Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
Black political activists in South Carolina on the Democratic party:
On our last day together, Aiken observed: ”The Republicans have a strong white base, a very strong white base, an unwavering white base. And the Democratic Party is being threatened because we’re wavering.” In 2000 some of her professional friends were impressed by the Republican convention’s […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
GOOD WORK
Daniel Okrent, the Times’ public editor, is really tackling some tough issues. Good.
HIS week, it’s time for some journalism heresy. I’d like to suggest that newspapers with aspirations to greatness - like the one you’re holding in your hands - learn to be generous to their rivals, and in the process provide value for […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
From Jerome over at Bad Attitudes, this:
The media frenzy surrounding the build-up and tear-down of Big Howard Dean has been a huge boon to Sen. John Kerry. It has allowed him to come up unmolested on the outside, appearing to be a problem-free alternative to Big Howard. But, make no mistake, after the initial build-up […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
Letter from Roy Neel, the new Dean CEO:
Regardless of who takes first place in these states, we think that after Wisconsin we’ll get Kerry in the open field. Remember one crucial thing about the 2004 calendar - in previous years a front-runner or presumptive nominee would typically emerge after most of the states had voted […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
COUGH *BULLSHIT* COUGH
This is hard to believe, even if it is in the Washington Post newspaper.
Congressional and CIA investigations into the prewar intelligence on Iraq’s weapons and links to terrorism have found no evidence that CIA analysts colored their judgment because of perceived or actual political pressure from White House officials, according to intelligence officials […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Final Word,” Jim Boggia. I was right there/I watched it happen/ Still, I don’t know what to say/ I was holding all of my dreams/ Then I threw them all/ You want to hurry this along/ I want to write a song/ and make the time stand still/ I would give/ […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
SAVE THE BOOKS
From Mac over at Go Fish, a reminder that Pennsylvania library services are about to be slashed - and what you can do about it.
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
COMING ATTRACTIONS
I just got my review copy of the “White House Inc. Employee Handbook: A Staffer’s Guide to Success, Profit and Eternal Salvation Inside George W. Bush’s Executive Branch.” (It’s from the writers of Whitehouse.org, so you know it’s funny.) I’ll be posting on it early next week.
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
FUN FUN FUN IN THE PERMAFROST
My friend treated me to dinner last night; then we headed over to Dirty Frank’s to meet up with some more buds. (A going-away event.)
Lots of fun, although I’m paying for it this morning; I really can’t be around much smoke. It’s a hard thing to reconcile with my love […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
Making every vote count - or not:
The report supports the findings of a study released in July, by academic security experts at Johns Hopkins and Rice universities, that found Diebold software lacked the level of security needed to safeguard elections. Diebold stated that the code used by the researchers, which had been taken from a […]
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2004
What are they trying to hide?
The White House, already embroiled in a public fight over the deadline for an independent commission’s investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is refusing to give the panel notes on presidential briefing papers taken by some of its own members, officials said this week.
The standoff has prompted the […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
DISORGANIZATION
Blogging will be erratic for the next couple of days. In addition to my social life, I’m also following up on the wonderful work started by my personal organizer yesterday. (I do copywriting and referrals for her; she creates order from my chaos. In fact, that’s the name of her bookkeeping and organizing business: “Order […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
WAY TO GO!
Move On has come up with a great way to get their point across re: CBS refusing to run their half-time SuperBowl ad: A boycott.
Viewers are asked to leave the CBS Super Bowl broadcast for a minute between 8:15 and 8:45 p.m. Sunday night and go to CNN to see the ad that […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
From the New York Times editorial page today:
The pernicious joblessness bedeviling the nation is spawning a new category of Americans dubbed “exhaustees”: the hundreds of thousands of hard-core unemployed who have run through state and federal unemployment aid. According to the latest estimates, close to two million Americans, futilely hunting for work while scrambling for […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
SHORTER OP-ED
Bob Herbert on the Halliburton tax shuffle; in a damning piece, Scott Ritter talks about what’s missing from the Hutton report; scary stuff from the NYT on Pakistan’s nuclear technology business; Krugman waits for apologies from the Bush administration on the WMDs (don’t hold your breath, Paul); Andrew Greeley is keeping Krugman company while […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
The Hamster has the complete poop on what happened with Al Franken and that protester. And as you might suspect, his version has a lot more context than that of the right-wing press - namely, that the heckler attacked Franken first, breaking his glasses. Go read the whole thing, if only for a short lesson […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
Conason on the “intelligence failures“:
But how can anyone take seriously the conclusions of a committee run by a politician as deluded (or dishonest) as Sen. Pat Roberts? On Sunday, the Kansas Republican turned the phrase “Senate intelligence” into an oxymoron. On CNN’s “Late Edition,” Wolf Blitzer asked Roberts to respond to Kay’s admission that Saddam’s […]
Posted in General on Jan 30th, 2004
Remember the woman who wrote into The Bitching Post about her sister, who couldn’t pry her friend away from her kids? Now the sister writes.
Posted in General on Jan 29th, 2004
Bob Somerby unleashes a can of whoopass on the Washington Post for that appalling editorial:
What an amazing acknowledgment! In this editorial, the Post’s editors indirectly describe shocking misconduct on the part of their cohort. They acknowledge that the press trashed Bush and Gore on the basis of claims that were only “imagined!” But how amazing […]
Posted in General on Jan 29th, 2004
Kos thinks Kerry’s campaign was behind the automated calls allegedly from the Dean campaign:
Who else, the Republicans? Problem is that by all reports, these robo calls have specifically targeted Dean’s “1s” and “2s”. That level of sophistication would require an extent of polling unlikely from the GOP. Only Kerry would have conducted the type of […]
Posted in General on Jan 29th, 2004
Very interesting.
The United States has ordered the expulsion of dozens of Saudi diplomats suspected of helping promulgate Al Qaida ideology, diplomatic sources said. The State Dept. has refused to either confirm or deny the action..
The State Department revoked the diplomatic credentials of the Saudi diplomats in Washington over the last month in an effort to […]
Posted in General, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Jan 29th, 2004
The way I see it, the chances of a commission looking into the Iraq intelligence are a lot better than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.
You think the Republican congressmen aren’t seeing the same polling numbers as Bush? After Nixon resigned in 1974, Republicans lost five seats in the Senate and forty-eight seats in […]
Posted in General on Jan 29th, 2004
MOVE ON
I didn’t see the debate tonight - I was out to dinner with a friend and got back too late to see much. But I did hear the Joe Trippi interview on MSNBC with Deborah Norville.
You know, he did some awesome things to get Dean as far as he did. But let’s face facts: […]
Posted in General on Jan 29th, 2004
OH GOODY, ANOTHER WAR
Don’t worry, we still have plenty more working-class soldiers who can die. It’s not as if there will be any jobs left for them, anyway:
The Bush administration, deeply concerned about recent assassination attempts against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and a resurgence of Taliban forces in neighboring Afghanistan, is preparing a U.S. military […]
Posted in General on Jan 29th, 2004
JOIN THE ANTIDRUG WAR
You’ve heard me rant about the FDA and the drug companies (I used to work for a company that did FDA consulting)? Read this.
Makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence […]
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