Filed at 12:55 pm, Wednesday November 21st 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Brian Williams explains himself:
I was the recipient today of several emails from well-intentioned people, telling me I was being attacked in parts of the blogosphere for something I wrote and said on the air in last night’s broadcast. It was a closing piece about Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip celebrating their 60th anniversary. I noted […]
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Filed at 9:02 am, Wednesday November 21st 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The situation in the Kurdish north of Iraq, April 2007:
On the one hand, it is a rare success story in the Middle East: a stable territory run by a secular leadership committed to economic and political reform and sitting on a huge pool of oil. On the other hand, it is tiny and landlocked, uncomfortably […]
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Filed at 10:44 pm, Tuesday November 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Check out this video, submitted to the YouTube/CNN/GOP debate on November 28th:
We’re Lynn and Pat Mulder of Auburndale, Florida. Our son Ryan was murdered in March because he was gay. We would like to ask the presidential candidates how will they work to promote the value of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender families.
Will CNN press […]
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Filed at 5:11 pm, Tuesday November 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
A Hillary supporter writes Andrew Sullivan:
What has Obama done except demonstrate his out-of-control ambition? He was a community organizer but that was in the black community. What he has done for whites?
Read the full letter for more subtle and not so subtle racism. The vast majority of Clinton supporters of course are not anything like […]
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Filed at 4:16 pm, Tuesday November 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Via Liss, who provides a far better caption than I could think of. Also, check out this post I wrote around Thanksgiving last year with photos from historical turkey pardons. My fav has to be either the Reagan one or the Bush one from 2001.
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Filed at 8:36 am, Tuesday November 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, 11/19/07:
Did he just say marriage is under attack? Glenn Greenwald has more on Williams, who is said to be a “a confessed admirer of Rush Limbaugh.” I’ve sent them an email asking for an explanation of his comment, and I’ll post a response if I get one. The address is […]
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Filed at 8:28 am, Tuesday November 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Will the US Military finally charge the Pulitzer-prize winning AP photographer they’ve illegally detained for 2+ years?
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Filed at 8:22 am, Tuesday November 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Despite regularly leaking information to the Drudge Report, the Clinton campaign complains that Obama cites a Novak column in a recent attack on her.
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Filed at 11:25 pm, Monday November 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
CBS News TV writers authorize a strike in connection with the WGA after working 2.5 years without a contract.
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Filed at 9:47 pm, Monday November 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Just wanted to remind everybody that during the day I post several smaller one-line entries as “asides” which are accessible only in the right column of the homepage. Here are the latest asides (RSS readers should through to the homepage for actual links to these items):
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Filed at 5:22 pm, Monday November 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Talk about Freudian slip:
In a transcript of a briefing on the latest international climate-change report, the White House inadvertently referred to James Connaughton, chairman of its Council on Environmental Quality, as chairman of the Council on Economic Quality.
When it comes to limiting greenhouse gas emissions, the Bush White House has always seemed to worry less […]
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Filed at 4:24 pm, Monday November 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Coming out in April 2008:
The publisher provides this brief advance excerpt from the book, apparently about PlameGate:
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White […]
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Filed at 3:36 pm, Monday November 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Skippy updates us on the latest development in the WGA strike, which involves a somewhat creative form of protest.
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Filed at 12:10 pm, Monday November 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Phew, the death toll from the cyclone last week in Bangladesh has now surpassed the American death toll on 9/11 (and is twice that of Katrina)…
The death toll from Thursday’s cyclone in Bangladesh is now more than 3,100, and officials say that number could reach 10,000 once rescuers get to outlying islands. Rescuers are struggling […]
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Filed at 6:56 pm, Sunday November 18th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Photo op of the year: Bush will honor Gore and other Nobel laureates on November 26th in the Oval Office.
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