Archive for November, 2009
White House Gatecrashers: Fascinating?
We haven’t covered the story of the state dinner crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi here at DL because it didn’t seem like a big deal. The Salahis managed to get past Secret Service security, which raises some eyebrows, but ultimately nothing happened. The Salahis managed to get photographed with Rahm Emmanuel, Joe Biden and even […]
Black Friday Open Thread
Today is Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. How many of you braved the stores today? I’m happily ensconced on my couch today. I try to avoid shopping on Black Friday if I can, I don’t like the craziness. It’s your open thread so let’s get started. Here is a cool link […]
National Day of Listening
I was going to post up something about the Black Friday madness (even picked out some music), but I heard something yesterday which I think is much more useful.
Trouble In Paradise?
Remember all that talk about a Palin/Beck ticket? Glenn Beck says it isn’t going to happen and he has really good reasons why it won’t happen: But just a few hours later on his radio show, Beck shot down the idea, saying he was “absolutely” ruling out a Palin-Beck ticket. He explained that if he […]
Classic Thanksgiving Video Fare
The WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop episode for those of you looking for a small time killer as you recover from your turkey and gravy overdose. This is the very funny end of that episode:
Little Kids Re-Enact the First Thanksgiving (and Other Stuff)
These kids are adorable even tho the history isn’t exactly right, but it seems like the perfect Delaware Liberal thing to do to put up a video re-enacting Thanksgiving from the junior Howard Zinn perspective:
Tom Carper Never Lets Go the Rightwing Talking Points
Call this post reason #578,091 why Senator Tom Carper is not a progressive. As if a proud member of the DLC could be. Senator Carper tells WHYY:
Does the GOP Purity Test Abandon Mike Castle?
Adam Nagourney at the NYT brings up this possibility in their political blog today:
Bush’s Term Was Only Kittens And Rainbows
Remember how we snickered when Dana Perino admitted she didn’t know anything about the Bay of Pigs? Her problems with history are more severe than that: But Perino’s appearance last night with Sean Hannity was more noteworthy than most. The topic was the shootings at Fort Hood, and Perino, playing her usual role, criticized the […]
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