Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
How many special prosecutors will it take to untangle this mess? From Alex Harrowell via Laura Rozen:
Le Monde reported the day before (really the same day because it is an evening paper) that a Bout airline operating under the name “British Gulf” was transporting goods for the US forces in Iraq, with the [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
A LIBRA’S WORK IS NEVER DONE
Yet another right-wing poll in need of some balance, between 3-5 p.m. EST. You know what to do.
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
I GOT ONE WORD FOR YOUSE GUYS: BRUUCE!
Buncha babies.
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s campaign yesterday threatened to hold four days of campaign rallies to yank the media spotlight from Boston’s Democratic National Convention if Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] delays accepting his party’s nomination.
“Certainly, we would give strong consideration that there be (Bush) rallies [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
Sound off.
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
WEATHER REPORT
Damn, it’s not even eleven o’clock and it’s 80 degrees already. Whew.
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
BUT MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE BUFFYVERSE…
I neglected to write about the “Angel” series finale last week (something about a broken computer, I think) and I wanted to know: Was it good for you? Comments, please.
When Illyria asked Wesley if she wanted him to lie to him and pretended to be Fred, I turned into a [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
EATING THEIR OWN
In an interview with Dick Armey, Salon takes a look at how the Busheviks’ plunder and pillage philosophy has eroded their own conservative base.
Echoing Armey, pollster John Zogby said he has heard the same anecdotal evidence of Republican disenchantment. “Today I’m in Austin, Texas,” Zogby said in a phone interview, “and my driver [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
GOING DOWN
Although not in that icky sex way perverts and Democrats do:
(CBS) The war in Iraq continues to tarnish the approval ratings of President Bush. Evaluations of the way Mr. Bush is handling the war in Iraq, how he is handling foreign policy, and how he is handling his job overall are now at their [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
THE MIGHTY WURLITZER
As an antidote to that “liberal media” line, I highly recommend David Brock’s new book, “The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy.”
I’m only half through the book, but it certainly is interesting. As comprehensive and thoroughly researched as Eric Alterman’s “What Liberal Media?”, it lacks that same undertone of [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
THE SO-CALLED LIBERAL MEDIA
Here we go with this same old crap about the “liberal press.”
You can’t ask people to label themselves as “liberal” or “conservative” without defining the terms. My experience (and I daresay it’s typical in the industry) is that most reporters are liberal on social issues only. That is, they don’t especially care [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
PSYCHOPATHIC LIARS
Via Kos, yet another lie:
President Bush took a spill during a Saturday afternoon bike ride on his ranch, suffering bruises and cuts that were visible later on his face just two days before he was to deliver a major prime-time speech on his Iraq policy.
The president was nearing the end of a 17-mile ride [...]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2004
PUT THEM TO SLEEP
If you like inside baseball, Kos has some dish on the infighting between the DLC and up-and-comer NDN.
So the DLC is left fighting yesterday’s battle. Meanwhile, NDN is helping support organizations like David Brock’s Media Matters, as well as solid Democrats like Oklahoma’s Brad Carson (a rising star!) and Colorado’s Ken Salazar. [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
SCHOOL DAZE
Matthew Yglesias points out some of the subtle factors that influence education policy.
My magic education policy wand, however, doesn’t work like this. Wave it, and underperforming rural and inner-city schools magically produce outcomes every bit as good as those produced by the best suburban districts. Does everyone win? No. Here’s what happens. Poor families, [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
WHY THEY LOVE US
What a sorry mess this Iraqi reconstruction has turned out to be:
Indeed, as journalists Pratap Chatterjee and Herbert Docena noted in a report from Iraq in Southern Exposure, published by the Durham, N.C.-based Institute for Southern Studies, the steam turbines at Iraq’s Najibiya power plant have been dormant since last fall. As [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
WE’RE NEVER WRONG AND WE’RE NEVER SORRY
A video proves we massacred an Iraqi wedding party.
The U.S. military says it is investigating the attack, which took place in the village of Mogr el-Deeb about five miles from the Syrian border, but that all evidence so far indicates the target was a safehouse for foreign fighters.
