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November 15, 2009

Liz Cheney: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Is Not a Criminal

On Sunday’s (11/15/09) Panel Plus on Fox News, Chris Wallace hosted a panel with Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Liz Cheney and Juan Williams to debate whether 9/11 terrorists -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorists -- should be tried in U.S. federal courts. It was basically a showdown between Liz Cheney and Juan Williams – Liz Cheney did not disappoint those of us who expect her to mimic her dear old dad – she is, after all, a chip off the old block – but Juan Williams gets an A+ for bringing reason to the radical war-mongering that Liz Cheney represents. Uh, by the way – why are the Cheneys still talking? With video.

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Reported by Julie at 9:42 PM

The Beck Week That Was; The Case of the Missing Appendix

Guest blogged by Aunty Em

It’s hard to continue to put one foot in front of the other when you no longer know what not to believe in anymore. Due to his emergency appendectomy, Glenn Beck had been off the air an entire seven days. Seven days! That’s just enough time for God to create an entire Universe, and still have a day left over to get herself a pedicure.

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Reported by Guest Blogger at 4:04 PM

November 14, 2009

Karl Rove Blames Obama Administration Lawyers “Who Do Not Love America” For Bush Administration’s Failure To Prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

I don’t know about you but when it comes to matters of terrorism and national security, Karl Rove is not exactly at the top of my list of credible experts. Political experts, maybe, certainly experts on dirty tricks, but it’s hard to forget that this is the same guy who played a role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame and who served as the right-hand man of the Bush administration which, despite their posturing about national security, ignored the President’s Daily Brief of August 6, 2001, titled “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” and started a war in Iraq based on faulty evidence. It’s also the same administration that lost New Orleans to Katrina. So why on earth would Fox News put on Karl Rove as the first guest on the O’Reilly Factor last night (11/13/09) to discuss the Obama administration’s decision to try five Guantanamo Bay detainees in federal court in New York City, if not to make political hay? Furthermore, as Rove himself as good as admitted, the Bush administration’s “harsh interrogations” torture of their prisoners is bound to be an issue at trial. Not that Bill O’Reilly brought that up. But he did have a stellar moment when he confronted Rove about the Bush administration’s failure to try supposed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed when they had the chance. Rove, classy guy that he is, blamed it all on liberal lawyers who are now in the Obama administration “who do not love America, who want to undermine our cause in the global war on terror and who will oppose the military tribunals.” Never mind that Attorney General Eric Holder also announced yesterday that five other detainees will be tried by military commission. O’Reilly missed that, too. With video.

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Reported by Ellen at 10:58 AM

November 13, 2009

Get Ready For Foaming At The Mouth Over 9/11 Trials

So a president entrusts our criminal justice system to handle one of our most serious crimes and the opposition not only opposes the move but is using it to attack him. Aided and abetted by the self-proclaimed "voice of opposition," the also self-proclaimed "fair and balanced" Fox News. Fox Nation, "asks," Should 9/11 Plotters Be Brought to NYC for Trial? and then surreptitiously answers the question by providing links to four obviously anti-Obama stories:

Obama Decision to Try 9/11 Plotters Drawing Fire
Does Holder Have a Hidden Agenda?
Boehner: 'Irresponsible' Decision to Try 9/11 Mastermind in Federal Court
Lieberman: 9/11 Terrorists Not Entitled to Federal Court Trial

Update: Sure enough, Live Desk has Martha MacCallum interviewing two guests, both of whom are attacking Obama's decision. One said Dick Cheney was right.

Reported by Ellen at 1:54 PM

Hannity And Bennett Team Up To Attack Obama For Not Being Anti-Muslim Enough

Unrepentant bigot Sean Hannity got together with one of his past beneficiaries of Racist Right-wing Rehab, Bill “You could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down” Bennett, for a racial variation on the meme I posted about earlier this week: blaming President Obama for the attack on Fort Hood, wrapped up in a racially-charged, anti-Muslim package. With Bennett, Hannity played down the Fort Hood angle and accentuated the anti-Muslim slant, quickly followed by suggestions that Obama is too pro-Muslim, and concluded with a suggestion that Obama was tougher on a white Cambridge police officer than on a Muslim terrorist. Bennett, however, grossly overestimated the likely number of radical Muslims in the world, misquoted General George Casey, chief of staff of the Army, as saying that losing diversity would be a worse tragedy than Fort Hood and channeled Glenn Beck by falsely alleging that White House communications director Anita Dunn “admires Mao Tse Tung.” Hannity corrected none of Bennett's falsehoods. With video.

