I wonder whether the reaction of the US media to this new, even worse Downing Street memo will be as torpid as it was to the first one. As someone who was hornswoggled by Colin Powell's UN performance, I'm particularly enraged to read excerpts from the playbook for duping me and my ilk. Will this, too, be yawned off, just another war crime of yesteryear?
Did you see this New York Times story about how resourceful the right is when it comes to raising the next generation of conservatives? T...
I watched Congressman Conyers' Downing Street Memo hearings on Cspan 3. Comcast, my cable provider, doesn't carry Cspan 3 in my Los Angeles neighborhood, so I had to watch it on my laptop. In this golden era, there's plenty for everyone: seven different broadcast and cable channels using their free public licenses and monopoly franchises in order to broadcast the same pathetic car chase, and not one channel airing what was arguably the most newsy and historic event of the day. And the FCC wants me to shout, "Hooray! Diversity!" for the Internet for letting me stream a two-inch screen online.
This week the Pentagon began working with a private company called BeNow to create a marketing database of Americans 16- to 18- years old. According to the Washington Post, the product being marketed to these kids, you will not be shocked to learn, is enlistment in the military. So just as Amazon.com can send you an email saying that you might want to buy the new Anne Coulter book because you bought Mussolini’s memoirs in the past, now the Pentagon can pick off kids whose grades aren’t scholarship material ... and paint a rosy picture of their future in uniform.
