Posted 7:18 AM by Scoobie Davis

Keyword Searches People Used to Get to This Site
I always enjoy checking my Statcounter stats and see what odd keyword searches people use to get to this site (my last blog post on this is here). Here is the latest list of weird keyword searches:

hannity compare american pie to sex tape
IS DAVID BOSSIE JEWISH
Josette Sheeran a real bitch
karen hanretty nude
tammy bruce is self-promoting
george bush groom of the stool [click here if you don't know what a groom of the stool is]
Doug Wead + Dexter Yager
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Danny Davis Sun Myung Moon
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megyn kelly nipples
"dexter yager" sex talks
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"girls of the mid american conference"

Posted 11:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Gene Lyons on Fox News

I won't be posting for the next few days; I'm celebrating Festivus.

Posted 12:03 PM by Scoobie Davis

Good News About Census 2010
click here

Posted 11:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

Happy Festivus!
1. My favorite Christmas essay: "All Hail Pottersville" by Gary Kamiya
2. My favorite X-mas film: Bad Santa (directed by Terry Zwigoff (also, see Zwigoff's Crumb and Ghost World). Second Favorite Christmas film: Go.
3. Favorite Christmas TV episode: Futurama's "Xmas Story"
4. Favorite Christmas song: "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses:

Posted 9:09 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Rehabilitation of the John Birch Society
Since the early 1960's, the conservative movement has tried to distance itself from the loony ideas of the late Robert Welch and the John Birch Society (Welch believe that President Eisenhower was part of the communist conspiracy). In 1961, Buckley's National Review devoted an entire issue to repudiating the Birchers. The Birchers have still been around but were not a force in the American political dialogue--until recently.

Glenn Beck has tried to mainstream quasi-Bircher thought with his popularization of the writings of Mormon reactionary Cleon Skousen (who was considered extreme to even the Birchers). In February 2010, the Birchers were a co-sponsor of the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. Just today I was flipping through the radio and heard right-wing radio jocks Quinn and Rose touting an article about the START Treaty from the Bircher publication New American.

Posted 10:26 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Sun Myung Moon Blog
Click here

Posted 10:38 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Fox News Comments

Posted 9:50 AM by Scoobie Davis

Projection
Karl Rove: Obama has a "genetic predisposition almost" to "find an enemy and demonize" them

Posted 9:44 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Media Matters for America on Tony Perkins and Bill Donohue.

Posted 6:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

Blast from the Past
Why Hillary didn't have a clue.

Posted 1:18 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Kevin Drum, "The Noise Machine Revisited"

Posted 9:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

Blast from the Past
My post "The Theocratic Chain of Misery"

Posted 8:28 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Reads
The right-wing backlash against advancing minority rights and Richard T. Hughes on the sectarian right.

Posted 9:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Fox News' Bill Sammon misuse of the language. I previously wrote about Sammon here.

UPDATE I: Media Matters for America has more and Sammon responds: "Give me specifics" about my conservative viewpoint.

UPDATE II: Sammon and climate change pseudo-skepticism.

Posted 1:04 AM by Scoobie Davis

Wish Ann Coulter a Happy 49th Birthday!
When are her fans going to tell her to ditch the miniskirt?

Posted 10:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

Deleted Radar Online Article
Back in 2007, Radar Online did an article about crashers at the Academy Awards; I was one of the featured crashers. A while ago, I discovered that the article was no longer on Radar's web site. I found the cached article and put it on its own blog; unfortunately I couldn't retrieve the photos except mine (which I got from another source).

Posted 9:54 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Media Matters on Fox News reporter Doug McKelway

Posted 1:30 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Robert Parry "The Right's Power of Media Money"

Posted 10:14 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Unbalanced: Fox News' conspiracy theory obsession. I previously wrote about how Fox News CEO Roger Ailes was part of the 1990's Vince Foster conspiracy factory of the 1990's.

Posted 10:04 AM by Scoobie Davis

Happy Black Friday and Happy Belated Thanksgiving
I am thankful that a crook like Tom Delay has finally gotten what's coming to him.

Posted 9:47 AM by Scoobie Davis

David Horowitz Still Up To His Old Tricks

I was watching C-SPAN's Book Notes last weekend and David Horowitz was promoting his new book Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign For An Academic Bill Of Rights. Just to give you an indication of where he's coming from, I wrote about a previous attempt by Horowitz to reform higher education: suing the University of California Board of Regents to install Michael Savage (yes, that Michael Savage) as dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Posted 9:01 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman "There Will Be Blood":

The fact is that one of our two great political parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it’s doing the governing. And that party now controls one house of Congress, which means that the country will not, in fact, be governable without that party’s cooperation — cooperation that won’t be forthcoming.

Posted 10:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

Oops
I forgot to post this week.

