Scritti Politti: April 9, 2009

Hello. Please to enjoy the following remix of the NOM "Gathering Storm Of Gay Marriage" commercial!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Meghan McCain's media strategy has paid off, to the six figures of big time, as the Daily Beast blogger/temporary advocate of body image issues has scored herself a book deal from Hyperion. The working title is, I believe, I Was Told There'd Be A Way To Impress My Father, and really, we can't wait for the blurbs.

Different Day, Different Sanchez: A day after I got cross with Rick Sanchez, Media Monitor Jon sends up a clip of Sanchez doing a really fine job pushing back on the recent "Defense Budget Cuts" myth, stacking up evidence, and drawing more supportable conclusions.

Honestly, Is the LEAST of the L.A. Times' Problems: James Poniewozik discusses the tempest in a teapot that landed on the front page of the L.A. Times today:

I wrote a column for Salon almost a decade ago when there was a similar "controversy" over USA Today's decision to run page one ads, and I don't have much different to say about this one: the only thing worrisome about bogus non-controversies like this one is that they show that the editors and J-school professors who wring their hands over them can't tell a real threat to journalistic integrity from a fake one.

Store it away: "The business conflicts that threaten good journalism are the hidden ones."

Romney Gets Ready: Apparently, Mitt Romney's big takeaway from the failings of the McCain campaign is: TRY NOT TO OWN SO MANY HOMES.

Your Daily Dose of Ewww: Okay, behind the headlines that read "House passes bill too gross to talk about" is the story of Oregon resolving a matter that needed to be resolved. And since it's resolved, please please please nobody make a "Gathering Storm" commercial on this subject.

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Comments

[Matt Wilstein]

04:44 PM on 04/13/2009

Here's another good one. Gathering Twister:
http://got­chamedia.b­logspot.co­m/2009/04/­gathering-­twister.ht­ml

[TremoluxMan]

10:39 AM on 04/10/2009

Sanchez displayed an all too infrequent example of real Journalism in the MSM. Instead of merely running the blatant distortion­s of Sen. Inhofe with no follow-up, he rightly calls "BS" and succinctly explains why. Cheers to Sanchez.

[Tyler-Durden]

09:33 AM on 04/10/2009

so now the sh*t is only allowed to hit the fan! lol

[HST]

03:58 AM on 04/10/2009

I just hope Meghan's book has a centerfold­.

If Inhofe wants more money to go the defense department­, maybe he should save some of those tax-payer dollars by NOT traveling to the middle east for his photo-ops. I bet just the fuel bill alone could fund a couple of unnecessar­y problem-pl­agued weapons systems.

[PlayTOE]

11:31 PM on 04/09/2009

"House passes bill too gross to talk about"
It involves outlawing the act of showering another person with body fluids without their express informed consent.
Obviously this should be illegal as it can lead to the transmissi­on of serious diseases as well as being gross.

[johnpfree]

09:30 PM on 04/09/2009

"a rainbow collision of people"

Rachel Maddow has the alleged audition tapes for that horrible ad -- very, very funny.

[gdaerin]

11:12 PM on 04/09/2009

coalition

[bubbuh]

08:33 PM on 04/09/2009

Well, Mitt got it wrong, Surprise. It wasn't the number of homes McCain owned. It was the fact that he could not remember how many homes he owned. Maybe, Mitt needs a Gathering Storm of the Icky, Icky, Acky, Ewww that is Gray Mormonism to propel his candidacy into the yawns of the American Public.

[mitsie]

07:09 PM on 04/09/2009

Jason, you really had me going, I had to visit that url to see what was so nasty and couldn't be talked about. LOL