Here she goes again…
Michelle Malkin: Lara Logan & al Qaeda: What’s the 411, CBS?
Will the MSM jump all over this like they mauled Fox News over the Insight/Obama report, flog it ’til kingdom come, and summon every last media ethicist to debate the need for transparency and honest reporting, if al Qaeda or al Qaeda-linked operatives turn out to be the source of Logan’s video?
Never mind…
I don’t think Malkin can write a post without using the word “moonbat” at least once – if not several times. Still one can hope…
DKos’s Stark and NB’s Sheppard Debate Liberal Blog Protests of Conservative Radio | NewsBusters.org
Well, first, we can stop calling each other moonbats and wingnuts – although I must admit that I don’t recall ever using the former. We can remember that we are all Americans, and that our political differences shouldn’t make us enemies. And, we can be more respectful when we address articles or views expressed by the other side.
Wow. Why would Google do this?
Google satellite maps images changed for New Orleans?
Take a look at what Google is pushing as “updated information” on their maps of New Orleans. In the top picture, it looks like every thing is back to normal. However, that picture was take before hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The picture below was taken from google maps in Jan of 2006.
Mr. Sullivan dishes up the facts:
Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: Donnie Exposed
The truth behind Love God’s Way.
There is a nut out there making wacky anti-gay music that is just unbelievably weird. I guess you can set anything to a pop music tune. This guy, Donnie Davies, has a list of Gay Bands to watch out for – and the list is incredible – though I didn’t quite “get” the gayness of most on the list. Ok, well Elton John is on the list and notated with “(really gay)” next to his name. Thank God someone told me – who knew?
Sez Donnie: I am in fact a Reformed Homosexual and I’m trying to let people know that there is an escape from being Gay. By letting people know that “God hates a Fag” I am doing Gods work, I’m preaching.
Preaching? God’s work? Consider some of the lyrics:
“God hates a fag”
“Filthy sinners”
“If your a fag, he hates you too”
Apparently, Donnie was an unhappy homosexual. According to the song, being gay is a choice. Question: Did he choose to be an unhappy homosexual – then change his mind?
But back to his list of “Gay Bands” to watch out for. Dogstar (fan site) made the list! Keanu Reeves, famously plays bass (played?) for the band. I hadn’t heard anything about the band for ages so I Googled it up and found a Keanu Reeves fan site. Great gallery of images and an archive of articles and interviews. Mentioned in one interview was the fact that Keanu acted in a Paula Abdul video! YouTube of the Paula/Keanu video below.
I dunno how Dogstar qualified for the “Gay Band” list – but they are in good company 
update: The story is everywhere.
I am sure there are more out there. Blogs remarking on Donnie I mean. As far as nuts go – yea, many more I am sure.
update 2: I take it back – it is not performance art – it *is* mental illness. Is it a coincidence Donnie is on a roof? Is he about to Jump for Jesus?
Two weeks of vacation and limited use of an unfamiliar computer was a severe drain on my news consumption and posting ability. For example: I only caught bits-n-pieces of the State of the Union…sigh.
However, I consumed vast amounts of HGTV and read Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial” while sitting on the back stoop of my best friend’s home in CA. Vacation is great, but there is no place like home.
I returned with some great decorating ideas (my friend is a really talented decorator) and a mountain of paperwork on my desk to complete . Overwhelming. Where to begin is the overriding question.
Very happy to be home.
Has anybody noticed how angry everyone has become?
Getting on a plane tomorrow — here is hoping that my seat mate is peaceful, calm and if I am lucky sleeping soundly.
Truthdig – Ear to the Ground – Bush Thinks He’s the Emperor
You’d think with his army of advisers and aides someone might explain to the president that when Congress passes a law, and he signs it, that’s the law, not a prompt for interpretive rule.
This image accompanies the article quoted above (atributed to fark.com) and I gotta say looking at it gave me the creeps. Kinda like that feeling where you are alone in the house but have a weird sensation someone is hiding in the closet…peeking out at you. Anyway, I hope Fark is ok with the reposting of the image. If not, let me know and I will remove it.
