May 18, 2008
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DickTater
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Us vs. Them
"Appeasement": Guilt-By-Analogy... When Guilt-By-Association Isn't Enough
And also
Homegrown Fascism
with our own little Goebbels and Gestapo
enemy-izing dissenters at home and abroad
false flag/fake attacks on US
terrorizing the population with fake threats of random terrrrrsm
rapidly increasing police state
and surveillance society
melding of governmental and corporate posted 05/16/2008 at 14:57:51
Homegrown Fascism
with our own little Goebbels and Gestapo
enemy-izing dissenters at home and abroad
false flag/fake attacks on US
terrorizing the population with fake threats of random terrrrrsm
rapidly increasing police state
and surveillance society
melding of governmental and corporate posted 05/16/2008 at 14:57:51
Old friends recall Obama's years in LA, NY
Go watch that hardball video where the rightwing whackjob goes off on appeasement.
Now watch that same thing blossom over the summer and thru the fall
We have some of the best and brightest and most committed people on the planet running for the last 3 Dem prez campaigns. RightWingers, literally salivating and frothing as they scream and rant and pull their hair trying to slime these people. Look at Gore, Look at Kerry, Look at Obama. Look at how they have been murdered by the press. The Corporate Media just let's loose the dogs of smear. They open the floodgates and they NEVER do pieces like this article. They never show us the real men, and it is 100% lopsided because the corporate media wants a corporate candidate. And they have the tools to deliver. When one of the most underqualified and disliked men in America Like Boosch gets their whole history papered over and hidden.....and they go on a 9 month attack on Gore Kerry or Obama which is absolutely slanted. They let raving rightwing idiots smear these guys constantly until every bedwetting dimwit in this country is afraid of what a Traitor Gore or Kerry or Obama is and they just can't pull the lever for such a Traitor.
Here is link to Tweety Show and ranting rightwinger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&eurl=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ posted 05/16/2008 at 10:02:54
Now watch that same thing blossom over the summer and thru the fall
We have some of the best and brightest and most committed people on the planet running for the last 3 Dem prez campaigns. RightWingers, literally salivating and frothing as they scream and rant and pull their hair trying to slime these people. Look at Gore, Look at Kerry, Look at Obama. Look at how they have been murdered by the press. The Corporate Media just let's loose the dogs of smear. They open the floodgates and they NEVER do pieces like this article. They never show us the real men, and it is 100% lopsided because the corporate media wants a corporate candidate. And they have the tools to deliver. When one of the most underqualified and disliked men in America Like Boosch gets their whole history papered over and hidden.....and they go on a 9 month attack on Gore Kerry or Obama which is absolutely slanted. They let raving rightwing idiots smear these guys constantly until every bedwetting dimwit in this country is afraid of what a Traitor Gore or Kerry or Obama is and they just can't pull the lever for such a Traitor.
Here is link to Tweety Show and ranting rightwinger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&eurl=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ posted 05/16/2008 at 10:02:54
Tennessee GOP Attacks Michelle Obama, Obama Camp Hits Back
I hope WV residents, Kentucky Residents, and Tennessee residents are proud of their racial hatred.
I saw and heard a lot of clips (just today on NPR)
which were of WV voters saying, outright, that they would never vote for a "colored"
and they didn't want no black guy telling white people what to do.
I can understand someone nursing their own hatreds. I really can. I think it is stupid and a waste of time...esp. racial issues. But to say it out loud, and try to act proud of it is one of the single stupidest acts a human can commit. Trying to get a little public support, a few amens, some nods from their peers...as they say "I ain't never voting for no colored"
So, looking at YOU, WV hick, what is so great about your toothless, uneducated white-folkiness that I ought to vote for one of your kind?
Michelle hasn't had too many proud moments during her adult life, as far as american govt. and politics is concerned. As a white person, I second that....I have a LOT to be unproud of my country and fellow whites. posted 05/15/2008 at 18:06:57
I saw and heard a lot of clips (just today on NPR)
which were of WV voters saying, outright, that they would never vote for a "colored"
and they didn't want no black guy telling white people what to do.
I can understand someone nursing their own hatreds. I really can. I think it is stupid and a waste of time...esp. racial issues. But to say it out loud, and try to act proud of it is one of the single stupidest acts a human can commit. Trying to get a little public support, a few amens, some nods from their peers...as they say "I ain't never voting for no colored"
So, looking at YOU, WV hick, what is so great about your toothless, uneducated white-folkiness that I ought to vote for one of your kind?
Michelle hasn't had too many proud moments during her adult life, as far as american govt. and politics is concerned. As a white person, I second that....I have a LOT to be unproud of my country and fellow whites. posted 05/15/2008 at 18:06:57
Union Leaders' Clash Over Dem Endorsements A Sign Of Racial Polarization
This article underscores what I have been saying about the HRC campaign.
People who claim BHO got a free pass and that BHO is full of dirty tricks....
This is one of 100's of political connections by TheClintons and one of only a few which have come to light.
There are so many people in 'important' positions peppered all over america. Media Folks, Corporate Titans, Union Leaders, Govt Officials of every stripe who owe WJC for some reason, Hollywood types, etc.
Another observation, gender is not talked about enough this campaign. Women voting for a woman seems to not carry as much weight as race-at least in the media. Race seems to trump the decision for a lot of "uneducated white folks" where a pure sexist white man will vote for a woman before a black person of either gender. But even so, how much of HRC voting support has been from women...regardless of their class, income, education, etc. It is not getting weighed in to people's calculations....CorporoMedia or even Bloggers. When those women have to choose between McSame and BHO, what will they do? And really, can any HRC voter not really have some ick-factor clinging to them after watching HRC this campaign? posted 05/15/2008 at 13:55:20
People who claim BHO got a free pass and that BHO is full of dirty tricks....
This is one of 100's of political connections by TheClintons and one of only a few which have come to light.
There are so many people in 'important' positions peppered all over america. Media Folks, Corporate Titans, Union Leaders, Govt Officials of every stripe who owe WJC for some reason, Hollywood types, etc.
Another observation, gender is not talked about enough this campaign. Women voting for a woman seems to not carry as much weight as race-at least in the media. Race seems to trump the decision for a lot of "uneducated white folks" where a pure sexist white man will vote for a woman before a black person of either gender. But even so, how much of HRC voting support has been from women...regardless of their class, income, education, etc. It is not getting weighed in to people's calculations....CorporoMedia or even Bloggers. When those women have to choose between McSame and BHO, what will they do? And really, can any HRC voter not really have some ick-factor clinging to them after watching HRC this campaign? posted 05/15/2008 at 13:55:20
Why John Edwards Endorsed Obama Today
Whoa....MikeO
ain't you being a little quick with the idiot moniker?
Now why don't you run along and get an IQ test, and get back to us with the results. posted 05/15/2008 at 10:15:37
ain't you being a little quick with the idiot moniker?
Now why don't you run along and get an IQ test, and get back to us with the results. posted 05/15/2008 at 10:15:37
You Broke It, You Own It -- Obama Style
Miss Breitweiser,
You are embarrassing yourself. Please!
Just look at what is happening in Bright Red places like LA, MS, and IL.
Dems are winning. You are whining.
You are peddling fear. Please stop. That is not what you have stood for this far into your public life.
This was a rambling, steaming mess of a rant from you. The only take-away message I have is that you had invested EVERYTHING you had into wanting a woman to win the WH. And you just don't care what kind of a woman it is, either.
Please vote for what you want, not because of what you fear. You don't get something you want by voting to block or negate a possible future maybe. posted 05/14/2008 at 11:44:25
You are embarrassing yourself. Please!
Just look at what is happening in Bright Red places like LA, MS, and IL.
Dems are winning. You are whining.
You are peddling fear. Please stop. That is not what you have stood for this far into your public life.
This was a rambling, steaming mess of a rant from you. The only take-away message I have is that you had invested EVERYTHING you had into wanting a woman to win the WH. And you just don't care what kind of a woman it is, either.
Please vote for what you want, not because of what you fear. You don't get something you want by voting to block or negate a possible future maybe. posted 05/14/2008 at 11:44:25
Rumsfeld On 2006 Election: "The Correction For That...Is An Attack"
Ramirez and Bibbo and Chinasskee
You people really need to go change your diaper, and try...try not to pee yerself yet again. Get a grip folks...you are on the verge of shitting yerselves.
You are RULED by fear. Some die today, some die tomorrow.
We could get hit by a meteor too.
You live, swim, roll in fear and urine and you can't understand why everyone else won't pee themselves right along with you. With your framework, any ass-kicking dictator ready to declare war on the whole world would be fine with you.
Well, we have a democracy to run. You would have every country building ironfences around their entire border because of every imaginable atrocity.
Go sell your urine soaked nightmares somewhere else.
If you are shocked/stunned by these Pentagon revelations you need to grow up. Anyone with half a brain knew this was going on. I must say the Boooz Regime did a good job of hiding it, along with the CorpMedia, and there were no real NewsOrgans devoted to unearthing this stuff....
But it is Fascism 101. You control the presses. You control the message. You sell fear. You call the peace-loving Traitors. You do a false-flag operation so you can act like you were attacked. Basic stuff. And our awake-while-asleep populace didn't have a clue. There was a mathematical, physical absoluteness that this has been going on at all levels of our govt. Don't be surprised. posted 05/14/2008 at 10:09:28
You people really need to go change your diaper, and try...try not to pee yerself yet again. Get a grip folks...you are on the verge of shitting yerselves.
You are RULED by fear. Some die today, some die tomorrow.
We could get hit by a meteor too.
You live, swim, roll in fear and urine and you can't understand why everyone else won't pee themselves right along with you. With your framework, any ass-kicking dictator ready to declare war on the whole world would be fine with you.
Well, we have a democracy to run. You would have every country building ironfences around their entire border because of every imaginable atrocity.
Go sell your urine soaked nightmares somewhere else.
If you are shocked/stunned by these Pentagon revelations you need to grow up. Anyone with half a brain knew this was going on. I must say the Boooz Regime did a good job of hiding it, along with the CorpMedia, and there were no real NewsOrgans devoted to unearthing this stuff....
But it is Fascism 101. You control the presses. You control the message. You sell fear. You call the peace-loving Traitors. You do a false-flag operation so you can act like you were attacked. Basic stuff. And our awake-while-asleep populace didn't have a clue. There was a mathematical, physical absoluteness that this has been going on at all levels of our govt. Don't be surprised. posted 05/14/2008 at 10:09:28
Pentagon "Media Analysts" Appeared On Major Networks Or Were Quoted More Than 4,500
Uh, yeah, anyone who still believes the Corporate Media is basically a fair universe with a few bad apples, please slit your throat and make some room for clear thinking specimens of the human race, so we can get busy de-throning our Masters Of The Airwaves. You are only getting in the way.
That includes folks who think it is all about ratings, or profit, or that it is just our goofy american culture that get's mirrored in our boob-tubes.
No, it is much worse. They are in the business of managing perception. Showing us only what they want us to see. They orchestrate every move, control every video and sound bite. They throw things at us by the thousands....while real news and truth dies a thousand deaths nightly in editing rooms across the nation. We hear endlessly repeated pap, while a real story can't get enough air to survive 5 minutes.
Please stop shaking your head at the CorpMedia and start shaking your fist.....or just admit you are a brainwashed bovine herd animal and go turn yourself into burgers. posted 05/13/2008 at 16:32:19
That includes folks who think it is all about ratings, or profit, or that it is just our goofy american culture that get's mirrored in our boob-tubes.
No, it is much worse. They are in the business of managing perception. Showing us only what they want us to see. They orchestrate every move, control every video and sound bite. They throw things at us by the thousands....while real news and truth dies a thousand deaths nightly in editing rooms across the nation. We hear endlessly repeated pap, while a real story can't get enough air to survive 5 minutes.
Please stop shaking your head at the CorpMedia and start shaking your fist.....or just admit you are a brainwashed bovine herd animal and go turn yourself into burgers. posted 05/13/2008 at 16:32:19
McCain's Murderers Row
Thanks Cliff.
Always nice to see what happens when good hard working american's tax money is mixed with a healthy dollop of special-interest-dictator money.
These people are basically traitors. And the HugeCoCorp. way of doing things in america has hastened this change and fostered almost EVERY amoral rip-off-the-american-treasury scheme imaginable.
These people should be dragged thru the streets for what they do. Gleefully making money doing un-american (anti-american) things and just as gleefully calling everyone else a traitor and flip-flopper and communist etc. posted 05/13/2008 at 14:41:49
Always nice to see what happens when good hard working american's tax money is mixed with a healthy dollop of special-interest-dictator money.
These people are basically traitors. And the HugeCoCorp. way of doing things in america has hastened this change and fostered almost EVERY amoral rip-off-the-american-treasury scheme imaginable.
These people should be dragged thru the streets for what they do. Gleefully making money doing un-american (anti-american) things and just as gleefully calling everyone else a traitor and flip-flopper and communist etc. posted 05/13/2008 at 14:41:49
Before Bitter-Gate: What Obama Said Hours Earlier About Guns
".... what makes a story stick or have legs.....is great mystery...politics and journalism'"
WTF?
No, it is endless repetition. Unless the item is very singular, and it takes a lot more than the national press....it has to make rounds in newspapers, magazines, web.
The Corporate press is deciding, very coldly and calculated, what is going to make it on air.
It takes a real Houdini story to escape the Corporate Media, if they want to kill it.
And they amplify, and edit the stuff they WANT to spread around and then repeat it 10,000 times. Have whole hours and half-hours devoted to mindless ramblings from 25 yr old former models devoted to the topic.
