Posted 10:49 PM by Scoobie Davis

Heads Up
I updated yesterday's post on Jerome Corsi

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Posted 6:13 PM by Scoobie Davis

Media Matters
(updated below)
Today I listened to Sean Hannity's radio show. His guest was Jerome Corsi, the author of the forthcoming book The Obama Nation. In 2004, Corsi co-authored the book Unfit for Command with Swift Boat Liar John O'Neill (I have written about Corsi here and here).

On Hannity's show, Corsi bragged about the number of footnotes in the book (which means little in terms of accuracy--note Ann Coulter's thoroughly endnoted but dishonest book Slander). As luck would have it, around the time that Corsi was crowing to Hannity about how well-researched the book was, Media Matters posted on their web site how the first reported allegation from the book is false based on an article promoting the book on WorldNetDaily, a far-right web site that Corsi writes for.

UPDATE: Media Matters has a post on Steve Sailer, noted racist and contributor to the Washington Times, I wrote about Sailer on the Moon blog last year.

UPDATE II: Department of I'm-Not-Making-This-Shit-Up. WorldNetDaily, the site that carries Corsi's column, has a column by apocalyptic author and theologian Hal Lindsey titled "How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist." I mentioned Lindsey in my article about the satanic scare.

UPDATE III: Media Matters uncovered another falsehood that Corsi made on Hannity & Colmes.

UPDATE IV: Media Matters has more on Corsi's falsehoods.

UPDATE V: Media Matters' comprehensive post debunking Corsi's book.

Posted 6:11 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Soon
I meant to do the post on the Clintons but there is some additional info I need so I'm postponing it for a while. I will do another long post soon.

Posted 6:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

I'll have the Clinton post up today

UPDATE: I'll have it up this weekend

Posted 9:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

A Quick Note to My Readers
This summer, I have been a bit busier than I thought I would be. There were several posts that I have promised to write that I have not had the time to complete. Last night, I made a list of articles that I need to write. I have made a timeline for the end of August to complete posts on the following topics. :
1. Regenery Publishing
2. The anti-Obama spam e-mails
3. The symbiotic relationship between various "hierarchies of misery."
4. Former Bush advisor Doug Wead

Tonight I will post an article for this blog giving some reasons why it's a good thing that Hillary Clinton will probably not become president.

Update: Things came up. I'll post it tomorrow.

Posted 10:13 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Timothy Egan on T. Boone Pickens

Posted 10:19 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Posted 9:50 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Vote Theft for Idiots--Lesson 2 by Ted Rall and Greg Palast.

Posted 9:21 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Dennis Kucinich thanking supporters regarding impeachment. Americans need to thank Representative Kucinish:

Posted 5:51 PM by Scoobie Davis

Amway/Quixtar on Countdown: Say it Ain't So, Keith
I was just watching Countdown with Keith Olbarmann and there was a commercial for Amway/Quixtar. To give the devil his due, the commercial had very high production values. I was watching at a friend's home in Powell, Ohio so I don't know if it was a local buy or not. E-mail me if you also saw the commercial in your viewing area.


UPDATE: I should have used Google. Kos mentioned this over a month ago.

Posted 8:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Newhounds has been smoking lately--especially with this post on PUMA.

Posted 8:14 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Eric Burns of Media Matters for America in the letters sections of the New York Times Magazine on Rush Limbaugh.

Posted 7:22 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Moon blog
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I've been busy. I know I promised the post on Regnery Publishing. I will write it soon.

Posted 11:51 AM by Scoobie Davis

Surrealism On Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Last night, Conan O'Brien chose the winner of his Late Night Make Your Own Commercial Contest in which viewers sent in their own homemade Late Night with Conan O'Brien commericals for the chance to win prizes. My former partner in crime, Frank Cromer, submitted a postmodern, surrealistic entry that combined animation with live-action teasing of swine. It is intended to be an attention-getter. He got the necessary attention because Conan played it before the three main finalists were shown. Watch the segment by clicking here and selecting the Monday, July 14th show (it's about 10 minutes into the show). You can also watch the YouTube video of the commercial here:

Posted 2:21 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Michael Lind on why Jesse Helms is not dead:

Where Jesse Helms came from was the Third World, the American South between World War I and the civil rights revolution. In the generation before Helms was born the son of a police chief in 1921, the Southern oligarchy had been terrified by Populism. The greatest threat to the white elite was the revolt of white workers and farmers. To forestall that possibility, the Southern state governments, in the decade before World War I, used literacy tests, poll taxes and other measures to eliminate not only all blacks but half of the white Southern population from the electorate. In the election of 1936, voter turnout in Georgia was 16.1 percent, 13 percent in Mississippi, and only 10.7 percent in South Carolina. (It was higher, 42.7 percent, in Helms' North Carolina, where populists had abolished the poll tax.)

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Having crushed the Republican and Populist parties, the oligarchs imposed a one-party dictatorship on the region, with secret state surveillance units and occasional collaboration between the police and the Ku Klux Klan. In its economy, the South was a banana republic, a commodity-exporting resource colony in which a "comprador bourgeoisie" of local landowners and local businessmen collaborated with investors in New York and elsewhere in fleecing the region.

