Come on, Digby…. Even YOU can’t be this stupid.

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. It’s “out there”:

Foes Use Obama’s Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him

In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2007

WASHINGTON —FOX- Former Illinois Republican Rep. Henry Hyde, a strong foreign policy and anti-abortion voice in Congress and a leader of House impeachment proceedings in 1998, died Thursday. He was 83.Henry Hyde

Hyde served in the House of Representatives for 32

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Tease from Matt Drudge:

MSNBC HOST: ‘Total crap to suggest that nobody in CNN knew’…

Even MSNBC can grasp the obvious.  So it would seem.  Have not been able to link to the story.

Addendum: (Bit) Newsbusters has VID 

But

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Eric Florack on November 29th, 2007

So, the Democrats managed to ‘slip one by’ CNN’s screening process? It appears so.

Adam Yoshida notes it, this morning:

So, the fellow who just asked the Republican candidates about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, retired Brigader General Keith Kerr,

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read “Who killed him?”The caption appeared to be

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davidl on November 28th, 2007

What is about freedom that so darn hard for the ‘rats to understand?  According to ABC News, Barack Obama does not understand the Constitution of the United States.

The issue of mandates for health care has driven the

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Gateway Pundit:

Reportedly, on Sunday 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. The attack occurred in the Al-Shaab neighborhood shortly after

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Hehehe… Democrats.Org  has come up with one of the more stupid moves I’ve seen in a long time:

For months now, Democrats have been tracking the Republican presidential frontrunners in the field, compiling a video library of candid moments as

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Today’s WSJ:

Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign has been struggling, in part because of a sense that he lacks passion and an agenda. But late last week he unveiled a tax reform that is more ambitious than anything we’ve seen so

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

McQ, this morning, looks at the Citibank investment yesterday:


Soren Dayton says this may be the “Defining news story of the cycle”…

Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he’s made in the commentstongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France.He argues that the problem goes

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davidl on November 28th, 2007

You have good liars and you have chronic liars.  Nobody seems to be believing B.J. Clinton’s  latest.  The New York Times is reporting that B.J. now clains to have opposed the war, “from the beginning

Sadly for B.J.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

I tend to use a lot of older equipment around here.  The fastest server at Casa de Bit is a PII/400 that I’ve cracked up to around 700 or so with some added cooling. The other two are PII/400’s.

I’ve

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Forget politics, the concern of Chris Dodd’s 6-year-old daughter is that Santa Claus won’t find her in Iowa.

santa-stuck-chimney.GIF Hmmm. That’s OK, kid… the voters out there can’t find your dad, either.

It evens out.
Just

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davidl on November 27th, 2007

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, one Mansoor Ijaz, attempts to skewer Mitt Romney for his answer to a question that Ijaz provides no evidence was ever asked:

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans

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