NBC's Pentagon reporter Jim Milosevic said what???
dad
· 1 year ago
My mistake - NBC's Osama bin Lauer
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
"Osama bin Lauer"
ha, ha, ha.
red_dwarf
· 1 year ago
Even a whore has to earn their living.
1billinnj2
· 1 year ago
FISA BILL is the question and now what is the answer. please call your senators and demand that they vote against the FISA BILL that is coming up for a vote july 8th. thanks and have a nice day.
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· 1 year ago
It's an honest mistake. The media is constantly talking about Osama and the failure of the bush admistration in finding him.
duchessofbilgewater
· 1 year ago
good one
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Wrong. The media never mentions Bush's failure to capture Bin Laden. In fact they never mention any of the things he has fucked up like the war, Katrina, Afghanistan, etc., etc.. He and the whole Washington crowd get a complete pass on all their pedophilia, toe tapping, diaper wearing, lying, cheating, unethical, bribe taking, child molesting actions. They are immune.
duchessofbilgewater
· 1 year ago
It's easy enough to make that mistake -- let's face it: The two names sound very similar. The question is what does a reporter or interviewer do when they make this mistake. Clearly, the wrong thing is to giggle and say, essentially, kill them both like that idiot Liz Trotta did
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
It's easy, but nonetheless a mistake that should never be made. In full agreement: I think the press should be slammed when they make the mistake. It shows they have the ability to get the "facts" wrong.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
It would help if they started saying Senator Obama and got used to that so that when it is President Obama it will roll off their lips. They think it is cute, sexy and funny. Wonder how Matt Lauer would like to be introduced as that "bald fuck on morning tv".
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· 1 year ago
At least they're mentioning it. But I've never made the mistake of writing Osama instead of Obama.
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· 1 year ago
Remember Carter and Day 153 and on and on and nothing to free the hostages seemed to be happening? If this would have been a democratic administration, that's what we would have had from the msm the about thousand days of their first and only 3 1/2 years after 911 for failing to capture Osama.
Milli
· 1 year ago
The media needs to make an effort to not use "Osama" at all. Its Bin Ladin. Period. Otherwise this bullshit is gonna keep going, intentional or not.
I know. Wishful thinking. Such an effort would require maturity and a sense of decency. Ha.
mehrrh
· 1 year ago
Milli, I have been thinking the same myself. Why don't they just call him Bin Laden and remove the possibility of mispronounciation? Of course, unless it is their intention to make an "honest mistake."
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Screw those illiterate careerists.
Meanwhile, has anyone heard about the Army report on the first 2 years of the Iraq invasion and the gross "mistakes" made? Can't find a site for this, but heard it on NPR this am.
Yea, I never hear the media slipping and saying Methuselah, when referring to McCain. It is past the point where it is an honest mistake......Bin Laden and Obama....for Pete's sake, where is the similarity?
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
Lauer and others are pesumably "professionals" and this mistake in pronouncing names should never happen. Unless it is deliberate of course.
hardeknox
· 1 year ago
Lauer's not the only one who can't survive without the trusty old teleprompter. McKept can't, and isn't very good with it, either.
Some Viet Nam Swift Boat Vets are trying to "reclaim their name" after it was used to smear Kerry in 2004.
Poor babies say whenever they tell people they were on a Swift Boat in Vietnam, people now automatically think they're either cowards or smear merchants.
I say screw them. They stood aside when one of their own was being smeared so a draft dodger could be reelected. Now were supposed to care?
Drop dead.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
So now that Bush is cutting deals with a member of the "Axis of Evil," does that make him an appeaser?
1billinnj2
· 1 year ago
the daily kos has a great site at the right of the screen on FISA BILL and how senator russ finegold is going to help stop it with proposed amendments. please call your senator and stop this bill. bush will declare martial law and sink america.
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· 1 year ago
Just finished washing my pots and pans, dishes by hand. Never use the diswasher here except to stack the washed stuff to dry on the open first shelf. I don't have enough room in this little cracker box apartment but I like it. For now. For those who have high energy bills, try that and other measures like turning your water heater down instead of blazing hot. Stagger showers for that reason. I wear my jeans for a week at a time before washing and hang them to dry on a rack in the bathroom. They take the most amount of energy to dry and it wears them out faster in a dryer. Change underwear and t-shirt of course everyday. Stuff like that. It's an adjustment to how I grew up but I'm always trying to figure out how to cut down my carbon footprint.
