Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Check out this blog, It’s Still The Economy, Stupid:
As it turns out if you want actual information, non-distorted even, about the likely-to-pass tax cut proposal, you have to go to the Wall Street Journal. All of the following are on Page 1, above the fold:
* Bush’s Tax Cut: Victory–at a Cost
* Bill marked by gimmicks [...]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Andrew Greeley on cowboy rhetoric:
Patently, President Bush is not going to assume responsibility for the World Trade Center catastrophe. His political allies blame former President Bill Clinton (as they are blaming him three years later for the current recession). Moreover, Bush continues to stonewall attempts to set up an independent investigation of what went wrong, [...]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Paul Krugman on the dangers of a liquidity trap.
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Bill Moyers points out that journalists are ultimately paid for candor.
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Annoying professional moralist Michael Medved sounds the alarm on (I swear to God I’m not making this up) Marvel Comics. It’s a pdf file, so I can’t quote. This right-wing sock puppet is upset that Marvel heroes promote “destructive cynicism and mistrust of the United States.” Well, yeah! Why does he think they’re so popular?
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Harley Sorensen suggests Ann “Thrax” Coulter as our new moral compass.
To my way of thinking, Coulter is the perfect candidate to speak for the right. She’s viperous, unprincipled, holier-than-thou, paranoid, whiny and blessed with a perpetual smirk. She believes rich people who rip off the system are just good businesspeople, that poor people forced to [...]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Ted Rall asks: When are Americans going to demand a real war on terrorism?
Can Bush really be this stupid? All underground organizations, including Al Qaeda, employ a loose hierarchical structure. No individual member is indispensable, so the capture of even a high-ranking official cannot compromise the group. Each lost member is instantly replaced by the [...]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
MoDo rips one out:
The C.I.A. is snooping around itself and other spy agencies to see if prewar reports of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda were exaggerated.
The suspense is killing me.
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Great Frank Rich piece on our own national Matrix:
If there’s a hero in our own Matrix saga, it may be Barry Diller, who is considerably more articulate than Keanu Reeves’s Neo, if somewhat less schooled in the martial arts. Mr. Diller, who now runs USA Interactive, has been chairman of Paramount, Vivendi and Fox. With [...]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2003
Rep. Rush Holt (NJ) has introduced a bill to require a paper trail for all electronic voting machines. Obviously, THE issue next year…
Posted in General on May 24th, 2003
The Guardian reports that Iraq is now a land of armed predators - and prey.
Militant religious and political leaders from the downtrodden Shia majority manoeuvre and prepare for power, and Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani has quit in disgust the US-appointed commission tasked to form a government, returning to Kurdistan in the north with his militias.
Since [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2003
Baudrillard says “The Matrix” is based on misunderstanding of his work, but you might enjoy this anyway.
Posted in General on May 24th, 2003
Finally, some good news:
Fifteen years ago, Arthur C. Clarke in the science-fiction novel “2061: Odyssey Three” predicted a future as follows: “With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family.”
Posted in General on May 24th, 2003
Y’all don’t have to worry about those silly terror alerts inconveniencing you. The states don’t have any money left to do anything about them.
Posted in General on May 24th, 2003
Hmmm. So the stated purpose of the Leave No Millionaire Behind Tax Gift was short-term economic stimulus, yet now the Repugs are loudly proclaiming their intention to make all these lovely parting gifts a permanent thing. Which would almost indicate their only motivation is… to force the government into near bankruptcy and loot the coffers [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Great joke from The Gamer’s Nook :
US Attorney General John Ashcroft is visiting an elementary school. After the typical civics presentation, he announces, “All right, boys and girls, you can all ask me questions now.”
A young boy named Bobby raises his hand and says, “I have 3 questions:
1. How did Bush win the election with [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
You know, it’s been a rough six months or so. I lost my job, my ex-husband died, my car engine blew a rod, and if this perpetual rain doesn’t stop, my arthritic knees will never be functional again.
But when I think what it must be like to be an intelligent person living in Texas, my [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
From Uggabugga: All about the excreable John Stossel. Virtually nothing he reports is without corporate and/or ideological taint, and yet his star continues to rise. Now, that’s entertainment!
And from the Daily Dystopian, there’s this and this, and this, and this.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Eric Alterman suggests the first father-and-son joint resignation. Also from Eric:
Dishonestly presented, pragmatically irresponsible, and massively tilted toward the rich. Kind of sums up this administration, don’t it? The Communist Wall Street Journal reports: “The richest 1% of taxpayers will get 29% of the benefits of the tax cut, while the poorest 20% will get [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Oh boy. This thing about Tom the Bug Killer siccing the Office of Homeland Security on the runaway Texas Democrats just keeps getting more and more interesting. Of course, the SCLM will continue to ignore the story, but those of us who remember when this used to be America might care.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Best of the Blogs talks about how Bush and his team are sore winners:
In his inaugural speech, Bush said: “America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility. A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness…Civility is not a tactic or a [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR PARK
The Philadelphia Daily News poses the question: Should the world-famous Love Park be re-opened to skateboarders? Hell, yes. Go vote.
Love Park was maybe the only really cool thing about Philadelphia - or, at least, the most unique. I say, let them skate. The city is spending tons of money [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Geneva Overholser, as always, has some intelligent and incisive things to say about the uses of anonymous sources in journalism and how they distort objectivity. (Jeff Gerth, Sue Schmidt, Mike Isikoff - are you listening?)
In an honest, thoughtful world, the “mainstream press” person would say, ‘True, there is no perfect objectivity, but it’s worth seeking [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Jon Stewart talked last night about the Bush Administration’s “Name Things the Opposite of What They Do” program. Oh, yeah.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Oh yeah, time to bring this one to light again: Ralph Reed was hired by Enron for a half-million bucks, apparently as a cover for his work on the last Bush campaign.
The payments came to light as part of an FEC inquiry into whether Enron’s hiring of GOP consultant Reed was a sham designed to [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Via Atrios, Tom Tomorrow points out if the media is so liberal, why are the wingnuts all so happy about the upcoming media consolidation? Because now they’ll, uh, have an outlet for their views?
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
You know, I don’t really care what people smoke, as long as I don’t have to breathe it. But I do care when it’s presented as some kind of health food.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Cool beans.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
I have always suspected cats were really aliens bent on taking over the world. Now I know for certain.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2003
Better late than never… I finally read William Safire’s piece on media consolidation. It’s good.
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