Archive for October 15, 2010
The DNC’s Fail re Citizens United
I just saw Tim Kaine on Countdown.
Kaine is the incompetent, out-of-touch head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). (Just what we need in a year like this.)
Olbermann asked Kaine what the DNC was going to do about the money pouring into Republican campaigns as a result of Citizens United. Kaine said, “we’re going to talk about it.”
“We’re going to talk about it?”
Yo, Tim. The election is less than three weeks away.
Oy.
(I’m just a lil’ ol’ citizen trying to stay informed and this is what I saw coming 13 months ago. I don’t know what Kaine’s salary is but I don’t think he’s earned it.)
The Disney Co.’s Fake Bipartisanship
Some news organizations, like NPR, NBC and ABC are prohibiting their employees from participating in John Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” set for October 30 in Washington, D.C. Wouldn’t want them to appear partisan or anything now would we?
But, in the case of ABC — which is owned by the Disney Co., — it’s okay for the company itself to donate $578,000 to the Florida GOP:
Mickey Mouse appears to be quite fond of state Rep. Dean Cannon.
Shortly after Cannon, a Winter Park Republican in line to be the next speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives, opened his campaign for re-election last year, Walt Disney World wrote him a check for $500, the maximum amount allowed by state law.
Disney didn’t stop there. In February, according to state campaign-finance records, the giant resort gave Cannon eight more checks worth $500 apiece — each one issued by a different Disney entity, from its time-share unit to its cruise line to its gift-card processor.
And Cannon isn’t the only candidate benefitting from Mickey’s generosity. Records show that Disney has used its myriad corporate affiliates — with names such as Disney Photo Imaging LLC and Magic Kingdom Inc. — to rain checks on state legislators from Miami to the Panhandle.
Boycott Disney Co.
Trailer for Sarah Palin’s TLC “Reality Show”
FYI – Talking Points Memo has the video trailer for Sarah Palin’s TLC “reality show,” which premieres on November 14.
No comment, as I haven’t watched it and I don’t plan to.
White People Are the Real Victims of Racism!
Vote Republican!
A taste:
I’m not saying Barack Obama is a foreign-born Islamist puppy-eater. I’m not saying that.
I’m saying, you decide.
There’s no evidence to suggest that Nancy Pelosi is a 1,000-year-old Nazi vampire, but that’s what I heard.
Somebody said that. It was me.
[...]
Government is the problem.
Vote for us and we’ll prove it.
Make the time to watch.
Big Business Wants to Lie to You — Can You Help Them Out?
“Populist” Glenn Beck Wants Listeners to Donate Money to Corporations:
In What’s The Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank argues that conservative faux populists stoke public resentment of elites for the purposes of enriching those very elites at the expense of the public at large:
Backlash theorists, as we shall see, imagine countless conspiracies in which the wealthy, powerful, and well connected — the liberal media, the atheistic scientists, the obnoxious eastern elite — pull the strings and make the puppets dance. And yet the backlash itself has been a political trap so devastating to the interests of Middle America that even the most diabolical of string-pullers would have had trouble dreaming it up. Here, after all, is a rebellion against “the establishment” that has wound up abolishing the tax on inherited estates. Here is a movement whose response to the power structure is to make the rich even richer; whose answer to the inexorable degradation of working-class life is to lash out angrily at labor unions and liberal workplace-safety programs …
If you have any doubt of the truthfulness of that argument, consider this: Glenn Beck is urging his listeners to donate money to the Chamber of Commerce.
Orwellian.
