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Bob Woodward defends his reporting on the White House against a Laura Bush smear, essentially calling the first lady’s honesty into question. Watch it
Posted on Nov 27, 2006
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Dr. James Dobson, leading light of the Christian right, says people are neither born gay nor choose to be gay. They’re just mama’s boys. Watch it
Posted on Nov 25, 2006
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Watch this harrowing personal account of the extraordinary rendition and torture of a Guantanamo detainee. (h/t: COA News)
Posted on Nov 23, 2006
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During “Real Time With Bill Maher,” actor Richard Dreyfuss gave the country a lesson in civics and defense against indoctrination. Watch it. (part 1, part 2)
Posted on Nov 22, 2006
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UPDATE: Google has removed the video.
Watch this chilling, full-length documentary (produced by UK’s Channel 4) showing Shiite militia groups waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad. It contains footage and details never before seen in the West. Watch it, and read the accompanying article.
Posted on Nov 22, 2006
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Radio host Melanie Morgan launches a right-wing tirade against Nancy Pelosi, saying: “We’ve got a bull’s-eye painted on her big, wide, laughing eyes.” Later in the clip, the pundits on the show are then too fixated by a discussion of Pelosi’s style of blinking to offer a more nuanced critique of House leadership.
Posted on Nov 22, 2006
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Sorry, we couldn’t resist—too delicious. (And for the record: We’re not ranking on Fox News. The reporter was probably justified.)
Posted on Nov 21, 2006
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Michael Richards (Kramer from “Seinfeld”) went on David Letterman to try to make amends for repeatedly hurling the N-word at African-Americans at a recent stand-up performance.
The only winner in this situation: Mel Gibson, who’s breathing a little easier now that he’s got company in Camp Intolerance.
Posted on Nov 21, 2006
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This appalling video shows a group of U.S. soldiers in a truck taunting a pack of Iraqi children with a bottle of water.
A bottle of water…
Posted on Nov 21, 2006
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued his Jekyll and Hyde routine Sunday on “ABC This Week,” contradicting his once moderate positions with pre-campaign right-wing pandering. McCain said he would like to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, and noted his plan to send more troops to Iraq would “put a terrible strain on the Army,” but said it would be better than losing the war.
Posted on Nov 19, 2006
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Seymour Hersh says the White House is channeling intelligence related to Iran’s nuclear program, a la Iraq, preventing the CIA from scrutinizing “evidence” attributed to a secret Israeli source inside Iran. According to Hersh, the CIA maintains Iran has “no secret program of significant bomb making.”
Posted on Nov 19, 2006
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Jon Stewart takes on last week’s newsmakers, including Glenn Beck, who recently asked the first Muslim ever elected to Congress to prove he’s not working with our enemies: “Finally a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.” Watch it
Posted on Nov 19, 2006
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This week, our favorite assemblage of videos includes: HBO’s revelatory documentary “Hacking Democracy”; a shocking video of a UCLA student being repeatedly Tasered by campus police; and Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer sounding off on Joe Lieberman, Bernie Sanders and O.J. Simpson.
Posted on Nov 17, 2006
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Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer breaks down the race for speaker, Lieberman’s threats, the reason the education system is broken and O.J.‘s revolting hypothetical.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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Amy Goodman interviews L.A. Times reporter Henry Weinstein about the shock waves that have rocked the newspaper since its corporate parent fired the paper’s publisher and editor. Unfortunately, it’s an all-too-common story these days.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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