What I Told the FCC
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Posted 10.03.2006
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Are diverse voices being heard on local news? Under this research plan, don't ask, and don't tell.
Are diverse voices being heard on local news? Under this research plan, don't ask, and don't tell.
In truth, what's ungodly isn't tolerance; it's theocratic fascism, the alliance between the Republican Party and our homegrown mullahs.
The buck stops here. I take responsibility for Enron, WorldCom and Mel Gibson. I take responsibility for Rush's OxyContin addiction. I take responsbility for Iran-Contra, Jack Abramoff and Mark Foley.
1. It's Clinton's fault. 2. Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger, too. 3. Be afraid. 4. Connect the dots: 9/11-Saddam-Kim Jung-il-gay marriage.
Every voter who's been fooled into voting against his or her own economic interest by Republican culture warriors should suck on that stick.
Half-a-million is the kind of shocking casualty toll we might have anticipated from one of Saddam's WMDs being sold to al-Qaeda and being unleashed on an American city.
"Republican Gays are Closeted Dems," says the right wing's faux press watchdog Accuracy in Media.
I know what I'd be doing with a moment like this if I worked on The Daily Show, or Colbert, or for Bill Maher. It's made in heaven for political satire.
Jonah Goldberg must think that his declaration -- "The Iraq war was a mistake" -- will hit the nation like a thunderclap.
The campaign consultant monopoly is being broken; at least at the creative end of the business, the political media industry is being democratized.
Some people in Washington say we're not at war. Those people are enabling cold-blooded killers. I do not question these people's patriotism, just their IQ. I will not say who they are.
Unfortunately for Allen, the attack on Webb provides an irresistible opportunity to revisit the history of Republican soft porn.
Witchy? Bitchy? Don't be ridiculous -- she's displaying righteous indignation. Rage? Hysteria? Oh, no, that's standing your ground.
Unless you believe in some prior golden age of media and politics, what we are watching unfold during this last week before the election is as good as it gets for American democracy.
