The 9/11 Commission, leaders in Congress — even the government’s top secret-keeper — all agree that Washington’s penchant for keeping information under wraps has grown out of control. Now, a coalition of watchdog groups has documented just how much it’s costing to keep all those records away from the public eye. Wired News: All That Secrecy Is Expensive

Read this article by Garrsion Keillor (I saw it via The Gutless Pacifist. A choice quote below, but quite the panoramic view of BushWorld. We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore: How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a Continue Reading

via KOS: MSNBC – The Missing Medal A Vietnam-era Bronze Star citation discovered by NEWSWEEK documents Kerry’s version of wartime events

Wired 12.09: The Dean Machine Marches On The Doctor is out, but his tactics are driving campaigns from Florida to Alaska.

Weapons of Mass Mobilization A quiet couple in Berkeley got sick of being ignored by the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn changed the face of fundraising, brought P2P to political advertising, and reinvented grassroots activism Wired Magazine

from The Village Gate: Animation Gallery “The Attack Formation” from 8/25/04 A good one on the Attack Ads (ala SBVT)

When comedians become better journalists than …uh….journalists…..(ie Jon Stewart and Al Franken)…we’re in a world of trouble. But thank God for these guys who have begun to see thatthey can help stem the tide of misinfomation and slant. CJR Campaign Desk: Archives The most telling comment on that front may well have come from the unlikely duo of Jon Stewart Continue Reading

CJR Campaign Desk: Archives Campaign Desk has written many times about the perils of “he said/she said” journalism, the practice of reporters parroting competing rhetoric instead of measuring it for veracity against known facts. In the wake of the first SBVFT spot early this month, cable news programs for the most part offered viewers two talking heads, one on each Continue Reading

Capitol Hill Blue: SBVT: Sinking in Their Own Sea of Lies O’Neill co-authored the anti-Kerry diatribe called Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, with Harvard PhD Jerome Corsi, a virulent, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, homophobic right-wing author who posts venom-filled attacks on conservative bulletin boards, calling Kerry “John Fucking Commie Kerry” and Senator Hillary Clinton a “fat Continue Reading

JOho points to this report on Swift Boat spam. Why not? They spam the airwaves. Scum. Joho the Blog: Swiftboat Veterans for BlogSpam Meta-Roj got comment-spammed by the Swiftboat Veterans for Big Lies and is pissed. He retaliates by posting bunches of links, info about their domain, and a link to their Form 8872 finance report that lists the group’s Continue Reading

Probably not, even though it should. Fox News is the best 527 Bush could imagine.

“The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth…. are neither swift nor truthful” … Jon Stewart on Comedy Central (see the 5 minute video here)

I thought he did just fine. I was entertained, and encouraged. John Kerry on Comedy Central Part 1 (opens in New window) John Kerry on Comedy Central Part 2 (opens in New window) Also, Bill Clinton, too

After all that McCain suffered at the hands of Rove/Bush, and now Rove/Bush is doing all this SBV crap, he should see the writing on the wall that says: These guys are slimeballs; get out while you have a reputation.

Either that, or he’s just dense (I dount he’s THAT dense, but apparently feels that most people are, including the press.) When , oh , when, wil the press get some balls or gumption and stand up for some accuracy? President Bush has a new favorite line. In several recent speeches, he has asserted that his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, Continue Reading