Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
THE PRICE WE PAY
From Iraq:
“We’re saving more people than should be saved, probably,” Lt. Col. Robert Carroll said. “We’re saving severely injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the brain.”
Carroll, an eye surgeon from Waynesville, Mo., sat at his desk during a rare slow night last Wednesday and called up a digital photo on his laptop [...]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
‘THE TRUTH HAPPENS TO BE WITH HIM’
Tom Oliphant:
From what I could observe firsthand about Friday, April 23, 1971, Kerry did not make even the slightest effort to pretend that he was throwing all of his military decorations over that fence. He did what he did in plain view, and in my case in the view [...]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Stern’s ratings are on the rise since he began bashing Bush:
The ribald radio host scored major gains in listenership during the winter quarter ended March 31 in the three biggest U.S. markets — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — according to figures made public on Monday by the Arbitron radio ratings service. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
Krugman:
As Linda Greenhouse recently pointed out in The New York Times, the legal arguments the administration is making for the secrecy of the energy task force are “strikingly similar” to those it makes for its right to detain, without trial, anyone it deems an enemy combatant. In both cases, as Ms. Greenhouse puts [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
GALL
Karen “Man Hands” Hughes says John Kerry has some ’splaining to do - this, from the tool who helped scrub Bubble Boy’s National Guard paperwork:
More likely Hughes was just being her disingenuous self when suggesting Kerry’s wartime behavior hadn’t gotten enough scrutiny. At any rate, she isn’t in the best position to accuse Kerry or [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
CHARACTER
What does it say about someone that they’d pretend to adopt a cat so they could experiment on it? And what does it say that it’s the Senate Majority Leader?
Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
FUNKMASTER
Isn’t this special? UPDATE: Roger Ailes has this.
My Community Service, by a Hipublican
I’m gonna holla!
I’m a GOP-baller!
I’ma bitch-smack anyone prayin’ to Allah!
Dead fuckin’ meat all over Ramallah!*
N’ fuck them losers livin’ in squalor!
Rudy shoot their asses with a service revolva!
Keep ‘em outta sight, build the wall taller!
But service is my right when my crime is [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
PROGRESS
Good piece from Tom Paine on Walmart vs. Costco. As some of you may remember, they’re building a Walmart supercenter a half-mile from my place and a few months ago, the local supermarket was doing informational picketing. They said management wanted to cut their wages to “stay competive.”
I made a point of telling the supermarket [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
MOLDING YOUNG MINDS
This moron of an art teacher turned in her student to the Secret Service because she didn’t like what she saw in the kid’s sketchbook:
U.S. Secret Service agents were in Prosser on Friday afternoon to interview a 15-year-old art student about political drawings he had shown his Prosser High School teacher.
The student [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
DRIP DRIP DRIP
Yet another Republicon scandal gains traction:
The Justice Department on Monday asked the new U.S. attorney in New York to investigate how Republicans got access to Democrats’ computer memos in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A report by the Senate sergeant-at-arms earlier this year faulted two of committee chairman Orrin Hatch’s employees for the intrusion into [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
FREE MARKET VALIDATION
The people have spoken:
There is no doubt that sales are hot for handbags bearing an insult — in French — aimed at “our president.” The question is: Which president?
The bag’s designer Tom Bihn never guessed that purses with the message, “We’re sorry our president is an idiot. We didn’t vote for him” [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
HAH
Proof positive that John Kerry reads Suburban Guerrilla:
“If George Bush wants to ask me questions about that through his surrogates, he owes America an explanation about whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard. Prove it. That’s what we ought to have,” Kerry told NBC News in an interview. “I’m not [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
MORE ‘RUNNING GOVERNMENT LIKE A BUSINESS’
Here’s hoping our CEO in Chief keeps up the good work:
Ten companies with billions of dollars in U.S. contracts for Iraq (news - web sites) reconstruction have paid more than $300 million in penalties since 2000 to resolve allegations of bid rigging, fraud, delivery of faulty military parts and environmental [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLOGGER
Just thought I’d mention (before Josh Marshall vacuums up all the loose cash) that I, too, have applied for press credentials for the Democratic and Republican national conventions. So if you want to help finance my little excursion, please do hit the Paypal button.
I can promise you a radically different convention-blogging experience. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
Here’s a new Get Your War On.
