Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
BLUE COLLAR BIAS
Abso-fucking-lutely. It’s always been class, and no one talks about it. It’s not just academia, either; it pervades the journalism establishment. And that skewers the news toward their interests, not yours.
I didn’t know what to say. A first-year grad student, I couldn’t risk alienating anyone, least of all a full professor and an [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
‘WEST WING’ TO MOVE RIGHT
And they thought last year’s ratings were bad? Hah. I mean, talk about being behind the trend: Bush’s approval ratings are dropping like a hot rock, Iraq is an even bigger mess than we thought, liberal books are taking over the bestseller list, and NBC responds by making “The West Wing” [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
EBAY - or ‘OBEY’?
Gee, I sure hope all the Democrats have been reporting their Ebay income.
Israeli daily Haaretz has unearthed highly embarrassing, and disturbing comments by an eBay executive. To an audience of law enforcement officials, eBay’s Joseph Sullivan boasts that his company’s privacy policy is meaningless.
“We don’t make you show a subpoena, except [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
AND WHERE WERE THE CONSERVATIVES THEN?
The Big Dog shows them how it should be done:
Basking in public adoration the United States can only dream of in Iraq, ex-president Bill Clinton got a hero’s welcome in Kosovo on Friday, four years after NATO bombing ended Serb rule.
Thousands of Kosovo Albanians turned out to greet the man [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
JUST ANOTHER BUSH LEAGUE COINKY-DINK
And of course, that’s it. Whew! We can all relax now.
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
GET OUT THE FLYPAPER
Tom the Bug Killer is really upset. Well, boo fuckin’ hoo.
Responding to DeLay’s call for Democratic presidential candidates to disavow Kennedy’s comments, Kerry fired back - at the Texas lawmaker.
“Tom DeLay is a bully,” Kerry said. “He tried to bully Democrats in Texas and we’re not going to accept his shrill [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
DOING THE MEDIA’S WORK FOR THEM - AGAIN
Great piece from Democratic Underground on Pat Kneisler’s dogged work on counting the deaths in Iraq:
Pat Kneisler isn’t famous because she can pay attention and count. It’s because the US journalism corps can’t or won’t. Too many publications were reporting “combat deaths,” not all deaths. One could dodge [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
‘ONE NEEDED A WAR’
Andrew Greeley via Atrios:
”War on terror” is a metaphor. It is not an actual war, like the World War or the Vietnamese or Korean wars. It is rather a struggle against fanatical Islamic terrorists, exacerbated if not caused by the conflict in Palestine. When one turns a metaphor into a national policy, [...]
Posted in General on Sep 19th, 2003
MAYBE IT WAS TOO SMALL?
No smallpox, either. But you already knew that.
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
WHODUNNIT?
Part 1 of Josh Marshall’s interview with Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
IT’S JUST LIKE PLAYING CONCENTRATION
See if you can connect the dots.
ZAHN: One final question for you. You made the point that Vice President Cheney, at his level of the government, would have nothing to do with contracts anyway. That had to do with the Army Corps of Engineers.
But just isn’t his mere position as vice [...]
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
CAN YOU SAY ‘SLUSH FUND’?
Teddy Kennedy calls a spade a spade:
The case for going to war against Iraq (news - web sites) was a fraud “made up in Texas” to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) said Thursday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy also said the [...]
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
‘I LOVED THAT GUY’
I decided it was a good thing, my car not starting today. After all, better to get it fixed today than in the throes of Isabel tomorrow, right?
Even though I live in a heavily-Republican area, I started talking to the tow truck driver about politics. (I can’t stop myself.) Turns out he [...]
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER BUT…
Okay, I can’t help it. A year is a long time, and a lot can happen, and I hate to commit to a candidate, blah blah blah.
But I have to say it: I don’t have a good feeling about Wesley Clark. In fact, I suspect he’s a pedantic little pissant. I [...]
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
The clouds from Isabel have moved in, and I just heard on the local news that the storm is tracking slightly to the east - which means there’s a 40 percent chance it will hit with full force where I live. That’s why I was happy to get a good laugh this morning. These are [...]
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
This one’s all over Blogistan and I forget where I saw it first.
I once believed that I served for a cause: “to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Now I no longer believe that; I have lost my conviction, as well as my determination. I can no longer justify my service for [...]
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
Shorter Charles Krauthammer at BusyBusyBusy:
What Makes The Bush Haters So Mad?
I am perplexed by the inexplicable, near pathological hatred Democrats have for Mr. Bush, who wisely capitalized on 9/11 to reshape foreign and domestic policy in ways that violate every principle liberals hold dear.
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
Hmm. When media whores like Mark Shields start predicting a Democratic victory, things are even worse for Bush than we think.
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
Hans Blix says Saddam Hussein destroyed his weapons a decade ago.
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2003
Stanley Fish on the latest Republican attack on education:
And now, on top of this, comes the threat of Mr. McKeon’s bill. First of all, it seems curious to find members of the free-market Republican Party advocating price controls. In fact, it is downright unbusinesslike. Because if a business were to find itself with rising costs [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
From Commondreams:
American Family Voices will launch a television advertisement asking the government to take care of America’s troops and families instead of taking care of Halliburton.
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
Oh yes, by all means. Let’s privatize Social Security and let companies like this take care of our pension money.
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
Does this mean the Smirking Chimp needs to change its name?
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
Danny Goldberg rates the Democratic candidates for Teen Spirit.
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
Kevin Drum weighs in on the resurrected “lucky duckies” meme:
But in making this rather rarified argument, Jacob completely misses the real criticism that liberals have of the “lucky duckies” thesis, and I can’t tell if this is deliberate on his part or if he genuinely doesn’t understand it. Here it is:
The poor already pay a [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
If you build it, they will come. (From TBOGG.)
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
RUMOR CENTRAL
The blogsphere is a-buzzing today. Is there any truth to the rumor that Cheney has agreed to take the fall on the Iraq war? Plus, he’s looking the tiniest bit radioactive on Halliburton these days. Who will replace him on the ticket if he resigns “for reasons of health”?
I’m betting Condi. Why not? [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
From Tom Tomorrow, via Atrios. Bush admits he lied to Congress:
Now and then
Now:
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — disputing an impression that critics say the administration tried to foster to justify the war against Iraq. “There’s no [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
NYT writer John Burns: “There is corruption in our business.”
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2003
Interesting election perspective from Jusiper.
In his latest column, Charlie Cook offers a sobering addendum to JUSIPER’s earlier analysis. He suggests that it not so much the state of the economy by June 2004 that will be decisive but a much subtler factor:
In their work, “Forecasting Elections,” professors Michael Lewis-Beck of the University of Iowa [...]
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