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LGF Archives: September 2004

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Presidential Debate: Day One, The Wrap-Up

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 8:29:36 pm PDT

At the rate our presidential debate topics are filling up, it looks like we’re going to need one more to handle the wrap-up discussion. So here it is.

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Presidential Debate: Day One, Topic Four

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 6:53:01 pm PDT

One more topic for the presidential debates as they conclude for the evening. Watch over the web at C-SPAN.

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Presidential Debate: Day One, Topic Three

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 6:02:02 pm PDT

One more topic as the presidential debates start. Watch over the web at C-SPAN.

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Presidential Debate: Day One, Topic Two

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 5:37:20 pm PDT

Here’s another topic for the presidential debates as they prepare to start. Watch over the web at C-SPAN.

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Lizards Infiltrate Washington Times

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 5:29:44 pm PDT

From Greg Pierce’s Inside Politics column at the Washington Times: Inside Politics - September 30, 2004. CBS strikes again “Apparently, the fraudulent memo scandal has taught CBS News absolutely nothing.” Charles Johnson wrote yesterday at littlegreenfootballs.com. He was referring to a “CBS Evening News” story on Tuesday that suggested that the Iraq ...

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Thank You, Tony

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 5:20:35 pm PDT

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will undergo surgery to correct heart palpitations, and now is a good time to restate our gratitude for his unflinching support for the United States, and wish him a speedy recovery: Blair to Have Heart Procedure, Will Serve 3rd Term. LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister ...

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VDH: The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 5:17:54 pm PDT

Here’s a terrific new four-part series by Victor Davis Hanson that you can read during dull moments in tonight’s debate (namely, whenever Flipper is breaching): The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush. The intro to Part One: The American Left has become increasingly hysterical since September 11th. The symptoms of a new, disturbing ...

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Presidential Debate: Day One

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 4:42:14 pm PDT

Tonight’s debate topic is foreign policy and national security; the candidates will square off at 6:00 pm Pacific time, and you can watch over the web at C-SPAN.

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The Criminal Phase Heats Up

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 2:01:03 pm PDT

At Scylla & Charybdis, here’s a template for an email to the Texas Rangers you can use if you’d like to express your support for a criminal investigation into the CBS fraudulent memo scandal.

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David Hailey's "Analysis" is a Fraud

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 1:34:29 pm PDT

Wizbang has the goods on David Hailey’s Bush memo font study. It’s this simple: he faked his examples. Go to page 9 of the PDF file from his site and zoom in on the superscript “th” in “111th.” And as Wizbang reports, Hailey even left the Photoshop document he used to fake ...

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Texas AG Will Investigate CBS Memos

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:24:37 pm PDT

The Texas attorney general has announced a criminal investigation of the fraudulent Killian memos. (Hat tip: song_and_dance_man.) Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has launched a criminal investigation into forged military records allegedly obtained from President Bush’s National Guard file that were aired by CBS News three weeks ago, referring a congressional ...

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Premature Publication

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:59:01 am PDT

The Boston Globe climbs into their time machine and files a report from the future on tonight’s debate: Bush and Kerry meet in first of three debates with Kerry needing to make up ground. (Hat tip: gm33.) CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) After a deluge of campaign speeches and hostile television ads, ...

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Fake, But Accurate, But Not Fake!

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:54:00 am PDT

People have started emailing me the link to this page, in which a professor with a background in literature and creative writing attempts to argue the fraudulent Killian memos could have been typed on some sort of mythical typewriter that was available at a Texas Air National Guard base in ...

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McAuliffe Urges Media Blitz

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:20:16 am PDT

An LGF reader who’s on the DNC mailing list forwarded this email from Terry McAuliffe, imploring Kerry supporters to flood the media immediately following the debate: *** Tonight, don’t let George Bush’s henchmen steal another victory. We need your online help immediately after the debate, so save this email, print it out, ...

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Kerry's (First) Last Minute Whine

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:12:54 am PDT

John Kerry doesn’t like the timeout lights to which he previously agreed: Debate Panel Nixes Kerry Campaign Request. And his “strategist” actually hints that the Kerry camp may remove them by force. Advisers for the Democratic presidential candidate demanded Thursday that the lights signaling when a speaker’s time has expired during debates ...

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Kerry: "Don't Twist Here"

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:53:10 am PDT

PoliPundit has a transcript of John Kerry’s bloviating, defensive response to a softball question from one of his most sympathetic interviewers, on Good Morning America: DIANE SAWYER: Was the war in Iraq worth it? JOHN KERRY: We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today. DS: So it ...

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Holy Warriors Murder 35 Children in Iraq

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:42:33 am PDT

Baghdad Bombings Kill 35 Children. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of bombs killed 35 children and seven adults Thursday as U.S. troops handed out candy at a government ceremony to inaugurate a new sewage treatment plant. Hours earlier, a suicide blast killed a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis on the capital’s ...

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Questions for the Debate

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:58 am PDT

Courtesy of Peter Parisi at the Washington Times, here are some good questions to ask of John Kerry at tonight’s presidential debate: At the first presidential debate. (Hat tip: Geepers.) Since most of the discussion is likely to focus on the war on terrorism in general and the war in Iraq ...

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Preaching Blindness at Loseweek

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 9:12:03 am PDT

I read this piece by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball at Newsweek, on the supposed radicalization of “moderate Muslim leaders”—Preaching Violence—and I ask myself, “What the hell is wrong with our media? Are they just ignorant of the facts and too lazy to dig them up, are they blinded by ...

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MoveOn Pressures CBS to Run Another Questionable Story

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 8:54:57 am PDT

At the Volokh Conspiracy, Jim Lindgren reports that the moonbats at MoveOn.org are pressuring CBS to run yet another false story: the Niger uranium story they canceled in the wake of the fraudulent memo scandal. Date: Monday, September 27 From: Peter Schurman, MoveOn.org Subject: CBS censoring the truth about Bush’s case for war Dear ...

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Email All 200 CBS Affiliates

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 8:35:54 am PDT

Once again, in the wake of yet another example of shameless bias and deliberate concealment of important facts by CBS News, here is a page at Rathergate.com where you can send an email to all CBS affiliate stations: Email all 200 CBS Affiliates with just one click!

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Fighting the Child Killers

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 8:16:41 am PDT

Yesterday, Palestinian savages murdered two Israeli children; today the IDF is striking deep into the Jebaliya “refugee camp” to clean out another nest of snakes: 24 Dead in Gaza Strip Fighting. JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops pushed deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp Thursday, a first in ...

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InstaFraud

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 8:09:46 am PDT

Here’s a blog that’s supposedly run by Bill Burkett. It occurs to me that if (as reported) Burkett is planning to sue CBS News, starting a blog and ranting about the story doesn’t exactly show world-class intelligence.

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Beldar is Cuckoo for Cocco Puffs

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 7:52:47 am PDT

BeldarBlog has uncovered some very interesting information about Beverly Cocco, the interview subject in CBS News’ scandalous report on the draft, casting serious doubt on CBS’ contention that she’s simply a Republican soccer mom afraid for her sons.

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Proof of CBS News Cover Up

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 7:41:20 am PDT

Rathergate.com has proof (in the form of screenshots) that CBS covered their tracks on the deceptive draft story, by going back and adding a line to their website story that was not in the original broadcast.

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"The Truth is Irrelevant"

Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 7:15:07 am PDT

Bill at INDC Journal interviews Richard Schlesinger and other CBS Evening News people, about their deceptive, fear-mongering report on the reinstatement of the draft. The money quote: Karas: “The truth of the e-mails were absolutely irrelevant to the piece, because all the story said was that people were worried. It’s a ...

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

International Observers Concerned

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 6:10:06 pm PDT

International monitors are very concerned about “snags” in the United States presidential election. WASHINGTON - Problems loom for the presidential election including voting equipment changes that could delay the outcome past Nov. 2, a group of international observers said Tuesday in a report. A five-member team from the Organization for Security and ...

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Voter Fraud Project

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 4:52:15 pm PDT

Bill Hobbs is performing a valuable service with his Voter Fraud Project.

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Fighting in Iran

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 3:06:24 pm PDT

Free Iran has a report that intense fighting is breaking out in several Iranian cities; they’ve titled their report “Verge of Revolution,” and we hope they’re right. (Hat tip: Roger L. Simon.)

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Support the Pioneers of Rathergate

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 2:41:49 pm PDT

RatherBiased.com, a site that has been documenting CBS News/Dan Rather bias for years, is having trouble keeping their site on the internet. The problems are caused by the tidal wave of traffic searching for info on the fake memo scandal; you can donate to help them pay for their bandwidth ...

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CBS News Covers Up Cocco Misattribution

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 1:43:36 pm PDT

CBS News is now trying to cover up their failure to identify Beverly Cocco as a chapter president of “People Against the Draft.” The transcript of their broadcast from last night is here: CBS News - The Issues: Reviving The Draft. The following line has been added to the “transcript,” since I ...

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We're Drudged!

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:22:40 am PDT

We just got linked at Drudge Report. Dive, dive, dive! UPDATE at 9/29/04 11:32:01 am: Whew. Drudge changed the link to point to Power Line — and now they’re going under too. UPDATE at 9/29/04 12:18:31 pm: This is the LGF post to which Drudge linked: CBS News Pushes Another Anti-Bush Lie.

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The CIA's Insurgency

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:20:15 am PDT

Essential reading at OpinionJournal: The CIA’s Insurgency. Yesterday’s CIA leak, of the January 2003 memo, also turns out to be what the spooks call “disinformation.” We’re told that its ballyhooed warning of an insurgency is not among the document’s key findings and occurs only in the very last sentence of its ...

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"Don't Tell Me to Stop Using Hate!"

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:12:50 am PDT

So far this morning I’ve received almost a dozen emails from mailing lists asking me to confirm subscriptions—and I’ve subscribed to none of them. This is how the Morlocks strike back when you get them stirred up; they cruise around the internet looking for ways to mindlessly, cravenly harass you. Whoever’s ...

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CBS News Caught Again

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 9:47:59 am PDT

Here’s the transcript of last night’s CBS Evening News fear-mongering report about reinstating the draft, in which they cite hoax emails (without noting they had been debunked) and the testimony of a woman who is a chapter president of People Against the Draft (without identifying her as an advocate): CBS ...

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JihadTV Airs New Video

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 8:53:59 am PDT

Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite channel known as JihadTV, is once again gloating over images of a helpless infidel and aiding the cause of Zarqawi’s holy warriors: Bigley Caged and Chained. British hostage Ken Bigley has appeared caged, chained and pleading for his life in new video footage. In the harrowing ...

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Kerry's Iraq Plan: Cut and Run ASAP

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 8:21:26 am PDT

John Kerry admits people think he’s indecisive, and he has a plan to change that perception. “I’m going to be myself. ... I’m not trying to fake it,” Kerry said. Asked about the war in Iraq, he said that based on what is known today, “it was a mistake, but we have ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 8:01:42 am PDT

John F. Kerry is still trying to explain away his astonishing one-sentence flip-flop, and each new lame excuse just digs the hole a bit deeper: Kerry Calls Vote Change ‘Inarticulate’. Bush has mocked Kerry for saying, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” “It was just ...

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Feds: Times Reporters Tipped Off Terror Charity

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 7:50:06 am PDT

The Justice Department is accusing two New York Times reporters of tipping off the Islamic charity Global Relief Foundation that they were about to be raided by the FBI: Times Reporter Tipped Off Terror Charity: Feds. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) September 29, 2004 — The Justice Department has charged that a veteran ...

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Italians Paid Holy Warriors Ransom

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 7:42:54 am PDT

You may have read the good news that the two Italian women kidnapped in Iraq had been released unharmed. Now the bad news; they were released because the Italian government paid a $1 million ransom, money that will be used by the mujahideen to buy more weapons and stage more kidnappings. ...

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CBS News Pushes Another Anti-Bush Lie

Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 7:26:22 am PDT

Apparently, the fraudulent memo scandal has taught CBS News absolutely nothing. On last night’s CBS Evening News they ran a story about the military draft being reinstated—based on long-debunked Internet hoax emails and the testimony of an unlabeled Bush-hating advocacy group member. RatherBiased.com has the details (although their site is down ...

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Soros Throws Away His Fortune

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 8:43:48 pm PDT

George Soros continues pouring his money down the drain, which can only be a good thing: Billionaire George Soros intensifies his anti-Bush campaign. WASHINGTON (AFP) - Billionaire financier George Soros announced that he was traveling to dozens of US cities and will be mailing two million brochures to voters, trying to ...

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Palestinian Authority Terror Links

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 8:12:02 pm PDT

As the intifada crumbles, so does the fiction that the Palestinian Authority represents any sort of legitimate government: PA terror links uncovered. Further evidence emerged Monday of the direct link between the armed wing of Fatah, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Palestinian Authority. Obituary notices distributed in the West Bank town of ...

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The Marching Morons

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 5:45:23 pm PDT

If you haven’t already had your fill of fever swamp slumming, here’s another place where they are saying very mean! despicable! things about yours truly and all of you: Pandagon: And So It Begins...Or Continues. This site is run by one of the geniuses who thinks it’s the height of ...

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Stop the Presses!

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 5:28:58 pm PDT

No newspaper is too small to escape the notice of the anti-Bush Associated Press. All they need to do is come out in favor of John Kerry: Tiny Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) CRAWFORD, Texas - A tiny weekly newspaper that bills itself as President Bush’s hometown paper has endorsed ...

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Washington Post Blog Contest

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 4:47:47 pm PDT

The Washington Post is running a contest titled “Best Blogs: Politics and Elections,” and Little Green Footballs is nominated in two categories—Best International and Most Original. You can vote here, but you’ll need to be registered with WaPo to do it.

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DebateFacts.com to Correct Kerry's Lies

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 3:07:39 pm PDT

The Bush-Cheney campaign has created a site called Debate Facts to set the record straight on John Kerry’s shifting positions and baseless assertions during the upcoming presidential debates. If you have a blog, you can include the Debate Facts live feed on your site for live updates as the debates happen. ...

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Kos Finds His Level

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 2:50:42 pm PDT

Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga (the voice of the lunatic fringe left in America) finds his level, with a typically whiny piece about “right-wing domination of US media” for the antisemitic, anti-American Guardian newspaper: A different noise. Jeff Harrell donned his chem-bio suit and waded into the mess in search of ...

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CBS and the Growing Evidence Tampering Checklist

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 1:59:29 pm PDT

Bummerdietz at Scylla & Charybdis says there is ample evidence of criminal intent by CBS News in the fraudulent memo affair, both pre-broadcast and post-broadcast, and he’s compiling a growing evidence tampering checklist.

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Good News for the President

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 1:37:40 pm PDT

The latest Pew Research Center poll shows President Bush ahead of John Kerry by eight points. Two successive nationwide surveys of nearly 1,000 registered voters each show Bush’s margin over Kerry growing steadily since mid-September (Sept. 11-14), when the two men were tied at 6%-46%. Bush’s slight 45%-42% advantage in the ...

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From CBS to the Slammer

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 1:25:21 pm PDT

I couldn’t agree more with Deroy Murdock’s National Review piece about the CBS News phony memo scandal, calling for the prosecution of those who perpetrated this attempt to defraud an entire country: From CBS to the Slammer. Imagine that CBS’s story had aired on 60 Minutes not on Wednesday, September 8 ...

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Norwegian Islamic Leader Praises Suicide Bombers

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 1:12:06 pm PDT

The leader of one of the largest Islamic organizations in Norway responded to a young boy’s question about suicide bombers by praising their “bravery:” Suicide bombers accepted by Muslim leader. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) Basim Ghozlan, the manager at Det Islamske Forbundet, one of the largest Muslim organizations in Norway, stated ...

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Will Kerry Speak Out for Mumia?

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 8:38:07 am PDT

Here’s the kind of advice the Kerry campaign is picking up at Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga’s site, as “brotherforkerry” counsels JfK to align his cause with convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal: Will Kerry Speak Out for Mumia? (Hat tip: Travelling Shoes.) Will Kerry Speak Out for Mumia? by brotherforkerry Tue Sep 28th, ...

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Cat Stevens Was Guest of Canadian Hamas Front

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 8:02:52 am PDT

Stewart Bell reports that hippy pop star turned radical Islamist Cat Stevens was the guest of honor in 1998 at a fundraising dinner in Toronto, hosted by a front group for the Hamas terror gang—and he gave a speech in which he described Judaism as a “so-called religion:” Cat ...

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Kerry Reads Kos

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 7:36:14 am PDT

Mainstream media is releasing a stream of stories about blogs, and oddly enough they all seem to focus on the loony left and blatantly ignore the anti-idiotarians; here’s the latest one, in the Guardian, in which we learn that John Kerry’s campaign is reading Daily “Screw Them” Kos: How the ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 7:24:33 am PDT

It’s almost as if France and Germany didn’t both issue statements yesterday that they will not increase military assistance in Iraq. Because John Kerry just forges ahead with his ridiculously misleading nonsense about enlisting their help: Kerry says he would seek nations’ input on Iraq. SPRING GREEN, Wis. — Senator John F. ...

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Monday, September 27, 2004

Know Thine Enemy

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 8:20:59 pm PDT

In February 2002, after witnessing the horrific videotaped slaughter of Daniel Pearl, I wrote this: Danny Pearl’s death did have a purpose. It had a purpose to the killers. He was chosen because he worked for a high-profile American newspaper, and because he was Jewish. They videotaped the murder for a reason, ...

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Springsteen: Dowd Fan

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 7:35:06 pm PDT

Bruce Springsteen is a Maureen Dowd fan. (Hat tip: BenJeremy.) NEW YORK — On the eve of the Vote for Change tour, which has sparked controversy in newsrooms where reporters have been ordered not to attend the pro-Kerry fundraisers, Bruce Springsteen, one of the stars of the concerts, has a few ...

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France Advocates Retreat

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 6:44:24 pm PDT

France? Advocating surrender? Who could imagine? France seeking to put pullout on agenda. WASHINGTON — France said Monday that it would take part in a proposed international conference on Iraq only if the agenda included a possible U.S. troop withdrawal, thus complicating the planning for a meeting that has drawn mixed reactions. Paris ...

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Saudis Hosting Conference on Islamic Activism

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 5:01:21 pm PDT

One quality the Saudi royals don’t lack is chutzpah. They’re planning to host an international conference on “combating terrorism,” at which they will blame the rise of “violence and extremism” on Israel: Saudi to host international terrorism conference. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Saudi Arabia on Monday announced it would host an international ...

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LA Times: Kinsley Wants to Endorse a Candidate

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 4:37:06 pm PDT

The Los Angeles Times may break with tradition and endorse a candidate for president this year. NEW YORK The Los Angeles Times, which has not endorsed a candidate for president since the 1972 election, may change its policy this year under new editorial/opinion editor Michael Kinsley. “If it was up to me, ...

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Zawahri Report Was Wrong

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 4:25:48 pm PDT

Reports of the capture of Ayman al-Zawahri were greatly exaggerated. ISLAMABAD, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Pakistan officials denied an Al Arabiya television report on Monday that top al Qaeda official Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested in Pakistan. “It is a negative, it is wrong,” Brigadier Javed Cheema, Director General of the Interior ...

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New Presidential Poll for Lizards

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 3:25:29 pm PDT

I’ve just put up a new LGF poll: If the Presidential election were held next week, for whom would you vote?

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AP: Rather's Future "Complicated"

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 2:45:58 pm PDT

To the Associated Press, Dan Rather’s Future is a Complicated Question. To most people with a conscience and a sense of ethics, it’s a mystery why he still has a job. NEW YORK - In Kansas City, Mo., it’s Kirk Black’s job to answer for Dan Rather. The station manager of KCTV, ...

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Danish Embassy Attacked by "Global Intifada"

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 2:38:45 pm PDT

A group called “Global Intifada” has attacked the Danish embassy in Sweden, smashing windows and throwing red paint: Danish embassy in Sweden targeted by protesters. (Hat tip: twostellas.) The Danish embassy in Stockholm, Sweden has been attacked by protestors opposed to Denmark’s support for the war in Iraq. The protestors smashed windows ...

