Archive for April 1, 2009
A Naked Chef Cooks For the Obamas? Yikes!
MSNBC repeatedly pointed out today that, OMG, “the naked chef” (visualize that) was making dinner for members of the G-20 Summit at #10 Downing Street tonight.
Who’s that awful naked guy – someone the Obamas would steer clear of if they weren’t San Francisco, er, hedonistic Hollywood liberals? Jamie Oliver.
The Ed Show
Keith Olbermann just announced that “The Ed Show,” featuring Ed Schultz, will debut Monday on MSNBC at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Schultz will be up against Bret Baier on Fox “News” and Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
This is going to be interesting.
More later.
Medvedev (or Whatever)
I’m chuckling today as I listen to the talking heads trying to pronounce “Dmitry Medvedev.” I’d probably be rolling on the floor if they had to pronounce his middle name.
Seriously though, this is pitiful. Medvedev has been the president of Russia for almost a year and the punditocracy is still trying to figure out how to pronounce his name? Remember way back, immediately after 9/11, when the MSM swore they were going to expand their world view? Guess not.
Think
The pattern is clear: governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with an acceleration of that same discredited agenda will not survive to tell the tale. As Italy’s students have taken to shouting in the streets: “We won’t pay for your crisis!”
Dumb and Dumber
The GOP unveiled its “real” budget proposal today; that budget they released last week was apparently just a “marketing document.”
So far, the reviews are pretty bad (here, here and here are a few). Not only that, but these guys seem to enjoy stabbing themselves directly through the heart: They propose eliminating Medicare. Way to appeal to average Americans, GOP! Sheesh.
Seems to me that – especially given the economy – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are sacrosanct. It’s a no-brainer, isn’t it, that proposing to do away with any or all of them is political suicide?
What a Bunch of Spoiled, Petty Brats
(I hardly think this constitutes “muzzling the press,” for God’s sake.)
Got to Eat More Fish
I always keep an eye on the New York Times‘ “Dining & Wine” section as I’m always interested in finding new recipes. I’m also trying to work more fish into my diet. It’s hard because I don’t really like it, but here’s something from the current issue of Dining that looks good: Tortillitas with Shrimp. According to the write-up, you can substitute scallops or skate or salt cod (I’m going to use tilapia) for the shrimp.
Now all I need to do is find some chickpea flour.
GOP Propaganda Arm Ignores GOP Budget Presser
You know the Republican party is ashamed of itself when its flagship propaganda arm, Fox “News,” doesn’t go, bells and whistles blaring, to the live presser for the unveiling (again) of the alternative Republican budget.
We’re fifteen minutes into the presser (10:45 a.m. ET) and Fox hasn’t mentioned it. They’re talking about the FDA and cloned cows.
Fox News Does an About-Face on Economic News
During the five years that I monitored Fox’s “premiere business news” show, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, plenty of bad economic news came out. However, there were many, many times when Cavuto hid that information in the bowels of his show – mentioning it as an aside, or “reporting” it by sticking it in the crawl at the bottom of the screen. The goal, after all, was to make George W. Bush look as good as possible so bad news was, shall we say, swept under the rug.
Fast forward to January 20, 2009 and the swearing in of a Democratic president. This morning I watched as “America’s Newsroom” no less (not known for its business news), led with the new unemployment numbers and an appearance by Fox’s Stuart Varney to, ah, explain scare the bejesus out of viewers and to make absolutely sure they understood what a huge and bad number (742,000) it was.
Granted, it is a big number and it’s bad but again, chances are good that back in the day, Fox would have dismissed it (the higher the number, the less extensive the coverage). But, alas, not now. Now, with a Democrat in the White House, they are doing exactly the opposite.
They’re pigs (no offense to pigs).
