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Posted at 7:11pm on May 16, 2008 Washington Post Lies, Video Doesn't

Demand a Retraction

By absentee

All day today the MSM and left blogs have been on the warpath about Hamas. The Golden Child feels he was slighted by the hated Bush and the enemy McCain, and the media acolytes will have none of it.

Jamie Rubin took point on their attack. In an article for the Washington Post titled "Hypocrisy on Hamas" and cutely subtitled "McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It," Rubin contended that Senator McCain has flip-flopped his position. News outlets and bloggers have been playing his edited clip from an old interview with similar degrees of delight.

As Soren Dayton noted earlier the story is a lot of hogwash, which the editors of the Washington Post let squeak right onto the page, either with no oversight, or worse, with oversight. Obviously Senator McCain's position remains now as it was then, no unconditional meetings with Hamas.

Well now the full video is available and Rubin's creative editing exposed. Watch the whole thing, you know, now that you can.


The editors have failed in their job. They've allowed this deliberate, lying hack job onto the page and demeaned the paper. Write to them now, and demand a retraction. Public, and with lots of mea culpa goodness.

FRED HIATT | hiattf@washpost.com

Patrick Hynes invited Hiatt on his radio show tomorrow. The secretary hung up on him. Nice.

Considering the reach this lie had, the backlash ought to reach as far. The Post Ombudsman should explain how something so completely, transparently opposite from the truth made it through their process. Maybe you ought to suggest that to her:

Deborah Howell | ombudsman@washpost.com

While you're at it, you might point out they are still promoting the article all over the site.

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Posted at 2:37pm on May 16, 2008 Obama Is Attacking McCain Over Hamas...

By BigGator5

Good grief, not again...

Barack Obama is at a press conference taking cues from the Daily KOS and is currently attacking McCain over his comments about Hamas. It's like he didn't learn his lesson about twisting of McCain's "100-year war" words.

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Posted at 8:19am on May 16, 2008 Maybe that's why Barack finally came back to Michigan!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Barack Obama is not a Muslim.  I'm not saying he's a Muslim.  But we've all gotten those junk emails that swear to high heaven the man's a closeted Koran reader.  He stopped going by Barry and insists on being called Barack.  The man wants to hang out with the lunatic Islamic ruler over in Iran, a move that even most Democrats agree is nuts.  The Clinton campaign sent out those pictures of him wearing some traditional ethnic African garb.  And so the ignorant continue to insist he wears a crescent around his neck, not a crucifix.  

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Posted at 8:40am on May 15, 2008 Michigan Dems seeing the (neon) light on smoking ban?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Talk about a role-reversal.  Not too long ago the Michigan Senate approved a statewide ban on smoking in bars, restaurants, bingo parlors... pretty much anywhere you might find a stranger.  Second hand smoke is a killer, they reminded us, and just because smoking is legal and a gorgeous cash cow for the state treasury doesn't mean you should actually be allowed to smoke.  

That was the Senate.  The Republican controlled Senate.  That said, all but one of the votes against the ban came from the GOP delegation so not everyone lost their minds on the issue, but it only takes two or three.  All but one Democrat voted in the affirmative.

Enter the House of Representatives.  You know, bicameral legislature, that whole deal.  After a pretty good sized delay the bill finally made it's way across the hall at the Capitol where... drum roll please... absolutely nothing has happened yet.  The hold up?  Some House Democrats are worried that banning smoking in bingo parlors and the Detroit casinos will KILL JOBS!  (All caps is still the text equivalent of screaming, right?)  The Detroit News reports:


Rep. Bert Johnson, D-Detroit, is among those who oppose the harsher Senate version. He said he fears it would hurt business and cause layoffs at the Detroit casinos...

"It's about jobs," Johnson said. "I have people at home who get hurt when (Detroit's) casinos are threatened."

Brenda Clack, who heads up the Black Caucus all the way from Flint echoes the same concerns on behalf of her members, most from Detroit.

Consistency is increasingly difficult these days, especially in Lansing but I can't help but wonder how the good Representatives from Detroit justify banning smoking in any private business establishment if they understand, as evident from Representative Johnson's statements, that doing so would kill jobs.  It's not like Casinos exist in some magical fairy land and cigarette ashes are pixie dust.  There's nothing special or unique about them in the context of customer nicotine habits.  

Then again, I could be over thinking things.  I suppose it's possible that there are entire House districts in Detroit entirely devoid of restaurants, clubs and bowling alleys.  It's possible I've been wrong all along and Johnson is 100% consistent in his position.  Maybe he doesn't have any constituents who employ people but has plenty whose employment depends on Casino gaming.  And if that's the case I sincerely apologize.  

More likely, this is your basic lefty double-speak... saying one thing but doing another.  Looking out for big business but ignoring the little guys.  Wait, isn't that the GOP stereotype?  See?  Role reversal.

So, novel concept, how about we all get on the same page and stop doing things that kill jobs.  Heaven knows the State could use a dollop of common sense.  Especially with our unemployment rate dropping two tenths of a point to a new, lower, 6.9%.