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Iran, Israel and the Bomb

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 2:30:18 pm PDT

Honest Reporting has an exposé of another bit of outrageous distortion in mainstream media, an article for the International Herald Tribune (which is owned by the New York Times) by Jonathan Power in which he argues that Arab states have a right to seek nuclear weapons because of the threat ...

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DUmmies Make Lists

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 2:23:27 pm PDT

The tools at Democratic Underground Message Board (DUMB for short) have a regular feature written by several monkeys with typewriters, called the Top Ten Conservative Idiots. They’re up to #174 in this scintillating series. Congratulations to Mike Krempasky of Rathergate.com, who made the latest edition as a representative of the “Rather Haters.” ...

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"Legitimate Targets According to Islam"

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 2:04:05 pm PDT

A Danish Muslim released from Guantanamo Bay told media that the Danish Prime Minister and Defense Minister were both legitimate terror targets. (Hat tip: filtrat.) But the Danish government is OK with that. A Danish born former Guantanamo prisoner did not break the law when he told Danish media that Danish ministers ...

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Carter Perfects Preemptive Whining

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 1:26:07 pm PDT

This is surely going to go down as the whiniest presidential campaign in history, at least on the Democrats’ side. After informing the world that his two favorite films are Casablanca and Fahrenheit 9/11, Jimmy Carter is now whining about the elections in Florida—before they happen: Carter Predicts Florida Poll Will ...

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Activists Extend Hospitality to CNN Producer

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:08:10 am PDT

A CNN producer has been kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. Wait. I shouldn’t be so judgmental. Palestinian “activists.” GAZA (Reuters) - Armed Palestinians seized an Israeli Arab producer for the CNN television network from a car in Gaza City on Monday after asking for him by name. There was no immediate claim ...

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Asking a Question = Heckling

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:47:58 am PDT

Here’s a glowing report on billionairehead Teresa Heinz Kerry’s response to a “heckler” in Colorado. (Hat tip: EthelCarol.) Apparently, asking a question during a question and answer session now qualifies as “heckling.” PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - A group of 600 Democrats crowded the 4H Auditorium at the State Fairgrounds Friday hoping to ...

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Rathergate: First, The Smear...

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:39:48 am PDT

Media Research Center has compiled a selection of quotes from Dan Rather and others about the Killian memo scandal, illustrating beautifully the deep, deep dishonesty and arrogance of CBS News.

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Elizabeth Edwards: A Daily Kos Fan

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:27:10 am PDT

Look who’s reading Daily “Screw Them” Kos: Elizabeth Edwards on Blogging. (Hat tip: Slant Point.)

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Ayman al-Zawahri Captured?

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:16:17 am PDT

Report: Top Bin Laden deputy caught in Pakistan. Top Bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has been caught in Pakistan, according to a report from the region quoted on Israel Radio Monday. Pakistani forces operating against al Qaida strongholds in the country report capturing the Egyptian national, who was formerly the head of ...

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Released from Gitmo to Resume Jihad

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:11:24 am PDT

One of the poor oppressed victims of the imperialist US war machine was finally released from the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay last year. He promptly rejoined the Taliban and started killing in the name of Allah again: Taliban Fighter Who Was Freed From Guantanamo Prison Is Killed. (Hat tip: Cy ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 9:52:00 am PDT

One of the main planks in John Kerry’s foreign policy platform is that he will reach out to our European allies and enlist their military help in Iraq. Time for plan B: No French or German turn on Iraq. (Hat tip: dustyroadguy.) French and German government officials say they will not significantly ...

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Kennedy Hits Bottom, Digs

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 9:04:33 am PDT

The latest from the say-anything Bush-hating left: according to Teddy Kennedy, the Bush administration has made America more vulnerable to a nuclear attack. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration’s failure to shut down al-Qaida and rebuild Iraq have fueled the insurgency and made the United States more vulnerable to a nuclear attack ...

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Reactions to NYT Blog Article

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 8:41:27 am PDT

Here are two interesting pieces on Matthew Klam’s NYT Magazine article about Wonkette’s strawberry-blonde hair and Markos Zuniga’s Freudian guilt over his success; first, from the inimitable James. I did want to say something about that silly NYT piece about blogging. All I needed to know I learned from the cover. ...

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Ex-Muslim MP Won't Be Intimidated

Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 7:28:17 am PDT

Despite death threats from the Islamic community that have forced her into hiding, Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali courageously exposes Islam’s brutal treatment of women with a powerful new film. An actress reveals the naked truth of domestic violence in ‘Submission’ ‘Submission’ is written and narrated in English by Hirsi Ali. The ...

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Sunday, September 26, 2004

Kerry Meltdown Watch

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 8:21:13 pm PDT

The latest electoral college count, from RealClear Politics: Sunday, September 26: Bush 291 - Kerry 221.

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Daily Kos Calls for Dirty Tricks

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 6:58:32 pm PDT

Only in the paranoid fever swamps of Daily Kos could they interpret Matthew Klam’s New York Times left-wing lovefest as an attack. Zuniga sycophant “Geheimbundler” makes the case for this delusion, with an egregious overuse of adjectives: NY Times hatchet job against left-wing bloggers. So after surveying the fevered, rotten, cruel, superior, ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 6:04:27 pm PDT

Kerry Rips Bush on ‘Mission Accomplished’ Remark. Kerry, arriving in Madison, Wisconsin for debate preparations, called the statement “unbelievable.” “I will never be a president who just says mission accomplished. I will get the mission accomplished,” said the Massachusetts senator. “That’s the difference.” Earth calling John Kerry: George W. Bush never said “mission ...

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Reuters Parrots Far Left Talking Point

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 2:49:11 pm PDT

In a political season when the mainstream media have ceased all pretension of hiding their bias against President Bush, here’s another milestone. The al-Reuters wire service quotes President Bush in their headline and first paragraph as having said “Mission accomplished,” in his speech from May 1, 2003 aboard the USS ...

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Difficult to Dupe Publishing Experts

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:51:00 pm PDT

Here’s a rarity; computer columnist Lou Dolinar takes a detailed, knowledgeable look at the technical issues that prove beyond a doubt the fraudulent CBS Killian memos were created with a TrueType font (Times New Roman) in Microsoft Word: It’s difficult to dupe publishing experts, even if Bush isn’t their type. Every ...

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Nine-Year Old Contracts BDS

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:04:22 pm PDT

Nine-Year Old Supports Kerry In School Discussion Groups. (Hat tip: twostellas.) Nine-year old Essence Cheatham, of Columbus, Ohio, makes it no secret that she’s a big Kerry supporter. So big, in fact, that she hosts a pro-Kerry group every Tuesday at her school. The students in the group research and discuss campaign platform ...

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"If You Refuse, We Slaughter"

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:42:52 am PDT

In a report on the predicament of British engineer Ken Bigley, kidnapped by the evil murdering holy warriors of Zarqawi’s Tawhid wal Jihad gang, Scotland on Sunday has a quote from the Islamic kidnappers that was ignored in other media reports, but perfectly illustrates the mentality of these creatures: Help ...

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The French Strategy

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:29:08 am PDT

In the Seattle Times, columnist William Pfaff says that if John Kerry is elected he’ll have a small window of opportunity in which to emulate France’s retreat from Algeria: ‘De Gaulle option’ may be our best Iraq exit strategy. (Hat tip: jdwill.) When de Gaulle returned to power in France in ...

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Challenging the Swiftee Smear

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:06:16 am PDT

The new mainstream media meme, witnessed most recently in this David Broder article, is that the allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have been somehow discredited—yet they never seem to provide an example of a specific discredited claim. This line is parroted across the board, in the LA ...

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Biden Mops Up Kerry's Mess

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 9:55:53 am PDT

Joe Biden tries to clean up the mess John Kerry created with his ill-advised attack on Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi: Biden Says Assured Allawi of Support if Kerry Wins. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Democratic senator said on Sunday he assured interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that U.S. support for ...

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Broder: Old Pros Tricked by Blogs

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 9:39:28 am PDT

At the Washington Post, David Broder blames the CBS memo scandal and Dan Rather’s lying and obfuscation ... on blogs, for somehow “lowering the bars:” The Media, Losing Their Way. When the Internet opened the door to scores of “journalists” who had no allegiance at all to the skeptical and self-disciplined ...

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Athens-New York Flight Intercepted

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 9:12:58 am PDT

The Royal Air Force scrambled to intercept an Olympic Airlines flight from Athens to New York a couple of hours ago: Plane diverted after security alert. LONDON, England (CNN) — An Olympic Airlines flight from Athens to New York was diverted Sunday to London “on a full emergency,” a spokeswoman for London’s ...

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Josh's "Biggest Story" Fizzles

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 8:31:14 am PDT

Please note this section in Matthew Klam’s left-wing lovefest about bloggers at the Democratic Convention in Boston, in which Klam describes an overjoyed Joshua Micah Marshall crowing about the biggest story of his life: Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail. (Hat tip: The Monster.) But no Josh Marshall. I ran into ...

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Got One in Damascus

Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 8:02:06 am PDT

A top Hamas terrorist has been killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria. A car bomb exploded in Damascus on Sunday, killing a top Hamas leader Izz El-Deen Al-Sheikh Khalil, Israeli security sources said speaking on condition of anonymity. According to media reports, Hamas officials are blaming Israel for the assassination. The ...

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Saturday, September 25, 2004

Got 4 in Britain

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 8:04:15 pm PDT

British police have arrested four men of indeterminate nationality and religion, in a plot to build a radioactive “dirty bomb:” UK Police Arrest Four in ‘Dirty Bomb Plot’. LONDON (Reuters) - British police said Saturday they had arrested four men under anti-terrorism legislation after a tip-off from a newspaper which said ...

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They Smile In Your Face

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 7:46:47 pm PDT

Matthew Klam, with whom I spoke on the phone for 43 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, writes a story for the New York Times Magazine about political blogs. And in a 10-page article, covers only the left wing blogs, including the worst, most virulent centers of lunacy. In ...

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Iran Tests New Missile for Peaceful Purposes

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 7:02:49 pm PDT

Iran Says It Tested ‘Strategic Missile’. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran added a “strategic missile” to its military arsenal after a successful test, and the defense minister said Saturday his country was ready to confront any external threat. The report by state-run radio did not say whether the test involved the previously announced ...

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Jimmy Carter's Favorite Film: Fahrenheit 9/11

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 6:54:57 pm PDT

This is why the very first winner of LGF’s Idiotarian of the Year Award (Fiskie for short) was Jimmy Carter. Carter also stressed that he would like the United States to be more generous to impoverished people around the world in order to “break down the enormous and growing barrier between ...

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Despicable! Bad! Mean!

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 5:44:26 pm PDT

The Kerry campaign has come under a lot of criticism lately for ... well, almost everything they’re doing. But there’s one achievement for which they don’t get enough credit: the refinement of the art of political whining. WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate John Kerry — responding to a Republican group’s ad that portrays ...

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Don't Mess with Lizards

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 5:35:50 pm PDT

I must say, after reading some of the threads from last night in which the Morlocks got frisky (only to be smashed by the majestic hammer of the lizardoid army), I’m actually thinking of allowing unregistered comments for a little while just to see what would happen with our new, ...

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Eye on CBS

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 4:22:28 pm PDT

Clarice Feldman at the American Thinker has more on the curious coincidences tying together CBS News’s use of fake documents, Josh Marshall, and the Niger uranium story now shelved by CBS: Eye on CBS. CBS announced this week it had named Richard Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi to head a panel to ...

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Josh Marshall Tipped About Killian Memos

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 3:59:43 pm PDT

Left wing blogger Joshua Micah Marshall was apparently one of those who were tipped off about the now infamous fraudulent Killian memos—ahead of the 60 Minutes II broadcast. From his blog post of September 7: Feel the buzz. Contrary to what I had originally understood, the Ben Barnes interview is running ...

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CBS News Suddenly Changes Direction

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 2:39:10 pm PDT

Very interesting. What would make CBS News suddenly back away from their other planned hit piece on President Bush, with the lame excuse that it’s “inappropriate” to air it so close to the election? (And why wasn’t this a concern with the fraudulent Killian memos?) CBS Nixes ‘60 Minutes’ Story ...

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Chief Wiggles Needs Your Help

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 2:20:17 pm PDT

Please go and read this post by Chief Wiggles, who needs your help to save the life of a 9-month old Iraqi girl.

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The Winter BatBoy Testimony

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 2:07:35 pm PDT

How do you ask a bat to be the last bat to die for a mistake? (Hat tip: Allah.)

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Egyptian Hate Watch

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 2:01:52 pm PDT

Egypt, the country that receives $2 billion a year in foreign aid from the United States, partly for making a “peace deal” with Israel, has barred fading pop star Madonna from entering Egypt—because she visited Israel: Egypt bans Madonna after Israel visit. (Hat tip: PDM.) Members of Egypt’s parliament have demanded ...

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AP Poll: Bush Leads by 7%

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 8:11:56 am PDT

Here’s why mainstream media’s desperation is beginning to show—their chosen candidate’s ratings are dropping fast: AP: Bush Leads, Widens Advantage With Men. WASHINGTON - President Bush solidified his advantage among men during the last month and holds his highest ratings since January on job performance, the economy and Iraq, according to ...

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European Resolve

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 8:08:24 am PDT

Berlin tells Libya to pay up on disco bombing, or else. BERLIN (AFP) - Germany has told Libya that if it fails to make good on a deal to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will cancel a visit, a ...

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Kerry's Looking for Failure, And He's It

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 7:44:57 am PDT

Mark Steyn, on John Kerry’s absolutely revolting attack on Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi: Kerry’s looking for American failure — and he’s it. Kerry didn’t show up for Allawi’s visit to Washington — he was in Ohio again, which is evidently becoming the proverbial Vietnam-type quagmire for him. Nonetheless, barely had ...

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Vast Majority of Arabs Support Kidnappings

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 7:34:38 am PDT

The BBC says Arabs are ambivalent over hostage crisis, but read the article and you’ll see that this is an absurd understatement. In a phone poll on Al Jazeera, 93% supported the kidnapping and murder of infidels. In the programme The Opposite Direction a fiercely anti-American political analyst, Talat Rumayh, faced off ...

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Mainstream Media Carries Water for Islam

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 7:26:17 am PDT

British Muslims are afraid of a “backlash” if their brothers in Iraq saw off the head of British hostage Ken Bigley, and the British government is mobilizing to protect them: Muslims fear backlash. The government’s crisis command unit, Cobra, is monitoring tension levels around Britain to guard against extremists using the ...

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Dan Rather's Day of Reckoning

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 7:15:33 am PDT

An essential column by John Podhoretz unearths the skeletons buried in CBS News’s back yard, a history of distortions and outright fabrications that began long before Rathergate: Dan Rather’s Day of Reckoning. CBS NEWS airs a report about a Vietnam-era controversy. Almost immediately the report comes under harsh attack, its credibility ...

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Mainstream Media Carrying Water for Kerry

Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 6:59:05 am PDT

Several readers emailed about this nakedly biased editorial masquerading as news from the Associated Press: Bush Twists Kerry’s Words on Iraq. WACO, Texas - President Bush opened several new scathing lines of attack against Democrat John Kerry, charges that twisted his rival’s words on Iraq and made Kerry seem supportive of ...

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Friday, September 24, 2004

Yom Kippur for Lizards Too

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 6:29:55 pm PDT

Best wishes to all LGF Jewish readers for a meaningful, happy, and warm Yom Kippur!

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Zapatero: Catholics Out, Islam In

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 6:26:08 pm PDT

The Spanish appeasement government of Zapatero is now planning to drastically cut ties with the Roman Catholic Church, slashing current funding in half: Funding for Church to be slashed by Spanish. The Spanish government sparked a furious row yesterday after it emerged that it had drawn up a timetable to halve ...

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Burkett Smears Bloggers

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 4:52:34 pm PDT

In a new interview at CNN, Bill Burkett doggedly clings to the ridiculous line that the fraudulent Killian memos may still be proven genuine: Burkett: ‘Jury still out’ on memos CBS aired. And Burkett also climbs aboard the blog-smear bandwagon, claiming that the “White House” launched “coordinated attacks” on him that had ...

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Giuliani Apologizes to President

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 4:21:02 pm PDT

Rudy Giuliani has apologized to President Bush for his erroneous statements at the Republican Convention: Inside the Beltway. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani told President Bush this week that he is sorry. “I owe you an apology,” Mr. Giuliani began. “I made a mistake during my [Republican National Convention] speech ...

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The Moore Connection

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 4:00:54 pm PDT

Please notice this post at Michael Moore’s blog, dated September 7, 2004—the day before CBS aired the infamous fraudulent memos: 1,000 Dead — How Do You Sleep Mr. Bush? (Hat tip: Scylla & Charybdis.) Later today (Wed.), the Boston Globe, the A.P. and Dan Rather all present new and damning information ...

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Antisemitic, Anti-Allawi Seething from Hizballah

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 3:38:29 pm PDT

First John Kerry attacks Iraqi PM Allawi. Then Kerry supporters Hizballah pile on: Iraq P.M.’s Handshake With Israel F.M. ‘shameful’, Says Hezbollah. BEIRUT, Sept 24 (AFP) - Lebanese militant group Hezbollah described as “shameful” Friday a handshake between Iraq’s US-backed prime minister and the Israeli foreign minister at the United Nations in ...

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CBS Producer Has Go-Between Past

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 2:04:24 pm PDT

CBS News producer Mary Mapes has previously been on the edge of serious legal trouble, for attempting to pass information between two federal prisoners—a violation of federal regulations: CBS Producer Has Go-Between Past. WASHINGTON—The CBSproducer being investigated for arranging a meeting between a controversial source and John Kerry’s presidential campaign previously ...

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Zapatero: Fight Terror with Feminism

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:03:02 pm PDT

Spain’s socialist prime minister Zapatero told TIME Magazine recently, “I Don’t Want To Be A Great Leader.” With fatuous, idiotic views like his, there’s very little danger that he will. YOU’RE SAID TO HATE MACHISMO. WHY? I’m not just antimachismo, I’m a feminist. One thing that really awakens my rebellious streak is 20 ...

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Separated at Birth?

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:52:42 am PDT

John Kerry: ... and ... BatBoy? (Hat tip: cjmountel.) UPDATE at 9/24/04 5:44:30 pm: Jeff has a family portrait.

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Nigerian Schoolteacher Flees Muslim Students

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:57:14 am PDT

A Nigerian Christian schoolteacher has been forced to hide from her Muslim students, who flew into a killing rage when the teacher threw “part of” a Koran to the floor to discipline a teenage girl: Nigerian teacher flees Koran row. (Hat tip: Luigi.) A Christian teacher has gone into hiding in ...

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The Art Of Losing Friends

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:17:07 am PDT

Charles Krauthammer on the reckless, win-at-any-cost behavior of the Kerry campaign—promoting fantasies about “international support” even as they insult and denigrate our allies: The Art Of Losing Friends. Americans Overseas for Kerry is the Kerry operation for winning the crucial votes of Americans living abroad (remember the Florida recount?), including more ...

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The Rape Jihad

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:08:14 am PDT

Robert Spencer is relentless in pointing out uncomfortable and politically incorrect truths about Islam; in a new article he explores Islamic justifications for the rape of captives: The Rape Jihad. There are two things the massacre in Beslan have in common with the ongoing massacres in Darfur: both, no less than ...

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Guess Who's a GOP Booster?

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 9:51:08 am PDT

Here’s a story that probably sent Dan Rather straight to the Xanax bottle: Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone is a Bush supporter. With the scandal at CBS still festering, questions are being raised about whether a felony was committed when the network broadcast apparently forged memos in an attempt to discredit George ...

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RNC Calls for Kerry to Come Clean

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 9:17:42 am PDT

Statement From RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke: “The original Kerry campaign categorical denials of knowledge of the documents prior to the CBS report gave way to admission of numerous conversations with the source. “Now a Kerry campaign advisor conversation where ‘the documents never came up’ gives way to a conversation where ‘he ...

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Billionairehead: "Who Cares?"

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 9:02:10 am PDT

Billionairehead Teresa Heinz Kerry continues to provide some of the best political comedy of the season, in an interview with an Arizona TV station. 12 News Reporter: Most of the polls are tracking that Sen John Kerry as doing a better job on the economy. My question is, why hasn’t that ...

