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James Dobson appeared on Hannity and Colmes, and tried to blame the Sponge Bob controversy on"media spin" then reiterated the same complaints he made before.

Colmes: Do you stand by your comments on that?

Dobson: It's an example of media spin Allan. I mean it's just incredible the way the media gets a hold of a story like this, and distorts it so it's not even recognizable.

cut to original story via Talk Left:

Here's Dobson, in his own words : "We see the video as an insidious means by which the organization is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids," he said. "It is a classic bait and switch."

The real beef the evangelicals have is the tolerance pledge on the foundation's website, that:.... asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.

Back to the present:

Dobson then goes on to promote the exact same words and views that he is quoted as saying which started the whole controversy!

Dobson asks:.. why the media only get's stories wrong about conservatives.

Damn that liberal media when they print his exact words and get it right.

Robert the "Crypt Keeper" Novak complained today on Crossfire about the democrats holding up Condi Rice's nomination; blaming Sen.Robert Byrd:

"...at age 88, Bob Byrd is a crabby old man."

Ever look at yourself Bob?

DUBAI (Reuters)

Iraq 's interim defense minister said on Friday the government would arrest Iraqi National Congress (INC) leader Ahmad Chalabi after the Eid al-Adha holiday on suspicion of maligning the defense ministry.

"We will arrest him and hand him over to Interpol. We will arrest him based on facts that he wanted to malign the reputation of the defense ministry and defense minister," Hazim al-Shaalan told Al Jazeera television.

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Here is the text for the entire speech.

Tom Shales from the Wapo gives us his thoughts.

ALESSANDRA STANLEY from the NY Times here.

Fred Barnes from the Weekly Standard here.

I'm doing it so you don't have to. To say that Mr. Hewitt has a huge right wing agenda is to simplify the issue, but here goes a few examples.

Pg. 108: on Atrios, Hugh says: Hard left, incoherent, actually. But big traffic.

On Daily Kos: (brief history).... He is also an off the wall lefty, willing to say anything.

Pg. 113: A final word on ideology and the blogosphere: there is currently a talent gap. The political left is seriously behind in the promotion and development of bloggers with insight and good humor. It maybe that the early entrants such as DailyKos, Atrios, and Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo have set a tone of self importance combined with coarseness that has repelled would-be bloggers, or that Peter Principle bloggers with energy but not enough talent have taken up valuable shelf space.
I guess he never read Ornicus, James Wolcott, Digby, Talk Left, Tbogg, World O' Crap(inappropriate title for a blog), Jesus General, Rude Pundit (oppps, he uses naughty words so Hewitt would disqualify him), Juan Cole and Altercation just to name a few. I find it outrageously hypocritical (I'm not really outraged) to read a guy that stands on his soap box, preaching about the aspects of "liberal bias" when he's as guilty as "sin" in promoting his own version of right wing propaganda.

via Atrios

Go have a bit of fun seeing people smack Tim Graham around over his ridiculous complaining about the media coverage of the Armstrong Williams affair.

Frankly, this story hasn't gotten enough coverage -- and for some reason no one seems too concerned about the Bush administration's clear violation of federal law.

Media Matters for America inventoried all guests who appeared on FOX News, CNN, and MSNBC during the channels' January 20 inauguration coverage. Between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Republican and conservative guests and commentators outnumbered Democrats and progressives 19 to 7 on FOX*, 10 to 1 on CNN (not including a Republican-skewed panel featuring Ohio voters), and 13 to 2 on MSNBC. Moreover, the rare Democrat or progressive guest usually appeared opposite conservatives, whereas most Republican and conservative guests and commentators appeared solo or alongside fellow conservatives. see the graph here

U.S. Maintains Close Ties With Repressive Nations

President Bush's soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world. Some of the administration's allies in the war against terrorism -- including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan -- are ranked by the State Department as among the worst human rights abusers. The president has proudly proclaimed his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin while remaining largely silent about Putin's dismantling of democratic institutions in the past four years. The administration, eager to enlist China as an ally in the effort to restrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, has played down human rights concerns there, as well...read on

The State Department, in its annual human rights report, has cited Uzbekistan for its "very poor" human rights record, including the torture and killing of citizens in custody for political reasons. There is virtually no freedom of speech or of the press.

Yet Bush met with Uzbekistan's president in 2002 and signed a declaration of "strategic partnership," and senior officials such as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have visited the country. The United States "values Uzbekistan as a stable, moderate force in a turbulent region," the State Department said late last year. ...

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Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter and wingnut, surprised Sean Hannity and myself when she had this to say about President Bush's speech today.

Noonan: I'll be frank, I think some of it went over the top a little bit....

also

Noonan: I found it a little grating

Hannity: A little what?

Noonan: A little grating in some respects.

In her column: Way Too Much God
Was the president's speech a case of "mission inebriation"?

The inaugural address itself was startling. It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike.

Ending tyranny in the world? Well that's an ambition, and if you're going to have an ambition it might as well be a big one. But this declaration, which is not wrong by any means, seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing. Tyranny is a very bad thing and quite wicked, but one doesn't expect we're going to eradicate it any time soon. Again, this is not heaven, it's earth.

And yet such promising moments were followed by this, the ending of the speech. "Renewed in our strength--tested, but not weary--we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom."

One wonders if they shouldn't ease up, calm down, breathe deep, get more securely grounded. The most moving speeches summon us to the cause of what is actually possible. Perfection in the life of man on earth is not.

I never thought that I would agree with her, but let's face it; if the President's speech left her with a "bad felling" what did the rest of us feel?