In which I again find an excuse to link to Robot Nixon
April 30, 2008
Waxy gone wild:
Tresling (arm wrestling operated Tetris)
Rocketboom on the pre-AOL intertubes
704,000, but don’t look
Because I just remembered I’m trying to do less politics. I’ve subscribed to a new 12-step regimen for purging politics out of my system.
Step 1: do a Mediation-style post except make it multi-part.
Step 2: well, let’s take it one step at a time.
Tomorrow, way cool pictures of Robot Nixon (I wish I had found that one first — he looks like a perfect blind date for Iron Man).
Robo calling your ass
April 30, 2008
Via my new enhanced Google start-up screen, here’s something to download and save for when the RNC comes to town next August: How to Survive a Riot. The life you save may be your own, or maybe you’ll be a hero and will be photographed pulling a disheveled Tim Pawlenty from the smoldering ruins of the Xcel Center.
Harumph you say — who would do such a dastardly thing as to blow up the RNC? Well, aside from the usual suspects (I’d link but the site is down for their semi-weekly update) the one culprit it won’t be will be Iran. How do I know? Just read their history for fuck’s sake!
636 Arabs invade
1220 Mongols invade
1639 Treaty of Qasr-e Shirin ends 150 year war with Ottomans
1828 Caucasus ceded to Russia
1914-1918 Neutral
1941-1945 Occupied by the Allies
1953 Democratically elected Mossadeq overthrown by CIA
1980 Invaded by Iraq (which Saddam did at our urging)
Iran/Persia hasn’t invaded another country since Biblical times. The notion that they are going to attack Iraq is ludicrious: Iraq — thanks to George Bush the Lesser — is totally controlled by Shi’ia ethnic groups.
No, if the Xcel gets blown up this summer and the FBI doesn’t turn the world of rightwing whackjobs upsidedown, well, you’ll have every right to think it’s a set up job, aka another Reichstag Fire.
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How corrupt are our occupying forces in Iraq? Well, if by that you’re including the contractors (who outnumber the soldiers), pretty damned corrupt.
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Hack, hack — spakovsky!
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Professionalism is taking the interview I linked to earlier, and grinding a book blog post out of it.
Later, Vick will probably expand it for the Sunday edition, then later on he’ll use the mini-disk to make preserves for spreading on scones this winter.
And, as always, there’s always the chance of the interview being optioned for a movie. Currently, I understand talks are underway with Jerry Stiller’s people.
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In the ’60s, Bill Clinton interned for Sen. William Fulbright. Fulbright made an incendiary speech likening the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
Why hasn’t Hillary Clinton been asked to denounce William Fulbright?
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O’Reilly: We didn’t invade Iraq.
If Bill were a pro wrestler, I think he’d be called The Cretinator.
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TPM Muckraker follows up on the revelation that a Clinton surrogacy group was behind all the illegal robo calls to North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
Sadly, as we all know, cheaters do win, even when it’s not possible for them to prevail. (I hear Scalia’s working with a personal trainer so he’ll be ready to intervene when the Dems gather in Denver.)
Abiding = re-electing Coleman?
April 30, 2008
21%?
Wow. That’s earthworm limbo low.
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The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, or Torquemada U as the locals call it, is denying academic credit for volunteer work done at Planned Parenthood.
Word is that Katherine Kersten’s on her third set of panties this morning, and is rapidly filling a diaper bag with her soaking wet underthings.
Being a Republican is kind of like being a manic-depressive. You go months without cracking a smile and then suddenly you can’t stop grinning because tanks and troops are rolling through Poland and gosh gee but ain’t this the grandest Spring ever!
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More from MinnPost:
Eric Black on Franken’s taxes (bottom line: if Mike Ciresi had done some digging, he’d still be on track to take Norman Bruce Coleman’s seat)
P.J. O’Rourke, the conservative exception who proves the rule that conservatives aren’t funny, had some good lines last night ['Of late, he said, U.S. presidents have looked like the Seven Dwarfs. "Right now we have Dopey, before him we had Sleazy,'' he said.']
And, of course, The Daily Glean
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Ditto MinMon:
Republican medical marijuana users
Franken in The Atlantic (maybe someday Minnesotans will love him as much of the rest of the country does)
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Good sportsmanship story of the new century.
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If bad news can’t deter the DFL faithful from fulfilling their endorsement duties, is it even possible for an upset to occur at the endorsing convention?
