bread we throw and then he brings it to the shore and more or less gums it to death.
He is really sweet.
Well, today he swam up so fast that I thought he was after me and I tripped and fell in the water. It was so damn funny. Scared the hello out of me. Anyway, if anyone wants to see him, here’s a pic of him in the pond.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9.....284878472/
egrogious
Let’s get those O’Glakes fired up people, there’s a battle out there and we need everyone to be ready, sword in hand!
support the troops: semper fired O’Glake
1,320 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hamsher:
Good God…we have a return of the Nixonian fascist tendency ta snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Now we got John Kerry, who they successfully destroyed with the swiftboat attack in ‘04, rehabilitating himself and destroyin’ the wingnut war message with the aide of Tucker Carlson and the bow tie Nazis.
Bring it on!!! Make this about the war and those kids they’re killin’, American and Iraqi. We simply must beat these bastards, they must be eradicated from our politics completely,root and branch including the corporate shills in the Democratic Party.
KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T LET ‘EM OFFA THE GROUND!!
chady @ 24
Apologize for what? Calling Bush a jerk?
McCaskill is taking the lead in two new polls.
From Political Wire.
Also, someone said in another thread that if the Republicans are jumping up and down about the Kerry non-story, then they really are in dire straits.
St. McCain chimes in, Dildo Joe and the architect of the deaths of half a million chimes in too…
Pathetic, last ditch flap.
I can’t see anyone saying—AHA! Now I am voting for someone else because of that damn John Kerry.
-GSD
What’s up Norske? Better heat up your blowtorch!
GSD @ 29
They’re trying to fire up their base, cuz, well, it’s all they’ve got. Losers.
QUICK VOTE FOR KERRY http://www.cnn.com/
msnbc.com
Bush and Blair sent the troops to Iraq on a lie but Kerry should apologize.
Nice!
“Bush says military is plenty smart”
Sweet Jesus, let this nightmare end soon.
Kerry has done it about half right, which is way better than what he could muster in 2004. But he has put himself in a corner with his response, so he has no choice but to fight his way out of it. He has to keep wielding this issue like a club and beat Bush and Cheney senseless with it. But he also needs to acknowledge how what he said can be misconstrued by our soldiers, because it can. The spin so far is just making him look like a weasel. Probably because he is a weasel, albeit a weasel with some medals from Vietnam. What he said sounded bad, and he has to tread carefully here because Republicans are already in overdrive to smear everybody with it. This will not die away in one news cycle if the Righties have anything to say about it, but Kerry can do himself and the democrats a huge favor by finding a creative way to placate the military over this, while still keeping the spotlight on the stupid jerks who got us into this mess in the first place.
I bet they stop talking about Kerry by tomorrow.
ot - psst, thanks guys ;)
There’s a good kos diary up about some last minute ways to help the Laesch campaign too.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/31/173636/82
Keeping fingers and toes crossed - Lamont, Webb, Laesch, McCaskill, Tester, Mejias, Charlie Brown, Burner, Massa …
BTW - looks like Yarmuth may dethrone McConnell’s princess Northup in the Louisville area.
GSD @
29
Polls I saw had McCaskill up among registered voters and tied among “likely” voters, whatever that is. Shows the importance, nay, the momentous urgency, of GOTV.
1,320 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Cozumel:
“They’re trying to fire up their base, cuz, well, it’s all they got…” I been sayin for 6 years that “their
base” is about 17-25% of the voting population and that they will ALWAYS vote. The key is to get the rest of the NON-fascist voting population motivated to vote and now it’s happening…the fascist message directed to their “base” is mobilizing the ANTI-fascist voters and discouraging the old Republican fascist fellow travelers.
This election is gunna be a political Hurricane Katrina for the Republican Party…the fascist party is gunna look like New Orleans on November 8. If the Democrats don’t take 40 House seats from the falangists and at least 7 or 8 Senate seats, there better be an investigation!
KEEP THE FAITH AND KICK THE BASTARDS INTA LAST WEEK!!!
CNN Poll - should Kerry apologize - (at present) 62% said NO. HA! MSM hysteria over this is fizzling. Of the top 3 stories, 2 are about Kerry BUT the number one story is about some kid who admits to raping his mother. Rightwing spin can’t beat good ol’ lurid tabloid scandal.
Olbermann should be interesting tonight.
BTW, I was wondering what happened to Trotsky’s younger brother.
Pachacutec @ 38
I wouldn’t count on it. This is the first potentially negative Democratic story the zombies have had in a while.
