Wherein The Inner Conspiracy Theorist In Me Comes Out

Why do I have this uneasy feelin in my gullet that the outgoing Bush administration is going to have a "very important" press conference on the afternoon of the 19th?

Pressed on some of the foreign policy missteps and shortcomings of the Bush administration, Dick Cheney, even with just days to go in his time in public office, pleaded for more time.

Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer why President Bush had been unable to "capture or kill [Osama] bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 al Qaeda leader," the vice president replied:

Well, we've got a few days left yet, Wolf.

I mean, even if he's just kidding around - and why would someone kid around about the man that the Bush White House has had labeled the "most wanted" ever since 2001.....don't answer that - about Bin Laden, doesn't it make this whole interview even more pointless. Doesn't it lend more credance to the fact that Cheney and Bush never really cared about catching him in the first place?

Fanboy In Cheif

I've been collecting comics since the mid 80's.

Never did the get the first printings of the Watchmen comics - for which i'm still kicking myself over - but I do have some nice gems in the boxes that rest in that warm and dry space in my closet.

No doubt that fans of Spider-Man, Barack Obama, and even his detractors will be itching to talk about next week's issue #358 of The Amazing Spiderman:

WASHINGTON — Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.

Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief.

"How great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a nerd in chief," Quesada said. "It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We're all thrilled with that."

The comic starts with Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.

Parker decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man," and springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and punching out the impostor.

Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.

No doubt this will be fodder for people like Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and the Fox and Friends stooges. What these predictable, reactionary, prattle-heads will not likely realize is that Barack Obama collects comics.

He's already been in an issue of The Savage Dragon.

But, McCain hasn't lost out competely in the comics arena:



The question stands though - who would other superheroes endorse? The answers might suprise your or be rather expected.

But You Call It Your "Talking Points Memo" , Bill.

Bill O'Reilly has been full righteous indignation the past few days since Scott McClellan spoke with Chris Matthews about the Bush White House distributing talking points to Fox"News".

Q: Did people say call Sean, call Bill, call whoever? Did you do that as a regular thing?

McCLELLAN: Certainly. Certainly. It wasn’t necessarily something I was doing, but it was something that we at the White House, yes, were doing.

Even though Bill and Sean Hannity were cited as examples by Matthews, O'Reilly has decided to go after Scott, calling him a liar without any proof to back up the fact that he has NOT received said "talking pionts".

You can check out O'Reilly's "Reality Check" moment on McClellan here.

McClellan is more than just a little-bit of a push-over. He went on O'Reilly's radio program and then proceeded to apologize for O'Reilly's name being attached to all of this.

What a fucking pussy.

Seriously, though, McClellan provides little proof other than the fact that he worked as the "mouthpiece" for the Bush White House. But, O'Reilly is expecting everyone to take him at his word. This is little more than a "he said, they said" type situation.

And it was Matthews that injected O'Reilly's and Hannity's name into all of this. McClellan just agreed that they were part of the group at Fox"News" that would have gone along with this.

Both sides need to present some hard evidence that backs up their statements.

As far as I'm concerned, I wouldn't put it past ANYONE at Fox to have their hands out when the Bush administration hands them something to use.