I wish I could say that Jack is happening, but so long as he’s locked into abiding, he’s not going anywhere. My hope is that the rumors of Ciresi getting back in aren’t just wishful thinking.
Tube-ology
April 30, 2008
I had a bad experience with my online TV listings service the other day. The listings suddenly switched to a very invasive, very dishonest ad for some bullshit computer security products. I complained, and I’m very happy to say that zap2it responded in a very positive way:
Over the weekend, a company that supplied one of our ads switched out the approved ad banner with one that redirected users to a site for SpywareDestructor.
If you were affected by this ad, your browser window would have been reduced and you would have seen a screen that “scanned” your computer and told you that it was infected with several malicious programs. After that, it prompted you to download a program to remove the spyware and viruses.
The screen that “scanned” your computer was actually a flash animation – it was fake. If you closed your browser window at this point, your computer is fine. If you downloaded the SpywareDestructor program, uninstall it via your Control Panel and remove the registry entry for ”AntiSpywareDeluxe.” (You can do this using SpyBot, http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html, which is a legitimate Spyware removal program.)
We were very disturbed by this ad switch, and pulled the campaign as soon as we realized what had happened. We are working to ensure that this does not happen again.
Thank you for your feedback!
Zap2it.com is a really decent online TV listings source. Yes, you need to set up a free account, but that’s just so you get the right listings. I’ve been using it for years and this was my first problem. I like how they handled it.
Lurita Doan resigns
April 30, 2008
Wow, that last post was #50. I never counted the posts at the old blog but they must have been up in the jillions.
If you’ve forgotten some of the reasons why voter picture I.D.s are a bad idea, Digby has the whole argument. The Republican screed on this one isn’t illogical, not until you realize that there simply are no cases of documented individual voter fraud in recent years. Other than Ann Coulter illegally voting in Florida, that is.
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Look for something big to break on the GSA scandals in the coming days. After stalling for over a year, Bush has finally fired Lurita Doan, the clueless hack who arranged for political indoctrination meetings with Karl Rove for senior GSA employees.
Doan resigned, of course, but Congressional calls for her dismissal date back to immediately after her infamously uninformative testimony before Henry Waxman’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last June.
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The robo calling cheaters are out in North Carolina, and TPM Muckraker’s Paul Kiel says they’ve were active in Ohio and Virginia as well. Clintonista’s or dittoheads? Well, far be it from me to criticize the mental defectives who listen to Rush, but robo calling takes money and that certainly sounds like a campaign expenditure to me.
If you have to lie or mislead to get elected, why you must be a Republican! (Or a member of the DLC.)
UPDATE: It’s Hillary’s surrogates.
UPDATE: And no, just because Digby won an award from these backroom hacks does not reflect poorly on Digby. Not unless they used the intertubes to spam the netizenry.
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Scott Simon fans will want to check out Vick’s recent interview with the NPR host. Long .mp3, but some good stories about Chicago politics. Chicago has always been the city I think of when it comes to crooked cops and racist politics, but, as Anna Pratt wrote for MinMon, Minneapolis is certainly working hard to achieve their own special kind of notoriety.
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It’s official: if you think the Rev. Wright makes sense, you’re a racist paranoiac. On the plus side, you’re a lot saner than the Israel über alles gasbags at the NYTimes. David Neiwert has more on other things you might find bothersome about America (assuming you know squat about American history).
Digby disagrees with me on the Rev. Wright. Initially supportive, she’s finding his recent appearances to be harmful to Obama.
I’d say Obama’s had a chance to show us what he’s made of, and I don’t much care for his throwing Wright overboard. The older I get, the more confirmed I am in my radicalism, a radicalism borne of common sense and Midwestern conservatism, a radicalism that clings to the belief that everyone speaks for themselves, and no one speaks for you unless you designate someone to be your representative.
The Rev. Wright doesn’t offend me, not one bit (does your conscience bother you?). After fifty-five years of listening to American hypocrisy on race, it’s nice to hear someone tell it like it is. This is a racist country, 9/11 was our chickens coming home to roost, and whether AIDS and crack are government plots or not is irrelevant. The point is that we can’t trust our government to obey our Constitution, and that’s some fucked up shit all by itself.
More from Sara Robinson, and still more from Hip-Gnosis.
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Al Giordano’s Iron Man Edition. Sadly, the picture is all the Iron Man you get, but yeah, I’m really hyped to see this one. I know I’m just reveling in my crypto-fascist roots when I confess that my favorite super hero was a tin-plated corporate mercenary thug, but yeah, that pretty much sums up my childhood.
