Day: March 15, 2006

Bush’s approval rating is now lower than it was 10 minutes ago, according to the Pew Research Center.

Apparently disgusted with the recent abortion ruling in South Dakota, Molly Blythe has decided to put together a primer on the procedure along with the hardware necessary to perform an abortion, for friends, family members, or any woman currently saddled with an unwanted pregnancy.

The whole thing has troubled anti-abortion and abortion-rights activists alike.

Putting aside for a moment the whole issue of abortion, the process of abortion, the debate over abortion…

I don’t know what the hubbub is all about when it comes to posting instructions like this. People have used the Internet to publish illicit ‘how to manuals’ for years. In a few seconds, anyone can use Google to find out how to create pipe bombs, how to rip off ATMs, how to steal cable television, or how to commit suicide. How is this any different? Disturbed people will be interested in implementing this crap, while the rest of us remain mildly amused by it.

Much to the dismay of the people who have Will Ferrell at the top of their Dead Pool lists, he did not die yesterday as originally reported.

Yesterday, a fake press release went out across the Internet which purported to announce a fatal paragliding accident that killed comedian Will Ferrell. The story, posted on iNewswire.com, was filled with all kinds of mistakes — the most glaring was that Will was paragliding Monday in San Diego. In actuality, Will was in Canada filming a movie. And, truth be told, Will has never been paragliding in his life.

“Not much to say other than we heard and read about it this morning and reacted accordingly,” Ferrell’s publicist told E! in an email. “There was no point in trying to track [the source] down as it was obviously a hoax… [Will is] alive and well, and filming a movie in Montreal.”

Hmmm, I think I smell a screenplay.

This is a really stupid poll. Republicans apparently, are happier people than Democrats.

What “A” List?

In a recent “post” on Arianna Huffington’s “blog”, Actor George Clooney outed himself as a pure bred liberal and had other colorful things to’say about his’fellow Democrats. His statement made headlines and generated traffic to Ms. Huffington’s site which has made great hay over adding Clooney’s name’to a growing list of celebrities and other’A-listers making literary appearances on The Huffington Post.’Readers seem to love’the blog posts from their idols’as evidenced in comment sections that run deep with accolades, whoops, and various kudos’of agreement.’It’s clear that these people really believe’they are responding to the actual personality, and that’eventually, that personality will respond directly to them. That might be true, if the famous, the celebrity, the activist, the politician and the personality actually write the blog post.

Today we find out that Clooney never blogged for Arianna. He didn’t write the post’at all.’A publicist’was handed a sample of a blog article written by someone working with’the’Huffington Post and was asked if they could get it to Clooney so he could rewrite the thing in his own words. A few days later the publicist’OK’d the’sample, and Huffington published it as if it was written by Clooney.’This would be no big deal if the post read’something like, “George Clooney was interviewed recently and’said…” But it wasn’t published that way. It read like his own words.

This calls into question EVERY post on Arianna’s’“blog”. How many of the’articles were written by the people their attributed to? How many were written with the permission of the people attributed?’How many blog posts were written just like’Clooney’s?”

Arianna calls this an “honest misunderstanding”. I call it fraud.

UPDATE: Clooney: “I feel abused”.

At least there’s one Democratic Senator who is willing to go out and speak the truth of what his party believes. There is a serious deficit of this kind of personal responsibility among congressional Democrats. While each and every one of them will call a news conference to chastise the Bush administration on it’s response to Hurricane Katrina, it’s decision to take us to war with Iraq, the budget, etc., etc., etc., you’d be hard pressed to find anyone today standing up with Senator Feingold to support Senate Resolution 398. The Senator from Wisconsin introduced the resolution yesterday calling for the censure of President Bush over his warrantless wiretapping program. Everyone knows that a motion to censure is the least of what Democrats want. Ever since Bush won the White House, the Dems have wanted to kick him out of office. Behind closed doors, their mantra is “Stop him!” Yet none of them have the guts to stand up and tell the truth about how they feel. Why? They fear reprisal in GOP states, the very states they must take away from Republicans if they have any hope in winning a majority. Without a majority in Congress, the Democrats have no hope of doing the ultimate deed – impeaching the president.

Do you see how meaningless their actions are? Can you hear the vacancy in their rhetoric?

Gutless.Punks.

Sen. Russ Feingold agrees.

More: Dana Milbank | Shailagh Murray |
Video: Feingold censure speech |
The Defense: Democrats were caught off guard |