Not My Mother's Blog

There are some things I hear repeated day after day that just drive me nuts. These little nuggets of “everybody knows it’s true” misinformation form the building blocks of really really huge lies that are getting sold to us as THE TRUTH. They get repeated so often that people simply accept them as fact and [...]

I did mention a few days ago that I adore Zbigniew Brezinski, yes? He just totally totally solidified everything I’ve ever felt about him. Morning Blowhard was blathering away in his usual style, reacting indignantly that “you can’t blame the current Israeli/Palestinian situation on the Bush administration” and then he hit it with a comment [...]

“…we provoke something that is deep-seated in Afghans, xenophobia – a dislike of foreigners in their midst carrying guns” So said Zbigniew Brezinski speaking on Morning Joe this morning. I gotta say, if that’s xenophobia, I suddenly got a whole lot more sympathetic to xenophobes. I’ve always liked Brezinski even when I disagree with him [...]

For the past few weeks, media figures from all the networks, newspapers and talking heads have been repeating the misleading talking point that UAW members at the Big 3 make the equivalent of $73 an hour in salary and benefits. Media Matters has consistently corrected this (at the Washington Times), day (at Fox News) after [...]

I have heard so much from Sarah Palin and her supporters in the last few months about praying – praying Sarah into office, praying for a McCain win, calling on God to “defend” His own name against all those other gods of all those other people who are praying for an Obama presidency (remember? Hindu, [...]

Listen to the words: God bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above From the mountains to the valleys to the oceans, white with foam God bless America My home sweet home. The right wing Christian conservatives have taken this as their anthem [...]

Earlier today, I commented on the phenomenon of those screaming loudest against Obama’s tax plans and complaining about tax-and-spend Democrats mentioning in passing that they’ve been the recipients of those social programs they decry. I didn’t realize at that point that the man who has come to symbolize the “common man” shared that hypocrisy with [...]

Is it the battle of the internets? McCain said that he’d turn to former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a possible treasury secretary. Today’s WSJ reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will back Obama and join him on the campaign trail. Powered by ScribeFire.

UPDATED 10-20-08 Hack voting machines to randomly change Democrat votes to Republican In Winfield WV, three voters report that their votes for Barack Obama kept switching over to John McCain. This was after three voters in Jackson County told the Charleston Gazette that their votes kept flipping from Obama to McCain. Both counties are overseen [...]

Trick people into changing their party affiliation So what’s the big deal? They can still vote Democrat, right? As the article points out, when you’re removed from the Democrat voter list, you may not get notices from the party, you won’t be allowed to vote in primaries, and it combats the image that the Democrats [...]

But The Anonymous Liberal beat me to it. I do still have a post in the works about the building of the ACORN smear, which started with Republican House members claiming that the Big Bailout contained billions in pork earmarked for ACORN. It was at -best- a misrepresentation of a clause that assigned 20% of [...]