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Lockhart: Allawi is "A Puppet of the United States"

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 8:41:16 am PDT

The Kerry Spot has a quote from Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart: While Kerry was relatively restrained in disputing Allawi’s upbeat portrayal, some of his aides suggested that the Iraqi leader was simply doing the bidding of the Bush administration, which helped arrange his appointment in June. “The last thing you want to ...

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Cleveland Imam's Citizenship Revoked

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 8:30:26 am PDT

Fawaz Damra, the imam of the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland, has had his citizenship stripped away for his ties to terrorism: Judge pulls Damra citizenship. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) A federal judge Thursday stripped the citizenship of convicted Muslim leader Imam Fawaz Damra, setting in motion what could be years of ...

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Death Cult Family Photos

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 8:21:42 am PDT

A female relative of Yossef Omar,18, of the Abu El-Rish Brigades, a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, holds a picture of him at the family home in the Shati refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004. Omar was one of three Palestinian gunmen killed ...

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VDH: The Fall

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 8:13:47 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson on Dan Rather: The Fall. Dan Rather’s initial, furious street-side defense of an amateurish forgery — smug, huffy, self-righteous — brings to mind one of those bad movies about the Paris barricades, especially the grainy, black-and-white shots of powdered and wigged aristocrats on their way to the Guillotine, ...

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Mainstream Media Loves Kerry

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 7:57:52 am PDT

A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) shows that mainstream media is overwhelmingly on the side of John Kerry: Networks Praise Kerry. (Hat tip: Barak Moore.) * Evaluations of John Kerry were positive by a two-to-one margin, while evaluations of George W. Bush were over 60 percent ...

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Lockhart's Locked Lips

Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 7:46:49 am PDT

Questions about Kerry strategist Joe Lockhart’s connection to the forged Killian memos continue to be raised; Deborah Orin points out some of the credulity-straining details of what we know so far: Lockhart’s Locked Lips. September 24, 2004 — CLINTONISTA-turned- John-Kerry-strategist Joe Lockhart’s account of his role in Memogate boils down to ...

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Thursday, September 23, 2004

Burkett Says Lockhart Wanted Memos

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 9:46:13 pm PDT

According to Drudge Report, forgery suspect Bill Burkett now claims he was in touch with Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart: CONTROVERSIAL TEXAS RANCHER SAYS LOCKHART WANTED DOCUMENTS The source of a disputed CBSNEWS report claimed Thursday that Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart tried to “convince me as to why I should give them the ...

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Cycle of Violence

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 9:25:55 pm PDT

On the bike path this morning, the air was dirtier than I’ve seen it in a long time, hanging off the coast in three separate layers of brown grunge like a toxic chocolate wedding cake. Nonetheless, I did 40 miles at a medium pace, south to Malaga Cove, trying to ...

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NPR Reporter Gets Almost Everything Wrong

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 9:13:17 pm PDT

John Powers opines about the “fragmented media culture” that has spawned blogs with colorful names like “Little Green Apples:” Fresh Air: Friday - September 24, 2004.

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John Kerry's Record

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:46:29 pm PDT

Kerry smeared a hero: my dad.

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Cheney: "An Appalling Lack of Respect"

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:21:01 pm PDT

Cheney Blasts Kerry for Allawi Comments. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Notice how the Associated Press characterizes Allawi’s speech as “a rosy portrayal of progress toward peace,” with no indication at all that this is an editorial judgment, not a self-evident fact. AP’s ACME Scare Quote Generator™ must be on the fritz again. ST. ...

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The Party of Scare Tactics and Appeasement

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 6:00:14 pm PDT

At the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, Teresa Heinz Kerry told an adoring audience that she wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see Osama Bin Laden trotted out by the Bush administration before the elections: Heinz Kerry helps Democrats raise $1M at Phoenix event. In regard to the hunt for ...

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Daily Kos on Google News

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 4:56:13 pm PDT

One of the most malignant black holes of left-wing hatred and lunacy, Daily Kos, is being listed on the front page of Google News. The owner of Daily Kos, Markos Zuniga, is infamous for writing, shortly after the horrific murders of four American contractors in Fallujah: I feel nothing over the death ...

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John Kerry: A Disgrace

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 3:16:26 pm PDT

Shortly after Iraqi prime minister Allawi gave a stirring speech to Congress, John Kerry attacked him, implying that Allawi was lying. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that Iraq’s Ayad Allawi was sent before Congress to put the “best face” on Bush administration policy. Shortly after Allawi, ...

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Newsday Columnist Responds with More Smears

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 1:54:30 pm PDT

Danny Schechter of the far-left MediaChannel.org responds to my complaint about his dishonest smear column for Newsday with insults and epithets, and does not answer the charge or correct his erroneous statements: When the Right Attacks.

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Liberal Journalists Are From Mars

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 1:35:06 pm PDT

Cathy Seipp skewers the biased liberal media for their reaction to ... uh ... me: Liberal Journalists Are From Mars. One of the footnotes of Rathergate is the disconnect between liberals and anyone to the right of, well, them. Take the general media reaction to Charles Johnson, the Los Angeles web ...

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Spanish PM Wants Deeper Relations with Arabs

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 1:03:23 pm PDT

Spain’s appeasing socialist prime minister wants the United Nations to set up a group that will create an alliance of civilizations. The Spanish prime minister has called for an international effort to resolve cultural and religious differences between the Western and Muslim world. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said “an alliance of cultures” ...

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An "Extraordinarily Beautiful" Murderer

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:53:46 pm PDT

The female mass murderer who blew herself up yesterday in Israel was a children’s TV show hostess from a wealthy Arab family. The young 18-year-old female suicide terrorist, Zeinab Ali Isa Abu-Salem, who murdered two Israelis yesterday and wounded some 30 others, was none other than a children’s TV show hostess ...

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Contact CBS Affiliates

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 8:09:00 am PDT

Would you like to send an email to every CBS affiliate in the country, telling them what you think about CBS News’s attempt to use forged documents to influence a Presidential election? Well, at Rathergate, you can, with one click.

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VDH: The U.N.? Who Cares?

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:50:16 am PDT

At OpinionJournal, a must-read column by Victor Davis Hanson: The U.N.? Who Cares? These are surreal times. Americans in Iraq are beheaded on videotape. Russian children are machine-gunned in their schools. The elderly in Israel continue to be blown apart on buses. No one—whether in Madrid, Istanbul, Riyadh, Bali, Tel Aviv ...

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Staudt Speaks Out: "No Political Influence"

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:41:20 am PDT

Here’s an interview with retired Col. Walter “Buck” Staudt, whose name was used in the forged memo you see blinking at the top of this page: Staudt speaks out about Bush memo debacle. (Hat tip: Power Line.) Ever since he was named in a controversial memo CBS aired purporting to prove ...

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Who Knew?

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:26:24 am PDT

At the American Thinker, Clarice Feldman points out more curious coincidences in the Rathergate scandal, and asks the important question: Who Knew? An examination of the timeline of publicly-reported events leading up to the Rathergate scandal raises some interesting questions about possible as-yet unrevealed collusionamong Bill Burkett, members of the national ...

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CBS Evening News: Down 49%

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:21:29 am PDT

Rather’s ratings are circling the drain in New York. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) September 23, 2004 — Ratings for Dan Rather’s “CBS Evening News” have plummeted drastically in New York since the Bush-documents scandal broke wide open this week. The perennially third-place 6:30 p.m. newscast averaged 135,000 viewers on WCBS/Channel 2 Monday — ...

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Rove: Too Many Coincidences

Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 7:12:29 am PDT

Karl Rove gave an interview to the Washington Times yesterday and answered the DNC’s absurd, desperate accusations: Rove scoffs at charge he was CBS source. Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe has insinuated twice since CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired the charges on Sept. 8 that Mr. Rove or other Republicans might ...

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Blogging the Story Alive

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 8:47:49 pm PDT

Wired News, once the cutting edge of internet journalism, finally gets around to covering the Rathergate phenomenon: Blogging the Story Alive. I was clicking through cable TV channels the other night looking for something (anything) to watch when I came across two guys sparring over “Memogate.” Had CBS News’ twangy elder, ...

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The Verdict of Allah

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 6:43:22 pm PDT

Web Site Posting: 2 Italian Hostages Slain. CAIRO, Egypt - An Internet statement purportedly by a group which claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Iraq said Wednesday it had killed the women. The Web site posting could not be immediately verified. Also, the site used by the Islamic Jihad ...

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Mapes "Actively Working" on Memos Story

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 5:59:10 pm PDT

CBS News producer Mary Mapes is apparently still actively working on the Killian memos story. Designated Rathergate fallgal Mary Mapes is still on the job at the network’s formerly great news division, despite a deluge of leaks from CBS employees fingering her as the “60 Minutes” producer who dropped the ball ...

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My Teleprompter is Deadly

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 5:39:52 pm PDT

Iowahawk has created what may be his masterpiece: the Rathergate saga as hard-boiled dime novel, rushing at you like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist.... *** MY TELEPROMPTER IS DEADLY (Excerpts from the new Inspector Dan Rather Mystery by David Burge) It was a slow September night in Manhattan. The ...

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AP: Cat's Clean

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 5:10:56 pm PDT

Get a load of the headline on this AP story about Cat Stevens: Singer Cat Stevens Has No Terrorist Ties. (Hat tip: ben.) This is a quote from Cat Stevens’ brother. Shouldn’t there be quotation marks? And maybe an attribution, so that someone doesn’t read this as a fact instead of ...

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Ride on the Jihad Train

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:17:09 am PDT

Here’s an interesting tidbit I hadn’t seen before about Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, the former pop singer turned radical Islamist, being identified by mainstream media as a “peace activist” in dozens of articles suggesting that he was wrongly denied entry into the US: Singer Formerly Known as Cat Stevens on Watch ...

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Newsday Smears Bloggers with Lie

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:59:24 am PDT

Here’s an outrageous smear by Danny Schechter in Newsday that should be retracted: Eye on the Media. (Hat tip: Michele.) The right-wing attack machine works by personalizing issues and demonizing “enemies” with overheated language and cartoon-like characterizations. Osama “the evil doer” bin Laden gave way to Saddam “the butcher of Baghdad” ...

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Mainstream Media Will Investigate Self

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:30:57 am PDT

CBS Names Memo Probe Panel. (CBS/AP)CBS News on Wednesday named former Pennsylvania governor and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press president chief executive Louis D. Boccardi to an independent panel to probe a story about President Bush’s National Guard service. The network this week said documents cited in the ...

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Canadian Islamic Congress Calls for Alcohol Ban

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:05:29 am PDT

The Canadian Islamic Congress wants to ban alcohol from all college campuses in Canada—even for faculty: President of Islamic congress says campuses not a place for drinking. (Hat tip: Mar.) On the heels of a survey reporting student drinking levels as relatively under control, the Canadian Islamic Congress has released a ...

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A Call to Action

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 9:29:54 am PDT

LGF reader web1110 has written a very good letter you can use as a model, to send to your representatives about the serious implications of the CBS forgery affair. *** Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to you regarding the GW Bush National Guard story broadcast by CBS on 60 Minutes last ...

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Religion of Beheadings

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 9:17:58 am PDT

The evil murderers who saw off the heads of helpless prisoners in the name of Allah will not be appeased by the US: U.S. Says Won’t Bow to Demand of Kidnappers in Iraq. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With time running out to save a British hostage in Iraq, U.S. officials said on ...

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The James Moore Connection

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 8:49:45 am PDT

Normally I wouldn’t link to a site like Buzzflash, but here’s an article by James Moore, the ex-journalist/author of two deranged Bush-hating books who claims to have given the Burkett story to the Boston Globe, revealing once again how pitifully weak this story really is. Notice that almost every person ...

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Incompetent AND Unethical

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 8:10:51 am PDT

Ernest Miller has put together a comprehensive two-part analysis of CBS’s response to criticism of the Killian memo forgeries, appropriately titled: Incompetent AND Unethical: Part One. Making mistakes is one thing. Absurdly defending those mistakes, stonewalling and casting aspersions on those who make credible and legitimate criticism is another. When a ...

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Safire: First, Find the Forger

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 7:57:34 am PDT

The DNC is spinning wickedly, trying to minimize the effects of the CBS Killian memo scandal and relegate it to the nasty, but not too serious, realm of “dirty tricks”—who cares who did it, can’t we just move on? But since the earliest days of the scandal I’ve been writing that ...

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And Again

Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 7:22:00 am PDT

The Palestinian death cult has struck again in Israel: At least 1 killed in suicide bombing at French Hill intersection. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up Wednesday afternoon in at a bus stop in northern Jerusalem’s French Hill intersection. One person was killed; four were seriously wounded, and four others lightly ...

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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

I'm Being Followed by a Moonbat-Oh

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 9:25:03 pm PDT

Former peace-loving rock star turned radical Islamist Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam caused a plane to be diverted today when his name(s) turned up on a terror watch list: The Former Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted. (Hat tip: Andrew B.) WASHINGTON - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it ...

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Another Terror Toy in Florida

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 9:06:29 pm PDT

Another toy glorifying the 9/11 terror attacks has been discovered for sale in Central Florida: Cell Phone Toy Shows Picture Of Osama Bin Laden. (Hat tip: Bruce B.) KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Channel 9 has discovered another controversial toy. A local mother took a closer look at the toy and realized something ...

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First Arafat, Now ElBaradei

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 8:16:51 pm PDT

United Nations nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, the man who looks the other way while the Iranian mullahs build nukes, is a favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize this year: World Photos - Reuters. (Hat tip: Allah.) The secretive Nobel Committee met on Tuesday to pick the winner of the Nobel Peace ...

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"They Wanted It To Be True"

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 7:30:38 pm PDT

ABC News says that Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer responsible for trying to influence a Presidential election with forged documents, is on thin ice. John Carlson, a former commentator at KIRO-TV who is host of a conservative radio talk show in Seattle, remembers Mapes as a talented producer with whom ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 7:27:07 pm PDT

The Iranian mullahs are laughing at us: Khatami: Iran Will Pursue Nuclear Program. TEHRAN, Iran - President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday that Iran will continue a nuclear program some suspect is aimed at developing weapons, even if that means an end to U.N. oversight. Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, ...

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And In This Corner...

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 5:53:43 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Dan Rather: 98-Pound Weakling?

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 5:50:44 pm PDT

An interesting piece on the clash of old vs. new media, by Stephen Humphries at the Christian Science Monitor: Blogs look burly after kicking sand on CBS. Since the CBS furor, the blogging community has been showered with accolades in opinion pages and editorials. Still, it’s premature to start awarding Pulitzer ...

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President Speaks to United Nations

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 4:31:15 pm PDT

C-SPAN has the video of President Bush’s outstanding, tough speech at the United Nations today, in front of a very chilly audience of dictators’ cronies and bagmen. The White House has a transcript.

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The Spin Gets More Desperate

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 3:44:37 pm PDT

Here’s the latest desperate spin from the left, already being pushed on CNN by Terry McAuliffe (and immediately picked up and parroted by Smirky): The hot rumor in New York political circles has Roger Stone, the longtime GOP activist, as the source for Dan Rather’s dubious Texas Air National Guard “memos.” The ...

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A Bunch of Scruffy No-Names

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 3:20:41 pm PDT

Thanks to James P. Pinkerton at Newsday for giving me another excellent new quote for the LGF Magic Rotating Title Bar™: As Rather goes, so goes network news. So today, Rathergate is just so much foam on the surface. The deep current of our time is that the old networks have ...

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Lucy Ramirez is a Man

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 2:21:48 pm PDT

Don’t miss Roderick Boyd’s interview with Bill Burkett’s former lawyer, David Van Os—who reveals that Burkett is planning to sue CBS: Burkett Readying Suit Against Network. (Hat tip: Allah.) Mr.Van Os, the lawyer, said in a telephone interview with The New York Sun that his former client had “several meetings with ...

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Why Reuters Won't Say "Terrorist"

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 2:06:11 pm PDT

Reuters’ global managing editor has openly acknowledged that Arab intimidation influences his agency’s news coverage. HonestReporting has the story: Reuters Admits Appeasing Terrorists. As Islamic terror continues to spread worldwide, one major news outlet decided that enough is enough—it’s time to call terrorism by its name. CanWest, owners of Canada’s largest ...

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Religion of Slaughter

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 1:54:52 pm PDT

The holy warriors have slaughtered yet another helpless, bound hostage in the name of Allah: Web Site: 2nd U.S. Hostage Killed in Iraq. The new posting followed the passing of the militants’ 24-hour deadline for the release of all Iraqi women from U.S. custody, and after anguished relatives in the United ...

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Killian Family: CBS Owes Us an Apology

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 1:10:21 pm PDT

The family of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian is justifiably angry at CBS: Commander’s family calls for CBS apology for flawed report. FORT WORTH, Texas - (KRT) - The son of a late commander in the Texas Air National Guard said Monday that CBS owes his family an apology for ...

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The Lucy Ramirez Connection

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 7:51:49 am PDT

Who is Lucy Ramirez? In earlier conversations with USA TODAY, Burkett had identified the source of the documents as George Conn, a former Texas National Guard colleague who works for the U.S. Army in Europe. Burkett now says he made up the story about Conn’s involvement to divert attention from himself ...

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Modified Limited Hangout

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 7:22:47 am PDT

The Wall Street Journal says the CBS memo scandal is looking more and more like a partisan dirty trick: Modified Limited Hangout. The problem in this case is that before yesterday CBS never gave its viewers even a hint that its entire controversial story hinged on the word of someone who ...

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Dan in Denial

Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 7:03:39 am PDT

At the New York Post, John Podhoretz says Dan Rather’s plea that CBS was “misled” is hopelessly inadequate: Dan in Denial. September 21, 2004 — CBS and Dan Rather now want us to believe they were “misled.” And it’s likely they were misled in the days and hours before they aired ...

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Monday, September 20, 2004

Moonbattus Berkeleyensis

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 8:31:32 pm PDT

LGF operative zombie infiltrates and observes the curious rituals of the “How Berkeley Can You Be?” Parade.

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File Creation Date May Provide a Clue

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 6:30:43 pm PDT

LGF reader “adie” has a very interesting point about the Adobe Acrobat file creation date of one of the memos. One of the memo files I checked had an internal Acrobat file creation date of 2/6/04. If anyone’s going to check for computer sales/returns, check February and look for an HP ...

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Kerry Aide Talked to Retired Guard Officer

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 6:01:10 pm PDT

The first possible connection of the forged CBS memos to the Kerry campaign: Kerry Aide Talked to Retired Guard Officer. NEW YORK - At the behest of CBS, an adviser to John Kerry said he talked to a central figure in the controversy over President Bush’s National Guard service shortly before ...

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Blogs Got Hits, CBS Got a Black Eye

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 5:20:53 pm PDT

Howard Kurtz may have read my comments from last Saturday; in today’s article for the Washington Post he’s the first journalist to report what I’ve told all of them: After Blogs Got Hits, CBS Got a Black Eye. Were the bloggers politically motivated? Charles Johnson says he’s a lifelong Democrat who ...

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They Call Him "Flipper"

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 4:34:17 pm PDT

John Kerry now says he would not have ousted Saddam Hussein. (Hat tip: mattvatl.) NEW YORK (AP) - Staking out new ground on Iraq, Sen. John Kerry said Monday he would not have overthrown Saddam Hussein had he been in the White House, and he accused President Bush of “stubborn incompetence,” ...

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LGF: Massive Verbiage

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 4:16:43 pm PDT

A couple of interesting statistics: Total number of entries (front page posts) at LGF: 12,552 Total number of comments: 987,891 That’s right, we’re approaching a million comments.

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DNC Still Quotes Forged Memos

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 4:07:09 pm PDT

Hours after Dan Rather’s statement, the DNC web site still cites the forged Killian memos: DNC News: Bush Lied. (Hat tip: Barak Moore.)

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Daily Kos Calls for LGF to Be Shut Down (Again)

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 3:22:02 pm PDT

The moonbats at Daily Kos are frothing mad, after being exposed as liars and hacks for trying to promote the forged CBS memos as genuine, and they’re saying mean things about us again. But that’s OK! One look at Jack the basset hound and all’s right with the world. UPDATE at 9/20/04 ...

