Posted 8:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

Warren Jeffs Should Have Contributed to the GOP

It's great news that FBI Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Warren Steed Jeffs is now in custody. The cult leader of an offshoot of Mormonism controlled his members' lives with an iron fist. However, what got him in trouble with the law was his matchmaking between adult male members and underage female members as well as his own personal sexual misconduct.

Let's compare Jeffs' conduct with another cult leader: Sun Myung Moon. Like Jeffs, Moon controls the lives of his followers with an iron fist. Also like Jeffs, Moon--in at least one instance--arranged a "marriage" between an adult male and an underage female--an arrangement involving his own son. In the early 1980's, Moon brought a Korean national, Nansook Hong, into the United States for the purposes of an arranged marriage with his cocaine-addled son Hyo Jin who was abusive and gave her genital herpes.

There were some problems with this arrangement:
1) Moon brought Hong into the United States under false pretenses (which constitutes immigration fraud and is grounds for Moon's deportation).
2) Hong was only 15 years old when she was to be betrothed to Moon's son. By arranging this illegal marriage, Moon engaged in the crime of rape as an accomplice--the exact crime that got Jeffs in trouble (it is also a crime involving moral turpitude--another ground for deportation). The shocking account of Hong's life in the Moon family is recounted in her book In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family.

Unlike Jeffs, who is looking forward to the rest of his life in an orange jumpsuit, Moon has received plaudits from former president George Bush--Moon is "the man with the vision" according to Bush the Elder--and had a crown placed on his head in the Dirksen Senate office building in a ceremony attended by many of this nation's leaders.

Why the disparity in treatment of these two lowlifes? Certainly a large part of this disparity can be explained by the fact that Jeffs didn't make unreported contributions of billions of dollars to the Republican Party. Moon has dumped between two and four billion dollars into his media empire--which serves as a mouthpiece for the Republican Party (Paul Krugman was spot on when he referred to Moon's Washington Times as the Bush administration's "de facto house organ").

What's more, Moon didn't even have to use his own money. Moon has been able to collect billions of dollars--mostly in Japan--employing "spiritual sales" schemes--in which gullible families are bilked out of their life savings in exchange for rescuing their departed loved from hell (no, I'm not making this up). The upshot is that a few billion dollars to the GOP means the difference between facing a possible life sentence and being crowned the "King of the Universe" in a U.S. government office building. God bless the Republican Party.

Posted 4:59 PM by Scoobie Davis

It Makes Sense
Stephen Hayes to be Dick Cheney's offical biographer.

Posted 10:32 AM by Scoobie Davis

What Aren't Democrats Exposing Amway/Quixtar/Alticor?
Amway/Quixtar/Alticor is a giant fraud operation that is a de facto ATM machine for the Republican Party (I Google bombed Amway/Quixtar a while ago). Right now, Dick DeVos, the son of Amway founder Richard DeVos, is running for governor in Michagan (as a Republican, of course). Although DeVos is behind incumbent, Democrat Jennifer Granholm, it is not an insurmountable deficit.

Reasons Democrats should be doing more to expose this huge business fraud. 1) It would sink DeVos' chances to become Michigan's governor; 2) A weakened Amway would mean less money going to Republicans; and 3) For humanitarian purposes. People who join Amway are being sold a bill of goods and are being bilked out of their hard-earned money (read former Amway distributor Eric Scheibeler's book Merchants of Deception online and Chris Hansen's NBC Dateline investigation for the shocking truth about this business cult).

Someone has the right idea and created a Devos campaign commerical parody:


UPDATE: Here's another video on DeVos (thanks Phil)

Posted 10:27 AM by Scoobie Davis

Disenfranchising for God
Katherine Harris and Kenneth Blackwell

Posted 7:45 PM by Scoobie Davis

Woo Hoo! Webb Leading Allen in Virginia according to Zogby!
According to Raw Story.

Posted 12:19 PM by Scoobie Davis

So Much for Returning Honor and Dignity to the White House
Robert Parry on Bush as spoiled rich prick.

