Sunday, October 17, 2004

THE EMPEROR AND HIS VALET Independent: "Tony Blair has secretly agreed to allow President Bush to site US missiles on British soil as part of the new US "son of Star Wars" programme, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Malcolm Savidge, MP for Aberdeen North and a leading opponent of missile defence, said it would lead to a revolt among Labour backbenchers. 'This is part of an increasing surrender of British interests to satisfy the obsessions of the Bush administration.'" 11:00:38 PM

AGGRESSIVE CONSERVATISM NY Times: "Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that 'if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3'. The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion." This story shows how bad the situation has become with those aggressive conservatists. 10:56:01 PM

CONSERVATIVE BIAS Aaron Swartz: "David Brock was once a young college student who got sucked into the vortex of the conservative movement. Once inside, he stretched and twisted the truth to go after his clique's enemies, writing attack pieces on Anita Hill, Bill Clinton, and others. Several years ago, he began to realize he'd gone wrong and he finally told his story in Blinded by the Right. Earlier this year he published The Republican Noise Machine which tells the larger story of a well-funded conservative apparatus with the aim of pulling the media to the right with phony charges of 'liberal bias', alternative news outlets pumping their disinformation, and the production of misleading reports and studies from conservative think tanks that the press can just drop in their reports." You can find more about the conservative bias here. And RetroVsMetro has a good blog . 11:52:48 AM

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