Official WF POLITICS Thread

One of my favorite bars/music venues is going out of business this month because they are $50,000 in the hole. Can't the government bail them out? The Abbey Lounge encourages not only local music, which is good for the soul, but also encourages my increased drinking since dealing with the repercussions of the economy. It's win, win. And $50k is like a drop in the jar compared to what they gave AIG to use on their spa retreat.

Don't you have your own board to spam up?
Good job faking your age.

All signs point that it was written as if everything was going to happen in the near near near future.. Although John, the writer of Revelation didn't know when Jesus was coming back, as no one does now. I still believe that will happen, but for the mark of the beast it was all written about current times.

I don't know if this helps anyone, but my Bible prof looks at prophesy this way:

Prophets are not necessarily tellers of the future, but critics of the present.

I don't know that I'd go as far as saying all signs point that direction. If that was the case there wouldn't be controversy on the subject.

I Hope Barrack obama lives up to what he says because people will be pissed if he doesn't

This is going to require more details being told.

Wow. That's awful.

She wants that Alaskan senate seat. No doubt about it.

NEW YORK -- MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.

David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a FOX News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin -- not the FOX News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.

Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.

And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."

Stein later realized he'd been had.

"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."


Surprise, surprise...the media isn't very bright. I guess they don't teach them to check their sources anymore.