March 2007 - Posts
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Was Bush Warned? A week after Tillman's death, a month before anyone told Tillman's family, a startling memo from April 2004 surfaces tonight. It's from a Major General, to General John Abizaid, warning him to warn the President: do not refer to how Tillman died, it was "highly possible" he died from "friendly fire." Two days later, in his speech about Tillman, President Bush made no reference to how the Army Ranger was killed. WATCH VIDEO Giuliani Time : He knew about the mob taint touching his pick for Director of Homeland Security, firefighters are criticising him about 9/11, and he says his wife can sit in cabinet meetings. How it will all impact the presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani's. ODDBALL : The reason why pilots practice landing without landing gear , and the boat-jacking victim who decided to go down with the ship. WATCH VIDEO Fox Noise and Fury: Why is a television network commissioning a poll that asks people if a political party should "let" itself be "taken over" by a "grassroots organization?" Because the television network is Fox Noise, and the results will make the Democrats look bad. WATCH VIDEO Boehner's Boner: WATCH VIDEO WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Mother of the year sends her kids to steal a puppy, Michael Weiner Savage blames America for 9/11, and Glenn Beck continues his sexists attacks on Hillary Clinton. It's Keithies Night!! You, the voters, have spoken, the polls are now closed, and now we can finally reveal the winners of the first annual "Keithie" awards, The Best of the Stuff We Found on the Internets .
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Fox Noise Channel is pretending to be a news organization again.... CONTINUED >>
Sampson and De Liars : First Kyle Sampson this morning threw Attorney General Alberto Gonzales under the bus, then this afternoon, the White House implied he was going to have to crawl his own way back to the sidewalk. After Kyle Sampson eraseed any doubt that Gonzales approved the firings of eight federal prosecutors, thereby disputing the Attorney General's own public statements, the White House is now actively trying to distance itself from him. Spokeswoman Dana Perino saying this afternoon that it is time, quote: "to let the attorney general speak for himself." WATCH VIDEO Kill Bill, Volume Two : The President is now the only thing standing in the way of money for the troops and a goal of getting out of Iraq starting next year. Threatening to kill the measure with only the second veto of his presidency. But will he put down the veto pen in favor of funding the sword? WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Haunted house training in Malaysia is scary serious, and high speed bowling for morons. WATCH VIDEO Spurning Bush : He once made the joke himself, but are Laura and Barney now truly the President's only supporters? Andrew Sullivan joins Keith to talk about the growing isolation of George W. Bush. WATCH VIDEO Die Another Day: Sanjaya survives another vote on American Idol . Princess Maria Milito is here to tell us why this is a good thing. Or a bad thing. We don't remember. WATCH VIDEO WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : The NBA player scored an offensive triple-double, the NFL coach who didn't get the "enough with the Hitler comparisons already!" memo, and psychologists call what comedian Rush Limbaugh is doing, "projecting." Sorry big guy, there's no pill for that. WATCH VIDEO The Keithies! It's our final night of nominations in the First Annual Best of the Stuff We Found On The Internets Awards. Watch the video , then VOTE HERE for the winner.
VOTE NOW HERE .LAST CALL! Go Vote Now for the Keithie Awards for...Stuff You Missed on the TVs that the Internets Made Famous ."Everyday Idiots of the World Wide Web ""Internets Superstar" (non-porn) Greatest Animal of all the Internets "
Oh, and there's this ... E-Mail Shows Rove’s Role in Fate of Prosecutors Almost every Wednesday afternoon, advisers to President Bush gather to
strategize about putting his stamp on the federal courts and the United States Attorneys' offices.
Not really sure how to feel about this ... CONTINUED >>
The War Over The War: The one thing not being debated in the massive, $122 billion funding bill before the Senate, the one element both parties agree on, is giving the money to the president to ensure that U-S troops have the supplies and equipment and resources they need. And yet the president today at once warned the Congress that they must give him the money as soon as possible and in the same breath, promised to veto the very bill that would give him that funding. WATCH VIDEO The Reality in Iraq : It's one of the most dangerous cities on earth, yet according to Senator John McCain, parts of Baghdad are safe enough to stroll through. Maybe he's the "anonymous blogger" President Bush is using to prove how the surge is working. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Urban indoor downhill skiing, reason #180 why Japanese television is better than ours, and a little swan-on-boat action for you. WATCH VIDEO The US Attorney Scandal : A clear majority of Americans polled say they want White House aides to testify to congress under oath. So given this administration's response to public opinon about Iraq ... we presume Karl Rove and Harriet Miers are totally off the hook. John Dean joins us. WATCH VIDEO Hair Brain: He can't sing, he can barely dance, and his head looks utterly ridiculous. Yet Tom O'Neil predicts tonight that Sanjaya is not only going to survive on American Idol -- he's going to win. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : The President's nomination for Ambassador to Belgium is out of luck, Joe Liebermann is either trying to fool everybody now, or he has been for past year, or both... and you won't believe what Keith found in the University of Idaho women's softball team media guide. WATCH VIDEO The Keithies! It's our third night of nominations in the First Annual Best of the Stuff We Found On The Internets Awards. Watch the video , then VOTE HERE for the winner.
VOTE NOW HERE .vote now , watch the nomination special tonight, erase your cookies and vote again , then come back tomorrow and vote for the next Keithie: "Internets Superstar (non-porn)." Remember to also vote for the Keithie Award for " Stuff That You Missed on the TVs that the Internets Made Famous ."Everyday Idiots of the World Wide Web "
Tom O'Neil is a columnist for the LA Times' entertainment site TheEnvelope.com Back off,
Sanjaya-bashers! American Idol's newest superstar is really a master showman.
Who cares if he
can't sing? Sanjaya's got another talent and knows how to sell it. Camp is one
of the great traditions of showbiz and -- come on! -- it takes a genius to know
how to pull it off. As those sassy strippers in the classic Broadway musical
"Gypsy" say, "Ya gotta bump it with a trumpet, honey!"
You can't just
do it a little. You've gotta go screaming (or screeching) over the top. The next
time you see a photo of Sanjaya's pony Mohawk, think of Dame Edna's purple hair,
or that rat's nest on Tiny Tim's head. Both of those guys have equally ghastly
singing chops. (Uh-oh. You didn't know Dame Edna was a guy? Sorry!)
But it ain't
about the singing. It's about putting on a show! And that spunky, little
17-year-old Liberace wannabe knows what he's doing and is doing it with shrewd
surrender and abandon.