Posted 9:06 AM by Scoobie Davis

Read and Rank my Amazon.com Review of Bush's Decision Points
The other day I wrote a review of George W. Bush's Decision Points (it's in the two-star section). The wing-nuts are giving it the thumbs-down. Rate it according to whether you like the review.

Posted 9:03 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Steve Kornacki "The disingenuous advice of Fox News Democrats" (professional self-loathing Democrats Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen). I wrote about Caddell in 2004.

UPDATE I: Steve Benen has more.

UPDATE II: Salon has more on Caddell

Posted 10:01 AM by Scoobie Davis

When Did Sean Hannity Learn the Truth about the Lack of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Saddam's Iraq?
I was able to check out a little of George W. Bush's interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. One thing I found informative was that Hannity, at long last, admitted that there were no WMDs in Iraq and the basis for the war was bogus (to no surprise, Hannity expresses sympathy for Bush asking him how he felt after the discovery, “Frustrating for you?”

To those of us familiar with Hannity during Bush's rule, at least it's progress. After it was acknowledged by everyone that there were no WMDs, Hannity and Fox News operatives insisted that they either found WMDs (click here, here, and here) or that WMDs were not in Iraq because they were moved. I wonder when Hannity came around to the truth.

Posted 9:44 AM by Scoobie Davis

Last Night on Hardball
Salon.com's Joan Walsh was great:

MATTHEWS: What do you find of [George W. Bush's] remarks with Matt Lauer the other night educational? Anything new there?

WALSH: I don`t think there`s anything terribly new there.

He wants to make it clear that he stood up to Cheney. He wants to make it clear that he was really his own man, and so he reveals a few things that basically we already new about Libby. I find it -- the idea that Libby was a soldier on the battlefield left behind is just so self- pitying and so dramatic on Cheney`s part. But I guess I...

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: Especially since Cheney made a point of never being a soldier on the field, with five deferments.

WALSH: Really. Really. Exactly.

(CROSSTALK)

MATTHEWS: And so the common soldier on the field, or use that reference, like I`m an old battle hand. I have been out there as a warrior. I know how these...

WALSH: And we`re all out there taking fire, when we`re sitting in comfy offices and we`re outing a CIA agent and putting her in danger.

Watch the video.

Posted 7:03 AM by Scoobie Davis

Anti-GOP Operation Chaos 2012 is a Must
In 2008, after Barack Obama had nearly gained enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, Rush Limbaugh launched "Operation Chaos" encouraging GOP voters to vote for Hillary in the Democratic primary (by this time in the process, McCain had enough delegates for the GOP nomination). Fox News helped out by puffing up Hillary. Limbaugh's goal was riots in the streets during the Democratic convention in Denver. Fortunately, Limbaugh's project--though it caused a few scares--was a failure (apparently, Limbaugh was trying to make up for almost singlehandedly losing the Senate for the GOP in 2006; his asshole move of accusing Michael J. Fox of faking his Parkinson's disease symptoms cost the GOP the Missouri Senate seat and control of the Senate).

We should return the favor in 2012 by encouraging Democrats and progressives to support one of the following Republican candidates in 2012: 1) An early front-runner who would be a weak candidate in the general election such as Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee; or 2) A challenger to a GOP front-runner who would be strong in the general election.

This is something that progressive operatives should be thinking about now. It can be done cheaply and effectively.

Posted 9:25 AM by Scoobie Davis

Succinct Post on Democratic Underground
It simply reads: "Pssssssst ... Hey Nancy, guess what? Impeachment is Now On The Table !!! They know what to do with power!" Click here and here if you don't understand this succinct post.

Posted 12:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Jack T. Chick Tract!
"Love That Money!"

Posted 11:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

How Should Obama Deal With Republicans?
He should give them the same benefit of the doubt that they have given him for the past two years.

Posted 2:08 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Fox News and voter intimidation.

Posted 8:49 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Vote on Paper Ballots!

Posted 8:16 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View: The Rand Paul Stomp Ad
Glenn Beck came out against it today so it has to be good:

Posted 8:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
David Brock's appeal to Sarah Palin.

Posted 9:37 AM by Scoobie Davis

Firing Policies: NPR Versus Fox News

Fox News president Roger Ailes hires Two types of progressives or Democrats: 1) Those who have noting nice to say about the Democratic Party (e.g., Tammy Bruce, Pat Caddell, and Zell Miller; remember him and his claim that the Democratic Party was no longer a national party?) or 2) liberals who have no clue. Included in this category are Alan Colmes, Lanny Davis (click here and here), Terry McAuliffe, and Juan Williams.
After National Public Radio fired Williams, he's been taking the role of victim. Two days ago, on Fox News Sunday, he and the other panel members bemoaned NPR's alleged unfairness.

What a sham.