Off to watch KO!
http://hotlineblog.nationaljou.....t_103.html
Not sure if above is behind the NJ firewall or not.
~~~October 31, 2006
Republicans Say They’re Sorry
How nervous are GOPers, one week out? Just ask the candidates, at least 3 of whom are running new TV ads acknowledging the uphill challenges they face 11/7.
“People tell me, Linc, I really like you, but I want to send Bush a message,” Sen. Lincoln Chafee admits in a new ad. “I’ve always stood for principle, even if it meant standing alone.”
MN SEN candidate Mark Kennedy closes his new MN SEN ad on nat’l security by saying, “I approve this message, even though I know it may not be what you want to hear.”
In OR GOV, Ron Saxton tries to dance toward his state’s anti-GOP middle. “National politics are a mess, and I’m as angry as you are. But this election is about Oregon, and change,” he says. “I’m a Republican, but I’ll be with my party when it’s right, and against it when it’s wrong.”
While many campaigns are closing dirty, these GOP ads in blue states take a different tack. Underdogs, they’re pleading with voters to ignore nat’l dynamics and focus on the face on their TV screens. Will it succeed? Perhaps. But why is it voters don’t get ads like this, which pitch the “honesty” value only when that candidate is trailing, perhaps, trailing badly? ~~~
YouTube of Chaffee ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....#038;eurl=
A Democratic activist who verbally confronted U.S. Sen. George Allen (R) at a campaign rally in Charlottesville today was shoved, put into a chokehold and thrown against a window by three men wearing Allen stickers, according to a widely disseminated video of the incident.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00948.html
Book em, Dano
Matthew Dowd says Kerry did not mean to hurt the troops… it was a misspoken statement.
take that KKKarl.
Kerry is the one going to military funerals. There is a Diary at KOS from a guy whose brother was killed in Iraq , who didnt support Kerry. Kerry came to his brothers funeral and has kept in touch.
I get so angry when Bush says a vote for Democats is a vote for the terrorists. Hes disgusting . Why isnt he called on remarks like this?
KO is on the case!
Trotsky’s younger brother is pretty cute in a very handsome and articulate way!
Olbermann leading with Kerry
“Kerry called them stupid and they were too stupid to get it”!
Most conservatives know it’s time to change course. Damn the Diebolds, full speed ahead.
(GSD,
Were you referring to Dick Cheney’s hiring of an industrial-sized paper-shredder truck? I would love for it to be true…)
Cozumel @ 47
raw story:
Olbermann: Kerry called them stupid and they were too stupid to know that he called them stupid.
punaise @ 55
Won’t it be delicious when macaca goes down? And this clown (sorry to insult any real clowns out there) thought he could run for President just a few short months ago. Heh, indeed.
Morris Sheppard @ 57
Felix fancies himself a cowboy, so maybe he’s got a future as a rodeo clown.
egregious @ 9
My original comment, after laughing about being the zero 3 times in one day, was about whether I was writing on a sufficiently serious topic given that 3,000-10,000 American troops have died[oh please, do you think they’re giving us the right number? when they don’t count anyone who dies in the helicopter or within the week at the hospital?]
My response: our joy is our life force. Our joy is the source of energy which gives us strength to pick up that fired o’glake once again and take the battle to the enemy.
Our joy: our children and grandchildren, nature, the photographs of birds and the universe Christy gives us, ideas from Pull Up A Chair, the circling of the wagons whenever an fdl member is in pain, these give us energy, strength, and POWER.
Comments seem to be stacking one upon another. My second comment was in response to punaise; it appeared as a replacement for my first comment even tho this was before punaise even chimed in.
Then I noted the strange happenings at 7:49est, and the 7:49 replaced my original comment (?) and then this comment itself was subsumed by the impostor replacement comment at 7:54. If all of this new stuff appears near the top of the thread, at the ghost time of 4:27pacific time, then the replacement comments have struck again. My words………gone……..I changed my screen name to make sure this comment didn’t replace the other 4. The first one was pretty good! Lost forever it seems. Such is life.
Liberals are terrorists to Bush. I mean really.
You have to wonder what’s in genius Rove’s head. He’s losin- we’re in the final 6 days- does he want all the press to be about whether or not Kerry said somethin he shouldn’t have? Is that all they’ve got? If so- they’re fucked.
these toobz are made for squawkin’
and that’s just what we’ll do
one of these days toobz are gonna
squawk all over Yoo
ccmask @ 60
Ccmask, take a look at this Rush video from d r i f t g l a s s.