“There [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
FROM BAD SEEDS, BITTER FRUIT
A stroll down memory lane with a December 2003 Washington Monthly article on exactly whom we’re sending to rebuild Iraq:
Simone Ledeen is serving her country. She is the daughter of Michael Ledeen, the Iran-Contra luminary, AEI scholar, and all-around capo in the neocon mafia. She’s 29, a freshly-minted M.B.A., with little [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
HA HA
Great joke via Kos:
How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?The Answer is SEVEN:
* one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced
* one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb,
* one to blame the previous administration for the need of [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE TO ME
Chalabi says he couldn’t share classified information with Iran because he never saw any.
Makes sense. It’s not as if he’s Prince Bandar.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
SKELETONS AND THEIR USES
I know, I know - “Pat Buchanan” and “sex scandal” are things I never thought I’d use in the same sentence. Via Cursor.
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
MY SO-CALLED LIFE
Well, a friend came over this morning to jump my battery and it didn’t work. I suppose it’s my alternator or something else in the charging system.
I was supposed to go to a high school graduation party for my three nieces this afternoon, and then to the Howard Dean fundraiser for Joe Hoeffel.
Oh [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
BUT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE OCTOBER SURPRISE
I’m happy to see the political soothsayers have finally caught up with me:
A Time/CNN poll found that 53% said they would vote for a Democratic candidate for Congress in their district, compared with 40% who said they would back the Republican. A survey for the Associated Press reported [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
FIXERS
You see, it’s not that these atrocities happened that’s the problem. It’s that people had the audacity to document them. If they’d just minded their own business, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
So: A few new rules, problem solved.
Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
ANOTHER ONE
Apparently there’s a few more bad apples:
While world attention was focused on the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, two Marines were court-martialed May 14 for abusing an Iraqi prisoner with electricity, it was disclosed yesterday.
Five more Marines have been implicated in the same early April incident at a Marine-run detention facility and might [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
ALL IN IT TOGETHER
As expected:
A military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case stated that a captain at the prison said the highest-ranking U.S. military officer in Iraq was present during some “interrogations and/or allegations of the prisoner abuse,” according to a recording of a military hearing obtained by The Washington [...]
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2004
BASTARDS
Look what the Republo-Fascist party’s up to now:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004′.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REVERSAL OF SUPREME COURT JUDGMENTS.
The Congress may, if two thirds of each House agree, reverse a judgment of the United States Supreme Court–
(1) if that judgment is handed [...]
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2004
DA MAN
He’s still got it:
“Democracy is not a spectator sport,” Dean told the state Democratic convention where delegates greeted the one-time presidential candidate with endless waves of applause, whistles, cheers and foot-stomping.
Dean greeted the convention with the signature line of his presidential campaign: “YOU have the power,” prompting more cheers and applause.
He then [...]
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2004
WHO’S ON FIRST?
The latest from author and priest Andrew Greeley:
Occasionally, just occasionally, I agree with the suspicion of American Catholic bishops that they don’t get fair media coverage. Thus His Lordship of Colorado Springs announces that those who vote for a candidate who supports abortion may not receive the sacraments, and it’s big news. But [...]
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2004
ARGHHHHHH
I swear to God, I’m not making this up.
My battery’s dead. It’s been dead a couple of times in the past few weeks; I thought I’d probably left the lights on. This time, I know for sure I didn’t. And there’s not even a click. I let it sit all day - nothin’.
Why does my [...]
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2004
WHAT, NO FLOWERS AND KISSES?
From Reuters:
More than half a million people marched the streets of the Southern suburbs of Beirut Friday (May 21) in a rally to defend the holy Muslim sites in Iraq. The march followed accusations against the United States of desecrating holy shrines in Najaf and Karbala.
The rally, according to Hizbullah’s TV [...]
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2004
ZOGBY: KERRY GAINING
Hmmm.
Among those who say “Jobs/Economy” the top issues, Kerry leads Bush 52%-37%; “War In Iraq”, Kerry leads Bush 52%-39%; “War on Terrorism”, Bush Leads Kerry 64%-26%, new Zogby International Survey reveals.
Which of course means it’s time for another terrorist attack.
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