http://www.bradblog.com Because it's not about Right or Left, it's about Right and Wrong! Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:37:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "There is nothing for us to correct ... We stand by our reporting." That was the innocuous enough position from Greg Brock, New York Times "Senior Editor/Standards," in reply to a Letter to the Editor sent to the Times by a reader of The BRAD BLOG requesting a ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7689 You're welcome. My 2000+ word article on former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is now featured in the March 2010 edition of Hustler. Sorry, she's wearing all her clothes. Go buy it anyway. The article brings the story of Edmonds, who was twice-gagged by the Bush Administration's outrageous use/abuse of the ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7688 From John Byrne at RAW STORY... The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting. In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7687 If you watched the two separate nights over which Bill O'Reilly cut up his O'Reilly Factor interview with Jon Stewart on Fox "News" this week, as we did, you probably found that both nights fell surprisingly flat, given that Stewart, at least, usually offers a reason to make these things ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7686 Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), in the video at right, describes on the floor of the U.S. House this week what anyone paying attention already knows: how the "Rightwing Echo Chamber" works. He describes a completely false charge by Wall Street Journal's professional liar and GOP operative, John Fund, last November ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7685 If you're not on Twitter (you can follow The BRAD BLOG antics here), you probably didn't get to enjoy last night's extraordinary Twitter Tantrum by wingnut propagandist Andrew Breitbart (follow him here) in the wake of terrific coverage by Max Blumenthal yesterday at Salon pulling together the indisputable dots of ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7684 TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: "ClimateGate" climate scientist cleared of wrongdoing; Hope for Bluefin Tuna; Big Oil and Coal fight to keep subsidies; PLUS: Obama's mixed signals on cap-and-trade legislation... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail? Drop us ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7683 Wow. These guys ain't fooling around. If the Republican Gubernatorial primary candidate Carly Fiorina is willing to put out a web ad like this, against her Republican opponent Tom Campell in the race for the GOP nomination to run against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer this year, do the Democrats have any ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7682 Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning While I've always had the utmost respect for Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger,, I must admit that the first time I watched his video, "Obama is a corporate marketing creation," I thought that, in implying that the President was some type of CIA-connected ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7680 Seriously, the Republican Party wasn't always this whacked out, crazy and utterly misinformed, were they? Were they?! The Daily Kos has enlisted the "non-partisan independent pollster Research 2000" to survey "over 2,000 self-identified Republicans." The results of which, I'll have to agree with Kos here, are "nothing short of startling." Writes Kos: ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7681 It's up to the wingnuts. If they want to keep lying about Obama, then we'll do our best to set the record straight. If they want to bring up legitimate criticism, and there's plenty of it, then we'd likely join them, and we could all have an Obama bashing party ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7679 TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: China takes the lead on clean energy, while the U.S. dithers; Obama gives out goodies for nuclear power ... PLUS: Coal protests in West Virginia ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail? Drop ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7678 AP's investigative unit produces an appropriate criminal investigative report today on the background of the Republican Party operatives -- and there appear to be more than just four -- behind James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart's "TeaBugger" operation at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) office in Louisiana last week. Compare and contrast ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7677 Incredibly -- or perhaps not so much, given the various horrible news the week before last -- I completely lost track that last Sunday (1/24) was OUR SIXTH ANNIVERSARY here at The BRAD BLOG. So, Happy Birthday to the "six or seven"* of us who are now six years old!!! If ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7676 You folks do realize that James O'Keefe never actually wore his ridiculous pimp costume into those ACORN offices on those doctored and illegally recorded video tapes, right? But, rather, he was filmed outside of the offices wearing his get-up, while appearing as the conservatively dressed boyfriend of a hooker trying ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7675 Guest Blogged by Frank Schaeffer It is my great honor to be part of a Tuesday, Feb 2 press conference to announce the formation of The American Prayer Hour. (Press released posted below.) Why am I doing this? Because the secretive group "The Family" and/or "C-Street" organizations of the far ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7674 [UPDATE: Complete video of Obama Q&A with House GOP members now embedded at end of article.] Via Olbermann this afternoon at dKos: ...[F]rom 8 to 10 PM Eastern tonight, Rachel, Chris Matthews and I will be presenting a two-hour special report on the President's remarks (and answers) to the Republican Retreat ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7673 After just 37 minutes of deliberation, a jury in Kansas found Scott Roeder, the murderer of Dr. George Tiller guilty on all counts. The 51-year-old airport shuttle driver faces a mandatory life sentence with the possibility of parole in 25 years, though prosecutors have expressed they hope to get a ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7672 Matt Drudge's poodle, anti-ACORN propagandist, GOP operative, and deranged wingnut Internet death threatener, Andrew Breitbart, is apparently hoping to become the new Orly Taitz. Today's insane interview with David Shuster on MSNBC, discussing the felony arrest of his employee/operative James O'Keefe for allegedly attempting to manipulate the telephones of U.S. Senator ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7671 TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The State of the Union: Obama does not back off the push for clean energy -- but will the Senate listen?; Big new funding for high speed rail ... PLUS: How much will it all cost? ... All that and more in today's Green ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7670