More Proof Michael Moore is a Bald-faced Liar

News from The Independent :

Given the mild reaction to all of this from Disney, might someone suggest that Disney was playing along with this lie of Moore’s?

Update:

Captain Ed, who always seems to be on the leading edge of the Bloviating Mr. Moore,notes that the New York Times predictably puked up…

Said the Times, as if on cue:

Give the Walt Disney Company a gold medal for cowardice for blocking its Miramax division from distributing a film that criticizes President Bush and his family. A company that ought to be championing free expression has instead chosen to censor a documentary that clearly falls within the bounds of acceptable political commentary. … it is clear that Disney loves its bottom line more than the freedom of political discourse.

Says the Captain in reply:

“I wonder how they feel now that the Times has become another victim of Moore’s lies.”

To which I add: And will we see a retraction of the editorial? I said when the Blair thing came out, that the removal of the editorial staff wasn’t going to help the paper’s left-lean, if Sulzberger is still in command.

My point stands.

News reports from across the spectrum are saying Alan King dies at 76

A sad day. I always rather liked that gent. I met King once, many years ago, and did a brief radio interview with him. He struck me as a very warm, caring person, who had a darker side, as we all do, but foucused it into his humor… thus turning a negative into a large positive.

He’ll be missed.

Stop by
Dan Drezner‘s place and drop him a note; he’s just lost his grandfather.

OK, time to ‘fess up;

The reason behind my drop-off in blogging of late is rather simple; I’ve been working on replacing my beloved BitMobile. I’ve gotten to really like the Chevy Astro frame, and design, and a bit more narrowly, the conversions based on that frame. I’ve driven one for around 80,000 miles, now Loved it. Never had a vehicle with longer legs. This thing is more at home on the open freeway than most cars are in city traffic.  Plus it tows about anything I can drop onto the hitch. Since we camp out quite a bit, this is important.

So at 10 years and 140,000 miles, 70,000 in the last three years, on my current vehicle, I decided it was time to replace it, good as it’s still running… No rust, no oil burning, etc. An amazing truck, altogether. I hate to do it, but I don’t know where the outer edge is on this thing, if you will. 200k? 300k?
Ah, well.

I found a GMC Safari conversion that is another really outstanding unit, and even more heavily outfitted than my first rig.  Sport top on this one, and gives new definitions to the phrase ‘fully loaded’. Yesterday was for the dealmaking. Today is for getting to know my new truck.

I’ll post a picture tonight of the new one, if I can.

AP reports:

“DEXTER, Mich. – Russell Tanner better stay inside during a thunderstorm, because if somebody has a chance of being struck by lightning, it’s him.

The 78-year-old Dexter resident won his second $1 million scratch-off lottery game last week — the only known two-time winner of the game in Michigan. “

I’ve been playing for years… won a grand total of 22 dollars so far.
Amazing.

WaPo numbers are in and they don’t look good for the Democrats trying to turn Abu Ghraib into votes.

“A large majority of Americans believe that embattled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should not resign over the Iraq prison scandal, but the public remains sharply divided over whether the administration moved quickly enough to investigate reports of abuse before they became public, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.”

Hat top: Captain Ed, who properly points out two things;

That Kerry will be backpeddling on his call for Rumsfeld’s head, and that Rumsfeld as an argument will disappear quite quickly.

I have a few irons in the fire today, and likely won’t be putting up a bunch of things until tnonight, when I have a chance to read the Rumsfeld Transcript.

The New York Post opines today:

“The latest line from Turtle Bay is that the Oil-for-Food mess isn’t really a scandal at all, just an anti-U.N. plot inspired by ‘right-wingers’ – or, alternatively, by former Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi.
Those are shameful lies.
In fact, the Iraqi Governing Council has been probing the mess since January, when the Baghdad newspaper Al-Mada published its now-famous list of the 270 officials from 44 countries who were bribed with oil vouchers by Saddam “

Seems to me we have a very real possibility that it will be the UN, and not the US or the UK, that drives the average man in the Arab Street into the arms of the Islamofacists.

Here’s a picture of the President that the left would rather you didn’t see

“He worked the line at a steady campaign pace, smiling, nodding and signing autographs until Prince spoke:
‘This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11.’
Bush stopped and turned back.
‘He changed from being the leader of the free world to being a father, a husband and a man,’ Faulkner said. ‘He looked right at her and said, ‘How are you doing?’ He reached out with his hand and pulled her into his chest.’ “

Now, tell me; can you imagine John sKerry doing this with any degree of honesty? I can’t.

Ann Coulter does it again: :

“Over in the alternative universe of the 9/11 commission hearings watched only by me, Richard Ben-Veniste recently proposed an amazing new standard for investigating Arabs in this country. In the middle of haranguing Condoleezza Rice, Ben-Veniste demanded to know why the suspected 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, had not been more aggressively investigated, despite the fact that — I quote — he had ‘no explanation for the funds in his bank account, and no explanation for why he was in the United States.’
So let me get this straight: Airport security can’t acknowledge that a person is an Arab, but they should be allowed to audit his bank records? (Come to think of it, ‘Can’t Explain His Bank Account or Why He’s Here’ is also a pretty good description of John Kerry.) “

QandO, speaking of the tourtue cases in Iraq:

“Although, naturally, Mr. Kennicot wants these Army cowboys strung up.

If not, why not?”

Hmmm.

QandO, speaking of the tourtue cases in Iraq:

“Although, naturally, Mr. Kennicot wants these Army cowboys strung up.

If not, why not?”

Hmmm.

QandO, speaking of the tourtue cases in Iraq:

“Although, naturally, Mr. Kennicot wants these Army cowboys strung up.

If not, why not?”

Hmmm.

QandO, speaking of the tourtue cases in Iraq:

“Although, naturally, Mr. Kennicot wants these Army cowboys strung up.

If not, why not?”

Hmmm.

QandO, speaking of the tourtue cases in Iraq:

“Although, naturally, Mr. Kennicot wants these Army cowboys strung up.

If not, why not?”

Hmmm.