thinkprogress.org - 10/15/2008
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Scott Horton reports today that PBS may have refused to nationally air a controversial documentary on the use of torture by the U.S. government in order to protect its funding. Previously, the Bush administration threatened to cut PBS’s funding after it aired Bush’s War , a ...
PBS Slow to Embrace a Program on Torture
nytimes.com 10/16/2008 — PBS said there was no national airdate available for “Torturing Democracy,” a documentary examining the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation policies, until after President Bush leaves office. >
Bury Them
dailypundit.com 10/30/2008 — McClatchy Washington Bureau | 10/28/2008 | Poll: McCain has cut into Obama’s edge on jobs, economy
WASHINGTON — “Joe the Plumber” may be paying off for John McCain.
The Arizona senator scored sharp gains on the pivotal issue of ...
Another 16 Words: Boumediene Bites Bush Again
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 10/18/2008 — Laura Rozen rocks, and today she rolls up more jaw dropping malevolence and fraud on the part of the Bush/Cheney Administration.
A potentially explosive new court filing by the lawyers for Lakhdar Boumediene and five other Guantanamo detainees ...
Perino: ‘We Did Not Torture’
thinkprogress.org 11/19/2008 — The Bush had administration repeatedly insists that it does not practice torture: “ We do not torture ,” President Bush declared in 2005. The U.S. “ is not torturing any detainees ,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino ...
Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...
Memos reveal Bush Administration approved torture
the-reaction.blogspot.com 10/16/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings WaPo : The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- ...
We let Bush down
washingtonmonthly.com 11/6/2008 — WE LET BUSH DOWN.... A friend emailed me last night, telling me that this op-ed from the Wall Street Journal may very well be the single most foolish op-ed ever published in a major American newspaper. That's obviously a difficult...
PBS makes a discovery
culture11.com 10/16/2008 — I have been saying at my blog for years that “Hispanics” only exist in the USA, since the moment we leave we go back to being Puerto Rican, or Mexican, or Argentinian, or Colombian.
“Hispanics” in the USA come from two dozen Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas.
Just Facts: Exposing the Media’s Election-Year Economic Games
newsbusters.org 10/19/2008 — Writing at JustFacts.org , James Agresti has a fascinating article documenting how the media spin the economy during Democratic and Republican administrations and during election years. “With another presidential election upon us and a Republican in ...
What's Wrong with Beltway Journalism
boomantribune.com 11/11/2008 — Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things ...
Beware the Angry Wolverines —
Wash Post Federal Page 10/15/2008
When the McCain campaign abruptly pulled out of Michigan two weeks ago, some Obama aides and top Democrats in the state's congressional delegation dismissed it as a ploy and argued that the GOP would be back in the state full time, big time.
Gray Vote No Longer Reliably Red —
Wash Post Elections 10/15/2008
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. -- The sign over the woodworking shop says "Sawdust Engineers," and there was a time when the men now bent over the tools used to put on ties or make sales calls, building their pensions so they could one day leave the rat race ...
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos —
Wash Post Obama Administration 10/15/2008
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence ...
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