It’s the weekend and I hope you’re enjoying it. I’m getting a new dishwasher installed today. I can’t wait! So let’s start this open thread.
Michael Steele is in quite a bit of trouble. He wrote a book but forgot to let the party know he was doing it. It’s his 12-step plan for Republicans to win. He abruptly cancelled an interview yesterday for an emergency meeting of the RNC. Is he about to get fired? He must be feeling the pressure because he’s claiming that he wrote the book before he became head of the RNC:
Appearing today on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, RNC chairman Michael Steele said that he wrote his book Right Now before he became chairman. The problem is, the book itself doesn’t read like it could have possibly been written before January 2009 — it was clearly written in late 2009, either in November or December, and is based entirely on current events up to that point.
There’s a problem with that claim, it references events from 2009, some from late 2009. I guess he thinks people won’t fact check it?
The book is full of references to current events in 2009: The stimulus bill, the health care debate, foreign policy, ACORN, the party switch of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Tea Parties and the 9/12 March on Washington, etc.
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Bob Cesca fact-checks Giuliani’s terrorism statements and finds he’s wrong of course, terrorists were much more active during Bush’s term than Clinton’s.
In terms of methodology, I covered the following types of terrorist attacks against American personnel, civilians and interests:
1) Domestic (Abortion-related attacks, Oklahoma City, Unabomber, Anthrax)
2) Domestic Islamic (9/11, WTC 1993, Beltway Snipers, Chapel Hill)
3) Overseas Islamic (Iraq, Afghanistan, USS Cole, Embassy Bombings)
4) Known Failed Attempts (Shoe Bomber, Underpants Bomber)
5) Overseas Attacks Against U.S. Allies (London, Madrid).
These categories should cover the basic forms of terrorist attacks against Americans whether abroad or on our soil.
