“When Jon Stewart inaugurated his fake news anchor on The Daily Show eight years ago, his goal was to send up the hyperbolic and manufactured controversy of US Cable News and, if possible, be even more outrageous. Now, in a wonderful through-the-looking-glass moment, he has supplanted the subjects of his mockery in the country’s current [...]

“They wouldn’t hear us out. They’d hear the first part of our answer and walk away. One officer, she said, suggested they help out at home. ‘Don’t you have hurricanes in Canada? Why can’t you help your own people?’. After a long wait — they said they saw a man with five unregistered rifles in [...]

“Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States”, writes Charles Bremner.

“Companies developing genetically modified crops risk creating the biggest environmental disaster ‘of all time’, Prince Charles has warned. GM crops were damaging Earth’s soil and were an experiment “gone seriously wrong”, he told the Daily Telegraph.

“As shells explode over South Ossetia and Russian troops press further into Georgian territory, America’s most recognized neoconservative thinkers are calling for confrontation with Moscow. And not satisfied with just dealing with the players on hand, Time’s Joe Klein observes that they all seem to think that ‘it’s raining Nazis’”, The Raw Story reports.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a political scientist and geostrategist, who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, talks about the failed and self-destructive Bush policies in the Middle East and around the world. He criticizes McCain by saying that his policies virtually guarantee a total isolation of the United [...]

“The damage has been horrible, but the next president can change that in 10 minutes,” Carter says, as he tells Tavis Smiley what the next president has to declare and act upon starting in ‘09. Let’s face it, BS from McCain, telling what is righteous won’t solve anything, only telling and doing what is right [...]

It has been apparent for quite some time now that Frank Luntz has his own subtle agenda. Rarely however does he turn into an expert on the US policy in the Middle East and the Middle East itself. “Talk is cheap”, he tells Alan Colmes, which every single focus group member of Frank Luntz must [...]

“Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic candidate for vice president eight years ago has now endorsed Republican senator John McCain for president and become his alter ego on the Middle East. Wherever McCain goes, Lieberman is sure to show up”, says Moyers, as he explains the relationship between the two hawks, both unpredictable, both untrustworthy, both [...]

Geraldo Rivera wants to clarify whether John McCain is indeed a flip-flopper or not. First he asks Jamie Rubin if there is any ambiguity in McCain’s comment regarding Hamas. Then Mike Huckabee, who seems much more “reasonable” on Morning Joe than on the Geraldo show or at the NRA convention (where much more irrational and [...]

CNN and other media outlets must have realized that at this current rate, surprisingly set by the Bush administration itself (known for making irreparable mistakes affecting friends, enemies and everyone in between), the US presidential election may practically end much sooner than expected. Hence, naturally, the media come to the rescue and try to make [...]

Former US Secretary of Transportation in the Clinton Administration Federico Pena explains why the “gas tax holiday” offered by John McCain and Hillary Clinton is nothing but a gimmick and political trickery. “The real solution is what Barack Obama has proposed — increasing the fuel efficiency of automobiles, getting the nations of the world, who [...]

“My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East”, McCain said. Then he tried to “clarify” his statement [...]

The “free ride” for John McCain over Hagee is so painfully obvious. The only actual MSM reporting on this relationship has come down to asking a question on the air “whether McCain gets a pass on Hagee” without any serious follow up questions. That’s it — a story in form of a question that should [...]

Keith Olbermann discusses the latest Clinton’s theatrics as she tries to convince American voters that her energy policy will be better than Obama’s and she will do everything she can to lower gas prices. Teaming up with John McCain and offering a summer “gas holiday” for all is supposedly the first step.
Here’s a better idea. [...]