You’ll love this one. Norm Coleman has told the FEC he ought to be able to use campaign funds to pay his lawyers for answering questions from TPMmuckraker about corruption allegations involving Coleman and his wife. That’s all fine and dandy, but we never got a response to our multiple inquiries, not even once.
Late Update: TPM Reader PK figures what happened: “His lawyers probably advised him not to answer the questions and charged him a whopping amount for that bit of advice.”
If, as Dick Cheney’s daughter says, Cheney’s torture crusade is like Al Gore global warming activism, can’t he hurry up and form his pro-torture organization and shoot his movie?
Consumerist, which used to be a Gawker Media site but is now run by Consumer Reports, is going to DC to interview Austan Goolsbee about credit card reforms and consumer protection rules. So they’re looking for questions (and horror stories) you’d like asked when they sit down with Goolsbee.
Maybe they can also ask Goolsbee what he’s doing with a name from Edwardian England.
Yoo hired as Philly Inquirer columnist to “counter some of the criticism of The Inquirer as being a knee-jerk liberal publication.”
Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney asked if she could stay on longer on MSNBC this morning to ambush Eugene Robinson about torture.
One thing I can’t help mentioning. I know others have ridiculed this nonsense. But I truly cannot believe that Liz Cheney keeps going on the air to say that waterboarding cannot, by definition, be torture since we do it to our own people to prepare them for the experience of being tortured. Setting aside the elementary point that we’re doing it to prepare for them for the experience of being tortured (which suggests it is torture) is it not the most obvious thing in the world that being waterboarded by your fellow soldiers, knowing that you won’t be injured and that the whole experience will be very short, is nothing at all like being waterboarded by captors dozens of times with no reason to believe it will ever end?
How does this fool even get put on television?