Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Keith Olberman destroys the spurious claims of Bill O'Rielly that the Bush torture program was no different than what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill did during World War II. Not only is this historically inaccurate, it is legally irrelevant. The Convention Against Torture and U.S. laws against torture were enacted decades later, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Normally I could care less about celebrity scandals, especially faux celebrities overstaying their 15 minutes of fame. But Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is a gift that just keeps on giving. There was Miss California being questioned by judge Perez Hilton about gay marriage at the Miss America Pageant. Here is the transcript … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When I was in high school, in what seems like a lifetime ago, there was a poster which was very popular at that time: two turkey buzzards sitting in a dead tree looking out over a barren desert; one turkey buzzard says to the other one, "patience my ass! I'm going to … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Steve Benen writes the Political Animal blog at The Washington Monthly. He has an interesting post about a speech recently given by CNN political analyst Bill Schneider at UCLA. CNN's Bill Schneider is hardly a liberal voice in media. He's a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, and … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I will caution readers once again that the "short list" claimed by the media villagers in the Beltway Bubble is not the White House "short list," which is held closely to the vest. So this may be purely speculative on the part of the media villagers. Nevertheless, Huffington Post reports that both … Read more