It is not a great mystery. And just like you can't kill every virus, or every gremlin....occasionally a story that reflects poorly on the RIghtWIng squeaks past it's captors. Macaca is a pretty good example. If it wasn't caught on tape, it may never have seen the light of day at all. The only stuff that is well hidden and concealed and sat on by the Corps is right wing bad news. If it is left wing bad news they run it all day long....even embellishing and creative editing and making shit up. posted 05/13/2008 at 14:50:15
WTF?
No, it is endless repetition. Unless the item is very singular, and it takes a lot more than the national press....it has to make rounds in newspapers, magazines, web.
The Corporate press is deciding, very coldly and calculated, what is going to make it on air.
It takes a real Houdini story to escape the Corporate Media, if they want to kill it.
And they amplify, and edit the stuff they WANT to spread around and then repeat it 10,000 times. Have whole hours and half-hours devoted to mindless ramblings from 25 yr old former models devoted to the topic.
It is not a great mystery. And just like you can't kill every virus, or every gremlin....occasionally a story that reflects poorly on the RIghtWIng squeaks past it's captors. Macaca is a pretty good example. If it wasn't caught on tape, it may never have seen the light of day at all. The only stuff that is well hidden and concealed and sat on by the Corps is right wing bad news. If it is left wing bad news they run it all day long....even embellishing and creative editing and making shit up. posted 05/13/2008 at 14:50:15
Sex And The American Mom: 1 In 3 Report Getting Action On The Side
I think plenty of married women say NO to a lot of things that would keep their husband interested....then when having an affair they say YES to the same stuff they would NEVER admit to their husband.
Of course, men could be more attuned, more romantic, bring flowers. But that is attention....not love or passion or sex.
I had a bit of an epiphany the other day, and I don't mean this to be detrimental to women.
But, if the Divorce Rate is 50% (just to use an arbitrary number) how many of those marriages were INSISTED upon by the women? To say it more simply, the women really pushed to get married. By extrapolation, we could say women were the cause of a lot of divorces because they were the prime-mover in getting married to begin with.
If the rules of marriage and the traditions had a little wiggle room, perhaps people could feel free enough to experiment. Or no marriage at all would be a nice option.
But the way we have it now is a recipe for turmoil and oppression.
It would be nice if there was more than ONE option that was legal and allowable in society, instead of forcing people to enter into a lifelong and nearly unworkable contract. posted 05/13/2008 at 17:02:51
Of course, men could be more attuned, more romantic, bring flowers. But that is attention....not love or passion or sex.
I had a bit of an epiphany the other day, and I don't mean this to be detrimental to women.
But, if the Divorce Rate is 50% (just to use an arbitrary number) how many of those marriages were INSISTED upon by the women? To say it more simply, the women really pushed to get married. By extrapolation, we could say women were the cause of a lot of divorces because they were the prime-mover in getting married to begin with.
If the rules of marriage and the traditions had a little wiggle room, perhaps people could feel free enough to experiment. Or no marriage at all would be a nice option.
But the way we have it now is a recipe for turmoil and oppression.
It would be nice if there was more than ONE option that was legal and allowable in society, instead of forcing people to enter into a lifelong and nearly unworkable contract. posted 05/13/2008 at 17:02:51
How John McCain Can Rescue the Republican Party
Wrong Mr Matzzie
The republicans banked on a kill-all capitalistic mentality, along with huge bankrupting scandals and criminal behavior based on squeezing every dime from the american prols and diverting it into their fat-cat pockets. They have been ripping off the american govt. for OUR money for decades and decades....and the larceny finally got to be too big to hide....and the desensitized americans finally found their last nerve being stepped on.
That is what is wrong with republicans. Not even republican voters can stand it anymore....and we have seen that they have a HUGE tolerance for criminality in their candidates. posted 05/12/2008 at 13:48:36
The republicans banked on a kill-all capitalistic mentality, along with huge bankrupting scandals and criminal behavior based on squeezing every dime from the american prols and diverting it into their fat-cat pockets. They have been ripping off the american govt. for OUR money for decades and decades....and the larceny finally got to be too big to hide....and the desensitized americans finally found their last nerve being stepped on.
That is what is wrong with republicans. Not even republican voters can stand it anymore....and we have seen that they have a HUGE tolerance for criminality in their candidates. posted 05/12/2008 at 13:48:36
Stupid People of 2008 #241: "Postcard" Malware Hoaxers
Thanks Man, I love you too
that must have been priceless coming from the top capitalist
"What kind of numbnuts gets his jollies creating bogus information that simply scares other people to no good purpose?"
Why, the DeceptiCons who have been running our govt the last 8 years, that's who.
I can live in a world that is roiling and writhing with MalWare makers,
If I can at least be rid of these Republican World Destroyers. posted 05/15/2008 at 10:00:09
that must have been priceless coming from the top capitalist
"What kind of numbnuts gets his jollies creating bogus information that simply scares other people to no good purpose?"
Why, the DeceptiCons who have been running our govt the last 8 years, that's who.
I can live in a world that is roiling and writhing with MalWare makers,
If I can at least be rid of these Republican World Destroyers. posted 05/15/2008 at 10:00:09
Hillary's Gift to Women
BHO showed a High Road, and the stuff we have been missing from our candidates (both Right and Left) for a long time. No offense to Gore or Kerry, but they only seemed to buy into half of what BHO is doing. He seems to be able to stick to it. And the american people responded.
If a candidate like BHO can run a campaign by appealing to our better angels, and he can keep it up through the General Election, the american people are going to go for it. There HAD to be a limit to how much slop and spittle and mud we were going to lick up. There HAD to be a saturation point where even the most deluded would stop listening to the CorpMedia and the pundits. THere HAD to be a time when someone with a simple, unifying message could just keep keeping on....and just that simple honesty and appeal would finally put him over the top instead of ALWAYS being torn down and stomped on by the CorpMedia and CorpCandidates. This is that time. The american people, finally, lorblessem, have got the beam out of their eye. I don't think all of our problems are solved....but for once people are finally seeing how WRONG our most basic politics was. posted 05/12/2008 at 15:09:28
If a candidate like BHO can run a campaign by appealing to our better angels, and he can keep it up through the General Election, the american people are going to go for it. There HAD to be a limit to how much slop and spittle and mud we were going to lick up. There HAD to be a saturation point where even the most deluded would stop listening to the CorpMedia and the pundits. THere HAD to be a time when someone with a simple, unifying message could just keep keeping on....and just that simple honesty and appeal would finally put him over the top instead of ALWAYS being torn down and stomped on by the CorpMedia and CorpCandidates. This is that time. The american people, finally, lorblessem, have got the beam out of their eye. I don't think all of our problems are solved....but for once people are finally seeing how WRONG our most basic politics was. posted 05/12/2008 at 15:09:28
wrong, wrong, and wrong again.
It wasn't the press, but your candidate HRC who cemented our impressions of amorality and bitchiness and race-baiting.
I want to commend B Ehrenreich on a brilliant article.. I also would like to commend her on resisting the temptation to blame all of HRC's faults on Men. I see women who have no morals...and people give them a pass and say that MEN made her that way, or caused her to be that way. Nonsense.
We all have seen in politics, in the corporate workplace, in the ma and pa business....where women who have the same power-roles that men traditionally owned.....become as bad as any man who ever held the job. Just as ruthless, just as divisive, just as abusive, just as scheming, just as amoral.
However much I want to give the Estrogen side of our species a chance to run things (can't do it any worse than the Testosterone side)....I will not be deluded into thinking that any women is likely to be any better than any man.
Now if the RIGHT woman had come along, I would be sorely tempted to get the preznincy OUT of the hands of men, but HRC was certainly not the female to change the ways of DC. posted 05/12/2008 at 13:10:40
It wasn't the press, but your candidate HRC who cemented our impressions of amorality and bitchiness and race-baiting.
I want to commend B Ehrenreich on a brilliant article.. I also would like to commend her on resisting the temptation to blame all of HRC's faults on Men. I see women who have no morals...and people give them a pass and say that MEN made her that way, or caused her to be that way. Nonsense.
We all have seen in politics, in the corporate workplace, in the ma and pa business....where women who have the same power-roles that men traditionally owned.....become as bad as any man who ever held the job. Just as ruthless, just as divisive, just as abusive, just as scheming, just as amoral.
However much I want to give the Estrogen side of our species a chance to run things (can't do it any worse than the Testosterone side)....I will not be deluded into thinking that any women is likely to be any better than any man.
Now if the RIGHT woman had come along, I would be sorely tempted to get the preznincy OUT of the hands of men, but HRC was certainly not the female to change the ways of DC. posted 05/12/2008 at 13:10:40
Top 10 Reasons Obama Defeated Clinton for the Democratic Nomination
Boy, with that clear crystal ball of yours, why aren't you picking football games and playing the stock market? posted 05/12/2008 at 13:41:45
Clinton Campaign Reduced to Sketch Comedy
I think the funniest of the Higgins spots is when the CEO asks for ideas,
Higgins says "Let's do some BlameStorming"
"I would like to blame.....Helen." posted 05/12/2008 at 08:40:11
Higgins says "Let's do some BlameStorming"
"I would like to blame.....Helen." posted 05/12/2008 at 08:40:11
The Why of Chokingly High Oil Prices: Bush Together with Saudi Arabia Spells Disaster for America
Yes but we can stop using oil in such quantities. Drive far less. Reduce demand.
I agree there is not enough alternative fuels....but sunlight or wind is all we've got if we want to stop kicking Mother Earth in the guts.
Since there is no alternative to oil, and oil is bad.....we must stop using it and replacements for it.
Is your idea, KillTheMessenger, to use whatever fuels we have until the sky goes dark? posted 05/12/2008 at 16:25:18
I agree there is not enough alternative fuels....but sunlight or wind is all we've got if we want to stop kicking Mother Earth in the guts.
Since there is no alternative to oil, and oil is bad.....we must stop using it and replacements for it.
Is your idea, KillTheMessenger, to use whatever fuels we have until the sky goes dark? posted 05/12/2008 at 16:25:18
Rush Limbaugh Now "Backs" Obama
This just shows that Lush Rimjob has a little pow-wow with the Stablishment, then starts bellering over the airwaves whatever spew they agreed upon.
Operation Chaos was just what the higher-ups ordered.
Now, his bleating about Obama is what they are turning their attention to. It didn't work to get the Stablishment candidate HRC nominated, so now they are turning their attack on the presumptive nominee, BHO.
Their only hope, to get the 2nd Stablishment candidate elected, is to polarize every white voter in america to be askeered of the Black Man. They are taking HRC's tactic of claiming BHO can't win the "working, hard working non-college educated white vote"....and going national rightwing with that message. And Lush is their main mouthpiece for their slimier messaging. He is changing tack because news on the ground forced him to. HRC is not going to be the nominee. Just as BHO has to turn his attention to the general, and way from the primaries.....Lush has to change his target to getting white people to hate BHO. It is the only real wedge left to the Wedge Party. posted 05/08/2008 at 09:57:20
Operation Chaos was just what the higher-ups ordered.
Now, his bleating about Obama is what they are turning their attention to. It didn't work to get the Stablishment candidate HRC nominated, so now they are turning their attack on the presumptive nominee, BHO.
Their only hope, to get the 2nd Stablishment candidate elected, is to polarize every white voter in america to be askeered of the Black Man. They are taking HRC's tactic of claiming BHO can't win the "working, hard working non-college educated white vote"....and going national rightwing with that message. And Lush is their main mouthpiece for their slimier messaging. He is changing tack because news on the ground forced him to. HRC is not going to be the nominee. Just as BHO has to turn his attention to the general, and way from the primaries.....Lush has to change his target to getting white people to hate BHO. It is the only real wedge left to the Wedge Party. posted 05/08/2008 at 09:57:20
A 'Fighter' in the White House
Exactly. If she really had been fighting for us these last 8 years, she would have some record to show for it. If she had been fighting GWB all these years, she would be first in our hearts and ballots.
The Clinton preznincy was basically to talk populist and then bend over and grab ankles before the corporations.
She then leveraged THAT into carpetbagging a NY senatorship. Shame on NY.
She then triangulated the whole time in the Senate, except when she overtly stood up contrary to the dems and outhawked the chickenhawks. Flagburning, BombIran, BombIraq you name it.
Then she tells us, spending millions and millions, about how she is a fighter and that only she can win the working people, hard working people's votes. Like only uneducated whites are hard workers. And that she will never give up on working hard for US, fighting for US. I want to know, when did she start working for us? I am not so worried that she will never give up, I am worried that she never will begin to work for us. posted 05/08/2008 at 10:06:26
The Clinton preznincy was basically to talk populist and then bend over and grab ankles before the corporations.
She then leveraged THAT into carpetbagging a NY senatorship. Shame on NY.
She then triangulated the whole time in the Senate, except when she overtly stood up contrary to the dems and outhawked the chickenhawks. Flagburning, BombIran, BombIraq you name it.
Then she tells us, spending millions and millions, about how she is a fighter and that only she can win the working people, hard working people's votes. Like only uneducated whites are hard workers. And that she will never give up on working hard for US, fighting for US. I want to know, when did she start working for us? I am not so worried that she will never give up, I am worried that she never will begin to work for us. posted 05/08/2008 at 10:06:26
Tuesday's Biggest Loser: Tim Russert (And All The Other TV Blowhards)
They are corporate. And conservatives and stupid independents have been allying themselves with CORPORATE for a long time now. Against their own interests.
Kind of like a beaten wife hangs on to asshole husband.
Kind of like a dimwitted fan who always roots for the yankees, because they are usually winners and percentages are with them. Not because team appeals to him, or because he identifies with their CommonMan work ethic. No, because they are likely winners and you don't wan't to be seen associating with "losers". Pathetic fan spends a lot of his money and life rooting for and defending a group which pisses on him and has never done a thing for HIM his whole life.