To serve their interests, the old latifundist families and corporate elites hired "Dixie demagogues," who were to genuine populists like William Jennings Bryan what a Disney pirate is to a pirate. All of them were entertaining. Some began as entertainers, like musician-slash-flour miller W. Lee "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniel, who went from hosting the "Hillbilly Flour" radio show to the Texas governor's mansion in 1939. The "Dixie demagogues" denounced various supposed enemies of the white tribe, but with two exceptions--Huey Long and George Wallace -- they never threatened the rule of the country clubs and courthouse gangs. Jesse Helms was one of these theatrical quasi-populists, an uncomplicated establishment conservative who parlayed a liberal-baiting radio show into a political career. Like other faux-homespun Southern conservatives, he employed rhetorical populism against blacks, homosexuals, liberals, professors, modern artists and "common-ists" in the service of his business backers, most noticeably North Carolina's tobacco industry.

Posted 6:23 PM by Scoobie Davis

Fox News Attacks Michelle Obama

Posted 12:41 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Eric Boehlert on how the New York Times sent a Dittohead to interview Rush Limbaugh. Bill Wyman has more.

Posted 6:31 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Jack Chick Tract
"Who is He?"

Posted 6:34 AM by Scoobie Davis

Columbus Celebrity Spotting
I'm here in Columbus for a while. Last Saturday night, I was enjoying some wine with a lovely lady at the bar of Rigsby's Kitchen. My date pointed out that across from us was Andrea Cambern, the WBNS 10TV news anchor. Four years ago when I visited Columbus, I noted that she was still hot. Four years later, she's still hot.

Posted 9:38 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Reads
Joseph A. Palermo on Rush Limbaugh and the right media's huge megaphone and David Carr on why one should be careful about crossing Fox News (by the way, I instigated a successful Google bomb against Fox News and have the transcripts to two hilarious and revealing conversations with Limbaugh on his radio show--check the sidebar).

Posted 6:12 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman on fake news about fake scandals:

But the McCain campaign went beyond condemning General Clark’s remarks; it went out of its way to distort them. “This backhanded slap against John as not being a worthy warrior because he just got shot down is one of the more surprising insults in my military history,” said retired Col. Bud Day, who participated in a conference call organized by the campaign. In fact, General Clark had said no such thing.

The irony, not lost on Democrats, is that Col. Day himself has done what he falsely accused Wesley Clark of doing: he appeared in the 2004 Swift boat ads that impugned John Kerry’s wartime service.

The willingness of the McCain campaign to engage in these tactics, employing such tainted spokesmen, tells us that the campaign has decided to go negative — specifically, to apply the strategy Karl Rove used so effectively in 2002 and 2004 (but not so effectively in 2006), that of portraying Democrats as unpatriotic.

And sure enough, Adam Nagourney of The New York Times reports signs of the “increasing influence of veterans of Mr. Rove’s shop in the McCain operation.”

Will Rovian tactics work this year?

Posted 2:52 AM by Scoobie Davis

Happy 4th of July!
Enjoy the day.

Posted 2:55 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Reads
Rumproast and Pandagon on PUMA. Not surprisingly, the head of PUMA will appear on Fox & Friends.

UPDATE: Another must-read article: Eric Boehlert on the New York Times' historical revisionism regarding the Swift Boat hoax":

By patting the press on the back for its role in "undermin[ing] the Swift Boat charges," the Times is simply rewriting media history -- a history that it is imperative we understand as the current general election gains momentum.

The sad truth is that the Swift Boat hoax (and that's what it was -- a hoax) did not represent some sort of unvarnished truth-telling by the press. It represented a low point in timid campaign journalism.

"Instead of acting as filters for the truth, reporters nodded and attentively transcribed both sides of the story, invariably failing to provide context, background, or any sense of which claims held up and which were misleading," wrote Brian Montopoli, Zachary Roth, and Thomas Lang at CJR Daily, back in August 2004.

The press, in other words, got used. Badly.

It was painful enough in 2004 to watch the intimidated press corps stand down while the GOP rolled out its smear campaign. But to watch the press four years later try to pretend it shot down the smears in real time is infuriating.

Posted 9:13 AM by Scoobie Davis

Regnery Publishing
I will have the post I promised to do about Regnery Publishing in the next day or so.

Posted 8:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

Wesley Clark Gets Schooled
The recent media distration over Wesley Clark's comments don't inspire confidence about the left's ability to combat the right's advantage with the media as well as the right's own media apparatus (e.g., Drudge, hate radio, the Moonie media, and, of course, Fox News).

Wesley Clark chose to work with the enemy and now he's paying a price. Clark signed on as a military and foreign affairs analyst with Fox News in 2005. Although the distortions of Clark's words have been reported on legitimate journalistic enterprises such as CNN and MSNBC, Fox News is by far the worst culprit--click here, here, here, and here.

Progressives are kidding themselves big time if they think they can coexist peacefully with Roger Ailes and Fox News. As I have pointed out on this blog numerous times: Ailes and the hard right are not to be trusted; they are to be discredited marginalized, and defeated.