"No, dumb is 'oh my god! I just ate soap!'"

I just watched last night's "Daily Show". O'Reilly was on. Boy, that man is on the trail to make himself appear more fair, more balanced. Fascinating developments from the "no spin zone".

What's next? Sean Hannity screaming that he's a liberal at heart?

What the hell were we talking about...

...that I would ask this question?

"Did you name your car "deerhunter" or "deerbane" or "Mary Lou Retton" after that?

Bush White House dupes cable networks into 50 minutes of free airtime

This was acquired from Media Matters here:

Is this standard practice? I know people criticize both parties for being dishonest, but this is ridiculous. And once again, I say, liberal bias in the media, my ass.

Oh, and are you kids hearing about the conspiracy theory of Bush being wired during the debate. It wouldn't surprise me. But given Bush's performance in the first debate, it didn't help him. Or maybe it did. We'll see if he "does" that again.

Salon's War Room '04 reported:
It looks like the White House pulled a fast one on the 24-hour news channels this morning as President Bush grabbed 50 minutes of free, uninterrupted TV airtime one month before Election Day. News outlets were told in advance Bush would give a substantive speech addressing key policy issues, which is why they agreed to carry it. (They're not in the habit of running stump speeches in their entirety.) Days ago, the speech was billed as an address on medical liability reform. Then on Monday, White House aides announced the speech would address the "war on terror" and the economy.
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Instead, the address, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was nothing more than a raucous Bush pep rally as the president unleashed his most sustained and personal attacks on Sen. John Kerry to date, portraying him as an out of touch liberal who cannot be trusted to defend America, while Republican loyalists in the crowd booed and jeered each mention of Kerry's name.
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The question is, why did all three news channels cover the attack speech for nearly an hour? In the past, they have occasionally cut away to both candidates' stump speeches for five or ten minutes, but certainly never for 50 minutes. When it became apparent that Bush's policy speech was not going to be as advertised, but was instead a tirade against Kerry, did that still constitute news? And the more pressing question for the cable outlets is: When are they going to give Kerry nearly an hour of uninterrupted time to ridicule and mock Bush's record?

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Check your economic data today, folks. The numbers just came in for September. The increase in jobs is not keeping up with population growth. We're still a million jobs shy from when Bush stepped into office.

Yeah, those tax cuts were worth it. Poor job market and hideous debt, both in the government and the average household. Mmm, good.