It is a primitive distinguisher between american parties. Lefties pull for the underdog (common man) and Righties root for the dominant team (corporate giants).
Anyways, the media is corporate. Since they are running the squawkboxes...they are in the business of conditioning YOU and dictating your news-diet. Russert during the PA vote was giving himself a stiffy as he pumped up HRC for her win and then went on a 10 minute diatribe about all the silly self-serving spin that HRC would throw at BHO as a result. Russert seemed to be reading from the HRC script, since she did exactly that.
I think HRC is much more the choice of the Stablishment than McCain. That is sinister, a dem who is so in bed with the HugeCorps and MediaGiants. posted 05/08/2008 at 09:12:31
Kind of like a beaten wife hangs on to asshole husband.
Kind of like a dimwitted fan who always roots for the yankees, because they are usually winners and percentages are with them. Not because team appeals to him, or because he identifies with their CommonMan work ethic. No, because they are likely winners and you don't wan't to be seen associating with "losers". Pathetic fan spends a lot of his money and life rooting for and defending a group which pisses on him and has never done a thing for HIM his whole life.
It is a primitive distinguisher between american parties. Lefties pull for the underdog (common man) and Righties root for the dominant team (corporate giants).
Anyways, the media is corporate. Since they are running the squawkboxes...they are in the business of conditioning YOU and dictating your news-diet. Russert during the PA vote was giving himself a stiffy as he pumped up HRC for her win and then went on a 10 minute diatribe about all the silly self-serving spin that HRC would throw at BHO as a result. Russert seemed to be reading from the HRC script, since she did exactly that.
I think HRC is much more the choice of the Stablishment than McCain. That is sinister, a dem who is so in bed with the HugeCorps and MediaGiants. posted 05/08/2008 at 09:12:31
Obama's Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall
Corporations have watched every media technology emerge, then they snap it up and own it. Even if it was invented and paid for with the Peoples money, for the Peoples benefit.
The internets is no different. Such powerful tools are never left laying around for the PEOPLES to use. posted 05/07/2008 at 15:43:30
The internets is no different. Such powerful tools are never left laying around for the PEOPLES to use. posted 05/07/2008 at 15:43:30
I agree with Norman wholeheartedly.
But watch out. Our govt. tore off the mask early after the 2000 election. The mask that corporations DIDN'T run everything was finally removed. OUt in the open, for those with eyes to see, it was obvious what was going on.
The media has been wholly invested with keeping THEIR charade under wraps. How they steer public perception and how they destroy progressive candidates was really not blamed on THEM like it should have been. Pop culturists would always find a way to blame the lefty himself for the onslought of unfair and unfounded attacks. Now the mask is off, the green curtain pulled back.
Will the media limp off, tail between it's legs? No, corporate america will just kick into a different gear. Not so much of their energy and resources will be poured into keeping the charade alive. They can now be more direct with less dissembling. I say, watch out.
I am encouraged. We actually saw a progressive candidate dodge and weave and avoid the huge mashing contraptions of the corporatists. The corporatists were revealed. Their dirty tricks didn't work this time, for once. Encouraging. But only as long until you remember they have merely been exposed, not destroyed. posted 05/07/2008 at 15:41:55
But watch out. Our govt. tore off the mask early after the 2000 election. The mask that corporations DIDN'T run everything was finally removed. OUt in the open, for those with eyes to see, it was obvious what was going on.
The media has been wholly invested with keeping THEIR charade under wraps. How they steer public perception and how they destroy progressive candidates was really not blamed on THEM like it should have been. Pop culturists would always find a way to blame the lefty himself for the onslought of unfair and unfounded attacks. Now the mask is off, the green curtain pulled back.
Will the media limp off, tail between it's legs? No, corporate america will just kick into a different gear. Not so much of their energy and resources will be poured into keeping the charade alive. They can now be more direct with less dissembling. I say, watch out.
I am encouraged. We actually saw a progressive candidate dodge and weave and avoid the huge mashing contraptions of the corporatists. The corporatists were revealed. Their dirty tricks didn't work this time, for once. Encouraging. But only as long until you remember they have merely been exposed, not destroyed. posted 05/07/2008 at 15:41:55
American Idol: Top 3 & Jason Castro
that was funny. almost choked on the 7 layer salad posted 05/07/2008 at 12:51:00
Why Couldn't Hillary Close the Deal?
As good as the CorpMedia and huge corps that own them and run the world
I like to call it
ComGlotCo
as good as ComGlotCo has been at riding herd on us these last 60 years....there have been breakouts. They are going to get real nasty now....and McNasty is trying hard to be the Corporate Water Carrier that they want. I don't know why the Stablishment wasn't able to get their ducks in a row, and have a decent successor for Boosch....but they didn't. And McSame is not their ideal. Could it be that HRC was too perfect to pass up? They thought they had their girl already?
Anyways, the herd is breaking out. No matter how they tried to get rid of every progressive candidate...the media couldn't wrench us away from BHOs message. Encouraging, but it also means THEY're going to have to ratchet up the police state now. posted 05/07/2008 at 12:30:34
I like to call it
ComGlotCo
as good as ComGlotCo has been at riding herd on us these last 60 years....there have been breakouts. They are going to get real nasty now....and McNasty is trying hard to be the Corporate Water Carrier that they want. I don't know why the Stablishment wasn't able to get their ducks in a row, and have a decent successor for Boosch....but they didn't. And McSame is not their ideal. Could it be that HRC was too perfect to pass up? They thought they had their girl already?
Anyways, the herd is breaking out. No matter how they tried to get rid of every progressive candidate...the media couldn't wrench us away from BHOs message. Encouraging, but it also means THEY're going to have to ratchet up the police state now. posted 05/07/2008 at 12:30:34
Moose49 and Jah2008 -
in response. HRC has been the stealth establishment candidate. She and Bill have been courting big business and NY elites and HugeCo and HugeMedia.
McCain seems to have NOT been the favorite of the Corporate Establishment.
All the other reFoolicans shot each other in the foot, and McCain somehow just slid thru as default.
Similarly, the Establishment and Establishment Media had it all grooved for HRC. Inevitable. Then BHO upset their whole applecart. He just could not be stopped with the voters, he was inscrutable to the media, they couldn't get their hooks into him, couldn't get any grip. He wasn't a kook or radical or far-out. They couldn't put him in a box without going racist.
Then the gloves came off. Their tone became increasingly racist and desperate. Madrassa Muslim blah blah etc. But it was too late and they couldn't quite squelch him. The last two months have been excruciating as the CorpMedia joined with HRC to Kitchen-Sink him. But it got away from them
So with McPlain and BHO as candidates, the CorpMedia let 2 slots get away from them. Neither one is the choice of the Stablishment . What does it say about HRC that she was their favorite? What deals has she made? posted 05/07/2008 at 12:23:36
in response. HRC has been the stealth establishment candidate. She and Bill have been courting big business and NY elites and HugeCo and HugeMedia.
McCain seems to have NOT been the favorite of the Corporate Establishment.
All the other reFoolicans shot each other in the foot, and McCain somehow just slid thru as default.
Similarly, the Establishment and Establishment Media had it all grooved for HRC. Inevitable. Then BHO upset their whole applecart. He just could not be stopped with the voters, he was inscrutable to the media, they couldn't get their hooks into him, couldn't get any grip. He wasn't a kook or radical or far-out. They couldn't put him in a box without going racist.
Then the gloves came off. Their tone became increasingly racist and desperate. Madrassa Muslim blah blah etc. But it was too late and they couldn't quite squelch him. The last two months have been excruciating as the CorpMedia joined with HRC to Kitchen-Sink him. But it got away from them
So with McPlain and BHO as candidates, the CorpMedia let 2 slots get away from them. Neither one is the choice of the Stablishment . What does it say about HRC that she was their favorite? What deals has she made? posted 05/07/2008 at 12:23:36
What Joe Republican Forgets
yeah, well prove them wrong then, Big THinker posted 05/06/2008 at 18:53:31
The End Of Philanthropy
I do so much ragging on corporations, I guess I should give the author a thumbs up.
I am absolutely positive that humanity and this globe cannot withstand corporate culture, no matter how benevolent it is with the monetary riches it achieves. So, a company who is farming our oxygen and chewing it up faster than plants can replace it....but they give back to the community some of the money they make....we'll tell the children to breathe the money. Or eat it or drink it.
But it is a paradigm shift to consider a world where the corporations who previously treated our very air and water and land as commodities, and raped and plundered everything they touched...suddenly slow down in their destruction and fund improvements. It's a start. posted 05/06/2008 at 09:32:48
I am absolutely positive that humanity and this globe cannot withstand corporate culture, no matter how benevolent it is with the monetary riches it achieves. So, a company who is farming our oxygen and chewing it up faster than plants can replace it....but they give back to the community some of the money they make....we'll tell the children to breathe the money. Or eat it or drink it.
But it is a paradigm shift to consider a world where the corporations who previously treated our very air and water and land as commodities, and raped and plundered everything they touched...suddenly slow down in their destruction and fund improvements. It's a start. posted 05/06/2008 at 09:32:48
Why I Wrote Rubicon and What It Means
I had the same sickening feeling in my gut starting Sept 12 and it has never gone away. posted 05/05/2008 at 17:28:57
Clinton's biggest "gun gaffe" was her vote for confiscation
C'mon. this is an outrage. Campaign season or not, everyone (gun toting or otherwise) should be absolutely floored by the repeal of our rights, snookered past us by the "gun" party. posted 05/05/2008 at 17:18:03
The Times' Michael Gordon: A "Message Force Multiplier?"
High-time we face what we are up against.
These people are plants. Not many independent actors anymore. Just a few rogue reporters and the web. BTW, corporations have basically stolen print, radio, and tv away from the people...one after another. Internet will be next.
The admin knows as well as anyone that media rules. Eyeballs, Hearts and Minds. I guess it would be ludicrous NOT to suspect rightwingers with a touch of shadyness of tampering with the media.
But these guys have more than a Touch of Shady. Consider that the biggest corporations on earth own our media and most of this admin and a large chunk of every politician...
Everything is rigged, everything is slanted. THEIR PR Pirouettes come off without a hitch....truth dies a thousand deaths nightly in the 6 editing rooms of our News Nation.
The only hard part is actually pretending that the game isn't rigged. Carrying off the farce everyday is the challenge.
The profits the money the ratings the buzz - that stuff comes with owning all the airwaves,wires,studios,and politicians.
So stop looking for coincidence/rational explanation why so many newsorgs lie to us,accidentally slant news,swallow hook, line, and KoolAid. They didn't get hoodwinked, they are plants. Start from the premise that all the TVcontent is filtered now. Completely. Throughout our nations history, you couldn't always control ALL of the news. Now, you pretty much can. Even non-newswatchers get a lot of TV conditioning. posted 05/05/2008 at 15:06:53
These people are plants. Not many independent actors anymore. Just a few rogue reporters and the web. BTW, corporations have basically stolen print, radio, and tv away from the people...one after another. Internet will be next.
The admin knows as well as anyone that media rules. Eyeballs, Hearts and Minds. I guess it would be ludicrous NOT to suspect rightwingers with a touch of shadyness of tampering with the media.
But these guys have more than a Touch of Shady. Consider that the biggest corporations on earth own our media and most of this admin and a large chunk of every politician...
Everything is rigged, everything is slanted. THEIR PR Pirouettes come off without a hitch....truth dies a thousand deaths nightly in the 6 editing rooms of our News Nation.
The only hard part is actually pretending that the game isn't rigged. Carrying off the farce everyday is the challenge.
The profits the money the ratings the buzz - that stuff comes with owning all the airwaves,wires,studios,and politicians.
So stop looking for coincidence/rational explanation why so many newsorgs lie to us,accidentally slant news,swallow hook, line, and KoolAid. They didn't get hoodwinked, they are plants. Start from the premise that all the TVcontent is filtered now. Completely. Throughout our nations history, you couldn't always control ALL of the news. Now, you pretty much can. Even non-newswatchers get a lot of TV conditioning. posted 05/05/2008 at 15:06:53
John Gibson Mocks Rachel Maddow's Sexuality: "Ooh, Lesbians! Yummy!"
Ooooh, John Gibson.
Doughy, pasty, lisping radio face
Mostly Dead Cadaver,,,,yummmy posted 05/02/2008 at 22:27:57
Doughy, pasty, lisping radio face
Mostly Dead Cadaver,,,,yummmy posted 05/02/2008 at 22:27:57
An Army of Women
Please, please, detail for me the incessant media drumbeat against her. The continued attacks?
Chris matthews said some pretty dumb things. He says them all the time, not just about HRC. And some other guy on MSNBC said the Clintons were pimping out their daughter.
Now, aside from that, can you tell me where the incessant drumbeat against her is? Yes perhaps hannity and limbaugh and Oreilly....but to tell the truth they seem strangely silent on her. In fact limbaugh has been campaigning FOR her.
THe constant drumbeat has been incessanstly pounding Obama. With made up stuff and innuendo and smears. THere is so much factual stuff to attack HRC for, but no-one is doing it, INCLUDING Obama. THat should give a clue to the Hillary fanatics. She is way, way, way out of line. I can't believe there would come towards the nomination a Dem I could not vote for (except Lieberman) but now HRC has blown my worldview. Being on the same level as Lieberman is not a good thing, BTW posted 05/02/2008 at 20:58:59
Chris matthews said some pretty dumb things. He says them all the time, not just about HRC. And some other guy on MSNBC said the Clintons were pimping out their daughter.
