Fuck the mainstream media

Just watching the news on MSNBC regarding the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. Apparently this is all good news for Rudy! and Hillary ...

The eminently reasonable mouth-breathing idiot Joe Scarborough just announced that the Bhutto assassination is "devastating" to Barack Obama's campaign and helpful to "hawks" like McCain, Giuliani, and Clinton. Granted, I'm no Obama fan, but give me a fucking break. It's only helpful to hawks from the perspective of hawks.

An objective "journalist" might point out that candidates like Obama and John Edwards could benefit politically because the American people understand that it's the policies of Drunky McStagger and the Republicans that have led the world to such violence and disorder. Therefore, isn't it possible that Americans are just sick of war and warmongering, and that they'll see the light and oppose candidates with a hawkish viewpoint?

Not according to the Mainstream Corporate Media, as represented so typically by Joe Scar. And objective viewpoints truly are a thing of the past, because the facts have a liberal bias.

UPDATE (12:38 pm 12/27/07): Apparently when I heard Joe Scar, it was taped, as Atrios made basically the same point an hour ago. Oh, well, GMTA.

No one could have foreseen trouble in Pakistan

It all seemed so easy then ...


Good times, eh, Drunky?

The urge to surge is verging on a scourge

If you didn't like the original surge, maybe you'll enjoy Surge II: Electric Boogaloo.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday he would consider more troops for Afghanistan where U.S. commanders say the Taliban insurgency, controlled from Pakistan, is expected to intensify.

Gates, in Afghanistan to ensure commanders have the resources to counter an expected Taliban offensive in the spring, said it was very important the United States and its allies did not let the success achieved there slip away.

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Asked how many more troops might be sent, he said: "It depends on different scenarios and those are the kinds of decisions that we're going to have to look at."

There are more than 40,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, the highest level since 2001, about 22,000 of them American.

Remember Afghanistan? The place where the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks purportedly was? I know it's hard to remember, what with the four-year-long personal vendetta of Drunky McStagger still in high gear, but think back ...

At some point, you have to question: do we actually have enough troops to handle all these surges?

Hell, we might not be done yet. There's Iran, of course, and even ...

NATO spokesman Brigadier Richard Nugee also cited a Pakistani attack on a militant camp in its South Waziristan tribal region on Tuesday as an example of efforts to coordinate with Pakistan.

Gates, who left Afghanistan later on Wednesday, said Pakistan was "an extraordinarily strong ally" in the war on terrorism but militancy on the Pakistani side of the border would have to be dealt with.

Don't you hate when you plan a surge, but you don't plan for a surge? Bummer, dude.