Archive for the 'Sleaze' Category
After the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people killed, maimed, tortured and imprisoned, is Dick going to end up like Al Capone? Instead of tax evasion, it’ll be one of his forays with corruption. Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Sunday, August 24th, 2008*
Does Ted Stevens (R-AK) use a gesture to show contempt for the charges?
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The Veep’s Pipeline Push
By Michael Isikoff and Tony Hopfinger | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 23, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 1, 2008
A two-year-old letter by Vice President Dick Cheney that pushed a controversial Alaska natural-gas pipeline bill is getting renewed scrutiny because of recently […]
If I did not reprint the entire piece, you wouldn’t believe me.
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008August 23rd, 2008
Mark Nickolas
Huffington Post
The Anatomy of a Deception: How The McCains Changed Their Baby Adoption Story Just Before 2008 Campaign Began
Posted August 21, 2008 | 12:32 PM (EST)
As was pointed out yesterday by the Christian Science Monitor, the McCain campaign was called out for lying about the purported urging of Cindy McCain by Mother […]
Mary Matalin? Who would have conceived it?
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008August 13, 2008
Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By JIM RUTENBERG and JULIE BOSMAN
In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the book attacking Senator John Kerry’s record on a Vietnam War Swift boat […]
“If the campaign staff wants to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus.”–leaked State Department cable to the Washington Times.
Monday, July 21st, 2008Night before Obama flies abroad, Rice bars embassies from aiding candidates
John Byrne
Published: Monday July 21, 2008
‘If they want to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus’
The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of […]
The Gnome of Waco…
Thursday, July 17th, 2008*
Phil Gramm, former Texas senator,
explains his remuneration as a lobbyist for UBS.
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UBS to stop offshore banking for U.S. residents
Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:25pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS AG will discontinue offshore banking and securities services to U.S. residents through its branches, a UBS executive said on Thursday at a congressional hearing on offshore […]
Connecticut Chickenhawk Joe seems to enjoy the smell of blood.
Monday, July 14th, 2008*
Philippe Wojazer/Reuters
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Please find the story here.
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Images: (snake tongue) via trosch.org
Most people liked his Spring, ‘03 look–Chickenhawk in the Straw.
Sunday, July 13th, 2008The Sunday Times
July 13, 2008
President George W Bush lobbyist in ‘cash for access’ row
Daniel Foggo
A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.Stephen Payne, who claims to have […]
From those wonderful folks at the place which gave us THE BODY PART PRICE IS RIGHT …
Sunday, June 1st, 2008UCLA suspends its Willed Body Program
Johnson & Johnson admits buying tissue samples
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Posted: 9:40 PM EST (0240 GMT)
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Boris Karloff, the director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program,
has been busy lately.
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Anyone concerned that parts of a family member’s donated body were sold should contact UCLA by phone at 866-317-6374 or by email at […]
Since the Tennessee Republican Party was able to squeak by the Democratic, African-American Senatorial candidate Harold Ford with the ever effective–”WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT…”
Monday, May 19th, 2008is it only using patriotism to soften up the public for the real push:
“You white ladies better lock up your husbands!”
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Obama tells Tenn.’s GOP: ‘Lay off my wife’
2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.”
Obama, his party’s presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, […]
As can be seen by an 16-month-old New York Times article, it’s nothing new, folks.
Monday, May 19th, 2008The Australian
John McCain advisers going down like flies over lobbying ties
Geoff Elliott | May 20, 2008
JOHN McCain has stitched together a whirlwind campaign for president after overcoming steep odds to win the nomination for the Republican Party, but many senior staffers are falling like flies thanks to their ties with lobbyists.
Yesterday, his fifth campaign staffer […]