Olberman Rips Rush a New One as Limbaugh Sinks to a New Low
by Melissa McEwanAlterNet
10.27.06- Michael J. Fox, who is suffering from Parkinson's Disease, made an ad for Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, a Democrat challenging Republican incumbent Jim Talent who does not support stem cell research. In the ad (below), Fox is seen exhibiting what is likely chorea, a movement disorder caused by the chronic use of dopamine agonists in relation of Parkinson's.
After seeing the ad, Rush Limbaugh, ever the despicable heap of shit, accused Fox of either deliberately going off his meds to exaggerate symptoms of his disease for dramatic effect or of simply "acting."
I stated when I saw the ad, I was commenting to you about it, that he was either off the medication or he was acting. He is an actor, after all.
Wow. That's almost unbearably heinous.
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Website Editor Becomes Second Journalist to go Missing in Northern Mexico Since Start of the Year
Guevera Guevera
Dominguez
Reporters Without Borders
10.27.06- Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about the disappearance since 8 October of Guevara Guevara Domínguez, the editor of the US-based weekly Siglo 21’s online version (www.siglo21web.com). He went missing in northern Mexico exactly three months after Rafael Ortiz Martínez of the local daily Zócalo disappeared on 8 July in Monclova, in the northern state of Coahuila.
“With two journalists missing and three others killed since the start of this year, the toll of press freedom violations is becoming more and more alarming,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Let us not forget that two other journalists who disappeared in the past three years - Jesús Mejía Lechuga in 2003 and Alfredo Jiménez Mota in 2005 - were never found and none of the murders of journalists since 2000 has so far been solved.”
The press freedom organisation added: “We call on the new prosecutor’s office that specialises in attacks on the press to take over this new case even if no link between Guevara’s disappearance and his work as a journalist has yet been clearly established.”
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Trandahl Names Kolbe as a 'Problem' With Page Program, Source Says
Jim Kolbe.
by Rhonda Schwartz and John Yang
ABC News
10.27.06- A source close to former House Clerk Jeff Trandahl told ABC News that Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) was one of a small number of "problem members" of Congress who page program supervisors complained spent too much time socializing with pages, taking them to dinner or sporting events outside of official duties.
Mark Foley was also on the list.
The source said Trandahl frequently cautioned both congressmen that "adults should hang out with adults, pages should hang out with pages," a message Trandahl also conveyed to pages during their orientation.
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School Official Threatened by GOP Aide over Political Support
Mark Steven Kirk.
by Lynn Sweet
Chicago Sun-Times
Washington 10.27.06- A staffer for Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.), in a threatening e-mail, tried to get the president of Tel Aviv University to pressure a prominent supporter of Democrat Dan Seals to back down.
The target of a July e-mail by Kirk district representative Caryn Garber was insurance magnate Robert M. Schrayer, who is the national chairman of the Tel Aviv University American Council and on the board of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Kirk said Wednesday he reprimanded Garber and warned her that she would be fired if it happened again.
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Bush on Iraq: “If We Can’t Win, I’ll Pull Us Out.”
The president talks candidly to a group of conservative journalists.
Mission
Accomplished?
by Byron York
National Review
10.26.06- Everybody knows George W. Bush is determined to win the war in Iraq. What came through in a meeting with conservative journalists in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon, though, was the president’s frustration in not being able to find more meaningful ways to measure progress in the war, and in not being able to make the case more effectively to the American people that progress is, in fact, being made.
But beyond that loomed an even larger concern: In today’s Iraq, the president conceded, it is the enemy, and not the United States, that is defining what victory means.
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GOP mad about corruption probe leaks before election
Raw Story
10.26.06- Republicans are mad about corruption probe leaks before the election and are privately grumbling that "rogue elements" within the Department of Justice are trying to help tip the election to Democrats, according to Roll Call.
"For House Republicans, it seems that every week brings a new report about a GOP lawmaker under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged corruption," John Bresnahan writes. "And with the elections just 12 days away, Republicans are crying foul, complaining bitterly that the negative press spurred by the public disclosure of those criminal probes could help cost them their House majority."
"While a Justice Department run by Republican appointees who were nominated by a conservative Republican president would normally get the benefit of the doubt from GOP lawmakers and staffers, some party insiders are privately wondering whether 'rogue elements' within the department — and more specifically the Public Integrity Unit, where corruption cases are handled — are trying to tip the election to Democrats by leaking news of these investigations so late in the cycle," the article continues.
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