Olbermann Watch: The 18-Second Gap

Olbermann Watch: The 18-Second Gap: "The 18-Second Gap
On Friday, Countdown reported on the latest allegations against George Allen. We noted that they did so by rerunning a report that aired Thursday on Hardball. David Shuster interviewed a woman who said she heard Allen using racial slurs.
But as we revealed exclusively on Olbermann Watch, the Countdown version differed from the original Hardball broadcast in one significant respect. Snipped from the taped piece were a series of questions that revealed the political affiliation of accuser Pat Waring. We will disclose now what Keith Olbermann did not want you to hear.
From the transcript of Thursday's Hardball, this is the exchange that was censored from Friday's night's Hour of Spin:
SHUSTER: You volunteer, you acknowledge you are a registered Democrat.
WARING: I am indeed.
SHUSTER: You volunteer at the local Democratic office?
WARING: I do.
SHUSTER: Once a week?
WARING: Once a week,
SHUSTER: Couple hours?
WARING: Yes.
SHUSTER: What do you do for them?
WARING I sit there and answer the phone and give people signs.
Obviously, MSNBC believed that the partisan bias of the accuser was relevant if viewers were to fairly assess her credibility. Just as obviously, somebody decided that this exchange, roughly 18 seconds long, had to be removed when the piece was shown on Countdown. Result: the accuser's background as a Democrat activist was never disclosed to the audience.
Who ordered that a pre-taped piece should be sent back to the editing bay, just to remove these particular 18 seconds? Was it notorious quote-doctorer Shuster who decided this report should be doctored? If so, why a special, edited version just for Countdown? Or is it more likely that the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann "

Russian Jet Crash - Google Video

Russian Jet Crash - Google Video

GOPers deserve to lose

My Way News - Foley E-Mails 1st Reported in Fall '05: "Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last fall but they were only told the messages were 'over-friendly.'
Reynolds, R-N.Y., was told about e-mails sent by Rep. Mark Foley and is now defending himself from Democratic accusations that he did too little. Foley, R-Fla., resigned Friday after ABC News questioned him about the e-mails to a former congressional page and about sexually suggestive instant messages to other pages."

Go here and be happy

If you're 50 or older....
Take Me Back To The Sixties

SuperNanny

Mr Lockbox finds another way to get international government into your life.
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006: "Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a 'significant contributor to global warming!'"
So are volcanos, private jets, cow farts, human beings and everything else in the world. Gimme a break!

AirFair 2007 CANCELLED!

Going, going ... Gone? After losing $700,000 the past five years, the Air Fair announces there will be no show in 2007: "Financial losses have grounded the Muskegon Air Fair for 2007 and left the show's future up in the air. "

Duh!

Without studies who'd of guessed?
Grand Rapids is fat: "A study released Wednesday shows the majority of Grand Rapidians are overweight, bordering on obese."

Krauts gettin' the message!

German union, VW agree to longer work week without raise: "German carmaker Volkswagen AG and labor union said Friday that they have agreed to increase working hours at western German plants by more than four hours, without pay hikes."

Hey! We're just like California!

ABC News: Retiree Health Care May Overwhelm Gov'ts: "'A surprising number of public entities didn't even make informal estimates of long-term costs prior to the new accounting rules,' Whitworth said. "

NTSB Advisory

NTSB Advisory: "Witness marks on scene indicate that all three landing gear were on the ground as the airplane exited the runway. "

Illegals granted Social Security�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Illegals granted Social Security�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment -- even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.
'There was a felony they were committing, and now they can't be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me,' said Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who offered the amendment yesterday to strip out those provisions of the immigration reform bill. 'It just boggles the mind how people could be against this amendment.'
The Ensign amendment was defeated on a 50-49 vote.
'We all know that millions of undocumented immigrants pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for years and sometimes decades while they work to contribute to our economy,' said Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican.
'The Ensign amendment would undermine the work of these people by preventing lawfully present immigrant workers from claiming Social Security benefits that they earned before they were authorized to work in our community,' he said. 'If this amendment were enacted, the nest egg that these immigrants have worked hard for would be taken from them and their families.'
Mr. Ensign was among 44 Republicans and five Democrats who voted to block such payouts.
'It makes no sense to reward millions of illegal immigrants for criminal behavior while our Social Security system is already in crisis,' said Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican. 'Why in the world would we endorse this criminal activity with federal benefits? The Senate missed a big opportunity to improve this bill, and I doubt American seniors will be pleased with the result.'
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, said it would be unfair to deny ill"

GySgt Carlos Hathcock

GySgt Carlos Hathcock

This does not ban affirmative action!