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More on Brian Williams and the inability of the media to report on themselves.
Driven to Mediation
April 30, 2008
OK, even though there were a lot of repeat comments (two from me), I’m going to take that ten eleven and let it go. Not that I won’t be grumbling about the Rev. Wright for some time to come. No one I’ve spoken to who heard that National Press Club speech had any problems with it. The chattering classes are abusing Americans by presenting an extremely skewed and out-of-context set of soundbytes and video clips, but isn’t that what they do with every story?
Scott Horton’s given up blogging, but he’s still advocating for Don Siegelman. I’ve set up a Google News section for “scott horton” so I don’t miss any developments. Oh, I guess I could just keep reading the major daily newspapers, but that hasn’t proven to be much help with this and other cases involving outright lawbreaking by Bush administration officials.
You might think the dailies haven’t been stinting in their coverage of the mortgage industry, but then you look at how blogger Mick Arran stitches their stories together to create a far more condemning whole than their various sanitized parts. That is what blogging is about: taking news that’s offered but not widely distributed, combining it with like material, and creating a permanent webpage to store that information on.
Likewise you may or may not know that independent truckers (that’s most of them thanks to our increasingly indie contracted ways) are about to give up. High fuel costs may not stop us from buying long-distance produce, but it’s sure killing the men and women who haul those fruits and vegetables. Barbara Ehrenreich hitches a ride with one of those truckers, one who has a story to tell.
But to remind us of just how in the bag the corporate media is, Glenn Greenwald looks at the slow death by asphyxiation of the NYTimes exposé on military analysts, and tells us that NBC’s Brian Williams thinks Peggy Nooner should win a Pulitzer Prize for her medicated ramblings.
It’s enough to drive you to Taylor Carik’s blog….
My last post?
April 28, 2008
LISTEN TO THE SPEECH AND THE Q&A.
I’m not doing another post until I have at least TEN COMMENTS from people who’ve clicked on that link. I’ll have a transcript just as soon as one’s available but it’s a brilliant speech from the Rev. Wright (i.e., one that probably makes your family’s pastor’s sermons sound retarded by comparison), and the Q&A is possibly the most important thing you’ll ever listen to. Each and every question is an insult and a provocation. Most have absolutely no basis in any kind of reality other than that given by the racist manure lagoon known as “the beltway.”
The Rev. Wright just endured unbelievable provocations, questions straight out of the segregationist ’50s, not the so-called enlighted 21st Century.
This mau-mauing of Wright continues to be the most shameless episode in American politics since Joe McCarthy terrorized the U.S. Senate with his red-baiting brand of anti-Americanism back in the ’50s.
Listen and decide for yourself, but for me, it’s clear from the questions asked that being black in American still means nigger, nigger, nigger in the eyes of those who comprise the powers that be in this country, and for the most part, that includes our entire national press establishment.
And if you’re as worked up as I am, why don’t you ask MPR why Gary Eichten thought Wright’s failure to APOLOGIZE was the only notable thing said today.
UPDATE: No audio link at MPR yet and still nothing at the National Press Club. I’ll update with some links as soon as I have them.
UPDATE: The first link has a good RealAudio link now, or you can click here. Don’t have RealAudio? I’m recording this and will post an .mp3 later.
UPDATE: From Chicago reader Rob, here’s a rough transcript:
Q: What about your comment that the 911 attacks
represent the chickens coming home to roost?
A: (quotes scripture, among verses cited …) “As you
sow, so shall you reap.”Q: Are your sermons un-American?
A: I Served 6 years in the military, does that make me
unpatriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?Q: Obama’s tried to explain away his relationship to
you and your church, and distance himself. Why are you
speaking out now?
A: On November 5th and January 21st, I’ll still be a
pastor. Attacks are not on him but on the black
church. If you think you’re going to talk about the
church of my momma and daddy, you have another think
coming.Q: What about Farrakhan?
A: As I said on Moyers, how many people do you know
who can get 1M people together on the mall. When
Farrakhan speaks, it’s like EF Hutton … black America
listens. I’m not going to put down F anymore than
Mandela would put down Castro. Mandela said you don’t
tell me who my friends or enemy are. Louis Farrakhan
is not my enemy, he didn’t put me in chains or make me
this color.Q: Motivation for characterizing Obama’s responses as
what a politician say?
