Cheney: Fact Check dot com!

From tonight's debate:

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Well, the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smoke screen. They know the charges are false. They know if you go, for example, to factcheck.com, an independent webste sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific details, with respect to Halliburton.

Cheney said FactCheck.com instead of FactCheck.org. Woops. I don't think he realizes that FactCheck.com goes to GeorgeSoros.com, who has the banner pictured above on the top of the page :-).

Thanks to jameth.

DAILY SHOW VIDEO CLIP

"The fundamental problem in the Kerry campaign is the enormous gap between what John Kerry means and what the Republican party says he means...
Say what you will about George W. Bush, you always know exactly what he says John Kerry stands for."

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NEW MEME
The 2nd Presidential Debate will be this Friday, which will feature questions of all types from members of the audience. You know what that means?

DRINKING GAME

Every time someone says "September 11", "tax breaks", "tax cuts", or "Bin Laden", everyone takes a drink.

Every time Bush says "weapons of mass destruction", "flip flop", or "Saddam", Republicans take a drink.

Every time Kerry says "health care", "campaign", or "Medicare", Democrats take a drink.

Every time Bush starts talking before the moderator tells him to, make sure to point out to everyone watching with you how much of a douche bag he is.

;-)

Interesting...

Take this how you will. Be amused, or be outraged that the media allowed Bush's backdrop to tell the truth... or try to claim liberal media bias. Whatever. I'm personally amused that it became an issue. I wouldn't doubt that USA Today did it just because of the stink made about the shot on NBC.

"TAX RELIEF FOR WORKING FAMILIES" on NBC

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Today on USAToday:

Here's the larger version of the photo that Yahoo! is using.

You know what makes me mad? In last night's debate, Cheney pointed out that Edwards' history in politics includes only one 6 year term as a senator. HELLO, George W. Bush went from oil business bankrupter to baseball team owner to ONE 4 year term as governor of Texas to PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. That's not a good thing for Cheney to call out. Not only that, but Cheney said he had never met the Senator before, trying to make it seem as if Edwards wasn't active in the Senate. However, Cheney later admitted to the press that they had met -- at least 3 times.

NOT ONLY THAT, how dare Cheney call out Edwards' attendance record, citing his position as the president of the Senate, when HE HAS ONLY ACTED AS PRESIDENT ON TWO (2) TUESDAYS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS. This is coming from the man that's supposed to be in charge of the Senate! John Edwards was acting President of the Senate twice himself!

"Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session."

--Dick Cheney

Polls are showing mixed results from last night. CBS reports that Edwards won, while ABC reports that Cheney did. Every online poll I've seen says Edwards won, including the Fox news poll.

I still need to watch it... I've only read parts of the transcript so far. I don't have cable.

The Dailey Show with Jon Stuart: Bush Campaign Flunks Global Test

You know, The Daily Show seems to be the only show on television that's daring enough to call out the Republican party and their deceit.

I posted this clip yesterday, but I'm posting it again because this is one of the best Daily Show clips I've ever seen.

onegoodmove.com - Quicktime9.3MB


Transcript:

Stuart: We turn our attention to the biggest swing state in this year's Presidential election... Iraq. Think of it as an Ohio. A bloody, intractable, Ohio.

Yesterday Paul Bremer, the former U.S. Administrator in Iraq, acknowledged some mistakes in the way the Iraq war was waged, during a speech in West Virginia to a group called "The Insurance Leadership Forum". Bremer told them, quote "We never had enough troops on the ground", which led to "an atmosphere of lawlessness."

He concluded "The one thing that would have improved the situation... would have been having more troops in Iraq at the beginning and throughout" the occupation. Adding, "AFLAC!" (laughter) It's an insurance... forum.

So Paul Bremer has said; this is Paul Bremer, this is crucial. He was the CPA in Iraq. He said we needed to have more troops on the ground in Iraq. A Bush ally said the biggest mistake was that we DID NOT have enough troops, a charge a lot of people have made but the President has insisted wasn't necessary, so how does Paul Bremer explain his remarks?

Well, his aid told the Washington Post that "his speeches were intended for private audiences and were supposed to have been off the record."

OH, that's what we've been doing wrong. If only we fought the war off the record!

He thens shows clips of the Presidential debate, including where George W. Bush jumps in before the moderator with "well actually you forgot Poland."

Stuart: Oh, snaps!

Well, I hope you're happy now Senator, because now Poland's leaving.

Yes, less than a week after the President's success at remembering Poland, the nation announced plans to substantially reduce its forces in Iraq by January, with the aim of pulling out completely by the end of 2005.

Next Jon points out that "despite their bad week, the White House is fighting the president's stinking poll numbers the only way they know how: by removing context."

No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.

But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing...

[John Kerry, 1st Presidential Debate]

John Stuart called this "64 words explaining why he wouldn't cede power now which the Bush administration jumped on like a fat kid on a smartie". We then see 4 clips of politicians saying "global tests" recently. "Yeah, aparently when John Kerry said "I will not cede control of America's military", they heard this:

"We have a global test now. We have reversing positions on the key issues of Iraq." - FOX

"Could you imagine trying to pass a global test in a security council that Syria has sat in?" - Condoleezza Rice

"Who passes or fails you on a global test? The French, the Russians, the U.N. passes or fails you on a global test." - CNN

Stuart: "Now my guess is that if John Kerry said all Americans must step up and do their duty, they would attack him for talking about duty.

Next John asks Senior Political Analyst Rob Corddry about why the media is playing out the global test phrase, when it seemed very clear to anyone that watched the context.

"The fundamental problem in the Kerry campaign is the enormous gap between what John Kerry means and what the Republican party says he means...
Say what you will about George W. Bush, you always know exactly what he says John Kerry stands for."

Stuart responds, "but this was not a flip flop. Kerry was relatively consistent in this one." ... "Sure, first he's a flip flop and now he's not a flip flop. Which is it John Kerry?"

Bush gets 50 minutes of free advertising

You Call That a Major Policy Address?
By Fred Kaplan - Slate.MSN.com - 10/06/2004

Did CNN and MSNBC get hoodwinked this morning? Yesterday, the White House announced that President Bush would be delivering a "major policy address" on terrorism today. The cable news networks broadcast it live and in full. Yet the "address" turned out to be a standard campaign stump speech before a Pennsylvania crowd that seemed pumped on peyote, cheering, screaming, or whooping at every sentence.

The president announced no new policy, uttered not one new word about terrorism, foreign policy, or anything else. He did all the things he wanted to do in last Thursday's debate—accuse his opponent of weakness, bad judgment, vacillation, and other forms of flip-floppery—though this time without a moderator to hush the audience, much less an opponent to bite back. And Bush loved it, smiling, smirking, raising his eyebrows, as if to say, "How 'bout that zinger?"

In short, the cable networks were lured into airing an hourlong free campaign ad for George W. Bush. (CNN's spokeswoman did not return my calls inquiring if the producers felt used. The secretary to MSNBC President Rick Kaplan—no relation—connected me to a "viewer relations" line, where I could leave a message if I wished. I called again to clarify that I had a press question, not a consumer complaint. She connected me to the same line again. When I tried a third, fourth, and fifth time, she didn't even pick up the phone; no doubt seeing my number pop up on the Caller ID screen, she routed my call to the prerecorded announcement.)