"Is there anyone left here who, from this and other links here, still can realistically claim that MSNBC is anything other than a complete tool of the Democratic Party?"

Well, probably +90% of those who work at MSNBC are Dems. And they will attract as their audience mostly Dems. So a problem they have is they live in a echo chamber.

Lefties as a general rule have been educated so as to think there is no such a thing as the truth, but instead they think it's their task to make the truth. One must keep in mind that their biggest heros are some of the biggest liars and mass murderers to have ever existed: Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc. You have break a few eggs to make an omelette- or said more bluntly, you have murder millions of people in order to bring about your ideal society.

Perhaps, since the Left has been brainwashed to think that you have murder huge numbers of people to make an omelette, and they know that progress is being made in Iraq, it becomes obvious to them that lots of people must have been murdered. And I suppose they might also think that since the terrorists are doing a large portion of the killing, that it's actually the terrorists/thugs/insurgents who should be credited with doing all the responsible and neccessary work.

I do like the idea of making a list the biggest lies of 2006. But perhaps someone not so focused on hating President Bush should take a crack at doing it.

Though I think the biggest lies of the last decade and/or the biggest lies of the last Century might show a clearer picture.

Some suggestions for the biggest lies of 2006:

Gore and his fear mongering regarding Global warming- and news stories on global warming in general would have to fit in here as one of the biggest lies/scam.

Jimmy Carter's book?

The news reporting of Katrina. Katrina occurred in 2005 but the lies were continued into 2006 to the present. Of course the prediction that 2006 would be one of the worst hurriance season obviously turned out to be false.

The pallywood of the Lebannon conflict was a long prolonged series of lies.

The continuing Oil for Food scandal:
"Benon Sevan of Cyprus, who headed the program, defended it, claiming that it had only a 2.2% administrative cost and that it was subject to more than 100 audits (internal and external), blaming restrictions from the Security Council for making the situation difficult. He also claimed that 90% of Iraq's population relied on the programme for its monthly food basket. While Benon Sevan was in charge of the programme, he stonewalled efforts to review and investigate the programme."
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"According to an interim report released on February 3, 2005 by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's commission (see #Investigations below), much of the food aid supplied under the program "was unfit for human consumption". The report concluded that Sevan had accepted nearly $150,000 in bribes over the course of the programme, and in 2005 he was suspended from his position at the United Nations as a result of the investigation of fraud in the programme."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme

The Duke "rape" case.

Sgt. Jamil Hussein fabrication.

How about the constant drumbeat that the reason we invaded Iraq was because there were "stockpiles of WMD".
And the numbskull implication that because no large stockpiles were found, that war is wrong.
And the false claim that the existance of these stockpiles was the justification given by President Bush.

No sense mentioning the obvious fact that Saddam had violated and was violating the cease fire agreement. That it was confirmed that Saddam had the retained capability and clearly had the intention of re-acquire WMD. That Saddam had gassed Kurdish civilians. That Saddam was giving money to the families of suicide bombers. That Saddam still was a threat to the region and if sanctions were to be lifted could become a greater threat to the region. Or that the Oil for Food program was complete and utter farce. Or as it was admitted by CNN, that it was held hostage by Saddam's regime and feared brutal consequences if any CNN stories were thought to be unfavorable to Saddam's regime.