Rush Limbaugh defends his use of the term “feminazi” as “right” and “accurate” in response to a June 22 Washington Post article on Sen. Richard J. Durbin’s (D-IL) controversial floor statement that referenced Nazis. The Post article mentioned Limbaugh’s use of the term “feminazi” as well as other examples of recent political debates in which Nazism has been invoked. From the June 22 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show: In The Washington Post we get a little story: “Tips for…
Catching up on my Bushisms. To make things a little more obvious to the careless reader, I have added emphasis: “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” —Confronted by political opposition, Bush explains his strategy on promoting Social Security reform. (Washington Post, “The Ostrich Approach,” Dan Froomkin, May 25, 2005) “I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently…
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV – The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954 Chapter 13: “A new phase of political experience”. Eisenhower Presidential Papers, Document #1147; November 8, 1954 “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of…
It’s shocking when you see how easily they fold in the media today. They don’t stand their ground. If they’re criticized by the White House, they just fall apart. I mean, c’mon, toughen up, guys, it’s only our Constitution and country at stake.” Hillary Clinton, as quoted in the NY Times 6-7-05
Excerpts from George Galloway Interview On Guantamo Bay Well, it’s an utterly illegal process which is being followed. People are being taken, in some cases from third countries. One of the British citizens, for example, was taken from the Gambia. Others have been taken from Pakistan. Others still from, from Afghanistan. They’re taken by force, drugs forcibly injected into them, hooded, chained, and taken to a cage in the tropics where by all accounts they’re being kept in conditions that…
The U.S. Senate on Thursday put off a vote to confirm John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, yielding to Democrats’ demands that the Bush administration be asked to hand over more information on Bolton’s use of intelligence material. The vote on Bolton was delayed. Do you remember why it was delayed up until this point? Oh, right, because the Bush administration witheld requested information from the Senate – including whether Bolton sought the names of U.S. officials…