Daily Flog: Campaign's rich laughs; Bolt beats Phelps; fatal wounds to...
Running down the press: Gross overplaying of the Phelps story all over the press — "his cellphone is blowing up . . . the hottest commodity in China right now was made in the USA," ESPN breathlessly...
View ArticleDaily Flog: Russian Bear Goes Bullish; Pakistan Dithers; Obama Strikes Back
(Roy Edroso of Runnin' Scared here. Even gadflies have to rest their wings sometimes, so Ward Harkavy is on vacation and I'm filling in as best I can for a few days. ) Reuters: "Russia says troops to...
View ArticleDaily Flog: Obama, Duchovny get their freak on; New York's finest bank robber
Running down the press: Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr. revealed his dream, Barack Obama becomes king for a day. Now that is change. Crowned by the Democratic Party, Obama spoke last...
View ArticleDaily Flog: Bailing out the planet's investors; a swift boot to Olbermann
Running down the press: Great news for Wall Streeters this morning! The public's going to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it's only going to cost you $100 billion or so, and you (and perhaps...
View ArticleDaily Flog: Remembering the 9/11, Bush disasters; waiting for Lehman's final...
Running down the press: You'll be deluged all day with stories about Ground Zero, where Barack Obama and John McCain will duke it out in the tragic death cage. As the BBC notes with a straight face: In...
View ArticleDaily Flog: 'Holy $#!+, Batman!'; dolor rises as Ike, Palin, Lehman bluster...
Running down the press: The dolor rose sharply yesterday on desultory, predictable trading of bullshit between Charlie Gibson and Sarah Palin. As Palin recited her ABC, Hurricane Ike threatened — even...
View ArticleDaily Flog: Panic spreads to McCain; White House meeting will solve...
You can't spell "down" without "Dow." The only good thing about this morning's scheduled meltdown meeting of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and John McCain is that it confirms that Bush will not be...
View ArticleShock and awe: Pentagon rejects 'Bush Doctrine'
Under the media radar, an amazing but true development: "Preventive war" will now be prevented. Six years too late, the neocons' grip on U.S. foreign policy has finally been broken — by the Pentagon...
View ArticleDaily Flog: Economy, Iraq missions accomplished, Bush finally tries...
It turns out that Hurricane Katrina — at least the Bush regime's late reaction to it — wasn't a once-in-a-century event. After the administration let the economy and various wars veer out of control,...
View ArticleKurds in the way
While most eyes are fixed on the presidential race to the top and Wall Street's race to the bottom, Iraq continues to simmer. The longer it cooks, the more bitter. Yes, suicide bombing is down, but...
View ArticleHillary? Watch Obama like a hawk.
And you thought that Hillary Clinton was the political season's upset loser and that the upset winner, Barack Obama, promised "change." You were wrong. Reneging on his promise of change, Obama may turn...
View Article'Shoe intifada' vowed; we quake in our boots
Now we have another chance to peer into the soul of terrorists, rebels, and other insurgents. Enraged at the alleged beating of the journalist who hurled at George W. Bush, a Muslim cleric in Iran has...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg launches preemptive trip to Israel; invasion of NYC unlikely
Waltz With Bashir, a movie that sprang from a previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon, won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics. A free Madoff Watch T-shirt to the reader who suggests...
View ArticleJews v. Arabs: It's war, even if the 'Times' tries to avoid calling it that
Al Jazeera reporting on the war in Gaza Will somebody please call this a war? You won't find the word "war" in this morning's lede story in the New York Times on Israel's bombardment and invasion of...
View ArticleBlintzkrieg in Gaza; Madoff covers up family jewels
"Gaza medics in the line of fire," from Al Jazeera Congratulations to the New York Times. The word "war" made it into a front-page story this morning about Israel's war on Gaza. Ethan Bronner's piece...
View Article'Times' declares war on news, gets right in your grille -- for a change
The Times as Jimmy Cagney and the reader as Mae Clarke. It's about time. A banner day for the New York Times. Newspapers that don't go out for blood are worthless. The Times often should be itself...
View ArticleCardinal calls Gaza 'concentration camp' -- lit up by white phosphorus,...
Al Jazeera report on white phosphorus in Gaza. As Chico Marx said, "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" That's easy when it comes to Gaza. The Jewish state's brutal use of white phosphorus —...
View ArticleFrom baseball to hardball: George Mitchell lands in Mideast to probe the...
The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is...
View ArticleWar of words: Turkish PM Erdogan storms out at Davos after Gaza row with...
Hot off the video wire: CNBC's report on Erdogan walking out on Davos debate Veering off-topic from the global meltdown, Turkey's prime minister had his own meltdown today at Davos. See the CNBC video...
View ArticleSuper Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!
The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and...
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