Archive for November 23, 2009
Does FBN Stand for the Fox Business Network, or Not?
I just Googled “FBN” looking for the Fox Business Network.
The top search result for “FBN” was FBN as in “Furniture Brands International,” an NYSE-listed company. One could go to GoogleFinance, YahooFinance, MSNMoney, AOLFinance, CNNMoney and Reuters to learn more but as for going to Fox “Business News”? No.
Meanwhile, “FoxBusiness” was second on the list and the “Fundamental Broadcasting Network” was third.
FBN = Furniture Brands International? Who knew?
Foot-in-Mouth Alex Castellanos to Advise Foot-in-Mouth Michael Steele
When the GOP hires a guy like Alex Castellanos as the “communications advisor” to its bumbling Chairman Michael Steele, you know you’re in for some good times. It’s a case of the blind leading the blind. Consider this: Castellanos’ most memorable bit of “communication” was what he said about Hillary Clinton: She’s a “white bitch.”
Calling All Ed Schultz and Glenn Beck Fans — Does Carbonite Have Any Corporate Ethics?
If you listen to Ed Schultz’s radio show you know that he’s supposedly a big fan of the computer back-up company, Carbonite, and that they pay him to promote their product:
But they pay Glenn Beck too:
So, what does it say about Carbonite that they advertise on both of these shows? Do they have any ethics? Apparently not.
Sarah Palin’s Foreign Policy in a Nutshell
Sarah Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, during an interview today at Fort Hood:
“I see a decline in our might,” Chuck Heath said. “People used to be afraid of us and respect us, (but) they’re not afraid of us and don’t respect us anymore.”
Push people around, beat them up, bomb them, and they’ll “respect” you? I don’t think so.
This would be our two sentence foreign policy under a Palin presidency.
A Gigantic Sinkhole — Created by the Oil Industry — Threatens to Destroy Carlsbad, NM
Have you heard about this (amazing picture)? I hadn’t until now.
In fact, the massive sinkhole currently running through the center of town was created by the oil industry. As MSNBC reports it was formed over three decades as oil field service companies pumped fresh water into a salt layer more than 400 feet below the surface and extracted several million barrels of brine to help with drilling.If it collapses, the unnatural cavern is likely to take with it a church, a highway, several businesses and a trailer park. Massive fissures currently cleave through town, and one business owner has said that structural cracks have even formed in his store.
More Sleaze From Fox “News”
Never mind substituting video from one event for video of another, Fox is tinkering with its pie charts too.
God, they must have data showing that their audience is so stupid it’ll buy this crap.
Rupert Murdoch’s Idea of “Business News”
This morning on the Fox Business Network, Don Imus praised guest Bo Deitl after Dietl advocated assaulting Harry Reid. Now that’s business news, heh?
Existing Home Sales
The media is raving about last month’s 10.1% surge in existing home sales, but, as usual, they don’t put that number into any kind of perspective. Calculated Risk does.
Again, What Does Obama See in Dana Perino?
Last week President Obama appointed former George W. Bush press secretary and wingnut shill Dana Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Today Perino was on Fox and Friends blasting Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder “for creating a ‘mockery’ out of the justice system and suggested that the president should know better than to be captured on video playing golf.”
So will someone please explain to me what Obama is thinking with this appointment? Is it bipartisanship again? If so, when is he going to realize that bipartisanship is “never going to work when one of the parties is insane?”
