Night Of The Living Brain-Dead BushBots

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Hot off the blogs this week: brain-dead media zombies; nobody ever expects the BushBot Inquisition!; who you gonna call when blood-sucking BushBots, banshees, and she-devils attack? Bush, living proof that brain-dead bigotry is alive (it's alive!), tells black people to clean up after themselves at the White House; and... the monster killers are coming! All this, plus DUers Liberalitch, The Magistrate, and ck4829 tell it like it is. Enjoy!

BushBot Blood Suckers

Curious about the four branches of our government? Publicus at Daily Kos sends us to the new and improved wiki entry for Dick Cheney, where the graphic evidence of Cheney's "Go Fuck Yourself" attitude was on display... but has now been scrubbed, of course. Thank goodness for ?CLICK">screen captures!

The funniest part? ?CLICK">Look carefully:

"He is also known to feed on the blood of the innocent."

For more on the blood-sucking VP, check out War and Piece's commentary on the Washington Post's four-part Cheney expose. Here's a tidbit to slurp:

The world is full of examples of powerful people who think they are exempt from the laws because of some self justifying logic. But too bad for us tough guy Cheney with his impassioned commitment to torture and secret power couldn't get bin Laden and failed to win the war in Iraq with his friend Rumsfeld. His sense of a higher purpose that justified circumventing the law and the deliberative process is totally divorced from the simple reality of the total ineptness of the administration's service to America from Katrina to Iraq to its failure to get bin Laden and finish al Qaeda. We didn't get a better policy because Cheney thought he knew better and was hostile to process, we got failed one after failed one after failed one. Even with all that secret extra-legal power he yielded and bestowed for all these years, he couldn't show success on any front when it mattered.

And then there's that other blood-sucking Christobel (trans. she who sucks the life out of news coverage and spits on the rule of law)...

Paris Is Free!

No, not the city. The hotel heiress. Jossip's big story, however, isn't the release from prison, it's the real story behind NBC's decision to cancel the Today Show interview with Ms. Hilton:

Jeff Immelt Was All 'Paris Is Gonna Be Bad For Us'

It was GE chief Jeff Immelt, with an assist from Brian Williams, that got Paris Hilton's Today interview pulled, says the Post. Though NBC still stands by its word that it never paid, nor planned to pay, for Hilton's chat, the top dog decision was handed down as a means to beef up the lackluster rep of the Peacock. Remember Don Imus? And Seung-Hui Cho's media manifesto? Yeah, that made NBC look bad, and they don't have any more eyes to make black.

But hey, at least they're putting up a fight against CBS - at one time the only real candidate for Biggest PR Blunders From a National TV Network of the Year Award.

Buck up, blog readers. We'll always have Jossip's excellent graphic of Paris in the orange jump suit!


No worries, America! Larry King got the interview. And while we're on the subject of she-devils...

The Banshee Strikes Again!

That's right. Ann Coulter, in her perpetual black cocktail dress, was summarily thwacked this week by the lovely and rational Elizabeth Edwards... while Chris Matthews tried in vain to control the shrieking Ann The Banshee. Crimes And Corruption Of The New World Order News has the video and this related noteworthy Coulter quote:

Coulter Wants John Edwards To Die in a Terrorist Attack.

Sheesh! The mere sight of Coulter makes you want to pull the covers up over your head. What kind of monster could possibly be worse than Ann? Never forget...

The King Of The Spiders

Karl Rove continues to suck the lifeblood out of all of us. Josh Marshall and Laura McGann have the latest on Rove's role in fingering Alabama Governor, Don Siegelman:

Satisfied with the non-denial denial? When a reporter finally got a chance to ask Karl Rove about the claims he had a role in orchestrating the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) all he managed was a dodge: that he didn't know anything about the phone call in which his alleged role was revealed.

Well, obviously, that doesn't mean anything since no one is claiming he was a party on that call.

Folks are ignoring this one at their peril. With the track record of the US Attorney firings, when the president's top advisor is accused, credibly and specifically, of orchestrating the prosecution of a Democratic governor, he should be able to give a straightforward answer.

Apparently he can't.

Rove's motive? To "get Siegelman out of the way." No surprise, right?

How To Make A 9/11 American Monster

Rozius Unbound has posted Frank Rich's column entry, "They'll break the bad news on 9/11."

Frank Rich, The New York Times, June 24, 2007

By this late date we should know the fix is in when the White House's top factotums fan out on the Sunday morning talk shows singing the same lyrics, often verbatim, from the same hymnal of spin. The pattern was set way back on Sept. 8, 2002, when in simultaneous appearances three cabinet members and the vice president warned darkly of Saddam's aluminum tubes. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," said Condi Rice, in a scripted line. The hard sell of the war in Iraq - the hyping of a (fictional) nuclear threat to America - had officially begun.

