Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on May 13th, 2008
With all these candidates throwing people under assorted buses, please, won’t someone do it with eternal underachiever Donna Brazile? She makes my hair hurt. Please, CNN, anyone but Donna. Thank you.
Posted in Arts & Music, Politics As Usual on May 13th, 2008
To Sen. Clinton:
Posted in Corporate Statism, Imaginary Global Warming, Politics As Usual on May 13th, 2008
The Financial Times looks at the factors in this interactive piece.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression on May 13th, 2008
I haven’t had time to listen to it yet, but this one-hour explanation of the mortgage crisis comes highly recommended by just about everyone.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on May 13th, 2008
Turns out there’s a little bit more to the story that says substantial numbers of Clinton and Obama voters would vote for McCain in the general election.
Once you remove the Republicans and independents who voted in open primaries, the numbers are actually much smaller.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 13th, 2008
That’s how many times those military “analysts” identified by the NYT were quoted, according to Media Matters.
And yet, no one else in your librul media seems to want to write about it. Interesting.
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on May 13th, 2008
Who turned out to be not quite so dangerous or guilty:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on May 13th, 2008
Powerful look at how Latinos are systematically mistreated in the south:
Reverend Lowery, who now leads the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, has spoken eloquently and vociferously against what he considers “wicked” immigration policies and has attended pro-immigrant rallies. He believes that massive immigration to the United States came about because of the workings […]
Posted in Politics As Usual on May 12th, 2008
Tom Tomorrow, via upyernoz:
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on May 12th, 2008
What Digby said.
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Politics As Usual on May 10th, 2008
Oh, just go read the whole thing.
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on May 9th, 2008
Krugman:
What about polls that still seem to give John McCain a good chance of winning? Pay no attention, say the experts: general election polls this early tell you almost nothing about what will happen in November. Remember 1992: as late as June, Gallup put Ross Perot in first place, Bill Clinton in third.
There’s just one […]
Posted in Politics As Usual on May 9th, 2008
Here’s your tax cuts, America!
America’s sewers are showing their age. Deteriorating pipes, overwhelmed by volumes of water they were never designed to carry, release billions of gallons of raw sewage into rivers and streams each year. The spills make people sick, threaten local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants.
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Hundreds of municipal sewer authorities […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 9th, 2008
I’m hoping things get to the point where my boss allows us to work from home, because even my relatively short commute is becoming very expensive:
As prices near — or in some places top — $4 a gallon, most Americans say they are cutting back on other household spending, seriously considering buying more fuel-efficient cars […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on May 9th, 2008
And of course this will probably be used as yet another compelling reason why we have to attack Iran:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Hezbollah gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday as sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon’s bloody 15-year civil war raged in the capital.
At least […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on May 9th, 2008
I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
- The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
I’d love to have some of whatever Matt Stoller is drinking. Go read the whole thing, it’s a comprehensive look at how Obama is consolidating money/power:
All I’ll add is that it’s time to think through the consequences of a party where there […]
Posted in Politics As Usual on May 8th, 2008
So a man with a major subprime lender as his campaign finance chair is being hailed as the new progressive hero who will lead Democrats to the Promised Land.
It’s especially funny to me because so many of the Philadelphia activists who so fervently support Obama relentlessly attacked the candidate I worked for, because the bank […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on May 8th, 2008
Bob Somerby explains the rules by which some people get to talk about race - and some people don’t. (Oh, and don’t forget the mindreading!)
Posted in Politics As Usual on May 8th, 2008
I read today that Obama plans to declare himself the nominee on May 20th.
Why doesn’t he declare himself the King of Spain, while he’s at it?
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 8th, 2008
As rumored for years, yes, cheerful war criminal Donald Rumsfeld was pushing Bush for “regime change” in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon:
Rumsfeld’s proposal called explicitly for postponing indefinitely U.S. airstrikes and the use of ground forces in support of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in order to try to catch bin Laden. Instead the […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on May 8th, 2008
When Matt Taibbi’s bad, he’s bad. And when he’s good, he’s good:
But if we recognize that, we must also recognize what we have in Hillary Clinton: a once-in-a-generation political pugilist who, like her much smoother adversary, is amazingly capable of turning weakness into strength. Pitted against physical beauty and inspirational rhetoric, Hillary made herself the […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime on May 8th, 2008
Some Palestinians are working for a one-state solution within Israel.
Posted in Humor, Politics As Usual on May 7th, 2008
Posted in Politics As Usual on May 7th, 2008
Whose shameless spinning is this? Scroll to next page for answer:
However, the popular vote is a deeply flawed and illegitimate metric for deciding the nominee – since each campaign based their strategy on the acquisition of delegates. More importantly, the rules of the nomination are predicated on delegates, not popular vote.
[…] Essentially, the popular vote […]
Posted in Politics As Usual on May 7th, 2008
John Baer tells us how to pick the nominee.
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com
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