Pictured left to right; respected statesman, known terrorist
-Headline of the day.-
"U.S. has Mandela on terrorist list."
That'd be the Nobel Peace prize winner Nelson Mandela, who the report calls an "international symbol of freedom." Yeah, save us from the peace and freedom, Bushco.
Mandela was a member of South Africa's African National Congress. Still is, in fact. ANC has been the governing party in that nation since the implementation of majority rule in 1994. Back in the bad old apartheid days, however, ANC was designated a "terrorist organization" by the government. This was back in the '70s and '80s. You'd think Homeland Security would update its files occasionally.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the situation is "embarrassing."
"This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it's frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela," Rice said.
Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. called the inclusion of the ANC on the terrorist watch list a "bureaucratic snafu" [abbr., Situation Normal: All Fucked Up] and promised quick action. ANC members have applied for and have needed waivers for visas since 2002.
Way to get right on that guys... (USA Today)
-"Venomous falsehoods"-
John McCain is sending supporters an email respectfully requesting that they FREAK THE FUCK OUT! over an ad MoveOn.Org has created.
The left-wing attack machine is spewing venomous falsehoods again.
MoveOn.org is running an ad that maliciously misquotes John McCain in an attempt to smear him and distort the facts.
We've seen this type of assault from the extreme left playbook before. Last September, MoveOn.org viciously attacked the integrity of our top military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, with a full-page newspaper ad in The New York Times. And before that they compared President Bush to Hitler during the 2004 campaign.
Terry, this isn't the first gratuitously negative ad the Democrat/liberal special interest attack machine has run against Republican candidates this campaign -- and you can be sure that it won't be the last. Our Party must set the record straight about the left's distortions.
Then yada-yada-yada-pitch-for-cash... Don't you love how he wraps himself around Petraeus' leg there? And don't you wonder what horrible lies MoveOn.org is telling about Baghdad John?
Well, here's the ad -- titled "Candles" -- see if you can spot all the misquotes and lies:
Yeah, there aren't any misquotes or lies; which is why Team McCain doesn't debunk a word of it in the email.
When you have to lie about lying, you've left reality far, far behind. (My Inbox, YouTube)
-The war in Iraq is over!-
In fact, it's been over for exactly five years today. It was then that Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln to give his big "mission accomplished" speech. A speech in front of a banner with that same message that's embarrassed this bunch of dumbasses ever since.
Now, half a decade after the fact, the White House is finally taking responsibility for the banner -- kinda...
"President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year."
I'm not sure "Mission accomplished for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission" would fit on a banner very well. It's kind of wordy. Maybe "Clusterfuck begun."
Yeah, I like that. It's snappy. (AP)
