Monday, April 20, 2009

Links of the Day

Everybody’s Columbine
No O'pology for killing three African youths?
Chuckie the Gun-Grabber Recycling Old Material
Here's why Jon Stewart is a hack
Roesgen Spread “Jena 6? Myths
CNN the Latest Corporate Thug to Use Copyright As a Weapon to Eliminate Embarrassing Clips from YouTube
Unhinged Leftie Troll Janeane Garafalo: I Snubbed Limbaugh. Limbaugh: That’s A Lie
The Government Becomes a Loan Shark.
Pity Party
Lila Rose exposes yet another PP clinic breaking the law
No Parting from TARP
Don't Call It a Comeback
Profiles In Courage... Lefty Courage, That Is
Anniversary of Reid’s Greatest Moment

FactCheck Shoots Down The 90% Meme
FactCheck and Mexican guns
FactCheck.org on U.S. Guns in Mexico
Obama's gun lies
Media Matters tries to spin it as Fox News is wrong.
Wash. Times advanced "myth" that 17 percent of guns recovered in Mexico can be traced to U.S.

How Keith Olbermann retracts a worst person in the world.

With a “bit of house keeping”

 

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Friday, March 20, 2009
”But our winner is Twitter.  I told you this was trouble.  I find out today that I have 13,900 some odd followers on Twitter.  I‘m not on Twitter.  I tried to sign up last summer and abandoned the project.  I found this out when I got a piece of junk e-mail today, at my address, from some outfit trying to barnacle on to the Twitter process.  Though it was my address, it had somebody else‘s name on it, possibly whoever was perpetuating the fraud.  The subject line read “Dan Cooper Media, local Tweet request.”  And the e-mail began, “hi Dan Cooper Media.”

Who is Dan Cooper and why would he be getting spam e-mail about my fake Twitter account?  He is one of the five architects of Fox News.  Despite all this, Twitter will not suspend the phony account in my name.  Just remember, whoever you think you are following on Twitter, might be them and it might not.  Twitter, tonight‘s worst persons in the world. “

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Tuesday, April 7
”First, two bits of house keeping.  Last month, I told you about a Twitter account that was set up in my name.  I have an update.  It turns out at least one person did start an account in my name, but after learning of one of the fake me‘s, NBC took control of that account.  I also mentioned that I received an email about this account from Twitter that was—Twitter wannabe—that was addressed to Dan Cooper Media.  Mr. Cooper has informed us he had nothing to do with the account. “

Friday, April 10, 2009

Links of the Day

Policing the Prosecutors
Limbaugh's "Lie:" I Actually Did Meet With the President, And I Told Him I Wanted Him to Fail
NB: Unions Made Direct Payments To Libtalker Ed Schultz
It's Not Just the Stevens Case - DOJ Needs A Better Compliance Program
VP Joe Biden: Serial Prefabricator
Bowing, Boasting And Bloviating
Not in Our Name
Liberal Bloggers to Dems: Advertise With Us. Or Else

 

Crooks and Liars deletes a comment where I criticize David Neiwert .

Now, who's the liar here?
Funny coming from David Neiwert who has not corrected his 90 % lie?

U.S. gun stores and gun shows are the source of more than 90 percent of the weapons being used by Mexico’s ruthless drug cartels, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials.
Of course David and the commenters here will ignore this because it comes from Fox News and they can not refute it.
There’s just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it’s a big one: It’s just not true. In fact, it’s not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S. What’s true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency’s assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S." But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S. "Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market," Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.
Can someone post a link to a liberal News source (NYT/MSNBC) that refutes this?