Archives for September 2004

Richard Perle is offering the old “I was misled” dodge to explain his role in the Hollinger “corporate kleptocracy.” We thought Kenny Boy had sucked all the helium out of that stratagem. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

If any further proof were needed after Zell Miller’s pit bull performance the other night that reality and Republicans do not share the same universe, it was demonstrated once again from the podium in Madison Square Garden by a president so proud of his Texas swagger that he inevitably creates the impression of a prevaricating […]

The Republican Convention starred two different kinds of demagogues last night: Zell Miller, a pit bull who looked as ugly and vicious as he sounded, and Dick Cheney, an oily conman who played the role of wise old grandpa. But their goal was the same: the character assassination of John Kerry. Miller — who had […]

The report of another “corporate kleptocracy” is making news this morning. It’s not Kenny Boy’s Enron or Bunker Boy’s former company, Halliburton, or any of the no-bid contract players in Iraq. This time it’s Hollinger International, a media company formerly led by Conrad Black and F. David Radler with the connivance of a board of […]

Here, from mild-mannered poet Leon Freilich, is what mild-mannered Laura Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t talk about last night in their speeches to the Republican National Convention: BUSH’S PROGRESS W. triumphed over boozing,Denouncing it as a force he hated;Raising a question not of his choosing:Could sobriety be over-rated? EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

And don’t you forget it: “I’m the commander, I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.”— George W. Bush, 2002 EmailFacebookTwitterReddit