Stephen Colbert Stands Up For The Shrub’s Consistent Iraq War-U.N. Policy

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This is from the September 11, 2003 program.
This clip follows this one. (Watch it first. It will make the clip below a lot funnier.)
Stephen Colbert took the liberty of editing together numerous Shrub speeches in order to create a clip of him actually speaking the words that Rummy and Colin claim he’s been saying all along.
Stephen Colbert On The Shrub’s Consistent Iraq War-U.N. Policy (Small – 8 MB)



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Daily Show On The 9-11 Anniversary And The Shrub’s Revisionist History On Its Stance On U.N. Involvement In Iraq

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This is from the September 11, 2003 program.
These should have been edited into two different clips, but I blew it, so there it is.
The first part is a nice introspective piece from Stewart about 9-11.
Next, a great Shrub War update follows. Highlights include Rummy’s new calm and sedated demeanor — compared to his wartime royal smugness (a.k.a. “Rummy Then and Now”), Colin Powell trying to make peace in the U.N., and both Rummy and Colin saying that the Shrub has always sought U.N. involvement.
If you think this is revisionist history. Just wait till you see the Stephen Colbert clip that follows!
Partial Transcript:

Jon Stewart:
Now while the President’s decision to seek a resolution giving the U.N. a greater role in Iraq seems like…uh…I don’t know… a 180? Administration Officials say this has been the plan all along.
Donald Rumsfield put it this way: “This isn’t anything new. There’s no big news story here.”
Colin Powell says: “The President has said this from the very beginning.”
They’ve been saying these things the whole time? I can’t believe I didn’t realize that. I must be reading the wrong papers. Watching the wrong tv new shows. Listening to the wrong radio stations. Living on the wrong planet.

9-11 Intro and The Shrub’s 180 Degree Turnaround On U.N. Involvement In Iraq (Small – 11 MB)



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Senate Stands Up To Shrub Administration And Adopts Resolution To Roll Back New FCC Media Ownership Rules

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Senate Defies Bush, Overturns FCC Ruling
In Reuters.

The Republican-led U.S. Senate on Tuesday defied Bush administration opposition and voted to rescind new regulations allowing large media companies to grow even bigger.
The Senate approved, 55-40, a resolution that would roll back the Federal Communications Commission rules allowing television networks to own more local stations and permitting conglomerates to own a newspaper, television stations and radio outlets in a single market.
The measure faces a tougher battle in the U.S. House of Representatives and a threat of a veto by President Bush if it reaches his desk.
The Republican-led FCC narrowly adopted the new rules in June, which would allow television networks to own local stations that collectively reach 45 percent of the national audience, up from 35 percent.
The new rules permit one company to own a newspaper, a television station and several radio stations in a single market, lifting a decades-old ban on cross-ownership. A company would also be permitted to own two local television stations in more local markets.

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Hey I’ve got some kind of weird bug going on when users get an error message before the comments sends anyway. Has anyone else seen this problem? Wanna shoot me an email and help me fix it? (Please 🙂
Okay I missed that the Daily Show had an incredible set of recall clips tuesday night — so i’ll be getting those up now.
Then there’s the rest of the week of the Daily Show, the rest of the Dick Cheney clips (yes! there’s more!) — Jesse Jackson’s speech from the protest Tuesday — and whatever else I’ve still got in the kitty from last week…

GAO Top Dog Warns Of The Consequences Of The Shrub’s Record Deficit (But Nobody’s Listening)

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Federal Budget Disaster Seen, but Won’t Be Heard
By Janet Hook for the LA Times.

Even though the government is on track to run a record deficit in excess of $500 billion next year, neither President Bush nor congressional leaders have proposed doing anything to balance the budget anytime soon. Their strategy: to wait for a vigorous economy to do the job for them.
That makes David M. Walker, head of the General Accounting Office, Congress’ investigative arm, a rare Cassandra. He is giving a speech today warning that the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook is seriously out of whack. And he challenges the assumption that economic recovery will solve the problem painlessly.
“We need a wake-up call,” Walker said in an interview. “We need to come to terms with reality: The gap is too great to grow our way out of the problem. Tough choices will be required.”
His is a lonely voice on Capitol Hill, where deficit-expanding initiatives are growing like crabgrass, unchecked amid new budget demands for the war on terrorism and the reconstruction of Iraq.
Bush and lawmakers from both parties continue to press for a $400-billion, 10-year expansion of Medicare to provide prescription drug benefits. House Republicans are pushing yet another round of tax cuts