Recent Media Matters headlines:
Guest-hosting O’Reilly, Ingraham claims Obama “channeled his best Jeremiah Wright accent” in NAACP speech
Beck: “The president is a Marxist” who is “setting up a class system”
Savage parrots falsehood that House bill “makes private medical insurance illegal”
Shuster and Hall highlight Beck freak-out as example of how conservative “anger” has “intensified”
Fox Nation media criticism: “Why Is CNN ‘Tracking Michelle Obama’s Slave Roots’?” (I find this one extraordinarily offensive and ahistorical)
Quinn to “schmuck” Obama: No U.S. “dark past” of slavery, “this was the civilization that had the tenacity to end it” (even if Jim Quinn’s great-great-grandpappy wore rebel gray)
Bay Buchanan on “quota queen” Sotomayor: “Her whole life was dedicated to demanding special privileges”
Glenn Beck cites presidential elections in arguing that “democracy does not work”
Hilarious: Glenn Beck Freak-Out Radio Remix Video (definitely a Wall of Voodoo/B52s style beat)
At top of radio show, CNN’s Dobbs repeatedly says Obama needs to “produce a birth certificate”
Cillizza names Frank Ricci a “loser,” but not the Republicans who invited him
O’Reilly claims media using Goebbels tactics to push “propaganda,” left trying to “knock out Judeo-Christian traditions”
Hannity highlights ND farmers “calling out Al Gore” due to cold summer
Beck on European health care: “How many times do they have to goose-step” before we decide not to follow them
Buchanan on why he doesn’t “understand” “the argument” for affirmative action for Hispanics: “They were never enslaved”
KSFO’s Rodgers refers to Sotomayor as “a racist, sexist pig”
Quinn on Sotomayor’s supporters: “All they care about is: she’s got ovaries and she’s Puerto Rican and therefore it’s her turn”
Frightened people project. Frightened wingnuts project with spittle.
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Other links:
Pay to play isn’t news unless we do it
More on why photographers really want to think hard about copyright
Phoenix Woman on Amy Klobuchar
Muslim artists eschew copyright, the designs belong to God
Some Christians are going back to the way I was taught about Creation
Trope is the new meme? Jeez, I thought lit classes had worn that one out already, not that trope and meme are in any interchangeable words
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Facing open windows I probably see too much of what goes in my neighborhood, although keeping my driving glasses in the car keeps me from seeing clearly what’s going on. Without my glasses I can’t tell a male jogger from a flat-chested female jogger.
But even without my specs I can tell a homeless person from a person who goes home to a place that has a roof. There’s quite the colony of homeless people wandering my neighborhood this summer. Lots of dreads, lots of camouflage. Just now I watched one of them rummaging through the strip mall dumpsters.
A surprising number of the homeless have dogs now, and not nice doggies. They’re almost all of Euro descent, with dark dirty tans that would lighten by half if they accessed a shower.
It’s not the poverty that worries me. The more people there are sleeping on the ground, the more people there are who will have nothing to lose if the shooting starts.
This is not a well country. Not because of what we don’t have, but because of how the haves gorged themselves at the expense of the have nots, soon to be rebranded as a societal menace, the kind that can’t be monitored by NSA twitterlysts.
I’m giving Obama until November. He doesn’t get a full year in office. Not now, not after how he’s chosen to proceed. Things need to change and if the change isn’t starting to bloom by November, I can’t keep supporting this guy.
Not after his patronizing speech in Ghana.
Not after his suck up meeting with the Pope.
Not after protecting Goldman Sachs from their gross abuse of investors.
But it sucks that even then, he’s the best we’ve got.
If DC ever got nuked while the government was in full session, I don’t think I’m the only American who would sigh, then think it’s all for the best.
Btw, if you lost your copy of 1984 to Amazon’s welshing, here it is in .pdf format. Share it to your heart’s content.
Posted at 13 o’clock.
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07/18/2009 at 1:24 pm
autoegocrat
Even in the muggy heat of Memphis, even with Bush gone, it seems like it’s still the dawn of a bright cold day in April.
07/18/2009 at 2:04 pm
Lions Tigers and Bears….
Excellent I knew this section had a name Section 158. We are starting to write things on the note paper and hurl the paper airplanes onto the field. After all we have no lobbyists and the best we get back from our written notes as constituents are fucking form letters. The children in the reserved seats are starting to pester the order of things as they are starting to think that that looks like fun. This fucking game could truly get started yet…
The great outfield beer truck robbery is underway thanks to the math and the meth. In-between what seems the best thing to do at the time and that place where you realize there are no options.
I think your first collection of columns should be called Section 158 at 13 O‘clock. Besides if you were working on old cars all day the carb cleaner would certainly make you take up meth again.
Via; Crashing the wienermobile
“This monument on the mall should be a shit colored bronze statue of Dick Cheney feeding young men into a meat grinder.” they can not get enough of this the whoopps and howls are rhythmically dancing with the decibels…
“Eventually the forward progress stops altogether and all that’s left is the klangbirding as your mind gets sucked into concentric circles within concentric circles each ending in a klang that sends you back to the tray for another line.” the bleachers become a whole sort of new percussion section as they eat it up!
07/18/2009 at 4:11 pm
dav
Welshing????
07/19/2009 at 7:11 pm
DiscordianStooge
Yes, as in refusing to pay up. Like a Welshman.
07/18/2009 at 5:02 pm
Desiring Klang
Ha! Synchronicity, earlier Dee Dee Ka Ka said:
‘Fuck the Family Guy, it is like examining skidders on your underwear and seeing Jesus.
That gives me an E-bay idea.”
Then the Virgin appears
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8112209
07/18/2009 at 5:33 pm
Jenny
I hear you about Obama,but in the case of Mugabe, I think he kind of had a point about not blaming everything on colonialzation, but he should’ve said more than that, you’re right.