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• Schism on the Right! Gay-Hater vs. Mexican-Hater

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 551
  For your Oscar consideration: 9-1/2 minutes of friction between a Minuteman and a Westboro Baptist, outside last year’s Saddleback Church Presidential debate.  Can the GOP hang together in spite of bitter divisions like these?  (Kidding, I know you’re not all this crazy!  But still, how will you deal with these ...
  5 days ago

• Thanksgiving Day Onion and Open Thread: Talkin Turkey Edition, Part Deux

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 438
  Concluding our two-part "Talkin Turkey" holiday thread, weve this tape from the Onion archives that brings back fond (frond? fractured?) memories of the Bush Administration: Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and remember: This is an Open Thread. read more
  1 week ago

• Under the Bus (contd)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Following up on Mikes post about the various people Obama has thrown under the bus, it does seem that theres an unusual amount of handwringing going on about Greg Craig, or at least about the manner in which he was thrown, through a series of well-orchestrated leaks. One of the most overwrought bits comes Steve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bob Bauer and Scooter Libby Justice

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 710
  Glenn Greenwald has a post hitting on an op-ed Bob Bauer–Greg Craig’s replacement as White House Counsel–wrote supporting a pardon for Scooter Libby. (h/t BSL ) Glenn focuses on these passages… Bush’s opposition has braced for a pardon and its rage at the prospect is building.  To Bush’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame and publisher lose memoir appeal

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and her publisher Simon & Schuster sued the CIA in 2007 to overturn its efforts to black ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sarah Palin and Barney Frank Walk Into a Dinner Gala

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Talk about an odd couple! Former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be joining U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the longest serving openly LGBT member of Congress, as headliners for the Gridiron Club winter dinner . No word on whether theyll sing a version of "Endless Love" together. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and the “Unremarkable” Meat Grinder

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 749
  (Photo by roens.) Ever since they were released last Friday, I’ve been meaning to write about the  FBI notes of Dick Cheney’s interview with Plamemania special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.  As is her wont, Emptywheel has already critiqued Cheney’s non-answers from a  variety of  angles , and multiple ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Weekly Standard, Where Its Always Good News For Republicans

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Matthew Continettis editorial in last weeks issue of the Weekly Standard --"The Inevitability Myth: Health care reform is not a fait accompli"--makes the case that, despite all evidence, health care reform may not be enacted after all. (Continetti does concede that "the chances of some sort of health bill passing, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cheney, the Greatest Con in History!

  
  An Average American Patriot — Authority: 128
  Last week in a Bush Administration reunion The war mongering liar Dick Cheney received the super-prestigious "Keeper of the Flame" award and watched as beloved Bush administration felon Scooter Libby was honored with the "Service Before Self" award for falling on the sword for Cheney and being a first class liar which ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cheney to FBI in Plame Investigation: ‘I Can’t Recall If I’m Vice President’

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 539
  “VICE PRESIDENT?  I’M DICKHEAD THE XIV, AND THE UNITED STATES IS ME .” Lisa Casey on the Ditherer-in-Chief . BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin on the Virginia Foxx in the FOX House .
  4 weeks ago

• Dick Cheney – If His Memory Is So Bad, Should Anything He Says Be Believed?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 596
  Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making quite an after-politics career of going around on the speaking circuit, giving his opinions on why his administration was so great, and why the current one is doomed to failure and disgrace. Now he seems to have that infamous political selective memory, only recalling the ...
  4 weeks ago

• GOON Mental Malfunction: War Criminal and Liar Dick Cheney’s Case of Amnesia

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 139
  “For years the American people have wondered what role Vice President Cheney played in outing former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. While we may never know the whole story, with the release... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 weeks ago

• Did Cheney Deceive FBI On Instructions To Libby?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 767
  Most reactions to the release of Dick Cheneys 2004 interview with FBI investigators on the Valerie Plame affair have focused on the numerous instances in which the then-vice president claimed a faulty memory about events that had occurred less than a year before. But did Cheney at one point all but lie under ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Man With America’s Worst Memory

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 562
  That would be America’s criminal former Vice President, Dick Cheney.According to the Associated Press, the man who had ‘other priorities’ when he got about a dozen deferments to avoid military service, and the man who hijacked the Constitution during the Bush Years, simply couldn’t remember even the simplest ...
  4 weeks ago

• Isikoff Doubles Down on His Anonymous Leak from Cheney’s Lawyer

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 710
  Michael Isikoff’s coverage of Dick Cheney’s interview (h/t Leen) seems designed as much to defend his bad reporting on the CIA Leak case as to report the content of the interview itself. It’s not that I expected Isikoff to point out that Cheney refused to say things to Fitzgerald that Cheney’s own lawyer ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cheney Failed to Answer 72 FBI Questions

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 674
  "Failed"? What a worthless p.o.s. More at the link. (AP) Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last weeks release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheneys answers in the criminal investigation underscores why ...
  4 weeks ago

• Here is a Short List of Political Questions the Neocons Don’t Want To Answer

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 138
  The neocons have, during their 24 years in power, harvested a ton of questions WHO OUTED VALERIE PLAME? Cheney Could Not Recall Key Events About His Role in CIA Leak Truthout October 31, 2009 by Jason Leopold, truthout October | Report A month before Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert status as a CIA ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cheney’s Betrayal Made an IIPA Charge for Libby Possible

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 710
  Yesterday, I showed the many ways that Dick Cheney hung his purportedly valued aide, Scooter Libby, out to dry in his interview with Patrick Fitzgerald. But I didn’t do a very good job of explaining the consequences of that action from Cheney. Luckily, perris did that for me . As a reminder, I’ve shown ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hung Out to Dry: One Former VP Chief of Staff

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 710
  If I were Scooter Libby right now, I’d be seething. I’d be utterly disgusted with the way Dick Cheney hung me out to dry, over and over and over, in his interview with Fitzgerald. Cheney denies any knowledge of issues he and Libby worked on together repeatedly and he denies that his own orders and instructions ...
  4 weeks ago

• it was a secret he couldnt remember???

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 491
  yeah right. he remembers every single thing in the entire universe BUT this? no effing way and lets just for the sake of argument (or folly) say that is true. he couldnt remember A FUCKING THING about outing a covert cia agent??????....did we want someone like that as vice president? a shooting a friend in the ...
  4 weeks ago

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