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Religion of Beheadings

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 3:04:51 pm PDT

The brave mujahideen in Iraq have slaughtered another helpless hostage: Video on Web Site Shows Beheading of Man. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed ...

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LGF on Dennis Prager

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:23:12 am PDT

I’m just about to speak with Dennis Prager on his radio show...

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CBS: "Without Favoritism"

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:03:41 am PDT

An LGF reader has forwarded several highly revealing photographs of a CBS News van—with anti-Bush material proudly displayed in its front window. Here’s what he wrote: Some friends and I were up at CBS yesterday afternoon taking some funny pictures for our website when a CBS News van pulled up with ...

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CBS: The Source Was Burkett

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 9:40:28 am PDT

CBS News is pinning the fraudulent documents on Bill Burkett: CBS Regrets Bush Memos Story. In a statement, CBS said former Texas Guard official Bill Burkett “has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents” and “admits that he deliberately misled the CBS News producer working on the report, giving her a ...

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Rather Retraction: More Obfuscation

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 9:29:58 am PDT

Drudge Report has Dan Rather’s “retraction:” Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY story about President Bush’s time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents in question—and their source—vigorously. And we promised that we ...

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Hastert: Al Qaeda Wants Kerry to Win

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 9:20:22 am PDT

House Speaker Dennis Hastert tells it like it is, causing the DNC to whine furiously: Hastert’s al Qaeda comment draws fire. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Top Democrats slapped back Sunday at a remark by House Speaker Dennis Hastert that al Qaeda leaders want Sen. John Kerry to beat President Bush in November. At ...

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CBS News Has an Evil Twin

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 8:43:48 am PDT

CBS News is breaking the story of CBS News breaking a story with phony documents, in a schizophrenic third-person release on their web site: CBS Plans New Memos Statement. (CBS/AP)CBS News planned Monday to issue a statement about documents purporting to show President Bush neglected some duties when he was in ...

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Good News for Bush in New Hampshire

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 8:33:47 am PDT

A new poll shows the President with a substantial lead in New Hampshire: Poll: President ahead in NH. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) A new poll puts President Bush ahead of Democrat John Kerry in the swing state of New Hampshire. The Mason-Dixon poll for MSNBC and Knight-Ridder has Bush at 49 percent ...

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Israel's Unexpected Victory

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 8:30:08 am PDT

An excellent essay by Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren explains how Ariel Sharon beat the intifada, and what America can learn from the painful experience: Israel’s unexpected victory over terrorism. The price Israel has paid for its victory has been sobering. Arafat may be a pariah, but Israel is ...

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NYT: Memos Fake, Smear Goes Forward

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 6:44:54 am PDT

On the same day they report that CBS News is going to admit pushing fake documents in an attempt to influence the election, the New York Times does their best to prop up the CBS line that the documents reveal “essential truths,” even though they’re as phony as three dollar ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 6:37:32 am PDT

After 11 days of stonewalling, lying, and shameful exploitation of bogus “experts” to bolster their lies, CBS News is now planning to climb down off the ledge: CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say. After days of expressing confidence about the documents used in a ...

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Sunday, September 19, 2004

French Perfidy Watch

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 7:33:02 pm PDT

The Italian businessman who produced forged documents about Saddam’s plans to buy uranium from Niger was working for France: Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France. The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents ...

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Rather Wants to Break the Forgery Story

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 7:00:26 pm PDT

Drudge reports that Dan Rather has interviewed Killian memo forgery suspect Bill Burkett; unclear if the interview will appear on 60 Minutes tonight. CBS to Air Interview With Suspected Source of Bush Guard Memos CBS Rather has interviewed retired lieutenant colonel Bill Burkett widely believed to have provided disputed National Guard documents. ...

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Moonbats Keep Digging, Howling

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 5:33:58 pm PDT

Would you believe there are still some hold-outs trying to argue that the forged CBS Killian memos are genuine? (If you call this “arguing.”) David Niewert is a “free-lance journalist” in Seattle, and he makes one of the most curious claims yet: You can create a nearly identical copy with MS ...

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Gallery of Bush=Hitler Allusions

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 4:16:45 pm PDT

How bad has the fever swamp left gotten? Do we exaggerate the severity of their Bush Derangement Syndrome? Visit Rob Hinkley’s Gallery of ‘Bush = Hitler’ Allusions and you’ll see that we’ve probably been too easy on them. (Hat tip: Dave Ray.)

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Nine Innings

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 4:09:24 pm PDT

Nine Innings from Ground Zero. (Hat tip: J.D.)

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The Paper Trail

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 3:40:18 pm PDT

The Washington Post puts their artists to work and comes up with a reasonably competent timeline and Paper Trail, comparing the CBS Killian memos to authentic TANG documents from the same era.

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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 1:58:03 pm PDT

Palestinians surround a destroyed car after it was hit by a missile in Gaza, September 19, 2004. A senior leader of Hamas’s military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car as it drove through a Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed ...

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Mainstream Media Smear Continues

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 1:45:57 pm PDT

Howard Witt at the Chicago Tribune published a story about Rathergate today with the headline: True or false: Blogs always tell it straight. It’s not the worst article I’ve seen about the scandal, he quotes me accurately, and the headline is more than fair, although the article also indulges in ...

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Outrage of the Day

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 1:15:56 pm PDT

John Kerry’s sister has gone to Australia, to tell the Australian people that the Howard government’s alliance with the Bush administration is putting them in danger. (Hat tip: Captain’s Quarters.) This is certainly a new low for the Kerryites—undermining our alliances in the Iraq War while the war is going on, ...

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Viacom CEO Dumps $12 Million Worth of Stock Options

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:41:08 pm PDT

On Tuesday, September 14, following Dan Rather’s defiant appearance on the CBS Evening News the night before, Chairman and CEO of Viacom Corporation Sumner Redstone exercised his option to sell 341,500 shares of Viacom stock. (Hat tip: Precise Truth.)

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Kerry Media Question Watch

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:52:10 am PDT

LGF reader Marla suggests another thing we should watch—the number of days since John Kerry has answered questions from the media (The Daily Show and MTV don’t count): 48

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Medals, Ribbons, and Symbols

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:22:56 am PDT

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth released a new advertisement last week, focused on John Kerry’s duplicitous medal-tossing show in 1971; if you haven’t seen it already, here it is.

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Who's Spinning the Left-Wing Blogosphere?

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 9:55:27 am PDT

With the new spin coming from lefty bloggers and some newspapers that “the White House” is somehow responsible for the debunking of the Killian memos, and that there are GOP operatives feeding info to “right-wing” blogs, here’s a post by young matthew at Crooked Timber that explicitly tells us the ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 9:36:23 am PDT

Responding to another toothless UN resolution calling for the mullahs to stop enriching uranium for use in atomic weapons, Iran tells the UN to quit bothering them or they’ll call off the UN’s blindfolded inspections: Iran Rejects UN Call for Uranium Enrichment Freeze. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran rejected Sunday a U.N. ...

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The Secretive Muslim Brotherhood

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 9:23:40 am PDT

The Chicago Tribune has published a number of pieces whitewashing the extent of radical Islam’s infiltration of America, and we’ve criticized them many times for it. But today they almost make up for it (and for their constant apologies for Palestinian terrorism) with an excellent, in-depth, very troubling report on the ...

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Thought for the Day

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 9:04:43 am PDT

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” —Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

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How CBS Blew It

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 8:38:45 am PDT

The journalism enthusiasts at the Washington Post have a reasonably competent account of CBS News’s disastrous, politically motivated rush to get the forged Killian memos on the air despite warnings from their experts: In Rush to Air, CBS Quashed Memo Worries. (The Post has obviously decided that the blogosphere’s contribution ...

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Spinning in Two Directions At Once

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 8:15:03 am PDT

The desperate delusion that the debunking of the CBS Killian memos was somehow started by “the White House” is taking hold in the fever swamps of the left; here’s the latest example: Spinning the blogosphere. (Hat tip: Molly.) It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know quite what happened, but it seems highly ...

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Too Sexy for Their Hooves

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 7:44:34 am PDT

In Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to leave their homes without covering every inch of skin, they held a beauty pageant recently. For goats: Guess Who’s On the Catwalk. (Hat tip: GoatGuy, always on the lookout for goat news.) RIYADH, 19 September 2004 — Goat fanciers turned out in force ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 6:54:41 am PDT

Number of days since CBS broadcast the Killian memos without adequate explanation or verification of originals: 10

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Saturday, September 18, 2004

The Left's Spin Gets Weaker

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 9:29:55 pm PDT

At The Washington Monthly, Peter Principle blogger Kevin Drum just can’t understand what all the fuss is about. THE REAL STORY....If I’ve counted correctly, Instapundit has posted 65 separate items about Dan Rather this week — and that’s not counting either the endless updates or the fact that he slowed down ...

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Real Time Fact Checking

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 5:40:56 pm PDT

The Washington Post gets fact-checked in real time, trying to claim credit for breaking the Rathergate story. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)

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Composer Theory in Advanced State of Decomposition

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 5:24:27 pm PDT

Here’s an email forwarded to me by Dr. Joseph Newcomer, from Dean Speir of TheGunZone.com. Mr. Speir has been in the graphic arts field for 33 years, and owned an IBM Selectric Composer—the high-end, expensive typewriter some have tried to argue may have created the CBS Killian memos. Speir’s verdict: ...

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Discipline, Islamic Style

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 5:16:15 pm PDT

Teacher chops off ears of 17 students in Bangladesh. Dhaka, Sep 16 (IANS) A teacher in a madrassa in northern Bangladesh cut off the ears of 17 children with a pair of scissors because they were not reading their textbooks loudly. Angry parents and guardians caught the teacher, Moulana Abdul Majid, from ...

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CBS Timeline Compression

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 4:52:19 pm PDT

CBS News claimed that they examined the Killian memos for six weeks. This may have been another tall tale. New evidence buried in a Los Angeles Times article suggests CBS had the memos for only a few days before releasing them. Allah has the now greatly compressed timeline.

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WaPo Compares Genuine Memo with Forgery

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 3:40:01 pm PDT

The Washington Post compares a genuine typewritten memo signed by Jerry Killian with one of the CBS forgeries: Differences in Documents. I’m no handwriting expert, but there are some very obvious differences in the two signatures that the Washington Post does not point out. Notice the top right bar of ...

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Burkett: I Contacted Kerry Campaign

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 3:18:23 pm PDT

The weasels are starting to snap at each other: Ex-Guardsman: I Contacted Kerry Campaign. AUSTIN, Texas - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush’s service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry’s ...

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Mainstream Media Gets Their Smear On

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 2:25:19 pm PDT

The inept LA Times effort to smear bloggers—GOP Activist Made Allegations on CBS Memos—has now been picked up and promoted by Editor and Publisher, with a really dumb title: ‘I Am Buckhead’: Newspaper Exposes Blog Folk Hero. “Folk hero?” Please. His identity, the Times says, “is likely to fuel speculation among ...

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President Questions CBS Memos

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:47:42 pm PDT

President Bush is in it now: Bush Raises Questions About CBS Documents. KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (Reuters) - President Bush questioned the authenticity of documents aired by CBS News that said he received special treatment during his Vietnam-era service in the National Guard, according to a Bush interview published on Saturday. “There are a ...

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LA Times Slimes Buckhead, Bloggers

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 8:21:11 am PDT

This is why we call it the Los Angeles Slimes: GOP Activist Made Allegations on CBS Memos. While bloggers and some conservative activists have hailed Buckhead as a hero in their longtime effort to paint the mainstream media as politically biased, some Democrats and even some conservative bloggers have marveled at ...

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Why the Stone Wall?

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 7:49:38 am PDT

Mark Steyn writes that CBS’s defense of Rather hints at a bigger story. Why has CBS News decided it would rather debauch its brand and treat its audience like morons than simply admit their hoax? For Dan Rather? I doubt it. Hurricane Dan looks like he’s been hit by one. He’s ...

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Burkett Contacted Cleland

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 7:46:25 am PDT

The Washington Post has details on the chief suspect in the CBS Killian memo forgeries: Parallels Drawn Between CBS Memos, Texan’s Postings. The former Texas National Guard officer suspected of providing CBS News with possibly forged records on President Bush’s military service called on Democratic activists to wage “war” against Republican ...

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Powell Aide in Taiwan Spy Storm

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 7:39:26 am PDT

An important story of corruption and possible espionage at the highest level of the State Department: Powell aide in Taiwan spy storm. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Donald Keyser, who retired in July as principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was followed on September 4 by Federal Bureau of ...

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What Blogs Have Wrought

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 7:12:04 am PDT

Here’s a very good account of the breaking of Rathergate, by Jonathan V. Last at the Weekly Standard: What Blogs Have Wrought. Lefty bloggers like Matthew Yglesias come off as pedantic, ungracious buffoons: Aside from technological advantages, there seems to be an ideological divide at work, too. The political blog world ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 6:42:59 am PDT

Number of days since CBS broadcast the Killian memos without adequate explanation or verification of originals: 9

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Friday, September 17, 2004

The UN Is Watching

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 8:13:53 pm PDT

If this doesn’t send a prescient chill down your spine, you must still be harboring illusions about the legitimacy of Kofi Annan’s United Nations: Independent Election Observer Team Arrives in U.S.

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DC PR Firm Replies

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 7:43:22 pm PDT

Public relations firm Creative Response Concepts replies to our post from earlier today: Press Room - crc4pr.com. CRC President Greg Mueller released the following statement: “Please understand, we never meant to imply that the blogosphere is something we did, or even could, control or direct.No one controls the bloggers. The extraordinary depth ...

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The Many Obstacles of Being Behind

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 6:14:38 pm PDT

A laugh-out-loud, incredibly twisty, tortured Freudian Slip of a headline from an Old Grey Lady that just really ... doesn’t ... want to ... admit it: Kerry Trails Bush by 8 Points in New Poll and Faces Obstacles. (Hat tip: ted.) UPDATE at 9/17/04 8:18:29 pm: They’re still trying to figure out ...

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CBS: Perpetuating the Lie

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 5:54:09 pm PDT

LGF reader Geoffrey MacPherson makes a very good point: I would have thought that anyone at CBS with any sense of how to run a business would have taken the approach of how the Tylenol poisoning disaster was handled. To this day Tylenol remains an industry leader. They did it ...

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Word 5 vs. Word 2004

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 5:36:40 pm PDT

LGF reader Terrell Gibbs emailed another terrific example, demonstrating again the indisputable uniqueness of the “font fingerprint” of the modern versions of Microsoft Word and the Times New Roman font. Here is Terrell’s description of his experiment, followed by the overlaid examples: *** One thing that I’ve noticed in the debate is ...

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Europe Will Be Islamic by the End of the Century

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 5:25:17 pm PDT

Robert Spencer quotes Bernard Lewis in an article about disturbing developments in Europe: “Europe Will Be Islamic by the End of the Century.” How quickly is Europe being Islamized? So quickly that even historian Bernard Lewis, who has continued throughout his honor-laden career to be strangely disingenuous about certain realities of ...

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Kerry Reveals Troop Call-Up Plan

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 2:43:36 pm PDT

Today John Kerry revealed what he says are secret plans for sending troops to Iraq. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Friday accused the Bush administration of hiding a plan to mobilize more National Guard and reserve troops after the election while glossing over a worsening conflict in ...

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DC PR Firm Claims Credit for Rathergate

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 2:19:58 pm PDT

Here’s a story at PRWeek claiming that a DC right-wing PR firm was instrumental in “driving” the CBS Killian memo story, and that they were “in touch with bloggers:” Two DC firms ramp up efforts over latest presidential controversies. (Hat tip: Mike.) WASHINGTON: Two DC PR agencies eagerly fanned the flames ...

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CBS Expert Has "Lots More Documents"

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 1:38:50 pm PDT

Kerry Spot has an email from Garry Moon, columnist for the Athens, Ga. Banner-Herald, about James J. Pierce—CBS’s latest expert, identified Wednesday night as having verified their Killian memos: I called Pierce at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday night. I told him I was with the Athens Banner-Herald newspaper, doing a piece ...

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Staudt Denies Pressuring Anyone

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 1:18:20 pm PDT

Retired Colonel Walter “Buck” Staudt, cited in the forged memo you can see at the top of this page as having “pressured Hodges” to help George W. Bush, has come forward—and he says he never pressured Hodges, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian or anyone else, because he had no reason to: ...

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CBS Memos: No Typist's Initials?

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 1:10:05 pm PDT

New LGF reader David Mehl has another interesting observation about the forged CBS Killian memos, that has nothing to do with fonts or computers. He sent an email to typography expert Joseph M. Newcomer, and gave me permission to publish it here: *** Joseph (Flounder), Thanks for your clear analysis of CBS’s so-called ...

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Daily Reading: Belmont Club

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:35:14 pm PDT

At Belmont Club, an excellent analysis of the current situation in Iraq. (And a good answer to a strange Andrew Sullivan hypothesis.)

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Fake But Accurate

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:49:00 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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FindLaw Adds Disclaimer to CBS Documents

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:10:10 am PDT

I just received an email from the FindLaw.com Legal News Team, to let me know they have added a disclaimer to their index of the CBS Killian memos: Special Coverage: Election 2004: Documents. Please note: the authenticity of the following four (4) documents contained in this table is currently in dispute. ...

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Union Apologizes for Assault on 3-Year Old

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:01:17 am PDT

The president of The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades has issued an apology for the thuggish behavior of one of their members, who terrorized a three-year old girl yesterday at a rally for John Edwards: IUPAT: News & Events. (Hat tip: H.D. Miller.) The International Union of Painters and ...

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Kerry Fans vs. 3-Year Old, Part 2

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 9:03:41 am PDT

In a typically vulgar and hate-filled message thread in the left wing fever swamp (Democratic Underground sector), the claim is made that this AP photograph of a three-year old girl being assaulted by Kerry supporters was “staged” by a “serial disrupter,” and that the thug in the union shirt is ...

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Eye Wide Shut

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 8:49:04 am PDT

The Chicago Tribune denounces CBS News: Eye wide shut. The president of CBS News now says the network will “redouble its efforts” to investigate the documents. The time to do that was before the story aired. And some journalists wonder why many Americans think we’re biased, arrogant and inaccurate. The burden ...

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El Pais Apologizes for 9/11 Ad

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 8:39:18 am PDT

On Wednesday we had the story of an ugly advertisement for Spain’s El Pais newspaper, using images of 9/11. Today, Southern Watch has a translation of El Pais’s very sincere-sounding apology. EL PAIS apologizes for the use of the images of the terrorist attack against the Twin Towers in New York, which ...

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CBS "Source": A Well-Established BDS Sufferer

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 7:41:04 am PDT

Bush Derangement Syndrome is a serious mental illness. Those afflicted with BDS become unable to relate to the real world, make increasingly bizarre pronouncements, and may even resort to strange plots and schemes to act out their paranoid fantasies: Memos’ possible source attacked Bush in past. If Burkett does prove to ...

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Andy Rooney: Memos Are Fake

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 7:18:39 am PDT

Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes colleague says the CBS Killian memos are fakes: Rooney’d rather CBS fessed up. (Hat tip: Paul.) CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney indicated yesterday he believes the controversial documents on President Bush’s National Guard service are fake and said it could cost Dan Rather down the road. “I’m surprised at ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 7:03:05 am PDT

Number of days since CBS broadcast the Killian memos without adequate explanation or verification of originals: 8

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Thursday, September 16, 2004

Kerry Fans Terrorize 3-Year Old

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:30:43 pm PDT

Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder) (Hat tip: LSD.)

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Iraq War Allies Lash Out at Kofi

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:18:35 pm PDT

Another good story submerged during Rathergate: Kofi Annan has managed to greatly irritate the nations of the Iraq War coalition, with yet another amazingly ill-considered statement—almost as dumb as some of the things John Kerry has said: Iraq war allies lash out at Annan. Mr Annan said in an interview with ...

