Archive for November 18, 2009
Fox “News” Says Eric Holder Was “Shattered”
Attorney General Eric Holder testified before congress today about his decision to hold trials of the 9/11 Gitmo detainees in New York City.
How did he do? Per Fox “News,” he was “shattered:”
Click on the image and you get this.
Don’t have time to wait for 10+ minutes of video to upload? No problem. You get the gist: Eric Holder, Barack — I bow because I’m a wimp — Obama’s AG is a pushover. He’s so weak he can’t even stand up to the equally wimpy Lindsey Graham so hey, there’s no way he can stand up to terrrrrrrrorists.
Tweet of the Day
Regarding the Senate health care bill, which the CBO reported today would reduce the deficit by $127 billion:
Calling Jon Stewart: Fox “News” is “Accidently” Substituting Footage Again
It hasn’t been two weeks since Jon Stewart caught Sean Hannity substituting old footage for new in an attempt to show how allegedly huge a GOP crowd protesting health care was.
You’d think they’d learn, huh? But no. This is so brazen: This afternoon Fox used footage from last year’s presidential campaign to claim that Sarah Palin is drawing huge crowds at her book signings.
Again, I call on the FCC to prohibit Fox from using the slogan, “fair and balanced news.” It’s false advertising.
When People Are Blinded by Hate, They Do Stupid Stuff
Oh man, I love this: Texas’ gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages:
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.” But the troublemaking phrase, as Radnofsky sees it, is Subsection B, which declares:
“This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.”
Sarah Palin Prayed With Rick Warren — While She Was in the Shower
Since Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, doesn’t have an index, the Washington Post has posted one, or rather a “guide to what she said about major political figures.” They have also summarized and/or quoted what she wrote about some of those people.
I don’t know if she elaborates but I’d love to know the circumstances surrounding this:
Check out the “index.” The Post is putting up refutations and comments that are coming in from people Palin wrote about, and they are they ever fun to read!
“Skyrocketing” Doesn’t Describe What Health Care Costs Are Doing
I had a mammogram last week. I got the bill today: $900.00.
One year and one day prior to last week’s mammogram, I had a mammogram at the same facility. It cost $285.00.
We need a stronger word to describe this insanity. Surging? Even that’s too tame.
Andrew Sullivan is Dropping Everything to Go After Sarah
Andrew Sullivan over at the Daily Dish is hot on Sarah Palin’s trail. He smells a rat, or rather, the “possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination.” So he’s going dark for “only the second time” in the Dish’s “nearly ten-year history.”
He elaborates:
There are so many fabrications and delusions in the book, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it – and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality she has previously provided – is a bewildering task. She is a deeply disturbed person which makes this work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read. And the fact that she is now the leader of the Republican party and a potential presidential candidate, makes this process of deconstruction an important civil responsibility. We take this seriously as we always have. We want to be fair to her, and to her family, and to the innocent people she has brought into the spotlight. And we are not reporters. We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.
You go Andrew.
How the U.S. Media Propagandistically Depicts Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed
I’m watching the “liberal” CBS Evening News w/Katie Couric. Couric just aired a story about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This is the picture of Mohammed that CBS used during her report:
This is a picture of Mohammed that the media’s fond of too:
What a scary guy, huh? And you think the MSM isn’t a propaganda machine?
Have you ever seen this photo?
I didn’t think so.
Fox “News” Says Obama is “Our Most Embarrassing President”
Remember cringing during the eight long years of George Bush’s near-daily flubs, mispronunciations and incoherent statements? Fox “News” doesn’t. They’re claiming that President Obama is our “most embarrassing president.” (Ignore the question mark — also known as the “Cavuto mark.“ Fox puts a question mark after all its outrageous statements. It gives them cover.)
Click on the graphic and you go to the Moonie Washington Times for “opinion/analysis.”
Leaving Afghanistan
The number of prominent people calling for a withdrawal from Afghanistan is growing. Yesterday Retired General Wesley Clark joined their ranks:
Clark pressed Congress to begin devising an exit strategy from the country. He said that the US should strengthen its relationship with Pakistan and work with the Pakistani government to target al Qaeda, while diminishing its presence in neighboring Afghanistan. He also argued that economic development in Afghanistan was important.
If the U.S. were to increase its forces in Afghanistan, Clark said, a exit strategy should be in place first.
As the article points out, this was “little reported.” True, because the military industrial complex controls our media and they have a vested interest in staying there.
Why is Sammy Sosa Whitening His Skin?
Here’s a fascinating article about the use of skin lightening cream and the worldwide desire to have light — if not white — skin.
Karma
Remember that Pennsylvania swim club that wouldn’t admit the 50+ black and Latino kids last summer? Well, it has filed for bankruptcy.
We Dodged a Bullet — to Put it Mildly
Here’s a behind-the-scenes glimpse into just a few days of the McCain/Palin campaign. If this is any indication of how they would have “work together” to run the country, well, it would have been chaotic:
As the campaign came to a climax in October, Palin isolated herself from headquarters, refusing to communicate with them directly. Her staff, suspicious that McCain’s retinue of lieutenants were trying to sabotage Palin simply because she was Palin, began to skirmish with McCain’s staff, bollixing up carefully planned events.
Dogs Don’t Lie
A short and sweet video of a dog going nuts when his dad returns from Afghanistan:
Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Knew What He Was Doing
Per what we’ve read in the media about the “balloon boy,” dad Richard Heene thought that if he staged that hoax he’d, 1) get media attention for he and/or his family or, ideally, 2) sign a contract for a syndicated television show. We haven’t heard anything about a syndicated show yet but as for attention from the media? Bingo:
TVNewser has learned the Heene family is in New York taking meetings and taping an interview with ABC. Last night, producers took the family to dinner. TMZ caught up with the Heenes outside Ocean Grill, not far from ABC News headquarters, but they weren’t talking.
ABC picked up the tab and had an SUV take the family back to their hotel.
Heene was right.