Frankly, let's
be honest -- that's how Taylor Hicks WON last year. Justin Timberlake
was right about him. Taylor "couldn't carry a tune in a bucket."
Simon Cowell was correct, too, when he slammed Taylor for sounding like a drunk dad at a
wedding while singing "Living for the City" the first time on the
show.
But, then --
presto, change-o -- as soon as America started buying into Taylor's campy wiggle and screech, cheering him on, that
unabashed hypocrite and celebrated cad started praising Taylor. Worse, Simon
applauded Taylor
for singing "Living for the City" the exact same, awful way during one of the
finale shows.
Hey, where's the
Let's-Get-Simon-Cowell-Lynch-Mob when you need it?
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...at least that's what his MySpace said for a brief time today... The site was hacked over a breach of netiquette by McCain's web people, who were using a free page template without giving credit
(that's almost stealing!) , and "hotlinking" images from the designer's site, using his bandwidth
(that sorta is stealing!). The 'hacker'
tells his tale here .
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A President Alone : The war vote in the Senate. Republicans there will no longer block debate, or the vote, because Mr. Bush will veto any legislation demanding withdrawal, anyway. In other words: Mr. President, you do your dirty work for yourself. Plus, the same words in Gonzales-Gate: Mr. Attorney General, you do your dirty work for yourself. The report tonight: that nobody in the Administration is trying to talk Republicans on the hill into defending Alberto Gonzales. Also, an update on the condition of White House spokesman Tony Snow.The Blight House : It's scandal du jour, at the movable feast that is the Bush Administration. We'll turn to our special guest... political gourmet Bill Maher.ODDBALL : All publicity is good publicity, even if it costs you a million dollar sports car, that and the biggest frog you'll see all week.Mary Tillman Exclusive :
The day after the latest story from the Army on the death of Ranger Pat Tillman, the former football star, in friendly fire in Afghanistan, more anger, more heartbreak, from his mother, Mary. Tonight... her extraordinary interview with Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick.Flirting With Disaster: 30 years after the worst runway disaster in aviation history -- federal investigators fear another ground collision is terrifyingly possible. NBC's Tom Costello has a special report.WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD :
What's worse than stealing candy from a baby? Michael Weiner Savage has no heart, plus Sean Hannity and the hacks at the RNC News Channel.The Keithies! It's
our second night of nominations in the First Annual Best of the Stuff We
Found On The Internets Awards. Watch the video, then VOTE HERE for the winners.
VOTE NOW HERE .vote now , watch the nomination special tonight, erase your cookies and vote again , then come back tomorrow and vote for the next Keithie: "Internets Superstar (non-porn)." Remember to also vote for the Keithie Award for " Stuff That You Missed on the TVs that the Internets Made Famous ."
Special Comment: Tom DeLay’s DeLusions
What He Meant to Say : Now that it has been revealed that Alberto Gonzales did not give us the full truth about his involvement in the US Attorney firings, he's back to parse his story a tad. We'll take a look at the new explanations -- and the new contradictions -- in Gonzales' interview with NBC's Pete Williams.Tom DeLay and the 'Big Lie' : Tom Delay compares liberals to Hitler. That upon which he bases that comparison, may be even more shocking. A brief Special Comment by Keith Olbermann .ODDBALL : Motorcycle bullfighting in Mexico, the ultimate "how to remain a bachelor" pad, and live, uncensored Panda Porn. WATCH VIDEO Truth, The Second Casualty : When he died in the spring of 2004, Pat Tillman was an all-American hero who gave up safety and millions in the NFL to fight the president's wars after September 11th. That spring, the spring of Abu Ghraib, the spring of Fallujah... the Pentagon and the president could use a hero. And they did. WATCH VIDEO The Good Fight: Katie Couric's "some people say" hardline questions about the diagnosis of cancer for Elizabeth Edwards. Some people say the Edwards have now reacted. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Rush Limbaugh continues his attack on Elizabeth Edwards, the dishonorable military recruiter giving the Army a bad name, and the horrible and tragic story of what happened with some of the remains of victims of 9/11.The Keithies : It's our first night of nominations in the First Annual Best of the Stuff We Found On The Internets Awards. Watch the video, then VOTE HERE for the winners.
VOTE NOW HERE .vote now , watch the nomination special tonight, vote again , then come back tomorrow and vote for the next Keithie: "Everyday Idiots on the World Wide Web."
Indicted former bug exterminator, Tom Delay has written a new book about his time in government, sharing stories ranging from the 1994 Republican Revolution, to how he personally found Christ, to how the Democrats are like Hitler . “I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie
is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so
audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time
believing anyone would say it if it wasn’t true. You know, the big lie
— like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less
intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie”
— that DeLay violated campaign-finance laws in Texas — “liberals have
finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler.” Tonight, Keith Olbermann delivers a brief Special Comment in response to that astounding display of idiocy.Countdown 8pm ET / 5pm PT are we sure Delay even wrote this book?
The baseball strike - and the prospect of having to draft replacement players for our rotisserie league the following spring ("UPS drivers; I see UPS drivers") - got me out of fantasy sports "for good" after a decade.
Just when I thought I was out, to borrow from Mr. Pacino's over-the-top performance, I was invited by friends, old and new, to dive in to modern fantasy baseball. It's been so long that not only did we not have computer-generated "auto picks," but we used to have to enter player statistics manually into a spreadsheet.
We've just completed our National League-only draft and so that this careful research doesn't go to waste, here it is. My ranking of the 200 most fantasy-productive N.L. players for 2007 - obviously a totally subjective thing, and tailored to a league with a specific format, but it might still be useful to you.
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ALBERTO GONZALES, March 13, 2007 “I knew my chief of staff was involved in the process of determining
who were the weak performers — where were the districts around the
country where we could do better for the people in that district, and
that’s what I knew,” Gonzales said last week. “But that is in essence
what I knew about the process; was not involved in seeing any memos,
was not involved in any discussions about what was going on . That’s
basically what I knew as the attorney general.” NBC NEWS AND NEWS SERVICES, March 23, 2007 WASHINGTON
- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S.
attorneys in a November meeting, according to documents released Friday
that contradict earlier claims that he was not closely involved in the
dismissals. The
Nov. 27 meeting, in which the attorney general and at least five top
Justice Department officials participated, focused on a five-step plan
for carrying out the firings of the prosecutors, Justice Department
officials said late Friday.
There,
Gonzales signed off on the plan, which was crafted by his chief of
staff, Kyle Sampson. Sampson resigned last week amid a political
firestorm surrounding the firings.
