The Daily Broadside - 10/15

Gunmen attack federal building in Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Gunmen entered a federal law enforcement building in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, firing shots and terrifying employees in the latest in a string of attacks to rock this U.S.-allied nuclear-armed country as it prepares to launch a major offensive in a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold.

Republicans oppose bringing 9/11 plotters to US for trial

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday defended a Republican measure to prevent bringing five September 11 suspects from their Guantanamo prison to the United States for trial in civilian courts.
"The question is not whether terror suspects should be brought to justice. The question is where and how," the Republican senator said Wednesday.

"And the answer is perfectly clear: the right forum is military commissions at the secure facility we already have at Guantanamo, not in civilian courts in US communities," he added.

ESPN Guest: 'Racist' Rush Would Never Hire Black Coach

ADRIAN WOJNAROWSKI: People do not want a bigot as an owner. He's a racist. He's a bigot. He's shown it for years. He's made his career off in a large way off marginalizing black culture and African-Americans, and now he wants to buy into an industry where 70% of the players, the talent, the work-force is African-American and make money off of it? He doesn't get to do that.

JIM ROME: What do you base your base your comment that he's a bigot on? Those two quotes that are floating around right now that he has said do not really exist, or his body of work?

WOJNAROWSKI: His body of work. You go back years, now. He's showed maybe through the years, he has said, been less vociferous as he was early. But he has time after time after time been a polarizing, made racially insensitive remarks. I mean, are you going to allow him to make an NFL, an African-American NFL assistant, with the Rooney rule, who has to sit in his office for what's essentially going to be a token interview and patronize that guy?

26-Year-Old Redskins Cheerleader Disabled by Flu Shot Reaction

Mark Steyn on Limbaugh: Okay, Prove You Didn't Say It! (Hat tip: Ace)

So where are these racist soundbites? Where's the audio? Where's the transcript? Name the year. Heigh-ho, say CNN's Rick Sanchez and the rest of the basement-ratings crowd. Not our problem: It's for Limbaugh to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's never said it. We're too busy fact-checking anti-Obama jokes to fact-check our own reporting.