2.28.07 Blue Radar

Here are the miscellaneous politicalstories thatmight not be worthy of their own posts, but are still news-worthy.  Be sure to check out The Blue State on Youtube, which is located under "Menu."  It includes all of the political videos that are featured on this site:

• Newsweek reports that some U.S. interrogators were influenced by techniques learned on television.
• Glenn Beck has officially compared Keith Olbermann to Joseph McCarthy.  The video is here.  (hmm...)
• Today, Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) will unveil a bill that would repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in the military.
• President Bush is proposing a 25% cut to public broadcasting networks such as PBS and NPR.  (At least don't take away Sesame Street!)
• Tuesday's election results in Chicago show that Mayor Richard M. Daley has been reelected to a sixth term -- yep, that's four years per term.
• A undisclosed CIA official reports that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, and is establishing new Al Qaeda bases there.
• This is as close to an "in your face" job as possible.  John Edwards traveled to New York, home of Senator Hillary Clinton, and made a point of apologizing yet again for his 2002 Iraq war vote.  "If you asked me what I think the most important personalcharacteristics of the next president are, I would say honesty,openness and decency," Edwards said.
• Bill Richardson is promising a cabinet level Department of Indian Affairs if he is elected president.
• London's mayor Ken Livingstone is unveiling a plan to cut greenhouse emissions in his city: "The fight to tackle climate change will either be won in cities such as London or will not be won at all."
• The City Commission in Largo City, Florida voted 5-2 to fire the City Manager because he planned to get a sex change operation.  (Not an important news story, just amusing.)
  

let me know.  Feel free to add any new stories in the commentbox.

Comments

[Tony]

1) Glenn Beck has officially compared Keith Olbermann to Joseph McCarthy. - I believe Keith's  growing popularity is because he expresses his distain about "people, places & things" in a way we would like to (at times). I often feel like jumping into the television because of some asinine and often false comment. A prime example was last night's Hannity & Colmes...after a discussion about Gore and his purchasing of Carbon Neutral Credits, Hannity had to throw in (last word) "That's a croc" (twice) regarding carbon credits.

You can hate Olbermann all you want, but what he says is accurate and you never see a video where they catch him in a lie...unlike our pal Bill O'Reilly.

Tony

[Administrator: Todd]

Exactly, Tony!! If he was telling lies, as Limbaugh does most days, then right-wingers could write a book about them -- as Franken did with Limbaugh. But they have not.