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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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
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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
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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.