Posted 3:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

I Couldn't Agree Any More
Sheldon Drobny:

many criticisms have been directed at me for the “problems” that Air America has had during its “birth pangs.” Almost 5 years ago I started the Air America project and invested over $3 Million on the start of a liberal radio network. In fact, Arianna invited me to her house in November, 2002 to present some of my ideas with a group of Hollywood elites trying to save Salon.com. At the time, I was a big donor to the Democratic Party and had personal contacts with Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as Al and Tipper Gore. They opened the door for me to meet with everyone on both coasts to try to raise some follow-on money for our project.

We had hundreds of meetings with the kind of people and organizations that collectively were worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Not a single one made an investment with us although many promises were made. The reason that happened is something I wrote about in my book, Road To Air America. I also had introductions to public and union pension funds with promises made to me that never came to pass. The reason was simple. I was not a part of any inner circle in the political or entertainment world. The cronyism is so horrible in the Democratic elite that they have no time for new faces or new ideas. So they continually talk to the same people over and over again with the same result. Nothing ever happens.

Posted 1:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

The Bozells: The America-Hating Family From Hell
I was doing a little research for my forthcoming Sun Myung Moon post and I discovered something interesting. My research included reading Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Carlton Sherwood's attempt to shill for the demented cult leader. The book is a complete literary fraud in which Sherwood posed as an independent journalist but the book's manuscript was reviewed by Moonie operatives (True to form, after shilling for the virulently America-hating would-be messiah, Sherwood created the fraudulent film Stolen Honor which smeared a true American war hero John Kerry--click here for my confrontation of Fox News Democrat Tammy Bruce).

In the acknowledgements section of the book, Sherwood thanked Patrica Bozell. Patricia Bozell is the wife of L Brent Bozell, Jr. who wrote the pro-McCarthy book (with William F. Buckley) McCarthy and his Enemies. Her crotchfruit is L. Brent Bozell III, the head of the Scaife-funded Media Research Center who honored the Swift Boat Liars who denigrated Kerry's war record. This is not surprising, Bozell is a member of the board of advisors for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights which refused to condemn the virulently bigoted statements against Catholics by Jerome Corsi, the co-author of the anti-Kerry book Unfit for Command.

Since I have neglected the Google Bomb blog for too long, I thought a Bozell Google bomb would be in order, the full details on the Google Bomb blog.

Addendum: Bozell once denigrated my blog--something I view as a badge of honor. . .
Tammy Bruce is still at it. Here's from a post of here blog:

The truth of the matter is if one were forced to choose, let's say by Martians, of morphing into either Dick Cheney or John Kerry, well, I think the planet would have an inordinate number of Cheneys running around. How do I know this? One word--ketchup, to say nothing of our preferences for dignity, honesty and a commitment to family and country. This as opposed to the self-absorption that leads to re-enacting battlefield scenes for the camera, allegedly shooting a Vietnamese in the back, accepting a Purple Heart for a "wound" dressed by a band-aid, pretending to throw your medals over a fence while keeping the ribbons, and voting for something before you vote against it.

No wonder he's complaining about Lieberman and, by proxy, Cheney. It's irritating to have men around who, by simple counterpoint, illustrate what you've never been and will never be. Like, perhaps, president one day.

E-mail Bruce at tammyblog@yahoo.com and ask her where Dick Cheney was when John Kerry was in Vietnam.

Posted 11:05 AM by Scoobie Davis

Belated Comic-Con Post
Last month's Comic-Con was a blast!!!

I went for two days: Thursday and Saturday. On Thursday, I saw Daniel Clowes talk about sequential art and film. I wasn't too surprised when he announced that Jack Black's production company Black and White Productions would be doing a film adaptation of story in Eightball no. 23 "The Death Ray" (when I read "The Death Ray," I had a premonition that it would make a good film). on Saturday, Clowes signed 10 of my copies of Eightball.

