Laura Ingram is Dumb.

Here's a copy of an email that I just sent to the transcript person at MSNBC:

Here’s a portion of the transcript from Thursday’s show:
INGRAHAM:
Sam, I‘ve got to tell you something. That sounds like the old-style
anti-religious bigotry that we used to hear when it was applied to Catholics in
the early part of the last century. And yet you write this as a Stanford
academic with this great sense of triumph. And I don‘t know about you, but
I think most Americans aren‘t afraid at all that—the fact President Bush
prays. They actually find it empowering themselves.
HARRIS: Right.
If you were praying to Zeus, however, they
would feel very differently.
(CROSSTALK)
INGRAHAM: Let‘s get
Ralph Reed in to this.

The area designated as crosstalk is
actually incorrect. Here, Ingram clearly responded by saying that the President
was actually not praying to Zeus. I think that you should fix this. I suspect
that it was intentionally omitted because co-host Ingram erroneously interpreted
the hypothetical presented by guest Harris literally. This would be quite
embarrassing for Ingram.

Thanks in advance.

It seems that many of out friends on the right are not only not capable of grasping nuanced concepts, but they have trouble with abstract concepts as well. Hannity does this all the time...like where Franken called him on interpreting, either intentionally or unintentionally, a rhetorical question literally. He also did this on an episode of Hannity and Colmes where he played a clip or something from Edwards saying that we ought to "outsource" Bush. Hannity's response: "I thought these guys were against outsourcing". What an idiot.

Colin Quinn's Biggest Shortcoming as a Comedian...

He's not funny!

Whitewash Bitches!

From the NYT:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 22 - A military judge on Friday rejected efforts by two
soldiers charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal to obtain testimony from military
intelligence officers about whether the soldiers were ordered or encouraged to
take part in abuse of detainees.
The judge ordered the soldiers, Specialist
Charles Graner and Sgt. Javal Davis, to stand trial in Baghdad early next year.
Lawyers for the two men had sought immunity grants for officers, including Col.
Thomas Pappas, the head of the military intelligence brigade at the prison, in
an effort to show that their clients had been acting under orders.
"He
reasonably and honestly believes he had been acting lawfully," said one of Mr.
Graner's lawyers, Guy Womack. "The orders had been given to him by his superiors
in the military police chain of command, military intelligence and civilian
intelligence."
The judge, Col. James Pohl, rejected those requests. He also
rejected an effort by Mr. Davis's lawyers to interview Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld and Stephen Cambone, the under secretary of defense for
intelligence. One of Mr. Davis's lawyers, Paul Bergrin, said interviews
of four generals, including Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former American
commander in Iraq, showed they had had detailed conversations with Mr. Rumsfeld
and Mr. Cambone about interrogation tactics

I'd sure like to know exactly why the judge decided to not allow this evidence in. It seems like it would be entirely relevent to the case and the article doesn't say why it was kept out, so I can only guess. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this evidence might prove a bit embarrassing for Dummy and the rest of the administration. I mean, if you could force yourself to believe that all the torture memos were merely "hypothetical" in nature then your powers of self deception are just amazing. But at the point that you've got the torture memos in conjunction with detailed conversations about the tactics being carried out it just gets so much harder.

Whatever.

Good Lord, that's a lot of money!

Link

NEW YORK—Crude oil hit $55 (U.S.) a barrel yesterday as traders worried over
thin heating oil inventories ahead of winter and Federal Reserve Board chairman
Alan Greenspan predicted the soaring costs would not crimp economic growth like
in the 1970s.

I am so glad that I was able to figure out how to make my car run on garbage by watching back Back to the Future III over and over again. Otherwise, I'd be hosed. I sure to fell bad for all those guys that drive around in Hummers. I mean, they've got tiny dicks, and that's why they bought the Hummer, but know they're getting screwed a second time on fuel costs. Poor bastards.

Mutiny on the Bounty!

This can't be good. It looks like our soldiers are refusing to delievery contaminated fuel to helicopters in their run-down ragged vehicles. What a bunch of pussies. Just remember folks, we're making progress.

The incident in Iraq was first reported Friday by The Clarion-Ledger in
Jackson, Miss. Relatives of soldiers told the Mississippi newspaper that the
troops refused to go on the mission because it was too dangerous, in part
because their vehicles were in poor shape.
On Saturday, Casey said Rogers,
22, told him that the main reason he and his fellow troops refused to go on the
mission was that the fuel they were transporting was contaminated.
"The fuel
was contaminated for the helicopters," Casey said his grandson told him. "It
would have caused them to crash. That's why they refused to deliver the fuel.
They saved lives."