A: Politicians say and do based on electability, sound
bites, polls. Preachers say what they say as pastors.
Whether he’s elected or not, I’m still answerable to
God. I do what pastors do, he does what politicians
do. (with humor) I am open to being vice president
(laughs – clearly intended to be funny, he’s being
puckish, not serious … Chris Matthews).Q: Do you think you owe the American people an apology
for your “god damn America” language?
A: Are we still damned in the eyes of God? I’m Obama’s
pastor, not a spiritual mentor. I told him, if you get
elected on Nov 5th, I’ll be coming after you, because
you’ll be representing a government that grinds people
under. God doesn’t bless everything, God condemns and
damns some practices. No excuse for some things that
the gov’t – not the people! – do. That doesn’t make me
unpatriotic. (Quotes some very harsh language from
Jesus where he sends people to hell for certain
behaviors.) Maybe we ought to take Jesus out of this
Christian faith. Until racism and slavery are
confessed … this country has never apologized for
slavery. Britain has apologized, but this country’s
leaders have refused to apologized. You’re not going
to apologize for stepping on my foot, if you’re still
stepping on my foot. (directly to moderator) “You
understand that? Capiche?”Q: Not invited to Obama’s announcement of his
candidacy in Illinois … and also, your reaction to
Obama saying that he has denounced you.
A: Whoever wrote that question, he did not denounce
me. He distanced himself from some remarks. He had to
distance himself because he was a politician. In the
complete sermon (from which the endlessly replayed
clips came), I offered words of reconciliation and
hope, but you haven’t heard it because you haven’t
listened to the whole thing. I wasn’t invited (onto
the stage for his announcement) because that was a
political event. I started it off downstairs with
prayer with Obama and Michelle. When he went upstairs
in public to announce, Senator Durbin introduced him.
That was a political event.Q: Obama hasn’t heard many of your sermons, does that
mean he’s not much of a churchgoer?
A: (peering at the moderator’s card and then
addressing himself directly to her) Oh, that’s your
question, I see. What did your pastor preach on last
week? You don’t know – okay.Q: In your sermon, you said the gov’t lied about AIDS
virus.
A: Have you read Horowitz’s book, “Emerging Viruses
and Ebola”? Have you read “Medical Apartheid”? I read
different things. Based on Tuskegee, I believe our
government is capable of doing anything. One of the
responses to Hussein’s biological weapons, all we had
to do was check the sales receipts. Yes, I believe we
are capable.Q: You have likened Israeli policies to apartheid.
Explain your views on Israel?
A: President Carter called it apartheid. My position
on Israel is that Israel has a right to exist.
Israelis need to sit down and talk and learn to live
together in the world. Importance of reconciliation.Q: Your understanding of Christianity, does God love
the white racist as much as the black?
A: John 3:16: “And God so loved the world, that he
gave it his only begotten son.” “The world” is all of
God’s children because all of God’s children are made
in God’s image.Q: Are USA Marines equal to Roman soliders?
A: In Biblical history, not one word is written that
was not written under six different kinds of
oppression (goes through them one by one, from the
Egyptians to the Romans). Comparing imperialism in
Luke (Caesar August is depicted as being in charge of
“the world”), yes I can compare that. to how we run
“the world” because we have troops stationed all over
“the world”, so yes our imperialism is not the message
of the prince of peace or of the gospel or of god, who
loves “the world”.Q: What do you think about Bill Clinton’s efforts to
ding blacks?
A: I don’t think anything about it, I came here to
talk about black theology.Q: Explain how the black and white churches can
reconcile. A: Many white persons-clergy-members who
have already taken great steps. The Underground
Railroad played the largest role in getting Africans
out of slavery. White missionaries to the South, set
up universities (ticks off many historical black
colleges from Howard to Morehead). Importance of
reconciliation of brothers and sisters in Christ, made
in the image of God.Q: How do you address the lack of understanding that
people of other backgrounds have of the Black Church.
How to fix that?
A: Starting with education at the grammar school
level, to tell our children the true story. Until you
know the true story, you’re reacting to my words and
not to the truth.Q: Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth and the life,
no man comes to the Father but by me.” Do you believe
Islam is a legitimate way?
A: Jesus also said, “Other sheep have I who are not of
this fold.”Q: Are people of other races welcome at your church?
A: Yes. We have members of other races at our church –
Hispanics, etc. My denomination is primarily white.Q: Why wait so long before giving your side of the
soundbite story?