On Saturday, Robert Smigel was doing a signing for his forthcoming TV Funhouse DVD. He had Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog with him--who was there for a Conan segment in which he insulted the Comic-Con attendees. When it was my turn, Triumph looked at my long hair and demeanor and asked if I was on drugs. He began to berate me and asked if I preferred Batman or Spider-Man. When I told him Spider-Man, he asked me if it was because we both have goo on our hands. It was fun and I also confirmed with Smigel that Triumph
was made by Mask Illusions, a Mexican puppet company. I have a Mask Illusions rubber monkey.

During both days, I speedily went threw the exhibitor's hall and stopped at booths and asked for swag. If they asked me what swag was, I responded, "Swag refers to free promotional items given out at trade shows." I had to explain to one of the exhibitors that swag is not the same as "schwag"--which is low-grade weed. At Comic-Con, I was the swag-meister. I weighed all the stuff I bought and got for free at Comic-con and it totaled about 30 pounds.

Posted 10:10 AM by Scoobie Davis

Today is Catch-up Day
I will post on things I haven't had the time to write about.

Posted 8:59 PM by Scoobie Davis

Buy This Book
I just listened to Jim Derych on Mike Malloy's radio show. He was discussing his book Confessions of a Former Dittohead. As someone familiar with Limbaugh (I've listened to him for 14 years and have called his show twice--click here and here) I can attest that Derych knows what the score is and that he is spot on in his criticisms of the hate radio jock. Buy the book.

Posted 11:50 AM by Scoobie Davis

A Spectacle So Bizarre that I Had To See It To Believe It
Today there was a meeting of the minds of two of the biggest conspiracy nuts on the American political right: David Horowitz and Pat Robertson. Horowitz appeared on Robertson's 700 Club television show to discuss his new book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Have Seized Control of the Democratic Party (co-authored with Richard Poe). Horowitz apparently is still smarting over being taken to the woodshed by Media Matters for America about the shoddiness of the book. Three weeks ago, Media Matters published a long post debunking the main premises of the book which Media Matters researchers found to be rife with libels, slipshod conclusions, and assaults on Soros that mirror those of fringe presidential candidate and conspiracy nut Lyndon LaRouche (click here for an amusing post on the Larouchies). The misinformation is Shadow Party was so egregious that even Fox News operatives confronted Horowitz about it--something that probably caught Horowitz completely off-guard. Despite promising "exhaustive" rebuttals to the Media Matters post, Horowitz and Poe have yet to offer one (which is not surprising because the facts are on Media Matters' side).

Horowitz is addressing Media Matters' substantive criticism in another way: using the hard right's extensive media apparatus to launch attacks against Media Matters. Today's 700 Club appearance was an example of this strategy. Horowitz used the appearance to make the wing-nut claim that "George Soros now controls that Democratic Party." Horowitz called Media Matters "a shadowy group" run by David Brock, who, Horowitz claimed, admitted to making "a career by smearing people." Horowitz went on saying that he doesn't know of a group that possesses "lower ethical standards than Media Matters."