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
KEEPING IT SIMPLE
Via Political Wire, the Kerry campaign is handling the medals issue the way I like to see it:
Dan Conley makes a point for the Kerry campaign to consider: “If the Bush White House is intent on making an issue out of John Kerry’s antiwar demonstrating in the early 70s, it seems pretty obvious [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
IF WISHING MADE IT SO
Josh points us to this Newsweek piece which spells out the influence wacky Laurie Mylroie had on the neocons, to the point where they insisted there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda:
April 21 - In the run-up to the war on Iraq, a top Pentagon official pushed [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
RASHOMON
Why we don’t know what’s going on in Fallujah:
Iraqi witnesses said not one child, but four, possibly five, had been killed. The American military had no count. But according to the military, gunmen fired on the soldiers from rooftops, provoking return fire. No Iraqi witness mentioned that.
Several Iraqis there did say the children had [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 26th, 2004
Some Catholics are pushing the Church to ask why abortion is a bigger priority than the death penalty:
“I’m pro-life in all respects — for the unborn child and the criminal or the elderly person considering euthanasia,” McNeirney said. “I think the church is very consistent in saying that ending human life is something that should [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
LIFE THROUGH A PRISM
A tour of Red America:
Some people get their information from the TV networks or the paper. Stein starts with the Drudge Report Web site, where he scans the headlines and clicks on one that says, “Rallying Cry For Dems: Vote Bush Out of Rove’s Office.” “This is the kind of stuff that [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2004
HEALTH CARE
Thank God the Republicons protected us from Hillary Clinton’s health care reform:
Under the new policy, University hospital demands partial payment up front from non-emergency patients who seek treatment in the ER. For some, including Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, the fee is a small cash co-payment; insurance pays the rest. For the uninsured, however, the [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 25th, 2004
I’m happy to see the massive turnout in Washington today for the abortion rights march. (I’m always happy to see people exercising their rights as citizens.)
One of the reasons I don’t get all that incensed about this particular issue is, I suspect making abortion illegal will be the single quickest way to a definitive, permanent [...]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2004
CON GAME
I was watching Book TV this afternoon, and Karen Hughes was plugging what sounds like her big souffle of a book. Except when she talked about her family, she doesn’t really seem to have a genuine bone in her body, and I couldn’t believe how many people were standing in line to get her [...]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2004
WORKING HARD, LIVING POOR
The Chicago Tribune has a thoughtful piece on the working poor:
The food line begins to form during the sunrise chill, more than two hours before the metal gates to the Care United Methodist Outreach pantry open.
Hundreds of people like Theresa Ware arrive early because they fear the boxes of [...]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2004
‘HE NO HAVE WHAT HE NEED’
Tonight I was at a baby shower for the daughter of my oldest friend. I was sitting next to my friend’s mother, and asked her how she felt about becoming a great-grandmother. We talked a bit; an Italian immigrant, she speaks only broken English.
“I have two grandchildren: Laura (the mother-to-be) [...]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2004
FAITH VS. WORKS
Amy Sullivan over at The Gadflyer has something that leads credence to something I’ve suspected for a long time: that George Bush is about as devout a Christian as he is an ex-alcoholic:
Kerry has not made his religiosity an issue. Although I often argue that if candidates bring their religion into politics they [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 24th, 2004
Big debate going on over at Atrios about religion and its place in politics. [UPDATE: The whole thing was apparently triggered by this, this and this.] [UPDATE UPDATE: Jeanne D'Arc writes Atrios to point out the errors in the press coverage that started the ball rolling.]
Well, actually, it reminds me not so much of a [...]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2004
‘STAR WARS… DON’T YOU LOVE… STAR WARS…’
Since this thing has never worked, and they continue to push for it, I think the conspiracy people may have a point. Maybe they only want a missile “defense” system so they can eventually launch missiles from space.
A congressional audit of the Bush administration’s efforts to build a nationwide [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 23rd, 2004
The next time someone (John Stossel, for instance) complains about the liberal “nanny” society (as opposed to the utopian “ownership” society), show them this.
The autopsy results are in on the death of Timmy Hibbits - who died in his home last month. Today the Jefferson County coroner has ruled the death of the two year [...]
Posted in General on Apr 23rd, 2004
BREAKING NEWS
No details yet, but Sharon is saying he is no longer bound by his pledge to Bush not to assassinate Arafat…
Well, why would he? Bush already caved on everything.
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