Now, aside from that, can you tell me where the incessant drumbeat against her is? Yes perhaps hannity and limbaugh and Oreilly....but to tell the truth they seem strangely silent on her. In fact limbaugh has been campaigning FOR her.
THe constant drumbeat has been incessanstly pounding Obama. With made up stuff and innuendo and smears. THere is so much factual stuff to attack HRC for, but no-one is doing it, INCLUDING Obama. THat should give a clue to the Hillary fanatics. She is way, way, way out of line. I can't believe there would come towards the nomination a Dem I could not vote for (except Lieberman) but now HRC has blown my worldview. Being on the same level as Lieberman is not a good thing, BTW posted 05/02/2008 at 20:58:59
Coffeecups and Gutterballs: A Precision Media Hit On Obama, A Pass For Clinton
I don't see you trotting out any facts Oldtt. Other than you don't know what the hell to say. posted 05/02/2008 at 23:19:01
Clinton Adviser Claims Indiana Slur Video Is Conspiracy
Yeah, what a great denial. "Those People Are Shit" was referring to the Boosch people in the white house? C'mon. Your folks wouldn't get mad at the shit remark, but they would get mad at the nigger remark?
Uhh, "what you saw me saying in that video is a lie and a conspiracy and a libel and are the product of the foul arts of Barack Obama and his mindless koolaid drinkers. I want to point out that my words were written for me by Jeremiah Wright"
Mikkey Kantor posted 05/02/2008 at 15:34:01
Uhh, "what you saw me saying in that video is a lie and a conspiracy and a libel and are the product of the foul arts of Barack Obama and his mindless koolaid drinkers. I want to point out that my words were written for me by Jeremiah Wright"
Mikkey Kantor posted 05/02/2008 at 15:34:01
Paul Kirk, Ex-DNC Chair And Superdelegate, To Endorse Obama
You're wrong. They are coming his way.
Maybe the powerbrokers in the rightwing aren't happy about him,
but many of the rank and file republlican and independent voters are SICK of the way lobbyists and corporations run everything. They are sick of the waste, sick of the healthcare crisis, sick of the climate crisis, sick of the gas bills and they KNOW that their corporate masters - not only let them down - were NEVER on their side.
Now it seems our own white middle-lower class blue collar voter is almost our enemy, the way they have gone over to clinton. Well, this gang always was eager to vote against their interests, they are the same ones who went over to Reagan and Boosch2. Even died in the wool republicans and staunch independents can sometimes smell if their ass is on fire. posted 05/02/2008 at 14:03:08
Maybe the powerbrokers in the rightwing aren't happy about him,
but many of the rank and file republlican and independent voters are SICK of the way lobbyists and corporations run everything. They are sick of the waste, sick of the healthcare crisis, sick of the climate crisis, sick of the gas bills and they KNOW that their corporate masters - not only let them down - were NEVER on their side.
Now it seems our own white middle-lower class blue collar voter is almost our enemy, the way they have gone over to clinton. Well, this gang always was eager to vote against their interests, they are the same ones who went over to Reagan and Boosch2. Even died in the wool republicans and staunch independents can sometimes smell if their ass is on fire. posted 05/02/2008 at 14:03:08
Gotten
yeah, I said it.
About HRC and the willing press.
Remember, the Corporate media is trying to get THEIR candidate elected, as always. Who better to deflect all the HRC scandals, and concentrate on BHO, than the corporate media?
People think HRC got a bad ride from the press. Yeah, a few spoutoffs like Chris Matthews....whom I am sure MSNBC would luv for him to run for office and get off their payroll.
But she got no such thing. What, just because she came out yelling that she was the most vetted person on earth....does that mean all investigative journalism for HRC is off limits? That no-one can run any story or old footage or bring up the stinky deals? Because there has been NONE of that. The worst she has received is some guff from her own (or Bill's) gaffes on THIS campaign trail. No nightly gangup on her, no dredging up the old stuff, or Bill's deals, or HRC's corporate ties, trade history, shady brothers, old religious mentors. No mention of the shady FL and MI behavior or other dirty tricks. posted 05/02/2008 at 13:16:42
yeah, I said it.
About HRC and the willing press.
Remember, the Corporate media is trying to get THEIR candidate elected, as always. Who better to deflect all the HRC scandals, and concentrate on BHO, than the corporate media?
People think HRC got a bad ride from the press. Yeah, a few spoutoffs like Chris Matthews....whom I am sure MSNBC would luv for him to run for office and get off their payroll.
But she got no such thing. What, just because she came out yelling that she was the most vetted person on earth....does that mean all investigative journalism for HRC is off limits? That no-one can run any story or old footage or bring up the stinky deals? Because there has been NONE of that. The worst she has received is some guff from her own (or Bill's) gaffes on THIS campaign trail. No nightly gangup on her, no dredging up the old stuff, or Bill's deals, or HRC's corporate ties, trade history, shady brothers, old religious mentors. No mention of the shady FL and MI behavior or other dirty tricks. posted 05/02/2008 at 13:16:42
All I know is that if BHO was the front runner and anyone other than HRC was in 2nd, they'd have dropped out long ago.
HRC has the women vote going for her, that put so much desperation and urgency behind a candidate who lost the game, came in 2nd place. But no, HRC's entitlement and the desperation of being so close for women has somehow kept this sad affair alive.
Would BHO and Richardson or BHO and Edwards, and BHO and Dodd have ever descended to this kind of farce and horror show?
No, HRC has brought it there. BHO is steadfastly refusing to play that game, because when he emerges from this horrible worst angels assault from HRC he can ride his integrity thru November.
But none of the other candidates would have ever stooped to what the CLintons have done. And no other dem candidate would have gotten a willing press. She is so corporate rightwing, even the media is for her. posted 05/02/2008 at 13:07:41
HRC has the women vote going for her, that put so much desperation and urgency behind a candidate who lost the game, came in 2nd place. But no, HRC's entitlement and the desperation of being so close for women has somehow kept this sad affair alive.
Would BHO and Richardson or BHO and Edwards, and BHO and Dodd have ever descended to this kind of farce and horror show?
No, HRC has brought it there. BHO is steadfastly refusing to play that game, because when he emerges from this horrible worst angels assault from HRC he can ride his integrity thru November.
But none of the other candidates would have ever stooped to what the CLintons have done. And no other dem candidate would have gotten a willing press. She is so corporate rightwing, even the media is for her. posted 05/02/2008 at 13:07:41
The True McCain Health Plan: Wealth Transfer From Voters to Corporations
Be Clear About This.
We have watched, in under 30 years, the advent of BigBusiness Medicine and the complete takeover of health.
The same corporate giants who are twisting your DNA and poisoning your world, are denying you healthcare because you grew up in a poisoned atmosphere and have pre-existing conditions.
Companies dictate your healthcare to you, fill you up with pills. Take a big chunk of your paycheck every month, and basically take everything you own in a geometric curve at the end of your life.
Science fiction is filled with alien races who devour star-systems and enslave whole races. At least they were doing it to OTHER worlds, these alien corporate borgs are doing it to their own planet and their own peoples.
But I'm sure we have some commentors who are itching to defend capitalism and corporatism. posted 05/01/2008 at 13:01:39
We have watched, in under 30 years, the advent of BigBusiness Medicine and the complete takeover of health.
The same corporate giants who are twisting your DNA and poisoning your world, are denying you healthcare because you grew up in a poisoned atmosphere and have pre-existing conditions.
Companies dictate your healthcare to you, fill you up with pills. Take a big chunk of your paycheck every month, and basically take everything you own in a geometric curve at the end of your life.
Science fiction is filled with alien races who devour star-systems and enslave whole races. At least they were doing it to OTHER worlds, these alien corporate borgs are doing it to their own planet and their own peoples.
But I'm sure we have some commentors who are itching to defend capitalism and corporatism. posted 05/01/2008 at 13:01:39
Defining Insanity
they're not doing it for bucks, primarily. THey are doing it to shape perception, to remake reality in their own image. There is a lot more at stake for the corporations than short term money. Thereis LONG TERM money to be made by creating wars and keeping us busy looking at other things....rather than noticing the corporate takeover of america. Trying to shame the CorpMedia into making less money isn't going to get their attention, or even address their base motives. posted 05/02/2008 at 08:08:47
Hillary Clinton And Bill O'Reilly Square Off On The Factor: Watch Video
Uhhh, yeah. posted 05/01/2008 at 09:59:23
Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?
it seems some people, at least, are catching on. The media is supposed to report malfeasance. When they themselves are the largest purveyor of malfeasance, we cannot truly expect them to report about themselves.
Maybe in a conflict of interest, another group would do the mea culpa. Like pimps admitting to breaking the speed limit.
But since the 'stock in trade' for the media is their gravitas and viewer-trust....that would be admitting they were not trustworthy or reliable intermediaries. It is not going to happen.
The corporate media has reliably buried all corporate malfeasance, their own most of all. posted 04/30/2008 at 22:21:34
Maybe in a conflict of interest, another group would do the mea culpa. Like pimps admitting to breaking the speed limit.
But since the 'stock in trade' for the media is their gravitas and viewer-trust....that would be admitting they were not trustworthy or reliable intermediaries. It is not going to happen.
The corporate media has reliably buried all corporate malfeasance, their own most of all. posted 04/30/2008 at 22:21:34
What Exactly is Rev. Wright Saying?
I think the Clinton's have a hand in getting him out "On Tour".
It's the only thing I can think of. I do not think Wright suddenly couldn't keep his piehole shut any longer. I think he was enticed. Offers were made. His relationship with BHO was obviously over, or very altered. So personally he had nothing to lose. posted 04/30/2008 at 12:27:54
It's the only thing I can think of. I do not think Wright suddenly couldn't keep his piehole shut any longer. I think he was enticed. Offers were made. His relationship with BHO was obviously over, or very altered. So personally he had nothing to lose. posted 04/30/2008 at 12:27:54
So, You Want a Theocracy Now?
Great as usual Jane.
I think however that you, as well as much of america, are not properly grasping what the media is up to.
HRC and John McCain are equally the Establishment Candidate. It is obvious from the republican primaries that The Establishment wasn't too interested in McCain. They have since told him how it's gonna be if he wants their money and backing. He agreed.
HRC seems also to be a very malleable, useful tool to the Corporate Masters.
These two are basically off-limits to the corporate press, until the corporate press is forced to choose between HRC and McSame. Right now, they have BHO to kick around. He is obviously NOT the Establishment candidate and is going to get the same treatment, if not worse, that every NON ESTABLISHMENT candidate gets routinely these last 40 years or so.
The CorporoMedia has a well-tuned bag of tricks that they roll out successfully during every campaign cycle. It makes sure the american people never get a candidate choice that can hurt the establishment. If by some stroke of providence that candidate DOES appear or get's elected....the corporomedia makes sure that their tenure is a living hell.
The CorporoMedia is not angling for ratings, or profits. They are angling to define what you see. What you hear. And not letting you see or hear anything except what they want you to see and hear. Profits and ratings are just a by-product of controlling your eyeballs. posted 04/29/2008 at 17:19:06
I think however that you, as well as much of america, are not properly grasping what the media is up to.
HRC and John McCain are equally the Establishment Candidate. It is obvious from the republican primaries that The Establishment wasn't too interested in McCain. They have since told him how it's gonna be if he wants their money and backing. He agreed.
HRC seems also to be a very malleable, useful tool to the Corporate Masters.
These two are basically off-limits to the corporate press, until the corporate press is forced to choose between HRC and McSame. Right now, they have BHO to kick around. He is obviously NOT the Establishment candidate and is going to get the same treatment, if not worse, that every NON ESTABLISHMENT candidate gets routinely these last 40 years or so.
The CorporoMedia has a well-tuned bag of tricks that they roll out successfully during every campaign cycle. It makes sure the american people never get a candidate choice that can hurt the establishment. If by some stroke of providence that candidate DOES appear or get's elected....the corporomedia makes sure that their tenure is a living hell.
The CorporoMedia is not angling for ratings, or profits. They are angling to define what you see. What you hear. And not letting you see or hear anything except what they want you to see and hear. Profits and ratings are just a by-product of controlling your eyeballs. posted 04/29/2008 at 17:19:06
Of Sharks in the Water, Superdelegates, and Hannah Montana's Breasts
"The truth is that the length of the primary season has forced the news media to depend on turnabout - on some change in the story that they've all grown so bored of telling."
No, although I agree with most of your assertions, you are not going far enough, nor are you seeing the whole picture.
If reversal was what they wanted, McCain should have them dizzy by now. Clinton should also. It is a shark feeding frenzy on BHO. The corporations (the networks and the hugeco people want HRC or McSame) are going to attack BHO with everything they have, and obviously, even things they don't have.
HRC and McSame really pose no threat to regular politicians and their corporate masters. BHO threatens to overturn their lucrative applecarts. posted 04/29/2008 at 12:16:53
No, although I agree with most of your assertions, you are not going far enough, nor are you seeing the whole picture.
If reversal was what they wanted, McCain should have them dizzy by now. Clinton should also. It is a shark feeding frenzy on BHO. The corporations (the networks and the hugeco people want HRC or McSame) are going to attack BHO with everything they have, and obviously, even things they don't have.
HRC and McSame really pose no threat to regular politicians and their corporate masters. BHO threatens to overturn their lucrative applecarts. posted 04/29/2008 at 12:16:53
Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate
Because the Right and Corporate and Media are all the same thing.
The Corporations who own our media are rightwingers, pushing the rightwing dialogue, discrediting the candidates they don't want and endlessly shining the turds they DO want us to elect.
It is not so complicated, Arianna. I thought you were Mahvelous on Bill Maher the other night, BTW.