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FindLaw Indexes CBS Forgeries

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:05:03 pm PDT

I know we have a lot of readers who are of the legal persuasion, although I somehow managed to avoid law school myself. I was surprised to discover (via reader JohnAnnArbor) that FindLaw.com, one of the foremost sources for legal information on the web (and a site I have used ...

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Fahrenheit 9/11 Debuts in Tehran

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 6:53:08 pm PDT

Last week, in the era before Rathergate, several readers emailed this incredibly revealing story about the Tehran premiere of Michael Moore’s agitprop mockumentary. In a nation that really feels the dictator’s boot on its neck, the audience knows, with the certain knowledge of the oppressed, why their oppressor is allowing them ...

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Good News for the President

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 6:41:33 pm PDT

The latest Presidential Tracking Poll at Rasmussen Reports shows President Bush ahead of John Kerry by 4%: Thursday September 16, 2004—The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 49% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 45%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Today’s ...

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Joseph M. Newcomer's Proof

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 5:40:22 pm PDT

Once again for our new visitors, here is Joseph M. Newcomer’s exhaustive technical analysis of the many serious problems in the CBS Killian memos, recently updated.

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A Message from the Borders Union Web Site

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 4:13:12 pm PDT

The Borders employee’s union forum has pulled down the thread where employees discuss hiding and damaging copies of Unfit for Command, and posted the following snippy message to the blogosphere: Dear visitors from the blogosphere: Thank you for your interest in the Borders Union web site. Please be aware that it is ...

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The Lies of the Left, Exposed

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 3:59:02 pm PDT

Now that every font, typography, computer, and typewriter expert in the entire Western hemisphere has pronounced the CBS Killian memos fakes, frauds, forgeries, and phonies, it’s interesting to revisit this long, 100% wrong post at Daily “Screw Them” Kos, which heavily influenced CBS’s attempted spin. I find it very difficult ...

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Thanks for Your Support

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 2:57:09 pm PDT

A very sincere thank you to all those who have hit the LGF tip jar in the last few days! Your support makes it possible to continue running, maintaining, and updating the site, and I’m very grateful. Donate through Amazon. Donate through PayPal. UPDATE at 9/16/04 3:14:59 pm: By the way, you may have ...

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The Pajama Game

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 2:48:24 pm PDT

The opening lyrics from Doris Day’s 1957 film, The Pajama Game. (Hat tip: peaceable.) The Pajama Game Is the game I’m in. And I’m proud to be In The Pajama Game I love it. I can hardly wait to wake And get to work at ...

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The Return of the Smoking Memo

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 1:39:55 pm PDT

I keep getting emails from people saying things like, “Hey! Where’s that graphic they told me about! I can’t find it!” So, even though I know LGF regulars are probably having bad dreams about this animation by now, once again here’s our image that alternates between the PDF version of the ...

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MoveOn Hits Bottom, Digs

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 1:25:00 pm PDT

The latest release from the oh-so-patriotic folks at MoveOn.org prominently features a defeated US soldier, in an advertisement advocating surrender. NEW MOVEON.ORG AD SHOWS DEFEATED U.S. SOLDIER NARRATOR: “George Bush misled us into war with Iraq, sending poorly equipped soldiers into battle. He said ‘Mission Accomplished,’ yet almost every day more soldiers ...

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CBS: Nothing Up My Sleeve!

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 8:41:14 am PDT

Last night’s performance by Dan Rather and 60 Minutes was a pathetic vaudeville. They admitted in the first few minutes that their “Killian memos” were frauds—then, with absolute contempt for the intelligence of their viewers, spent the rest of the segment trying to convince us that it didn’t matter, digging ...

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The Holy Kidnappers of Iraq

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 8:11:44 am PDT

The head-chopping holy warriors in Iraq have kidnapped two more Americans and a Brit: Three foreigners seized in Iraq. (Hat tip: Thom.) A Briton and two US nationals working in Iraq have been abducted in Baghdad. The Iraqi Interior Ministry said gunmen seized the men at dawn from a house in the ...

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Dead ... But Lifelike!

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 8:04:16 am PDT

James Lileks, as usual, gets it exactly right: The whole “fake but accurate” line shows how tone-deaf these people are; it’s like saying a body in a pine box is “dead but lifelike.” It boggles, it really does: the story is true, the evidence is faked, but the evidence reflects the ...

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Happy Rosh Hashanah

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:43:33 am PDT

To all our Jewish readers: best wishes for a very happy Rosh Hashanah. L’shanah tovah!

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Statement by Typography Expert Joseph Newcomer

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:37:01 am PDT

Joseph M. Newcomer, whose exhaustive technical analysis of problems in the CBS Killian memos demonstrates the forgery beyond a shadow of doubt, has asked me to post his statement on the issue: *** I’ve gotten the requisite amount of hate mail. I just want to make my position clear. I do not like ...

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Globe Reporter Stars in Kerry Film

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:19:32 am PDT

Remember Michael Kranish, the Boston Globe reporter who is one of the Kerry campaign’s prime boosters in the media, and whose name mysteriously disappeared from the official Kerry campaign book sometime during the publication process? Well, look who’s starring in a new film about John Kerry’s Vietnam service: Going Upriver: The ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 7:02:18 am PDT

Number of days since CBS broadcast the Killian memos without adequate explanation or verification of originals: 7

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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Rather in Rocket Skate Mishap!

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 9:28:50 pm PDT

Breaking news from the always reliable Iowahawk wire service: RATHER BLAMES ROVE IN ROCKET-SKATE MISHAP NEW YORK - Veteran anchorman Dan Rather implicated White House Political Director Karl Rove as “the mastermind behind the so-called Acme Group” after his rocket-powered roller skates exploded during a Wednesday CBS Evening News investigative report. Rather had ...

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The False Flag Theory

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 8:49:04 pm PDT

The latest excuse/theory/fever dream being floated by various DNC operatives is that the CBS Killian memos may have been planted by Republicans, trying to discredit CBS News and/or the Kerry campaign. But really. Think about it. You’re the evil Karl Rove, nefarious mastermind behind the Bushitler hegemony. You’ve hatched a diabolical ...

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The Abilene Connection

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 8:06:31 pm PDT

The Abilene connection. ~10:41pm~ EST JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH ABILENE KINKOS: Bill Burkett has a standing account with the Kinkos in Abilene Texas, and while the lady who answered the phone would not be more specific she did say Burkett was in there last week - she waited on him ...

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Memos Traced to Kinko's in Texas!

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 7:10:42 pm PDT

Now at Drudge Report. CBS Guard Documents Traced to Texas Kinko’s... WASH POST: Documents allegedly written by deceased officer that raised questions about Bush’s service with Texas National Guard bore markings showing they had been faxed to CBS News from a Kinko’s copy shop in Abilene, Texas... Developing... UPDATE at 9/15/04 7:37:26 ...

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The Smoking Memo (Revisited Yet Again)

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 6:45:22 pm PDT

I know the regulars are getting tired of this flashing graphic, but there are still plenty of people coming here from various sources wanting to see it for the first time; so once again here’s our animation, alternating between the PDF version of the Microsoft Word document I created, and ...

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"What Difference Would it Make?"

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 6:19:19 pm PDT

Please note this paragraph in the New York Times “Fake ... But Accurate” article, quoting David Van Os, the lawyer for Bill Burkett—one of the prime suspects in the memo forgeries: Asked what role Mr. Burkett had in raising questions about Mr. Bush’s military service, Mr. Van Os said: “If, hypothetically, ...

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CBS Statement to Affiliates

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 5:33:37 pm PDT

While CBS continues to treat the viewing public like idiots, they’ve sent a much more detailed statement to their affiliate stations. An undercover lizardoid operative has forwarded the statement to me: September 15, 2004 MARION CARR KNOX, SECRETARY OF LT. COL. JERRY KILLIAN, TO APPEAR ON “60 MINUTES” TONIGHT IN FIRST TELEVISION ...

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Help Josh Find a Catch Phrase

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 4:02:40 pm PDT

Josh Marshall has figured out what John Kerry needs to prop up his sagging poll numbers. A really cool catch phrase. Or catch question. Or maybe a catcher’s mitt? Kerry needs a catch phrase or catch question about the Iraq war, one that provides offense against President Bush’s oft-stated, extremely lame, but also ...

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Parker: Bloggers Knew!

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 3:43:41 pm PDT

There’ve been so many articles about Rathergate it’s getting difficult to read them all, but Kathleen Parker’s is another good one: Bloggers knew!

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CBS Stonewalls Again

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 3:31:31 pm PDT

Drudge has the latest CBS statement. Statement by the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward: “We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said ...

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Real Killian Memo Praises Bush

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 3:08:23 pm PDT

A genuine typewritten document from 1970 signed by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian lavishes praise on George W. Bush: Military Payroll Records of 1st Lt. George W. Bush. Lt Bush is a dynamic outstanding young officer. He clearly stands out as a top notch fighter interceptor pilot. Lt Bush is possessed of ...

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Spain's Main Newspaper Celebrates 9/11

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 2:47:01 pm PDT

Spain’s El Pais ran an advertisement for their online version, featuring two photos of the Manhattan skyline—one with the World Trade Center towers, and one without. The caption: “You can do a lot in one single day; just imagine what can happen in three months.” Barcepundit has a picture of this loathsome ...

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Rather Blathers

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 1:48:32 pm PDT

The New York Observer interviews Dan Rather. Read it all; the elitist arrogance is stunning: Dan Rather To Bush: Answer The Questions. (Hat tip: Kerry Spot.) The part that made me laugh out loud: Mr. Rather said that the focus on questions over the veracity of the memos was a smoke screen ...

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Borders Employees Hiding "Unfit for Command"

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:15:54 am PDT

This will blow your mind, as employees of Borders bookstores openly discuss hiding, damaging, returning, and otherwise making unavailable copies of Unfit For Command, and mock customers who ask to buy it. (Hat tip: Yehudit.) I’ve made a copy of this discussion, because I fully expect it to disappear soon. You guys ...

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The Smoking Memo (Revisited Again)

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 9:47:17 am PDT

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Vatican: "We Have Entered the Fourth World War"

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 9:38:13 am PDT

An amazing acknowledgment from a leading Vatican official: Cardinal: Terrorism is the fourth world war. (Hat tip: Faith Freedom International.) “We have entered the Fourth World War,” said Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace, saying he believed that the Cold War was World War 3. ...

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CBS Statement on the Way

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 9:16:01 am PDT

CBS’s new statement about their use of forged documents is set to be released any minute. Bob Schieffer has already spoken about it this morning, and it’s clear that they’re still planning to insist these obvious fakes are genuine, pleading that to really “prove” it they would have to reveal ...

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CBS Stands By Imperial Wardrobe Claims

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 9:06:25 am PDT

Rand Simberg has the scoop on another CBS stonewall! CBS Stands By Imperial Wardrobe Claims. NEW YORK (APUPI) In the face of rising, even overwhelming skepticism, Dan Rather and CBS News refuse to back down from his blockbuster story that the Emperor wore a new set of clothes in last week’s ...

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The Sound of Silence

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 8:56:31 am PDT

So what does the European press have to say about the CBS forged memo scandal? < ... sound of crickets ... wind rushing through trees ... >

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When Political Hacks Attack

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 8:39:48 am PDT

If anyone is still wondering where the Boston Globe stands, a raving example of Bush Derangement Syndrome is featured prominently today on their op-ed pages: Kerry must ‘reframe’ Bush — and fast. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) For Kerry and for Democrats, the frustrating reality is that everything important about George Bush ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 8:34:32 am PDT

Number of days since CBS broadcast the Killian memos without adequate explanation or verification of originals: 6 (This should have gone up last night, but I couldn’t post it because of the insane traffic. Our host company, Hosting Matters, has now tweaked LGF’s server settings so that we’re humming along nicely with ...

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Blogs Take Lead Role

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 8:21:41 am PDT

Here’s a very good piece by Ed Carson at Investor’s Business Daily on the emergence of the new media: Blogs Take Lead Role In CBS Memo Furor. Detractors say blogs are unedited and exist in a self-created universe of like-minded bloggers and readers where disagreeable facts and opinions don’t enter. Rumors ...

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LA Times Tosses Marshmallows at Rather

Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 7:55:00 am PDT

A puff piece at the Los Angeles Times about Rathergate goes on and on about Dan Rather’s integrity and ethics, then reveals that CBS News is still planning to stonewall: Rather Rides Out Latest Partisan Storm. In the week since the Sept. 8 report on the newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” Rather has ...

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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

NYT: Fake ... But Accurate!

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 9:46:10 pm PDT

Wow. Just wow. The New York Times wins the award for World’s Most Transparently Biased Headline. Ever. Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate, Typist Says. (Hat tip: Blissful Knowledge.)

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It's All Over, Dan

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 7:13:09 pm PDT

It’s all over for CBS News: Document Analysts: CBS News Ignored Doubts. Two of the document experts hired by CBS News now say the network ignored concerns they raised prior to the broadcast of 60 Minutes II about the disputed National Guard records attributed to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who died ...

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We're Melting! Melting!

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 6:32:06 pm PDT

I just received the following email from Annette at our web hosting company, Hosting Matters, the best danged hosting company on the planet, recommended to all our clients: Doing our best to keep every inbound request answered. Congratulations, Charles, you’ve set a new record for the slashdot effect around here: 115 ...

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The Smoking Memo

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 5:24:38 pm PDT

For our new visitors following John Podhoretz’s citation of Little Green Footballs on the Bill O’Reilly show, here is the animated graphic to which Mr. Podhoretz referred, showing my document created with default settings in Microsoft Word for Mac OS X, overlaid on the CBS News Killian memo from August ...

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Incoming at 5 O'Clock

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 4:21:34 pm PDT

Pssst. Lizardoids. You may want to watch Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News at 5pm (Pacific). I’m just sayin’, is all. UPDATE at 9/14/04 5:00:40 pm: (Pssst. I’m not currently allowed to exit my nitrogen-filled chamber beneath Denver International Airport, so I won’t be on the show in person. It will ...

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Killian's Secretary: "These Are Not Real"

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 3:09:45 pm PDT

Lt. Col. Jerry Killian’s secretary says she did not type the CBS documents. HOUSTON — The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bush’s Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed. Marian ...

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Killian Memos Crumpled and Smoothed Out

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 2:48:36 pm PDT

Several LGF readers emailed to say that if you open one of the CBS News Killian memos in Photoshop and adjust the levels, crumple marks show up on the paper. So I tried it, and here’s the result: This was probably done by the incredibly inept forger to increase the apparent ...

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Syria Tested Chemical Weapons on Sudanese Civilians

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 2:03:26 pm PDT

German daily Die Welt is preparing to run a story claiming that Syria recently tested chemical weapons on civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan, killing dozens: Syria tested chemical arms on civilians in Darfur region: press. (Hat tip: Matthew.) BERLIN : Syria tested chemical weapons on civilians in Sudan’s troubled ...

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An Interesting Suspect

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 1:49:34 pm PDT

CrushKerry.com claims that an anonymous source inside the Kerry campaign is trying to hang the forged memos on MoveOn.org: Leftwing Dissention Sets In as Finger Pointing Begins. (Hat tip: Kerry Spot.) Our source assures us the Kerry campaign had nothing to do with the memo itself. But they strongly suggested that ...

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Catch Me in Two Days

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 1:05:26 pm PDT

The Ranting Raven has a hilarious angle on the CBS Killian documents, from Frank Abagnale Jr.—one of the world’s premier experts on forgery, whose true story was the basis for the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. Robin the ranting raven sent email to Mr. Abagnale, and received a reply: Dear ...

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Expert Bill

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:38:02 pm PDT

Tim Blair has discovered where CBS News found one of their “document experts,” ex-typewriter repairman Bill Glennon—at Daily Kos: Expert Bill.

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Kerry and the Killing

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:58:25 am PDT

News Central obtained a previously unreleased “after action report” written by John Kerry himself, backing up one of the key claims made by the Swift Boat Veterans and others: Kerry and the Killing. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) For more than 30 years, Kerry has portrayed a heroic version ...

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New Madrid Bombing Photos Released

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:40:30 am PDT

Horrific new images from a security camera show the Madrid train bombings as they happened. (Hat tip: nocannedmeatplease.)

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DNC Video: Fortunate Son

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:29:06 am PDT

If you’re wondering why CBS News still hasn’t backed down on the Killian memos, this new video at the DNC web site may go a long way toward explaining it—complete with clips featuring Dan Rather: DNC Video: Fortunate Son.

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Let Sleeping Nuclear Watchdogs Lie

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:31:22 am PDT

The United Nations’ toothless nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, just can’t seem to make up his mind whether Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. He thinks they need more time to really figure it out: ElBaradei Says Unclear if Iran Nuke Plans Peaceful. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) VIENNA (Reuters) - It is unclear if ...

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Killer on a Bicycle

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:06:21 am PDT

A suicide bomber from Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades used a bicycle today to wound two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians at a checkpoint, while ending his own worthless life: Bicycling Palestinian suicide bomber wounds two Israeli soldiers. QALQILYA, West Bank (AFP) - At least two Israeli soldiers were wounded when a ...

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Good News for the President

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 9:53:31 am PDT

George W. Bush is surging ahead in the polls: Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004.

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Richard Katz Is Wrong

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 9:24:34 am PDT

Another good refutation of the assertions of Richard Katz, the “expert” trotted out last night by Dan Rather and CBS News: Richard Katz Is Wrong About Ones and Els. (Hat tip: gumble.)

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Newcomer Updates Killian Memo Analysis

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 9:04:09 am PDT

Joseph M. Newcomer has updated his definitive technical analysis of the forged Killian memos, to deal with the ridiculous assertions put forth by CBS “expert” Richard Katz on the number “1” versus the lowercase letter “L”. (The link above goes to my mirror of Dr. Newcomer’s page; if you click the ...

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CBS Never Saw the Bloglash Coming

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 8:48:38 am PDT

James Pinkerton at Newsday, on the “citizen journalists” of the blogosphere: The day CBS News got ‘blogged’ down. ...without the documents and the leverage they provided, CBS might not have had a primetime-worthy story at all. But in addition to being too-hungry for a Bush-bashing story and probably reckless - a ...

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Low Bandwidth LGF

Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 8:08:01 am PDT

I’ve received several emails asking, “What happened to the football picture? Where are the little thumbnail pictures? Where’s the poll? Wha?” There’s a simple answer, not involving aliens or an IBM Selectric Composer. Yesterday I installed a “low bandwidth” version of the LGF page template, to cut down on the problems ...

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Monday, September 13, 2004

CBS's Lead Expert Backs Away

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 8:11:17 pm PDT

CBS’s cruise down Denial River may be coming to an end: Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn’t Authenticate Papers. The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush’s former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer’s signature ...

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Typewriter Repairman Promoted

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 6:42:38 pm PDT

Yesterday, TIME Magazine identified Bill Glennon as a former typewriter repairman. Today, CBS’s latest denial features Bill Glennon prominently as a “document expert.” UPDATE at 9/13/04 7:00:32 pm: And, as several LGF readers have pointed out in email (and I just confirmed), the other “expert” trotted out by CBS, Richard Katz, said: “There ...

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CBS News Retraction Watch

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 6:10:37 pm PDT

Number of days since CBS broadcast the Killian memos without adequate explanation or verification of originals: 5

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Islamic Horror Brigades

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 6:01:42 pm PDT

The holy warriors in Iraq have a new kidnapping social club, called the Horror Brigades: Two Australians kidnapped in Iraq. The statement gave Canberra a 24-hour deadline to end its interests in Iraq or see the hostages executed, but there was no immediate confirmation of the ultimatum’s authenticity. “One of our brave ...

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CBS Continues Stonewalling

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 5:12:17 pm PDT

On this page at CBSNews.com you can watch as Dan Rather continues to stonewall and insist the forged documents are genuine.

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The $37,900 Question

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 5:03:20 pm PDT

The current reward for anyone who can create documents identical to the CBS Killian memos using a typewriter available in 1972/1973 now stands at $37,900, offered by DefeatJohnJohn.com.

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Comparison to a Genuine Typewritten Document

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 4:56:24 pm PDT

Drudge Report has posted a PDF file of a scanned document related to George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service, showing that contrary to the latest Democratic smear, Bush was active duty Air Force. It’s a perfect example of a genuine typewritten report from that era, using a Courier-style font ...

