A few days ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that the U.S.-led war was illegal in the absence of specific authorizing resolution from the Security Council. He is wrong, and the State Department explains why.
One of the things that irriates me about Kerry, and the Left in general, is their constant mischaracterizations about the links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. They keep conflating an Iraq-September 11th connection (which can’t be proven” and the Iraq-al Qaeda connection (which has been). At the Daily Standard, Stephen F. Hayes has more, including a good fisking of Kerry spokeman Stephanie Cutter’s idiotic statement that “There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war. There is now terrorism there now.”
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There is little that warms my heart more than finding out that the American people are smart enough not to buy Dan Rather’s crap, and as a result, are tuning him out. According to Drudge:
CBS executives on both coasts have become concerned in recent days that Dan Rather’s EVENING NEWS broadcast has plunged in the ratings since the anchor presented questionable documents about Bush’s National Guard service.NIELSEN numbers released this week show Rather fading and trailing his rivals in every Top 10 city, other than San Francisco, with audience margins in some cities running more than 6 to 1 against CBS!
Executives fear many voters inclined to vote for Bush are now switching off Rather.
“The audience appears to [be] polarized,” a top CBS source said from LOS ANGELES on Thursday. “Rightly or wrongly, we’re being perceived as ‘anti-Bush,’ which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist… of course we do not like to see the ratings coming back the way they are this week.”
In Philadelphia, the nation’s #4 market, Rather pulled a 2.6 rating/5 share on Tuesday night against ABC’s 13.3 rating/23 share and NBC’s 4.0/7.
In Chicago, Rather hit a 2.3/5 to ABC’s 9.2/20.
CBS trailed ABC by more than 2 to 1 in Los Angeles.
And in the nation’s top market, New York, Rather finished not only behind NBC NIGHTLY NEWS and ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT — but also pulled less audience than reruns of the SIMPSONS, WILL & GRACE and KING OF QUEENS.
Every once in a while I see something and makes me awfully glad I live in this age high technology. Today the reason I’m thankful is everyday we get beautiful images from space, such as this one of Hurricane Ivan.
In the coverup phase of the story, CBS’s stonewalling transforms CBS from the dupe of a con into a participant in the fraud. Is Daniel Schorr available to remind his old friends at CBS that the coverup is worse than the crime?
Now that we are nearing the end of the baseball season and college and pro football have started, you won’t be seeing any bicycling on TV, and that’s a shame. Currently professional cyclists are riding the Vuelta a Espa
I spent 4 1/2 hours today fixing my friend’s computer. It would have taken a lot less time if she had had a virus scanner on her computer. If you want a free scanner, check out Housecall from Trend Micro.
At least one liberal blogger argues that it is possible to create the Bush Texas Air National Guard memos on a typewriter. But his argument fails Occam’s razor. Plus, if you read this from a computer typography expert, and check out this comparison between the forged documents and same document create with Word, you see that they are undeniably forged.
So when is CBS going to acknowledge the unbearable truth? Until they do, they cannot be trusted on any subject.