REALITY:
1. What makes Media Matters dangerous is not that it smears people. What makes it dangerous is that it records the words of the right's media apparatus and gives sober and thoughtful analysis. When a post on Media Matters quotes a wing-nut saying something false or stupid, it usually provides a transcript of the entire conversation so that the reader can determine if the quote is in context and if the criticism is warranted. As I have mentioned in the previous post, right-wing institutions such as hate radio have gotten away with murder because, until Media Matters came along, there wasn't an organized group monitoring and transcribing their hate-filled diatribes on a daily basis. Members of the right's media apparatus hate Media Matters because MM's monitoring of the right's media means that the Limbaughs, Hannitys, and O'Reillys of the world can no longer smear with impunity.
2. I'm surprised about Horowitz's claim that David Brock made a career out of smearing people. Brock admitted that in the 1990's he was part of a concerted effort to discredit Anita Hill and then-president Clinton that was subsidized by paranoid conspiracy theorist Richard Mellon Scaife. An example was Brock's reporting of the "Troopergate" hoax. When the lurid tales by the troopers were exposed as fabrications and when Brock found out that the troopers were paid to fabricate stories, Brock came clean and repudiated his actions and devoted his life to exposing the truth about the right's attempts to use the media to smear opponents.
So Horowitz is partially correct. Brock was a hatchet-man when he worked for Horowitz's benefactor Richard Mellon Scaife. However, he now is exposing the lies of his former friends.
3. This isn't the first time that Horowitz smeared Brock. Horowitz was part of the right's unsuccessful attempt to smear Brock when his book Blinded by the Right was published.
4. It is hardly surprising that Horowitz would use an intellectual sewer like Robertson's 700 Club (quick note: the 700 Club was the forum Jerry Falwell used to blame the 9/11 attacks on gays and progressives) to attack Media Matters. Horowitz was spewing his LaRouchesque conspiracy theories on the show run by a man whose 1991 book The New World Order is a compendium of the looniest conspiracy theories since The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion hoax. Although it was a bizarre spectacle, it made perfect sense for two conspiracy nuts to discuss George Soros' plans to rule the world.

Note: This post is also on HorowitzWatch.

UPDATE: Media Matters has a post on the exchange.

Posted 11:32 AM by Scoobie Davis

Just One More Sign of Progress
Since Media Matters for America was launched in 2004, it has brought to light the nature of the rhetoric of the American right's media apparatus. What was a saving grace for right-wing talk radio is that there used to be no paper trail. That is no longer the case. In the past, if Limbaugh wanted to make appeals to those who long for the good ol' days in which an African-American wouldn't walk on the shadow of a white person, then he usually got away with it. Not any more.

More on Media Matters later today.

Posted 11:18 AM by Scoobie Davis

Shocking
Just some more examples of how Sun Myung Moon is a threat to democracy. More on Moon soon.

Posted 1:17 PM by Scoobie Davis

Moon Post Forthcoming
In the meantime, here's a short item by Charles Pierce

Also, this Moon-sponsored surfing event in my hometown is freaky. Surfing is about catching a wave and thinking for yourself.

Posted 12:04 PM by Scoobie Davis

Google Bomb Forthcoming
I have neglected the Google Bomb blog for too long. I will have a new Google bomb very soon.

Posted 1:32 AM by Scoobie Davis

Beerfest Premiere After-Party
The Beerfest Premiere was at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (the after-party was next door). I didn't have too much trouble sneaking into the party.

It was a raucous scene. There was a boxing ring in which contestants played beer pong (Hooters girls held up round cards). There were other beer games going on (though I didn't see Thumper).

Several beer companies had booths. Some foreign breweries I never heard of as well as Miller, Budweiser, and Michelob. The Miller booth had the hottest women and the best swag (take note, Kevin Smith). Among the nifty Miller swag were t-shirts by American Apparel touting the Unwritten Laws of Man. They had cool Laws of Man books, refrigerator magnets, and Miller bottle openers. The main course was hamburgers but I went to the Hooter's booth for some karma-free food (carrots and celery) and to flirt with the Hooters girls.

Tough the party was an exercise in irresponsibility, to their credit, the party organizers had a booth where party-goers could get a breathalyzer, and there was a booth where people who had too much to drink could get a taxi.

Quick party notes: There was also a special Beerfest brand of beer (though I don't know what brewery made it). . . Scooter Patrol ahd a booth but I don't know why. . . Even though the party was held in a parking lot, you couldn't tell because the there were a few inches of sawdust on the surface of the lot. . . My breathalyzer score was .027 (I wasn't in a drinking mood). . . Budweiser gave away some cool min-bottle bottle openers. . . I had a great time.

Posted 2:23 AM by Scoobie Davis

Just Crashed the Beerfest Premiere After-Party
It totally slammed! Details when I'm sober.

