Proof Bush Derangement Syndrome (“BDS”) is real:
Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats.
Read the rest: Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others.
WMUR 9, New Hampshire:
ROCHESTER, N.H. — An armed man has taken two campaign workers hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said.
Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St.. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business that she was released by the hostage-taker.
“A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, ‘You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,’” witness Lettie Tzizik said.
Check the following page for updates: Man Takes Hostages At Clinton Campaign Office.
From yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Murtha finds military progress in trip to Iraq
Warns that Iraqis must do more for their own security
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. John Murtha today said he saw signs of military progress during a brief trip to Iraq last week, but he warned that Iraqis need to play a larger role in providing their own security and the Bush administration still must develop an exit strategy.
“I think the ’surge’ is working,” the Democrat said in a video conference from his Johnstown office, describing the president’s decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis “have got to take care of themselves.”
This is glimpse of how the democrats plan to adjust their party’s position on the war in Iraq.
Up until now, they’ve been advocating for, and are vested in, the defeat of U.S. forces in Iraq. The key to their strategy will be to shift the blame away from the Bush administration to Iraqi’s and the Iraqi Government while acknowledging the military progress. (This is largely because Bush is not on the ballot in 2008 and the Iraq war will not be one of the election’s defining issues.)
The democrats may also attempt to claim some of the credit for the progress in Iraq by suggesting their constant pressure on the Bush administration forced a change in tactics. It’s no surprise Representative Murtha is publicly admitting the surge has made progress since he had previously lead the charge that the war was lost.
UPDATE: Allahpundit is all over this at HotAir.com.
No media bias here…
What the hell is Ms. Burnett’s problem? She’s entitled to her political views in private. But American’s are getting sick and tired of journalists using their highly visible positions to broadcast those political views and passing it off as objective news. And it shows in declining circulation and viewer ship ratings.
The apology was a good gesture. But in my opinion doesn’t go far enough to address the media bias so pervasive in today’s supposedly objective news outlets. Also, she said “I do have the utmost respect for the President…” I find that hard to believe, because if she did, she wouldn’t have made those comments in the first-place. Video below:
Bluto from Jawa Report:
Yes, Erin, you did offend a few people, not only those who hold the office of the Presidency in high regard, but also, those who are horrified that the state of modern journalism has sunk so abysmally low that fluffy bits of brainless eye candy, such as yourself, can make a living pretending to know what you’re talking about.
Warner Todd Huston of NewsBusters has the details and a transcript:
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a “monkey” during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China.
AllahPundit of HotAir.com:
My thoughts at this hour turn to Rush, who’s made no secret of his respect for Burnett despite her (likely) lefty provenance. Does he call her out on it? Or do her more admirable qualities, intellectual and otherwise, earn her a pass? The big A knows a thing or two about this dilemma himself, and while it’s a bitter pill to swallow, there is ultimately but one ethical solution. Lock and load, brother. Lock and load.
…And about the apology:
Exit question: Would it really be problematic if, say, Julie Banderas started referring routinely to the president as “the Bushitler”? Dude, I’m thinking — no.
BDS in the workplace! How sad! I hope someone comes up with a cure someday.
distributorcap at Daily Kos:
Erin Burnett, the business reporter at MSNBC i guess has some ’splaining to do to her bosses.
i guess Erin doesn’t like her preznit.
Guess not.
Yet another episode to keep your sense of humor alive. Enjoy it; I know I did:
American Thinker is featuring a collection of more than 600 links to media stories blaming everything but the kitchen sink on Global Warming. The collection has been put together by Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, on a web site he is calling Number Watch.
This is part of a headline from an article appearing on Guardian’s web site:
Fraud, intimidation and bribery as Putin prepares for victory
State workers forced to vote in effort to rig result for president.
The Kremlin is planning to rig the results of Russia’s parliamentary elections on Sunday by forcing millions of public sector workers across the country to vote, the Guardian has learned.
Local administration officials have called in thousands of staff on their day off in an attempt to engineer a massive and inflated victory for President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party. Voters are being pressured to vote for United Russia or risk losing their jobs, their accommodation or bonuses, the Guardian has been told in numerous interviews with byudzhetniki (public sector workers), students and ordinary citizens.
Doctors, teachers, university deans, students and even workers at psychiatric clinics have been warned they have to vote. Failure to do so will entail serious consequences, they have been told.
However, I thought the headline should have read:
Fraud, intimidation and bribery as Putin Hillary Clinton prepares for victory…
Read more: Fraud, intimidation and bribery as Putin prepares for victory.
It really bugs me whenever I hear socialists, marxists or communists talk about freeing people from oppression. Or winning freedom for the “people.”
It’s not really true freedom they’re promising to deliver, it’s only freedom from responsibility.
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