It bans preferential treatment!
A colorblind Michigan?::By George Will: "A proposal to amend the state constitution to ban affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes.' "

Clinton lies never seem to end

Unless the MSM sanatizes...
Frist Fence Flakeout? By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine: "Elvis Down: Chris Wallace did too ask a Bush aide (Rumsfeld) pointed questions about why Bush didn't go after bin Laden--Patterico's got 'em. ..."

Didn't see this on PerkyKatie....or anyone else

Threads2: "One million white South Africans - almost a fifth - have left the country in the past ten years. This figure was released this week in a report from the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). Frans Cronj� who compiled the report, said it were especially crime and affirmative action which had driven a fifth of South Africa's white population out of the country.

Comments:
I imagine they also refer to white farmers being forced to sell their farms and bargain basement prices as ''affirmative action.'' It's not just the crime but the rising corruption and injustices at the hands of the thug ANC government. Another decade of them in charge and S Africa will be begging for aid. "

Crash may be last straw for expensive maglev train

Crash may be last straw for expensive maglev train: "The maglev has always sucked in vast public subsidies, a relic of an era when government 'industrial policies' were often based on applying seed money to what politicians hoped were the trends of tomorrow. "

We're doomed!

: "'Jackass Number Two' romped its way to a strong box office debut, leaving the rest of the weekend competition far behind, according to data released Sunday by industry tracker Box Office Mojo.
'Jackass,' a sequel featuring Johnny Knoxville and friends performing bizarre, outrageous and usually painful stunts, opened on just over 3,000 screens and grossed $28.1 million for the three-day period from Sept. 22 to Sept. 24. The film, released by Viacom's (VIA: news) Paramount, had a production budget of $11.5 million."

Proof of Bush/Rove free speech supression!

....Maybe not......
The Indepundit: "EARLIER in the week, I came across another protest, at the corner of 15th and Constitution on the National Mall.

Billboard calling for impeachment of President Bush.
The first thing that caught my eye was the mobile billboard calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. I was amazed that here in fascist Amerikkka, only two blocks from the White House, such a blatant display of disloyalty to the Supreme Commander was allowed to stand. But no government storm troopers were in evidence, and the passing tourists appeared completely unfazed.
Indeed, I later learned that this billboard had been in place for almost two weeks, as part of a grand project called Camp Democracy, a three-week anti-war festival on the National Mall. This project has drawn dozens of people to this prime location, in an orgy of hate for the current administration. "

Amazing true aircrash that didn't happen!

The Gimli Glider / Air Canada
A really great story of brilliant airline pilots..... and a ton of luck.

Well...duh.....

Cleveland.com's Printer-Friendly Page: "Valdis Krebs is pretty sure he knows why the super-secret National Security Agency is rooting around in the nation's phone-calling records. It's the same sort of electronic sleuthing he did following 9/11 to uncloak some of al-Qaida's secrets. "

I love lookin' back.....

NYT May 2006
Why does anyone read this propaganda rag?
Remember, it's the New York Times!
Rough Summer Is on the Way for Air Travel - New York Times: "Brace yourself for a summer of miserable air travel.
Planes are expected to be packed fuller than at anytime since World War II, when the airlines helped transport troops. Fares are rising. Service frills are disappearing.
Logjams at airport security checkpoints loom as the federal government strains to keep screener jobs filled. The usual violent summer storms are expected to send the air traffic control system into chaos at times, with flight delays and cancellations cascading across the country.
And many airline employees, after years of pay cuts and added work, say they are dreading the season ahead. Those workers, and there are about 70,000 fewer of them than in 2002, will be handling more than 100 million more passengers this year than they did four years ago. "

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info: "Welcome to the web site for the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD), currently located in Newark, Delaware. The controversy surrounding dihydrogen monoxide has never been more widely debated, and the goal of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion. "

TheChronicle Bias Watch

Amazing LTE in today's Chronicle deemed worthy by the censors at the local newspaper titled "Coast Guard ranges may be a political ploy". The writer states that Congressman Hoekstra is in a tight race for re-election. Not true. He then suggests that "After 60 years of relative peace on the great lakes....." the Coast Guard Great Lakes training is a plot by Bush and his minions to scare "us" for political gain. No proof. Just paranoia. TheChronicle commissars printed it (but not on the web).... so it must have some redeeming value...right!

TheChronicle Bias Watch

buried in page 6b, the last page. Bad news not too important if it's the liberal in charge, eh?
mlive.com: NewsFlash - Michigan unemployment rate rises to 7.1 percent: "Michigan's unemployment rate edged up to 7.1 percent in August, state officials said Wednesday.
The latest seasonally adjusted rate was greater than the July rate of 7 percent and remains among the country's highest. The national jobless rate was 4.7 percent in August."