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How Four Blogs Dealt a Blow to CBS's Credibility

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 3:57:14 pm PDT

The New York Sun’s Roderick Boyd tells the tale of How Four Blogs Dealt a Blow to CBS’s Credibility. (Sorry I missed your emails, Roderick; would you believe I’ve received well over 2,000 emails in the past four days?)

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Joseph Newcomer's Proof Mirrored

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 3:54:16 pm PDT

Since typography guru Joseph M. Newcomer’s must-read, detailed technical proof of forgery keeps getting knocked off the internet every time I link to it, I’ve made a copy of the page: The Bush “Guard memos” are forgeries!

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LGF on Dom Giordano

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 2:30:11 pm PDT

I’m scheduled to be on Dom Giordano’s radio show tonight at about 3:30 pm Pacific time. I couldn’t find a link to listen to the show on the web; if anyone knows one, please post it in the comments.

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IBM Composer Could Not Have Produced CBS Memos

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 1:53:43 pm PDT

Another user of the IBM Composer weighs in, and again the verdict is clear.

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Selectric Composer Theory Decomposing

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:35:12 pm PDT

Could the IBM Selectric Composer have created exact matches for MS Word documents? Greg Swann worked with the beast, and he says “no way:” The Cluetrain doesn’t run on Sixth Avenue. I know of my own certain knowledge that the Killian memos are forgeries. I did work on the IBM Selectric ...

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Typography Expert Rips CBS Memos

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:29:59 pm PDT

Computer typography expert (yes, a real one) Joseph M. Newcomer has significantly updated his exhaustive technical proof of forgery in the Killian documents. (The link above goes to my mirror of Dr. Newcomer’s page; here’s his original page, but it keeps getting knocked off the internet by high traffic and may ...

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Video Glorifies 9/11 Attacks

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:53:01 am PDT

A new Al Qaeda video glorifying the September 11 atrocities has appeared on an Islamic bulletin board: Al Qaeda Bulletin Board Hosts New Video. (Hat tip: peace be upon me.)

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A Muddled Masterpiece of Denial

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:48:12 am PDT

Barbara O’Brien, a Bush-hating moonbat (just look around her site), is feebly attempting to refute the exact 1:1 correspondence between Microsoft Word documents created with default settings in 2004, and supposedly typed memos from a Texas Air National Guard base in 1972 and 1973: The Mahablog. (I’m responding to her ...

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CBS Killian Document Index

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 9:35:25 am PDT

To make it easier for those coming to LGF for the first time looking for our posts on the forged Killian documents released by CBS News, here is a list of all LGF entries on the subject to date, in chronological order: Bush Guard Documents: Forgeries? Bush Guard Documents: Forged Forged Documents: Topic ...

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LGF on Prager (w/ Northern Alliance)

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 8:18:07 am PDT

The Power Line guys and the other Northern Alliance bloggers are hosting the Dennis Prager radio show this morning, and they’ve asked me to call in. I don’t have a scheduled time yet, but you’ll want to listen to the whole show. You can listen over the web here: News Talk ...

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9/11 in the Fever Swamp

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 8:08:16 am PDT

This is how Atrios chose to commemorate September 11. At this point I could write a lengthy piece about the willful blindness, mean-spiritedness, and irrational hatred that defines the modern left. But instead I’ll just write the first thing that came into my mind: what a creep.

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LGF on 790 KABC

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 7:29:05 am PDT

I’m going to be calling in to the “Ken and Company” radio show on 790 AM in a few minutes. You can listen over the web here: Listen Live.

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Low Overhead LGF

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 7:25:55 am PDT

I’ve temporarily set up a stripped down version of our LGF template, anticipating a surge of traffic today as the CBS forgery story spreads across mainstream media. John Fund has a good piece about the scandal at OpinionJournal. If it turns out that the Killian memos are indeed forgeries, the Internet will ...

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Investor's Business Daily: Resignations in Order

Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 7:20:11 am PDT

Investor’s Business Daily says CBS News needs to be held accountable for their use of forged documents—and subsequent stonewalling. Could it be that CBS and Rather wanted to take Bush down a peg — especially given the questions about John Kerry’s Vietnam service raised by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth? And ...

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Sunday, September 12, 2004

From Presidential Candidate to Designated Lunatic

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 9:12:04 pm PDT

Stand back! He’s going to unleash his fury! (Image hat tip: Adeimantus.)

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Slate: Not Even Close

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 8:49:21 pm PDT

So who are you going to believe, Slate and Daily “Screw Them” Kos ... Charles Johnson, the blogger behind Little Green Footballs, typed one of the memos in Word, superimposed it over the original, and found that they matched. Daily Kos disagrees with Johnson’s detective work. The blog has a point-by-point ...

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What Media Bias?

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 8:43:24 pm PDT

Wired News reports on the CBS document scandal—and the only website they can find, out of dozens covering this story, is Daily “Screw Them” Kos: Tech Boosts the Fraudsters. (Hat tip: E. Nough.)

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Tell Them

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 7:25:43 pm PDT

AllahPundit lists the email addresses for 60 Minutes II and the ombudsman of the Boston Globe. 60 Minutes 60II@cbsnews.com Christine Chinlund ombud@globe.com Democracy. It’s a beautiful thing.

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TIME Goes to the Mattresses

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 6:29:23 pm PDT

TIME Magazine digs up a former NYC typewriter repairman, Bill Glennon, who says there were plenty of typewriters in the 1970s that could have produced an exact match to an MS Word document typed in 2004: The X Files Of Lt. Bush. So far, forensic and typewriter experts consulted by TIME ...

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A Fence Will

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 6:01:49 pm PDT

Here’s a terrific photo essay from LGF operative “zombie,” showing the mental illness at the recent Bay Area “Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners” protest: Photos from the rally in S.F. on August 29, 2004. But in addition to the usual moonbats who show up at these events, we see a very heartening ...

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DNC to Launch Fresh Attacks on Bush Guard Service

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 5:10:28 pm PDT

Drudge reports that the Kerry campaign is preparing to go negative in a big way this coming week, attacking President Bush’s National Guard service. “George Bush has a clear pattern of lying about his military service,” DNC Communications Director Jano Cabrera blasts in the new release. “From 1978 to the present ...

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Typography Expert Weighs In

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 2:21:52 pm PDT

Computer typography guru Joseph M. Newcomer has an authoritative and definitive analysis of the CBS Killian documents; his conclusion: The Bush “Guard memos” are forgeries! (Hat tip: RonAA.)

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PC Magazine: Not Even Close

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 2:01:36 pm PDT

An article by Edward Mendelson at PC Magazine claims to have debunked my comparisons of the CBS News Killian documents with my versions typed in MS Word: Bush’s Exam Doc — Real or Fake? To prove his case that the Killian documents could have been typed on an IBM Selectric Composer ...

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Kidnapped Italian Women: Deadline Expires

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 1:32:19 pm PDT

Italy’s foreign minister still says he’s “hopeful,” but the outlook is not good for the two Italian women kidnapped by holy warriors in Iraq: Italy still hopeful for release of Iraq hostages as ultimatum expires. ROME (AFP) - Italy’s foreign minister said he was still hopeful that two Italian women held ...

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NK Blast "Not Nuclear"

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:30:56 pm PDT

US Says N.Korea Blast Probably Not Nuclear. SEOUL, South Korea/Washington (Reuters) - A huge explosion rocked North Korea last week but U.S. and South Korean officials said Sunday it was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test despite the appearance of a “peculiar cloud” over the area. South Korea first got ...

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IBM Executive: Not Even Close

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:01:56 pm PDT

Here is a cache of documents created by IBM Executive typewriters: LBJ Library. (Hat tip: Jeff Harrell.) Even a cursory glance is enough to show that documents from this (very complicated, expensive, and difficult to use) typewriter look nothing like the forged Killian memos. UPDATE at 9/12/04 12:12:51 pm: Here’s a photo of ...

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Man Behind the Curtain?

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:34:50 am PDT

What is the connection of Marty Heldt to the forged Killian documents?

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Guard Commander: Documents Falsified

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:21:26 am PDT

The New York Times reports that another CBS News source is backing away: An Ex-Officer Now Believes Guard Memo Isn’t Genuine. HOUSTON, Sept. 11 - A former National Guard commander who CBS News said had helped convince it of the authenticity of documents raising new questions about President Bush’s military service ...

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Fact Checking, CBS Style

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:53:24 am PDT

Here’s the latest from CBS News, still doing the Denial Two-Step: Bush Documents Debate Rages On. (Hat tip: Glen Wishard.) Saturday’s edition of the Boston Globe reports that one document expert, Phillip Broussard, who had expressed suspicions about the documents, said “he now believes the documents could have been prepared on ...

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Down From The Mountain

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:40:06 am PDT

From the laser-tipped pens of Cox & Forkum.

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Yesterday's Visitor Count

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 8:47:51 am PDT

The unusually high traffic yesterday caused our visitor counts to be reset again, due to a bug in my code. Although the display (at upper left) says “Total: 25,238” and “Unique: 22,884” the actual counts are in the neighborhood of 80,000 to 100,000. I’ve made changes to the code so that ...

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LA Times: Blogs Are Major Players

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 8:29:23 am PDT

In the LA Times this morning, an article by Peter Wallsten acknowledges the new media reality, but takes the annoyingly predictable “right wing lunatics” angle: No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players. That story began Wednesday, 19 minutes after the “60 Minutes II” broadcast began, when another FreeRepublic poster, TankerKC, noted ...

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Facts: They're Rather Inconvenient

Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 7:44:05 am PDT

The Washington Times points out a piece of information that’s been mentioned several times here at LGF, and at other blogs; “Buck” Staudt, who supposedly pressured Jerry Killian to “sugar coat” Bush’s record, was honorably discharged 18 months before the memos in question: Bush Guard papers ‘forged’. DALLAS — New information ...

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Saturday, September 11, 2004

Searching for Godot

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 9:27:43 pm PDT

The Washington Post reports on the CIA and State Department’s amazingly wrong-headed efforts to “reach out” to one of the most virulent anti-American Islamic groups in the world—the Muslim Brotherhood, openly dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization: In Search Of Friends Among The Foes. (Hat tip: ploome.) When U.S. immigration ...

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Mushroom Cloud in North Korea

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 8:45:12 pm PDT

On the anniversary of September 11, we learn that North Korea may have tested a nuclear bomb. SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion rocked the northern part of North Korea, sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, South Korea’s Yonhap news ...

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CBS Docs: Bush Working on Nonexistent Campaign?

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 7:29:35 pm PDT

LGF reader Susan has emailed another damning factual problem with the CBS Killian memos: The 19 May 1972 memo CBS purportedly discovered says: “1. Phone call from Bush....... Says that he is working on another campaign for his dad.” “2. Physical .... He has this campaign to do and other things that ...

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Another Document Experiment: 19 May 1972

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 6:50:09 pm PDT

I’ve received more than a hundred emails pointing out serious new problems in the CBS News documents. Several readers mentioned the “19 May 1972” document as a particularly striking example; so I typed this document into Microsoft Word as well, again with default margins and tab stops... and once again, ...

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High Resolution Image Correction

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 6:19:22 pm PDT

LGF reader Steve writes: I’m a PhD researcher in image registration (alignment) in the Department of Radiology at ________. I wrote a computer program to find the best affine alignment (a standard technique involving translation, rotation, scaling and shearing) of the CBS memo and output from Word. Here is the high ...

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CBS News Goes to the Mattresses

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 4:10:10 pm PDT

In an astoundingly bad move, CBS News continues to insist that the Killian documents are genuine. I’m almost certain that at least some people at CBS are aware that these documents are fakes. Phonies. Forgeries. And stunningly inept forgeries, at that. At some point, they’re going to have to admit it; but ...

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One More CBS Document Example

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 9:30:20 am PDT

Here is an animated GIF, alternating between the PDF version of the Microsoft Word document I created, and the CBS News “original.”

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Steyn: CBS Falls for Fake Memo

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 9:10:15 am PDT

Mark Steyn sums up the CBS News document forgery scandal with his customary flair (and a hat tip to yours truly): CBS falls for Kerry campaign’s fake memo. Unfortunately for CBS, Dan Rather’s hairdresser sucks up so much of the budget that there was nothing left for any fact-checking, so the ...

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Mainstream Media in Document Quagmire

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 8:59:51 am PDT

The lies of CBS News are unraveling faster and faster: ABC News’ Political News Digest. HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian’s supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him ...

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Three Years On

Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 8:29:34 am PDT

Three years ago America was attacked by teams of Islamic terrorists in a well-organized plan to murder thousands of people. They lived among us for years, taking full advantage of our free society to gain the knowledge, experience, and access they needed to kill us, hiding their virulent hatred behind ...

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Friday, September 10, 2004

Blogging in a 3-Piece

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 8:11:54 pm PDT

Since the latest spin is that we bloggers are sitting in our pajamas and typing nonsense because we love the Bushitler so much (who knows why? we just do!), I’d like you all to know that despite the intensely humid SoCal heat I have been blogging all day in a ...

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About That IBM Selectric Composer

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 7:53:49 pm PDT

Here’s more on the IBM machine that the DNC machine is trying to say could have created the Bush National Guard documents in 1972/1973, from DefeatJohnJohn.com, where they are offering a substantial reward to anyone who can duplicate the CBS memos: First of all, thanks to the five people who have ...

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IBM Selectric Composer? No Way.

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 7:31:39 pm PDT

The spin from the left is that the IBM Selectric Composer typewriter may have been capable of producing the CBS News National Guard documents in 1972/1973. Out of all the left’s possible strategies for torquing the issue, this is one I never thought they would use—because it is absurd on its ...

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Yet Another CBS Document Experiment

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 7:05:42 pm PDT

Here is the result if I print the Microsoft Word document I created to a PDF file: _______________ Here is the CBS News “original:” _______________ And here is the result if I overlay the CBS News “original” on my Word-created PDF file: _______________ As you can see, it’s an even better match than the Word screenshots ...

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Another CBS Document Experiment

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 4:40:11 pm PDT

I opened Apple’s TextEdit word processor, and with default settings typed in the same text from the August 18, 1973 memo as found at CBS News, with the same Times New Roman font at the same 12 point size. Here’s the Apple TextEdit version, which is clearly very different in layout ...

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The Ankle Biters

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 3:22:26 pm PDT

With all the charm for which he’s famous, Atrios dubs LGF Little Green Silly People and tries to make a beginner’s point about kerning. One of the new words the right wingers have seized on is “kerning.” They’re obsessed that the “kerning” on the CBS memo is exactly the same as ...

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Second Cell Ready to Attack in Indonesia

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 2:40:21 pm PDT

Meanwhile in Jakarta, a second terror cell may be on the loose, planning another attack: Second terrorist cell poised for attack. (Hat tip: Eurabian Times.) Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says a second group of suicide bombers are believed to be at large in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and may be ...

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Registration Glitch Repaired

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 2:01:46 pm PDT

Whew. The LGF commenting software has been getting a major stress test in the past couple of days with our record traffic, and a few glitches have shaken out. The registration database became temporarily unavailable due to one glitch; it’s repaired now. But if you entered a new registration during the ...

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CBS Walks Over the Cliff

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:01:26 pm PDT

Amazingly, CBS News stands by their story and says there will be no investigation. In a statement, CBS News said it stands by its story. “This report was not based solely on recovered documents, but rather on a preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources, interviews with former ...

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Brainwashing 101

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:48:55 am PDT

A terrific new documentary by Evan Coyne Maloney, Stuart E. Browning and Blaine Greenberg shows how universities use tools such as “speech codes” to force hard-left political views upon students: Brainwashing 101.

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Auto Centering in 1973

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:58:44 am PDT

Chronically Biased has even more damning evidence of forgery; Phil Magness noticed an address in one of the CBS News documents that was auto-centered: CBS’ “new” Bush guard memos a hoax? Following the Little Green Footballs blog lead, CB decided to test the pantograph replication technique on another of the CBS ...

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VDH: The Whole World Is Watching

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:21:13 am PDT

It’s Friday, and if you’re ready for a break from the Killian document story, go read VDH’s latest and greatest: The Whole World Is Watching. Much of the Islamic Middle East continues to blame others for its own induced catastrophe, apparently unaware — thanks to the lever of oil it didn’t ...

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Rather's Last Stand

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 9:44:21 am PDT

Kerry Spot reports that Dan Rather is making his last stand. Media source in New York says Rather just did an interview with CNN on the street: “I know this story is the truth...There will be no retraction...When people talk about where we got the story they’re only doing it because ...

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Word Wrap in 1973

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 8:44:40 am PDT

I mentioned this point about the Killian documents in our comments yesterday, but it deserves to be featured more prominently. Anyone who ever used an IBM Selectric or a manual typewriter knows that when you reached the end of a typed line, you had to manually cause a “carriage return.” On ...

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Killian's Son: "No Officer in His Right Mind"

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 8:02:18 am PDT

The son of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian and the personnel chief of Killian’s unit are both convinced the documents released by CBS News are phony: Questions Surface About Bush Memos. CBS, which reported on the memos on its “60 Minutes” program, said its experts who examined the documents concluded ...

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Where is the Muslim Outrage?

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 7:50:27 am PDT

In the wake of the atrocity in Beslan, Jeff Jacoby joins the growing chorus of voices asking, “Where is the Muslim outrage?” (Hat tip: WriterMom.) There have been no public demonstrations by Muslims anxious to make it clear how outraged and sickened they are that anyone could commit such unspeakable deeds ...

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Pathetic Ignorance at Daily Kos

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 7:38:50 am PDT

They’re spinning like dervishes over at Daily “Screw Them” Kos; who do you believe, Kos or your lying eyes? See if you can count the lies, distortions, and pathetically ignorant statements in this hilarious post from someone pretending to know what he’s talking about: TANG Typewriter Follies; Wingnuts Wrong. As with most ...

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CBS's Big Blunder

Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 7:15:46 am PDT

As John Podhoretz points out this morning, CBS was so eager to slam George W. Bush that they staked their reputation on an obvious fraud: CBS’s Big Blunder. CBS made the four documents available in their original form on its Web site Wednesday night. And by yesterday morning, they were being examined ...

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Thursday, September 09, 2004

The 12-Hour Scandal

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 9:10:17 pm PDT

According to Drudge, CBS News has launched an internal investigation into whether 60 Minutes aired forged documents relating to Bush’s National Guard service. Our first post about this, shortly after Power Line’s post, was at 8:30 am Pacific. By 8:30 pm Pacific, an investigation is underway at CBS.

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Font Geek Bona Fides

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 5:20:19 pm PDT

I actually received two emails from people questioning my expertise to examine and criticize the documents shown in the entries immediately below. Can you believe it? So here’s the skinny. I’ve been involved with desktop publishing software and scalable software fonts (as opposed to hot lead type) almost since their inception. I’m ...

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Forged Documents: Topic Two

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 3:13:56 pm PDT

Our traffic is through the roof, as a result of links from Fark.com and The Corner, and now WorldNetDaily and many other sites—and LGF is slowing down and even timing out for many people when they try to get into the topic for the possibly forged Bush National Guard documents. So ...

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Bush Guard Documents: Forged

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 10:24:36 am PDT

I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian. And my Microsoft Word version, ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 8:45:38 am PDT

Fun for the whole family! And educational too! A Palestinian militant of Hamas wires a makeshift explosive device as children stand near him, in a narrow alleyway of the refugee camp of Jebaliya, outside Gaza City, Thursday Sept. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Bush Guard Documents: Forgeries?

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 8:32:04 am PDT

Here’s today’s Boston Globe story on President Bush’s Air National Guard service, focusing on memos purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian: Bid cited to boost Bush in Guard. I write “purportedly” because, as Power Line points out this morning, the documents (which can be ...

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RoP Strikes in Jakarta

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 8:09:56 am PDT

The attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta has killed at least 8 and wounded more than 130 people: Jakarta Embassy Blast Kills Eight, Wounds 130. JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than ...