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Come September 2007, Mr. Bush will offer his usual false choices. We must either stay his disastrous course in eternal pursuit of "victory" or retreat to the apocalypse of "precipitous withdrawal." But by the latest of the president's ever-shifting definitions of victory, we've already lost. "Victory will come," he says, when Iraq "is stable enough to be able to be an ally in the war on terror and to govern itself and defend itself." The surge, which he advertised as providing "breathing space" for the Iraqi "unity" government to get its act together, is tipping that government into collapse. As Vali Nasr, author of "The Shia Revival," has said, the new American strategy of arming Sunni tribes is tantamount to saying the Iraqi government is irrelevant.

Is it time yet to light the torches and grab the pitchforks? Maybe, but there's always...

Survival Of The Accidental Bigot (Comic Relief Character)

Channeling Don Knotts in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken," Bush told a group of black entertainers to clean up the South Lawn after the party... Which was held to celebrate them. Wonkette has the transcript:

THE PRESIDENT: Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers, right out of New Orleans, Louisiana. (Applause.)

MR. RUFFINS: Thank you. Thanks for having us. We're glad to be here.

THE PRESIDENT: Proud you're here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it's over.

You'll find the particulars filed under Wonkette's "Dept. Of Blacks Should Know Their Place."

What can you do but utter a heavy sigh and wonder what Karl Rove would do if this happened under a Dem president? Hmm...

Brain-dead Zombies (aka The Corporate-Owned Media)

If Reid were Rove... David Michael Green at The Regressive Antidote knows what would happen if Senator Harry Reid behaved like Rove and his minions. Here's a snippet:

If Reid were Rove, you'd never hear the end of how Bush's wondrous Department of Homeland Security (which, we'd be reminded, doesn't include the CIA or the FBI) allowed a guy to enter the country carrying a deadly strain of tuberculosis, even though he was on the no-fly list. We'd be asked over and over again how we could expect to be safe from terrorism with a government that can't even deal with a known medical threat crossing our borders.

In fact, if Reid were Rove, we'd be reminded that today is Day 2098 of the unsolved anthrax attack from 2001. And that tomorrow is Day 2099. And that the next day is...

If Reid were Rove, stories about small communities across America holding bake sales in order to buy armor for their kids going off to the war in Iraq would be seared into our collective consciousness. And then we'd be reminded of the no-bid contracts Halliburton got for Iraq, how the Vice President arranged those, how he still has financial interests in the company, and all the sordid details of the corruption and failure to perform in which it has indulged.

Just wait. As soon as a Dem is elected president, the corporate-owned media will suddeny decide they've been too lax in their scrutiny of the White House and Congress. It never fails, does it? Meanwhile...

No One Ever Expects The BushBot Inquisition!

Blogging about the newly released old news of CIA misdeeds, Larry Johnson at No Quarter hammers the nails in the BushCo torture coffin:

But torture in the war on terror shares a pedigree with the misdeeds of the past. The CIA was not a rogue elephant acting on its own. It was an obedient dog carrying out the order of political masters. As the Washington Post has detailed in a series of excellent reports this week, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld were leading the charge in authorizing the use of torture proscribed under international law. It is the responsibility of intelligence officers to maintain their integrity when ordered to do illegal and immoral acts. The lessons of the Nuremburg trials of the Nazis is that the claim of, "I was only following orders", is not a valid nor acceptable defense. Government officials, regardless of their place in a government bureaucracy, are expected to follow the law and do the right thing.

"Do the right thing." Has a nice monster-killing ring to it, doesn't it?

Here Come The Monster Killers!

According to Bob Geiger, Helen Thomas struck down Tony Snow wannabe Dana Perino, with one sentence:

Helen Thomas To Perino: "We should get someone out here who can answer our questions"

You're our hero, Helen! While we're on the subject of monster killers...

Thank A DUer!

Thanks to Liberalitch for identifying the true Cheney:

Eventually Dick Cheney will sprout cloven feet, a clubbed tail and horns.....

...and just say, "Fuck it! I think y'all knew it all along didn't you? .....and even if you didn't... Go Fuck yourself!"

Thanks to The Magistrate for this reply to a post on Rahm Emanuel proposing legislation to defund Dick Cheney's office:

It is how the Parliament v. Monarch game is played....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

And many thanks to ck4829, whose post title is one of the all-time greatest:

Eye of Newt Gingrich thinks the American People are all idiots

Finally, thanks to IDemo for posting on the Boise rebellion against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, which caused the cowardly criminal to change his press conference location. The only thing missing? Torches and pitchforks, of course. Here's a nice photo to commemorate the occasion:

What a long, dark and stormy night(mare) we're stuck in! Fortunately, the worm seems to be turning this summer. The White House and the Vice President's office have both been served with subpoenas, Republicans are complaining about the damage Rove has done to their party, and Dems are actually fighting back. It's been a long time coming, and the road ahead is fraught with danger, but the sun always comes up in the morning, doesn't it? And the monster killers almost always win, don't they? Even if the monsters survive to fight another day, it's good to know that there's safety in numbers. Keep fighting those tightie righties, and get those pitchforks and torches ready. You never now when they might come in handy.

-- Delilah Boyd

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