David Archuleta Final Two 5/20/08 A WINNER!
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by prophet
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Vintage Bill O’Reilly in f-bomb explosion
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by prophet
David Archuleta Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 5/06/08 1 & 2
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by prophet
McCain confronted with ‘C word’
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by prophet
By: Cliff Schecter 
Today an audacious member of a McCainiac townhall audience Iowa finally asked McCain “the question.” It was a query he has been able to avoid so far, simply by besmirching my character and hiding behind his bevy of underpaid hacks. Did he or did he not refer to his wife with an expletive in 1992 in front of the press and male aides of his, as I reported in my book The Real McCain? Well, today McCain’s media holiday on this subject came to end, with an everyday person taking democracy into their own hands and asking him to answer for his behavior. Not that he would lower himself to being held accountable — it was at best a non-denial:
Audience member: This question goes to mental health and mental health care. Previously, I’ve been married to a woman that was verbally abusive to me. Is it true that you called your wife a (expletive)?
McCain: Now, now. You don’t want to… Um, you know that’s the great thing about town hall meetings, sir, but we really don’t, there’s people here who don’t respect that kind of language. So I’ll move on to the next questioner in the back.
My book broke three major stories, all of which lead to many questions about the character of John Sidney McCain III. In addition to the above dodge and weave, he initially denied a story that he got into a brawl with Congressman Rick Renzi in 2006 on FoxNews, only to have his underlings make a liar out of him when they partially admitted to it later in a Washington Post Story.
Finally, when it comes to another report from my book first reported by the fine folks here at FDL, that McCain tried to get former Common Cause President Chellie Pingree fired from her job because she was, you know, actually in favor of reform, he again denied the story. This even though Pingree and an additional source, Mark Schmitt fully backed up my account. Again, when politically convenient, the “straight-talker” lies.
In fact, it is so hard to keep track of McCain, that I am going to start doing it regularly. Here. At FDL. That’s right, get ready next week for the opening salvos of Cliff Schecter’s Campaign Silo. We’ll talk politics. Campaign politics. And hopefully the world will never be the same…
Update: The guy who asked the question, Baptist minister Marty Parish, was thrown out by the police and Secret Service.
Hillary speaks and throws MoveOn under the bus!
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by prophet
“At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the ‘activist base’ of the Democratic Party— and MoveOn.org in particular—for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had ‘flooded’ state caucuses and ‘intimidated’ her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The Huffington Post. Clinton’s remarks depart radically from the traditional position of presidential candidates, who in the past have celebrated high levels of turnout by party activists and partisans as a harbinger for their own party’s success—regardless of who is the eventual nominee—in the general election showdown.”
“The comments also contradict Clinton’s previous statements praising this year’s elevated Democratic turnout in primaries and caucuses, and appear to blame her caucus defeats on newly energized grassroots voter groups that she has lauded in the past as “lively participants” in American democracy.”
And, hey, wasn’t MoveOn.org founded to defend Bill Clinton against impeachment? “MoveOn’s Executive Director Eli Pariser reacted strongly to Clinton’s remarks: ‘Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim. Senator Clinton’s attack on our members is divisive at a time when Democrats will soon need to unify to beat Senator McCain. MoveOn is 3.2 million reliable voters and volunteers who are an important part of any winning Democratic coalition in November. They deserve better than to be dismissed using Republican talking points.’” [via Time-blog.com]
David Archuleta - When You Believe - Final 7 - 04/15/2008
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by prophet
Britain’s Got Talent - Andrew Johnston (Choir Boy)
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by prophet
‘That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button’
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by prophet
U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a “snake oil salesman” [at a Northern Kentucky Lincoln Day dinner].
He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated in a “highly classified, national security simulation” with Obama.
“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
An aide to Davis, Jeremy Hughes, declined to comment on the remark, and didn’t dispute the accuracy of the quote.