A: As I said to Moyers, because of my mother’s advice
to me. Better to be quiet and thought a fool than to
open your mouth and remove all doubt. How long do you
let somebody talk about your faith tradition before
you respond? This is an attack on the black church,
not on Jeremiah Wright. I cannot allow the heroes of
my tradition to die in vain by not saying anything to
defend them. This is about (ticks off a list of names,
from Barbara Jordan to his grandmother).Q: Is it God’s will that Obama be president?
A: I have not offered myself as a candidate for God,
so I can’t presume to know. If God wants him, in spite
of white racism or whatever, God will do what God
wants to do.Q: The comedian Chris Rock has joked: “Of course Rev.
Wright is angry, all 75 year old black men are angry.”
Is that funny or unfair?
A: That’s just like the media: I’m not 75 (laughs).
That’s fairly accurate, btw. The Natl. Press Club official (a woman — for a rare change and she was used to ask the questions, I suspect, based on the NPC’s “fear” of Wright) just pounded on Wright in the questions. EVERY question was negative or loaded with boobytraps, not one single question was fair or based on anything but a Fox News view of the world. Since the questions came from the journalists, I think maybe it’s time the NPC banned anonymous questions and put these racist assholes on record. “Are people of other races welcome at your church?” The crowd roared with laughter at that one as anyone who knows anything about the Rev. Wright’s congregation knows that it is mixed.
Tiny frightened reporters asking fearful anonymous questions. A shameful exercise in how fucked up and racist our national press corps really is.
UPDATE: Black columnists, having long ago eaten their ration of condescending shit, back up and extemporize. No word if they shuffled their feet as they did so. Shame on the otherwise insightful Bob Herbert, Eugene Robinson, and even the Chicago Tribune editorial board. Nothing from Derrick Z. Jackson yet but there is an editorial cartoon in the Boston Globe (a similar but better one in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution), an anecdote from The Swamp, and maybe — just maybe — we’re going to have some problems with the Secret Service if Obama wins.
The L.A. Times has perhaps the best straight news article on the speech and Q&A (I read it again and now I think there are no good articles about this), possibly to counterbalance the incoherent gibberish coming from Jonah Goldberg, who, incidentally, agrees with all of the above pundits, which should tell them just how wrong they are.
UPDATE: Over at A Tiny Revolution, people leave comments.
UPDATE: Finally, a good summary of Wright’s appearance.
UPDATE: Bill in Portland Maine reminds us that this anti-Wright baloney is a one-way street: no one is challenging McCain over the Rev. John Hagee’s far more inflammatory statements.
UPDATE: Tristero is even more critical of our media than I am.
UPDATE: dday unloads on Hardball’s 180° take on Wright.
UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald.
UPDATE: NPR is trashing Rev. Wright and analyzing/second-guessing Barack Obama for all they’re worth, which to my understanding is the actual income from their corporate underwriters plus about a buck fifty. Appalling, simple-minded, in-the-bag journalism from once-good people who’ve been living large a bit too long, and who really don’t have a fucking clue what all gets said at sermon time in American churches, black or white.
On the local front, the same DFL insiders who decided that El Tinklenberg wasn’t half the Bachmann killer that Patty Wetterling was two years ago, have decided in all their holy modal majestic majesty that El Tinklenberg is “the Man“ to stop Bachmann this time.
No one is so full of themselves as political insiders playing God. In a saner state, the primary would precede the endorsement convention.
Minnesota is, as proven by our voting history, not a sane state, politically speaking. Was Bob Olson a better Bachmann killer than Tinklenberg? Well, common sense says that a primary would have been a much better indicator than an incest fest attended only by those who’ve mastered the art of jumping through hoops and getting elected by their peers (i.e., other wonks) TWICE before being permitted to humbly vote on such a matter.
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MPR, introducing the National Press Club segment just now:
Rev. Wright, as you will hear, is NOT apologizing.
Fuck Gary Eichten and his daily financial masturbations. The Rev. Wright has NOTHING to apologize for. The apologies are all due from the media, who have shamelessly sensationalized words ripped out of context. Eichten never betrays any excitement unless he has a Republican guest on who’s talking about cutting taxes on Gary’s retirement investments. [Seriously, did they clone Eichten from a used rubber in Bob Potter's wallet, or what?]
And yes, the National Press Club is touching itself inappropriately as they introduce the Rev. Wright in the most sensationalistic manner possible.