When Rupert Murdoch brought Roger Ailes on as head of Fox News, one of the first things Ailes did was to purge liberals from the staff, not because of anything they did but because of their personally held political beliefs. Former president of Fox News Joe Peyronnin told Al Franken the following things:

I had about forty people working for me and [Roger Ailes] asked some of them if they were liberal or not. There was a litmus test. He was trying to figure out who was liberal or conservative when he came in, and try to get rid of the liberals.

Ailes not only purged liberals form Fox, he has promoted right-wing operatives like Bill Sammon who have engaged in serious acts of journalistic misconduct (Sammon is now Fox News' Washington Managing Editor and a Vice President for the network).

Williams has had a thirteen year gig on Fox News mainly because he's a pushover. In the words of Salon.com's David Talbot: "Fox likes its liberals soft and chewy, the better to eat them, my dear." During his tenure at Fox, had Williams grown a pair (and a brain) and assertively debated the right-wingers, Ailes would have found a way to get rid of him, too.

ADDENDUM: Just How Clueless is Juan Williams? Last Friday, Williams was a guest on Sean Hannity's radio program where he complimented the host on his "integrity."

Posted 8:15 AM by Scoobie Davis

Three Cheers for E.J. Dionne!
Click here and here.

Posted 9:08 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Sean Wilentz on the Tea Party’s Wold War roots.

Posted 8:27 AM by Scoobie Davis

NPR Should Have Fired Juan Williams

Yesterday, National Public Radio fired Juan Williams because of some of his opinion about Muslims voiced on The O'Reilly Factor.

Williams should have been fired, but not for making those comments. He should have been fired because he was being paid to be a correspondent for a fraudulent pseudo-journalistic organization, Fox News. This association is clearly in violation of The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's code of ethics.

I addressed similar issues with Mara Liasson a few years ago.

UPDATE: A couple years ago, I spoke with Williams about Sun Myung Moon and his influence on the Washington media and he didn't have a clue.

Posted 8:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

Pink Marble Driveway
Listen to this: Commonsense Ten's radio ad "Funny" being used against Senate candidate John Raese from Florida--er, I mean, West Virginia. Click here and hit the "Campaigns" link and then the West Virginia "Funny" link.

Posted 4:12 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Greg Palast on Rove-Clone Tim Griffin and vote caging.

Posted 9:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
To the progressives who want to teach the Democrats a lesson in November by sitting out the election, Robert Parry asks them if that strategy has ever worked.

Posted 9:44 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Media Matters for America's coverage of Beck-inspired "progessive hunter" Bryon Williams.

Posted 9:13 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must See YouTube
Don't call West Virginians "hicks":

Posted 7:41 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman's latest column.

Posted 8:28 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Harassment and The Invasion of Privacy of Gay College Students: The 1980's Versus 2010
It was disheartening to hear about the outrageous invasion of privacy of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi that led to his suicide. Although there has been a lot of progress in terms of attitudes toward members of the LGBT community over the past few decades, there will always be those who hassle others because of their differences.

However, there is one important thing to keep in mind: the people who harassed Clementi are facing serious criminal charges and ostracism from most Americans, in the 1980's, Laura Ingraham used harassing and violating the privacy of gay college students as a a launching pad for a talk radio career and a gig as a Fox News News contributor.

Posted 9:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The Editor's Note for Robert Parry's unheeded warning to Barack Obama:

In the days after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, we published a three-part series warning him of dangers ahead. However, the new President chose to ignore all our warnings. So nearly two years later, it might be a good time to assess whether our concerns were valid or not.

The first story argued that the Republicans remained wedded to “slash-and-burn” politics and therefore Obama’s desire for bipartisanship would go unrequited.

The second reminded Obama that Bill Clinton’s decision in 1993 to shelve investigations of Reagan-Bush-41 wrongdoing earned him no reciprocity from the Republicans and that doing the same regarding Bush-43 would bring similar results.

The third challenged the advice from Establishment Democrats who were urging Obama to keep Bush’s Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a gesture of bipartisanship. Our article suggested that Gates, a devious careerist with longstanding ties to the Bush Family, was not to be trusted.

Read the entire reprinted article.

Posted 1:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Matt Taibbi on the tea party movement.

Posted 9:03 AM by Scoobie Davis

How Recent Web Surfers Got to This Site
Whenever I check my Statcounter states and find that someone got to this site using a humorous or bizarre keyword search, I copy and save it and then do a post when I have enough funny keyword searches (the most recent posts are here and here). Anyhow, here are the most recent bizarro keyword searches used to get here:

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picture jill rhodes hannity
Pet name for Sean Hannity slanthead
callista bisek photo
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PHOTO OF MICHELLE malkin dressed as a whore
dexter yager illuminati
ann coulter playboy blogspot
hannity racist quotes
sun myung moon obama
i would love to fuck tamron hall
roy masters october surprise
sean hannity military service
nude party crasher
Political women nude blogspot photo
karen hanretty tits
Dexter Yager is an idiot

Posted 10:20 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Kevin Drum: "Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles"

Posted 8:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Glenn Beck Also Shills for a Shady Pyramid Scheme
Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is holding hearings in which he is looking into Goldline International, a gold investment company and prominent advertiser on Glenn Beck's radio show. Weiner is mercilessly grilling Scott Carter, Goldline's executive vice president. I listened briefly to Beck radio shwo this morning and Beck is unapologetic for being affiliated with the shady company.