War on the Hill : It doesn't sound merely counterintuitive, a commander in chief refusing to accept a bill containing what he himself calls "vital funding" for his troops. Yet that's exactly what President Bush is threatening to do, to use his veto power on the newly passed emergency funding bill from the House of Representatives, because it contains a timetable to begin bringing the troops home by the end of next summer. Plus, the Pentagon does a Friday night trash-dump with the appalling report concerning the death of Pat Tillman . WATCH VIDEO Rove's Been Under Oath Before : And it didn't go so well. A new motive appears for not putting Karl Rove to testify under oath, he's had uh, past problems with the process. Like once being asked if he knew a certain FBI agent, and answering, "Senator, it depends -- would you define 'know' for me?" WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : The craziest kite-surfing video you'll see all week, and what do you think happens to a concrete canoe? WATCH VIDEO What Happens in Vegas... : Can we get Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Giuliani under oath? Never mind why he married a cousin, or why ex-wife number two won't endorse him -- It's about marriage number three -- turns out it was her third as well. She reveals she was hitched one more time than was publicly known. WATCH VIDEO Food Fright: A string of pet deaths across the country have now been linked to pet food tainted with rat poison. Now investigators scramble to find out how . WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Keith enters himself into to tonight's running, QB Michael Vick keeps digging himself deeper, and when Billo gets it wrong, he really WATCH VIDEO Cold Case: Famed magician Harry Houdini died in 1926, and now his descendants want to dig him up, because they think he might have been murdered. WATCH VIDEO
In a typical Friday Night dump - we found out late this evening that the Pentagon investigation into how the army handled Pat Tillman's death is done, and its conclusion is pretty appalling.nine army officers, including as many as four generals - knew that former NFL star Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in April 2004, but neglected to share his cause of death with Tillman's family until weeks after his nationally televised memorial service.Update: Officials: Nine to be held to account on Tillman also: C&L has the HBO interview with Tillman's former teammate, Jake Plummer .
Give the man this: when he gets it wrong, he
really gets it wrong !
If you don't often get to listen to the Bill O'Reilly radio show, here's
a wonderful audio example of what you're missing.
We're told that later in his show, Billo described his outburst as "robust debate."
If you have the stomach for more,
THIS VIDEO is an equally telling example of Bill O'Reilly, cartoon character.
The Subpoena Standoff: Both proverbial guns are now cocked and loaded. The House and the Senate, are now authorized to force the White House to publicly testify on the reasons behind the dismissal of eight U-S attorneys. But the administration is still refusing to budge - sticking to it's offer of interviews, no testimony, no transcripts, or else. We're joined by chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, Senator Patrick Leahy - the man who is now allowed to issue summons to White House aides including Karl Rove. WATCH VIDEO Gates of Power : The circumstances are different but the showdowns are similar. Watergate and Gonzales-gate. John Dean compares and contrasts the two White House scandals and tells us how high the stakes are in the looming face off between President Bush and Congress. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Big fat pasty white beluga whales dancing, and American Idol - behind bars! WATCH VIDEO Campaigns & Courage : A friend of this program, a gracious guest and today the inspiring example of Elizabeth Edwards. She and her husband announce the return of her cancer and say they will fight on together for her health, and also for the good of our country. Dial M for Murder: As Hitchcock observed, it is not evil that is so terrifying, it is the banality of evil. The murderer who calls 911, says he's shot his wife, then asks her dead body if she's alive or dead.WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : I think that shampoo bottle is looking at me, Glenn Beck's offend-a-thon continues, and Rush Limbaugh, given the choice once again between common decency and ice-pick-in-the-back politics, chooses the latter. What a shock. WATCH VIDEO Waterworks Gate : Day Two and America still under the influence of Sanjaya-mania -- or at least the influence of the girl who cried for him. Now she's interviewed, and we're crying. Not really.
"What we're told we can get is nothing, nothing, nothing... I know (Bush) is the decider
for the White House -- he's not the decider for the United States
Senate." The Senate Judiciary Committee has authorized subpoenas of White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors, and Alberto Gonzales' former top aide Kyle Sampson -- who has resigned amid the furor -- has agreed to testify "on a voluntary basis" next week.
Tough Talk All Around : The White House threatens to rescind its "unprecedented" and "extremely generous offer" to chat Karl Rove and Harriet Miers behind closed doors and without swearing to tell the truth if the Senate issues subpoenas. Senator Chuck Schumer joins Keith Olbermann and says the White House has extended "an offer we can't accept." A constitutional crisis over Executive Priviledge looms. WATCH VIDEO Snow Way Out : Does the Bush administration actually believe it'll be able to spin itself out of the firestorm over the Attorney firings? It's a political game of chicken on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Richard Wolffe analyzes the subpoena showdown. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Cute little animals living together - somebody separate them before we have a bloodbath on our hands, and one thousand of the trashiest people you've ever seen gather in Rome. WATCH VIDEO Hostile Climate : Al Gore goes to Washington and faces off against the Senator who has called Global Warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American People." It did not go well for Senator James Inhofe, who came up looking a few cubes short of an ice shelf. WATCH VIDEO TiVo Alert! NBC Middle East correspondent Richard Engel has assembled a special, one-hour documentary airing tonight at 10pm ET, that offers images seldom seen, as well as new perspectives on the images seen all too often. It is a must-watch, and you can learn more about it on MSNBC.com's fantastic interactive report and virtual tour . WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : The baseball fan gets screwed again, Sean Hannity and the "accidental lie" technique, and the worlds most famous Astronaut-in-a-Diaper gets a new job with the Navy. WATCH VIDEO The Littlest Idol : Was the little crying girl in the audience of American Idol last night a plant ? Did she cry at a rehearsal to get the job? Or was she pepper sprayed by producers to make her appear overcome with emotion by the mediocre performances? We unravel the mystery with our American Idol Princess, Maria Milito. WATCH VIDEO
Update: Schumer, responding to the "take it or leave it" tough talk from the White House, tells Keith:"There are enough disgruntled people in the Justice Department in particular - because they really resented what happened here - that the information is going to come out. It can either come out 'drip, drip, drip' or it'll come out all at once, we'll get to the bottom of it in a complete way and move one. It would be much better for the White House, as well as the Justice Department and the country, if they let it all come out at once." Countdown tonight, 8pm ET
President Bush today expressed how 'sorry' he is...for the U.S. Attorneys he fired..."I'm sorry this, frankly, has bubbled to the surface the way it
has, for the U.S. attorneys involved. I really am. These are -- I put
them in there in the first place; they're decent people. They serve at
our pleasure. And yet, now they're being held up into the scrutiny of
all this, and it's just -- what I said in my comments, I meant about
them. I appreciated their service, and I'm sorry that the situation has
gotten to where it's got. But that's Washington, D.C. for you. You
know, there's a lot of politics in this town." We're guessing those first 13 words are the most true.LA Times ... On Nov. 5, a month before she was formally notified along with others
that she was being fired, Chiara e-mailed McNulty about her fears of
being out of work with no job prospects. But that's Washington, D.C. for you. You
know, there's a lot of politics in this town.