God but I fucking despise the American media. And if you’re listening, all that applause is from non-reporters present who are being as loud and supportive as they can. Wright has truly entered into the lion’s den.
[Wow, not even five minutes in and he's dropped Ralph Ellison and Langston Hughes on his audience. "As the Vice President has told you, that applause does not come from the working press." No shit.]
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Jeff Shaw rummages through Paul Demko’s things [scroll down], looking for story leads now that CP’s most prolific newshound has moved on to MinMon.
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Ron Paulistas fuck up Nevada’s GOP state convention so thoroughly, it’s adjourned and will be held later after the discombobulated Republican powers that be figure out how to stifle democracy at their convention.
Meanwhile, in Indiana, two young Republican frontrunners ran such fabulously nasty campaigns that a third candidate ended up winning their primary.
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More on all the depth of study and profound insights that went into Rubinomics.
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Been wondering about Afghanistan? You’re obviously not paying attention. You should be worried about Afghanistan. Worried, if not actually shitting bricks.
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If you’re from Minnesota, you already know darned well that Tim Pawlenty isn’t fit to be a governor, enamored as he is with hyperpartisanship, eroding infrastructure, obscenely unnecessary tax cuts and — yes — still more pork for the richest few.
So you wouldn’t think that Bob Collins’ post on whether Pawlenty is ready to be Vice President would be the first such item from a news organization anywhere. (It is.)
Like Senator McCain’s jet fighter during the Vietnam war, McCain’s campaign will go down in flames. I hope — if he picks Pawlenty as his Veep — that McCain has the common sense to tell Pawlenty to replace his gasoline cannister with a fire extinguisher. It’ll come in more handy when they crash and burn. (And they will.)
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Eric Black liked Frank Rich’s last column. I won’t argue with him.
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The Rev. Wright isn’t the only one unloading with both barrels lately. Elizabeth Edwards popped up on the NY Times editorial page on Sunday.
The vigorous press that was deemed an essential part of democracy at our country’s inception is now consigned to smaller venues, to the Internet and, in the mainstream media, to occasional articles. I am not suggesting that every journalist for a mainstream media outlet is neglecting his or her duties to the public. And I know that serious newspapers and magazines run analytical articles, and public television broadcasts longer, more probing segments.
But I am saying that every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture.
Well worth a read.
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Last week’s answers, this week’s quiz.
Billion dollar jailbait
April 28, 2008
The other big news item today seems to be the appearance of the $1 billion girl, topless, in Vanity Fair.
She didn’t get paid for the shoot. Remember that the next time someone tells you that “free” content can’t make you money.
Otoh, Britney Spears got paid for those Pepsi commercials that helped Bob Dole rediscover boners. Then again, Britney’s not a billionaire. And because this is America, home of corporate lobbyists and whackjob fundamentalists, I can watch those Britney commercials over and over again on my TIVO, even if possession of digitally manufactured child porn will send me to prison for 10-20 years of involuntary AIDS injections.
Remember: it’s only legal if someone who’s already rich makes all the money from it. And you’re only a hypocritical horn dog if click on this link to see the pictures.
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Krugman trash talks John McCain while Bill Kristol pretends to give some advice to Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, the only man to gain the world’s respect as an ex-President lectures us on the Middle East. You tell ‘em Brother Jimmy!
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Katherine Kersten works so hard to squash any attempt at letting Muslims have their own schools, but despite her valiant efforts, no one pays any attention to her.
Not so in NYC, where they just fired a Muslim principal. And don’t even think about making a Jew York City crack! No, seriously — don’t. Anymore it’s as much the ethnic Catholics as it is the observant Jewry. Just proving, once again, that religious idiots is a term that needs no further clarification. All religions produce idiots, and many let them be in charge.
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Why? Because the first corporation that locks in a monopoly on rotting children’s teeth wins Satan’s favor.
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OK, given my lead story, I guess I can’t pretend this isn’t news.
Even if I have no clue who Mindy McCready is or why this slut tried to break up Roger Clemens marriage.
Hmm, maybe that was a little harsh. Maybe she was just doing him to get some cheap steroids.
UPDATE: Whoopsie! I just read the whole article and apparently McCready was 15 years old when the affair started. OK, I guess this really is newsworthy. By corporate news standards, anyhow.
