Weekend open thread
Hey ya’ll – it’ll be a light blogging weekend here as, like many of you, I will be spending time with la familia celebrating Easter.
The BBC’s coverage of the five year anniversary of the Iraq war
Our media here in the US clearly has no plans to tamp down on their liberal bias, especially when it comes to covering for The Chosen One, and the foreign media is doing it’s job on the liberal bias front by not giving up on its attempts at misrepresenting and lying about Bush’s claims regarding the Iraq war.
Rational and thoughtful ways to bridge the racial divide
We’ve been told by liberal apologists this week in response to Barack Obama’s “Lincoln-esque” speech that it was right on the money, and provided a ‘painful’ but necessary reminder as to why we ‘need’ the Rev. Wrights of this world: to keep front and center in our minds our country’s history when it comes to race, so we can wallow in the guilt forever and ever. That, they believe, is the only way we can ‘move forward’ in an effort to bridge the racial divide. Much of what Wright has asserted wouldn’t be so ‘controversial,’ they asserted in so many words, had he ‘worded’ it better, because much of what Wright has preached from his pulpit on Sundays was/is supposedly ‘true.’ So instead of being critical, we should just sit back, listen, ‘learn,’ and let the guilt wash over us.
NYT advances theory that Spitzer investigation was politically motivated
We saw this one coming a mile away, didn’t we?
Obama explains his comments about his white grandmother, makes matters worse (UPDATE 3: BO CAMPAIGN PLAYS THE “BLAME BUSH” GAME IN PASSPORT SCANDAL)
One of the lines from Obama’s “Lincoln-esque” race speech Tuesday that critics have seized on as one of his worst lines was the remark he made about his grandmother and alleged bigoted remarks she made about a black man who passed her on the street: