Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
LIBEL FLASHBACKS
About the whole Atrios-Luskin thing: I really, really feel for him. (Atrios, I mean.) Back when I was a journalist, I was sued for $1M by a cop - a cop whose girlfriend allegedly shot herself in his apartment. I think I know exactly how large a pit he has in the pit of […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
You know, it’s stories like this that really make me proud to be from Philadelphia. I went to Catholic school, too. This probably isn’t what the nuns had in mind when they exhorted us to “make them proud,” but what the heck. Those St. Maria Goretti girls were always tough.
A man described by authorities as […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
Great piece from Mother Jones on how the Bushies use mind control on angry white blue-collar men.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
WHAT A HO
Every word that comes out of Condi Rice’s mouth is a lie, including the words “the” and “and.” No matter what facts come out to contradict this administration, they simply lie in response. When was the last time we heard an intelligent, accurate, candid response out of the White House?
Oh, right. When Bill […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
Billmon does have this thoughtful piece about the stuggle for Israel democracy, but I couldn’t resist quoting this one instead:
Now suppose Arnie were a Democrat, instead of a Republican and a pretend action hero. Given his, um, personal issues, his ties to the Kennedy family and his views on abortion, don’t you think it’s a […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
I love the Memory Hole. Via Kevin Drum.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
E.J. Dionne points out that the Democrats have come up with a plan for Iraq.
What’s striking about this document is not only that it lays the groundwork for an alternative foreign policy vision to Bush’s. It also demonstrates, as its authors say, that if Bush had not turned national security into “a partisan wedge issue,” […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
Shorter Charles Krauthammer:
When you find yourself in a deep hole, keep digging.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
YOU DON’T SUPPOSE THEY’RE SPINNING AGAIN, DO YOU?
More compare and contrast, class. This, from the New York Times:
Mr. Hussein is believed to have met with Izzat Ibrahim, an Iraqi general who was officially the second highest ranking member of the Iraqi government at the time of the invasion, and who is described by American officials […]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
Well, this is enough to turn me into a vegetarian. I can’t tell you how far from reassured I feel. In fact, if the Bush administration tells me something is safe, that seems to be a red flag.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
This is what you get when you pack the bench with conservative judges: A ruling that Consumer Reports committed libel when it says something a car manufacturer doesn’t want to hear.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2003
Krugman on the big jump in domestic spending:
Still, it’s possible that we really have reached a turning point. If so, does it validate the Bush economic program? Well, no.
Stimulating the economy in the short run is supposed to be easy, as long as you don’t worry about how much debt you run up in […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
Okay, the old reporter in me has to confess: As soon as I heard about that parking lot collapse in Atlantic City, I thought, “Who was getting paid off?” Sure enough, some woman interviewed on the local news said there had been a city inspector on site through the whole construction process - and that […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
Could I make this shit up? Or this? God, I love people.
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
Here’s a real peep show.
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
Another reason to hate Bush - as if you needed one. Via Altercation.
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency biologist has resigned in protest of his agency’s acceptance of a developer-financed study concluding that wetlands discharge more pollutants than they absorb, according to a statement released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). EPA’s approval […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
I’m home for lunch, watching Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando in “The Freshman,” and there’s a Mafia party scene. The late Bert Parks is singing Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm” as the local chapter of La Cosa Nostra boogies. Hysterical…
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
Via Atrios, a journalist talks about his stint at the “fair and balanced” Fox News:
The fact is, daily life at FNC is all about management politics. I say this having served six years there - as producer of the media criticism show, News Watch, as a writer/producer of specials and (for the last year of […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
MoDo on Boy George’s Bizarro World:
Mr. Bush, staring at the campaign hourglass, has ordered that the “Iraqification” of security be speeded up, so Iraqi cannon fodder can replace American sitting ducks. But Iraqification won’t work any better than Vietnamization unless the Bush crowd stops spinning.
Neil Sheehan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Bright Shining Lie,” […]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
If he’ll lie about a banner, what else is he lying about?
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2003
Here’s something nice: A campaign to get people to donate frequent-flyer miles to soldiers needing a flight home.
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2003
INACTION HERO?
You know, I was just thinking about those California fires. Can’t Arnold use his super powers to put them out? Chill them with his super breath or smother them with his hands? What’s up with that?
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2003
Finally, someone’s adding up the numbers of people killed in Iraq - even the Iraqis, who don’t seem to count for the wingnuts.
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2003
Another GOP “welfare for the wealthy” bill. Just what we needed. And so reasonable, at only $60 billion.
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2003
God, I love TBOGG. After she accuses blogs of being mastubatory, he decimates Camille Paglia with her own words:
Now and then one sees the claim that Kausfiles was the first blog. I beg to differ: I happen to feel that my Salon column was the first true blog. My columns had punch and on-rushing velocity. […]
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