"Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" Misrepresent Kerry's Fitness Reports
One of the many problems facing the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is the praise bestowed upon John Kerry by his commanding officers. Some of those commanding officers, like George Elliott and Grant...
View ArticleThomas Lipscomb's silly attack on Kerry's naval records
On August 27th, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article by Thomas Lipscomb titled "Plot thickens after checking records". I've come here today to make fun of it.Text in italics is from Lipscomb's...
View ArticleMost Common Words in GOP Speeches
In the interest of finding out what the Republicans hold near and dear, I ran the text of Monday's speeches by Giuliani, McCain, Bloomberg, and Racicot through a program that counts word usage. The...
View ArticleGOP Convention Word Usage: Wednesday
In this post I'll analyze the word usage in Wednesday's speeches at the Republican National Convention. Featured speakers: Dick "Dick" Cheney, Zell "Dino" Miller, Mitt "Mitt?" Romney, and Rick "Box...
View ArticleGOP Convention Word Usage: Thursday
This is the fourth and final entry in my series of diary entries looking at the word usage of RNC speakers day by day. In addition to George W "Dubya" Bush, Thursday's big speakers were George "Blame...
View ArticleWord Usage at the Florida Presidential Debate
George W. Bush vs. John F. Kerry - in their own words. I've compiled statistics based on all of their responses, rebuttals, comments, and, in the case of Bush, ill-tempered grunts. The statistics are...
View ArticlePlaying the expectations game the smart way
The expectations game for the next debate is on. I've seen suggestions that Kerry supporters should now express worry about how their guy will perform and praise Bush's fabled "common touch". In my...
View ArticleA modest collection of Dick Cheney's debate lies
The lies DICK SAYS: He never met Edwards. THE TRUTH: They met at least thrice. DICK SAYS: Edwards' hometown newspaper has "taken to calling [Edwards] Senator Gone." THE TRUTH: The name appeared in one...
View ArticleHow to make Furious George lose his temper in the last debate
Kerry has done a good job of getting Bush steamed in the previous two debates, and he ought to repeat the process in the third. The upcoming debate is about domestic policy, which may present a problem...
View ArticleEavesdropping on Bush's frequency
Cryptome.org (mirror) has some interesting information on the types of systems Bush is alleged to have used. Correspondent "J." explains how they work:The frequencies for these units are very well...
View ArticleBush got his flu vaccine facts badly wrong
The Guardian notes in its debate recap:The only time the debate touched on Britain was in a discussion of the shortage of flu vaccines in the US following a decision by British authorities to remove...
View Article"Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" Misrepresent Kerry's Fitness Reports
One of the many problems facing the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is the praise bestowed upon John Kerry by his commanding officers. Some of those commanding officers, like George Elliott and Grant...
View ArticleThomas Lipscomb's silly attack on Kerry's naval records
On August 27th, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article by Thomas Lipscomb titled "Plot thickens after checking records". I've come here today to make fun of it.Text in italics is from Lipscomb's...
View ArticleMost Common Words in GOP Speeches
In the interest of finding out what the Republicans hold near and dear, I ran the text of Monday's speeches by Giuliani, McCain, Bloomberg, and Racicot through a program that counts word usage. The...
View ArticleGOP Convention Word Usage: Wednesday
In this post I'll analyze the word usage in Wednesday's speeches at the Republican National Convention. Featured speakers: Dick "Dick" Cheney, Zell "Dino" Miller, Mitt "Mitt?" Romney, and Rick "Box...
View ArticleGOP Convention Word Usage: Thursday
This is the fourth and final entry in my series of diary entries looking at the word usage of RNC speakers day by day. In addition to George W "Dubya" Bush, Thursday's big speakers were George "Blame...
View ArticleWord Usage at the Florida Presidential Debate
George W. Bush vs. John F. Kerry - in their own words. I've compiled statistics based on all of their responses, rebuttals, comments, and, in the case of Bush, ill-tempered grunts. The statistics are...
View ArticlePlaying the expectations game the smart way
The expectations game for the next debate is on. I've seen suggestions that Kerry supporters should now express worry about how their guy will perform and praise Bush's fabled "common touch". In my...
View ArticleA modest collection of Dick Cheney's debate lies
The lies DICK SAYS: He never met Edwards. THE TRUTH: They met at least thrice. DICK SAYS: Edwards' hometown newspaper has "taken to calling [Edwards] Senator Gone." THE TRUTH: The name appeared in one...
View ArticleHow to make Furious George lose his temper in the last debate
Kerry has done a good job of getting Bush steamed in the previous two debates, and he ought to repeat the process in the third. The upcoming debate is about domestic policy, which may present a problem...
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