It is not a conundrum, or a mystery. It is not a bunch of decent people doing horrible things (ok, it is, but so is every other corporate environment, from the shoulders down.)
Ratings and Money is not the name of the game in Corporate Media. Owning Our Eyeballs is the name of the game. Getting to program us, that is the big prize. Owning all the bullhorns, mikes, megaphones, and the airwaves.....and the right to endlessly bombard us with THEIR message and ONLY THEIR MESSAGE. That is the name of the game.
Profits and ratings is easy after that. posted 04/28/2008 at 17:23:21
The Corporations who own our media are rightwingers, pushing the rightwing dialogue, discrediting the candidates they don't want and endlessly shining the turds they DO want us to elect.
It is not so complicated, Arianna. I thought you were Mahvelous on Bill Maher the other night, BTW.
It is not a conundrum, or a mystery. It is not a bunch of decent people doing horrible things (ok, it is, but so is every other corporate environment, from the shoulders down.)
Ratings and Money is not the name of the game in Corporate Media. Owning Our Eyeballs is the name of the game. Getting to program us, that is the big prize. Owning all the bullhorns, mikes, megaphones, and the airwaves.....and the right to endlessly bombard us with THEIR message and ONLY THEIR MESSAGE. That is the name of the game.
Profits and ratings is easy after that. posted 04/28/2008 at 17:23:21
Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV
Mr Cohen,
The media is a corporate beast. Their behavior is NOT subject to investigation. Why is that? Oh, because THEY ARE the investigators. What they put on the screen is what really happened. If the american people didn't see it on a network, then it didn't happen.
The ONETHING that never gets looked at on networks, is the networks.
Investigate corporate malfeasance, and they would be investigating themselves. Or their advertisers.
So, the biggest story of our time....the corporate takeover of all media and government.....is never going to even get a begrudging mention.
So let us get real people. What is or isn't on TV isn't about like-ability. It is not about Les Moonves' personal peccadillos. It is not what Stepho-Cock-Us or Smarmy Gibson thinks, it is not about even ratings or money. Ratings and money come anyways when you RULE WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND HEAR.
The real prize is RULING WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND HEAR. Then all the other stuff comes to you. Power, Money, Eyeballs, deciding who we get to vote for, telling us our breath stinks and that dandruff is unacceptable.
The reason McCain can count on free media (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9685.html), and that all of HRC's spin finds a place OnAir, and that Obama attacks never stop and get more and more ludicrous....is because the media is deciding this for us. Where would they be if they let the people actually decide something? posted 04/28/2008 at 12:10:16
The media is a corporate beast. Their behavior is NOT subject to investigation. Why is that? Oh, because THEY ARE the investigators. What they put on the screen is what really happened. If the american people didn't see it on a network, then it didn't happen.
The ONETHING that never gets looked at on networks, is the networks.
Investigate corporate malfeasance, and they would be investigating themselves. Or their advertisers.
So, the biggest story of our time....the corporate takeover of all media and government.....is never going to even get a begrudging mention.
So let us get real people. What is or isn't on TV isn't about like-ability. It is not about Les Moonves' personal peccadillos. It is not what Stepho-Cock-Us or Smarmy Gibson thinks, it is not about even ratings or money. Ratings and money come anyways when you RULE WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND HEAR.
The real prize is RULING WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND HEAR. Then all the other stuff comes to you. Power, Money, Eyeballs, deciding who we get to vote for, telling us our breath stinks and that dandruff is unacceptable.
The reason McCain can count on free media (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9685.html), and that all of HRC's spin finds a place OnAir, and that Obama attacks never stop and get more and more ludicrous....is because the media is deciding this for us. Where would they be if they let the people actually decide something? posted 04/28/2008 at 12:10:16
oh and all the rightwingers are so good looking and likeable.
Get a clue flack-on posted 04/28/2008 at 11:59:44
Get a clue flack-on posted 04/28/2008 at 11:59:44
Rush Limbaugh Claims Victory in Pennsylvania
limbaughs thang is going on a lot longer and affecting many contests. Just because a dem person did something wrong doesn't make limbaugh right. Cmon posted 04/25/2008 at 22:19:33
Hope Flocks
I would like to qualify statements like Media is all bout One Thing...consumerism or ratings or profits.....
yes, yes
but that stuff is easy, if you control all the media. Consolidating, streamlining, having One Message and no screwups, keeping control, writing the laws, owning our brains and eyeballs......
That is what they are really up to.
Keeping you from knowing what is happening.
Keeping you from rising up and casting them down
Keeping you from candidates that won't be so good for Big Media - making sure RonPaul and Kucinich and Edwards disappear.
Not showing you the caskets, the horror show.
Always applauding BigBrother government, and marginalizing and vilifying those damn treehuggers and hippies.
Consumerism is a given.
Ratings, Profits, whatever. But give them more credit than just being greedy. Everybody can be greedy. These folks got a lot more going on than just making money. posted 04/25/2008 at 18:01:09
yes, yes
but that stuff is easy, if you control all the media. Consolidating, streamlining, having One Message and no screwups, keeping control, writing the laws, owning our brains and eyeballs......
That is what they are really up to.
Keeping you from knowing what is happening.
Keeping you from rising up and casting them down
Keeping you from candidates that won't be so good for Big Media - making sure RonPaul and Kucinich and Edwards disappear.
Not showing you the caskets, the horror show.
Always applauding BigBrother government, and marginalizing and vilifying those damn treehuggers and hippies.
Consumerism is a given.
Ratings, Profits, whatever. But give them more credit than just being greedy. Everybody can be greedy. These folks got a lot more going on than just making money. posted 04/25/2008 at 18:01:09
All campaigns are basically run thru TV and Big Media now. Not your most local races, but anything county wide or higher. All of our interaction with the process, in state and federal elections comes to most people 100% thru tv or state/national papers.
All the campaign money gets spent on tv buys. Millions upon millions in every state except WY or RI.
For many decades, the american people had a lot of good newspapers owned by lots of owners....and for decades they had tv news which was non-profit and was professional and was civic minded. So, just when we got good and hooked on this riches of substantial information it twisted. Was perverted. Went to the dark side. Corporations just making another business decision.
We are not going to be "remembering" that the govt and elections are The People's anytime soon. Cuz BigMedia isn't spreading that message.
Taking this dem runoff to the convention helps Nobody but Big Media and the candidate who is best at playing dirty. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:54:40
All the campaign money gets spent on tv buys. Millions upon millions in every state except WY or RI.
For many decades, the american people had a lot of good newspapers owned by lots of owners....and for decades they had tv news which was non-profit and was professional and was civic minded. So, just when we got good and hooked on this riches of substantial information it twisted. Was perverted. Went to the dark side. Corporations just making another business decision.
We are not going to be "remembering" that the govt and elections are The People's anytime soon. Cuz BigMedia isn't spreading that message.
Taking this dem runoff to the convention helps Nobody but Big Media and the candidate who is best at playing dirty. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:54:40
That was great Mr Weber. I fail utterly at being comprehensible when trying to explain this stuff.
People have to wake up from the bad, tacky, commercial dream we have all been drugged into.
Trying to shatter the illusion, or gently peel back the curtain.....it is very hard while they sleepwalk on. Like talking to a wall.
Question for people:
Can a Corporate Giant remain adequately objective about our health care? Pushing Meds at us right and left? Our Free Press daily requirements? Can it remain free from constantly making us feel inadequate, in order to pressure us into buying teeth whitener and breath freshener? Can it provide our basic political and civic needs?
When corporate giants own the very LENS we all gaze into, and all the content therein....and they themselves are dependent on OTHER corporogiants for huge cashwads of advertising....can we really trust them to treat us gingerly....or report on ummahhhh... A Corporate Takeover of America?!!!
Probably not.
The airwaves are the property of the People, the government merely LEASES them to the networks - in return for PSAa and Fairness Doctrine and to not subliminally advertise to us and also they prob. shoudn't subvert/pervert the political process. They still do PSAs tho! Sure doesn't seem like they want to give them back. Since it turned out to be The Most Powerful Instrument Devised By Man and stuff...they seem to want to keep playing with it. Still their turn, or sumthin. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:44:47
People have to wake up from the bad, tacky, commercial dream we have all been drugged into.
Trying to shatter the illusion, or gently peel back the curtain.....it is very hard while they sleepwalk on. Like talking to a wall.
Question for people:
Can a Corporate Giant remain adequately objective about our health care? Pushing Meds at us right and left? Our Free Press daily requirements? Can it remain free from constantly making us feel inadequate, in order to pressure us into buying teeth whitener and breath freshener? Can it provide our basic political and civic needs?
When corporate giants own the very LENS we all gaze into, and all the content therein....and they themselves are dependent on OTHER corporogiants for huge cashwads of advertising....can we really trust them to treat us gingerly....or report on ummahhhh... A Corporate Takeover of America?!!!
Probably not.
The airwaves are the property of the People, the government merely LEASES them to the networks - in return for PSAa and Fairness Doctrine and to not subliminally advertise to us and also they prob. shoudn't subvert/pervert the political process. They still do PSAs tho! Sure doesn't seem like they want to give them back. Since it turned out to be The Most Powerful Instrument Devised By Man and stuff...they seem to want to keep playing with it. Still their turn, or sumthin. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:44:47
Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton
Clarence Thomas dreamed up the phrase, but it is so much more apt for Obama's case
High Tech Lynching
The only real skill HRC has....media distortion, spin, say anything. Willingness to really play dirty. Cheap and disgustingly dirty.
And of course the corporate media and their master who are really calling the shots here. The corporomedia is making an even MORE concerted effort to drive out the last progressive....wildly popular as he is. posted 04/25/2008 at 09:23:16
High Tech Lynching
The only real skill HRC has....media distortion, spin, say anything. Willingness to really play dirty. Cheap and disgustingly dirty.
And of course the corporate media and their master who are really calling the shots here. The corporomedia is making an even MORE concerted effort to drive out the last progressive....wildly popular as he is. posted 04/25/2008 at 09:23:16
Is Pennsylvania a Microcosm of America?
Alls I was saying is Mr Ostoy is voting out of fear. Not because he thinks HRC has any fine points to her, just that she is a battle-axe and will fight to her last limb being lopped off. And she will fight as dirty and lowdown as the repubs.
Mr Ostoy is so scared about how BHO will do in a fight, he lets his fear of losing drown out the whole reason for being in the game. The reason is we need a progressive fighter for the people. We have to absolutely reverse our direction.
IF you want booosch policies continued then why fight at all? Vote for McCain. What a waste of hope and effort and money to throw the battle-axe into the fray, just to have her policies differ only slightly from McCain/Booosch. posted 04/25/2008 at 09:39:53
Mr Ostoy is so scared about how BHO will do in a fight, he lets his fear of losing drown out the whole reason for being in the game. The reason is we need a progressive fighter for the people. We have to absolutely reverse our direction.
IF you want booosch policies continued then why fight at all? Vote for McCain. What a waste of hope and effort and money to throw the battle-axe into the fray, just to have her policies differ only slightly from McCain/Booosch. posted 04/25/2008 at 09:39:53
Yeah, I really wish the Dem party voters would wake up to this fact.....it is the most decisive vote we have had in history. We should ALL be laying it on the line for BHO right now!
This is the battle for our souls....and BHO is offering a good plan. HRC is offering trust me (when we all know who she has been laying with to get her senatorship and her corporate money and her sleazy trickmaster. We all know her husband's presidency was full of high-falutin words and not so great results for the avg. american. We never got healthcare, instead the corporations tightened their grip. The media did not become more balanced, it went off the brink the other direction. Corporate offshoring, mass moves of manufacturing, jobs shipped off, our economy being ransacked by foreign companies all was in FULL STRIDE under her husband. Her senatorship should have been 8 years of sterling Battles Against Booosch and for women....and we got nothing.
If we elect this schlepp of a democrat, we are doomed. The battle for the nation's soul, and our souls is now. We can't have another year, let alone 4-8 years of anything but reversal and cleansing and sunlight. HRC ain't bringing the sunlight. This is our chance, and we regular rank and filers (dems and repubs) have been marginalized, this is our best concrete, do it today opportunity. And when BHO wins we have to protect him and get busier. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:49:04
This is the battle for our souls....and BHO is offering a good plan. HRC is offering trust me (when we all know who she has been laying with to get her senatorship and her corporate money and her sleazy trickmaster. We all know her husband's presidency was full of high-falutin words and not so great results for the avg. american. We never got healthcare, instead the corporations tightened their grip. The media did not become more balanced, it went off the brink the other direction. Corporate offshoring, mass moves of manufacturing, jobs shipped off, our economy being ransacked by foreign companies all was in FULL STRIDE under her husband. Her senatorship should have been 8 years of sterling Battles Against Booosch and for women....and we got nothing.
If we elect this schlepp of a democrat, we are doomed. The battle for the nation's soul, and our souls is now. We can't have another year, let alone 4-8 years of anything but reversal and cleansing and sunlight. HRC ain't bringing the sunlight. This is our chance, and we regular rank and filers (dems and repubs) have been marginalized, this is our best concrete, do it today opportunity. And when BHO wins we have to protect him and get busier. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:49:04
carefully licking the last red traces from the bottom and rim of his dixie cup... posted 04/24/2008 at 17:07:23
God I am a bad writer. Meant to say Tearing our own rights away from our OWN citizens...
