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On this week’s episode: Iraq Civil War?; Will Israel Fighting Ever Stop?; Fidel; Mel Gibson; Min-wage, Death-Tax Debates Die.
Posted on Aug 5, 2006
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The ex-Senate candidate and Iraq War vet Paul Hackett asked Stephen Colbert, “Do you really think we’re going to spread democracy with the business end of an M-16?” Colbert’s response was classic. Check it out.
Posted on Aug 4, 2006
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Jon Stewart had a roundup Thursday of a bizarre recent trend: Armageddon news coverage. Behold this montage of shame, in which every TV news outlet from Good Morning America to MSNBC seemed to make an appearance. CNN, in its quest for fact, checked something called a rapture index, while Fox News demanded a rapture timetable, prompting Stewart to comment, Thats the timetable Fox News is demanding we have.”
Posted on Aug 4, 2006
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Hillary Clinton raked Donald Rumsfeld over the coals on Thursday over his “failed” prosecution of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She closed with a knockout punch: “Given your track record, Secretary Rumsfeld, why should we believe your assurances now?” (video and transcript) Rumsfeld was left sputtering.
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
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Testifying before Congress today, Donald Rumsfeld said he has never painted a rosy picture about Iraq, and that you would have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I have been overly optimistic.
(h/t: ThinkProgress)
That’s just nonsense. And we’ve got the proof—in the form of Rumsfeld’s own words (after the jump...)
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
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Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the U.S. Central Command, told a congressional committee this morning that “the sectarian violence is probably as bad as Ive seen it in Baghdad in particular, and ... if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move toward civil war.”
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
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After Tony Snow announced the results of Bushs recent physical, “The Daily Show host seized the opportunity to mock the presidents weight gain. But when Bush, in a speech, began talking about eating crabs with the 1972 Miami Dolphins, Stewart decided that the president had, finally, gone off the deep end.
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
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During an interview with Vali Nasr on Tuesday, “The Daily Show” host grew frustrated with the increasing violence in the Middle East and offered his own plan for peace in the region.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006
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Emboldened by Castros ailing health, Stephen Colbert has concocted a plan for the invasion of Cuba, featuring cruise liners filled with obese Americans and the ғregime-destroying power of the outlet mall. ԓMy proposal is controversial, but weve invaded for less,Ҕ the host said as he pitched his vision for a post-Castro world.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006
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“Daily Show” correspondent Rob Courdry shines a biting satirical spotlight on the terrorist group Hamas’ summer camp in Gaza, where “Palestinian children gather in mosques for religious education and paramilitary training.” Apparently, for Gaza children with special needs, there’s also a religious education and paramilitary training fat camp.
Read the S.F. Chronicle story behind this satire.
Posted on Aug 1, 2006
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Connecticut Senate challenger Ned Lamont told Stephen Colbert that he became a Democrat to fight Richard Nixon at age 18, and he’s still fighting a Democratic battle against Nixon’s heir in the White House today. Lamont: “I think George Bush is driving this country into a ditch, and if Joe Lieberman won’t challenge him, I will.”
Posted on Aug 1, 2006
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In case you missed them, here are some choice picks from the week in radio.
Posted on Jul 30, 2006
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Stephen Colbert, in his endlessly entertaining mission to interview every member of Congress, sat down with D.C. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton on Thursday. While she might not have gotten the joke, the congresswoman demonstrated great patience as she and Colbert argued over whether Washington, D.C., is part of the United States.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006
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Check out this video a blogger (and AlterNet) made of being tossed out of Sean Hannity’s “Freedom Concert” simply for being liberal.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006
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Linguists beware; Stephen Colbert has invented a new word: “democrazy.” As the host explains, there was a time when I thought the key to Middle East peace was representative government, but then democracy gives us a prime minister who sides with Hezbollah, an Iranian president who wants to go nuclear, and a Palestinian government controlled by Hamas. So, now, Im thinking maybe we did the wrong thing.
Posted on Jul 27, 2006
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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