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· 1 year ago
You can turn you AC up to about 75 but have a $11 box fan blowing on you where you usally are in a home. Buy a small toaster oven to cook in instead of your big standard oven.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
75 degrees still seems pretty low, though you might need it in La, given the humidity levels..
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· 1 year ago
It's pretty bad with the humidity. But actually, you're right. Had it closer to 78 but now clicked my thermostat closer to 80. Thanks.
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· 1 year ago
Learn to cook, probably first. It's takes some time. I was watching a documentary on Julia Childs the other night. She knew nothing about cooking until alot of trial and error. Gah I miss her. Turn off all lights. My partner comes over and he starts immediately turning on lights. Then he says, "I bought those high efficient bulbs. They're expensive but they save on your electric bill." I was like, why do I need to buy them when I always have the lights off?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Matt Loafer says the cutest things. Maybe it's Turets?
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Once he lost his hair, he had to quit being a male model and start being a journalist, and he never quite made the transition.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Now that's cruel . . . bwa-ha-ha!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Random thought:
The Chinese won the Second Half of the Cold War.
jr
· 1 year ago
"I want to keep my top 1 percent tax cut so I'll try to make the white male voters think Obama's a Muslim"-Matt Lauer
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Somehow the noooz clowns manage, more often than not and I mean you Sue Simmons, to avoid the word "fuck"... Since the word is a large part of most anchor off-air vocabularies, "fuck" avoidance must occupy some limited portion of the alleged thoughts rattling inside their pea brains. I'd guess old Matt was just, as usual, sleepwalking his way through the Today broadcast in a manner that had anchors regularly IDing Howard Dean as Jimmy Dean and John Dean most frequently. But, the Osama mix-up of course connotes stronger emotions than the maker of pork sausage or Nixon's whistle-blower. Remember Tweety accidentally (???) made the Osama slip three times last week alone.
KansasModerate
· 1 year ago
In a posting Sunday, John Aravosis wrote about whether John McCain's experience as a POW during the Vietnam War is a qualification to be the commander-in-chief. I agree with everything General Wesley Clark (USA ret) said and, with one exception, everything Aravosis wrote.
The exception is Aravosis' repeated reference to a "propaganda film" McCain made while a POW. Why bring that up? McCain wasn't the first American POW, and won't be the last, to write or speak things the captors want said. Most Americans ignore such statements, knowing they are made under duress.
Only those who have been POWs themselves can really understand the situation a POW is in when he takes pen in hand or stands before a camera. Using the McCain "propaganda" film as an example, it's possible, we don't know, that being human, he agreed to read what his Communist captors wanted in order to avoid painful torture OR did so in exchange for another POW not being tortured.
I can't imagine what it would be like to be a POW, especially for five years, and thus am willing to be very understanding, forgiving, etc.
I would say this to John, Joe and Chris, and others who write the posts for this blog: I don't want John McCain in the White House for a lot of reasons. But John McCain is an honorable man who has served his country for most of his adult life. There are a lot of legitimate arguments to be made against his election, including votes he's cast in the Senate, policy positions he's taken, his temperment, his age.
Why do you feel it's necessary for the Left to destroy McCain in order to elect Barack Obama? It only demeans you to stoop down into the political gutter and make snide references to some "propaganda" film McCain made under circumstances none of us know about or would understand or to Cindy McCain's brief drug addiction to pain killers years ago. McCain deserves to be attacked day after day for his position on Bush's tax cuts, his position on Bush's war in Iraq, for his opposition to gay rights, for his opposition to a woman's right to choose, for his position on health care, for his position on the mortgage crisis, for his promise to appoint Supreme Court justices just like Scalia and Alito, etc., etc., etc. If we can'/t beat him that way, well, maybe he "deserves" to win.
I think this blog and other blogs on the Left crossed the line during the Democratic primary season with their shrill, vicious, mean and totally unnecessary personal attacks on Hillary Clinton. None of that is necessary to defeat John McCain. We don't need to get down in the gutter to elect Senator Obama. A convincing case can be made for his election. So why get your hands so dirty playing dirty?
nsr
· 1 year ago
McCain's the one who wants to make being a POW part of the campaign. So this part of it is off limits? He should be completely open about what happened over there.
And how is it "dirty" to talk about something that actually happened? It's not like lying about what Kerry did, or ridiculing him for winning three purple hearts, which was supported by the RNC 4 years ago. And Cindy McCain really did steal to support her drug habit. If these people want to run as self-proclaimed "values" candidates, talking about how they've actually failed to live up to those values is completely relevant. As Truman said, "I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
Maybe you can explain how an "honorable" person supports torture? Or turning $400 million/day over to war profiteers. I'm still having trouble with that.
