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Russell Brand is America’s Golden Saviour
Russell Brand has made Fox News and those Disney rock stars angry. He’ll always be my hero for introducing the concept of seagulling (see definition #2).
They offer some extra facts “for the record”, which is thoughtful.
Fox News:
The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” funnyman also encouraged Americans to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in the upcoming election, referred to George W. Bush as a “retarded cowboy fella” and took a shot at Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin and her pregnant daughter.
“The safe sex message is to use a condom or become a Republican,” Brand said.
For the record, Rus isn’t an American citizen and can’t vote anyway …
The “Politicization” of the DoJ
Today the Justice Department released a report concluding that Bush loyalists at the DoJ broke the law by allowing “politics” to influence their hiring decisions. The way this ongoing scandal has been reported has often been in the context of “politicization,” of how the administration sought to bring in like-minded yes-men in order to promote executive sovereignty. I think there are two problems with this: (1) I don’t think you can call what the administration did in regards to the DoJ to be “politicization,” properly so-called; and (2) the tacit assumption on behalf of most pundits has been that “politicization” is something that should be condemned.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Check out this great interactive venn diagram of Bush administration criminals over at Slate. The who’s-who of torturers, crooks and liars is about what you’d expect. (Via Matthew Yglesias.)
Bush Backs Israeli Attack On Iran
If it ever comes to that, I think a serious war crimes prosecution is in order.
Preparing the Battlefield
Seymour Hersh has written a an extremely thorough and insightful article on the Bush administration’s ongoing effort to start a war with Iran in the New Yorker, detailing the covert actions undertaken by the White House against Iran over the past year or so, as well as Congress’ capitulation to the GOP war machine. Highly recommended reading. (Via 3 Quarks Daily.)
Bush’s Third Term
Although I admit to never having seen any of the Saw movies, which isn’t something I’m frankly all that disappointed about, I thought this was a fantastic little piece of photoshoppery. (Original Flickr link here.)