Posted 8:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Tomorrow
I've had a bad cold the past few days

Posted 5:35 PM by Scoobie Davis

What a Relief!
Pat Boone wants to see Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Posted 10:09 AM by Scoobie Davis

Bruno World Premiere
I was in Hollywood last night for the premiere of Sasha Baron Cohen's upcoming film Bruno. I didn't get into the after-party but I walked by director Larry Charles.

Posted 3:47 PM by Scoobie Davis

Michael Jackson is Dead
MsNBC just reported it. I wasn't a fan.

Posted 2:56 PM by Scoobie Davis

You Gotta Hear This
Rush, the exemplar of the Party of Individual Responsibility, blames Governor Mark Sanford's Argentina trip for trim on Obama:

Posted 8:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Public Enemies
I'm in LA right now. Last night I went to a preview screening of Public Enemies, the film about John Dillinger starring Johnny Depp. I thought the film was okay but not great. Favorite line: when Depp/Dillinger tells his love interest: "What else do you need to know?"

Posted 12:57 PM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Read
Salon's Andrew Leonard on whose economy it is.

Posted 1:26 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal on why Megyn Kelly of Fox News owes America and explanation regarding Senator John Ensign. included is a letter that cuckolded husband Doug Hampton regarding his wife Cynthia's affair with the senator.

Posted 1:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Thought on Fox News
There's a lot of talk about President Obama's clear reference to Fox News in his recent interview with CNBC. Here's the portion of the interview with John Harwood that Obama clearly refers to Fox:

OBAMA: It’s very hard for me to swallow that one. First of all, I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean, you know, that’s a pretty…

HARWOOD: I assume you’re talking about Fox.

OBAMA: Well, that’s a pretty big megaphone. And you’d be hard pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.

Fox News is the type of organization that would elevate someone like Bill Sammon to be its vice president of news and Washington managing editor.

Posted 7:10 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Joe Conason on the attempt by wingnuts, lead by the Moonie Times, to invent a "Walpin-gate" scandal revolving around the firing of Americorps inspector general Gerald Walpin.

UPDATE: Media Matters for America has more.

Posted 11:58 AM by Scoobie Davis

Sean Hannity Get Zinged on His Fox News TV Show Last Night about GOP Sexual Hypocrisy
Last night on Sean Hannity's Fox News television show, there was a "Great American Panel" discussion. The token liberal punching bag wasn't a punching bag last night (unfortunately I tuned in during the middle of the discussion and don't know his name and I can't find video of the discussion). The topic was John Ensign's philandering. Hannity was dumbfounded when the token liberal said that Ensign's behavior fit in with Newt Gingrich and his pattern of collecting wives. It reminds me of when I had similar thoughts when I spoke to Hannity on his radio radio show a few years ago.

Posted 12:04 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
A. Serwer: "The GOP: History's Greatest Victims"

UPDATE: Another must-read on the GOP: Hendrik Hertzberg "Tweety Birdbrains."

Posted 7:50 PM by Scoobie Davis

Light Posting
I've been at the beach.

Posted 3:22 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Robert Parry "Excusing Outrages of the Right."

Posted 10:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

I'm Stumped
I'm writing a long blog post and I was trying to figure out if there are any legitimate reasons why any progressive should appear on Fox News, other than to denounce the channel. E-mail me at scoobiedavis77@yahoo.com if you can think of any good reasons.

Posted 12:42 PM by Scoobie Davis

Alternate Reality Indeed
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer: "What Fox [News] did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality."

Posted 11:15 AM by Scoobie Davis

Woo Hoo! Terry McAuliffe's Campaign Tanks and He Loses the Primary!
If you want to know why I'm so happy, read my recent open letter to Virginia Democratic primary voters.

UPDATE: The Boorman Tribune has more.

Posted 3:11 PM by Scoobie Davis

Moonie Times' Frank Gaffney Spreads Debunked Rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim
One of the biggest urban legends of the past few years is the rumor that Barack Obama was raised as a Muslim (variants of this smear are the claims that Obama is Arab and that he was born outside the United States). This canard was first publicized in the Sun Myung Moon-owned (and now-defunct) Insight magazine.

Today in the Moon-owned Washington Times, Frank Gaffney wrote an op-ed in which he make the jaw-dropping claim that "[t]here is mounting evidence that the president not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself." Media Matters for America is one of the media watchdogs that have debunked Gaffney's claim (MMFA also cited Gaffney's baseless claims made during the 2008 election about Obama's birth certificate and Gaffney's attempts to link Obama to a "convert to radical Islam" named Khalid al-Mansour).

Tamron Hall of MSNBC addresses the issue:


Cross-posted on the Real Sun Myung Moon blog.

Posted 8:37 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The Daily Kos on Sean Hannity's "Muslim nation" accusation (with video)

Posted 10:33 AM by Scoobie Davis

How Weird People Got to this Site
There are some weird people in this world--and they land on this site due to some odd keyword searches. Every once in a while I post the strangest and funniest keyword searches that people used to get to this site (I get this data from my Statcounter stats). Quick note: here is the post from the last time I did this. I noticed that a lot of the weirdest keyword searches were about right-wing radio shock jock Mark Levin (whom I discussed in this post). Here are the most recent weird keyword searches:

sean hannity reptilian
mark levin liberty and tyranny bookstore conspiracy
george w. bush's groom of the stool [note: click here if you don't what a Groom of the Stool is]
is ann coulter 99 pounds?
kellyanne conway boobs [check them out here]
mel gibson is a repulsive lying cheating hypocrite
rush limbaugh's wife
bob basso reporting nude [note: Bob Basso is the ham actor who plays Thomas Paine--I sure wouldn't like to see him nude]
karen hanretty boobs
ross jeffries pheromones [Note: Ross Jeffries is a picking-up women guru I met at a party]
mark levin is nuts
joseph farah paranoid
mark levins book sucks
sean hannity huge ego
419eater nipple circle
mark levin controversies
did fred ricart get a curling iron up his ass? [Fred Ricart is a Columbus, Ohio Ford dealer and full-time douchebag who was the victim of a rumor that his wife shoved a hot curling iron up his ass]
horney women
why do liberals hate cheney
mark levin ratings
julie ann emery naked
krauthammer sugar tit
mark levin right wing nut

Posted 10:24 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Eric Boehlert: "Sotomayor, Gingrich, and the demise of our press corps"