Daily Archives: August 22nd, 2007 «

 

Shirtless presidents?!

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 10:46 pm » 14 Comments

Wow – when I logged on to Drudge’s website just now, I certainly wasn’t anticipating seeing these two pictures: Russian president Vladimir Putin on a recent trip to the Siberian mountains. France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy, on his visit to New Hampshire from a couple of weeks ago.(That photo, by the way, was airbrushed by the [...]

 

Media bias alert: Blatant bias seen in media’s reporting an “Iraq/Vietnam” comparison by the President

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 10:10 pm » 6 Comments

Numerous blogs caught a major goof by ABC News in a headline posted there about a speech the President gave today on the Iraq war before a VFW convention, in which he claimed that we can’t leave Iraq, because it would be disastrous, just like it was when we left Vietnam. Flopping Aces has the [...]

 

The left pulls out another strawman on the Bush administration’s Iran intentions

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 9:28 pm » 5 Comments

Remember back in February when I blogged about the mediots (more here) and the left’s (but I repeat myself) building up of strawman arguments about the President’s comments and intentions towards Iran and then tearing them down? They’re doing it again. It all started with recents comments made by the well-respected (on both sides of [...]

 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer refuses to run photo of suspicious ferry riders

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 7:11 pm » 9 Comments

… but instead runs a haiku contest. I’m just now catching up on the latest news on this story about the two suspicious men the FBI are searching for who who have been seen scoping out the Washington State ferry system, but Michelle Malkin is all over it and explains the 411 on this developing [...]

 

“Dean of feminists in Congress” Pat Schroeder: liberals are deep thinkers, conservatives are shallow sloganists

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 6:50 pm » 6 Comments

Democrat Pat Schroeder, a former Congresswoman from Colorado who NOW president Kim Gandy once called the “dean of feminists in Congress,” stuck her foot in her mouth recently by taking a swipe at conservatives and their reading habits: WASHINGTON (AP) – Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry’s trade [...]

 

Important Newsflash on Congress’ ratings!

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 1:18 pm » 9 Comments

Did you know that the reason Congress has such a low approval rating is because not only are Republicans and Independents not satisfied with them but … … because Democrats are almost as unhappy with them, as well? This shocking revelation comes courtesy of the left’s favorite selective quoter Glenn Greenwald, in an attempt to [...]

 

Thanks to Iraq successes, Democrats having to “refocus” their Iraq message

Posted by: ST on August 22, 2007 at 9:26 am » 19 Comments

Ha. I love it: Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war. Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face of recent positive signs on the security front, increasingly focusing their criticisms on [...]