No big surprise. Beck (along with other wing-nut radio talkers such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity) has shilled for IncomeAtHome.com, a front for some network marketing distributors for Herbalife.

None of this is a surprise to me. Right-wing talk jocks don't give a damn about their audience--they think their listeners are a bunch of boobs for believing crap they know not to be true. Scam artists also know that the right-wing talk jocks have audiences of extremely gullible people; therefore, it makes sense to sell their questionable-at-best investment opportunities to these people. It would be amusing if it were not for the good (but naive) people who are scammed out of their money.

UPDATE: Watch Weiner talk to Keith Olbermann about Goldline (last night's Countdown episode).

Posted 10:22 AM by Scoobie Davis

Shocking But Hardly Surprising
GOP vote caging in Wisconsin.

Posted 7:38 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Amway Global Blog
Click here

Posted 9:09 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The inimitable Robert Parry on the "un-wise man" Lee Hamilton.

Posted 9:31 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View: Jon Stewart Busts Sean Hannity Truncating an Obama Quote (Again)
Go to 5:10 of this Daily Show video. This isn't the first time Hannity did this: here's Stewart on Hannity's deceptive attempt to claim that Obama was giving "9/11 sympathizers a voice on the world stage."

Posted 8:18 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Sun Myung Moon Blog
Click here

Posted 8:54 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Steve Kornacki on Haley Barbour's phony racial history of the GOP.

UPDATE: Here is a blog post about Barbour's links to the Council of Conservative Citizens, the modern version of the old White Citizens' Councils.

Posted 7:54 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Reads
Two articles from Consortium News on Glenn Beck: here and here.

Posted 10:00 AM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Thought
I'll never vote for a Republican but the idea of pulling the lever for Barbara Boxer in November makes me want to barf.

Posted 7:03 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman on the GOP witchhunt. Also, read the transcript of my radio conversation with Sean Hannity about how Jerry Falwell scammed his flock with lurid allegations against the Clintons in the 1990's.

Posted 5:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

Forthcoming Jack T. Chick Tract
It's a Halloween tract titled "Stinky."


9/02 UPDATE: Stinky is now online. Enjoy.

Posted 8:11 AM by Scoobie Davis

Busy Busy Busy
I will post soon.

Posted 7:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

Am I the Only One who Thinks This?
Haley Barbour reminds of a Southern sheriff who sets ups crooked speed traps to snag "yankees."

Posted 7:27 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
TNR's Jesse Singal on Dr. Laura. I agree with Singal that Schlessinger gives horrible advice to her masochistic callers but I don't buy his argument that she's more destructive than Limbaugh or Hannity.

Posted 6:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

Party Crashing is NOT a Crime!!!!!!
Those of you familiar with this blog know that I love to crash parties (and that I crashed the 2002 Oscars)--my motto: "No invitation, no problemo."

California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino is trying to unleash The Man on crashers:

A proposed law set to go before California's Legislature this month would make one of Hollywood's cherished utterances — "You're not on the list" — carry grave new consequences. It's a measure aimed at making the act of party crashing a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both.

The author of the legislation, Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Canada Flintridge), said crashers at high-profile events like the Academy Awards and other awards shows pose a threat to public safety that warrants a law in addition to the 25 sections of trespassing code already on California's books. Portantino acted at the request of the Screen Actors Guild after some crashers breached security at the SAG Awards in January but were released because of legal loopholes.

This is misguided and wrong. I know there's not a lot to do in Sacramento but this is just lame.

Thanks to Gene of American Politics Journal for the link.

Posted 7:34 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Salon's Justin Elliott "How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began." I had previously written about the instigator of the mosque protests, Pamela Geller. I had written about Geller's unhinged cheering of wing-nut fundy John Hagee a few years ago in which Geller is audibly shouting things like "Yeah, baby! Woo Hoo Hoo! I love it!" (unfortunatly the YouTube video that I embedded is down but you can download MP3 audio on Geller's site here).

Posted 7:26 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must read
Frank Rich on some unlikely heroes.

Posted 7:38 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
David Kurtz on Duke Cunningham--criminal justice reformer. As I pointed out a few years ago, this isn't the first time Cunningham expressed concern about the criminal justice system when his own ox was being gored.

Posted 7:58 AM by Scoobie Davis

Good News
The Google bomb of Bill Sammon has been a success. Several of the sites referenced are in the top twenty for a Google search of the phrase "Bill Sammon." Thanks to all who participated.

