Although ABC is planning to air a right-wing fantasy smear-job blaming Clinton for 9-11... when Clinton asked the Republican Congress to help him fight terrorism, they turned him down.

I'd go into that smear-job "docudrama" crap more, except it makes me screaming mad.

Meanwhile, Bush is bungling airport security.

Joe Conason proposes a theory as to why NYC got shafted on Homeland Security money: they didn't hire the right lobbyists. Apparently, DHS is a big old contractor-Bush booster-lobbyist circle jerk, and NYC and D.C. weren't part of it. Urge to kill... yeah. I'd say it's a slightly less evil a motivation than, "They don't vote for us, so screw 'em ( Read more... )

Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'.
Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies ( Read more... )

No indictments yet, but if you're a bit confused by this whole thing, that's not surprising. Who said what to who, and when, and why the hell Judith Miller went to jail and then changed her mind about testifying... it's a bit of a muddle. Add to that all the spin that's been attempted in the past weeks and months, which ranges from outright ( Read more... )

++ If it wasn't bad enough that dead people in Ohio were voting in the 2004 General Presidential Election...

Vote Totals Under Inquiry in 12 Iraqi Provinces, Panel Says

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 - Iraqi election officials said today that they were investigating what they described as "unusually high" vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, ( Read more... )