A billboard on display in Orange County, Florida shows the World Trade Center towers burning while telling passers-by: “Please Don’t Vote for a Democrat.” The local ABC News affiliate reports that the person responsible is a local musician “trying to help Republicans” but that “officials with both political parties are calling the billboard inappropriate.”
McCain on adoption: A gay parent is half a parent
Fox News host: 15 year-old detainee ‘maybe deserved’ harsh treatment.
Today, lawyers for Canadian national Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo detainee, released an interrogation video from 2003, showing Khadr weeping and begging for better medical treatment. Discussing the video today on Fox News, host Trace Gallagher declared Khadr had killed an American solider — Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade — and so “maybe he deserves” to be tortured.
In May, British international lawyer Philippe Sands told Vanity Fair that Iraq war architect Doug Feith was instrumental in the Bush administration’s shredding of the Geneva Conventions. Feith “took the steps to ensure that none of these detainees could rely on Geneva,” Sands said.
In a house hearing today, Feith disputed Sands’s interview, calling it a “twisted account.” “I strongly championed a policy of respect for Geneva, and I did not recommend that the President set aside Common Article 3,” he claimed. Feith said Sands had “smeared” him:
So Mr. Sands’s account about me is fundamentally wrong. This is important not because that account smears me, it’s significant because it exposes the astonishing carelessness or recklessness of his book and his Vanity Fair article.
In his opening statement, Sands said Feith’s claim “is not an accurate statement.” “I did interview Mr. Feith for my book,” Sands explained, volunteering to make available the “audio and the transcript” of his interview to the committee. Sands said that Feith told him that detainees were not to receive Geneva protections “at all”:
This is what he said to me: “The point is, the al Qaeda people were not entitled to have the Convention applied at all. Period. Obvious.”
Boehner falsely claims there’s no ‘wildlife’ in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
In a press conference today previewing a House Republican trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that’s meant to promote drilling, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) doubted the existence of actual wildlife in the refuge. “We’re going to look at this barren, Arctic desert where I’m hoping to see some wildlife,” said Boehner. “But I understand there’s none there.” Boehner repeated his skepticism during an interview on CNN, telling Wolf Blitzer, “I’ll be looking for all that wildlife.” Ironically, CNN paired Boehner’s interview with b-roll of actual wildlife moving around the refuge.
In an interview with TV Barn yesterday, Fox News’s Chris Wallace said that he doesn’t “use” former Bush political guru Karl Rove as “a Republican talking head” when he has him on his show, but as “a straight political analyst.” “Karl Rove is the most sophisticated political analyst I’ve ever met,” said Wallace.
But in the course of his interview, Wallace contradicted his own claim that Rove is a “straight shooter,” admitting that he’s “obviously’ a “Republican” and a “partisan”:
WALLACE: First of all, and you’ll see that today, Karl Rove is the most sophisticated political analyst I’ve ever met. I’ve been in this business more than a quarter of a century, and this is not a Republican talking head, he is a political savant and beyond any questions, obviously he’s a Republican, obviously he’s a partisan. But his ability to analyze a political situation and analyze the strategy and how it’s being played out is the deepest, the most sophisticated I’ve ever seen.
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