Part of me is beginning to think that some of this wingnut meltdown is calculated, and they’re just venting now before deluging us with lies and dirty tricks nonstop until the election. The hard right would rather leave this country in smouldering, debt-ridden ruins than hand over power to liberals.
But the left seems to be ramping up the debunking in levels that are defusing the nuttery. Even Boing!Boing! has gotten into the act. Here are some recent posts from that site that are decidedly a bit political:
Corey Doctorow on DHS seizure of laptops at the border
Mark Frauenfelder on Bruce Ivins’ suicide
Plugola, but it’s PC plugola
Cambridgeshire “poor insulation” bust
More on the NRA spy who infiltrated the gun control lobby
& a non-political but utterly amazing post about a blind painter
That’s just Boing!Boing! over the last day or so, and I’m seeing more and more politics at more and more non-political sites. Which, I think, is good. We’re certainly not getting all the news from our newspapers.
Yes, most blog links go to newspaper copy, but again the problem is that when one major newspaper breaks a story about this administration’s wrongdoing, the others often ignore it, and the b’cast media cluelessly marches on, oblivious to half the stories out there (when they’re not aggressively peddling disinformation).
This election will be fought on all fronts:
through links to government sites
Because this is about much more than just us winning. This year is our last chance to begin turning this country around before the corporations turn the USA into another UK, a broken welfare state where ambition is futile and hope is for the dimwitted.
☪ ☮ ✡
Have you read the skinny on that absurd Wall Street Journal hit piece on Obama’s weight yet? If you haven’t, click on that link before going to Sadly, No! to learn how great journalists research a major think piece like this one (keyword: chuckybutt).
Also weighing in on this craptacular hit piece: Nancy Nall and Atrios.
☪ ☮ ✡
The Bruce Ivins/anthrax story is slowly picking up some more pieces. The Chicago Tribune points to a profit motive, Jonathan Schwarz echoes Glenn Greenwald on how the Cheneyites used anthrax to play the media (as does Muriel Kane), the NY Times has more coverage (and more on the other hand handwringing), and Rick Perlstein has an Ivins-penned letter to the editor that’s a bit nutty, to say the least.
I don’t know if Ivins did it or not, but he’s pretty close to the ideal fall guy if he didn’t. Then again, so was Hatfill. But much as I’d like to know more, I’m hoping the FBI keeps its yap shut a while longer, because that means there are other suspects. Nothing on this earth would please me more than to see David Addington arrested for being an accessory before the fact to cold-blooded murder.
At least some of the technical discussion of this case has excused Ivins for not knowing how to aerosolize anthrax, but the latest analysis of the anthrax that was mailed out has concluded that pure anthrax (which is what was in the envelopes) aerosolizes itself. Ivins, or whoever mailed out the anthrax, probably didn’t expect it to be so deadly.
A deadly screw up that killed five innocent people. If that doesn’t sound like a Dick Cheney ratfucking operation, nothing does.
☪ ☮ ✡
The cracker judge responsible for the Jena 6 has been removed for cause, having publicly prejudged the defendants’ guilt.
Even in Louisiana, sometimes there is justice. Even if it is only meant to defuse some of the very high levels of racial distrust in Louisiana following the Bush-provoked Katrina diaspora. Distrust that will help turn out record numbers of voters this year.
☪ ☮ ✡
In Iowa minority party Republicans are engaged in a shameful attempt to shovel money to businesses unaffected by the summer floods.
I’m sure they’re aware of all the federal swag Mississippi raked in courtesy of former Senate Chief Bagman Trent Lott. In Bush’s America, no tragedy is so tragic money can’t be made from it.
☪ ☮ ✡
Write the truth about the wingnuts, and they call you a crackhead. But they can name call all they like, the tide is turning. In Texas the braindead decision to drop an exorcism case now appears to be on its way to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court may be occupied by fascist forces, but they’re not evangelicals. And, since it was an Assembly of God exorcism and not a Catholic exorcism, Scalia and Alito may rule sanely.
☪ ☮ ✡
Exposure will be their undoing, and increasingly whistleblowers are helping to expose scandals related to:
GOoPer talking points idiocies
Cheney’s ongoing treason (yes, Billmon’s back! another one here)
the thin line between the liars and the propagandists
Which is not to say that the left doesn’t still shoot itself in the foot every now and then:
Sara Robinson discovers that the weak sisters like to label others
Blois Olson outlines how Franken can overcome his horrible start (Al can’t autopilot his way out of the hole he’s dug for himself, not when the really bad stuff is yet to come)
So-called liberal media still apologizes for human rights violators on cue
Even lefty heroes like Ted Rall get some of it backasswards (I appreciate that it sucks to be brilliant and talented but not making a lot of money, but this rage dump by Rall makes almost no sense)
Uploading your band’s music is a good thing so don’t fuck with people and lie about what you’re doing
The left has many agendas, almost all of them unimplemented. The hard left needs to remember that Obama will not forget his intraparty critics. If you want to Obama to move left after being inaugurated, try not criticizing him from the left.
He’s a Constitutional scholar. That should be all you need to know to realize that he will make things better, and that job one will be to weaken the imperial presidency, a task I think he’s looking forward to.
And our job? Our job is to do a better job of weeding out the Blue Dogs so they can be successfully challenge in primaries in 2010.
No Comments Yet
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Leave a comment
