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Media And Liberals [Same Thing] Want The Economy To Look Bad

Housing sales are "unexpectedly" up in a "surprise" for economists. Folks, this is an economic rough patch, but we always rebound -- and when one sector does poorly, there are always new opportunities for others.

AP has this headline: 'US Ponders How Deep is Economic Abyss.' It will be as deep as the MSM can make it. They're doing everything they can to create in your mind, as much chaos as possible over the state of the economy."

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Hagel's No Republican

"It literally stuns me that a guy, Senator McCain, who spent years criticizing his own party and thought seriously about leaving it, is now the leader of it."

McCain almost left the GOP twice, and he still can't sew up Hagel's endorsement.

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Democrat B. S.

"We have the leading Democrat presidential primary contender Barack Obama campaigning on what? Hope. Change. We can all unify, blah, blah, blah. Democrats can't even unify their own party! How are they going to unify the country? The whole thing is an illusion." 

Washington Post: Fact Checker Gives Hillary 4 of 5 Pinocchios for Bosnia Lie

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Wall Street Journal’s Editors Took The Time To Read The Pentagon Report On The Connections Between Saddam Hussein And Terrorist Groups

WSJ: Saddam-terrorist connections get no media coverage


The Wall Street Journal’s editors took the time to read the Pentagon report on the connections between Saddam Hussein and terrorist groups, and wonder why the national media have ignored the story. The analysis of the Harmony documents got initially misreported, and after the Pentagon released the full analysis, few if any news agencies opted to correct the initial distortions they published — and the WSJ says that leaves Americans misinformed

We covered the misrepresentations earlier in these posts. In one, I used the title that should have been used to headline this story: “Saddam supported at least two al-Qaeda groups”. That was the lede that the American media buried, thanks to a distortion that came from an anonymous Pentagon source that took one sentence from the executive summary out of context and a curious reluctance to address the actual evidence that the report highlights.

Eli Lake at the New York Sun gets the story correct: “Report Details Saddam’s Terrorist Ties”. I guess this means he actually read the report.

. . . required reading should be Steve Hayes's post over at the Weekly Standard's blog . . .

. . . Egyptian Islamic Jihad actually has more significance than most in the AQ network. EIJ at one time provided the lion’s share of AQ’s leadership, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, and certainly that was true in the period between 1991 and 2003. Saddam’s support for EIJ shows a more direct connection to AQ leadership than anyone had predicted before the capture of the documents on which this report is based.

The FBI’s Deputy Director for counterterrorism testified before Congress about the connection between AQ and EIJ on December 18, 2001.

. . . If no operational “smoking gun” could be found, the report still shows that Saddam Hussein had plenty of ties to all sorts of terrorist groups, including radical Islamist jihadis.


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Unauthorized Use Of Pen

Abbas backs away from Yemeni agreement

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Compared To Jesus Christ For Facing Aggressive Media In Wake Of Anti-American Remarks

Obama’s new pastor: Wright is sort of like Jesus, isn’t he?

The new pastor of Barack Obama’s church delivered a defiant defense of its retiring reverend Sunday, comparing media coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. to a modern-day lynching that resembles Jesus’ death at the hands of the Romans.

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McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned

NYT reminds America of McCain’s love affair with the left

What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry about becoming Mr. Kerry’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.

There are wildly divergent versions of both episodes, depending on whether Democrats or Mr. McCain and his advisers are telling the story. The Democrats, including Mr. Kerry, say that not only did Mr. McCain express interest but that it was his camp that initially reached out to them. Mr. McCain and his aides counter that in both cases the Democrats were the suitors and Mr. McCain the unwilling bride.


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