NEWZ: Eisenhower Jumps Ship

A couple of days ago, the big news was that Bush's home-town newspaper had endorsed Kerry. (They endorsed Bush 4 years ago, and now consider it a mistake.)

This one's just as good: John Eisenhower, the son of Republican President Eisenhower, and a Republican for 50 years, says he'll be voting for Kerry.

Here's a clip:

Now more than ever, we voters will have to make cool judgments, unencumbered by habits of the past. Experts tell us that we tend to vote as our parents did or as we “always have.” We remained loyal to party labels. We cannot afford that luxury in the election of 2004. There are times when we must break with the past, and I believe this is one of them.

As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration’s decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry.

There's more here.

NEWZ: FoxNews Fabricates News Story

We've all known that Fox News was terribly biased for a couple of years now.

Today, though, they truly stepped over the line by fabricating a news story, complete with made-up John Kerry quotes, that was clearly intended to portray Kerry as a foolish girly-man.

Think I'm exagerrating? Here's part of the story:

"Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" Kerry said Friday.

With the foreign-policy debate in the history books, Kerry hopes to keep the pressure on and the sense of traction going.

Aides say he will step up attacks on the president in the next few days, and pivot somewhat to the domestic agenda, with a focus on women and abortion rights.

"It's about the Supreme Court. Women should like me! I do manicures," Kerry said.

Here's the link to the blogger who broke the story:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_26.php#003556

Just read from there down.

Not amazingly at all, Fox News isn't firing the ass of Carl Cameron, the "reporter" who made up the quotes and story, then had them posted to Fox New's front page.