You Broke My Heart, Fredo : The embattled President gives the embattled Attorney General an embattled Vote Of Confidence. Which everywhere else usually means: start packing your stuff. Plus, the president's "offer" to the Senate: You can interview Harriet Miers and Karl Rove, but behind closed doors, you can't record it, you can't transcribe it, and neither person will swear under oath to tell the truth. The Senate quickly responds, "Thanks but no thanks." WATCH VIDEO The Collapse of the GOP : Andrew Sullivan, author of "The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How To Get It Back " joins Keith to discuss a Republican party in crisis. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Runaway shopping carts can be a problem on these newfangled European escalators, Charleston police take that "No Skateboarding in the Park" rule seriously, and the Japanese museum which practictly begged thieves to come and steal its giant block of solid gold. WATCH VIDEO Big Sister : New clues into who is responsible for the anti-Hillary "1984" ad on the internet, and is anybody's campaign ready for this kind of anonymous advertising? WATCH VIDEO Be Prepared : A 12-year-old Boy Scout whose favorite book was about a youngster lost in the wilderness now has his own harrowing survival tale to tell after rescuers found him Tuesday, dehydrated and disoriented from four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : John Gibson has now completed his tranformation from likeable newsman to Fox Noise robot, the animal rights activists who think a baby polar bear needs to be killed, and the British TV personality sending obscene sign language messages to all the little kiddies. WATCH VIDEO Sky High: The crazy new skywalk over the Grand canyon is open, plus "Big-Ass Plane Part II" -- exciting new video from the maiden voyages of the new Airbus A380, the biggest plane on Earth.
Some of what we're working on for tonight...
Getting through the first batch of e-mails regarding the firing of those eight federal prosecutors was bad enough, and they numbered 144 pages. The latest sea of dispatches: more than 3,000 e-mails. Expect results of what’s in there to trickle out all day on the blogs and in the MSM media as people work through them. Here’s some of what we’ve learned so far:
Over the past two months, as the scandal was breaking, the concern was containing the fallout: “we just want the stories to die.” In another, a top justice official joked about making up some reasons for firing San Diego prosecutor Carol Lam: “That Carol Lam can’t meet a deadline,” he wrote, “or that you’ll needto interact with her in the coming weeks or that she won’t just say, ‘O.K.You got me. You’re right, I’ve ignored national priorities and obvious local needs. Shoot, my production is more hideous than I realized.’”
If it’s a slow day at work, knock yourself out and read through some of them yourself .CONTINUED >>
Four Years In : The Fourth Anniversary of the war in Iraq. And remember, this Administration NEVER tried to connect Iraq with 9/11. But if we leave Iraq now, the President says today, the terrorists could get a "safe haven" like the one in which "they used to plan the attacks of September the 11th, 2001." The President commemorating this solemn day, with yet another offensive, and ridiculous invoking of 9/11. WATCH VIDEO How Long Can Gonzales Last? Another scandal breaks over FBI abuse of the Patriot Act, and the Senate may subpoena him and Karl Rove, by Thursday, and he has to testify to the House Appropriations Committee that day, and, oh by the way, Senator Schumer predicts he'll be gone by next week.WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : The coolest new sport ever, and if you thought the guy at your local Hibachi restaurant was extreme...wait'll you see this. WATCH VIDEO 2008/1984: Who's behind the crazy new anti-Hillary "1984" ad on YouTube? Obama's camp says they had nothing to do with it, and the right is having a field day with it. But who really benefits from it and who does it really hurt? And if this is 1984, is it really Hillary Clinton on the big screen? WATCH VIDEO One Big-Ass Plane : The world's new super-jumbo jet has arrived in the U-S, the Airbus A380. 1.2 million pounds, 800 passengers...wing span, the size of a football field. Cool!WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Al Sharpton's unfortunate verbal gaffe, John McCain's not-exactly-straight-talk express, and the guys at FOX Noise channel, who either don't know the facts, or are being deliberately dishonest. You Decide.WATCH VIDEO The Keithie's! Tonight we announce the first annual "Best of the Stuff We Found on the Internets Awards." All next week we'll be giving out the "Keithies" in a variet of catagories, as voted on by you, TheNewsHole readers. WATCH VIDEO
Some of what we're working on for tonight... FBI used an illegal procedure to gain thousands of phone records in the name of national security. The process, it seems, went something like this: CONTINUED >>
The Plame Truth : The outed intelligence officer tells her side of the story for the first time today, nearly four years after she went from an unknown quantity to a household name. The subsequent investigation into her outing led to the recent perjury and obstruction-of-justice conviction of Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, but everyone else in the administration who had leaked her identity to the media -- remains untouched. Her friend and former CIA colleague Larry Johnson joins us. WATCH VIDEO Wait, It Gets Worse : As one network reports Alberto Gonzales firing is now quote "inevitable," and Capitol Hill tries to get to the bottom of the mid-term firings of U-S attorneys, some Senators now want to know how and why the Attorney General and the President shut down an investigation into the Administration's illegal domestic spying. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : R2D2 is showing some thigh on the streets of Times Square, there's a speedtrap at the end of the rainbow, and Vanilla Ice raps about paying your taxes on time. Now that is edgy. WATCH VIDEO Super Duper Tuesday : Big changes are coming in the presidential primary schedule as California moves up its voting day, with other state sure to follow. Who benefits? And who loses? It's a bigger deal than you think. Keith Olbermann's America : It's another trip into the heartland to visit the "folks". Tonight we meet Brenda, The Boric Acid Lady. WATCH VIDEO WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Sean Hannity can't won't get his facts straight, Glenn Beck doesn't like girls, and Keith comes down on the side of Three Dollar Bill?! WATCH VIDEO Banned from Stephen Colbert? Congressman Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the Democratic Caucus has advised freshman Democrats to avoid appearing on Stephen Colbert's "Better Know A District" interviews. We take a look at some highlights from the show, and can't figure out why he'd possibly have a problem with it... WATCH VIDEO
Some of what we're working on for tonight... one major newspaper put the story on its front page this morning.Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon became the second Republican in that chamber to signal it was time for a change at Justice (You'll recall that New Hampshire Senator John Sununu called for President Bush to fire Mr. Gonzales on Wednesday.) While over in the House, Congressman Dana Rohrbacher told CBS News that Mr. Gonzales is "finished."CONTINUED >>
Orange Alert, Orange Alert! himself is planning something BIG in New York City. NewsMax . Just who are these "security agents"
anyway? Why would a traveling president need "security agents?" And
why aren't they flying commercial? Meanwhile...