Posted 4:41 PM by Scoobie Davis

Exclusive: Push-Polling Against Ted Strickland in Ohio
I have received information from a credible source in Ohio that either Republican gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Blackwell's campaign or his surrogates are engaging in computerized telephone push-polling. Residents of the Buckeye State are receiving computerized calls in which they are told that they are participating in an automated poll for the Ohio governor's race. If the respondent indicates the Democratic candidate Ted Strickland (it's voice-activated), then the "poll-taker" asks if the respondent knows that Strickland supports gay marriage (he doesn't) and abortion rights. The phone call includes positive statements about Blackwell.

Strickland is leading Blackwell by over 20 points (which is too much of a lead for Blackwell and Ohio GOP cronies to erase through disenfranchisement and other shenanigans). Let's hope Strickland does a full investigation of Blackwell's misconduct once he becomes governor. Blackwell belongs in an orange jumpsuit.

Posted 6:02 PM by Scoobie Davis

Katherine Harris' Meltdown Continues
The scoop from Charlie Reina (the guy who stuck it to Fox News).

Posted 3:30 PM by Scoobie Davis

Is Kenneth Blackwell's Campaign Engaging in Push-Polling?
Details tomorrow.

Posted 1:32 PM by Scoobie Davis

No, He Wouldn't Ever "Rush to Judgement"
It was kind of funny watching Slanthead last night on Hannity & Colmes. The discussion was how so many people tried to blame the JonBenet murder on her parents. Hannity was bemoaning the "rush to judgement. However, in Hannity's world, rushing to judgement is okay if the accused is a Haitian immigrant or a former president who is a Democrat.

Posted 1:19 PM by Scoobie Davis

John Hagee is Scary
Click here. Hagee has previously been Cavuto's guest (and billed as an "expert on Iran"). Here's another of my posts on Hagee.

Posted 1:56 PM by Scoobie Davis

Spanking the Alpha Monkey
It's David Neiwert term, not mine, to describe the dynamics of what is happening to Geroge Allen and why it occurred. Read the entire article.

Posted 1:17 PM by Scoobie Davis

Check This Out
Dave Johnson: "Behind the Front: The Creation of Vets for Freedom"

Posted 12:01 PM by Scoobie Davis

Eric Boehlert on Little Green Footballs
It ain't pretty.

Posted 11:49 AM by Scoobie Davis

Google Bomb Update
I liked this post on Karl Rove enough that I added it to the Karl Rove Google Bomb:

When the book Bush's Brain was published, my co-author Wayne Slater and I assumed we were done with Karl Rove. We had exercised what we believed was a journalistic responsibility to inform the public about Karl and, of course, made a few dollars selling books. We both had other projects and ideas we wanted to explore.
Karl, though, was influencing much of what was taking place in our country and in the wider world. Interest in him increased. We knew him better than others and felt inclined to write a sequel to our first book. The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power will be published in a few weeks by Random House/Crown.

And Karl is not happy.

Mr. Rove does not deign to call me. I am beneath contempt. When FOX News and Brit Hume ran an excerpt of an interview with me in the film based on the original book, Rove responded by describing me as a "far left wing liberal who has been drinking too much swamp water." The president's big brain advisor, therefore, calls my co-author when he has a peeve with our work. Last week, Rove called Slater several times to begin his ritual dissembling about information in "The Architect." He wants his lawyer to talk to our publisher's lawyers. He wants to pretend like he has been cooperative and we are obstinate and did not listen to his side of any story. He is, as always, beginning his spin in advance of any public interest the book may generate.

Just as he did with "Bush's Brain," Rove managed to acquire an early galley version of the new book. He is disturbed about several matters but appears most deeply troubled about how the narrative proves he has had a complex relationship with convicted felon Jack Abramoff. Information provided to us for the book by an eyewitness and participant in Rove and Abramoff meetings gives lie to Rove and the White House's claims that Abramoff was barely known by the administration. Karl has always known who has money to spend on politics and how to use those people. Our witness, who also told the same story to federal investigators, details meetings between Rove and Abramoff that show the two were using each other for their own political ends.

Read the rest.

