Who would have thought that politics didn’t make for good television?

Presumably everyone knows about this by now, but it still deserves inclusion in any discussion on United States politics just for being one of the best commentaries on life during wartime.

Get Your War On

This is why we fought against Communism for so many years, Timmy.

The press in America has come under some scrutiny lately - specifically the Fox network, whose detractors accuse it of right wing bias. The most notable accusations coming in the form of the documentary Outfoxed.

Well, actually, it was just a robot that sounded like John Kerry.

"Democrats are terrified of the labeling. That's why President Clinton talked so much about welfare reform and 100,000 more cops on the street. Look for the Kerry campaign to try to highlight some conservative votes and positions to try to avoid that labeling at all costs."

Some may be worried about the legitimacy of the US’s presence in various overseas countries. Not OTOFTC, who exist to give… aid to the fighting men and women of the American military.

(In the last week the above link seems to have been eaten by the internet – choose your own conspiracy to explain why. In the meantime, there are sites commenting on OTOFTC here and here.)

She was fired shortly thereafter, and now, years later, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about her firing be retroactively classified, including information that has been posted on the internet and openly discussed by Congress for over two years.

“Difficult times call for great leaders — men of vision, strength and courage. Men like George W. Bush and the shambling, reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan.”