Yeah, you read that right.  Especially with it dropping.  Because as the Ivory Tower reports:


...The underlying news isn't good.

The rate dropped mainly because Michigan's civilian labor force is shrinking and included about 15,000 fewer people overall last month than in March. About 2,000 fewer people were employed last month...

The total number of seasonally adjusted payroll jobs in Michigan fell by about 19,000, to just less than 4.2 million.

Michigan reported job gains in government and professional and business services. Each of those segments picked up 3,000 jobs in April.

Phwew!  At least government's growing again.  Other than that, yikes.  You know you had a rough month when 15,000 people just plain gave up.  19,000 fewer jobs, 15,000 fewer job seekers but government on the rise.  Only in Michigan.  Literally.

But the papers aren't completely devoid of good news for workers in-State.  The Lansing State Journal reports that the Capitol City's own four-week-long automotive labor strike might be over soon.  


The tentative deal came a day after GM canceled company health insurance and other benefits for the 2,300 workers represented by UAW Local 602. The workers walked off their jobs in a dispute over local contract issues.

The Detroit automaker canceled the benefits for the duration of the strike, which began April 17.

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Posted at 8:49am on May 14, 2008 Dem spending creates monster new budget deficit

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Remember last fall when the State was facing a massive budget deficit and the Governor teamed up with Mark Schauer and Andy Dillon to ram through a couple of equally massive tax hikes?  Remember the promises that they were "balancing the budget" and that they were fixing the problem for the future?  

Yeah, so much for that.

The Ivory Tower reports this morning that we're about a half-billion dollars in the red.  Again!


Some of the anticipated red ink results from new tax breaks to filmmakers who produce movies and commercials in Michigan. Those credits could reach nearly $120 million in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, according to the House Fiscal Agency.

In all, a weak economy and tax credits will leave $430 million less for Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed 2008-09 budget than previously expected, according to the fiscal agency.

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Posted at 9:02am on May 13, 2008 Michigan! Want to see Obama? Better go to Florida.

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Even when we get a little attention we're treated like red-headed step children.  What gives?

By now you've probably heard the news that Barack Obama is finally planning to visit what the Associated Press refers to as the "politically neglected"states of Michigan and Florida.  He'll be here on Wednesday, May 14th.  In case you're not in front of a calendar, that's tomorrow.  

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Posted at 7:46am on May 12, 2008 Michigan Disenfranchised: Another day without a solution

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Did you hear the news over the weekend?  It turns out the race for the Democrat nomination is over.  Game, set and match.  Hillary Clinton hasn't gotten word just yet and neither, by all indications, has her BFF Jennifer Granholm but if you put any stock in what the mainstream media has to say than you know it's over.  All of it.  Mostly.  There's still one pesky issue the Dems haven't resolved and it's finally starting to garner a bit of the spotlight on the national stage.

Still no solution for seating Michigan and Florida.  

Two major battleground states that have approximately zero voice right now in the Democrats' nominating contest.  No say on who very well may become the next President of the United States of America.

But we might get a say.  Maybe.  Eventually.  Partially.  The regressisphere is abuzz with proposals and possible solutions, most of which focus on Florida getting a full delegation and Michigan being relegated to secondary-citizen status, being stripped of as many as half our delegates.  Others think we should just toss out the votes of hundreds of thousands of residents and split the delegates down the middle between Hillary and Barack... oh, but don't touch those super delegates.  They can do whatever they'd like.

The MSM, they're reporting dutifully on the left's heroic (/sarcasm) efforts to seat our delegates, conveniently ignoring the fact that it's the left that pulled the chair out from under us when we went to sit down.  (Even if Michigan gets to send a few delegates to Denver they'll be staying somewhere else in Colorado... the DNC months ago even released the State's hotel block.)

But while the national press bumbles their way to the most flattering possible coverage they can generate for the Barackstar, Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes provides a bit of a Michigan perspective.  And when you're realistically discussing Michigan AND Barack Obama it's bound to be an uncomfortable conversation.  The man hasn't exactly endeared himself to the State, what with his 300+ day absence and his constant verbal assaults on the troubled auto industry.  Which leads Howes, the columnist perhaps best respected on all things Big 3 and equipped to discuss the auto industry to deliver a bit of advice while doing something Obama, I'm sure, wishes he hadn't.

He compares the Senator to George W. Bush.


...To suggest that Japanese rivals aren't being pinched by sky-high gas prices is mistaken because, as Toyota Motor Corp. confirmed last week, they are. Also mistaken -- and unfair -- is suggesting that Detroit doesn't build fuel-efficient cars, just like when President Bush exhorted Detroit to build "relevant" cars and refused to meet with the CEOs of Detroit's Big Three.

You're right: America needs "truth telling" from its president -- especially one who grasps the facts and understands that truth can cut two ways.

It's actually a pretty scathing piece that takes the candidate to task for his ill-informed comments about the Big 3 and his penchant for piling on with non-constructive criticism.  It'd be easy to quote the whole thing but fair use and all that.  Suggested read.  

