Arizona: Nancy Pelosi

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Hey, media villagers and Beltway bloviators -- yeah, I'm talking to you. I realize that it has been years since any of you have done any serious investigative journalism, perhaps decades for some of you. Your investigative journalism skills have atrophied and died long ago. You couldn't find your own ass with both hands behind your back.

Others of you have sold out and become stenographers who simply repeat the conservative talking points you receive each day without a thought in your pretty little heads. Just smile and read the teleprompter. You are content to be part of the Mighty Wurlitzer conservative noise machine.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The McMedia idolize Senator John McCain partly because of his experience as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam war. McCain was savagely beaten and tortured, and was broken to the point where he signed confessions and participated in propaganda videos for the North Vietnamese.

John McCain knows the horrors of torture, and he knows that it doesn't produce credible intelligence. His own recounting of his experiences as a prisoner of war is a first-hand account that a tortured prisoner will tell his torturers anything they want to hear just to make the torture stop.

The McMedia, almost none of whom have ever served in the military, idolize McCain because they know that they never could have endured the experiences McCain endured as a prisoner of war.

Posted By AzBlueMeanie:

The latest wingnuttia talking point in the media is "what did Nancy Pelosi know about the Bush torture program and when did she know it?" The talking point is meant to suggest that Nancy Pelosi approved of the Bush torture program.

Republicans are using this as a threat to impede any investigations into the Bush torture program and an appointment of a special or independent prosecutor. If Democrats want to open an investigation into Bush administration officials for torture, so the threat goes, Republicans will retaliate against Democratic members of Congress who "did not object to" (and by implication approved of by their silence and acquiescence) the Bush torture program.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

There have been eight shooting rampages that have claimed 57 lives since March 10. It would be easy to simply dismiss the shooters as just "a crazy with a gun" or "a criminal" as Glenn Beck has. Oh, but not so fast, Glenn.

The shooters had more in common than unleashing carnage — nearly every gunman in this monthlong series of mass killings was legally entitled to fire his weapons. Many Recent Shooters Had Gun Permits

Assuming, arguendo, that the shooters purchased their guns from a reputable gun dealer who complied with the law by having the purchaser complete a background check, one can also assume that the shooters did not have a criminal record or a history of institutionalization for a mental disorder.