(adding) so we can catch BinBatman in his far-off cave. Really, I never thought Boosch would catch biinladen after the first few months cuz it was obvious what a good boogeyman binnladdin made. Boosch could shake his binnladdinn whenever he wanted to fear the folks at home. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:05:09
(adding) so we can catch BinBatman in his far-off cave. Really, I never thought Boosch would catch biinladen after the first few months cuz it was obvious what a good boogeyman binnladdin made. Boosch could shake his binnladdinn whenever he wanted to fear the folks at home. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:05:09
Mr Ostoy
You operate from a position of fear. The same reasoning has worked so well that because some rebels in caves, without a country, managed a spectacular if cowardly and heinous slaughter of innocents ERGO we should look for people like them in every nook and cranny of the globe and slaughter innocents while hunting down the boogeymen. Tearing our own rights away from citizens.
You are wetting yerself, with your host of future horrors and dithering over hedging yer bets/covering yer ass. You are in serious danger of crappin yerself. Get a hold, man.
You won't say anything really good about HRC, in this column or your last. You just lambast BHO with crazy, weak, rightwing slime-attacks. All cleverly under the guise of claiming that it is just the same stuff the rightwingers will do. AND you don't see the relevant principle at stake? It isn't even hypocrisy, considering the full knowledge of the repugnant nature of your game.
You are willing, in your fear for BHO's safety and wellbeing, to spare him the fight - to throw your support to an amoral battering-ram of dubious intentions who makes many people feel slimy and dirty in our party. Vote for what you want, don't vote for something less out of fear. posted 04/24/2008 at 16:08:40
You operate from a position of fear. The same reasoning has worked so well that because some rebels in caves, without a country, managed a spectacular if cowardly and heinous slaughter of innocents ERGO we should look for people like them in every nook and cranny of the globe and slaughter innocents while hunting down the boogeymen. Tearing our own rights away from citizens.
You are wetting yerself, with your host of future horrors and dithering over hedging yer bets/covering yer ass. You are in serious danger of crappin yerself. Get a hold, man.
You won't say anything really good about HRC, in this column or your last. You just lambast BHO with crazy, weak, rightwing slime-attacks. All cleverly under the guise of claiming that it is just the same stuff the rightwingers will do. AND you don't see the relevant principle at stake? It isn't even hypocrisy, considering the full knowledge of the repugnant nature of your game.
You are willing, in your fear for BHO's safety and wellbeing, to spare him the fight - to throw your support to an amoral battering-ram of dubious intentions who makes many people feel slimy and dirty in our party. Vote for what you want, don't vote for something less out of fear. posted 04/24/2008 at 16:08:40
TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened
jjhayes and dotmafia...
Please, believe it. Mr Silver.....I have been linking to your blogs on this.
The CorporoMedia has been doing this for 30 years. Except for John Stossel telling us that americans are fools who will fall for anything, there hasn't been a consumer watchdog on TV since David Horowitz.
The CorporoMedia is in the business now of NOT TELLING YOU stuff at a much higher rate than it is TELLING us.
There is no objectivISM or journalISM. There is their PRISM. They are showing you what they want, and ruthlessly blacking out anything they don't want you to see. And it is not about ratings.
What Mr. Silver said about pissing off advertisers and politicians....that is it truly. Huge CorporoMedia working hand-in-hand with other Huge Corporations (advertisers) in order to brainwash you into buying buying buying. Politicians are just Corporate Heads on Leave. On loan from the corporations and soon to be found working again in their boardrooms.
The CorporoMedia is blacking out any stories that give blackeyes to corporations or expose malfeasance. They are pro war, and pro pharma, and pro corporation and pro consumerism and that is their lens, their prism on the world.....which we used exclusively for 40-50 years to get our opinions and news. Ratings is only part of their game these days, controlling our minds is lucrative too, in it's own way. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:59:04
Please, believe it. Mr Silver.....I have been linking to your blogs on this.
The CorporoMedia has been doing this for 30 years. Except for John Stossel telling us that americans are fools who will fall for anything, there hasn't been a consumer watchdog on TV since David Horowitz.
The CorporoMedia is in the business now of NOT TELLING YOU stuff at a much higher rate than it is TELLING us.
There is no objectivISM or journalISM. There is their PRISM. They are showing you what they want, and ruthlessly blacking out anything they don't want you to see. And it is not about ratings.
What Mr. Silver said about pissing off advertisers and politicians....that is it truly. Huge CorporoMedia working hand-in-hand with other Huge Corporations (advertisers) in order to brainwash you into buying buying buying. Politicians are just Corporate Heads on Leave. On loan from the corporations and soon to be found working again in their boardrooms.
The CorporoMedia is blacking out any stories that give blackeyes to corporations or expose malfeasance. They are pro war, and pro pharma, and pro corporation and pro consumerism and that is their lens, their prism on the world.....which we used exclusively for 40-50 years to get our opinions and news. Ratings is only part of their game these days, controlling our minds is lucrative too, in it's own way. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:59:04
Thomas Friedman Pie In The Face Video: Watch The New York Times Columnist Get Hit
Can you name how many leftist political organizers have been killed? Can you name how many left politicians have been killed? Union organizers? Journalists? Jailed? Put on watch lists? Spied upon? At the republican conventions, whole sections of cities get all the lefties swept up and detained. New spy sattelites deployed to spy DOMESTICALLY.
The right doesn't deal in individual protest, or protesting civil rights abuses or workers abuses, or criminal corporations stealing america from us. They set up video cams and spy satellites and take away habeous corpus, and label americans as traitors and terrrrrrsts.
Plenty of killing and stepping on necks, not a lot of pies.
Wake up Chiang posted 04/24/2008 at 12:21:21
The right doesn't deal in individual protest, or protesting civil rights abuses or workers abuses, or criminal corporations stealing america from us. They set up video cams and spy satellites and take away habeous corpus, and label americans as traitors and terrrrrrsts.
Plenty of killing and stepping on necks, not a lot of pies.
Wake up Chiang posted 04/24/2008 at 12:21:21
He has been a relentless pusher for the war and for FreeTrade (not free) agreements. He lives in an ivory tower and is married to one of the wealthiest families in america. Like most people with money, his progressive ideals have all peeled away. posted 04/24/2008 at 12:14:44
Absolutely. The right MURDERS people. Their enemy's PLANES go down. They assasinate MLK, JFK, RFK. Wellstone? Or you get police-stated.....siegelmann and spitzer etc.... or TheCheney gets you arrested if he doesn't like your t-shirt, square miles of space are cordoned off from any dissenters, crowds are thoroughly checked and frisked and told to shut-up and clap at all of TheCheney's speeches, or Booosch's rallies.
And the main populace of rightwingers....not the party and corporate leaders.....but the warped voters don't really have the cajones. Because they are just rank and filers. They don't have bodyguards. They don't have KKKarl Rove and the Justice Dept. behind them. But they will act in mobs while they beat on peaceful protestors or park car bombs or sniper PlannedParenthood doctors. posted 04/24/2008 at 12:13:07
And the main populace of rightwingers....not the party and corporate leaders.....but the warped voters don't really have the cajones. Because they are just rank and filers. They don't have bodyguards. They don't have KKKarl Rove and the Justice Dept. behind them. But they will act in mobs while they beat on peaceful protestors or park car bombs or sniper PlannedParenthood doctors. posted 04/24/2008 at 12:13:07
Thomas Friedman Gets A Pie In The Face During Speech At Brown
Awesome. I'd do a Friedman Unit in the klink for the honor. What a chump. posted 04/23/2008 at 12:44:24
Hillary's New Inevitability
Yeah, Insightful...we have seen where the older, more experienced voters have got us to. I will take the young and inexperienced ANY DAY over what the older block of voters have done, year in and year out.
I will take young and energetic and optimistic EVERY TIME over old and fatigued and wrong and scared. posted 04/23/2008 at 12:40:11
I will take young and energetic and optimistic EVERY TIME over old and fatigued and wrong and scared. posted 04/23/2008 at 12:40:11
Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
My opinion of Pennsylvanians just went down. Last spring I crossed that fine state from end to end but only looked. Now we know what festers underneath the pretty treetops.
BHO could have been warchest-ing all this money of ours. HRC is basically a corporate being. Now, she is broke and wants to wring the last drops from her public....since most of her corp. donors have dried up and maxed out. Internet and private donations are her only hope.
If BHO will change the way politics is paid for, then I can live with his spending habits for the present....but I hate to see him spending so much of OUR donated money. His base of avg. american donors is much larger and not tapped out. His cashonhand is much better and could be saved for the general, right?
That's the big point.
HRC is going to, at best, limp into the nomination broke and having embittered 60-70% of the democrats in the nation and possibly stolen the nomination and break the party. Then she is going to want our donations to go up against a well funded McCorporate?
Will she go LieberStyle if Obama secures the Nom? If she steals the nom, should he go GreenParty? What happens, which is quite likely, if HRC loses nom and goes LieberSchlumming? It is obvious the Clintons are doing this all on One Premise....convincing pledged delegates to defect and overturn the popular vote and delegate lead. posted 04/23/2008 at 10:41:59
BHO could have been warchest-ing all this money of ours. HRC is basically a corporate being. Now, she is broke and wants to wring the last drops from her public....since most of her corp. donors have dried up and maxed out. Internet and private donations are her only hope.
If BHO will change the way politics is paid for, then I can live with his spending habits for the present....but I hate to see him spending so much of OUR donated money. His base of avg. american donors is much larger and not tapped out. His cashonhand is much better and could be saved for the general, right?
That's the big point.
HRC is going to, at best, limp into the nomination broke and having embittered 60-70% of the democrats in the nation and possibly stolen the nomination and break the party. Then she is going to want our donations to go up against a well funded McCorporate?
Will she go LieberStyle if Obama secures the Nom? If she steals the nom, should he go GreenParty? What happens, which is quite likely, if HRC loses nom and goes LieberSchlumming? It is obvious the Clintons are doing this all on One Premise....convincing pledged delegates to defect and overturn the popular vote and delegate lead. posted 04/23/2008 at 10:41:59
Pennsylvania Primary: Liveblogging the Results
Yeah, what are the ramifications if she stays in as a Lieberschlump?
How does the electorate break down in a threeway? posted 04/22/2008 at 20:31:45
How does the electorate break down in a threeway? posted 04/22/2008 at 20:31:45
Thoughts on Pennsylvania, Clinton and Obama from a "Realisticrat"
So, Mr Ostoy, you voted for Reagan twice, Boosch I, Clinton twice, BooschII twice?
You don't vote to keep something from happening, you vote to make something happen. posted 04/22/2008 at 17:12:55
You don't vote to keep something from happening, you vote to make something happen. posted 04/22/2008 at 17:12:55
On Course For Another White Guy Election
Didn't Harry Truman say the HEAT KITCHEN remark when his ratings were in the tank and all of america was hating on him? Does HRC foresee the same dynamic for her?
Truman wasn't talking about an intra-party primary, was he? Where the worst HEAT is delivered by someone who presumably was of the same party? Get real Mrs Clinton. I think america is tired of what you have to offer. Try being a Senator or something instead.
Barack only seems vulnerable because his own party-mate is throwing everything against the wall hoping that something will stick. Even if it doesn't stick, maybe it will leave a mark. We wouldn't admire that coming from the republicans, there is no reason on earth to admire it coming from HRC. posted 04/22/2008 at 13:41:18
Truman wasn't talking about an intra-party primary, was he? Where the worst HEAT is delivered by someone who presumably was of the same party? Get real Mrs Clinton. I think america is tired of what you have to offer. Try being a Senator or something instead.
Barack only seems vulnerable because his own party-mate is throwing everything against the wall hoping that something will stick. Even if it doesn't stick, maybe it will leave a mark. We wouldn't admire that coming from the republicans, there is no reason on earth to admire it coming from HRC. posted 04/22/2008 at 13:41:18
Ephronology
HRC Camp: Whine Whine Whine
time passes....
HRC Camp: Whine Whine Whine
time passes
HRC Camp: Quit Whining.
HRC Camp: Kitchen Sink Heat Get Out!
HRC Camp: (sounding like a parrot) Farrakhan
HRC Camp Quit Whining
time passes
HRC Camp: Whine Whine Whine
HRC Camp: Whine Quit Whining Whine
HRC Camp: (sounding like a parrot) Reverend Wright!
WJC: I Did Not Play The Race Card On That Boy! posted 04/22/2008 at 16:18:54
time passes....
HRC Camp: Whine Whine Whine
time passes
HRC Camp: Quit Whining.
HRC Camp: Kitchen Sink Heat Get Out!
HRC Camp: (sounding like a parrot) Farrakhan
HRC Camp Quit Whining
time passes
HRC Camp: Whine Whine Whine
HRC Camp: Whine Quit Whining Whine
HRC Camp: (sounding like a parrot) Reverend Wright!
WJC: I Did Not Play The Race Card On That Boy! posted 04/22/2008 at 16:18:54
Bill Clinton: Obama "Played The Race Card On Me"... Listen To Audio
If she can't control her husband, how is she going to handle the repub slime machine? posted 04/22/2008 at 09:44:17
The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible
Bocababs and Arianna -
Can't people see what is really going on? It is CORPORATE MEDIA, not MSM.
Corporations who own our media, including multinational arms-dealers, do not want any ripples. No stories about corporate malfeasance are allowed. Huge Multinationals own our media, and they get a vast amount of their income from the rest of the CORPORATE herd.
So the main thing to know about the media is NOT the ratings, or the fact that the media wants to see some really entertaining democratic meltdowns.
The point is they want the republican to win, and if they can't get that, HRC will do quite nicely.
It is about keeping the corporate stranglehold in place. It is about keeping the status quo going, where the corporations are mining our population and buying our government away from US.
Please stop introducing mystery and personalities into this topic. Please stop thinking the Corporate Media has some other motive or agenda. It is just plain corporatocracy protecting itself. They are not just gleeful to see the dems in disarray for the chuckles it gives them. posted 04/22/2008 at 09:25:22
Can't people see what is really going on? It is CORPORATE MEDIA, not MSM.