That is, of course, if you aren't entirely soured on all things Detroit after the latest revelation from the Hip Hop Mayor's office.  We knew he had a problem firing folks he shouldn't have been firing but hiring family members he shouldn't have been hiring?  

The Associated Press reports:


City records examined by the Detroit Free Press showed that at least 29 people with close ties to Kilpatrick have been appointed since he took office in 2002. Kilpatrick has cut more than 4,000 city jobs since then, including firefighters and nearly 1,000 police officers, mayoral spokeswoman Denise Tolliver said.

Tolliver defended the appointees, saying they not only are well-qualified but also are part of a tradition in Detroit...

Also a part of a tradition in Detroit...


Some Kilpatrick appointees have faced legal and ethical problems, including at least two relatives who remain on the city payroll despite falsifying their college credentials on their resumes, the Free Press said.

Political patronage.  Gotta love it.  At least it's a tradition.  Tradition makes everything OK.  Besides, Detroit's got one heck of a role model in Lansing.

The Ivory Tower follows up on that report with a quick look at term limited State House members and their next careers of choice along with those who might be replacing them.  There'll be a lot of familiar names on ballots this year, though they might not be where you're used to finding them.  

With legislators getting termed out many of them are looking for a taxpayer funded paycheck elsewhere in the State.  The bureaucratic mentality is, I think, best summed up as follows:


"I don't think anybody anticipated the consequences of a three-term career," said state Rep. Fred Miller, D-Mt. Clemens, who is caucus chairman for House Democrats and will face term limits in 2010.

"You spend your first term locking down your district, the second term trying to do some policy initiatives and your third term looking over your shoulder to see where you're going next."

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Posted at 9:20am on May 8, 2008 So much for that particular "distraction"

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Dillon, D-Redford Township, wasted no time in denouncing the (recall) effort as a distraction from the state's serious problems...

--Detroit Free Press, May 2, 2008

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Posted at 3:46pm on May 7, 2008 Dianne Feinstein May Be Wavering Support For Clinton

By Steve Foley

Well, here we go... so far we've seen, what most of us expected today, a distancing from Hillary Clinton -- first - 4 superdelegates come out for Obama, and then McGovern Deals Clinton A KnockOut Blow, now this:

Long time loyal Clinton supporter seems to be wavering today, the day after the Indiana and North Carolina Primaries, with a statement asking Hillary for her primary game plan!

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Posted at 3:13pm on May 7, 2008 JIM OGONOWSKI LAUNCHES NEW TELEVISION AD

By ogonowski08


WESTFORD, MA—Jim Ogonowski today launched the first television advertisement in the Massachusetts US Senate race. The ad, airing statewide, highlights the anger and frustration Massachusetts residents have with John Kerry.

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Posted at 2:04pm on May 7, 2008 Tokyo Shakes

By blackhedd

This doesn't look good at all. As of 2pm ET, there have been two earthquakes above 6.0 and several 5.0+ quakes in the water off Tokyo, in the past 90 minutes. Tokyo has a history of horrible destruction from earthquakes. Hold your breath and say a prayer.

Posted at 11:01am on May 7, 2008 300!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

There's a lot of speculation this morning that the race for the Democrat nomination for the Presidency ended last night somewhere on a back road in North Carolina.  Barack Obama delivered a WWE sized butt-kicking to Hill-Rod there in the squared (or in NC's case, rectangular) circle of primary politics.  

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Posted at 9:39am on May 7, 2008 If you MUST run with scissors pointed up...

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

(The relevance of this particular graphic is coming... promise...)

Most days you don't have to look far in Michigan news to find a ridiculous headline or a story about behavior that defies logic and common sense.  And that's not a dig on the mainstream media.  Sure, they're responsible for a laughable or frustrating choice of words from time to time but you work with what you're given, you know?  They can only report on what's happening out there (in theory) and it's usually our fair State and the good folks running it who create the ridiculous situations they cover.  

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Posted at 5:46pm on May 6, 2008 MSNBC Finds Penguins at North Pole... But Penguins Don't LIVE at North Pole

By Warner Todd Huston

**Video added below the fold**

**UPDATE AT BOTTOM**

A 15-year-old British girl named Camilla Hempleman-Adams is being hailed as a "hero" for trekking across the ice floes of the North Pole to become one of the youngest women to explore the frozen world of the penguin... well, at least as far as MSNBC is concerned. In their report on the feat of endurance, MSNBC had a shot (about a minute into the video) of penguins on an ice floe. Only one little problem: penguins don't live at the North Pole. Oopsie.

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Posted at 7:06am on May 6, 2008 McCain speech on judges planned today

By bk

I'm not sure what to make of this. He will slam Obama for voting against Roberts, but won't pillory Hillary for it.

Good: He says Roberts and Alito are models for the type of justices he would choose.

Bad: He says the Gang of 14 was the right thing to do - "We got all but two of the president's nominees th

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