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Spinning Away

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 8:07:45 am PDT

Jed Babbin points out that the New York Times deliberately lied (shocka!) in a recent editorial about a system for facilitating absentee ballots: Spinning Away. In its August 31 editorial, “The Pentagon’s Troubling Role,” the Times accuses the Pentagon of preparing to operate a system “...in which employees who answer to ...

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What Media Bias?

Thu, Sep 9, 2004 at 7:48:30 am PDT

Dropping in at the LGF page of Washington Post News Feeds, it’s really striking how many of the headlines are anti-Bush and/or pro-Kerry: Records Say Bush Balked At National Guard Order Kerry Rips Cheney Statement Edwards: Bush Should Renounce Cheney Comments Cheney Says Strikes Likely if Kerry Wins (a gross distortion of Cheney’s words) Carter ...

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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Bomb Explodes Near Aussie Embassy in Jakarta

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 9:10:46 pm PDT

A powerful bomb has exploded near the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful explosion near the Australian Embassy in Jakarta wounded at least four people Thursday and damaged a high fence surrounding the diplomatic compound. The source of the blast not immediately known. Windows of nearby buildings were ...

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Facing History and Our Children

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 7:45:03 pm PDT

David Gelernter on Bush’s Greatness. The Iraq war started as a fight to knock out a regime that invaded its neighbors, murdered its domestic enemies with poison gas, subsidized terrorism, and flouted the international community. Obviously such a regime was dangerous to American interests. But as the war continued and we ...

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The Struggle For The Soul of Islam

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 7:07:57 pm PDT

Slowly, surely, pushed by atrocities like Beslan, like Nick Berg, like the murdered Nepalese hostages, the PC/multiculti blinders are beginning to slide off the eyes of mainstream media. Even the staunchly left-of-center TIME Magazine is now forced to acknowledge The Struggle For The Soul of Islam. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

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LGF News Feed Enhancements

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 6:12:43 pm PDT

I did a bi’ o’ work on the LGF News Headlines page today; there is now a menu at the top of the page that lets you choose to view only the newsfeeds from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Telegraph, the BBC, or Yahoo. This is very good ...

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 1:00:57 pm PDT

Hussein Hussein photographs the ungodly clutter on the desk of the world’s most decrepit terrorist ... and ... and the horrible red binder is back! And even worse ... may heaven help us all ... it’s replicating. In this picture released by the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seen behind ...

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Peaceful Power Plant Defended by Suicide Battalion

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 12:10:00 pm PDT

In Iran, the tiny minority of extremists is recruiting suicide squads to “defend” the Bushehr nuclear facility. “We are going to have a ceremony to recruit volunteers for suicide operations and create the first suicide battalion to defend the Bushehr power station, which is the target of Israeli propaganda,” a member ...

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If the World Could Vote...

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 11:59:01 am PDT

Global poll shows a Kerry landslide. (Hat tip: Ethel.) PARIS — If the world could cast a vote in the United States presidential election, John Kerry would beat George W. Bush by a landslide, according to a poll released on Wednesday that is described as the largest sample of global opinion ...

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Kerry's Iranian Connection

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 10:04:59 am PDT

Robert Spencer has a look at one of John Kerry’s supporters—a shill for the mullahs of Iran who is trying to silence the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran with a $10 million lawsuit: Kerry’s Iranian Connection Fights Democracy. Frivolous lawsuits have long been used as weapons of the ...

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Religion of Misogyny

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 9:32:32 am PDT

The tiny minority of extremists in Algeria is trying to crush plans to improve the lives of women, because the proposed reforms violate Islamic law: Algerian Islamic parties oppose women rights reform. ALGIERS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Islamic parties said on Wednesday they would oppose a government plan to improve Algerian ...

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Cheney Warns, Edwards Whines

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 8:15:15 am PDT

Yesterday Dick Cheney criticized John Kerry’s “law enforcement” attitude toward the war on terror, warning that Kerry’s pre-9/11 mind-set would increase the risk of a terror attack in the US: Cheney Warns of Terror Risk if Kerry Wins. “It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make ...

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Flipper Fumbles Softballs

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 8:04:41 am PDT

After avoiding all serious interviews for the last month, John Kerry finally surfaced to take some tough questions from ... MTV? The Daily Recycler has a video clip of Kerry’s confused and wandering interview, intoned in his usual stilted poli-speech: Kerry’s Confusing MTV Interview. Eric at Blogs for Bush also has ...

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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Muslims Drifting Through Crisis, Towards Kerry

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 7:01:42 pm PDT

Agence France Presse says that American Muslims don’t face the same kind of segregation as African Americans did in the Jim Crow era—but that doesn’t stop them from whining as if they do: Muslims drift, not run, towards Kerry. CHICAGO (AFP) - They may not face the segregation that once defined ...

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Outrage? Not So Much

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 6:39:46 pm PDT

Mamoun Fandy on the dysfunctional, terror-enabling media of the Arab world: Outrage? Not so much. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Obviously, we don’t want to speak of the Arab world as a monolith— MAMOUN FANDY: That’s correct. BROOKE GLADSTONE: — so what you’re saying is: those who would condemn the executions are afraid, and those who ...

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Meanwhile, in Fallujah

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 6:32:05 pm PDT

Marines Say Up to 100 Insurgents Killed in Falluja. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Marines said on Tuesday that as many as 100 insurgents had been killed in fighting in the hotbed Iraqi town of Falluja. “Significant numbers of enemy fighters (up to 100) are estimated to have been killed,” said an emailed ...

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"The Appalling Fraud" Resurfaces

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 5:39:23 pm PDT

Several people (who really ought to know better) have emailed me about a new Flash animation making the rounds on the Internet, claiming that the Pentagon was not hit by a hijacked Boeing 757, but by ... uh ... something else. I’d link to this semi-slick animation but it seems to ...

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Al Qaeda in Lebanon and Gaza

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 4:53:35 pm PDT

Maariv International says Iran and Syria have been conspiring to turn Lebanon into a safe haven for Al Qaeda—and that some Al Qaeda operatives have already infiltrated Gaza. This may explain the recent violence at the Ein Hilweh “refugee camp,” reported by lamestream media as battles between Fatah and “religious ...

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Yesterday's Lies

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 4:45:45 pm PDT

The next big skeleton returning to life in John Kerry’s walk-in closet may be Steve Pitkin. Steve Pitkin never intended to speak at the Winter Soldier Investigation. He agreed to come to Detroit with John Kerry and Scott Camil in January of 1971 mostly to support his fellow veterans, but also ...

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Terrorists, Not "Activists"

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 2:49:10 pm PDT

There’s a lot being written about the Beslan atrocity; here are several good pieces out of many. Dennis Prager: They shoot children, don’t they? OpinionJournal: The Children of Beslan. Daniel Pipes: They’re Terrorists - Not Activists. Melanie Phillips: A war unlike any other. Barbara Lerner: Beslan Changed Russia ... and the world..

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Islamic Home Videos

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 12:45:48 pm PDT

Hostages sit on a floor in a gym as a hostage-taker stands with his left foot on a book apparently with a device connected to a chain of explosives in the school in Beslan, Russia taken in this undated image from television during the early part of the siege which ...

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Two Italian Women Kidnapped by Holy Warriors

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 8:37:16 am PDT

Gunmen Abduct Two Italian Aid Workers in Baghdad. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad Tuesday in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings. Witnesses told Reuters about 20 men with AK-47 assault rifles and pistols ...

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French Muslim Paranoia

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 8:33:55 am PDT

French Muslims charge that the United States is deliberately stirring up violence in Iraq, to interfere with the release of the two kidnapped French journalists: French Hopes for Speedy Iraq Hostage Release Fade. Asked about speculation that attacks by United States forces around Latifiya, a town south of Baghdad where the ...

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Puppet Calls for Murder

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 8:07:04 am PDT

Arafat’s puppet prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, says that Israel’s strike on a Hamas training camp gives Hamas carte blanche to murder Israelis: Qureia: Israel Strike Will Invite Response. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia warned Israel that its air strike Tuesday that killed 14 Hamas militants in the ...

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EU, Media Counsel Appeasement

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 7:54:34 am PDT

The European reaction to the Beslan massacre is simply disgusting, and mainstream media is worse. Today Vladimir Putin lashed out at the appeasement monkeys urging him to enter into “talks” after hundreds of children were tortured and murdered: Putin rejects ‘child-killer talks’. “No-one has a moral right to tell us to ...

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The Cult of Death

Tue, Sep 7, 2004 at 7:45:02 am PDT

At the New York Times, David Brooks is beginning to get it: Cult of Death. But how can we still maintain the fiction that the death cult thrives only “at the fringes,” when jihad is preached from the highest centers of Islam, and taught at madrassas throughout the world? We should by ...

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Monday, September 06, 2004

Flipper's Version of Zell Miller

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 8:23:25 pm PDT

Emboldened by a sudden infusion of Clinton hatchetpersons, the Kerry machine demonstrated an incredible facsimile of humor today: Kerry Bolstered by Clinton Advice. In West Virginia, Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, gave Kerry a rifle as a gift. Kerry, a self-described gun-owner and hunter, quipped: “I ...

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Bottom Race 2004

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 7:25:31 pm PDT

The race to the bottom may have been won. Ted Rall online. He must be jealous of all the attention Michael and Art are getting. (Hat tip: Ny Nana.)

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Kuwait Mosques Recruit Teens for Jihad

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 6:41:33 pm PDT

Remember Kuwait? The nation we spent American blood and treasure to liberate the last time Saddam Hussein felt frisky? The mosques in Kuwait are now recruiting teens for jihad against us. KUWAIT CITY - Every Friday, 17-year-old Dhari al-Zahameel’s family would wait for him to come back from the mosque so they ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 5:28:48 pm PDT

Having apparently learned only one thing from his much-boasted-about service in Vietnam—that the most important thing in war is to cut and run as soon as possible, and broadcast your timetable to the enemy—John Kerry applies his foreign policy expertise to the war against radical Islam: Kerry Slams ‘Wrong War ...

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The Internet Infrastructure of Hamas

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 4:59:13 pm PDT

Aaron at Internet Haganah reveals in excruciating detail that the web is lousy with Hamas. Hamas is truly a leader among terrorist organizations in making aggressive use of the Internet as a communications channel. The websites of Hamas appear to be operated by individuals in Lebanon, Gaza, Russia, Great Britain, Malaysia, ...

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Major Strike Against Hamas

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 3:47:44 pm PDT

Israel has launched a major strike against Hamas in Gaza City; in a case of pure poetic justice, dozens of terrorists encountered at least five IAF missiles while meeting in a building named after Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. At least 14 Palestinians were killed and 30 wounded when Israel Air Force helicopters ...

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Opening Day at the University of Death

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 3:20:54 pm PDT

A portrait of a Hamas militant is seen as Palestinian students of the Al Najah University in the northern West Bank city of Nablus peruse through displays of books and stationary [sic] in the first day of the academic year Monday Sept. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh).

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Iraqi Clerics May Order End to Kidnapping

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 2:36:06 pm PDT

A group of senior Sunni clerics in Iraq say they are going to issue a fatwa against the kidnapping of foreigners: Clerics order end to Iraq hostage-taking. Iraq’s most senior Sunni religious body said yesterday it would issue a fatwa outlawing the abduction and execution of any foreigner in the country. While ...

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Kerry Site Lists Bush's Achievements and Qualities

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 10:04:04 am PDT

I try to say “this is priceless” very seldom, but this is priceless. LGF reader “Eugene McGovern” (heh) extracted the headings from the Kerry-Edwards list of GOP Convention “lies,” and notes that it’s really a cleverly disguised list of reasons to vote for George W. Bush in November. (Of course, there’s a ...

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Hitlerfest at NewsDay

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 9:07:29 am PDT

To Hugh Pearson at NewsDay, the Republican Convention looked just like Nazi Germany. (Hat tip: LesLein.) As I watched Tuesday night’s network coverage of the unrelenting political propaganda hour known as the Republican National Convention, the first thought that came to mind was of old newsreels of those self-congratulatory Nazi rallies ...

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"Can Democracy Embrace Islam?"

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 8:43:40 am PDT

The bureau chief of Al Arabiya may be willing to face reality (to a certain extent), but the Chicago Tribune, in a puff piece gushing over last weekend’s Islamic Society of North America conference, continues to issue the standard denials: Imam’s message finds home. (Hat tip: Ethel.) During discussions throughout the ...

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Back On Denial River

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 8:08:05 am PDT

Now that the perfunctory denunciations are out of the way, hate sites like the Saudi-funded IslamOnline are reverting to form, shifting the blame for the Beslan massacre away from the Islamic perpetrators ... World Shocked, Furious Over Russian Tactics ... and digging up statements from the US ambassador to ...

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Kerry Lists "Lies"

Mon, Sep 6, 2004 at 7:46:41 am PDT

The Kerry-Edwards campaign has posted something they’re calling The 2004 GOP Convention: Four Days Filled With Lies, Mischaracterizations, Distortions, And Half-Truths. (Hat tip: Power Line.) One problem; it’s simply a list of GOP talking points from the convention, with no attempt at all to refute anything. Obviously they disagree with these ...

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Sunday, September 05, 2004

Abdullah "Condemns" Beslan Massacre

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 7:44:04 pm PDT

The Saudi entity’s Crown Prince Abdullah phones in a perfunctory denunciation of the Beslan massacre, in an Arab News article that blames everyone but the actual murderers for the atrocity: Abdullah Condemns Beslan Terror Attack. The president of North Ossetia, a southern province where the hostage drama unfolded, apologized for failing ...

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Joke Headline of the Day

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 7:24:08 pm PDT

Arafat to Set Date for Elections in December.

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Mean! Vicious! Bad!

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 6:24:11 pm PDT

According to Democrats, President Bush’s post-convention bounce is going to fade because it was the ill-gotten result of “four days of mean, vicious attacks” on John Kerry.

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Political Sweeps Week Goes to Bush

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 5:54:02 pm PDT

More bad news for Flipper, with the release of the latest Nielsen ratings: GOP tops Democrats in convention viewers. (Hat tip: Engineer.) If ratings were votes, George W. Bush would be sitting pretty today, because the Republican National Convention finished with a larger television audience this week than its Democratic counterpart ...

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Kidnapping for Dummies

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 5:41:11 pm PDT

Laura Mansfield points out that the Islamic child murderers in Beslan closely followed the instructions laid out in Abdel Aziz Al Moqrin’s article for issue #10 of Al Battar, the online Al Qaeda terrorist training manual: Chechen terrorists follow al-Qaida manual. We noted the existence of this “Kidnapping for Dummies” ...

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Nader Goes for the Muslim Vote

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 4:59:56 pm PDT

At the Islamic Society of North America conference this weekend, Ralph Nader made an “aggressive pitch” for the Muslim vote: U.S. Muslim Leaders Undecided on Candidate. Independent Ralph Nader traveled here Saturday and made an aggressive pitch for their backing in a closed-door meeting held separately from the conference. “We are still ...

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Munich, 32 Years On

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 2:42:02 pm PDT

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Massacre at the Munich Olympics of Israeli athletes by a team of Palestinian terrorists. (Hat tip: channeling the shah.)

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VS Naipaul: "It's Become a Racket, This Multiculturalism"

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 2:03:04 pm PDT

Naipaul lashes out at ‘multi-culti’ Britain. SIR VIDIA NAIPAUL, the Nobel prize-winning author, has launched a fierce assault on multiculturalism in British society, arguing that immigrants must seek to assimilate into their host country. In a magazine interview to be published this week, the author, who writes under the name V S ...

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Viva Las Gaza!

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 1:24:16 pm PDT

Masked Palestinian gunmen with pictures of their King take up position inside the Palestinian governor’s office at the Khan Younis refugee camp southern Gaza Strip on September 5,2004. Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters

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Innocent Religion Now a Message of Hate

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 12:30:34 pm PDT

Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is the general manager of Al Arabiya, one of the Arab satellite TV channels that frequently promotes the cause of global jihad. Unfortunately, you need to remember this when reading his otherwise excellent piece: Innocent religion is now a message of hate. (Thanks to all who emailed ...

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Cycle of Violence

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 12:09:16 pm PDT

Yesterday’s ride: 79.71 miles. We rode down the coast, through Palos Verdes all the way to San Pedro, turning around where 25th Street meets Western. Then we rode back north all the way through Santa Monica to Pacific Palisades. Consumed one bottle of Cytomax and two of Gatorade, ate a ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 11:50:18 am PDT

More stories are emerging showing the utter depravity of the Islamists who perpetrated the Beslan massacre: Boy who begged for water was bayoneted. AFTER more than 24 hours in the sweltering heat of the school gymnasium in Beslan, one of the boys trapped inside could not take it any longer. Summoning up ...

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No Other Word For It But Slaughter

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 10:57:09 am PDT

Another excellent Mark Steyn column on the Beslan massacre: No other word for it but slaughter. (Hat tip: Connecticut Yankee.) When your asymmetrical warfare strategy depends on gunning down schoolchildren, you’re getting way more asymmetrical than you need to be. The reality is that the IRA and ETA and the ANC ...

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"Spiritual Leader" Supports Kidnapping British Children

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 9:33:15 am PDT

The “spiritual leader” of al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, supports targeting children at British schools. An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said ...

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RoP Strikes Again in Bangladesh

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 9:03:57 am PDT

Two Killed, 10 Hurt in Latest Bangladesh Blast. (Hat tip: Ethel.) DHAKA (Reuters) - Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast in northeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in the latest of a series of attacks that have killed more than 100 people in the past four years, police ...

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Welcome to Maureenworld

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 8:40:03 am PDT

Don’t miss Cathy Seipp’s laugh-out-loud piece on the inexplicable appeal of Stupid Pan Dowdy: Welcome to Maureenworld. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) You hear a lot of talk in election years about the polarized American public, but few politicians are as polarizing as Maureen Dowd. Esquire included her in its “Women We ...

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Got a Big Fish in Iraq

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 8:01:37 am PDT

There are unconfirmed reports from Iraq that Saddam Hussein’s second-in-command, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, suspected of organizing the “resistance” against coalition forces, has been captured. (Hat tip: Joel.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces captured Saddam Hussein’s former second-in-command, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted former regime figure in Iraq, officials ...

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The Bounce is Real

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 7:58:39 am PDT

SurveyUSA reports that the number of Americans who believe President Bush will win reelection in November has suddenly jumped 10 to 20 points in dozens of cities across the United States: Momentum Shifts to Bush; Big GOP Bounce After RNC Convention. (Hat tip: Kevin P.) SurveyUSA has been asking respondents not ...

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New Group to Air Anti-Kerry Ads

Sun, Sep 5, 2004 at 7:47:28 am PDT

A 527 organization called MoveOnForAmerica.org is preparing to run two advertisements the Kerry campaign is really not going to like; one focuses on Kerry’s work to parole a would-be cop killer, and the other looks at Kerry’s shameful connections to race-baiter Al Sharpton. UPDATE at 9/5/04 10:05:03 am: The ads have been ...

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Saturday, September 04, 2004

Seven Days in September

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 8:39:47 pm PDT

Arts and Entertainment Network has an extraordinary documentary about September 11, including the scenes of monumental horror that Michael Moore refused to show: Seven Days in September.

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Elephant-in-the-Room Journalism

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 6:54:10 pm PDT

In Britain’s Telegraph, Adam Nicholson laments the slaughter of innocents in Beslan, managing to write a flowery, weepy in-depth article without mentioning a single important fact about the perpetrators of the atrocity. It’s as if all those people died in an earthquake; the word “kill” does not even appear: Beslan ...

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BBC: Saddam Almost Got Nuke from A. Q. Khan

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 6:20:54 pm PDT

A new BBC miniseries has a bombshell revelation, in every sense of the term: shortly before the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein came “within a whisker” of purchasing a complete, off-the-shelf nuclear device from Abdul Qadeer Khan’s Islamic nuclear black market. This ought to be huge news. But it isn’t. ...

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NYT Advises Putin to Appease

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 6:04:01 pm PDT

The New York Times has always been tone-deaf to Islamic terrorism (except for a very small window shortly after September 11, 2001) and prone to counseling appeasement, but this editorial plumbs new depths for them. The day after 156 children were slaughtered—after three days of torture, rape, and fear—the New York ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 5:05:52 pm PDT

A Newsweek poll agrees with the TIME poll we posted yesterday, confirming that President Bush now has a double digit lead over John Kerry: Bush Has Double-Digit Lead on Kerry - Newsweek Poll. NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush emerged from the Republican National Convention with an 11-point lead over Democrat ...