Gonzales-Gate The Senate Judiciary Committee today cleared the way for subpoenas that would compell Justice Department officials to recount -- under oath -- why and how they came to dismiss eight of the prosecutors.WATCH VIDEO All roads lead to Rove : Why was it so important to Rove, specifically, to get political appointees into the country's 93 U.S. Attorney slots? One possible answer can be found in Rove's history. Back when he was a political operative in Texas Democrats had a habit of finding themselves the target of investigations around election time. WATCH VIDEO
ODDBALL : Meowww! A cat attacks a reporter and Carmen Electra fumbles on the catwalk at a fashion show. WATCH VIDEO Hillary and the War: Sen. Hillary Clinton told the New York Times she would not withdraw all the troops from Iraq because of vital, mid-east interests like oil and Israel. She didn't say how many of the 160,000 there now would stay. Just where does she stand on the Iraq war? WATCH VIDEO Dash cams change how police do business: They've become the latest form of reality TV.WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : The Cable & Telecommunications Association For Marketing has an uhh, interesting nomination. WATCH VIDEO Howard Stern sabatoging 'American Idol?' Why did 'Idol' contestant Sanjaya survive? One reason could be Howard Stern is encouraging people to vote for the challenged singer! WATCH VIDEO
Every major newspaper today leads with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession that he organized the September 11th attacks, in his words "from A to Z." As he was the suspected mastermind of those attacks, it is hardly surprising. What is new is that he also claimed responsibility for 30 additional plots or attacks, including attempts on the Empire State Building, Sears Tower and the New York Stock Exchange that never got beyond the planning stages.CONTINUED >>
“I bet on the Reds every night” to Dan Patrick and me on ESPN Radio Wednesday afternoon. To Pete, it was a simple correction of the timeline, an amplification on his previous confessions, a trading of further detail of one sorry sin, in order to expunge another sorry sin.CONTINUED >>
We played a bit of this in the show tonight, but the entire speech is worth watching...
Gonzales to Go Go? In just five days the issue moved from Liberal rallying cry to bi-partisan anger. It's not just any Republican now calling for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but ultra-conservative John Sununu of New Hampshire. The only people speaking in favor of Mister Gonzales today... were the A.G. himself, and the president. WATCH VIDEO The Buddy System : As the Democrats promise to subpoena Karl Rove and others, and the first Republican Senator calls for the firing of the Attorney General, the political purge conducted by the Alberto Gonzales strains the very relationship between him, and George W. Bush. But enough for the latter to fire the former? WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : An all-sports Oddball tonight, score two for the Bulls, and thank goodness for batting helmets. WATCH VIDEO You Wanted a Plan? You've got one. The Democratic proposal for Iraq will now be debated in the Senate after Republicans suddenly agree to debate the Democrats' war plan for Iraq. Postponed time and again for partisan bickering, it will actually now happen. Is there a motive for the G-O-P finally caving? WATCH VIDEO If He Did It : Why is the family of Ronald Goldman is suddenly hoping O.J. Simpson's ghost-written how-to-do-it murder manual does get published? Because if it does, they get the money -- and the closest thing to a public confession the world may ever see. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Don't swim in the river next to Miller Park, don't expect to be paid for the time you take off to donate your bone-marrow, and don't think the food is jail is free -- even if you were wrongly imprisoned. WATCH VIDEO Seacrest Out? Idol Speculation from our pal Michael Musto on the question that is gripping A.I. fans across America today. Or so we're told. WATCH VIDEO
Prosecutors charge Chiquita with doing business with terrorists CONTINUED >>
Some of what we're working on for tonight... In the wake of the prosecutors purged scandal, the dismissal of yet another prosecutor is getting a second look. The Bush administration fired U.S. Attorney Frederick A. Black in 2002, not long after he had initiated an investigation into Jack Abramoff's business dealings in Guam. Not long after that, that particular probe into the Republican lobbyist died down. Yesterday, two Democrats in the House (Reps. George Miller of California and Nick Rahall of West Virginia) urged the Judiciary Committee to investigate. GONE-ZO? White House counselor Dan Bartlett, as well as Alberto Gonzales himself, did their best yesterday to defend the Attorney General's actions (not to mention those of the White House) in the firings of those eight federal prosecutors for purely political reasons. But there are signs the White House and the Republican Party are turning against Mr. Gonzales. Two Republicans with close ties to the Bush administration, described a "growing rift" between the White House and the Attorney General to the New York Times : "The two Republicans, who spoke anonymously so they could share private conversations with senior White House officials, said top aides to Mr. Bush, including Fred F. Fielding, the new White House counsel, were concerned that the controversy had so damaged Mr. Gonzales’s credibility that he would be unable to advance the White House agenda on national security matters, including terrorism prosecutions. 'I really think there’s a serious estrangement between the White House and Alberto now,' one of the Republicans said." CONTINUED >>
The Political Act : Angry claims tonight from prominent members of both parties that in the Bush Administration Justice Department, the scales of justice were not just weighted, but the President himself may have had his thumb on them, using the Patriot Act for political purposes. WATCH VIDEO Breaking Down "The Purge" : Josh Micah Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo has been all over this story from the beginning, and joins us to sift through the details to make sense of it all. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Merry Elephant Day one and all, and snowmobiling across rivers for dummies. WATCH VIDEO Historic Lows? : Nixon White House Counsel John Dean is the author of "Worse Than Watergate" and is here to bring some historical perspective to an Administration seemingly overcome by scandal. WATCH VIDEO Freedom to Hate : One day after General Peter Pace calls gays immoral, one politician actually steps up to defend him: "That's what Marines go to war and fight for... the freedom to have morals, principles and values." WATCH VIDEO WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : The car dealership's dream customer, a Florida quack and his magical Happy Cream, and "Three Dollar Bill" stuck at the bottom of the barrel. WATCH VIDEO Political Oddities : Newt Gingrich's dirty laundry, President Bush "soils" a Mayan Temple, and Bush 41 kisses a man on the mouth (sorta!) -- a light-hearted look back at a bizarre week in politics. WATCH VIDEO
You know, they give you that little earpiece thing for a reason...