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Reported by Ellen at 6:59 AM
Jesse Ventura Does It Again, reported by Ellen,
Jesse Ventura Pwns Hannity, reported by Ellen,
Is Hannity Inciting Civil War?, reported by Ellen,
Secretary Rice on FOX and Friends, reported by Chrish,
Geraldo having fun in Afghanistan, reported by Chrish,
Al Qaeda: Now You See It, Now You Don't, reported by Marie Therese,
Bill O'Reilly In Afghanistan, reported by Deborah,
Poppies Will Make Them Sleep..., reported by Donna,
Not In My Backyard, reported by Chrish,
Are You Scared Yet?, reported by Chrish,
Oliver North Disses Security Consultants, reported by Marie Therese,
Julie Shares Her Feelings, reported by Chrish,
Bush is Stuck on Replay, reported by Melanie,
Tug o' War on FOX News Sunday, reported by Marie Therese,
Obsession Is More Than A Perfume, reported by Chrish,
Investing in Fear on Fox, reported by Judy,
Wall-to-Wall War on Live Desk, reported by Judy,
Big Story on Dirty Bomb threat, reported by Chrish,
All Dressed Up, Still Fox News, reported by Judy,
The Two Faces of Fox "News", reported by Melanie,
O'Reilly Insists It's Not Torture, reported by Deborah,
Exploiting 9/11, reported by Chrish,
Bush Speech Shows His Weakness, reported by Judy,
Insurgency? What Insurgency?, reported by Judy,
New Terror Messaging on FOX, reported by Chrish,
Video of Centanni & Wiig "Conversion", reported by Marie Therese,
Hannity's War Room, reported by Deborah,
What's Next? Badges with Yellow Crescents?, reported by Marie Therese,
Bush Admits He Can Be A Liar, reported by Donna,
Terrorist threats - send a woman, reported by Chrish,
Where Do They Get This Stuff?!, reported by Melanie,
FOX News Hypes World War III, reported by Ellen,
Zacharias Moussaoui Gets Life, reported by Marie Therese, 0 comments
Bill O'Reilly, Hate Merchant, reported by Marie Therese, 0 comments
CORRECTION, reported by Marie Therese, 0 comments
Bush karma, reported by Chrish, 0 comments
Fox Brunch Prime Cuts, reported by Chrish, 0 comments
Timing Is Everything, reported by Deborah, 0 comments
New York Subway Threat, reported by Deborah, 0 comments
Brown: the new black, reported by Chrish, 0 comments
Racial Profiling - Let's Do It!, reported by Nancy,
There is NO Voice of Dissent!, reported by Nancy,
They STILL Just Hate the West, reported by Nancy,
Homeland Insecurity, reported by Ellen, 0 comments
High On Hate, reported by Deborah, 0 comments
Cavuto: "Bush Apologist", reported by Melanie, 0 comments
O'Reilly: I Distort, You Comply, reported by Marie Therese, 0 comments
Chris Wallace: FOX's "Yes" Man, reported by Marie Therese, 0 comments
Is Barnes the New Krauthammer?, reported by Nancy,
Al Jazeera is BAD!, reported by Ellen, 0 comments
The New Old Wooden Desk, reported by Melanie, 0 comments
Rummy Flip Flops, reported by Deborah, 0 comments
How to Drive a FOX Host Batty!, reported by Marie Therese, 0 comments
Torture and Moral Values, reported by Deborah, 0 comments
Like a Broken Record, reported by Melanie, 0 comments
Stay Afraid With Fox, reported by Deborah, 0 comments
Terror, Terror, Terror (Part 4), reported by Nancy,
Be Scared, Sort Of, reported by Melanie, 0 comments
Terror, Terror, Terror (part 2), reported by Nancy,
War on Terror, Terror, Terror, reported by Nancy,
Open and Shut, reported by Melanie, 0 comments
Strange Bedfellows, reported by Marie Therese,
Duelling Translations of bin Laden, reported by Marie Therese,
Tale of the Tape, reported by Judy,
The Saga of THE TAPE Continues, reported by Deborah,
Peggy Noonan Knows, reported by Deborah,
Is This The October Surprise?, reported by Melanie,
Fox Continues to Link 9/11 & Iraq, reported by Melanie,
A Story of Outsourced Torture, reported by Deborah,
Fox News & The State Department?, reported by Melanie,
Who Needs Business News?, reported by Melanie,
Nothing But a Bush Campaign Ad, reported by Melanie,
How Much Killing is Enough?, reported by Ellen,
Vote in the O'Reilly Poll, reported by Marie Therese,
Bush Coins New Slur, reported by Marie Therese,
Rita Cosby Interviews Donald Rumsfeld, reported by Marie Therese,
MSNBC Post-Debate Coverage, reported by Marie Therese,
PBS Steady, Not Flashy, reported by Judy,
Where Are FOX's Priorities?, reported by Ellen,
"Lying Us Into a War", reported by Judy,
The Election & Iraq, reported by Eleanor,
Ain't no Big Deal, reported by Melanie,
Terror Alert! Terror Alert!, reported by Judy,
Lots of Innuendo, Few Facts, reported by Ellen,
"No" is Not the Right Answer, reported by Eleanor,
No Applause, reported by Eleanor,
Real Issues AWOL, reported by Eleanor,
The U.N. Watch, reported by Eleanor,
Far From Happy Iraq, reported by Eleanor,
Rather Roasted Again, reported by Eleanor,
Terror Talk Returns, reported by Deborah,
Campaigns & Wars, reported by Eleanor,
New Twists on Old Stories, reported by Eleanor,
Terror, Terror Everywhere, reported by Eleanor,
Axis Becoming More Evil, reported by Eleanor,
Mutual Pleasures, reported by Eleanor,
Where's the Plan?, reported by Eleanor,
They're Out to Get Us, reported by Eleanor,
Violence & Religion, reported by Eleanor,
Unity Gone, reported by Eleanor,
AK- 47 Anyone?, reported by Eleanor,
Docu Drama and Terror, reported by Eleanor,
Terror and Campaign Woes, reported by Eleanor,
Democrats Bash, Bush Command, reported by Judy,
9/11 Commission & Democrats, reported by Melanie,
Closing the Toughness Gap, reported by Judy,
Terror Everywhere you Go, reported by Melanie,
OUTRAGEOUS!, reported by Melanie,
AP Reports DOD Infiltrated by Spy, reported by Marie Therese,
Bush's Foot in Mouth, reported by Judy,
Taking On the Terrorists?, reported by Judy,
You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up, reported by Nancy,
More Fear Mongering (Yawn), reported by Melanie,
Fear For the Sick and the Aged, reported by Eleanor,
This Needed to be Said, reported by Melanie,
Cavuto's "Common Sense?", reported by Melanie,
Don't Tell me the Truth, reported by Melanie,
How Did This Happen?, reported by Eleanor,