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The loudest of Fox News’ vicious pack of howling hyenas, Sean Hannity has chosen to suffer from Amnesia temporarily — at least for now while hyping the “Moose From Wasilla,” “WasillaBilly” Sarah Palin.

Media Matters reports: This is the same Hannity who said the following a few days ago in reference to Internet rumors about Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter, “[T]hey tried to make the attack that she has a young daughter, pregnant and engaged. Is that fair that they would attack that? I mean, I don’t remember Chelsea Clinton being attacked. I don’t remember Al Gore’s children being attacked. I thought there was a general rule that children of candidates ought to be left alone.”

In fact, Chelsea Clinton was not “left alone” — not by Sen. John McCain, and not by Rush Limbaugh.

McCain reportedly told a “joke” about Chelsea Clinton in 1998, saying: “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

The late columnist Molly Ivins reported of Limbaugh:

“On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, ‘Did you know there’s a White House dog?‘ Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.

When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea — which I found as disgusting as his original attempt at humor.”

It is puzzling to note that these two imbeciles command the highest radio listener ship in North America — each with a weekly audience of 13+ million.

Informs me on one thing: A portion of America (roughly 30% = George Bush’s approval rating) is SICK TO THE BONE.

Note: Listen to Limbaugh disparage Obama — The drug addicted radio talk show host most Republicans listen to.

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News In a Time of Terror.

From AudioFile: Muzzle in hand, Woolcott debunks and defangs the “attack poodles” of the right-wing media–including Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Dennis Miller, and a kennel-full more of these biting, snapping, reactionary Republican lapdogs.

Armed with a rolled-up newspaper of wit, sarcasm, and detailed information, the author, through the marvelously funny interpretation of Dennis Boutsikaris, will keep you laughing while you get wiser to the outpourings of the mini-canines mentioned in the title. Thanks to our reader, the snarky humor and highbrow high jinks come through loud, clear, and laughable. D.J.B.

The Hypochrisy of Sean Hannity

Hannity Suggests Obama Is A Dangerous Racist & Anti-Semite

Right-Wing RACISTS like Rush Limbaugh are Petrified of Obama!!

Hillary Clinton may have multitudes of middle-aged female admirers, but she has significantly less male fans. Guys are put off by her screechy voice, pathological lying, death stare, dowdy pantsuits, hellacious temper, ruthless ambition, crocodile tears, and killer cackle. But Hillary has a 71-year-old male suitor who fawns all over her, and showers her with superlatives.

I’m referring to John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who is desperate to capture the hearts of Hillary’s legions of disappointed and angry female voters. McCain never misses an opportunity to compliment Hillary on everything from her grit and determination to her accomplishments and successes. After Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, McCain dismissed Obama’s historic victory with one line, and spent a good five minutes praising Hillary Clinton’s losing effort.

This is the same John McCain who told the following crude and mean joke when Chelsea Clinton was only 17:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

This is the same John McCain who is an adamant enemy of abortion rights, and voted to terminate a family-planning program that provides breast-cancer screenings.

This is the same John McCain who is against national health care, it’s women and children who suffer the most from the lack of affordable health care.

If Hillary Clinton has a shred of dignity and if she really wants Obama to win, she must publicly rebuff and rebuke McCain’s flirtations.

The women who voted for Hillary aren’t fooled by McCain’s wooing of their heroine, Obama has a huge lead among female voters.

McCain is succeeding only in making a spectacle of himself, if Mother Teresa were still alive would he whisper “sweet nothings” in her ear to capture the Catholic vote?

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MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Excoriates John McCain

Olbermann: Context and decency elude the GOP presidential nominee

A few nights ago, in a “Special Comment”, Keith Olbermann took a look at the context of John McCain’s “not too important” comment regarding the urgency of bringing American troops home from the Iraq war.

More Special Comments by Keith Olbermann

By BOB HERBERT

Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun?

Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright was a gift from the gods to the Clintons and the G.O.P.), and some pretty serious self-inflicted wounds.

You can almost feel the air seeping out of the Obama phenomenon. The candidate and his aides are brainstorming ways to counter the Clinton death-ray machine and regain the momentum. They need to generate some new excitement and enthusiasm, and they need to do it soon.

Despite all the new voters who have been brought into the process, Democrats are filled with anxiety about their prospects in November. A nervous operative told me on Friday: “If we lose this election, it would be like Johnson losing to Goldwater.”