Posted 7:02 AM by Scoobie Davis

My Mini-Review
I did a mini-review of A Charge Kept: The Record of the Bush Presidency 2001-2009 by George W. Bush.

Posted 7:46 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ): Religious freedom for me but not for thee.

Posted 9:49 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Steve Benen on the problem with just asking.

Posted 1:00 AM by Scoobie Davis

Observations on The Right's Distortions of the Truth
Now that it has been shown that Shirley Sherrod was wrongly accused of racism because of a selectively edited video on Andrew Breitbart's website that gave the polar opposite impression of Sherrod's actual views.

Conservative David Frum knew the score when he wrote the following

On the phone on the evening of July 20, a friend asked me: "Can Breitbart possibly survive?" I could only laugh incredulously. I answered: "Of course he'll survive, and undamaged. The incident won't matter at all."

If history is any guide, Frum is right. Two recent non-ACORN examples:

1. In 2001, then-Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon wrote a book At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal The Election. The book didn't have any footnotes for a very good reason: in at least one instance, Sammon cited a newspaper article to give his reader the direct opposite impression of the article's content. A Washington Post article detailed how in a meeting with advistors, Gore gave his highest priority to the country. Sammon carefully edited the incident to give the exact opposite impression to his readers: Sammon libelously claimed that Gore gave his lowest priority to the country, writing that Gore "was looking out for Number One, plain and simple." Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler discovered Sammon's serious journalistic misconduct and wrote about it (I also wrote about it later). The consequences for Sammon: nothing happened. In fact, Sammon eventually become Vice President and Managing Editor of Fox News. Talk about failing your way up.

2. Last year, Sean Hannity falsely accused President Obama of "decided to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice on the world stage" when he visited Cairo. Like Beitbart, Hannity did this by cropping a video clip to give the exact opposite impression to his viewers that Obama was communicating to the audience in Cairo (watch this priceless video of The Daily Show's Jon Stewart on the incident). Was Hannity fired or even publicly reprimanded? Nope.

As long as there are no negative consequences for this kind of distortion, expect to see more of it.

UPDATE: Read Michelle Cottle's analysis of the Sherrod flap.

Posted 9:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

Rush and The NAACP
Media Matters has the latest on Limbaugh and the NAACP. Limbaugh: "[T]he NAACP is as racist an organization as there has been and is in this country."

Nothing new there--I mean this is coming from someone who said that the NAACP "should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies." This and other racists statements by Limbaugh here.

Posted 7:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Michael Barthel on the phony New Black Panther controversy and the right's attempt to create a new Southern strategy. It's hardly surprising that Fox News is a major player in this (also here). Fox News CEO and president Roger Ailes was an integral part of the original Southern strategy of the 1960's. The other day I was reading Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America and came across this gem about Ailes when he was a media consultant for Richard Nixon prior ot the 1968 election. Here was the description of Ailes finding a ringer for a Q & A television program in which people would ask Nixon questions:

Ailes hit upon an idea. . .:"A good, mean, Wallaceite cabdriver. Wouldn't that be great? Some guy to sit there and say, 'Alright, Mac, what about these niggers?'" Nixon would then abhor the uncivility of the words, while endorsing a "moderate" version of the opinion. Ailes walked up and down a nearby taxi stand until he found a cabbie who fit the bill.

UPDATE: Joan Walsh on The Fox News Southern strategy.

Posted 8:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Joan Walsh on Republican sexual hypocrisy. Also, read the hilarious transcript of my on-air conversation with Sean Hannity about Newt Gingrich's serial adultery.

Posted 7:59 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
ConWebWatch on WorldNetDaily's letter scam. A while ago, I had written about former WorldNetDaily contributor Jerry Falwell's 900 number scam from the 1990's.

Posted 9:52 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Two articles on the fairness and balance on Fox News: here and here.

Posted 8:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Moon Blog
Click here

Posted 11:04 AM by Scoobie Davis

Busy busy busy
Sorry about no recent posting. I should resume soon.

Posted 1:34 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read and View
compassionate conservatism

Posted 3:45 PM by Scoobie Davis

All Hail Lord Xenu!
Sharron Angle's latest on L. Ron Hubbard

Posted 1:38 PM by Scoobie Davis

Shirt of the Day
Buy it here:

Posted 1:31 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read: Fox's Most Blatent Lie Ever?
The hoax that President Obama gave a strip of Arizona land to Mexico.

