So the Study That Says Bush Lied is Soros Funded? What Else is New?

The AP reports, and the New York Times expands, on a new study by a supposedly “independent” organization that claims to have assembled hundred of “false statements” by the Bush administration in the course of the Iraq war. However,

I find myself in a bad situation. This is a hard thing to write.. and likely one of the hardest things to post in this blog that I’ll ever do.  I’ll set this up this way:

I said, back when

Sam Stein at HuffPo:

Obama’s presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.

Yeah, no shock for that. But

I’ve spent the morning hopping around the ‘sphere, and have noted a trend I’ve noted in previous election years…  I’m noticing how very much of the platforms of the Democrats is surrounded by guilt. Perhaps you’ve noticed it, too?

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Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial

So at one point in this story do you know the media is treating the subject as if he may be guilty?  From the Associated Press, via Seattle Times:

A drifter charged with kidnapping a 24-year-old hiker led authorities

I could not let Bit have all the fun with the best articles of the year.  Retrived an utterly delicious Snark of the Day from the archives. 

The best Snark of 2007 is “Snark of the Day: Scarlet O’Clinton

I said yesterday morning that Major league baseball and its report that was issued yesterday about steroid use, was going to end up being a sham. They’d throw a few players under the bus, and that would be the end

There’s an old adage which states that the reason that PETA goes after rich women in furs, as opposed to motorcycle gangs wearing leather, is because the latter is far more likely to get one killed outright.

I have to

Lest anyone think the Oil for Food business has gone away, The NY SUN will disabuse you of that notion straight away:

A Switzerland-based oil trading company has pleaded guilty to paying $13 million in kickbacks to the Iraqi government

Several folks, including Billy Beck, and a pile more at Memeorandum, have noted thet Barry Bonds was indicted in that BALCO thing. Chicoer.com:

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday

Well, now….. Just a few hours before Hillary Clinton is to face both the press and her opponents for the Democratic Nomination, ABC news is asking some interesting questions, which will doubtless play heavy tonight:

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour

INDIRECT FIRE ATTACKS DECREASE IN IRAQ

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 09:06 AM CST

INDIRECT FIRE ATTACKS DECREASE IN IRAQ

SOLDIER FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 09:01 AM CST

SOLDIER FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER

NINE IRANIAN

Apparently, the press is desperate to get something in the paper to push Norman Hsu off the front page, and for the ability to say “They have crimnials too”. Via Memeorandum, The WaPo is an example:

Republican presidential candidate Fred

Interesting how this stuff keeps coming up. It’s almost like… she’s like… GUILTY or something.

WASHINGTON —Fox-  One gift that Hillary Clinton is unlikely to enjoy on her 60th birthday Friday is the premiere of “Hillary Uncensored,” a scathing documentary