Bad Deeds for 1-24-07

Lies About Barak Obama’s Schooling Debunked – CNN has proven that a story claiming that Sen. Barack Obama attended a madrassa, or Muslim school, while living in Indonesia as a child is false. The story, which originated in Insight magazine published by the right-wing Washington Times newspaper, was quickly picked up by Fox News, the New York Post, and the conservative Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News. (Fox News and the New York Post are both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.)

Lobbyists Find New Congress is Open for Business – From one end of the House Democrats’ “first 100 hours” agenda to the other, businesspeople and their lobbyists have found success amid the fear in dealing with the new Congress with both energy and pharmaceutical interests able to fend off some of the most severe provisions of the recent legislative marathon. In part, the business community’s early influence reflects its status as a constituency Democrats can’t afford to ignore.

Bush Claims of Iran-Iraq Arms Link Has Little Evidence – For all the Bush administration’s aggressive rhetoric about Iran’s alleged shipment of advanced arms to Iraqi militants, it has provided scant evidence to support those claims, leading to questions about whether the administration is overstating its case. Some suggest Bush and his aides are pointing to Iran to deflect blame for U.S. setbacks in Iraq, while others see ominous parallels to the faulty case made ahead of the 2003 invasion.

Scooter Libby Says Bush Administration Set Me Up

Microsoft Caught Trying To Pay Someone To Edit Its Wikipedia Entries

Regards,

Jim