Corporations who own our media, including multinational arms-dealers, do not want any ripples. No stories about corporate malfeasance are allowed. Huge Multinationals own our media, and they get a vast amount of their income from the rest of the CORPORATE herd.
So the main thing to know about the media is NOT the ratings, or the fact that the media wants to see some really entertaining democratic meltdowns.
The point is they want the republican to win, and if they can't get that, HRC will do quite nicely.
It is about keeping the corporate stranglehold in place. It is about keeping the status quo going, where the corporations are mining our population and buying our government away from US.
Please stop introducing mystery and personalities into this topic. Please stop thinking the Corporate Media has some other motive or agenda. It is just plain corporatocracy protecting itself. They are not just gleeful to see the dems in disarray for the chuckles it gives them. posted 04/22/2008 at 09:25:22
Some Last-Minute Obama Thoughts, After Canvasing in PA
Wayne, you should say that thru the lens of the Corporate Media, Kerry was as boring as .....
We all saw the corporate hitjob that was the PA debate. Corporations are very willing to accept HRC or McSame as the new prez, but they are doing all they can to make sure BHO gets stylized the way THEY want him to look. They are packaging and presenting BHO as much as possible....so you don't go do something stupid like forming your own opinion from what the man actually says and stands for. posted 04/21/2008 at 14:24:16
We all saw the corporate hitjob that was the PA debate. Corporations are very willing to accept HRC or McSame as the new prez, but they are doing all they can to make sure BHO gets stylized the way THEY want him to look. They are packaging and presenting BHO as much as possible....so you don't go do something stupid like forming your own opinion from what the man actually says and stands for. posted 04/21/2008 at 14:24:16
Michael Moore Endorses Obama, Calls Clinton Tactics "Disgusting"
Yes, his ideas are fine, the hypocrisy and lies he unearths are REAL, yet he personally bugs you. Off with his head! Let's elect McCain! posted 04/21/2008 at 14:03:19
Good, cuz we wouldn't want to move forward without YOUR endorsement, Paintingislife. posted 04/21/2008 at 13:58:05
That is just foolish. What change is HRC capable of, more of Boosch policies? More corporate ownership? More politics of slime? More triangulating and shipping off of american jobs? Selling our country by the slice?
If you say BHO cannot achieve his goals, what are you saying about HRC's goals? If they have the same goals, she cannot achieve it. Do you think McSame is gunning for the same changes?
My brother said, idiotically, back in 2000.....that all the stuff I claimed Boosch was going to do was impossible. He is only one man, and the presidency is weak, he said. Give him a chance, and don't worry about what one weak man in a weak office.....couldn't do as much harm as I feared. But we saw exactly the opposite. You need a new crystal ball, SouthernJack. posted 04/21/2008 at 13:54:51
If you say BHO cannot achieve his goals, what are you saying about HRC's goals? If they have the same goals, she cannot achieve it. Do you think McSame is gunning for the same changes?
My brother said, idiotically, back in 2000.....that all the stuff I claimed Boosch was going to do was impossible. He is only one man, and the presidency is weak, he said. Give him a chance, and don't worry about what one weak man in a weak office.....couldn't do as much harm as I feared. But we saw exactly the opposite. You need a new crystal ball, SouthernJack. posted 04/21/2008 at 13:54:51
Debate Analysis: ABC Asked Most Scandal Questions, Obama Was Clear Target
Well, lots of americans do use religion as a crutch. And I am no marxist. And I don;t need no religion to lean on. posted 04/21/2008 at 20:00:23
The Corporate Media is in complete control of the LENS we all get to peep at america. Mostly it is full of vacuous crap meant to keep you perpetually upset with your look, your bod, your vibe, make sure you are well lodged into the HERD, and to get you salivating for a delicious burger or a Run For The Border.
But on the news and politics front, the corporate media is basically there to dictate the agenda and the discussion. They have for almost 30 years, relentlessly buried stories of corporate malfeasance. And they push for political candidates who will do the Corporate bidding. The latest debate was just a continuing of the HighTech Lynching that is prepared for Obama. We have blown up their model, however, by SUCH a groundswell of support and voting....that they cannot totally bury him like all the other progressives in prior elections.
Here is your corporate world for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/video-pentagon-pundit-sca_b_97799.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
www.theyrule.net - you have to check this out. posted 04/21/2008 at 16:38:24
But on the news and politics front, the corporate media is basically there to dictate the agenda and the discussion. They have for almost 30 years, relentlessly buried stories of corporate malfeasance. And they push for political candidates who will do the Corporate bidding. The latest debate was just a continuing of the HighTech Lynching that is prepared for Obama. We have blown up their model, however, by SUCH a groundswell of support and voting....that they cannot totally bury him like all the other progressives in prior elections.
Here is your corporate world for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/video-pentagon-pundit-sca_b_97799.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
www.theyrule.net - you have to check this out. posted 04/21/2008 at 16:38:24
Jessie Ventura said the exact same thing. So, Obama is a Venturist to answer your obviously cheap question.
Or you can go tell Ventura he is a marxist, see where that gets you. posted 04/21/2008 at 16:31:38
Or you can go tell Ventura he is a marxist, see where that gets you. posted 04/21/2008 at 16:31:38
A Magical Night Out With Neil Patrick Harris
If it had been called Ralphie Warren, M.D.
he prob. wouldn't be upset at all about it.
But over the years, the name must just sound horrible to his ears, it's such a cornyand awful name
Doogie Howser. posted 04/20/2008 at 09:41:55
he prob. wouldn't be upset at all about it.
But over the years, the name must just sound horrible to his ears, it's such a cornyand awful name
Doogie Howser. posted 04/20/2008 at 09:41:55
Obama's Ayers Issue
OK Mr Ridley,
Fair is Fair. Since it is obviously HRC's job to point out what the Republicans are going to slime him with (a tacit admission that BHO is going to take the nomination)
Then it is only fair we trot out everything we can think of that the RepubSlimeMachine might use against HRC.
"crazy bitch"
"socialist"
"runaway husband"
"blow job"
"vince foster"
"anything Dick Morris has said in the last 15 years"
"hysterical woman with her finger on the button"
"unelectable"
"corrupt corporatist"
"she's gonna cry right in front Putin"
"doesn't have the cajones"
anything else I missed?
So see, Mr Ridley, it is NOT the job for a Dem to become a republican, and to throw all the same spew they do, and it is especially NOT OK for dems doing it to dems. And this has ALL been coming from HRC.BHO did not start a single shitstorm on this campaign. posted 04/18/2008 at 23:08:54
Fair is Fair. Since it is obviously HRC's job to point out what the Republicans are going to slime him with (a tacit admission that BHO is going to take the nomination)
Then it is only fair we trot out everything we can think of that the RepubSlimeMachine might use against HRC.
"crazy bitch"
"socialist"
"runaway husband"
"blow job"
"vince foster"
"anything Dick Morris has said in the last 15 years"
"hysterical woman with her finger on the button"
"unelectable"
"corrupt corporatist"
"she's gonna cry right in front Putin"
"doesn't have the cajones"
anything else I missed?
So see, Mr Ridley, it is NOT the job for a Dem to become a republican, and to throw all the same spew they do, and it is especially NOT OK for dems doing it to dems. And this has ALL been coming from HRC.BHO did not start a single shitstorm on this campaign. posted 04/18/2008 at 23:08:54
Same Old, Same Old ABC
1988 was just when they kicked down the remaining legal barriers. Corporate abuse of the airwaves was going on in every form before then, it just wasn't as easy.
Ms Levy mentions many times about the networks duty to civic service and news because of their use of OUR airwaves. Most people are unaware that the airwaves are PUBLIC, and were basically given free to the networks instead of being kept in OUR purview. Of course, the networks see the airwaves now as THEIRS and treat it like a legal monopoly....oh, and by the way, they use it to ruin our public discourse, sell wars, brainwash the populace, and convince you that you are fat or should take their pills.
Same is now happening with the internet. Corporations are very good at taking EVERYTHING away from the public. Including your health, health coverage, pensions, medicare, soc. security, investments, public lands, natural resources, etc.
Wake up folks.
And stop calling it MSM everyone. It is Corporate Media. posted 04/22/2008 at 13:04:50
Ms Levy mentions many times about the networks duty to civic service and news because of their use of OUR airwaves. Most people are unaware that the airwaves are PUBLIC, and were basically given free to the networks instead of being kept in OUR purview. Of course, the networks see the airwaves now as THEIRS and treat it like a legal monopoly....oh, and by the way, they use it to ruin our public discourse, sell wars, brainwash the populace, and convince you that you are fat or should take their pills.
Same is now happening with the internet. Corporations are very good at taking EVERYTHING away from the public. Including your health, health coverage, pensions, medicare, soc. security, investments, public lands, natural resources, etc.
Wake up folks.
And stop calling it MSM everyone. It is Corporate Media. posted 04/22/2008 at 13:04:50
George Stephanopoulos Defends ABC Debate Peformance
George S is an old Clintonite. Should've recused himself on that alone.
There is no doubt, Clinton has the media edge. She doesn't co-own the media the way the rightwingers do....but she is such a rightwinger herself that it hardly matters. Throw in the fact that they are heavy on spinmeisters and media manipulators. They know how to pull the levers - as much as someone can who isn't an insider, like the corporo republicans. Clinton's have a lot of operatives around. Lots of govt. types who owe their career (in some part) to the clintons. They have a lot of former employess that have media jobs. They hire rightwing smear merchants and PR peddlers. They spend a lot of time, money, and effort. It shows. It can't always hide all of her flaws and rightwingery, but it does a great job of manipulating the debate, changing the spin, keeping her candidacy somehow viable in the media lens.
BHO had little media crap thrown at him because he is pretty clean. Esp. compared to clinton. One look at her taxes or her donor list would fill up 3 months of media attention. Claims that he got a free ride are ridiculous in light of what the clintons have to investigate. posted 04/17/2008 at 15:43:38
There is no doubt, Clinton has the media edge. She doesn't co-own the media the way the rightwingers do....but she is such a rightwinger herself that it hardly matters. Throw in the fact that they are heavy on spinmeisters and media manipulators. They know how to pull the levers - as much as someone can who isn't an insider, like the corporo republicans. Clinton's have a lot of operatives around. Lots of govt. types who owe their career (in some part) to the clintons. They have a lot of former employess that have media jobs. They hire rightwing smear merchants and PR peddlers. They spend a lot of time, money, and effort. It shows. It can't always hide all of her flaws and rightwingery, but it does a great job of manipulating the debate, changing the spin, keeping her candidacy somehow viable in the media lens.
BHO had little media crap thrown at him because he is pretty clean. Esp. compared to clinton. One look at her taxes or her donor list would fill up 3 months of media attention. Claims that he got a free ride are ridiculous in light of what the clintons have to investigate. posted 04/17/2008 at 15:43:38
The Very Serious Debate, Starring The Very Serious George & Charlie
I'll say it again
It was a Network Broadcast High-Tech Lynching.
It was tailor-made to hammer on BHO and allow HRC to join in and hammer away.
Methinks the HRC machine has plenty of pals in the media, and they have been working the refs. posted 04/18/2008 at 13:14:36
It was a Network Broadcast High-Tech Lynching.
It was tailor-made to hammer on BHO and allow HRC to join in and hammer away.
Methinks the HRC machine has plenty of pals in the media, and they have been working the refs. posted 04/18/2008 at 13:14:36
Oh, when was that? HRC has had certain elements of the media on her since 1992. Those same elements will bash ANY dem. Just because she has been around so long, and has wavered from her principles and jumped into bed with most of her old enemies....that is why she has so many moles and political marriages. BHO has none of the baggage and none of the corporo-media partners that HRC has. That is why she can dictate the terms, that is why she seems so much in her element in a slime-party. That is why she has so many pals and plants and moles. If we let her, she will run the Rove playbook to the hilt. Yes, she is not as powerful as the rightwing when it comes to getting the media to do her dirtywork, but she is miles ahead of BHO on that score. If you believe anything else, you haven't been paying attention.
Uhhh...how many former WH and govt. apparatchiks has BHO got working for him? Now, how many has HRC got? posted 04/18/2008 at 11:53:20
Uhhh...how many former WH and govt. apparatchiks has BHO got working for him? Now, how many has HRC got? posted 04/18/2008 at 11:53:20
It was a Network Broadcast High-Tech Lynching.
It was tailor-made to hammer on BHO and allow HRC to join in and hammer away.
Methinks the HRC machine has plenty of pals in the media, and they have been working the refs. posted 04/18/2008 at 10:17:28
It was tailor-made to hammer on BHO and allow HRC to join in and hammer away.
Methinks the HRC machine has plenty of pals in the media, and they have been working the refs. posted 04/18/2008 at 10:17:28
Bob is right. Naomi Klein is right. Get this straight folks....The Corporate Media is now the same Beast as the Corporate Party. All the big defense contractors and huge multinational corporations that own/run our media are also the same big players who control the cash for the Republican Actors Guild. I mean, the corporo-puppets who masquerade as our Republican Politicians (and a lot of Corporo-Dems too).
The media isn't solely out for ratings. I wish people would stop saying that. The Corporate media is out to shape our conception/perception of the world. Their objective is to brainwash/fear you into buying the sponsors products, to hide stories that are detrimental to corporate interests, and to throw sensationalized stories at your eyes to keep you distracted.