One of the problems is that anger is growing like a cancer among Democrats. The Clintons have more than lived up to their polarizing reputations, slicing and dicing the electorate and then gleefully exploiting the myriad divisions.

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By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Hillary Clinton’s made-from-whole-cloth fantasy about the perils of her trip to Bosnia was no unique foray into a world of make-believe accomplishments.

She’s been doing that for a long time.

Here’s another telling example: At a 1997 race-relations forum for teenagers in Boston, Hillary recalled the “pain” of a “childhood encounter” that helped her to grasp the injury suffered by the victims of bigotry. Her comments came as her husband was launching his second term in office by calling for a national dialogue on race and reconciliation. In an effort to empathize with her audience and inject herself into the discussion, she made up yet another incident that never happened.

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“During a junior high school soccer game” on a cold day, Hillary claimed “a goalee told her ‘I wish people like you would freeze.’” Stunned, the future first lady asked how she could feel that way when she did not even know her. “I don’t have to know you,” the goalee shot back, “to know I hate you.”

Nice story, but it never happened.

While today’s generation of young girls routinely play on multiple soccer teams in their schools and towns, Hillary’s generation had no such opportunity. Hillary may have attended lots of Chelsea Clinton’s soccer games, but, that seems to be the sum total of her soccer career. As a school sport, girls’ soccer teams didn’t exist when Hillary went to middle or high school. In 2004, the Athletic Director for South Main High School in Park Ridge — and a 34-year veteran of the school system — confirmed that there were no girls’ soccer teams of any kind in Hillary’s school district in the 1960s.

Hillary seems to have simply conjured up the tale, like the one about the Balkans and the one about Chelsea jogging around the Trade Center on 9/11 and the one about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, to appear more relevant to her listeners and to establish a bond of empathy with them.

(Girls’ soccer was catalyzed by the passage of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in 1972 which mandated that girls and boys sports be treated equally in public education. It was only well after that law went into effect that girls’ soccer teams sprung up. Unfortunately, Hillary was 25 at the time and well past her intramural days).

These “embellishments” of Hillary’s biography are similar to those of Al Gore during his race in 2000. But her claims to foreign policy experience and domestic policy influence in the White House are far more important. Nobody ever questioned the experience of competence of the Vice President as he ran for the top job based on his decades of serving in federal office. But Hillary has had just seven rather uneventful years in the Senate (and she hasn’t shown up for the last year while she was campaigning for president.) We have to take Hillary’s word about what role she played in the Administration’s policy formulation. And her word has been increasingly disputed.

Just this week, former Democratic Congressman William Lacy Clay, one of the original sponsors of the Family Leave Act, challenged her claim that she played a major role in passing the landmark bill. Hillary Clinton “never had anything to do with it,” he said. Clay pointed out that the bill had been passed several times by the Democratic Congress before Bill and Hillary ever arrived in Washington, but was subsequently vetoed twice by former President Bush. It was a no-brainer that Clinton would sign the bill — as he did just 15 days after taking office. And, during that time, Hillary’s official schedules never mention the words “Family Leave Act.” Her tight calendar in those two weeks included lots of health care meetings, attending the funeral of Thurgood Marshall, joining the president at the National Prayer Breakfast (her schedules notes: no formal role for the First Lady), attending a week-end session at Camp David with her latest new age guru, and hosting a dinner dance for the National Governor’s Association. But nothing about the Family Leave Act that she worked so hard to pass.

As we learn more and more about her propensity to make up stories and read herself into history — a modern Forrest Gump — we can be forgiven if we take her claims to have been central to everything from the economic recovery to the Irish peace process with a large grain of salt.

Why does she feel the need to enhance her relevance or dramatize her story with fantasies? When it comes to personal whoppers, like the soccer one, it’s likely that it’s because she’s seen how effortlessly Bill relates to his audiences, conveying empathy by biting his lip or with a tear in his eye. Hillary knows that she can’t do that. So she invents circumstances that compensate and put her in the midst of the action, at the center of events. She tries to create empathy, become close to the audience, through contrivance since she can’t project it adequately without resorting to fiction. It’s crazy, but relatively harmless.

But the stories about her fake co-president experiences are another issue entirely. Her tales of stopping the recession or speaking up for Rwanda (when no one — even the president — knew about the genocide or had any meetings about the issue) or being “instrumental” in the Irish peace process are not reminisces of her days in the White House. They’re the calculated fantasies of a person who changes her stories when the truth is too prosaic or not sufficiently politically relevant. That’s Hillary Clinton.