Ace notes yet again that it simply can't be that the press is totally incompetent, as the "mistakes" always seem to fall the same way. This the time the "Tenet said Iraq war was wrong" thing turned out to be, well, wrong.

As I note, this all stops being a surprise if you check your premises, and toss out the idea that the press is objective and exists to provide truth. Consider the press as partisan organs, and it all looks exactly as one would expect.

I think the press should just be open about what is obvious. The New York Times publishes an editorial that says, essentially, we think Kerry should win, or else the world will end. Why maintain the fiction that all of the rest of the paper is not an extension of that?

Fox should ditch the fair and balanced thing, too. I can't stand Alan Colmes anyway, just dump him. Greta's show is lame when it isn't about some big trial, and really, who the hell cares about Scott Peterson, anyway. Put Geraldo in that slot, but only from war-torn locations. Maybe he could team up with Oliver North. And on Special Report, I think Brit Hume should just lay a John McLaughlin to Eleanor Clift style beatdown on Ceci Connolly. I mean, just forget about it, the liberals all claim you are in the tank anyway, it isn't like they are going to suddenly stop watching.

Team America. Go see it. It's worth the coin just to see what happens to Janeane Garofalo.

But the Nader boomlet has subsided.

Allah couldn't remain silent long.

I don't really care about baseball. Sorry.

A link from a blog by some squids in Afghanistan - LandlockedSailor2004. Lots of great pics of Afghanistan. Look for the evidence of this statement by Secretary Rumsfeld:

Afghanistan doesn't have a lot of high value targets.

PS - I have probably done tales from the referrers more than once before. I am now going to try to be like other cool bloggers and assign my recurring characters sequential numbers.

Noted by Jay Nordlinger at NRO:

According to National Journal's Hotline, The American Prospect, a liberal magazine ("liberal" in the sense in which we're forced to use it now, meaning, illiberal), published an article that says the following: "Ironically for a man who once famously named Jesus as his favorite philosopher during a campaign debate, it is remarkably difficult to pinpoint a single instance wherein Christian teaching has won out over partisan politics in the Bush White House." And so on.

Evidently you got the wrong sheet music. This is the week where you guys are supposed to be going on about how Bush is a Bible-thumping extremist wackjob running loose in the White House. So you are out of synch with the media campaign. Though evidently, in synch with the Kerry campaign, as Bush is now the man whose faith didn't come into the Oval Office with him, but Kerry will bring his along.

Meanwhile, Michael Moore sounds like George W. Bush:

Moore said Kerry may not be perfect, but is far superior to former Vice President Al Gore and this year's other Democratic presidential hopefuls. "There's a reason that they're saying Kerry is the No. 1 liberal in the Senate," said Moore. "It's because he is the No. 1 liberal in the Senate."

Hey, Big Mike, wrong sheet music! Labels don't mean anything, remember? No wonder George Soros is pissed at you!

Valdosta, GA. Over the weekend.

The joys of supporting datacenters.

Why did the goose have to die?

Interesting observation, really. Heard Maureen Dowd on Imus this morning say that George W. Bush was always trying to portray Kerry as a woman and that Kerry was playing along. That's an interesting - and weird - observation.

At any rate, the point Batchelor is making is that the goose in today's hunt had to die so that Kerry could prove to swing voters in Ohio that he was something - an avid hunter who would never, ever, ever, threaten the 2d Amendment, perhaps. Or maybe not a woman, to make Ms. Dowd seem silly. Or maybe it is not just a guy, but a tough guy." A guy who would strap up and crawl down the caves of Afghanistan to get bin Laden all by himself.

See?

That is why the goose had to die.

Listening to John Batchelor right now, and he has a segment called "Blogwatch." He had Kos on last week. Right now he has Dan Darling of Winds of Change, Roger L. Simon, and Gary somebody whose name I didn't catch.

They are talking about Iran. They got the segment right after John Loftus.

But oh so funny!

BTW, since we are discussing immature and childish, may I make a sweeping generalization and see if anyone else has noted it?

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Kerry supporters are atrociously bad drivers? It's seems that every day I see a totally boneheaded move on the part of some driver. Same as any other time of the year. But now, they all seem to have Kerry/Edwards stickers, usually haphazardly placed on the paint somewhere. It seems most prevalent on people driving slowly in the fast (read left) lane. Must be psychological. I have tried to ignore it, but the event is becoming so common place, it's getting difficult to ignore.

And yes, it is entirely possible that the Kerry/Edwards stickers drive home the irritation. And yes, the level of boneheaded move frequently correlates to the number and intensity of the left wing stickers on the car. And no, I am not saying that I have never been cut off by a car with a W sticker.

I'm just saying I noticed is all. Anyone else?

A few folks are starting to wonder if bin Laden isn't already dead. I mean, we certainly have no evidence that he is alive. But all kinds of folks have been saying this for years. Me, for instance. Charles Johnson. Mark Steyn. Christopher Hitchens.

Nothing new in the arguments being made, either.

But the argument is coming up now, with nothing, apparently, driving it.

Linked over on Drudge:

FBI, Justice Department and Homeland Security Department officials aren't talking much about the threat of a terrorist attack to disrupt the election in two weeks.

It hasn't gone away; they're just wary of saying anything in public that could prompt Democrats to charge the administration is playing up a terror threat to frighten voters.

The Democrats have now poisoned the well to the extent that we can't get information that we need about public safety. Because it might be political - it might help Bush.

Thanks a lot, fellas.

Spain gave the terrorists what they wanted. They toppled their government for some Socialists who promised to remove their troops from Iraq. And they pulled the troops out ahead of schedule. They banned US troops from marching in parade in favor of some Frenchies. And what do they get?

More Islamist attacks planned against Spain. (As seen on LGF)

Note. When crossing the field, the bull doesn't care if you are a vegetarian or not.

'Primetime Live' Poll: More Republicans Satisfied With Sex Lives Than Democrats

That is all.

A month ago, I made a couple of predictions. First, this one:

1. Dan Rather will not get fired, and CBS will not retract its story on the memos. They are going to take a Bill Clinton "we just have to win" strategy. And like Clinton, it will work. But, again, as with Clinton, the damage is done. There will always be some amount of snickering whenever Rather or CBS News is mentioned.

Looking good here. The independent investigation won't come out until after the election, and then noone will care. And in the third debate, when the President kinda smirked at Schieffer asking a question relying on leading news sources, that got snickers.

Next up:

Nader will pick up in the polls. Deanites who swallowed their pride and anti-war fervor for "electability" are going to feel betrayed as "electability" gets to be more and more an unlikely trait for Kerry. Nader is more politically aligned with the Deanites - the "Democratic wing of the Democratic party," so to speak - so those who compromised their principles to win will return to their principles rather than betray their inner selves and lose.

Also looking pretty good in the prediciton department. As of today, the Washington Post poll shows Nader picking up from 1 to 2%. That could easily be statistical noise, but then again, maybe not. This bump shows over at the RealClearPolitics roundup, too. And this over at Powerline Blog seems to support it. Mickey Kaus (surely Microsoft can figure out permalinks by now, can't they?) is pitching a story about how undecided voters may break for whoever is leading in the end to make sure we avoid another Florida style recount fiasco. But, then, he thinks the terrorists want Bush to win, so who knows. I think that Deanites voting Nader on principle is at least likely with Kerry failing in the polls. You have to figure at least some of the undecideds are those who want to vote Nader but are afraid that doing so will elect Bush. With a Bush win looking more and more likely, that fear goes away.

Being lectured by John Stewart on political journalism is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.