Never Too Young to Indoctrinate: 'Why Mommy Is a Democrat
March 21st, 2007 9:03 AM
Oy, did Google's algorithims ever misfire. There at the top of my Gmail inbox this morning was an ad, which the Google wizards presumably determined to be geared to my predilections, for a book called . . . "Why Mommy Is a Democrat."I suppose Google was right, in the sense that the ad piqued my interest, though the odds of my buying a copy of the book are as remote as Outer Mongolia. But let'…
GMA’s Stephanopoulos Wants His Scalp: Just When Will Gonzales be Fir
March 16th, 2007 12:11 PM
Friday’s "Good Morning America" featured Democrats talking about Democratic hopes. Anchor Chris Cuomo, the son of liberal Governor Mario Cuomo, and George Stephanopoulos, former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, discussed the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys and pushed the speculative Democratic talking points of whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be fired. Stephanopoulos,…
CBS's Cohen: Reno/Gonzales Comparisons Are 'Apples & Oranges
March 15th, 2007 12:38 PM
CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen seems to indirectly respond to my March 14 blog post with a March 15 salvo over at CBS's "Couric & Co." blog. [Scroll below for a NYT story from March 1993 that noted that it was unusual for the AG to be involved in the holdover resignation process] Some cyber folks, trying to attack the credibility of eminent
professors Stanley Katz and Stanley Kutler, took…
Colbert Plays Along While Guest Compares Bush to Hitler
March 14th, 2007 4:04 PM
If Stephen Colbert is going to pretend to be a conservative, perhaps he shouldn’t play along when a guest compares President Bush to a genocidal dictator like Adolf Hitler. On the March 13 edition of "The Colbert Report," the Comedy Central host had University of Missouri professor Dr. Donald Shield on to discuss the (media generated) controversy over the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. Shields…