Posted 1:05 PM by Scoobie Davis

How Recent Web Servers Got to This Site
Whenever I check my Statcounter states and find that someone got to this site using a humorous or bizarre keyword search, I copy it and then do a post when I have enough funny keyword searches (the last post on this is here). Anyhow, here are the most recent bizarro keyword searches used to get here:

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Sean Hannity football career
Jeffrey kuhner lunatic
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mark levin is nuts
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I voted for taitz
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The Irony of Al Rantel slipping on an oil spill
megyn kelly muff

Posted 1:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

BP Logo Redesign
On HiLowBROW

Posted 12:23 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Posts
Check the Moon and Amway blogs.

Posted 12:05 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
This Modern World

Posted 1:12 PM by Scoobie Davis

My Take on The World Cup 2010
1. It's soccer, not football. This is football.
2. I agree with Media Matters for America on just about everything. I disagree with them about soccer.
3. Here's my parody of the 2010 World Cup logo:

Posted 11:53 AM by Scoobie Davis

Adios, Clark Hoyt
Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

Posted 10:24 AM by Scoobie Davis

Check Out my Amazon.com Review of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One
I gave it one star.

Posted 10:04 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The Fox-industrial complex

Posted 5:02 PM by Scoobie Davis

I Voted for Birther Queen Orly Taitz
Orly Taitz is the batshit lawyer/dentist/real estate agent from Orange County who is the head of the movement to have the 2008 presidential election nullified based on the belief that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. In California, people not registered with any political party are allowed to request either a Republican or Democratic ballot so i requested a GOP ballot and voted for Taitz; I did so to muck up things for Republicans and to link Taitz with the Republican brand. One final note: here's an article I wrote about Taitz last year.

6/9 UPDATE: Taitz got trounced last night.

Posted 1:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

Nice!
My article for American Politics Journal on Bill Sammon appears on the first page of a Google search for "Bill Sammon"

Posted 10:46 AM by Scoobie Davis

Blast from the Past
I was sad to hear about Al and Tipper Gore's recent separation after 40 years of marriage. This reminds me of a conversation I had with Rush Limbaugh during the 2000 campaign. Even though it was ten years ago, the 2000 presidential campaign was in a very different media atmosphere: the right had a very strong echo chamber and the meme from the right was that Al Gore was a habitual liar; unfortunately, Media Matters for America was yet to exist, the blogosphere was very young, and MSNBC had a weak lineup. For a good media postmortem of the 2000 election, click here.

One small bright spot during the campaign was when Rush Limbaugh devoted a program to Gore supporters. I got past the screener by not sounding particularly bright and then I kicked Limbaugh's fat ass all over the place (for the transcript, check out my modestly named blog on the subject).

Addendum: Some things don't change One of the low points of the 2000 was the unethical reporting of then-Moonie Times operative Bill Sammon. Sammon attempted to create the phony "Floodgate" non-scandal. Also, The Daily Howler uncovered blatent journalistic misconduct in Sammon's book about the campaign. Not only was Sammon not punished for these misdeeds but has since become vice president of News and Washington managing editor of Fox News; Sammon and Fox News are a good match.

Posted 12:44 PM by Scoobie Davis

BP Stuff
The following is a BP ad from 1999:


Here's a MoveOn.org video:

Posted 1:29 PM by Scoobie Davis

Down But Not Out
James O'Keefe is up to his old tricks.

Posted 11:01 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Joe Conason on the perennial quest for impeachment.

Posted 3:32 PM by Scoobie Davis

The GOP's Messianic Double Standard
The GOP establishment is trying to sink the candidacy of Republican congressional candidate Tim D'Annunzio, who is a run-off for the GOP nomination in North Carolina's 8th congressional district. Among other things, Republicans are concerned that D'Annunzio, who once claimed to be the Messiah, would be a weak candidate in the general election.

The GOP has never has a problem with Messianic megalomaniacs like Sun Myung Moon. Of course, D'Annunzio doesn't have billions of dollars of stolen money to dump into right-wing causes.

Posted 2:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Ditto-ography: Zev Chafets gets it wrong on Rush

Posted 3:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Mother Jones article on Daniel Clowes.

Posted 12:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Chick Tracts
Another inflammatory screed against Islam, "Is Allah Like You?" and "the Little Sneak."

Also, check out this hilariously scary article, "15 Awful Examples of Christian Propaganda" that has a link to an interesting article on 1970's Christian comics publisher Al Hartley (I didn't know he was the son of right-wing congressman Fred Hartley so-sponsor of the notorious anti-union Taft-Hartley Act).

Posted 1:45 PM by Scoobie Davis

Wish I Said It
Bill Maher on Rand Paul (whose father is Ron Paul): "The shit doesn't fall far from the bat."

Posted 12:17 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Talk to Action on Columbus, Ohio-area preacher Rod Parsley. Having lived in Columbus, I'm familiar with Parsley and his nutty theocratic views. I once knew a woman who met Parsley and said that when she shook hands with him, a sense of intense dread overcame her entire being.

Posted 8:59 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Don't drunk-dial Freedomworks:

Posted 11:01 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman, "Going to Extreme."

