Obama and the Faith-Based Believers By Michael Rectenwald 18 Feb 2008

While numerous commentators have noted the resemblance that the Obama "movement" bears to religious cults and evangelical Christian revivals, few if any have remarked on the similarity that this ethos bears to the credo of the current administration. Yet we who have witnessed the postulates of faith-based politics and policies for seven blessed years cannot fail to see how the cult of "belief" seems to parallel in tone if not substance the current administration's admonitions that we not question its pronouncements and rather take its conclusions on faith. A pesky thing known as rationality is to be set aside as the devil's device.

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It's Hard out Here for a Pimp (like Shuster): Cable "News" and the Pimping of Myth --The Rec Report By Michael Rectenwald 10 Feb 2008 Remarks by MSNBC reporter/anchor, David Shuster, about pimping Chelsea Clinton have caused a petit mal convulsion. In case you missed it, Shuster, subbing for the snarky Tucker Carlson this past Friday night, remarked regarding Chelsea Clinton's calling on Super Delegates for Hillary: "Doesn't it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" Let's analyze this comment and consider why it has caused a minor uproar.

Approval rating for LieberBush on CT exit polling survey

Finally, Connecticut voters will be able to express their disapproval of traitor Joe LieberBush!

Found at Citizens For Legitimate Government

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan 04 Feb 2008 Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.

Happy Birthday, Thomas Paine! --The Rec Report By Michael Rectenwald 29 Jan 2008

Make no mistake: The GOP-run media is using race to pick off Clinton first, Obama second. The media is (finally) giving us wall-to-wall political coverage instead of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears - but that of the campaigners and their surrogates, not the issues. By Lori Price 28 Jan 2008

'Bill Clinton is holding the audience hostage in Missouri.' --D.C. Sniper #2 aka Joe Scarborough (D.C. Sniper #1 is Chris Matthews), bashing Bill Clinton during MSNBC's Democratic South Carolina primary coverage. [Earth to MSNBC: We don't want Reichwing 'Morning Joe' on a panel discussing Democratic primaries.]

Dr. Rec details the "Tweety Effect." Identity Politics: Sexism, Racism and the Political Imaginary --The Rec Report By Dr. Michael Rectenwald 24 Jan 2008 Obama, the first viable African-American presidential candidate in our nation’s history, has been used to provide a "liberal" Trojan horse for sexists like Matthews to drive their misogyny home. But as divided as the electorate is by the Clinton-Obama clash, liberal activists have have not been fooled.

Tell MSNBC to Stop the Misogyny! 'Chris Matthews is like the DC sniper, lying in wait, always on the hunt for Hillary.' Action alert compiled by Lori Price 23 Jan 2008 CLG's Michael Rectenwald writes to MSNBC top brass: 'Over the past months, I have been horrified at the treatment of Hillary Clinton by Chris Matthews. I find Chris Matthews to be nearly obsessed, in a sick way, with Hillary Clinton. This obsessiveness has not only been misogynist, it has also been downright insane.'

King me! 'For us to say that you can't have a democracy if you've got a king is just not right.' President Bush in Saudi Arabia 15 Jan 2008

Edwards's daughter hit by alleged drunk driver 14 Jan 2008 Officials with the Edwards Campaign say Cate was not injured in the crash and calls the accident "minor".

Where Paper Prevailed, Different Results By Lori Price 09 Jan 2008

2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary Results --Total Democratic Votes: 286,139 - Machine vs Hand (RonRox.com) 09 Jan 2008
Hillary Clinton, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 39.618%
Clinton, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 34.908%
Barack Obama, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 36.309%
Obama, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 38.617%
Machine vs Hand:
Clinton: 4.709% (13,475 votes)
Obama: - 2.308% (-6,604 votes)

Hollywood writers can stay on strike, because George W. Bush is providing all the scripts that the producers of Law & Order: SVU would ever need. --Lori Price

Corporate Democracy, Corporate Democrats? --The Rec Report By Dr. Michael Rectenwald 01 Jan 2008 Ideology is not the same as rhetoric, mind you. If anything, Clinton rhetorically gives payback to her corporate donors... Rhetoric must be seen as a means of satisfying some contingents (in this case, her donors) while hoping others are smart or informed enough to understand the difference... Clinton's payback to corporations is mostly rhetorical; those who do the most to persuade us in America, the corporations, are also the target of much rhetorical appeasement.

'The Hartford Courant wouldn't publish a positive, smiling picture of Ned Lamont on its cover if God Himself commanded it.' "Ned Wins, Joe's In!" By Lori Price 27 Dec 2007

Hill-bullies May Bring US Four More Years of GOP Rule --The Rec Report --By Michael Rectenwald Saturday, 08 Mar 2007

Breaking, CLG: 'D.C. Madam' Seeks Subpoenas for Senator Vitter and Harlan Ullman --By Lori Price 02 Nov 2007

CLG Action Alert for 'D.C. Madam' CLG Action Alert for 'D.C. Madam' --The dubbed D.C. Madam, Deborah J. Palfrey, seeks fairness in a sea of injustice. 28 Oct 2007