I never saw it before, but it brought a smile to my face.
There is nothing in his head. He has an empty head and he works for an empty suit. Although he isn;t running, this election is all about Bush. His tab is due for all that swaggering and good time he had. It is time to pay the piper. Oh, special comment tomorrow night!
Keith to do another Special Commentary tomorrow night. Set your VCR’s, TIVO’s whatever.
KO announces a special comment for tomorrow. Mentions the assoc by the admin of dems and terrorism and Kerry.
sez the prez et all have broken the code that we Americans live by…
yay!
See a tongue-in-cheek posting that employs the same GOP tactic used in relation to Senator Kerry to creatively interpret remarks made by the President in the most unfavorable manner…here:
www.thoughttheater.com
Glenn Greenwald has two really disturbing posts on the political director of ABC News Mark Halperin’s masochistic political fellatio of the right wing nut case Hugh Hewitt [No relation, thank God]. He tries and tries to show Hewitt that they agree on everything and yet Hewitt doing his dominator shtik rejects him forcing the hapless Halperin into further acts of humiliation and debasement. This is our national media, folks, as psychosexual drama.
My favorite quote:
Halperin goes on to say how George and Laura have returned “dignity” to the office. I kid you not. It is beyond pathetic.
ifthethunder: Oh, my gosh. You got it! Rush looks just like Mr. Potato head.
Pickles commenting on Michael J. Fox. How much more irrelevant can she be?
KO obviously disgusted by Laura Lump.
Michael J. Fox is doing amazing things for humanity.
OT:
Earlier this morning, Rayne asked if it would be OK to ‘borrow’ one of my graphics for temporary use.
My policy on such things is that anyone may repost my publically available work (either by uploading it to their own webspace or by linking in an appropriate manner to my Flickr account) as long as they properly accredit it.
A-WhooOOOOO!…Scary, kids!
;>)
ccmask #25 - What a story! Glad you are alright. Is that the only gator in the pond? I used to clean fish and game (in So. AR.) near a pond with a fourteen footer and feed it the trimmings.
Now I must ask. Where are the action photos of you in the water? *g*
RevDeb, what did pickles say?
EPU’d
Lady Bug @
141
is this Kerry’s blue address moment?
AZ Matt @ 74
It went by so quickly I didn’t catch it, but I’ll go to the Google and see if it is posted somewhere.
KO is killin me with this “Wallace-Clinton” deal! Tell us. . .now!
KO playing vclip of Laura the Librarian talking about Michael J. Fox: “It’s always easy to manipulate people’s feelings.”
Well, you would know, Laura.
Or in the words of that paragon of manipulating people’s emotions, Karl Rove: Laura Bush… “Fair game….”
I don’t get to see Jon Stewart and Colbert down here in NZ (I think they may be on a pay channel we don’t get), but how in the world can they select what to cover with such an abundance of possibilities? I can hardly click the mouse fast enough to keep up anymore.
My US home has had Cheney and now Bush coming to stump for Jim Ryun, the man who thought he would always win by running on past Olympic glory and Jesus (just don’t look at the Abramoff money or lock-step support of Bush). I guess he was too famous to serve in the Vietnam, though he was born in 1947. He voted against soldiers being protected from predatory insurance policies. He managed to “buy” a DC house for way below market price. But he’d be willing to lecture any of us on our “sorry” ethics….
AZ Matt @ 74
“It’s easy to manipulate peoples feelings when there’s disease involved” Or some such
ccmask @
11
Anyone ever do any work or journalism on war as an environmental disaster?
I think I feel a searchin’ session coming on …
RevDeb @ 76
The First Lady was shown saying (paraphrasing) “it’s very easy to exploit peoples’ sympathies for people with disease.”
So apparently, Rove thinks the only personality they have with the necessary credibility to mitigate what Michael J. Fox is doing to them is the First Lady. And he is probably right. But the cost is they are now using her in a way that equates her with Limbaugh. Wonder what she thinks of all this.
What was Terri Schiavo used by your party for, Mrs. Lump?
She has learned well from her mother-in-law.
Cozumel @ 80
OH GOD- watch this Classic BUSH hearts Lieberman- the Democrat party kicked him out…
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/sh.....aryId=4268
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....#038;eurl=
Bush is addled. Mrs. K8 would be interested in the speech pathology.
