The watershed image of loss for me of the past week was not the "King of Pop." It was the picture of Neda Agha Soltan looking squarely into the camera, for what may have been a passport photo.
Media Matters, and then Olbermann, missed Newt's real agenda that is the same as it has always been: to use lies, misstatements and sophistry to mislead the American people.
Reposted from http://www.commondreams.org on June 9, 2009: Although it has been several weeks since Keith Olbermann has used his MSNBC show as a pla...
Gov. Palin is not quite done with David Letterman. Or the President. Or anyone. So she has taken to the Internets to finish what she started...
Both Schultz and Maddow have already driven MSNBC's all-important ratings numbers up in the highly competitive cable news environment.
Arianna appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Thursday night to talk about Rush Limbaugh's recent comments that President Obama's "master plan"...
I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.
The mix of Beltway media personalities and Hollywood types was jarring but fun.
Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.
Arianna appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Friday night to talk about why a number of Senate Democrats voted against legislation aimed at st...
Sean Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is almost too good to refuse.
On Bill O'Reilly's TV Factor last Wednesday, the No-spinster kept trying to get his opponent into a clinch, interrupting nearly every sentence columni...
A Presidential BJ and an "enhanced" ball hitter get full blown multimillion dollar Congressional investigations. War crimes...well, hmmm.... we need to think about that! Why is this hard?
Submit your questions for Hannity, and I will be sure to pass them along to his interrogator.
If Hannity watched Countdown last night, he can come back on FOX today and say, "see, even Olbermann and O'Donnell believe torture works on some people."
Regular working class and rural, suburban White Americans must feel a bit under assault as of late.
Today's "teabag" protests would be funny, if they didn't make me think of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and what he might have accomplished if Fox News existed during his time.
Journalism is what is required now. And, yes, some commentary. But more journalism than commentary. That's what a newspaper does.
Given that most newspapers still don't publish weekday comics in color, my mistake was putting today's cartoon guests in the green room rather than the black-and-white room.
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh finally said it. He told Neil Cavuto on Fox News that he's the "de facto" leader of the Republican Party.
I canceled my subscription to the LA Times today. It's become an embarrassment, like someone who wears an obvious toupee. They think they're fooling people, but they're not.
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You don't have to born in Alaska to become an Alaskan ... just as Barack Obama in respect to America. As for Oberman ... MSNBC oughta sell him back to ESPN ... and then they can assign him to cover the Iditorod and begin to gain an appreciation of this country's 49th state.
Jimmy Lewis
SCS, Michigan
Blog: http://rougerevival.blogspot.com/
Hysterical! Well said. I think we should keep Alaska. A lot of your more progressive spirits are down here in Colorado and doing hec'ova'job for us! Go home progressive Alaskans and save your state!
Very funny and informative post. Thanks.
It's official, we're keeping Alaska.
Thank you for a terrific post.
I lived in Alaska from 1974-1978. It was wild, wonderful, and free. You could find anything up there, although I limited my use of all the freedoms because I was in the USAF. They frowned on some of the things some Alaskans were doing.
Most notably they would have frowned on joining the AIP. They would have taken away my security clearance.
But I remember Alaska fondly, mostly because of the list of things on your brief 'tour.'
I like the way you think.
Here's a little more....
Alaska women got the vote in 1881. American women in 1920.
Republicans blocked staehood for Alaska for 40 years as they did not want another west coast liberal state.
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