May 30, 2007
· Filed under Best Blog Entry Today, Blogs and Bloggers, Conservatism, Media, Quotes, TV
Jon Stewert & Stephen Colbert come to mind, this is why they are so funny and relevant. This is also why Fox’s attempted stab(s) at cloning the Comedy Central duo for propaganda purposes don’t work and will never work. It is just not funny to “douse” out of fear. And I believe Fox is afraid of the corner they have painted themselves into. Carrying water for the GOP rather than reporting the news.
James Pinkerton: When Art is Cooler — and More Conservative — Than Politics
…Art doesn’t just imitate life; it reacts to life, it comments on life.
Artists, flashing their fancies and passions, might not commonly be seen as anchors of common sense and prudence. Yet when politicians lose themselves in the pyrotechnics of their own romantic ecstasies, even artists will feel compelled to step in and provide the needed dousing. And that counter-active cooling will likely continue as long as George W. Bush and his white-hot ideology burn in the White House.
~Christopher Alden
May 28, 2007
· Filed under Conservatism, Government, Leaders, Media, Pathetic, TV
Poland probes ‘gay’ Teletubbies - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com
Ewa Sowinska, government-appointed children rights watchdog, told a local magazine published on Monday she was concerned the popular BBC children’s show promoted homosexuality.
…she was quoted as saying: “I noticed (Tinky Winky) has a lady’s purse, but I didn’t realize he’s a boy.”
“At first I thought the purse would be a burden for this Teletubby … Later I learned that this may have a homosexual undertone.”
Parliamentary Speaker Ludwig Dorn said he had warned her against making public comments “that may turn her department into a laughing stock.”
It’s too late. I am laughing.
May 7, 2007
· Filed under Blogs and Bloggers, Conservatism, Honestly, Media, Pass it On, Pundit Land, Radio, Talking Heads
I love this woman:
Signs and Wonders by Karen Kwiatkowski
When the muffler fell off my 15-year-old Subaru Justy a few weeks ago, I started driving the good car to work. It has a radio. Oh, the wonderful things I am learning from Sean Hannity!
For one thing, the Iraq occupation is a success. Not a blazing success, but a damn fine thing. According to Sean, we are made noble by the experience, and the Iraqis have already become passionate democrats. Just look at the demonstrations they held on the four-year anniversary of our takeover of the capital!
“They couldn’t have protested like that under Saddam!” he crows.
Had they done so, it is likely Saddam would have responded much as we have done. Note to self, old Saddam would scribble: Continue daily bloodshed, increase domestic intelligence collection and terror levels in targeted neighborhoods. Arrest more “terrorists” and place them in secret prisons, apply physical and psychological abuse early and often. Never let them see a lawyer, a humanitarian agency, a relative, or the inside of a courtroom, until I, and only I, say they can. Ensure courts and federal judges are completely on board.[emphasis mine]
March 25, 2007
· Filed under 2008 Election, Book List, Conservatism, Elected Folks, GOP Scary, Government, Salvation Show, Talking Heads
Reading Dean’s interview with Thomas B. Edsall is enlightening to say the least. Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter - and other high energy anger peddlers - are explained in the context of what their role is in the GOP scheme of things. Interesting stuff. Edsall’s book is going on my reading list (the paperback is out this summer he says).
John Dean: Questions Thomas B. Edsall
Building Red America The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power
Q: Your title in Chapter 2 “Anger Points: Polarization as a Republican Strategy.” Did your research show that when wedge issues provoke anger they are particularly effective? What are some examples?
A: The Republican Party used many sophisticated data-mining and micro-targeting techniques - culling consumer lists, magazine subscriptions, polling and other information - to develop portraits of individual voters. The goal was to identify likely Republican voters and their “anger points.” Issues lending themselves to political manipulation - i.e., issues touching upon anger points — included gay marriage, welfare, spending for social services, taxes, abortion, and culturally permissive government policies, and government interventions viewed as favoring the interests of ethnic and racial minorities. The GOP found that anger is one of the best motivators for mobilizing political participation. [Emphasis Mine]
March 18, 2007
· Filed under Best Blog Entry Today, Blogs and Bloggers, Conservatism, GOP Lame, Pathetic
There are 25 of their talking points / beliefs listed. Go read it and get your points:
The Blog | Marty Kaplan: Are You Smarter Than A Neocon? | The Huffington Post
13. Dissent emboldens the enemy, aids and abets the terrorists, and is unpatriotic.
14. Freedom is like dominoes.
15. Our mission is victory.
16. In six months, this will all turn around.
17. The Generals on the ground know what they need and get what they want.
18. If Joe Lieberman is for it, it’s bipartisan.
19. The Senate Intelligence Committee already looked into it, and there’s nothing to it.
20. It’s Clinton’s fault.
21. Iraq is the central front in the global war on terror.
22. “Redeployment” is another name for cut-and-run.
March 13, 2007
· Filed under Blogs and Bloggers, Conservatism, Fringe Elements, Watch Obsessions
After reading this email exchange I do have concerns about the sanity of Robert Cox. The man and his “staff” have way too much time on their hands. Still, it is an entertaining site.
Un-American? Olbermann? I don’t think so.
Watching Olbermann Watch
Insight into the Mind of Robert Cox
A reader sent in this copy of an email exchange with Robert Cox. It gives a glimpse into the warped mind of the proprietor of Olbermann Watch.
(screen cap -from WOW -of Robert Cox below)
A reader sent in this copy of an email exchange with Robert Cox. It gives a glimpse into the warped mind of the proprietor of Olbermann Watch.
Cox writes:
Monitoring the un-American activities of Keith Olbermann is the highest calling of any patriotic American.
March 10, 2007
· Filed under Conservatism
American Prospect Online - The Family Values Sham
American conservatism is a house divided against itself. It applauds the radicalism of the economic changes of the past four decades — the dismantling, say, of the American steel industry and the job and income security that it once provided in the cause of greater efficiency. It decries the decline of social and familial stability over that time — the traditional, married working-class families, say, that once filled all those churches in the hills and hollows in what is now the smaller, post-working-class Pittsburgh.
Problem is, disperse a vibrant working-class community in America and you disperse the vibrant working-class family.
Which is how American conservatism became the primary author of the very social disorder that it routinely rails against, and that Republicans have the gall to run against.
