When A Lie Is A Lie Is A Lie

Paul Begala and Ari Fleischer went on Anderson Cooper yesterday to talk about torture. Begala and Cooper were pretty much on the same page, saying that torture is bad, and that the evidence of what the Bush Administration approved of consists of torture. Therefore, we need to take action against the torturers in our midst. When asked about whether Bush was lying about us not torturing, Begala had the easy, truthful answer to give. Fleischer on the other hand, couldn't stop defending his old, indefensible boss.

Dan Savage Exposes Tony Perkins For The Bigot He Is

There was a lot of talking over one another, but in the end Dan Savage owned the segment and showed Tony Perkins true motives with his support of Proposition 8.

Ron Paul The Racist?

CNN's Anderson Cooper did a big story on Ron Paul's highly controversial newsletters from the late 80s and early 90s the other day. It goes the terrible things that are said in there, but never really got to the bottom of the story. When Ron Paul was confronted about them, he claims he has no idea who wrote them and doesn't feel like investigating who did. Let the past be the past? That's bullshit, this is the race to be President, Paul better expect this to be dragged out until he either comes clean about what was written or slowly die out on the campaign trail.



Seriously Ronnie, expose the writer if it wasn't you.

To Catch A Global Warming Rat

Senator Inhofe makes it too easy for Anderson Cooper:

Larry King Can Dance, Nice Figure Too

This might not be what you want to see in the morning, but its damn funny. Anderson Cooper let an embarrassing photo-shopped flash animation of Larry King in a bikini on the air last night.

Afghanistan, Syria, Whats The Difference?

I am always amazed at those polls that come out showing a majority of Americans cannot identify country X on a map. I understand that most people do not know exactly where Turkmenistan or Cameroon but important nations that are in the news everyday shouldn't be hard to locate. Is it the fault of the schools, parents that aren't map savvy or perhaps its the media?

From Bob Harris:

... in Syria.

Afghanistan would be three countries to the east, about where the right column is on this page probably is for you. Just past Iraq and Iran.

I guess there's a point where U.S. foreign policy is a near-total failure in so many countries, aggravating extremism in the name of fighting it, that even the media starts to lose track.

This is probably some graphics person's error. But it certainly doesn't make Anderson or the network look all that great -- especially when they're repeating the segment with neither a correction nor disclaimer.

Of course this has to be a minor infraction of the graphics department. I would assume that the CNN staff that deal with international news know a thing or two about geography. Yet this goof seems to mirror the national level of ignorance about places outside the United States or even one's hometown. It is great to see so many people that are against the war in Iraq now, but it would be nice if they knew where it was.