Wright for America
April 28, 2008
Receiving a lengthy and loud standing ovation, Wright followed in the footsteps of Obama, President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in his speech at the event, a $150-a-plate fundraiser billed as the largest sit-down dinner in America.
Obama, who is vying with Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, distanced himself from Wright after publicity over the minister’s sharp criticism of America’s racial history and government policies.
The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, stirred the crowd with an animated introduction to Wright. He let the audience know, among other things, that Wright speaks five languages and is an Egyptologist, writer, author, family man and “innovator and sustainer of the word of God.”
He drew numerous contrasts between racial and ethnic groups in language, music and other aspects of American culture. He danced, beat-boxed and even sang an aria from the podium to make his points in the massive exhibition hall, which served as an impromptu pulpit.
“In the past, we were taught to see others who are different as somehow being deficient,” Wright said. “I believe that a change is going to come because many of us are committed to changing how we see other people who are different.”
He also responded to Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who had called Wright “divisive” during an April 18 forum.
“I am not one of the most divisive” black spiritual leaders, he said. “Tell him the word is `descriptive.’”
Same old race baiting NAACP…
Their partisanship for the party of Slavery, the (D)emocrats, is all the more ironic given the (D)emocrats post-war legacy of the KKK, Jim Crow, Segregation and:
Bob Parks : Democrats Still Lying Through Their Teeth
Catch that? The Democrats are the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and Segregation?!! Wouldn’t that be the SOUTHERN Democrats, who are all now card-carrying Republicans?
4RWW is heavy into some mouth-breather named Bob Parks:
Bob Parks also uses my favorite quote from the liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood…
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population”
Which reminded me of SNOBabama’s “fathers”:
“Reverend” Al Sharpton
“Reverend” James Meeks
“Reverend” Jeremiah Wright
“Reverend” Otis Moss III
“Minister” Louis Farrakhan
“Pastor” Michael Pfleger
“Reverend” James Bevel
“Reverend” Eric Lee
“Pastor” Mack King
“Mentor” Frank Davis
How useful they are…
And yes… Al Sharpton marched in a “Kill The Police” rally today with toadies wearing KKK robes. Let’s hope no one dies after one of Al Sharpton’s hate-fests… again. [I think this is a reference to the protest march following the acquittal of Sean Bell's murderers, all of whom were NYPD detectives.]
“He’s looking less like Kennedy, and more like Steve Urkel.” — Don Surber
Feeling embarrassed to be an American yet? No? Well, here’s some more:
Actually… my thoughts on Barack Hussein Obama are much harsher. How is it that a Marxist Hawaiian is a “Post-Racial” candidate? Isn’t that a racist statement? And this from a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright’s “church”?
1) I objected to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s Stalinist Marxism
2) I objected to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s Racist lies
3) I objected to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s mentally ill conspiracy theories
4) I objected to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Semitism
5) I objected to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s Anti-Americanism
And when Jeremiah Wright moved into a gated “White” community I discovered the degree of his hypocritical blaxploitation.
And yes… both Jeremiah Wright & Barack Hussein Obama are “ex-Muslims”.
So when Barack Hussein Obama reacted to our discovery of his Reverend/Hater by lecturing us on “race”, as if we are collectively guilty, that not only set me off, but it failed to answer the majority of my objections.
Based on what we are learning, in spite of Barack Hussein Obama’s MainStreamMedia enabled evasiveness, it appears he was raised in a manner that made choosing Black-supremacist Marxism appealing and comfortable and consistent with what he clearly embraced at Jeremiah Wright’s “church”. For Jeremiah Wright & Barack Hussein Obama clearly share a “Black Value System”.
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The tectonic plates of American politics are in motion. Millions of moderate Republicans, sick to death of this kind of idiotic yammering, will vote for Obama. The old, pre-Southern Strategy Republicans aren’t the mindless racists that Reagan ushered into the GOP. They’re also not idiots. They hear McCain and know his words to be the foolishness of an old man held captive by lobbyists. They hear Obama and — I’m sorry to say — they hear a reasonable voice who will gently guide us into the future. [Sorry because — yeah, I'd prefer someone further to the left, too.]
Driving these sick fucks out into the open will bust up the GOP’s corpse flower coalition faster than anything that can be jammed into a 30-second tv spot. Lying faster than the speed of thought, they embarrass themselves, their cause and their candidate. This is the kind of racist idiocy that can drag Norman Bruce Coleman down to defeat.
Assuming Al Franken remembered to pay his MN state taxes last year….
