Bad Deeds for 12/9/2008

 

Illinois Governor Caught on FBI Wiretap Trying to Sell Obama Senate Seat – Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was unexpectedly taken into federal custody Tuesday morning on corruption charges related to his appointment of President-elect Barack Obama’s replacement in the Senate. “Governor Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low,” US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a news conference Tuesday, accusing the governor of overseeing a “political corruption crime spree.”

 

Media Undercounts Obama’s Win Margin, Especially Fox News – Here are the number of votes that Obama won by according to various sources:

They are all off, but as usual, Fox News is way out in “right” field. Who needs a research department when you can just make up your own facts?

 

Pat Boone Tries to Use the Attacks in India to Put the Fear in Us – Remember clean-cut, nice-guy Pat Boone from the 50’s? The following is from a column in a conservative blog written by Pat Boone:

Pretty rotten thing that happened in Mumbai, huh?

Suddenly, hundreds of innocent, unsuspecting people are hostages, some of them being systematically murdered. Bombs are exploding, people are screaming …

When the dust begins to settle after many horrifying hours, the body count has reached nearly 200, and many more are injured and emotionally scarred for the rest of their lives. …

Thank God, it couldn’t happen here. Could it?

Look around. Watch your evening news. Read your newspaper.

Are you unaware of the raging demonstrations in our streets, in front of our churches and synagogues, even spilling into these places of worship, and many of these riots turning defamatory and violent? …

Really? Pat Boone says what happened in Mumbai, India is happening right here in the USA. Who is committing such horrific acts? He is referring to California’s Proposition 8 protestors, those terrible people who are marching for gay rights. How violent are they? The following is from the San Francisco Chronicle:

In San Diego, a crowd estimated by police at 20,000 and by organizers at 25,000 demonstrated against Prop. 8, while in Los Angeles police said between 10,000 and 12,000 people marched peacefully though the downtown area.

More on Pat Boone:

• In 2006, Boone wrote an article for WorldNetDaily, in which he argued that Democrats and others who were against the Iraq War could never, under any circumstances, be considered patriotic.
• He was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News, where he expressed his outrage against the opponents of George W. Bush (namely the Dixie Chicks) that their criticisms of the President showed they did not “respect their elders.
• In early 2007, Boone wrote two articles claiming that the theory of evolution is an “absurd,” “nonsensical” “bankrupt false religion.”

 

Burrowing Watch: Bush Appointed 18 Administration Officials Last Tuesday Alone – With only 44 days left in office, President Bush continues to “burrow” people into government positions that will continue long after President-elect Obama is sworn in. “All told, Mr. Bush has made roughly 30 personnel moves since the November election. James McCarthy, who heads the American Association for the Advancement of Science says, “It’s ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure. You’d just like to think people have more respect for the institution of government than to leave wreckage behind with these appointments.”

 

Media Falsely Reports That Nobel Economics Prize Winner Said U.S. Auto Industry Will Likely Disappear – More fear, please! You may have seen this report which spread all across the media on Sunday:

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. auto industry will likely disappear.
“It will do so because of the geographical forces that me and my colleagues have discussed,” the Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist told reporters in Stockholm. “It is no longer sustained by the current economy.”

But, Paul Krugman published this in his New York Times column on Monday:

Me, misreported
Urk. I gather that there’s a report on the wires quoting me as saying that the US auto industry would disappear. What I actually said was that the concentration of the industry around Detroit would disappear.
And did I really say “me and my colleagues”? I guess it’s possible — but that doesn’t sound like I speaking.

Regards,

Jim