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Nobody Said This Was Going To be Pretty

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - Dick Cheney is forlorn and all alone. Many of the people who advocated taking the gloves off are leaving him out there hanging today. And one of them is Jonathan Alter. See, he forgot to mention --- and Keith apparently didn't know --- that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 this torture talk didn't come out of nowhere or even from the dark recesses of Cheney's evil mind. Jonathan Alter himself was one of the people who brought it up almost instantly:

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Stop The Presses

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Dec. 31 (Opinion) - Yeah well, some of us repeatedly pointed this out from the get-go and we were endlessly lectured by the breathless media that the American people wanted a moronic "regular guy" rather than some boring egghead for president and that his election meant the "grown-ups" were back in charge, even though he clearly had the emotional maturity and judgment of a testosterone overdosing teenager. And then, for years after 9/11 they actually tried to make us believe that he was some kind of Churchillian savant, whose "gut" was so brilliant that brains were irrelevant. I'm sorry, but from the moment the Republicans trotted out that brainless brand name in a suit and passed him off as a leader ("I'm a leader cuz ah've led!") I've been agog with wonder at the sheer audacity of their scam. It makes Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme look like a small time grift.

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Hullabaloo

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - The idea is to create the connection between large crowds and enthralled supporters in the 1930s and in the Obama campaign today. And that is meant to induce feelings of revulsion and shame, not just in those voters who are more passive and see these images on television, but among the very participants themselves. Going to an Obama rally? You're a mindless pawn. Send him money? You are funding a cult. Work on his behalf? You have drank the Kool-Aid and are pathologically creepy.

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Joe Biden Just Obliterated Every Administration Argument About Iraq

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - Joe Biden asked Amb. Crocker where it would be better for American national security interests to eliminate Al Qaeda in Iraq or Al Qaeda along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Crocker had nowhere to hide with that question.

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How Do We Defeat Tim Russert?

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:30:00 -0800

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - The country wants change. They want Washington to stop all the partisan bickering and they want a different tone. They want their government to be serious and deal with real problems. -- Can someone please explain to me how that can possibly happen until something ...

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'You Gotta Ask Me Nicely'

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:33:22 -0800

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - When a man questions why a policeman has pulled him over and refuses to sign the ticket, the policeman electrocutes him to make him comply: ... Police in the country are now allowed to torture speeders by the side of the highway in order to get them to comply.

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Impeachment - Has there ever been a president who deserved it more?

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:10:00 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - Has there ever been a president who deserved it more? I don't think so. Looking at this as someone who believes that until we hold them accountable for their crimes, these zombie crooks will keep doing this over and over again until our country is unrecognizable, my instinct is to scream it from the rafters.

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Nothing New About It - Kagro X over at Kos responds ...

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:30:04 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - Kagro X over at Kos responds to Joe Klein's intemperate column today in which he takes bloggers to task for being ... intemperate. -- He makes one point that I think it important for some of these journalists to understand:

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It's Hard Out Here Fo A Pimp

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:15:01 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Apr. 10 (Opinion) - I've been listening to alleged journalists falling all over themselves on television to assure all of us that Don Imus is a really great guy underneath all the ugliness and that he's really, really, really sorry. Even David Gregory is vouching for him like a brother ...

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Good Morning, Creep

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:46:09 -0700

Digby's Hullabaloo - By Digby - Oct. 27 (News Report) - This Michael J. Fox controversy is making me more angry than I can remember being in a long time. There is something wrong with people who think like this: … If Michael J. Fox could still act he would be making millions of dollars acting in paying TV commercials, films or sitcoms.

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