Damn liberal media

The 'blame-game' has already started. James Wolcott has the absurdly 'ominous' warning from the Roger Simon. Summary: if Kerry wins it is the Liberal media's fault, and they will pay.

Ethics

Dirty tricks from the College Republicans... taking advantage of old people in a thrilling game of ethical limbo.

"I don't have any more money," said Cecilia Barbier, a 90-year-old retired church council worker in New York City. "I'm stopping giving to everybody. That was all my savings that they got."

Progressives get ready, the train is a-comin'

Great article on the surge in liberal mobilization. Including ACT, the 527 I'm canvassing for on election day.

I have found something I’ve never before seen in my 36 or so years as a progressive activist and later as a journalist: an effective, fully functioning American left.

Madison Rally

I'm working on getting a picture from this morning's rally up. Its amazing, 100,000 plus people showed up in a town of 300,000. The Boss, Dave Grohl, and John Kerry. Couldn't have asked for a better set.

Update: Salon.com has an article on the Madison rally. A great article and a great picture of the Boss and the future president.

When he was done, Springsteen reached for his guitar and leaned into "No Surrender," the song that opens every Kerry campaign rally. As autumn leaves fell around him, Springsteen reinvented the song. The anthemic rock 'n' roll song became a meditation on promises made and hopes held tight, and he dedicated it to John Kerry.

The largest crowd -- ever, for anything -- in Madison's history exploded in applause. When Kerry took the stage a few minutes later, he fed on the energy.

Also, on the upper left of this page is a picture of the whole crowd. Click for a larger version.

Kerry v Bush

Here's an open thread for the big, heated election debate. To post a comment click on the "[number]' comments" link right below.

UPDATE: better link to the eminem video than posted earlier.

SAVE THE TAPES!!!

Keith Olberman is my hero. (watch the video)

After he announced his offer of $99,000 to Andrea Mackis for a copy of the Bill O'Reilly tapes, viewers have pledged over $22,000 to the non-existent 'Save The Tapes Fund.' Yep, there is no such fund, however it looks as though that could change soon.

The O'Reilly scandal is just too good to be true.

Update: Also, check out Olberman's blog. Absolutely hilarious. I'll leave you with this quote:

In the interim, I'll just sit here continuing to feel like Jimmy Stewart at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life" as the entire town comes in and saves both Christmas and the recordings of a dirty old man talking loofas and falafels with an employee young enough to be his daughter.

Sniff sniff

7 days...

1. With 7 days left to go, Eminem decided to help the 'reality based' community out with his new video. It is hosted on guerrilla news, though the site appears to be down . I will post a link once the sight is back up. It is an intense attack on bush ending with call to GOTV*.

2. Next up. To add to the previous post regarding the stolen explosives, Josh Marshall has a clear response to the idea that they were gone before we got there. Most notably he quotes the LA Times:

Given the size of the missing cache, it would have been difficult to relocate undetected before the invasion, when U.S. spy satellites were monitoring activity at sites suspected of concealing nuclear and biological weapons. "You don't just move this stuff in the middle of the night," said a former U.S. intelligence official who worked in Baghdad.

The LA Times also mentioned it would take 40 large trucks carrying 10 tons a piece.

---more coming soon

*get out the vote

Backtracking

Thought I'd post some old news thats still quite relevant.

Ron Suskind had a very interesting article the the NYTimes Magazine a week ago. It focuses on the [scary] role faith has in Bush's decision making. Faith shouldnt replace thought.

Also, get a load of this quote from the story:

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'

Absurd. Needlenose dug up a strikingly similar quote:

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. . . . Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.

Yeah. Guess where thats from. Yeah, 1984. No more posting 'till my night exam is over.

ridiculous

Well, this is the first post. With this I enter the blogosphere...

What to start with... how about 380 tons of missing explosives in iraq? ...and the fact that a single pound of this stuff would be a good suicide bomb, a few pounds a good car bomb... and remember 380 tons is well over 700,000 pounds.

The Rude Pundit has a well-stated opinion on this.