Posted 11:01 AM by Scoobie Davis

Anyone Up for This?
Someone should create a Wikipedia page for the "macaca" controversy. The only thing that pops up in a search is the entry for the old world monkey, the macaque.

UPDATE: the "macaca" controversy is listed in Allen's entry.

Posted 10:54 AM by Scoobie Davis

How Did I Miss This?
Ronald Kessler is now "chief Washington correspondent" for Christopher Ruddy's NewsMax.

Posted 10:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

Some people don't know when to just quietly fade away
Jeff Gannon/James Guckart's latest contribution to our nation's political debate

Posted 1:03 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Hendrik Hertzberg on the Democratic Party versus the Democrat [sic] Party. Hertzberg was a guest on Al Franklen's radio show today.

UPDATE: Media Matters has more

Posted 1:41 PM by Scoobie Davis

Is This What They Mean By "Fair and Balanced"?
Today on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto had a panel to discuss the most recent terror plot and how it wil affect the November elections. In fairness to Cavuto, even though he had Tom DeLay as a guest, Cavuto balanced DeLay with a sound thinker: Ann Coulter.

Posted 10:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

Hannity's Dishonesty Not Ignored on the Internet
I found out last night based on my Sitemeter stats that this site comes up first for a Google search of "hannity sucks ass." This is because Tuesday I reported on the wiseass at Ned Lamont headquarters who held up a "HANNITY SUCKS ASS" sign behind Alan Colmes during a live broadcast of Hannity & Colmes.

Apparently a lot of people also saw this because I received a deluge of hits once the Google web crawlers caught the phrase on my site.

While I'm glad that a Fox News show was disrupted by this profane media hacker, the issues run deeper. I wish the sign-holder was less profane and more informative. As someone who has listened to Hannity's radio show, watched his TV show, and spoken with him personally (click here and here), I know about Hannity's character: he is a pathological liar and an unprincipled man.

My first conversation with Hannity in which I confronted him about Jerry Falwell's venality and mendacity and Pat Robertson's religious bigotry, Hannity's response was to accuse me of anti-Christian bigotry.

Thankfully, at least on the internet, Hannity's pattern of intellectual dishonesty is prominent. A lion's share of the credit goes to Media Matters for America which has diligently recorded Hannity's perfidy (a few of MM's more revealing posts on Hannity are here, here, here, here, here, and here. Also, the reason that fourteen of the top twenty sites for a Google search of Hannity's name give information about Hannity's dishonesty is because of the many bloggers who participated in the google bombing of "Sean Hannity."

Although Hannity, like his spiritual mentor Rush Limbaugh, enjoys credibility with the out-of-touch elite media, people who research him on the web are well-informed about the nature of the beast.

Posted 2:41 PM by Scoobie Davis

I Just Found This Out--This is Funny
This post on my site is in the top twenty Google searches for the phrase "Michelle Malkin."

Posted 2:04 PM by Scoobie Davis

Truer Words Could Not Be Written
Robert Parry on Joe Lieberman:

Lieberman's post-defeat statement--that he will run as an independent because he views Lamont's victory as a turn toward overt partisanship--summed up what many rank-and-file Democrats dislike about Lieberman.

"The old politics of partisan polarization won today," Lieberman told supporters. "For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot, I will not let this result stand."

Yet, Lieberman only seems to object to partisanship when it is displayed by Democrats. . .

Time and time again, Lieberman has tolerated aggressive partisanship from Republican strategists like Karl Rove or from right-wing pundits such as Sean Hannity--even when they denounce Democrats as unpatriotic, un-American or treasonous.

Despite the insults that right-wing pundits have hurled at Democrats and liberals, Lieberman still relishes his appearances on Fox News--where he has hailed Hannity as a personal friend--and on any number of other national pundit shows.

Posted 10:17 AM by Scoobie Davis

How to Respond to the Right's Take on The Lamont Victory
Here are the typical GOP/wing-nut talking points from Fox News pseudo-Democrat Tammy Bruce:

It's Not Joe Lieberman Who Lost...It's the Democrat [sic] party. . .Even after years of watching my party decline, I have refused to abandon it, even if it means remaining as an example of what being a Democrat used to mean, and the difference between Classical Liberal politics versus today's stink of leftist tripe.

