Daily Archives: October 4th, 2007 «

 

Senator Barack Obama’s idea of making a political statement: Refusing to wear the US flag pin

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2007 at 8:41 pm » 23 Comments

Numerous readers have emailed me (and GWR posted about it in Wednesday’s open thread) the story about Senator Barack Obama’s refusal to wear the US flag pin, as a way of making a political statement about his disagreement with the Bush administration’s policies. Via ABC News: An eagle-eyed reporter for the ABC affiliate in Cedar [...]

 

Will CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano lose his AMS Seal of Approval? (MORE: AL GORE TO APPEAR IN UPCOMING EPSIDODE OF “30 ROCK” TO PROMOTE GREEN “VALUES”)

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2007 at 7:13 pm » 5 Comments

Paul Detrick has a post up today detailing CNN meterologist Rob Mariciano’s critical remarks of the Goracle’s crockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth”: “There are definitely some inaccuracies,” Marciano added. “The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming.” [...] Marciano went on to explain that, “global warming [...]

 

Haditha: Investigating officer recommends murder charges be dropped against Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2007 at 2:37 pm » Comments Off

Via AP: An investigating officer has recommended that the Marine at the center of the biggest prosecution of U.S. troops in the Iraq war should not stand trial on murder charges, a defense attorney said Thursday. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, 27, of Meriden, Conn., is charged with the unpremeditated murder of 17 Iraqis in Haditha [...]

 

Whoopi Goldberg: We must show “reverence” for women who’ve aborted their babies

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2007 at 12:32 pm » 23 Comments

Another day, another example of rampant idiocy on the set of ABC’s The View. Just one day after View co-host Whoopi Goldberg declared to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she’d enjoy a threesome with her and Pelosi’s husband Paul, who was sitting in the audience, Goldberg saw fit to chide conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck over [...]

 

Selective outrage and Democrats

Posted by: ST on October 4, 2007 at 9:03 am » 5 Comments

With all the recent posturing going on by Democrats who have feigned “outrage” over remarks Rush Limbaugh made about “phony soldiers” like Jesse MacBeth – remarks that have been embellished by liberal groups like Media Matters into meaning he was talking about real soldiers who were critics of the Iraq war – it’s important to [...]