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
GOP tries to paint Obama as opportunistic.
CLEVELAND -- Sen. John McCain's allies have seized on a new and aggressive line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama, casting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as an opportunistic and self-obsessed politician who will do and say anything to get elected.
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ha, ha, ha.
I know. Wishful thinking. Such an effort would require maturity and a sense of decency. Ha.
I have been thinking the same myself. Why don't they just call him Bin Laden and remove the possibility of mispronounciation? Of course, unless it is their intention to make an "honest mistake."
Meanwhile, has anyone heard about the Army report on the first 2 years of the Iraq invasion and the gross "mistakes" made? Can't find a site for this, but heard it on NPR this am.
And then, there's this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middlee...
ha, ha, ha.......
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/29/vets-f...
Enjoying this one.
Some Viet Nam Swift Boat Vets are trying to "reclaim their name" after it was used to smear Kerry in 2004.
Poor babies say whenever they tell people they were on a Swift Boat in Vietnam, people now automatically think they're either cowards or smear merchants.
I say screw them. They stood aside when one of their own was being smeared so a draft dodger could be reelected. Now were supposed to care?
Drop dead.
The Chinese won the Second Half of the Cold War.
Since the word is a large part of most anchor off-air vocabularies, "fuck" avoidance must occupy some limited portion of the alleged thoughts rattling inside their pea brains.
I'd guess old Matt was just, as usual, sleepwalking his way through the Today broadcast in a manner that had anchors regularly IDing Howard Dean as Jimmy Dean and John Dean most frequently. But, the Osama mix-up of course connotes stronger emotions than the maker of pork sausage or Nixon's whistle-blower.
Remember Tweety accidentally (???) made the Osama slip three times last week alone.
The exception is Aravosis' repeated reference to a "propaganda film" McCain made while a POW. Why bring that up? McCain wasn't the first American POW, and won't be the last, to write or speak things the captors want said. Most Americans ignore such statements, knowing they are made under duress.
Only those who have been POWs themselves can really understand the situation a POW is in when he takes pen in hand or stands before a camera. Using the McCain "propaganda" film as an example, it's possible, we don't know, that being human, he agreed to read what his Communist captors wanted in order to avoid painful torture OR did so in exchange for another POW not being tortured.
I can't imagine what it would be like to be a POW, especially for five years, and thus am willing to be very understanding, forgiving, etc.
I would say this to John, Joe and Chris, and others who write the posts for this blog: I don't want John McCain in the White House for a lot of reasons. But John McCain is an honorable man who has served his country for most of his adult life. There are a lot of legitimate arguments to be made against his election, including votes he's cast in the Senate, policy positions he's taken, his temperment, his age.
Why do you feel it's necessary for the Left to destroy McCain in order to elect Barack Obama? It only demeans you to stoop down into the political gutter and make snide references to some "propaganda" film McCain made under circumstances none of us know about or would understand or to Cindy McCain's brief drug addiction to pain killers years ago. McCain deserves to be attacked day after day for his position on Bush's tax cuts, his position on Bush's war in Iraq, for his opposition to gay rights, for his opposition to a woman's right to choose, for his position on health care, for his position on the mortgage crisis, for his promise to appoint Supreme Court justices just like Scalia and Alito, etc., etc., etc. If we can'/t beat him that way, well, maybe he "deserves" to win.
I think this blog and other blogs on the Left crossed the line during the Democratic primary season with their shrill, vicious, mean and totally unnecessary personal attacks on Hillary Clinton. None of that is necessary to defeat John McCain. We don't need to get down in the gutter to elect Senator Obama. A convincing case can be made for his election. So why get your hands so dirty playing dirty?
And how is it "dirty" to talk about something that actually happened? It's not like lying about what Kerry did, or ridiculing him for winning three purple hearts, which was supported by the RNC 4 years ago. And Cindy McCain really did steal to support her drug habit. If these people want to run as self-proclaimed "values" candidates, talking about how they've actually failed to live up to those values is completely relevant. As Truman said, "I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
Maybe you can explain how an "honorable" person supports torture? Or turning $400 million/day over to war profiteers. I'm still having trouble with that.
CLEVELAND -- Sen. John McCain's allies have seized on a new and aggressive line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama, casting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as an opportunistic and self-obsessed politician who will do and say anything to get elected.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...