Thursday, October 26, 2006

It’s Not Just That Republicans Lie, It’s How Laughably Easy It Is to Expose Them As Liars (3:28 pm)

Hastert Lies about Pelosi
Think Progress reports that Hastert yesterday attributed to Pelosi a completely made up position on immigration, then claimed she had never visited the border. Pelosi has consistently backed extensive new border security measures and comprehensive immigration reform. And today, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, a 26-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol, issued a statement discussing Pelosi’s trip to El Paso, Texas, in March.

Incumbent Pennsylvania Republican Mike Fitzpatrick Lies about Democrat Challenger Patrick Murphy
Brian Scheid for the Bucks County Courier Times reports that Fitzpatrick falsely claims Murphy did not really prosecute criminal cases in New York. But “According to court documents provided by Murphy’s campaign and an interview with one of Murphy’s former superiors, Murphy did prosecute cases in New York involving drugs, theft, assault and sexual molestation.” Scheid goes on to note that “Murphy worked as both a military lawyer prosecuting military personnel accused of crimes at West Point and as a special assistant U.S. attorney, where he prosecuted civilians accused of committing crimes on federal land.”

via Atrios, who provides a copy of Murphy’s appointment letter.

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Absentee Ballots for Democrats Abroad (1:11 pm)

Plutonium Page at dailykos calls attention to the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot, and how to use it.

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Extremely Desperate GOP Tries Passing Off Faked Photo and Imaginary Quote As Real (10:32 am)

Ohio Republicans have tried to smear Al Franken - with a doctored photo and fabricated quote.
Think Progress reports.

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Alleged Victim of Assault by GOP Candidate for Nevada Gov Now Claims Cover Up and Bribe Attempt (8:18 am)

Molly Ball for the Las Vegas Review Journal reports:

The Las Vegas woman who has accused Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons of assaulting her said Wednesday that she dropped charges against him the next day because people connected to his campaign had threatened her, pressured her and tried to buy her silence.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The New York Times Reads MyDD (11:43 pm)

Tom Zeller for the Times reports on Chris Bowers’ Google Bomb plan.

Read what Chris has put together here and here.

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GOP Hero Limbaugh Proudly Fights The Evil Liberal ParkinsoNazis (10:13 pm)

Keith Olbermann shows video of Limbaugh mocking Michael J. Fox - complete with crude mimicry of Parkinson Disease spasms.
Crooks and Liars has the clip.

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Olbermann Keeps Score of Bush Saying “Stay the Course”; Tony Snow’s Lies Worse Than Pathetic (7:01 pm)

Crooks and Liars has the video.

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Cheney Confirms Bush Administration Employs What Everybody Else On The Planet Defines As Torture (6:21 pm)

Jonathan Landay for McClatchy Newspapers reports:

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called “water-boarding,” which creates a sensation of drowning.

Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn’t regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney said at one point in an interview.
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The U.S. Army, senior Republican lawmakers, human rights experts and many experts on the laws of war, however, consider water-boarding cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment that’s banned by U.S. law and by international treaties that prohibit torture. Some intelligence professionals argue that it often provides false or misleading information because many subjects will tell their interrogators what they think they want to hear to make the water-boarding stop.

Republican Sens. John Warner of Virginia, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have said that a law Bush signed last month prohibits water-boarding. The three are the sponsors of the Military Commissions Act, which authorized the administration to continue its interrogations of enemy combatants.

via Josh Marshall