Absolutely Sickening

The right wing talking point purveyors have been busy... they figure if they can make it seem like Bin Laden wants Bush to lose or to assassinate him, it will make the impressionable yokels vote for him because of it.

Rove is trying make it look like the terrorists and evil doers want John Kerry to win because:

• John Kerry will give the terrorists a free ride
• Teresa will finance more terrorist groups like Hamas
• Kerry will give all of Israel to the Palestineans
• Bush is the one who will defeat evil
• Kerry is unpatriotic and weak on defense
• al Qaeda wants to kill W because he's too good at fighting evil doers (however terrible at making complete coherent sentences)

Take a look at Limbaugh's site today, but don't do so without a puke bucket. (This one too)

On a good note regarding the way the conservative media covers politics and national news, news and interviews came out today on msnbc.com about how poorly management and senior editors looked for fact rather than tow the White House line and believe everything Scott McLellan says. Woodward and other Senior Editors admitted to not digging deep enough, not pushing for better visibility and exposure for dissenting articles.

We did our job but we didn't do enough, and I blame myself mightily for not
pushing harder," Woodward said in an interview. "We should have warned readers
we had information that the basis for this was shakier" than widely believed.
"Those are exactly the kind of statements that should be published on the front
page."
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• More news from IraqAs violence continues in postwar Iraq and
U.S. forces have yet to discover any WMDs, some critics say the media, including
The Washington Post, failed the country by not reporting more skeptically on
President Bush's contentions during the run-up to war.

An examination of the paper's coverage, and interviews with more than a dozen of the editors and reporters involved, shows that The Post published a number of pieces challenging the White House, but rarely on the front page. Some reporters who were lobbying for greater prominence for stories that questioned the administration's evidence complained to senior editors who, in the view of those reporters, were unenthusiastic about such pieces. The result was coverage that, despite flashes of groundbreaking reporting, in hindsight looks strikingly one-sided at times.
"The paper was not front-paging stuff," said Pentagon correspondent
Thomas Ricks. "Administration assertions were on the front page. Things that
challenged the administration were on A18 on Sunday or A24 on Monday. There was an attitude among editors: Look, we're going to war, why do we even worry about
all this contrary stuff?"

PS: Jim McGreevey just announced his resignation as Governor of the Garden State effective November, just in time to watch his beloved Bush lose the State like a kid at a supermarket.