I’m assuming Frantangelo is on MSNBC. Why is the MSM holding on to the bogus 17 point crap even though there was an ARG poll out a day or so after with Lamont down 12 (a Hartford Courant poll a week before with Lamont down 7) - and this week a Rasmussen that has him down 8 (& WSF/Zogby interactive at 4.5).
Would anyone join me in sending an email in protest? This is B.S.
Just watched the Ned interview. It’s terrific. The press people must like him; they’re not hostile, they’re not challenging his answers, just letting him talk, and he’s giving good answers.
EPU’d from last thread:
I got this from Jerry McNerney tonight, speaking of thanks:
I’ve heard it said that dems have no plans to help the economy. Jerry does. He wants to turn his district into the Silicon Valley of alternative energy. This letter indicates to me that he is NOT beholden to special interests. GO, JERRY!
The First Lady was shown saying (paraphrasing) “it’s very easy to exploit peoples’ sympathies for people with disease.”
yeah, the boy in the bubble elicits a lot of sympathy here.
dab from CT @ 86
I already sent them one this morning when she and Mrs. Greenspan were spewing this.
AZ Matt @ 84
Babs to Michael Fox: “So, I guess this illness is working out rather well for you, after all.”
I have been trying to comment and hand out candy to Trick-or-Treaters at the same time! That is not a usual night but it helps me remember that this election is for our future when the kids show up here happy. Tomorrow the sugar high kicks in!
angie @ 83
Exactly, angie.
I lost several friends on 9/11. What were they used for, Bubbles?
AZ Matt @ 92
Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup:
There are a couple of videos over at CT Bob in which the three candidates each answer the same questions re their positions. The very different personalities really come through.
Where did “pickles” come from?
Wonder if she ever goes to those sex aids “tupperware” parties.
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 93
very powerful! you are right and I am sorry for your losses.
;(
Michael J. Fox AND Gen. Wes Clark for Jim Webb
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/31/19412/917
This needs some recommendations please. Unfortunately, due to late notice of the event its been posted late in the day and we need it to get
as much attentiion as possible for this important event.
Chris Wallace asked for Clinton’s autograph. . .and he got it!
Eureka@73: Thank god I was the only one with a camera, so no glamor shot was taken today. I really thought he was going to come out and get me though. The way I took off, fell in that damn hole and slipped was hysterical. I was sitting at my desk afterwards and my manager came in and there were mud tracks leading to my desk and he says, you have a client downstairs waiting. Oh, gosh. I looked like I cut grace class.
Anyhow, there is only one gator right now in the pond but he has to have a momma somewhere. We think he swam through the drainpipe. But he’s been there for a couple of weeks now and we love him. His white mouth have all marks where his teeth will come in.
There is a pic of me over there with a blue/white striped shirt though…
punaise @ 58
Sorry pun, but rodeo clowns need to have real courage.
punaise said “Babs to Michael Fox: “So, I guess this illness is working out rather well for you, after all.”
Punaise, I was thinking the exact same thing as I read your post. What a bunch of racists.
raven @ 99
Chris Wallace ran out of the building after the interview just as fast as his little legs would allow him. Clinton’s press person had to run out of the building to catch up with him and confront him regarding why he disregarded the agreed upon format of the interview.
At what point did Wallace ask for Clinton’s autograph? Before the
ambushinterview?dab from CT @ 86
Hmmm. MSM. Hanging on to bogus crap. Playing to the rethugs. Why? Since this has never happened before let me think about that for a minute and I’ll get back to you.
rwcole: I think “Pickles” began over at the smirking chimp a long time ago.
Supreme Allied Commander Wes Clark stumping for a Marine!
Heroic Michael J. Fox stumping for a warrior!
A trio of heroes.
bye bye Macaca and hello Senator Webb and stem cell research and hope.
Please let this be the beginning of the end of this darkness.
thanks, jinny @ 98.
rwcole @ 96
Don’t know but THIS may give us a clue.
Is KO really tall?
Keith said it was right after.
dab from CT @ 103
Morris Sheppard @ 104
I know, I know. But this is so clearly disprovable.
I just sent an email calling them on it - for what it’s worth.
I’ll bet Joe is already taking the N’s and L’s off the keyboards…
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 93
They were used to get the US military involved in regime change for governments in the Middle East hostile to the country of I*****. Shock and awe, no biggie, we can do this before breakfast and head on home. Military arrogance. Diplomatic arrogance. Lieberman said in one of his debates he wants regime change in IRAN. Hmmm. In fact i