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Archive for July 17th, 2007

Bloggers as Pentagon Shills

Posted in Media and Aggregators, Military & War on July 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »

The Pentagon has a new operation, “Communications Outreach,” formerly known as “Surrogates Operation.” This is an attempt to work with talk radio hosts and bloggers to spread the “good” word about the debacle otherwise known as the War in Iraq.
With public opinion on both the President and Iraq war cratering, it’s hard to imagine any [...]

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Record Poppy Crop in Afghanistan

Posted in Health, Military & War on July 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Afghanistan is setting another record year in poppy production.
Afghanistan’s heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this season, despite intensified eradication efforts, the American ambassador said Tuesday.
Ambassador William Wood said preliminary data show that Afghan farmers harvested 457,135 acres of opium poppies this year, compared to 407,715 acres last year. The growing industry fuels the Taliban, [...]

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The Daily Fred: TN’s Mayberry Machiavelli Weighs In, As Fred Continues to Flout the Law

Posted in 2008 Elections on July 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Tennessee’s Mayberry Machiavelli, Zach “the poor can eat crumbs” Wamp weighs in on Fred “lawn order” Thompson, believing that an announcement to formally enter the presidential race is forth-coming.
“My view is that he’ll enter the race at some point just in the coming days,” said Wamp, a key supporter of Thompson.
The lawmaker said the actor [...]

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Conservatives Abandoning Ship

Posted in Bush Administration, Media and Aggregators, Military & War on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The conservatives are abandoning ship faster than they can say George W Bush.
he Pittsburgh newspaper owned by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife yesterday called the Bush administration’s plans to stay the course in Iraq a “prescription for American suicide.”
The editorial in the Tribune-Review added, “And quite frankly, during last Thursday’s news conference, when George Bush [...]

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O’Reilly on “Radical Left” DailyKos

Posted in Media and Aggregators on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Crooks & Liars has the video — you really need to watch it.
Bill O’Reilly sent his rinky-dink camera crew over to assault the CEO of JetBlue because they sponsored YearlyKos. It’s another embarrassing effort by O’Reilly to smear people who he feels threatened by and a larger response by FOX News itself for being finally [...]

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