Archive for June 15, 2009
Twitter and the Power of the People (Sans Bill O’Reilly)
At 5:36 p.m. ET Andrew Sullivan posted this (below) on his blog. Note the last sentence:
Two hours later, voila: Twitter rescheduled the maintenance.
Bravo! Woohoo!
(Bill O’Reilly’s four+ year-old call to boycott France comes to mind here. Is that still on?)
Picture (Perfect) of a “Wall Cloud”
Talk about a picture that speaks for itself: Look at the “wall cloud” that formed in the sky south of Denver today.
(Note the “Free Newt” ad at the top of the page. Poor boy.)
Schizoid – “Black Rice Platinum” and a Revolution
Part of me is “watching” the Home Shopping Network (aiming for flat brainwaves) while they push a 3-piece “Black Rice Platinum” kit (whatever the hell that is) for $44.50. Meanwhile I’m clicking the refresh button like a crazy person on Andrew Sullivan’s blog for more info on what’s going on in Iran.
Wish I could take my head off and set it down for a while.
Joan Walsh — Like a Deer in the Headlights When it Comes To Fox News
Joan Walsh, of Salon.com, was a guest on “The Factor” last week. She and BillO, ahem, “discussed” the murder of Dr. George Tiller.
Today, via Twitter, Walsh wondered whether Fox’s (and NPR’s) Juan Williams would defend her (he won’t – he’s been bought) and she — “oh jesus,” freaked out about BillO “re-editing my interview to do what he didn’t do friday. what a little bitch!” And she exclaimed, “O’Reilly edited to make me look dumb.”
This is a surprise?
Where has Walsh been all her life? Has she seen Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism which debuted five years ago? Does she know about my old stomping ground, the News Hounds? That Fox would do any of this is old, old news.
Joan — take yourself out of the bubble for a sec or two (or ten or twenty).
Please.
Xo.
Sarah Palin KO’s David Letterman
Apparently David Letterman will apologize to Sarah Palin – again — tonight. Man, the wingers must have responded en masse to Palin’s call if he’s running so scared that he feels the need to apologize again.
Enough! This is trivia. Drivel. If Sarah Palin hopes to paint herself as a serious person who might one day lead the country, hello, this is not the way to do it dear.
MSNBC’s Hardball Uses “Ancient” Iran Video
I dipped into Hardball w/Chris Matthews just now. Matthews is hosting a roundtable discussion about the revolution in Iran over video showing protesters being beaten by police. The video is captioned, “Sunday.”
MSNBC doesn’t have anything newer than that? I saw that video mid-day yesterday (forgot where — I’m reading and watching everything I can get my hands (and eyes) on).
That’s what you get when you close your foreign bureaus and bring your reporters home because, of course, nothing worth reporting ever happens outside the U.S.
Tornadoes Today
Lots of tornadoes swirling around the Denver area today, most of them small and in the clouds but one large one did touch down briefly in ranch land south of town. Very unusual. Tornadoes were unheard of in these parts as recently as two or three years ago.
Breaking: Obama Wants to Tax Aspirin!
Words fail. (And the wingers deny playing a part in ramping up wingnut hate? This is designed to do just that and nothing more.)
Hardcore Republican Pollster Frank Luntz Advising Democrats
The word “shocking” is over-used but this blows my pants off and lights my hair on freaking fire! Is there no difference between Democrats and Republicans anymore? Apparently not.
This is more than disappointing; more than depressing. These guys are such idiots. Don’t they realize that enacting single-payer health care will but them in good stead with the country for decades?!
The Coup in Iran
This is what fascism looks like and this is the kind of thing that is happening in Iran today.
I worry for the people. I can’t stop thinking about them.
I’m Green Today
Green is the color of the Iranian resistance — of the people in the streets who are trying to effect change. Wear green. They need to know we care.
My blogging is on hold right now because I believe what’s happening in that country is the most important, most interesting, most significant thing happening on the planet right now.
Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish is the place to go for (continuous) updates. (Forget your television “news.” Their coverage has been awful. At this very moment they’re proving how irrelevant they are. For me it’s the nail in the proverbial coffin. They’re useless.)
Morning Joe
I watched a few minutes — all I could take — of “Morning Joe” today on MSNBC. More and more, with the giggly silliness and the same ol’ same ol’ guests, it’s beginning to remind me of the unwatchable “Fox and Friends.” (BTW, Jon Meacham was on, again.)
Fox Tries to Justify Dan Senor’s Middle East “Expertise”
I just made the mistake of turning to Fox “News” to see how they were covering the situation in Iran. Bill Hemmer was on, talking about something Dan Senor, one of Fox’s Middle East “experts,” said earlier. Hemmer was apparently trying to add credibility to Senor because he said Senor “has spent y-e-a-r-s” in the Middle East.
Not exactly. He spent about two years there, primarily as what amounted to chief propaganda officer for the Bush administration.
I swear, the folks at Fox can’t open their mouth without lying or stretching the truth.
