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If, in some bizarre parallel universe, you happen to find yourself in a situation where Bush is saying you’re doing a ‘fine job’...run, do not walk, the other way.

koo-koo ka-choo

From The Huffington Post. Related metafilter thread here.

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Michael, of the exceptional Iowa Liberal blog, was kind enough to provide the following audio of Noam Chomsky’s lecture in Iowa City. The event was held at The Englert to a capacity crowd – and then some.

Also, noneed4theneed has a recap of Chomsky’s Ames appearance at Century of the Common Iowan blog.

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Top 12 media myths and falsehoods
on the Bush administration’s spying scandal

Summary: Media Matters presents the top 12 myths and falsehoods promoted by the media on President Bush’s spying scandal stemming from the recent revelation in The New York Times that he authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on domestic communications without the required approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court.

Now with more audio clip, which you won’t hear on cable or network news outside the possible exception of Keith Olbermann:

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Mike West is an artist worthy of your attention.

BIO from his web site

Mike West rips on a banjo and sings songs that hit close, sometimes too close, to home. His eighth CD, “New South”(Binky/Squirrel Records), takes a tour through the new Confederacy. Roaring up from the Gulf coast to the Ozark mountains in a truck with no muffler, West tells stories against a backdrop of busted refrigerators and stripped down muscle cars. With a quick wit and fast fingers, he rolls together humor, politics, love, loss and foot stomping music.

Mike sings his own songs. Writes them himself, too. Can you imagine?
Here’s “I’m So Bored with Capitol Hill”

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The Prince of ‘no, you go’ is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging members of his Pennsylvania fiefdom to pony up for bumper stickers as a way of, you know, serving their country and fighting the war on terrorism. Beats the shit out of taking actual shrapnel, no?

Brief sound snippet here:

Or see video of the call to action via Santorum Exposed

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Audio interview w/ Alterman and Sam Seder via AAR:

Discussed:

• Democrats haven’t learned how to be a minority party and still govern as if they’re the majority party.
  
• There’s big money in punditry for young conservatives. Not so much for liberals.
  
• Liberals were worn out after 60’s and went into the academy, became attatched to complex argumentation and discourse. Right-wing set about building ‘think tanks’ which became dedicated to manufacturing sound-bites and slogans.
  
• NYT is disinterested in corroborating evidence BushCo. understood there was no threat inherent to Niger yellowcake uranium at the time. Both the State Dept. and CIA relayed this to the Bush admin. Evidence that we’re being ruled by a despotic elite is boring to the NYT and simply not worthy of coverage.
  

Bush was against unauthorized and illegal wiretaps…
before he was for them.

Actually that quote isn’t quite accurate. Bush was never against illegal and unauthorized wiretaps. He just wanted the American public to believe he was. Kind of like he wanted the American public to believe the Iraq occupation and invasion had something to do with WMD’s. All of which makes Bush little more than a shameless liar. But then we already knew that.

Except, you know…..it’s not funny.

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Into the new year we spring with a clip from the post-game Ferentz interview w/ Dolphin and a cold-stricken Podolak. It’s almost sad that a college football coach can convey more humor, intelligence and class in a few short sentences than our dear imperial POTUS has managed to relay in the past 5 years. C’est La Vie 2005…

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The following tag will allow you to insert a flash-based audio player into your FPP’s. It’s for mp3 files only. See Bush post below to view in action.

Bush was against unauthorized and illegal wiretaps before he was for them. Thank god the New York Times, Liberal flagship ‘paper of record’, sat on this story for over a year while ‘flip-flopper’ charges were hurled at the hapless John Kerry. I mean, the less the American citizenry knows what a thieving, lying cabal of jackbooted thugs BushCo. is the better, right?

Via crooks and liars

White House:

...there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires—a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so. It’s important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.

(Canofun has a little more.)

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