The Funniest Michael Steele Has Been All Week

"My main man, Johnny Beefstew!"

To watch, go to the Daily Show website.

Telling The Truthiness Says ; Can Mr Muppet Steele appear ever week?

Policy Fairness With Toughness Where Needed

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Obama advisors plan to remove a foreign policy term that alienate Islamic countries from a national security document. The term 'Islamic Radicalism' is to be discarded with having been part of the language of US foreign policy for nearly 9 years.

Telling The Truthiness Says ; Language change or not, toughness with Afghanistan is the current direction of US policy in the country.

Majority In Favour Of Government Run Healthcare

Despite some trying to kill the idea of a government run healthcare system with a pillow over the face, what's undeniable is the public's opinion way in favour of such a system.

Tell The Truthiness ; Government run healthcare will not lead to everyone turning communist and singing The Red Flag, despite what still pervades on the airwaves and in the papers in the US.

The GM Alternative

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Here's an excellent piece by Michael Moore about the best use of the talents and capacity of the now majority nationalised General Motors.

Plus here's his interview on Countdown, from Monday evening.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; Sounds like a plan, something that until now, hasn't really existed.

Palin's Two Saturday Night Live Skits

Holding Them To Account 23 ; 9/11 Tribute Video Links Attacks To Iran

That's right, the video, supposedly in 'tribute' to 9/11 victims was actually a huge example of the Bush policy of revisionist history being handed down father-to-son like to John McCain.

They linked September 11th to Iran, in a convention hall, on national network and cable TV. It's a lie!

Tell The Truthiness Says ; Once again, are there any journalists/media outlets (apart from those mentioned in the post below) that are reporting this and commenting on this?

War On Reality Part 98 ; The Shock Doctrine On Oil Prices By Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein shows how poorly informed Fox News is with regard to all aspects of the oil debate. From the offshore drilling issue to the true political hijacking of the price rises, the woman behind the groundbreaking No Logo leaves the presenters in the dust.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; We're sending Fox a container of No Logo copies for Christmas to get them up to speed.

Saunter To The White House 102 ; JibJab Returns!

Here it is, the 2008 election as done perfectly by JibJab!



Tell The Truthiness Says ; Oh it's time for some campaignin'!

Holding Them To Account 18 ; Fox Shown For What It Is

A fantastic short video showing the way Fox 'News' have trashed Michelle Obama ;



Tell The Truthiness Says ; Got to keep facing this type of thing down right through to November.

Dan & Keith Return To TV! Bulging Discs & All

Considering the reference in a recent post to Sportsnight, inspired by SportsCenter and the pairing of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann, this news is rather eerie.

Dan and Keith are to reunite on TV to host NBC's Football Night In America.

Tell The Truthiness ; As a taster to those who don't know the magic of the pairing we've posted a recent Letterman interview with the two.

Iraq Wants US Forces Out - Period.

Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security advisor, has said that there will be no deal on security with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of US forces.

As we know, President Bush is opposed to a timetable, but will have little choice if the Iraqis hold their ground.

Tell The Truthiness ; Guess this puts the brakes on Senator McCain's hundred years in Iraq. What's a guy to do?

The Best Newscast You're Not Watching - CBS Evening News

The CBS Evening News, anchored by Katie Couric has won an Edward R. Murrow Award for the Best Newcast. Specifically, for Couric's 9th August 2007 programme was what won CBS the award.

Despite the win, the network's flagship news programme continues to post low ratings. Another win was for CBS News' Lara Logan, scooping the Continuing Coverage award.

Tell The Truthiness ; The next worse thing to people watching bland news coverage is people not watching award winning, recognised news coverage. To alter a phrase used when talking about the situation that Aaron Sorkin's show Sports Night faced, The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric - The best news show you're not watching.

Special Comment On Obama's Second Chance On FISA

War On Reality Part 94 ; Forgotten Afghanistan

This June has seen the highest number of foreign soldiers killed since the invasion happened in 2001. 39 soldiers have been killed in June this year.

Tell The Truthiness ; As has been said so often, didn't we 'win' this war in 2001? Oh, that must have just been post 9/11 propaganda combined with a poorly understood definition of what 'winning' was.

Saunter To The White House 99 ; 15 Points - The Obama Bounce

A Newsweek poll has Barack Obama at a 15% lead nationally over John McCain.

Wow.

Yes, it is only June, but this much shows either how things haven't really kicked into gear yet or how much better organised Barack Obama's campaign is compared to John McCain.

Tell The Truthiness ; The only numbers though that really matter are the votes on the 4th of November.

Saunter To The White House 98 ; Bush/McCain No Differences Ad

Here's the MoveOn.org advert for trying to tell the differences between President Bush and John McCain with John Cusack :



Plus, here's John Cusack's interview with Keith Olbermann from Friday evening :

Holding Them To Account 17 ; CBS News Chief Correspondent Slams War Coverage

Its now an open secret that the pre invasion coverage and the current coverage of Iraq has been restrained by the networks and other media. Here is an interview with CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan in which she tells us all that we had know, but much of which has been unsaid on mainstream TV.



Tell The Truthiness ; We need an avalanche of insight like this to get the coverage to truly reflect was is going on in Iraq and why we are still there.

War On Reality Part 93 ; It's All About The Oil First, Iraqis Second

As we reported over a year ago, the plans to get control of Iraq's oil reserves into the hands of Western corporations, were detailed before the invasion and have quietly been advanced in the last five years.



Now, 36 years after Iraq nationalised it's oil industry, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP are coming back in to pump oil and make billions. Iraq has the fourth largest oil reserve in the World, after Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran. The four companies have been given 'no bid' contracts because, as an Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman said they had been advising the ministry without charge for two years before being awarded the contracts.

What a coincidence.

Tell The Truthiness ; So, congratulations to Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP for acting like a greedy heir spending time with a rich elderly relative for no good reason to get their hands on the assets at the opportune moment. Like we said, it's a total coincidence.

Saunter To The White House 97 ; Back Off Barack's Family

The GOP has been told by it's own, Mike Huckabee, to lay off Barack Obama's family. The former presidential candidate said that trying to "demonise" the Democratic nominee wasn't the way to go and would not work.

Meanwhile, Obama said that he wouldn't consider making Cindy McCain a campaign issue.

Finally, Michelle Obama guest hosted on The View on ABC and did her bit to fight the fluff about her fist bump, by bumping with all the other hosts when she arrived on set. Further, she said how much of an admirer she is of First Lady Laura Bush. The video is below.



Tell The Truthiness ; Families are off limits, will John McCain and the Republican Party adhere to this?

Saunter To The White House 96 ; McCain For Offshore Drilling, Like Brother Bush

The President is going to make efforts on Wednesday to overturn the ban on offshore drilling. Which is handy for some, since John McCain is in favour of this, despite changing his mind from previously being against this.

Tell The Truthiness ; A vote for McCain is a vote for a third Bush term? Seems pretty accurate.