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UN Rally to Stop Sudan Genocide

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 5:01:35 pm PDT

At noon on Sunday, September 12, Africans from Sudan—both Christian and Muslim—will gather at the UN Plaza to protest the slavery and slaughter of blacks by the Arab Islamist regime in Khartoum. The genocide continues in Darfur, Western Sudan, where African Muslims are being murdered, disposed and abducted by Arab ...

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American Muslims Outraged

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 4:27:01 pm PDT

Finally, American Muslims are expressing outrage. Oh, sorry; did you think I meant outrage over the mass murder of children in Russia, or the two Russian airliners blown out of the sky, or the many killings of helpless hostages in Iraq—all in the name of Islam? No, silly. They’re outraged that ...

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Russian School Hostage Update

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 3:29:47 pm PDT

According to the Russian news translated by Stan, the school takeover in Beslan was even worse than is being reported here in the West. One of the hostages says that some older students were raped by the Islamic savages. - According to hostages, on the last day of the siege the terrorists ...

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Religion of Beheadings

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 8:02:43 am PDT

Militants Threaten to Behead Turkish Man. CAIRO, Egypt - Iraqi militants threatened to behead a Turkish truck driver if his company and the Kuwaiti contractor it works for don’t stop their operations in Iraq within 48 hours, according to a videotape aired on Al-Arabiya Saturday. The group, calling itself the Islamic Resistance ...

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When the Killers Come for the Kids

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 7:52:01 am PDT

Ralph Peters: When the Killers Come for the Kids. September 4, 2004 — THE mass murder of children revolts the human psyche. Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to children during the Holocaust. ...

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EUroweasels Demand Russia Explain

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 7:39:57 am PDT

The European Union has demanded an explanation from Russia on how the “tragedy” in Beslan could have happened: Russia blasts EU siege statement. (Hat tip: Dave Ray.) In a statement in the name of the presidency of the 25-nation EU, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said on Friday that all countries ...

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Religion of Peace Slaughters 155 Children

Sat, Sep 4, 2004 at 7:09:01 am PDT

An average person stumbling across this article might be a little surprised, because the mainstream media has effectively hidden the most important facts about the Russian school siege from the public, but the Islamic terrorists the media identifies as “Chechen rebels” are working to impose an Islamic state and ...

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Friday, September 03, 2004

Foreign Leaders for Kerry

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:58:31 pm PDT

The Arab world is squarely in John Kerry’s corner: Look who wants Bush to lose. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol.) Take, for example, a recent article in the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly (August 12-18 issue) by Cairo University’s Prof. Hassan Nafaa. Bush, he wrote, is a “wild eyed zealot” and an “evil fanatic” ...

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RNC, September '04

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:05:42 pm PDT

Have a look at John Vanden-Heuvel’s Picture Diary for a positive view of the Republican National Convention.

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Ride on the Jihad Train

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 6:38:34 pm PDT

The music of Stephen Georgiou Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam has been approved by the Ayatollahs of Iran for sale to the masses. Michael Jackson, despite his very public association with the Nation of Islam, is shunned: Iran decides Cat Stevens good, Michael Jackson bad. TEHRAN: Iran’s Islamic Propagation Organization has decided ...

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The Dutch Zell Miller

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 6:14:00 pm PDT

Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders has quit his liberal party, in a dispute over the admission of Turkey to the European Union: Outspoken right-wing MP quits VVD, goes it alone. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) AMSTERDAM — MP Geert Wilders has quit the Liberal VVD party in a dispute over his ...

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S. African Man Charged in Khan Nuke Case

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 6:09:17 pm PDT

The head of a South African engineering firm has been charged with nuclear trafficking, as part of the fallout (little nuke joke there) from the Abdul Qadeer Khan investigations. Johan Meyer, 53, made a brief appearance at Vanderbijlpark Magistrates Court on charges of violating South Africa’s Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass ...

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Cantor Fitzgerald Sues Oil Ticks

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 5:56:08 pm PDT

Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond trading firm that lost two thirds of their employees on September 11, is suing the Saudi entity for $7 billion in losses: Cantor Fitzgerald Sues Saudis for Losses. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The company, in a $7 billion lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and ...

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"If a Child Utters a Sound, We'll Kill Another"

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 5:49:10 pm PDT

A horrifying account by a survivor of the Beslan school takeover by Islamic terrorists: Alla Gadieyeva, 24, who was taken captive with her 7-year-old son and mother, said the militants displayed terrifying brutality from the start. One gunman, whose pockets were stuffed with grenades, held up the corpse of a man ...

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Al-Muhajiroun Plans a 9/11 Celebration

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 5:31:04 pm PDT

Al-Muhajiroun, the Islamic extremist group that Britain will not shut down, is planning another convention to glorify the September 11 mass murderers and support the global jihad: London Convention Will Celebrate 9/11. The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun had announced a convention in London, titled ...

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C-SPAN Has Russian News

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 5:28:47 pm PDT

C-SPAN is broadcasting translated Russian news shows, covering the Islamic terrorist atrocity that killed at least 200 people, many of them children.

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Bush: A Double Digit Bounce

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 1:02:26 pm PDT

The new TIME Magazine poll puts President Bush ahead of John Kerry by 11 points. New York: For the first time since the Presidential race became a two person contest last spring, there is a clear leader, the latest TIME poll shows. If the 2004 election for President were held today, ...

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Kerry Sags, Rants Tiredly

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 11:32:50 am PDT

For the second straight day, the Rasmussen poll shows President Bush with 49% of the vote and John Kerry with 45%: Presidential Tracking Poll. Hugh Hewitt describes John Kerry’s speech last night following President Bush as “off-key, bitter, and self-destructive,” and that’s about right. The New York Times features a blatant lie ...

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Russian Atrocity Updates

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 10:38:07 am PDT

Stan at Logic & Sanity is still doing a great job of translating reports from Russia as they come in, with heart wrenching photographs of children being evacuated from the school. Some of the Islamic terrorists have escaped and holed up in a residential house. Children trying to escape (when the ...

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VDH: Brace Yourself

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 9:19:49 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson says it’s time to Brace Yourself; the months ahead are going to be ... interesting. If Bush wins in November, and I think he will, then there will be recriminations and fury of the like we have not seen since the Right imploded after 1964. For many of ...

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Arabs Killed in Russian School

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 9:09:02 am PDT

The BBC reports that at least nine of the “Chechen separatists” killed when Russian troops stormed the school were Arabs. Mr Aslakhanov said 20 hostage-takers had died in exchanges of fire with troops, at least nine of them Arabs.

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What Media Bias?

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:57:46 am PDT

Jaw-dropping bias in this Associated Press hit piece on George W. Bush’s speech: Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech. NEW YORK - President Bush glossed over some complicating realities in Iraq, Afghanistan and the home front in arguing the case Americans are safer and his opponent cannot deliver. On Iraq, Bush ...

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EU to Israel: Lay Off Syria

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:50:34 am PDT

Hamas maintains offices in Syria, in which they plan mass murder attacks in Israel. Syria has been asked many times to shut down these terrorist holes but they won’t, and it’s obvious why: Syria supports and promotes the evil genocidal doctrines of Hamas. So of course, EUroweenie foreign policy chief Javier ...

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A Fine French Whine

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:14:34 am PDT

French Muslims are seething and whining: Veiled threats. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) Like most French Muslims, Nora, 25, who declined to give her full name for security reasons, had trouble understanding why Islamic militants in Iraq had captured two French journalists and linked their lives to the repeal of the country’s headscarf ...

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Suspected Bomber Allegedly Explodes

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:06:40 am PDT

Agence France Presse “suspects” that a Palestinian who blew up while trying to sneak into Israel may have been a suicide bomber on his way to carry out mass murder: Suspected Palestinian suicide bomber dies in Gaza. GAZA CITY (AFP) - An apparent would-be Palestinian suicide bomber was killed by his ...

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France Grovels to Muslims, Journalists Still Hostage

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 7:44:43 am PDT

Has France sucked up to enough Muslim leaders and Arab dictators to get the two French journalists released by the holy warriors in Iraq? Or will the mujahideen decide to get their murder on, because French schoolgirls still have to remove their hijab? Stay tuned, as Hopes Grow That French Hostages ...

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Guardian Blames Putin

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 7:27:39 am PDT

Britain’s reliably hard left Guardian blames the deaths of schoolchildren on Vladimir Putin, and his failure to negotiate under the threat of Islamic terrorism: Putin’s iron fist has failed. (Hat tip: Dave Ray.) Putin previously insisted that Chechnya was a purely domestic issue. Now he appears to be changing tack, talking ...

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Shootout Ends Islamofascist School Takeover

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 6:58:27 am PDT

Russian troops stormed the school where Islamic terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, ending the siege with many casualties: Dozens Killed as Shootout Ends Russian School Siege. BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Dozens were killed when Russian troops stormed a school Friday in a chaotic battle to free hundreds of parents, ...

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Thursday, September 02, 2004

Palestinian Prisoners Get Hungry

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 8:57:42 pm PDT

The Palestinian thugs, murderers, and Islamic terrorists in Israel’s prisons have ended their “hunger strike.” Their brethren in the West Bank and Gaza are shooting guns in the air, crowing that most of the prisoners’ demands have been met. But as usual, they’re lying. “They didn’t get anything. We didn’t hold any ...

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Terrorist Math

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 8:42:59 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Here Buildings Fell. Here a Nation Rose.

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 8:32:22 pm PDT

With over 700 comments in Part Three of LGF’s RNC coverage, we probably need one more topic to wind down after George W. Bush’s terrific speech. Here it is.

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Al-Zarqawi Supported by Iran

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 7:57:22 pm PDT

Fayrouz translates a report from Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, in which Iran admits openly that Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi is being funded and supported by the mullahs.

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GOP Convention: Day Four, Part Three

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 6:56:32 pm PDT

The President’s warming up his speech glands backstage, so here’s another topic in anticipation of the flood of comments. C-SPAN has streaming video.

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Back to the Future

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 6:31:49 pm PDT

Britain’s Independent apparently has access to a time machine. (Hat tip: Quodlibetarian.) Portraying himself as a clear-minded and decisive leader, George Bush last night pledged that if elected for a second term, he would continue the fight against terrorists “not for pride, not for power,” but to keep America and the ...

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GOP Convention: Day Four, Part Two

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 6:11:30 pm PDT

We’re edging up on 300 comments already in our first topic for tonight’s Republican National Convention, so I’m starting another thread in preparation for the speeches of Governor George Pataki (who is clearly being groomed for a run in 2008) and President George W. Bush. An interesting note: in the first ...

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GOP Convention: Day Four

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 4:03:57 pm PDT

Here’s the schedule for tonight’s RNC: Governor Pataki, then President Bush. You can watch over the web and avoid most of the spin at C-SPAN.

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Security Breaches at the Garden

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 4:03:07 pm PDT

The New York Daily News has a story about security breaches at Madison Square Garden. On the eve of President Bush’s address to the nation, the Daily News has uncovered alarming breaches in security at the Republican National Convention. The News learned yesterday that delegates and guests were freely handing out unused ...

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Matt Welch: "Militaristic, Niedermeyer-Like"

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 2:08:09 pm PDT

Zell Miller’s “snarling” speech really frightened Matt Welch. Judging by Ken Layne’s comment, it evoked an even more basic emotion in him. As I look around the various lefty blogs, it’s clear that this is going to be the direction of the spin: Zell’s speech was too hot. Too militaristic. Very ...

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Al-Qaradawi: Murdering Americans is a Religious Duty

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 1:37:51 pm PDT

Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, the Egyptian Islamozoid who was invited to Britain recently for a series of speeches to Islamic groups, now says it is a “religious duty” for Muslims to kill Americans in Iraq, including American civilians: Cleric Says It’s Right to Fight U.S. Civilians in Iraq. French journalists, however, should ...

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Vets for Sale?

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 8:24:47 am PDT

I’ll just quote the last line of Ralph Peters’ new column about John Kerry’s speech to the American Legion, because I’m afraid if I print much more it will cause monitor screens to catch fire: Vets for Sale? The only veterans’ benefit young John Kerry fought for was the right of ...

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Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 8:09:47 am PDT

An important piece at the US Army War College’s journal Parameters by Richard L. Russell examines Iran’s plans for nuclear weapons, and our possible responses. Russell’s conclusion: it’s very unlikely that diplomatic measures will stop Iran’s rush for the A-bomb: Iran in Iraq’s Shadow: Dealing with Tehran’s Nuclear Weapons Bid. ...

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ISM Terror Enablers: No Longer Welcome

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 7:53:31 am PDT

Lee Kaplan and David Bedein report on Israel’s recent deportations of International Solidarity Movement terror supporters; it’s very good to see Israel finally catching on to this group’s destructive agenda and dishonest methods: Frontpage Helps Get ‘Peace Activist’ Deported from Israel. A reporter present at the ISM training seminar, held at ...

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Zell Gives Matthews Hell

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 7:35:31 am PDT

A film clip of Zell Miller giving Chris Matthews his long-deserved comeuppance is here, in Windows Media format. (Hat tip: Jen. Many folks have emailed about this, thanks.)

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Islamic Kidnappers Enter Second Day

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 7:17:22 am PDT

Some of their hostages were freed this morning (were they Muslims? good luck trying to find out), but Islamic murderers (“Chechen separatists” in media newspeak) are still holding hundreds of children captive and threatening to kill them: Russian Hostage-Takers Free 26 Children, Women.

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Religion of Peace Murders 3 More Hostages

Thu, Sep 2, 2004 at 7:12:07 am PDT

Report on hostages execution ‘seems credible’: Turkish diplomat. ANKARA (AFP) - A television report that three Turkish hostages had been executed in Iraq “seems credible,” a Turkish diplomat said. “I cannot give you a 100-percent confirmation at the moment but the report seems credible. There are signs that the executions are true,” ...

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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Zell Pulverizes Matthews

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:35:59 pm PDT

If anyone got a video capture of Zell Miller crushing Chris Matthews’s head tonight, please email me. That moment needs to be immortalized. UPDATE at 9/1/04 10:09:40 pm: The Daily Recycler has video of Zell’s Barnstormer of a speech, and also has the interview in which Miller tells the crestfallen Chris Matthews, ...

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Zell Gives 'em Hell

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:08:47 pm PDT

Here is the complete text of Zell Miller’s incredible speech. Since I last stood in this spot, a whole new generation of the Miller Family has been born: Four great grandchildren. Along with all the other members of our close-knit family, they are my and Shirley’s most precious possessions. And I know that’s ...

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Daily Kos: "Will Cheney Eat a Baby?"

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 7:58:22 pm PDT

Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga is on a roll tonight. (Hat tip: Phil.) The big question of the night — will Cheney eat a baby live on national television? I think if he can resist his natural tendencies for baby eating, his speech will be a home run. Funny stuff.

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GOP Convention: Day Three, Part Two

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 6:37:22 pm PDT

Our first topic for the third day of the Republican Convention is filling up fast, and that means it’s bogging down for our dial-up users, so here’s another topic in preparation for Zell Miller’s speech. On a personal level, I’m looking forward to this one. Zell will be speaking for me, ...

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Nepalese Riot After Hostages Murdered

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 5:37:59 pm PDT

Enraged by the evil slaughter of 12 Nepalese hostages by the Iraqi holy warriors, thousands of demonstrators trashed a mosque in Katmandu today: Nepal Imposes Curfew in Restive Capital. KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s government imposed an indefinite curfew and appealed for calm Wednesday after thousands of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and ...

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Elephant? What Elephant?

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 5:30:39 pm PDT

Another amazing bout of “Elephant in the Room” journalism today, as mainstream media does their best to cover the story of the Russian school hijacked by Islamic terrorists—without mentioning that they’re Islamic terrorists. ABCNEWS.com calls them “secessionist Chechen rebels.” CBS News calls them “militants” and “hostage takers.” CNN.com calls them a “group” of ...

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Brooklyn Bridge Flag Kidnapped!

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 4:41:31 pm PDT

Time for a little comic relief, courtesy of the thuggish dim bulbs at New York Indymedia. (Hat tip: Kot Begemot.) by flag liberators (No verified email address) 01 Sep 2004 Modified: 01:46:04 PM This is a press release to be sent out directly to all major media demanding the release of all jailed ...

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GOP Convention: Day Three

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 3:51:45 pm PDT

Tonight’s speakers at the Republican Convention include Democratic Senator Zell Miller and Lynne and Dick Cheney. Live streaming, as always, is available at C-SPAN.

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Russian School Hostage Update

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 1:22:59 pm PDT

The latest news on the Islamic terrorist kidnapping of schoolchildren in Russia, from Logic & Sanity: 21 year old Kazik brought his sister to school. He tells the journalist what he witnessed. Around 9 am, an old truck pulled up and about 20 heavily armed terrorists dressed in black and wear black ...

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Daily Kos Advocates Infiltrating RNC

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 1:02:19 pm PDT

Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga, the rising young star of the Democratic Party, advocates sneaking past security at Madison Square Garden to disrupt the Republican Convention. There should be more of this. I know of several groups of people who have “infiltrated” the hall. And memo to the Secret Service — I don’t ...

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New Swift Boats Ad

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 12:56:34 pm PDT

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has released a new advertisement, focusing on John Kerry’s trashing of his medals—the same medals he now claims to be proud of. And the Swiftees are offering a deal: they’ll stop running their ads, if John Kerry apologizes for his actions after returning from Vietnam, ...

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Salon Writer Fact-Checked

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 11:37:38 am PDT

Salon’s Mark Follman wrote a snarky little hit piece on the accredited bloggers attending the GOP convention. (It’s Salon, which means you either have to register or get one of their day passes by suffering through an ad.) Just one problem; Follman was so busy looking down his nose at the ...

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Al-Reuters Gloats Over Suicide Bombings

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 11:14:40 am PDT

The Palestinian bureau chief for al-Reuters, Nidal al-Mughrabi, openly gloats over yesterday’s Hamas mass murder attacks in Israel: Hamas Militants Rebound Despite Israeli Blows. GAZA (Reuters) - With two human bombs from the West Bank, the Palestinian militant group Hamas has shown that Israel’s campaign to kill off its leadership has ...

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Russia Increases Nuclear Security

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:53:19 am PDT

Russia Sends Troops to Guard Nuclear Sites. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia deployed extra troops to guard dozens of nuclear facilities across the country on Wednesday after militants seized a school in the south and a suicide bomb attack in Moscow, the nuclear authority said. Russia, the world’s No.2 atomic power after the ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:48:31 am PDT

The UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, now says that Iran is preparing to produce about 100kg of highly-enriched uranium—enough for five atomic bombs. VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday Iran planned to convert a large amount of raw “yellowcake” uranium into uranium hexafluoride, which one nuclear expert ...

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Protest Warriors Attacked in NY

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:35:38 am PDT

Here is a video of Protest Warriors being attacked by a gang of violent “peace activists.” (Hat tip: Buckeye Abroad.)

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Wacky Gadafi Issues Call to Academics

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:25:26 am PDT

The dictator of Libya, whose name may start with G, Q, or K, and may contain any number of As, Ds, and occasional Hs, marked his 35th year of despotism with a huge celebration and a call for the US to abandon its outmoded governmental system: Revolutionary turned pragmatist, Kadhafi ...

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Peace Activists Get Violent in NY

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 8:09:03 am PDT

At Least 900 Arrested in City as Protesters Clash With Police. Later in the afternoon, a clash erupted on the steps of the New York Public Library after two women tried to hang a protest banner over one of the lions atop the library steps. After the police pinned the women ...

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Religion of Peace Kidnaps 200 Schoolchildren

Wed, Sep 1, 2004 at 7:19:36 am PDT

Gunmen take scores hostage at southern Russia school. MOSCOW (AFP) - Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took more than 200 people hostage at a school in southern Russia near war-torn Chechnya and threatened to blow up the building if the security forces moved in. In Russia’s fourth terror attack within ...

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