The essence of the GOP/right-wing talking points:
1. The Lamont victory signals the re-McGovernization of the Democratic Party (the Democrat [sic] Party to them) and the party now represents isolationism, appeasement, and pacifism.
2.Lamont’s supporters represent "the wackadoo wing" of the Democratic Party.
3. The "losers" in Lieberman's loss are "the troops."

To counter this, Democrats should point out:
1. Lieberman not only supported the war but has been an apologist for unsound policy decisions. Lieberman not only supported Bush's bad policies but harshly criticized Democrats who criticized Bush's inept handling of the war. Other prominent Democrats who supported the war did not face primary challenges.
2. Lamont is focused on fighting the terrorists who endanger us, not in keeping troops bogged down in costly quagmires.
3. Lieberman has become cozy with right-wing smear merchants like Sean Hannity.
4. Keeping our troops in a quagmire is what is hurting them.

If Lieberman were loyal to the Democratic Party, then he would abandon his bid as an independent candidate. Although, not surprisingly, the members of today's National Review symposium on Lieberman's defeat reiterated most of the right-wing talking points, one thing I agree with panelists John McLaughlin and Gary Andres that could cost Democrats three House seats in Connecticut. Prominent Democrats like Bill Clinton and Christopher Dodd should urge Lieberman to drop out and put his support behind Lamont.

UPDATE: Wesley Clark is in good form in his endorsement of Ned Lamont:

On Tuesday, the message sent by Connecticut voters was loud and clear. They want change, and they want Ned Lamont to represent them in the U.S. Senate, voting for Ned by a 52% - 48% margin over Senator Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary.

You see, despite what Joe Lieberman believes, invading Iraq and diverting our attention away from Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden is not being strong on national security. Blind allegiance to George W. Bush and his failed "stay the course" strategy is not being strong on national security. And no, Senator Lieberman, no matter how you demonize your opponents, there is no "antisecurity wing" of the Democratic Party.

Indeed, Connecticut Democrats recognized all of this, and yesterday they chose Ned Lamont as their nominee for the U.S. Senate. Now, I hope you'll join me in supporting Ned as he heads into the general election this November.

Posted 7:05 PM by Scoobie Davis

True, but I Think I Would Have Stated It a Little More Delicately
Faux News' Hannity & Colmes did a live broadcast in which Colmes was at Lamont headquarters. Colmes spoke live to Hannity right as the show was ending. As Colmes was talking to Hannity, someone in the crowd behind Colmes put up a sign reading, "HANNITY SUCKS ASS."

UPDATE: Here's a screen shot.

Posted 12:12 PM by Scoobie Davis

Catching Up
I'm going to do some posts that I haven't had the time to do in the last few weeks. One of them is a post on HorowitzWatch about how Media Matters for America uncovered DH's use of propaganda by Lyndon LaRouche to attack George Soros.

Posted 9:16 AM by Scoobie Davis

I am Karl Rove + An Announcement
That's me in the middle as Karl Rove (Thanks, Doreen, for the photographs). It was taken at Democracy Fest almost a month ago (I was a guest member of the Bush Chain Gang). The reason I haven't posted it until now is that I haven't had time until now.

My blog has been neglected for the past few months (e.g., I didn't mention Ned Lamont until today). This was becasue I was working at a full-time job. I am no longer doing that so I can blog more. Stay tuned to this blog. More posting soon and on a more regular basis. Woo Hoo!

Posted 8:57 AM by Scoobie Davis

Go Ned Go!!!
I endorse Ned Lamont (better later than never--I've been busy)

Posted 2:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

I will be posting either tonight or tomorrow

Posted 3:03 PM by Scoobie Davis

Sorry About Not Posting
I'm suffering from blogger guilt. I have so much to write about but so little time.