CONTINUED >>
implicated in the prosecutors purged scandal (what the Washington Post has started calling "Eight-Gate"). In October, Mr. Bush spoke with Attorney General Gonzales to mention some complaints from Republicans that prosecutors weren't investigating issues related to voter fraud.CLEAN SWEEP If anything, it now looks like the White House was exercising restraint in orchestrating the dismissal of those eight federal prosecutors.CONTINUED >>
Here's a hint, it's on ebay and the seller is named "escortmjones " CONTINUED >>
In The Line of Firings : As Karl Rove's hand in firing federal prosecutors for political reasons became visible, the influence of his Death-Star seeped into yet another White House controversy, the possible ouster of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Paul Krugman of the New York Times and constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley join us. WATCH VIDEO You Say Dubai, I say Hello : Halliburton is moving its headquarters to the United Arab Emirates. Avoiding U-S taxes? Avoiding U-S laws? How will an American public so opposed to the outsourcing of port security to Dubai, feel about outsourcing the feeding of our troops there? Plus, how the "escalation" continues to escalate. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Fortune-telling rodents from India, and the great texas Rattlesnake Roundup... Plus, a first-ballot mugshot Hall of Famer. WATCH VIDEO The GOP Horserace : Rudy Giuliani too liberal or too married? John McCain too newly conservative? Mitt Romney too Mitt? Newt Gingrich too nuts? The Republicans may have another option, Chuck Hagel, the anti-war republican, announces... that he will someday make an announcement. WATCH VIDEO Shocking Crime : The numbers from 2006 are in, and the Police Executive Research Forum, led by some of the nation's top chiefs and partially funded by the Justice Department says nearly every catagory of violent crime was up. Dawn Frantangelo reports on just one example, a shocking mugging of an elderly woman, caught on tape in New York. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Mountain climbing parents decide to take the toddler along, Glenn Beck gets back to basics, and Bill O'Reilly's "blame the victim" mentality reaches a shocking new low. WATCH VIDEO Why Buy the Cow? American Idol's Antonella Barba will not pose for Playboy. Well, really, at this point, why don't they just download her photos like everybody else? American Idol Princess Maria Milito is here to tell us why anyone should ever watch this show again now that Barba is gone. WATCH VIDEO
Some of what we're working on for tonight and for the week ahead... interview with McClatchy Newspapers.Newsweek describes a scenario by which Karl Rove could have signed off on, if not orchestrated, the whole thing: "Justice officials say the dismissals were for 'job-performance reasons,' as well as for failure to pursue Bush administration policy priorities. But where did the list of particular U.S. attorneys to fire come from? Two senior Justice officials, who didn't want to be named discussing the dismissals, tell NEWSWEEK that Kyle Sampson, Gonzales's chief of staff, developed the list of eight prosecutors to be fired last October—with input from the White House. In a recent statement, the White House said it approved the firings, but didn't sign off on specific names." Update: The above passage for some reason is not included in the web version of the Newsweek article, although it remains in the hard magazine copy.CONTINUED >>
"Newt's Glass House" - Salon.com - August 28, 1998
As a high school student -- precocious, lonely, overweight -- Newt
secretly romanced his geometry teacher, a buxom, matronly woman named
Jackie Battley. The furtive romance with his 24-year-old teacher included nighttime
sessions in the back of a car in remote areas of Fort Benning, Ga.
Once, Newt and Jackie were so worked up, they got their car caught
in a tank trap on the military base and had to call his best friend to
rescue them before a daylight exposé, according to the friend's widow, Linda
Tilton. Defying his stepfather, a stern Army colonel, Newt pursued Jackie,
married her and promptly had two children.
Alison Stewart is in for Keith tonight... Pardon My Newtiness : Newt Gingrich admits to cheating on his wife at the same time he was attacking Bill Clinton on the Lewinsky affair in the 1990's. But he says he's not a hypocrite. Guess that would depend on what the definition of 'hypocrite' is. Plus, the hypocrisy of pushing for a Libby pardon for the same crime Clinton was impeached for -- on that one, Newt defines the word for the others in his party. FBI Gone Wild : The FBI admits to abuse of the Patriot Act, obtaining thousands of records of telephone, business and financial records... in some cases illegally. NBC's Pete Williams has a full report. ODDBALL : A quick drive through the mall, a really choppy divorce, and a hairball sweater. WATCH VIDEO American Idol Shocker! At least someone told us it was a shocker. Maria Milito is here to discuss a surprising Idol final 12, that does not include the "Pride of New Jersey", Antonella Barba. Boo! WATCH VIDEO Second Life Issues : Don't like your current life? Not enough intrigue and excitement? Keith Miller reports you can get a second life! You can be all you want to be in cyber-space and never have to leave your own home. WATCH VIDEO Encore! Encore! You asked for it, you got it -- a special encore presentation of the Oddball Plays of the Month, February '07 edition. WATCH VIDEO
You know that old saying "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?" Well Newt Gingrich is probably wishing he'd heeded that advice, before initiating impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. The former Republican House Speaker admitted yesterday that he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against Clinton . The confession, raising all kinds of problems for the would-be presidential candidate: the words hypocrisy and family values come to mind. CONTINUED >>
Alison Stewart is in for Keith tonight... Cautious Pessimism : "There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq." General David Petraeus paints a grim picture of the mission in Iraq and says its too soon to tell if the surge is working. Meanwhile, Democrats at home come forward with yet another plan for Iraq, one that would bring the troops home by March 2008. Plus, the cloud over Dick Cheney, TIME Magazine calling him, "one of Bush's biggest liabilities." WATCH VIDEO Libby II, This Time it's Congressional : House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman announced today that he will conduct hearings to determine whether the White House violated any procedures in leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the press. The star witness... Plame herself, will testify before the committee next Friday. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : The Countdown Cow Chase of the Week, a dirty dog with a monkey on his back, and a gas station that gives new meaning to the term "full service." WATCH VIDEO The GOP Field for '08 : New polls show Rudy Giuliani widening his lead over McCain & Romney, and even some democrats, but will Chuck Hagel throw a monkey wrench into the works on Monday morning? WATCH VIDEO High Anxiety : NBC's Jennifer London gives us a close-up look at the new "Skywalk", a glass platform, suspended 4,000 feet above the Grand Canyon -- open to the public this week. What Killed America's Rose? Florida police have delayed the release of the coroner's autopsy findings, including the cause of death of Anna Nicole Smith, saying additional evidence has come to light. Tabloid reports about the actions of Howard K. Stern in the days before the death are swirling. WATCH VIDEO
As we mentioned earlier...Newsweek reports that Scooter Libby "does not qualify for a pardon under the Justice Department guidelines ," which "require a petitioner to wait a period of at least five years after conviction."not to pardon (yet) in the case of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug dealer.PRESIDENT BUSH:
...what I'm trying to tell you is, is that it is — there is a
series of steps that are analyzed in order for the Justice Department
to make a recommendation as to whether or not a president grants a
pardon. CONTINUED >>
Some of what we're working on for tonight... there is no military solution to the problem in Iraq , that it will really take a political solution to end the violence.CONTINUED >>
Keith Olbermann, Countdown 2-12-07: The rest of us are left to wish Mr. O'Reilly well, as he composes some rationalization, like a scheduling conflict, or transportation problem. Brent Batten, Naples News 3-7-07: She said O’Reilly’s camp contacted the organization and begged off, claiming a scheduling conflict. CONTINUED >>
Scooter Libby juror Denis Collins echoes fellow juror Ann Redington on Hardball today, telling Alison Stewart the group felt Libby was the "Fall Guy" for others in the Bush Administration, and he'd "have no problem with Scooter Libby being pardoned."
