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Obama's Unpaid 1980s Parking Tickets Virtually Ignored; Not a Bad 18-Y
There was somewhat interesting and awfully quiet news about the unpaid parking tickets of Barack Husseian Obambi Obama (who I call "BHOO" for short, with "Obambi" being the New York Times' Maureen Dowd's favorite nickname for the Illinois senator) in Cambridge, MA from the late 1980s.
Here is what the Somerville (MA) News reported:
..... Records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and…
Protestors Wrong on Vietnam Then and on Iraq Now, Group Says
When thousands of people gather in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq, a group of Vietnam veterans hopes to take advantage of what it sees as an unprecedented opportunity to expose the massive lies told by the war protesters of the '60s that are being used again today.
Nightline on Bush in Guatemala: 'Some Say He's Angered the Gods
On Monday's Nightline, the ABC program continued the media's fascination with the Mayan "spiritual leaders" who protested this week's visit to Guatemala by President Bush.
PBS Alum Robert MacNeil Slams 'Fundamentalism' in Kennedy Center Speec
Smearing religious conservatives is not enough for the Washington Post; MacNeil should have attacked America as well.
Nets Didn't Care About Clinton Firing 93 U.S. Attorneys, Lead With Rep
The broadcast network evening newscasts, which didn't care in 1993 about the Clinton administration's decision to ask for the resignations of all 93 U.S. attorneys, went apoplectic Tuesday night in leading with the “controversy,” fed by the media, over the Bush administration for replacing eight U.S. attorneys in late 2006 -- nearly two years after rejecting the idea of following the Clinton…
FNC's Hume Chastises Media for Failing to Point Out How Clinton Fired
Brit Hume led his Tuesday night Grapevine segment by scolding his media colleagues for how “news stories reporting that the Bush administration had considered firing all 93 U.S. attorneys across the country failed to mention that that is exactly what Bill Clinton did soon after taking office back in 1993.” Hume explained how that was not noted, “even in passing, in front-page stories today in…
CBS Legal Blogger Cites Dem Donors In Swipe at Attorney General Gonzal
CBS legal expert Andrew Cohen took to the "Couric & Co." blog to blast Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a Bush toadie, then turned to law scholars with a history of donating to liberal Democratic candidates to back up his claims.We’ve indeed got trouble. Few attorneys general in recent history have
been more beholden to their President than Gonzales is to President
George W. Bush. In…