Archive for March 31, 2009
Enough for Today
I need to take my head off and set it down somewhere.
Oh, and thanks to my friend Ellen at News Hounds for the h/t.
NBC’s Richard Engel on People Who Want to Level the Economic Playing Field: They’re Anarchists
Following on the heels of Katie Couric embracing wingnut spin tonight, Richard Engel, NBC’s “chief foreign correspondent” appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and dang if he didn’t do the same thing. (Sense a trend? And what does it take to be named, “NBC’s chief foreign correspondent?”)
Reporting from London on demonstrations that will coincide with the G-20 Summit tomorrow, Engel repeatedly referred to the potential protesters as “anarchists,” “anarchists,” “anarchists.”
Where did he get that? A Tweet from Goldman Sachs or from spending too much time in the corporate media bubble? Who exactly are the “anarchist” here? People who think the economic and financial playing field should be leveled or CEOs who destroy a company and walk away with $20 million bonuses paid for by those very same, ahem, “anarchists”?
Katie Couric Promulgates Wingnut Talking Point
Katie Couric lead the CBS Evening News tonight with a report about President Obama’s trip to the G-20 Summit. In it she wondered whether Obama would be handicapped by his “limited foreign policy experience.”
Gosh. I wonder where she got that. A Tweet from the RNC?
I mean, come on. Did we hear the same concern about W? No. And he had a far more limited sense of the world than Obama does.
Think
“It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.”
- Bob Newhart
Prominent Companies Supporting Global Warming Deniers
Interesting: “FedEx, GM, Microsoft, Toyota, VISA and WalMart support Cato [the Cato Institute] which is buying expensive global warming denier ads attacking Obama.”
I hate thinking that part of what I pay Comcast every month is going to Cato to try and convince me that global warming is a farce and Obama’s a nut because he believes in it.
Time to Sacrifice Even More?
Obama Auto Plan: Not a Word About Protecting Autoworker Jobs, Pensions or Health Care.
This is starting to stink. I don’t like the thrust of what’s going on in terms of letting CEO’s keep $20 million retirement packages while there’s little or no talk about the urgent need to protect worker pensions and health care plans.
I know someone who has worked for the Post Office for 33 years. If he were to retire today his pension would amount to 40% – that’s right, a measly 40% – of his regular pay. After 30+ years! (And he didn’t run the company or the world economy into the ground.) Where’s the fat there? The average worker who’s lucky enough to receive a pension isn’t living in hog heaven.
Arianna Huffington on CNBC?
That has got to be a first. Man, they’re really kissing up after the Jim Cramer/Rick Santelli fiascos.