Libby juror Denis Collins on "Countdown"
Alison Stewart is in for Keith tonight... The Verdict on the Verdict : One question lingers for the jurors who determined Libby was guilty "Where was Rove? Where were these other guys?" We'll talk to juror Denis Collins. And that cloud Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald described over the White House, one Republican Senator thinks the forecast calls for impeachment. WATCH VIDEO The Spin Machine : We look at predictable - yet still mind-boggling - spin from the usual right-wing suspectson the guilty verdict of Scooter Libby. Why is FOX News suddenly "soft on crime"? WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : Weirdness from India including the annual festival of the "hooks", and a drunken bull-fight where it's the bulls that are drunk, and the cutest two-snouted piggy you'll see all day. WATCH VIDEO Persecuted Prosecutors : Was it politics or poor performance that led the administration to use a little known provision in the Patriot Act to force out eight U-S attorneys and replace them without any oversight. Congress is asking questions, and so are we. WATCH VIDEO Jenna's Book Deal : Her previous best known work of fiction was a fake I-D, now 25-year-old Jenna Bush has managed to land a sweet book deal for her fall release, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope." Andrea Mitchell reports the president's daughter is trying to get the spotlight for something other than partying hard. WATCH VIDEO Strange Bedfellows : Most of us have now heard about last weekend's CPAC convention in Washington, where conservatives heard speeches from presidential candidates and right-wing icons, and where Ann Coulter made her homophobic joke about John Edwards. At that same conference, ex-Marine Corporal Matt Sanchez was honored. But did CPAC know Mr. Sanchez was once known, apparently, as "Rod Majors"... the star of some fairly frisky gay porn, and as several sites now claim...a male prostitute?
“I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury...It was said a number of times: ‘What are we doing with this guy here? Where’s Rove? Where are these other guys?’ ”
Some of what we're working on for tonight... Lewis "Scooter" Libby wasn't the only
loser to come out of yesterday's guilty verdict in the
CIA Leak trial. DC's media elite was squirming under
the spotlight throughout the trial -- a spectacle that
was, frankly, difficult to watch for anyone involved
in the profession. In short, in what is already a
company town, reporters came off looking
like little more than stenographers for the Bush
administration as it was building its case for war.
During the investigation, reporters were also put into
the position of having to defend the sources for which
they were carrying water -- something the prosecution
fought vociferously and successfully -- doing
permanent damage to the protection reporters have
enjoyed from having to disclose anonymous sources.
CONTINUED >>
In his first live interview since the guilty verdicts in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson told Keith Olbermann his wife wept when she heard the verdict, and that it's now time for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be honest with the American public about their roles in the outing of CIA Operative Valerie Plame.
Guilty as Charged : Just as Al Capone's conviction on tax evasion charges does not mean the crime boss was not guilty of anything else, Scooter Libby's conviction on charges of lying and obstruction of justice does not automatically prove that Mister Libby -- and other top White House officials -- did not commit the underlying crime of having outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. That parallel, drawn this afternoon by Mrs. Plame's husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, in the wake of today's verdict. And tonight Wilson gives his first extended interview to Keith Olbermann. WATCH VIDEO Inside the Libby Verdict : David Shuster has been covering the Scooter Libby trial since day one, and joins keith to report the scene from inside the courtroom today, the press conferences outside, and where it all goes from here. WATCH VIDEO The Cloud Over the White House : Howard Fineman is here to discuss the political ramifications of today's verdict. What does the future hold for Dick Cheney? And if President Bush promised to "hold those accountable" who were responsible for the leak from his White House, then how should he react to the obstruction of justice that occurred in his White House, which prevented a proper investigation of the leak? WATCH VIDEO It's Not Over Yet : Legal analyst Stanley Brand comes in to look at today's events and Libby's new efforts to get a new trial, then appeal. How long can the Libby team stall before he's sentenced? Long enough to be pardoned before he ever sees a federal prison? WATCH VIDEO The Verdict of History : Nixon White House counsel John Dean has seen this all before, and joins Keith to put this all in perspective for us. What the verdict means, what it doesn't mean, will we see a presidential pardon, and most importantly, what this verdict tells us about how this administration sold the war to the American people. WATCH VIDEO
We're collecting the "paper statements" flying fast and furious today, we'll update as they come in...THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release March 6, 2007 VICE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT ON LIBBY VERDICT I am very disappointed with the verdict. I am saddened for Scooter and his family. As I have said before, Scooter has served our nation tirelessly and with great distinction through many years of public service. Since his legal team has announced that he is seeking a new trial and, if necessary, pursuing an appeal, I plan to have no further comment on the merits of this matter until these proceedings are concluded. WILSON SAYS "NO CITIZEN IS ABOVE THE LAW" ON LIBBY VERDICT -- "RELIEVED" BY JURY DECISION Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson reacted to Libby conviction in teleconference with reporters: "We take great comfort that no citizen is above the law... respect the efforts of the prosecution and the jury," Wilson said. Wilson noted that he and his wife former CIA officer Valerie Plame are "relieved that justice has been done." The Wilson's continue with their civil case against Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House advisor Karl Rove, and former State Department official Richard Armitage. The suit accuses them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy Plame's career at the CIA. CONTINUED >>
Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson will join Keith Olbermann tonight for his first cable interview following the guilty verdicts in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Amy Robach is in for Keith tonight... The Talking Wounded : On Capitol Hill today wounded soldiers were speaking out against the treatment they are receiving at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Their commanding officers, under fire, the White House names a bipartisan commission to investigate. And plans photo-ops and speeches with veterans. Vice President Cheney dropping in on a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Washington, President Bush addresses the American Legion tomorrow. Plus, why this awful situation got less coverage on Fox Noise Channel than the Anna Nicole Smith story. WATCH VIDEO Showdown at Selma : This weekend's commemoration of "Bloody Sunday" became the back-drop of a completely different battle. The fight to be President. Senator Hillary Clinton, and Senator Barack Obama descending on the town, looking to woo democratic African American voters. WATCH VIDEO : It's an all nautical vehicle edition, the fish tank, the fish bike and a floating Suzuki Alto. WATCH VIDEO The Poison Pill : Three GOP candidates have denounced "the comments" made by Ann Coulter at CPAC on Friday, as if "the comments" dropped in out of the sky, and weren't spoken by someone they continue to invite to their events. Why won't the candiates denounce Coulter herself? WATCH VIDEO Reefer Madness : Two Texas teens are now facing felony charges after being caught on tape giving marijuana to two children, ages two and five. WATCH VIDEO : Keith makes a special guest appearance from his vacation to nominate the politician who blamed the Katrina victims, the loud-mouthed radio host who just can't help but be racist, and the "Pretty Hate Machine" herself, Ann Coulter, takes her rightful place. WATCH VIDEO The Idol Double Standard? As soon as racy pictures of "American Idol" contestant Antonella Barba "busted out" on the world wide web, the question began to surface... there was that other girl, wasn't there? A few seasons before, she had some dicey photos too, and she was booted off the show. Now protesters are set to point out what they see as un-equal treatment. WATCH VIDEO
CONTINUED >>
In case you missed the best of February... here ya go!
Denver Post: Bush Aides Tied to Denver 3 Case
A former White House official who
ordered three activists expelled from a 2005 Denver public forum with
President Bush says it was White House policy to exclude
potentially-disruptive guests from Bush's appearances nationwide.
The former official, Steve Atkiss, revealed the policy today
in an interview after two volunteer bouncers identified him and a
current White House staffer, Jamie O'Keefe, as the officials who
ordered the so-called "Denver Three" activists sent away.
[...]The bouncers' statements appeared to
contradict a White House spokesman's assertion in 2005 that volunteers
at the Bush event were responsible for ejecting the Denver Three -
self-described progressives Alex Young, Leslie Weise and Karen Bauer.
Only Young and Weise are involved in the federal lawsuit.
That spokesman, Scott McClellan, who resigned last year, could not be reached for comment.
McClellan at the time also said: "The White House wants a diversity of voices at these events."
Amy Robach is in for Keith tonight... A Red Meat Banquet : Conservatives gather for the annual C-PAC conference, which is highlighted by jokes about the war from Dick Cheney and homophobic hate speech from Ann Coulter . Will the Republic candidates for president denounce Coulter's ugly slur of John Edwards? Plus, the Hillary/Obama battle continues, as both candidates hold rallies in the same, small Alabama town on the same day. WATCH VIDEO After the Storm : At least 20 people are dead after yesterday's series of deadly storms across the southeast and midwest. Plus the tragic bus crash in Atlanta, which killed six, including four members of a college baseball team. ODDBALL : Flying cars, surfing dogs, and potatos that look like celebrities. WATCH VIDEO American Sex Idol? : Most seem to agree that Antonella Barba isn't the best singer, so why is she still on American Idol? It wouldn't have anything to do with those sexy pictures of her all over the internet would it? WATCH VIDEO My Big Fat Bahamian Funeral : America's Rose is now the Bahamas' Tulip Bulb after one of the most fabulous funerals in history. We'll give you a full report. WATCH VIDEO Oddball Plays of the Month: Simply put: You're crazy if you miss this! WATCH VIDEO
...no matter how hard you try."Holy Grail of Hillary Clinton Studies," her college thesis at Wellesley, which the first couple requested be sealed while they were in the White House. It is so often used to attack the Senator, but until now, had anyone ever even read it?surfaced . It's the original version of one that has been out there for years, picturing Blair with a bunch of college buddies at Oxford in the 70's. photoshopped it to protect the Prime Minister from embarrassment. CONTINUED >>
: "They" of course said that when Barack Obama spoke last month of American lives "wasted" in Iraq. Everyone - including those who jumped all over him for it - knew he meant no disrespect to the troops, as they know now that John McCain didn't either when he used the exact same words last night. But as the man once said; in this political climate, eventually the wheel turns, and you'll have written the rules by which you yourself are squashed. WATCH VIDEO D.C. Accountability : The commanding general of Walter Reed Army Hospital is relieved of duty today, and a another significant leak at the trial of Scooter Libby -- and this one really stinks. WATCH VIDEO ODDBALL : There's a big fluffy Orangutan on the loose in Tokyo, and Jamiroquai gives a concert in the sky. Yay. WATCH VIDEO The Man Who Would Not Shut Up : Author Marvin Kitman joins us to talk about how "Three Dollar Bill" O'Reilly, who cooperated with Kitman to write a Billo Bio, is trying to bury the book now that it's actually out. 'Well, if I had known it was going to be accurate, I never would have agreed to it!' WATCH VIDEO Tragedy in Alabama : We have the latest news from Alabama, where at least 18 were killed by ferocious tornados today. WATCH VIDEO WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : The meth-dealing school principal, the congressman who tried to blame the stock-market plunge on a political foe, and Glenn Beck delivers the most cringe-worthy video moment of the week. FULL STORY See the Stars: There's so much bizarre celebrity news out there, only Paul F. Tompkins can make any sense of it for us.* WATCH VIDEO CONTINUED >>
This story sounds like something you might see at 3:00 in the morning if the animal kingdom had its own Cinemax channel...Australia Rocked by 'Lesbian' Koala Revelation Female koalas indulge in lesbian "sex sessions", rejecting male
suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at
a time, according to researchers.
The furry, eucalyptus-eating
creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when
they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three homosexual interactions for every heterosexual one.
"Some
females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures,
only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters
immediately after," say the researchers.
"On several occasions
more than one pair of females shared the same pole, and multiple
females mounted each other simultaneously. At least one multiple
encounter involved five female koalas.
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