Comments on: The Lobbyist Angle and the Stray Cock Express http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:07:55 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: BoiseNick http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288837 BoiseNick Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:20:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288837 <p>OMG , I’m still laughing my tail off !</p> OMG , I’m still laughing my tail off !

]]> By: BooRadley http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288239 BooRadley Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:27:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288239 <p>Agree, great title.</p> Agree, great title.

]]> By: IrishJIm http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288211 IrishJIm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:13:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288211 <p>One shouldn’t be surprised if in fact McCain’t philandered around with a pretty younger woman. After all, it is his M.O. He left his first wife who stuck with him for 5 years while he was a POW for a younger prettier trophy wife named Cindy. Looks like he was just being himself, looking for a new and improved wife.</p> One shouldn’t be surprised if in fact McCain’t philandered around with a pretty younger woman. After all, it is his M.O. He left his first wife who stuck with him for 5 years while he was a POW for a younger prettier trophy wife named Cindy. Looks like he was just being himself, looking for a new and improved wife.

]]> By: CalGeorge http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288199 CalGeorge Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:06:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288199 <p>The question MCain asked himself about the Keating 5 in his memoir is the SAME question he failed to ask when it came to his relationship with Vicki Iseman:</p> <p>“Why didn’t I fully grasp the unusual appearance of such a meeting?”</p> <p>Why? Because you specialize in hypocrisy and bullshit.</p> The question MCain asked himself about the Keating 5 in his memoir is the SAME question he failed to ask when it came to his relationship with Vicki Iseman:

“Why didn’t I fully grasp the unusual appearance of such a meeting?”

Why? Because you specialize in hypocrisy and bullshit.

]]> By: rdwdkw http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288188 rdwdkw Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:01:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288188 <p>Looks like McCain doesn’t know the difference between would-he and woody</p> Looks like McCain doesn’t know the difference between would-he and woody

]]> By: twolf1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288182 twolf1 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:55:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288182 <p>ot - HONOLULU (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. is prepared to share some missile defense-related technology with China following the successful shootdown of a dying satellite.</p> ot – HONOLULU (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. is prepared to share some missile defense-related technology with China following the successful shootdown of a dying satellite.

]]> By: nonplussed http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288179 nonplussed Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:53:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288179 <p>The caption reads “…This might be like <a href="http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/austin/longhorns/upload/2008/02/obama_hooks_em/Obama%202008-3.jpg" rel="nofollow">Dukakis</a> in the tank…”</p> The caption reads “…This might be like Dukakis in the tank…”

]]> By: twolf1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288177 twolf1 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:48:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288177 <p>Since the story ‘broke’ on the night of an eclipse, a new name for mccain, in honor of eclipse: Loony Ick-Lips</p> Since the story ‘broke’ on the night of an eclipse, a new name for mccain, in honor of eclipse: Loony Ick-Lips

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288174 cinnamonape Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:45:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288174 <p>I think that it should not be forgotten here just what McCain was doing for Paxson and Iseman. He was pressuring the FCC to change its fundamental policy on whether religious proslytization constituted “educational programming” which would allow them to buy up Public TV and non-commercial radio stations.</p> <p>In other words, McCain and the Republicans were going to create a massive right-wing propaganda network on what once was the domain of PBS and University stations devoted to the free-flow of ideas, minority programming, and educational forums.</p> <p><a href="http://www.current.org/ptv/ptv001q.html" rel="nofollow">McCain, Paxson and the Sell Out of Non-Commercial Programming</a></p> I think that it should not be forgotten here just what McCain was doing for Paxson and Iseman. He was pressuring the FCC to change its fundamental policy on whether religious proslytization constituted “educational programming” which would allow them to buy up Public TV and non-commercial radio stations.

In other words, McCain and the Republicans were going to create a massive right-wing propaganda network on what once was the domain of PBS and University stations devoted to the free-flow of ideas, minority programming, and educational forums.

McCain, Paxson and the Sell Out of Non-Commercial Programming

]]> By: Starbuck http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288171 Starbuck Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:43:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/the-lobbyist-angle-and-the-stray-cock-express/#comment-1288171 <p>Um, err, the Lunar Eclipe can only happen on a full moon….</p> Um, err, the Lunar Eclipe can only happen on a full moon….

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