I’ve never been terribly impressed with Liz Cheney. Her father may have a pact with Satan, despite the records of the negotiations remaining off limits due to executive privilege. But he’s a highly accomplished government operative and insider over a period of something like forty years — with a decent span as a member of the House.
But I’m not sure I remember her fibbing on quite this scale before. But when Liz Cheney attacked President Obama for his visit to Dover Air Force Base to greet and honor the bodies of American servicemen killed in action in Afghanistan, she claimed that President Bush routinely did the same thing — only without cameras. Yet, there’s no evidence Bush ever did this. Not even once. Cameras or no cameras. Reporters who covered Obama and Bush say Obama’s the first to have done this.
Curious whether she’ll get asked about this. She shows up on Fox pretty often.
In a classic segment, Jon Stewart demonstrates how Fox News carefully maintains its well-constructed Chinese wall between news and opinion. Watch.
That Nasa scientist charged with passing classified information to a FBI agent posing as a Mossad agent but who, as we’ve reported, may have really been spying for India, was also passing info to real Israelis, prosecutors now say. Confused yet? Justin Elliott explains.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was on Fox News this morning when they suddenly started asking him if the “death panels” were still in the new health care bills that have now been unveiled. Cornyn seemed a little caught off guard, so he didn’t inhale the bait, he just nibbled around on it, like he’d forgotten his talking points from the hot days of August. I’m confident he’ll be more on message next time.
Looking for signs that Democrats will do well at the polls on Tuesday? Don’t look to the White House, which is working hard to downplay the significance of a bad showing on Election Day.
If you’re a longtime regular, you probably already know that we’ll be here Tuesday evening bringing you live election results as they come in. And if you’re new, well, we’ll be here Tuesday evening, bringing you live election results until the last results come in, through the combined brainpower of TPM tech wizard Al Shaw and TPM election results kingpin Eric Kleefeld.
Let’s quickly go through the races. We’ve got governors races in New Jersey (handful of new polls out today) and Virginia, the special election in NY-23rd district, the mayor’s race in New York City (if you can call its that) and the marriage equality vote in Maine (i.e., “Question 1”). Those are the ones we’ll be following closely.
So who do you think is going to win? Send me your educated guesses. The New York Mayor’s race seems to have about the suspense of Newtonian physics. The Virginia governor’s race, a bit more tension, but not much. But NY-23, NJ-Gov and Marriage-Maine, these could be late into the evening.
What are you expecting?
Christie and Giuliani hit the trail for the final stretch in New Jersey
Has the Public Option been made so emasculated and available to so few people that its premiums will actually end up being higher than private insurance premiums. Brian Beutler explains why the Public Option may end up being the insurance companies’ best friend.
We’ve got a late Friday afternoon document dump from the White House, releasing months of White House visitor logs. We’ve got the story here. And if you’re in a digging mood we’ve got an open thread here at TPMMuckraker for digging through and finding the best stuff.