Think Progress

defiantly proclaimed on Fox News tonight, “I haven’t had no ethical problems.” Here’s 13 specific examples of his ethical improprieties.

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Think Progress

set up to locate an abducted soilder on the orders of the Iraqi Prime Minister. The AP has the story:

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki flexed his political muscle Tuesday and won U.S. agreement to lift military blockades on Sadr City and another Shiite enclave where an American soldier was abducted.

U.S. forces, who had set up the checkpoints in Baghdad last week as part of an unsuccessful search for the soldier, drove away in Humvees and armored personnel carriers at the 5 p.m. deadline set by al-Maliki.

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News Hounds

In a letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, CallingAllWingnuts blogger and Allen constituent Mike Stark says he will press charges against George Allen (R-VA) and "surrogates" who assaulted him today as he tried to ask the US Senate candidate questions about sealed divorce records. Full text follows:

Letter from Mike Stark
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Oct 31, 2006

The following is a letter to NBC29 from Mike Stark, the man who was tackled for a comment he made at Senator Allen's campaign stop in Charlottesville on Tuesday.

My name is Mike Stark. I am a law student at the University ...   more »

Media Matters for America

On the October 31 edition of MSNBC News Live, in an interview with Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who lost both her legs in combat, host Norah O'Donnell asked: "[H]ow do you respond to being called a Defeatocrat?" Additionally, in an interview with Wayne Slater, a senior political writer for The Dallas Morning News and co-author of three books on White House senior adviser Karl Rove, O'Donnell hyped Rove's record of winning elections and asked Slater to affirm that "[h]e's never lost with Bush." O'Donnell also echoed Rove by pointing ...   more »

Media Matters for America

Leading off the October 31 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs misrepresented Sen. John F. Kerry's (D-MA) remarks during an October 30 speech at a campaign rally in Pasadena, California. Adopting the White House's characterization of Kerry's statement, Dobbs alleged that Kerry said "students should think about getting stuck in Iraq if they don't work hard at school." An Internet poll on the page for Lou Dobbs Tonight on the CNN website similarly adopted the White House's interpretation of Kerry's remarks, asking: "Do you believe John Kerry owes our troops in Iraq ...   more »

Media Matters for America

During the 2 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC News Live, several NBC correspondents baselessly suggested that Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) explanation for a remark he made during an October 30 appearance at Pasadena City College in California lacked credibility, with NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell stating that it was "hard to imagine" Kerry's explanation is true. As CNN reported, in his speech, Kerry told "a group of college students they could either work hard in school or 'get stuck in Iraq,' " and later reported Kerry's assertion that "the remark was ...   more »