Rick Sanchez Is All Over The Economic Crisis

This video is hilarious!

Saunter To The White House 112 ; McCain Doesn't Know How Many Houses He Has Or What Car He Drives

That's right, apart from the discussion that John McCain doesn't know how many homes he owns, he doesn't know what type of car he drives.

The answer to the first one is about eleven.

The answer to the second one is a Cadillac CTS.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; Tomorrow Wolf Blitzer is going to be asking McCain what's in his fridge in a new CNN feature.

Keith Olbermann Counts Down Lou Dobbs Continual Immigration Coverage

Tell The Truthiness ; Immigration is an important issue, but it's not the only one.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office Over

The last hostage in the Rochester, New Hampshire situation has been released.

A few minutes later, the suspect stepped outside, into the middle of the street. Surrounded by a SWAT team, the man, dressed in smart trousers, a white shirt and red tie, took off the 'bomb' he claimed to have, before being taken into custody.

The suspect was known to the local police in Rochester.

No-one has been hurt and the hostages are ok. Congratulations to Rochester police department and all authorities concerned.

That's how it should be done.

Clinton Hostage Situation : 10

President Bill Clinton has also cancelled all events for today. Security has also been stepped up by police at the Clinton's house. Workers in other campaign office across the state have been told to keep all doors locked and be vigilant.

Clinton Hostage Situation : 9

With one of the original four hostages being held, details have come out about the protagonist in this.

Earlier today he visited a hardware store and purchased several items. Some of these are believed to be strapped to his chest. The son of the man is reported to have been told by him, earlier in the day, to watch the news.

Clinton Hostage Situation : Media, Money & Morals

Someone's offering a thousand dollars for video of the hostage situation on Craig's List

It seems that the police are keeping a good lid on film of the event. Hopefully no-one will have anything worth the money.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office Update 7

The Clinton campaign have released this statement on their website:

"There is an ongoing situation in or Rochester, NH office. We are in close contact with state and local authorities and are acting at their direction. We will release additional details as appropriate."

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office Update 6

Senator Hillary Clinton has cancelled all campaign events for the rest of the day.

There is currently no federal response to this. The hostage situation is being dealt with by the local Rochester City police department.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office Update 5

The man inside is said to be a man in his forties with "salt and pepper" gray hair.

Local campaign offices for Barack Obama and John Edwards have been evacuated.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office UPDATE 4

There were originally three hostages, after the woman and child left. The woman who has just left the building was a hostage, leaving two campaign staff inside being held by the suspect.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office UPDATE 3

A tactical team has moved to the front of the campaign office. One person has left the building, possibly a hostage.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office UPDATE

The networks which have begun rolling coverage of this, CNN, Fox, MSNBC have been asked by police to not air live pictures of the street in Rochester as it could compromise any action they might take.

The man has asked to speak to Hillary Clinton, who is at an event in Virginia.

Tom Brokaw : Iraq "Progress" Needs To Be Looked At

Speaking in a CNN Reliable Sources interview today, Tom Brokaw gave his take on the state of Iraq. He also touched on many other areas when talking to Howard Kurtz.

You can watch that interview here.

He also gave some interesting analysis when asked about the criticism leveled toward Katie Couric.

Tell The Truthiness ; Proof that an interview doesn't have to be inflammatory to be revealing.

Saunter To The White House Part 6 ; A Nation Has Spoken Mr Colbert

With the nation recovering from the news of last week that political commentator Stephen Colbert is to run for President, we take you back now to just before he announced, on Larry King.

Is There Anything He Doesn't Say?

You might think he just keeps talking in the hope that someone listens, but this time he really has wadded into the debate on torture, in a big way.

We don't a video of this, but here's the Daily Show's take on the word game the government is playing.



Former President Jimmy Carter has said (ok, he is promoting his book, so we take that he's in the news at all, for any reason, as a given) he is convinced the US is involved in torture that breaks international law and said President Bush has created his administration's own definitions of torture and human rights to allow them to get away with it.

When questioned on CNN Mr Carter said he doesn't "think" he "knows" Bush's government tortures.

The White House continued to hold the line that "we do not torture".

Tell The Truthiness ; Keep saying it and eventually Bush will deny it was ever said, remember like "stay the course"?

Jack Cafferty Tells It Like It Is

Jon Stewart also had Jack Cafferty on the Daily Show last night, here's what he had to say.



Tell The Truthiness ; Lets hope he doesn't retire as soon as he hits 65. Keep going please Jack.

War On Reality Part 33 ; Bill Maher Hits The Nail

Summing it up all in one quick phrase,

" People lined up in Manhatten to get the iPhone when it came out, but they won't line up to protest the war in Iraq along the Mall in Washington."

That quote from Bill Maher on CNN's Larry King Live, repeated this evening from last Tuesday.

Tell The Truthiness ; We need more people like Bill Maher. Go Bill!

Holding Them To Account 4 ; Some Days The Show Writes Itself

Couldn't resist posting these gems from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.



Tell The Truthiness ; Let Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert run and anchor CNN for the day, you know it would be great.

War On Reality Part 30 ; We Don't Recall Having Any Respect For You For A Long Time

The ability to not recall any past events on Capitol Hill seems to be spreading from the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to the Vice President Dick Cheney.

When asked by CNN's Larry King, Mr Cheney cannot recall authorising the hospital bed visit to John Ashcroft to push him to certify the intelligence gathering programme.

Tell The Truthiness ; 'I don't recall' is as worse than saying 'yes', have some guts Mr Cheney, if not, borrow some from Mr Chertoff, he's got plenty of guts (with feelings) to spare.