Posted 7:20 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
David Sirota on the teabagger slogan "I Want My Country Back."

Posted 8:25 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Jeremy Scahill on the now-exposed secret Erik Prince/Blackwater/Xe tape

Posted 12:59 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The rise of Gulf Coast Oil Spill "Truthers"

UPDATE: The Washington Monthly has more.

Posted 1:24 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Greg Palast on the real reason for the Arizona immigration law: purging the voter rolls.

UPDATE: Watch the Palast interview:

Posted 12:24 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Bill Berkowitz: "Tim LaHaye's 'new' 'improved' more apocalyptic apocalypse"

Posted 11:46 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
E. J. Dionne on the teabaggers: "Populism of the Privileged"

Posted 10:32 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View

Posted 1:08 AM by Scoobie Davis

Google Searches Used to Get to This Site
Every once in a while, I list some of the more unusual searches that people have used to get to this site (here are a couple recent posts on the same subject here and here) I do this by checking my Statcounter stats. Here are the most recent unusual keyword searches:

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Kilmeade and Napolitano: Vince Foster's "murder" might be an issue if Hillary Clinton were nominated to the Supreme Court
Media Matters had the tape. When Napolitano was hosting Bill O'Reilly's radio program, I spoke to him about his boss Roger Ailes's role in spreading Foster conspiracy theories.

Posted 10:23 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must See: Casino Jack, The Forthcoming Film Starring Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff
A friend was in a test audience in Los Angeles for the forthcoming film Casino Jack . The film is a biopic of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Even though my friend saw a rough cut of the film, he said it was great and that the test audience seemed to have liked it a lot. The film shows the seamy dealings of GOP bigwigs Tom DeLay and Bob Ney.
The film also documents the sleaziness of former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. I suspect the film might have a serious negative effect on Reed's attempt to make a political comback. Thank God.

Posted 4:57 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Joe Conason, "Look Away, Dixieland."

Posted 11:19 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Rachel Maddow on the O'Keefe ACORN hoax.

Posted 4:10 PM by Scoobie Davis

Wing-Nut Battle: Michael Savage Versus Mark Levin
Right-wing talk radio jocks Michael Savage and Mark Levin are competitors (they both have the Noon to 3:00 PM EST time slot. Even though both are certifiable wing-nuts, they hate each other's guts (I wrote about their feud a while ago--click here and scroll down to the addendum).

Levin loves to call Savage's show "Weiner Nation" (Savage's real surname is Weiner). A couple of days ago, I was flipping through the stations and heard Savage/Weiner refer to Levin as the guy who "sounds like Groucho Marx's grandmother after a hysterectomy."

Posted 4:18 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Posts on the Moon Blog
I have two new post on the Moon blog about how the George W. Bush Presidential Center is using the Washington Timess e-mail list and the irony of a Washington Times operative calling Obama fans "zombies." Click here to go to the posts.

Posted 12:21 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Robert Parry, "A Method to Republican 'Madness'"

Posted 4:17 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Sun Myung Moon Blog
Click here

Posted 9:14 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman, "Going to Extreme"

Posted 1:30 PM by Scoobie Davis

One-Fourth of Republicans Think Obama "may be the Antichrist."
This isn't a joke.

Posted 1:00 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Greg Palast, "Getting into Massa's Drawers: Truly Creepy Details about the Congressman"

Posted 2:12 PM by Scoobie Davis

My Review of Karl Rove's Courage and Consequences: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
My review of Rove's book on Amazon.com is currently listed as the "most helpful critical review." If you like the review, click on the button to indicate that the review was useful to you. Although I didn't have room to point this out, I once spoke on the phone with Joshua Green, the author of the Atlantic article on Rove. I asked him if he was prepared for Rove to accuse him of libeling him. Green was confident that if Rove spoke against him, he could support his claims. I spoke with Bill O'Reilly about Green's allegations in 2005.

Posted 5:49 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Chick Tract
Going Down?

Posted 9:59 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Michael Lind on the new counterculture.

Posted 7:01 PM by Scoobie Davis

I will be posting over the weekend

UPDATE: Oops! I didn't have time.

Posted 1:24 PM by Scoobie Davis

This Guy and I Went to the Same University
I did my undergraduate studies at Miami University. I'm not bragging about the fact that Paul Ryan also went there (watch this video detailing about how big an assclown Ryan is). Miami U. is also the institution attended by Fox News luminaries Bill Sammon and Bill Hemmer.

Posted 2:19 PM by Scoobie Davis

Just a Thought
It's only 2010 but I think progressive bloggers should give some serious thought to their own version of Operation Chaos aimed at the GOP in 2012.

Posted 3:59 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Radical fringe = GOP mainstream.

Posted 11:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must reads
I was going to do a post about conservative journalism but don't have the time; however, Gene Gaudette and Eric Boehlert has written about it.

