The Democratic Leadership Council has an excellent review on its website of Michael Moore’s overheated, paranoid rambings:
Clearly, the author’s imaginative powers far outstrip his reporting or analytical skills. Consider, for example, his riff that bounds from showing a Bush family business connection with the bin Laden family (true) to the suggestion that 9/11 was not [...]
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Some more reactions to the Kerry speech from the left: Marc Cooper loved it because it humanized him, but he also notes the lack of substance:
On substance: While there were SOME good pushbacks at Bush on several subjects, including the war, and while I liked very much that Kerry said he deals in ?complexities,? he [...]
Loyal Democrat Matt Yglesias was not impressed by the Kerry acceptance speech:
To put it politely, I thought that was crap.
…Not every speech needs specifics and not every speech needs to be short, but if your speech is going to be long, then it really ought to have some specifics. Otherwise it’s just bloated. Mainly, I’m [...]
I’ve been TiVo-ing the Democrats’ convention speeches and scanning them for content. It’s been an unrewarding exercise, as the speeches have obviously been so heavily censored they put you to sleep. The Obama speech has so far been the only exception, apart from Teddy Kennedy’s claim that Republicans are a greater danger to America than [...]
Police prepare for rowdy protests on convention’s last day:
Protesters on bicycles snaked through the city Thursday as police braced for a surge in street demonstrations for the windup of the Democratic National Convention.
After four, largely problem-free days, police were expecting a “big day” of protests, since demonstrators typically look for the largest possible audience, said [...]
Some Democratic Party hacks have claimed that the story about John Kerry’s staged Vietnam movies is staged itself. Here’s the original 1996 story, from that right-wing propaganda organ, The Boston Globe (my copy):
At 2:45 a.m. yesterday, the men were gathering in the den and watching a series of 8mm films that Kerry had taken of [...]
Benedict Arnold CEO’s who ship “American” jobs overseas aren’t hurting recent grads, according to a survey published by CNN Financial:
Those graduating with a degree in computer science are seeing heartier increases. According to NACE, information sciences and systems graduates earn $43,053 a year, up 8.2 percent from a year earlier, while computer science graduates make [...]
This is some truly sick shit:
While a swift-boat commander in Vietnam, Sen. John Kerry filmed re-enactments of combat which Democrats plan to use in the official video introducing their presidential nominee tomorrow night in Boston.
During the Vietnam War, Sen. John Kerry filmed re-enactments of combat scenes with a home camera.
A new book, “Unfit [...]
Now that we know that Atrios is a fellow named Duncan Black who works for the George Soros-funded Media Matters organization, we can apply some Michael Moore logic and uncover his motivation. Soros is a major investor in the Carlyle Group, which Moore has explained is a vehicle through which the Saudis control American politics [...]
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