Ladies and gentleman, here is your bullshit media.

No. no. no. no. Don. Dono. You can check everything. Get your Nexis-Lexis out. Get your google out. Every column I have written from the day they started talking about Iraq has been against it. Now you are chuckling because you know damn well you’ve pulled my chain here. I have been a voice out there against this bullshit war from the beginning.

That was Chris Matthews, a member of NBC’s vast empire of political reporters.

Do you get the sense that maybe, just maybe, he may be a bit so pationate about this to be fair and accurate? Maybe he cares a bit too much about the story in order to simply report the fcats, and not let his emotions influence his decsions?

There’s video there too. It is of the Imus radio show, so you don’t get to see Matthews, but you can hear his voice.  Well worth it if your mom or grandma is one of the 10 or so thousand people who actually watch this guys show.

Progress for America is out with a great new ad.

General Bedard

It might be a stark wake up for some of you who think this is Bush’s war.

Go watch it!

Tom Harkin, you know him, he was the guy that Howard Dean got so excited while talking to during the Iowa Primary…

Anyways, he has gone off and defended Hugo ‘Takes one to know one’ Chavez the Venezuelan dictator who called Americans and President Bush the Devil yeterday.

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were “incendiary”, then went on to say, “Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush’s policies.” Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president’s foreign policy.

Harkin says Bush came to office saying he wanted a new humility in foreign policy in reaching out to other countries, but Harkin says Bush’s actual policy has been heavy handed. Harkin says the anger against Bush is generated from the Iraq war, which Harkin says was “unnecessary.”

Harkin says, “We tend to forget that a few days after 9-1-1 thousands, thousands of Iranians marched in a candlelight procession in Teheran in support of the United States. Every Muslim country was basically on our side. Just think, in five years, President Bush has squandered all that.” Harkin says the U.S. has put billions of dollars into the Iraq war, when it could be helping poor countries with things like clean water, medical aid and education.

A stunning assembly of blame America first thoughts. Oh did I mention Harkin was a Democrat? Anyways. Isn’t it nice to see a Senior Democrat feel the need to blame Bush’s 5 years in office for the thousands of years of angst between Muslims, America, and the rest of the World.

I have got to see that Bush time machine someday. It must be real. I heard Al Gore is going to do another documovie next year. Only this one will be about how Bush is responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Sorry for the lack of me being here. Been covering Klobo-Gate over on KvM

Joe Tucci here…

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Minnesota Monitor.  It’s a place where some local left-wing bloggers are paid by one propaganda arm of the Democrat partyu or other, to piddle out the same crap that they previously did for free (Oh yeah - except that it’s well “researched” crap).

Such as this stugotz:

Mike Osskopp, District Director for Rep. John Kline (R-MN02), has earned at least $70,150 in taxpayer funds since July of 2005, according to LegiStorm. 

The salary covers the third and fourth quarters of 2005 and the first quarter of 2006, the most recent quarter for which figures are available. 

That’s quite a salary he’s got there.  Quite the racket if you can get it.

So I did some digging on that there website, and a little math, and found that Congressman Kline reported paying his entire staff some $209,923 for the period between January and March of this year (That figure is a little low as I only added the whole numbers -without the cents -  to save time).

That’s a lot of canoles!  Surely this figure is way out of line!

So I look up another Minnesota Rep. campaigning for reelection this year - Betty McCollum.

$207,716 (see above)

IN TAXPAYER MONEY!!!!!!!!

Hoooah! Betty’s probably up to the same no-good shenanigans as Kline!

Maybe if the author of this “well-researched” piece had dug a little farther, he may have found this page from his source:

A few aides are well paid by any measure. Many others make an embarrassing sum, especially in an expensive city such as Washington, DC at jobs that can have a ferocious intensity to them. While Congress is in session, Congressional aides often work well into the night, sometimes into the early morning, to craft legislation or to broker deals with the administration.

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We encourage all users to keep in mind that information on our site can easily be misused, that raw data can have limitations. Sometimes context is vitally important. With that said, we are pleased to make congressional salaries available on the web for the first time.

Of course, any exhortation to “keep” something in “mind” necessarily assumes that the user does indeed have a “mind”. Or that a resident hack from a partisan propaganda mill would even think twice about “misusing” the data.

I have deleted all 10 emails I got from you today, so stop sending them to me. OK? Who ever said spam is free speech should be shot right now. Mass harrassment with the simple click of a mouse is not free speech.

Or wait, did they decide it wasn’t no wait someone wanted to tax spam. Or was it porn?

Oh hell I don’t care. Stop sending me spam and fishing emails!

Why is it that Democrats can live and breath demonizing Republicans, but the second a Republican quotes a liberal statement or candidate they are going negative? I’m really sick of it. And the fact that the media ilk are buying the DFL talking points is really a sad commentary on the quality of the information voters are getting.

Seriously. For 2 years now I have heard Republicans called more names than I ever heard on the playground as a kid. We see negative attack after negative attack in their ads, statements, and websites, but for some mysterious reason they are given credit for keeping it positive.

That’s a crock of POOP! The Democrats have been negative ever since they lost power at the various levels. The Democrats have been negative. The media has been negative. The Republicans are just trying to let people know what the goll darn Democrats have been doing and saying.

AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Why the hell do I do this? Blogging I mean. I’m kinda starting to realize since I’m not getting any positive reinforcement that I am full of shit, the criticism about me is correct and I’d be better served taking up knitting than political blogging from here on out. Am I quitting? Not yet. Am I taking a break? No. Am I wondering if anything I do is appreciated by anyone other than those looking to humiliate me? Yes!

I thought we were gonna lynch this guy. I mean he has essentially had 2 of the most dismal blogging comebacks ever. Wait a minute. Did Joe Tucci [whack] him on the way into the MOBapalooza?

Senator Mark ‘Lame Duck’ Dayton is calling for an investigation into the National Weather Service.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Dayton called for an independent investigation into the National Weather Service today, aimed at uncovering why the agency failed to issue a tornado warning before a deadly twister struck the northwest Twin Cities suburb of Rogers Saturday night.

I saw this about 3 dozen times now in the last day, so I will type slowly Sen. Dayton. Pay attention.

The storm was moving at around 60 miles an hour, now keep in mind, the whole state of Minnesota basically was under a severe thinderstorm watch. OK, so the storm is moving at 60 miles an hour, OK? The doplar radar is actually an antanae that rotates around in a circle and only looks in the direction is is pointing. It takes 4 minutes for the radar to make a complete circle. (That is why there is that annoying thing on the weather maps that makes you think you’re not seeing straight. Kinda makes it look like a super slow spiral.)

So anyways, the tornado formed when the radar passed, and since it was moving at 60 miles an hour, had already done the damage by the time the radar came back around.

OK?

Nope, I suppose it is Bush’s fault. Must be, everything is.