Posted 12:03 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Later Today
Sorry about the dearth of posting

UPDATE: I can't finish it today--maybe tomorrow.

Posted 1:38 PM by Scoobie Davis

Please, God, Let This Be True. I'm Begging You!
Conservative Anti-ACORN Activist Arrested In FBI Wiretap Plot Against Democratic Senator.

So here's an interesting twist: James O'Keefe, one of the conservative activists responsible for the infamous "pimp" videos" that prompted Congress to defund the activist group ACORN, has been arrested in connection with a conspiracy to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's offices in Louisiana.

An independent report requested by ACORN and conducted by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger found no pattern "of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff," and a report from the Congressional Research Service found no evidence that ACORN had ever violated the terms of its federal funding. The reports came out too late, however, as Congress had already decided on the basis of the doctored "pimp" videos, to exempt the group from federal funding. A federal judge recently ruled the move amounted to unconstitutional "bill of attainder."

According to the report from NOLA.com, O'Keefe was aiding two other men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who were disguised as phone company workers, allegedly as a pretext for tampering with the office's phone system.

How's this for a kicker:

O'Keefe on Thursday gave a speech to Libertarian Pelican Institute in New Orleans.

Well, despite the fact that O'Keefe hasn't been convicted of anything yet, I'm sure the conservative establishment will distance themselves from him as quickly as the Democrats defunded ACORN.

Wait, what am I saying -- getting arrested for a politically motivated break-in is practically a badge of honor in the conservative movement. Just ask Chuck Colson or G. Gordon Liddy. Extremism in the pursuit of uh, "liberty" is no vice, after all.

UPDATE: According to the FBI affadavit, acquired by POLITICO, the four men involved in the scheme have admitted to entering the office under false pretenses and that they had conspired together to secure entry. A third alleged co-conspirator, Stan Dai, has been identified. Here's what the affadavit says:

Subsequently, Flanagan and Basel have admitted to federal agents that they were not telephone repairment and that they entered the office of Senator Landrieu under false pretences. O'Keefe and Dai have also admitted to federal agents that [they?] worked with Flanagan and Basel in the planning, coordination and preparation of the operation. O'Keefe further admitted to recording to Flanagan and Basel inside of Senator Landrieu's office.

From a layman's perspective, I'd say that looks pretty bad. But the conservative movement does take care of their own.

-- A. Serwer

Posted 11:42 AM by Scoobie Davis

No Double Standard on Reid/Lott Comments
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry has come under fire because of reports in the new book Game Change that disclosed that Reid made some unfortunate comments about then-candidate Barack Obama being lighted-skinned and not having a "Negro dialect."

Not surprisingly, the usual suspects are comparing Reid's comments to the 2002 comments of then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss) who stepped down because he said that had Strom Thurmond been successful in his 1948 presidential bid on the Dixiecrat ticket, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either." They are claiming that there is a double standard regarding the two comments and have called for Reid to step down from his post.

This is sophistry. Regarding the claim of a double standard regarding press coverage, it is too easily forgotten that Lott said his comments at Thurmond's birthday party and it was covered by the press who ignored the comments. it wasn't until progressive bloggers forced the DC press corps to cover the comments that other revelations emerged. For instance, the coverage of comments allowed critics to publicize Lott's associations with the white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, the modern incarnation of the old White Citizens Councils (on Sean Hannity's radio program, Lott unconvincingly claimed that his associations with the group were tenuous--I reported on this is 2002) The coverage also allowed critics to point out Lott's praise for the old confederacy such as Lott approvingly saying that "[t]he spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican platform"). Also, Lott longtime opposition to civil rights was highlighted (such as his opposition to the extension of the Voting Rights Act. As Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting pointed out, the media were largely playing catch-up regarding Lott's abysmal views and actions on civil rights and race relations. On the other hand, Reid has had an excellent record on civil rights and has been a strong advocate of racial equality.

Let's look at some of the people and groups coming out against Reid. Last night, Ann Coulter strongly denouncing Reid's comments. Coulter has been a strong defender of the Confederate battle flag and an apologist for the Council of Conservative Citizens. This morning, the radio program for the Washington Times was highly critical of Reid; this despite the fact that the Times has been the home to many virulent racists and white supremacists (also, watch my video on Moon that addresses the Times and white supremacy). These are the people who are trying to speak on racial equality?.

Posted 3:03 PM by Scoobie Davis

Weird Keyword Searches Used to Get to This Site
Whenever I check my Statcounter stats, I write down any unusual or weird keyword searchs that people had used to get to this site. My previous post devoted to this is here. Here are the latest bunch of weird keyword searches:

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Happy New Year!
Sorry about the dearth of recent posting. I am working on some posts for next week.

Jack Chick released a new demented tract "Crazy Wolf" and re-released "Is There Another Christ?"