Image – Fark.com
For example, I can not imagine that Dr. Julian Feneley, Chief Executive Officer of BriteSmile Inc. which is headquartered-in Walnut Creek, wants to hear right before his ad Lee Rogers say this about a listener, “I’ve got to try and track that email address and do something unpleasant to his cojones, if he has any.” “None.” says Melanie Morgan as she launches in to the BriteSmile commercial. (audio link)
I have been reading about Spocko and his mission to report the content (hate speech) of some talk radio personalities to advertisers supporting KSFO Radio.
It seems Spocko has been shut down by Disney for copyright infringement — although by all accounts Spocko seems to have abided by the “fair use” section of the law. I can only draw the conclusion that with high profile (and probably big spending) advertisers withdrawing their advertising dollars from the hate speech hosts on KSFO Radio — that they are choosing to change the conversation –because they can’t in good conscience defend supporting hate speech.
I am no fan of right-wing talk show hosts other than for the entertainment value of listening to supposedly educated and/or intelligent people making total asses of themselves pretty much on a regular basis. And, well, also for the fact that to have an opinion on issues of any sort, is seems to me that you must absorb information from all sides of the argument. That said — here is a small roundup of the buzz on Spocko’s plight.
From Crooks & Liars (where I first found the story of Spocko):
From the C&L Comments this link on corporate media interlinks. Interesting info there –though not directly related to Spocko.
From there I hit Firedoglake (unfortunately I was not aware of the blog name when I named mine –weirdly I feel guilty about this although there was no intent get close to any other blog name…sigh)
1. The KSFO hate clips are all up at Online BlogIntegrity. Collect ‘em all. Share with your friends. Spread them around. It’s a veritable cornucopia of Right Wing Hate Speech. (Listen at your own risk.)
2. Go here and scroll down to “What Can You Do?” and follow the instructions. Spocko has provided us with a step-by-step plan to alert the blogging world, the MSM (if they’ll listen), and KSFO’s advertisers to the current situation.
Spocko has a guest post here explaining the whole situation.
The audio clips are here.
I hope all of you who have a blog of your own will follow up with at least a link or a blurb to one of the sites mentioned in this post.
The Raw Story: Media Critic’s Blog Shuttered After Disney Complains
KSFO features hard right-wing talk show hosts who endorse torture, call for the public hangings of New York Times editor Bill Keller and other journalists, and demand that callers mock Islam. They also mock their own advertisers–calling Chevrolet, for example, “sh!tty,” or recommending that Sears’ Diehard battery be attached to an African-American’s testicles.
Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you –don’t you know.
There was a time years and years ago when Bill O’Reilly wrote his first book that I thought (rather casually at the time) he was a rather common sense kinda guy –I think I saw him interviewed on a late night talk show –then I forgot about him entirely until FOX determined they were the deciders of “fair and balanced” news reporting. Anyway, my suspicion is that Bill has spiralled out of earths orbit and is on a trajectory to pass Pluto and venture on into another solar system. If only the Borg would assimilate him….oh wait…they have.
Read or watch it. Link below. Joe Scarborough nails it down: (sorry no time for a Bad Photoshop) Update Sunday: Um… ok… I had ten minutes to screw around –it shows
Media Matters – Scarborough blasts O’Reilly for being GOP “suck-up”
SCARBOROUGH: Bill O’Reilly … You’re … way off base on MSNBC, on NBC and certainly on me. And I challenge you to debate me anytime, anyplace, anywhere, and find one thing I have said on this program over the past year that is not consistent with the conservative congressman who was against military adventurism when I was in Congress, that was against exploding deficits, that was against reckless spending, and was against turning Congress into the type of swamp that we Republicans have turned it into over the past six years.
That doesn’t make me liberal, that makes me conservative. That may make you, though, a suck-up, if you defend the Republicans that have done that to this country and to our party over the past six years.
Ya gotta love it when someone is so damn sure of a war situation — in this case that outside the “so-called Green Zone” is much safer than professional reporters — report. So certain of her intellectual construct, so certain of a conspiracy to over-tell the story of this war to a horribleness that apparently she doesn’t believe is happening.
Oh yea Michelle, that security situation must actually be peachy – a walk on the beach. You go girl. Can’t wait to see the suntan.
Michelle Malkin
And we are looking forward to reporting first-hand on the security situation in Iraq outside the so-called “Green Zone” (International Zone) and talking to as many American and Iraqi Army troops with insights on these and other broader matters.