Please stop saying things like "prez booosch is acting this way because he is a dry drunk." or " he is trying to avenge his father's legacy" and "the media just wants HeSaid SheSaid arguments and ratings". No, these people are after some very different objectives than that. And they never stop, never letup. And they have about 75% of our country in thrall, watching and nodding at the TV. posted 04/17/2008 at 14:39:03
The media isn't solely out for ratings. I wish people would stop saying that. The Corporate media is out to shape our conception/perception of the world. Their objective is to brainwash/fear you into buying the sponsors products, to hide stories that are detrimental to corporate interests, and to throw sensationalized stories at your eyes to keep you distracted.
Please stop saying things like "prez booosch is acting this way because he is a dry drunk." or " he is trying to avenge his father's legacy" and "the media just wants HeSaid SheSaid arguments and ratings". No, these people are after some very different objectives than that. And they never stop, never letup. And they have about 75% of our country in thrall, watching and nodding at the TV. posted 04/17/2008 at 14:39:03
Herschel Walker Says Personality Disorder Led To Playing Russian Roulette
I have a lotta love and respect for Herschel also. However, as a viking fan, I cannot recommend trading the whole team for him. posted 04/16/2008 at 10:44:28
Ex-CIA Analyst Outs Cheney
waSTEd is right. put that mobile force in a situation where our forces are basically helpless. None of their weaponsor tactics can be employed when we are doing grunt police work and civil-war tending.
wasted all our 100s of billions and 100s billions more. weapons given to groups that use them against us. money to buy more weapons. truckload after truckload stolen weapons or gone missing. Hmmmm. Who could it be?
Every bit of thisis wasted, even if TheCheney gets what he wants. Any oil we get from Irag and Iran is useless, it costs so much to produce it, militarily secure it, guard it, ship it here just so exxxon and halliburton can use it to gouge the american public. It won't create jobs or prosperity except for the ultrarich. TheCheney won't share the oil or the profits with us. THe oil will not save us, in fact the opposite.
Just wasted. posted 04/15/2008 at 18:12:19
wasted all our 100s of billions and 100s billions more. weapons given to groups that use them against us. money to buy more weapons. truckload after truckload stolen weapons or gone missing. Hmmmm. Who could it be?
Every bit of thisis wasted, even if TheCheney gets what he wants. Any oil we get from Irag and Iran is useless, it costs so much to produce it, militarily secure it, guard it, ship it here just so exxxon and halliburton can use it to gouge the american public. It won't create jobs or prosperity except for the ultrarich. TheCheney won't share the oil or the profits with us. THe oil will not save us, in fact the opposite.
Just wasted. posted 04/15/2008 at 18:12:19
The Real Feminist Thing To Do is Acknowledge Hillary's Failures as a Candidate and Move On
Yes, someone please, show me anything HRC has done for women in the last 8 years.
I liked her (for her just plain left viewpoint I assumed she had all these years), I even thought Bill might be a big plus. Then she went and carpet-bagged her Senate seat and sat waiting the whole 8 years for this. Never lifted a finger for women. Or anyone else except her lobbyist she was grooming for big cash. Her corporate ties and anti-people stance on issues ranks her as a non-progressive and non-liberal.....forget about the non-feminist part. If her healthcare plan leaves the Insurance industry intact - then it is pro-corporate. And there goes her only liberal-sounding issue. What's left? What has she done? At every critical juncture she has backed the Repubs, including this campaign.
Take it from me, I wanted to like her. She was the one big Dem name that I would've given a pass on being Rich. She did have a small claim to the throne, and was the one woman who could get there quick (without years of grooming and positioning.....mainly cuz HRC had already put in her time) But what time!? She spent none of it becoming our hero, standing up to booozxh as he rolled back all of our (especially women's) rights. posted 04/15/2008 at 19:23:12
I liked her (for her just plain left viewpoint I assumed she had all these years), I even thought Bill might be a big plus. Then she went and carpet-bagged her Senate seat and sat waiting the whole 8 years for this. Never lifted a finger for women. Or anyone else except her lobbyist she was grooming for big cash. Her corporate ties and anti-people stance on issues ranks her as a non-progressive and non-liberal.....forget about the non-feminist part. If her healthcare plan leaves the Insurance industry intact - then it is pro-corporate. And there goes her only liberal-sounding issue. What's left? What has she done? At every critical juncture she has backed the Repubs, including this campaign.
Take it from me, I wanted to like her. She was the one big Dem name that I would've given a pass on being Rich. She did have a small claim to the throne, and was the one woman who could get there quick (without years of grooming and positioning.....mainly cuz HRC had already put in her time) But what time!? She spent none of it becoming our hero, standing up to booozxh as he rolled back all of our (especially women's) rights. posted 04/15/2008 at 19:23:12
McCain More Conservative Than His Image
When are people going to get a grip. Any republican is interchangeable...they are corporate puppets. They always do exactly what their corporate masters tell them to do. They always behave EXACTLY alike. No matter where they come from, or what their personal ideas are, they do what the puppet masters tell them.
Now I know, that there is less and less of a difference between dems and repubs (edwards, kucinich, dodd, feingold, and obama being some senate mavericks) and even the dems usually do what their corporate masters tell them to do. But there is a difference....repubs do exactly as they are told. Dems usually fight, and chaffe, and writhe under the corporate crush. They fight, even if they lose to the corporate crush of money, media, and dirty tricks. At least some light gets shed on the process and we see the corporate power being put forth. In the last administration, not only was the repub a total shill and tool of the corporate, they were doing all kinds of nice favors for the corporate behind our back, in secret, off the record, installing moles, judges, fed workers, appointees in order to trample our rights and steal our money for the corporates.
Dems might cave and give in to the corporatists, but they at least in the past haven't been greasing the secret rails and doing wholesale sell-off of the american people at every level of govt.
All repubs today are interchangeable. posted 04/14/2008 at 13:32:14
Now I know, that there is less and less of a difference between dems and repubs (edwards, kucinich, dodd, feingold, and obama being some senate mavericks) and even the dems usually do what their corporate masters tell them to do. But there is a difference....repubs do exactly as they are told. Dems usually fight, and chaffe, and writhe under the corporate crush. They fight, even if they lose to the corporate crush of money, media, and dirty tricks. At least some light gets shed on the process and we see the corporate power being put forth. In the last administration, not only was the repub a total shill and tool of the corporate, they were doing all kinds of nice favors for the corporate behind our back, in secret, off the record, installing moles, judges, fed workers, appointees in order to trample our rights and steal our money for the corporates.
Dems might cave and give in to the corporatists, but they at least in the past haven't been greasing the secret rails and doing wholesale sell-off of the american people at every level of govt.
All repubs today are interchangeable. posted 04/14/2008 at 13:32:14
The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
Mr Lauria has put this in very concise, easy to understand language. And the point he is making is not about peak oil, or how we americans are going to live or die by it....he is saying the powerbrokers and corporate juggernauts think this way. And actually, who cares what the hell we people think or want, it is not OUR WILL which is being played out here. It is the will of TheCheney and the Corporatists. So what if they are wrong, deluded, powermad, greedy.....they get what they want because they own and run our government, for themselves. At the moment, we have had almost 1/3 or our total wealth vacuumed out of the country and into the pockets of former americans/global corporatists and their foreign friends. As they tighten their grip on our country and lawmaking, they are only finalizing their plans to drain it ALL. They will just be able to wring the last dregs out of us quicker and with less scrutiny at the current pace of change. It took them nearly 50 years to manage the initial stages. posted 04/14/2008 at 10:15:53
Mr. Lauria has said that we do not need to care about that oil. That if we sunk the money wasted on the Iraqel Debacle into alternative energy that we would be decades ahead. Weren't you reading? posted 04/14/2008 at 10:11:21
They may decide the new war is TOO HOT, so they have to stay in power and cancel christmas (the elections). posted 04/14/2008 at 10:10:08
Secret Iraqi Arms Deal With Serbia Exposes Corruption, Inefficiency
well into our trillions.....not just 100s of billions....trillions
money from our taxes to buy sand that just slips thru our fingers. Weapons disappear. We pay tribes that later attack us. Even the oil we may eventually win out of the region will only go to GUT us more, spoil the planet. IF TheCheney and his ilk get the oil, do you think they will share with us? The Oil? THe profits? Even tho they used our money and our boys to get it?
If it weren't so tragic, it would be the biggest joke ever perpetrated on a people. The whole thing appears to be the most perfectly planned way to piss away americans money into Halliburton and Blakkwater pockets, and the rest just disappears and is unaccounted for. Oops! posted 04/13/2008 at 15:01:18
money from our taxes to buy sand that just slips thru our fingers. Weapons disappear. We pay tribes that later attack us. Even the oil we may eventually win out of the region will only go to GUT us more, spoil the planet. IF TheCheney and his ilk get the oil, do you think they will share with us? The Oil? THe profits? Even tho they used our money and our boys to get it?
If it weren't so tragic, it would be the biggest joke ever perpetrated on a people. The whole thing appears to be the most perfectly planned way to piss away americans money into Halliburton and Blakkwater pockets, and the rest just disappears and is unaccounted for. Oops! posted 04/13/2008 at 15:01:18
George Bush: I Was Aware Of Harsh Tactics Meetings
It makes me think they know something we don't. Either a vague idea (to us) about how untouchable top corporofascists are, or a definite idea that they have covered their butts with YooPaper andare very comfy feeling with the cowards in Congress and thelong trackrecord of letting the biggest criminals run wild. posted 04/11/2008 at 20:18:21
The Swill from Bill
I agree that HRC comes with a lot of distraction. The unfortunate truth is ANY democrat is going to be eviscerated by Corporate press, constantly. Maybe they can blunt it by being in the media pockets (llike HRC being good friends with Murdoch and Scaife).
See, the CorporoRepubs are not in the media pockets, the media is in THEIR pockets. So the media goes light on their corporate brethren. And they always go hard on the libs. The clintons were beat down by it, they finally figured if they can't beat em, join em.
Just contrast....the clintons in the 90s couldn't go to the bathroom without the press hounding their every move and second guessing their every decision. DerChimp's administration....they suspend habeous corpus and start an illegal war, torture, and spy on all americans and the media says "what?! really? someone should look into that" posted 04/11/2008 at 21:40:40
See, the CorporoRepubs are not in the media pockets, the media is in THEIR pockets. So the media goes light on their corporate brethren. And they always go hard on the libs. The clintons were beat down by it, they finally figured if they can't beat em, join em.
Just contrast....the clintons in the 90s couldn't go to the bathroom without the press hounding their every move and second guessing their every decision. DerChimp's administration....they suspend habeous corpus and start an illegal war, torture, and spy on all americans and the media says "what?! really? someone should look into that" posted 04/11/2008 at 21:40:40
Eight-Hundred-Year-Old Jong Responds to Callow Youth Taibbi
And attacked him as a young, no account, boy-wonder. How would Jong like being called an old whore, or hag, or harpie or witch or old lady? Did Taibbi attack HER femininity or use sexual reference in his arguments with Ms. Jong?
I am very interested in what anyone has to say, Ms Jong as well. I like her past writings.
But her sexism tends to overwhelm her points.
We get it Erica. You hate men. Stick to the topic at hand. posted 04/11/2008 at 15:22:56
I am very interested in what anyone has to say, Ms Jong as well. I like her past writings.
But her sexism tends to overwhelm her points.
We get it Erica. You hate men. Stick to the topic at hand. posted 04/11/2008 at 15:22:56
Hang in There Tavis Smiley, Don't let the Black Obama Thought Police Run You Out
Anyone who says they will vote for HRC is making it clear that they are not voting for a progressive. They are making it clear that they will vote for a political opportunist. A corporatist. Someone who really has no agenda except what is expedient and what will get her into the whitehouse.
That is why it is a kiss of death, not because people are haters or HRC haters, or hate anyone with an open mind. People are absolutely DESPERATE not to get another corporatist in office.
Look what the corporate media does.
Look what corporate medicine does
Look what corporate pharmaceuticals do
Look what corporate finance is doing.
Look what corporate warmongers and war profiteers are doing.
Look what corporate supreme court is doing.
Look what corporate state supreme courts are doing.
Look what corporate mining and forestry is doing
Look what corporate energy (oil, coal, ethanol) is doing.
That is why people are up in arms if you back HRC. You are begging for this unholy massacre of the middle class and poor to keep going.
Quit acting so sanctimonious and open minded Mr Hutchinson. There is a right and wrong candidate here. To think HRC will overcome her corporatism once in office is to deny the history of the thing. Corporate america seduces, bribes, cajoles, blackmails until the desired outcome is reached. HRC is NO BARRIER to them. BHO, so far, is. He has a much better chance of standing up to them in office. posted 04/11/2008 at 13:36:34
That is why it is a kiss of death, not because people are haters or HRC haters, or hate anyone with an open mind. People are absolutely DESPERATE not to get another corporatist in office.
Look what the corporate media does.
Look what corporate medicine does
Look what corporate pharmaceuticals do
Look what corporate finance is doing.
Look what corporate warmongers and war profiteers are doing.
Look what corporate supreme court is doing.
Look what corporate state supreme courts are doing.
Look what corporate mining and forestry is doing
Look what corporate energy (oil, coal, ethanol) is doing.
That is why people are up in arms if you back HRC. You are begging for this unholy massacre of the middle class and poor to keep going.
Quit acting so sanctimonious and open minded Mr Hutchinson. There is a right and wrong candidate here. To think HRC will overcome her corporatism once in office is to deny the history of the thing. Corporate america seduces, bribes, cajoles, blackmails until the desired outcome is reached. HRC is NO BARRIER to them. BHO, so far, is. He has a much better chance of standing up to them in office. posted 04/11/2008 at 13:36:34
Why A Woman In The White House?
screw her personality or character flaws, how about her political flaws? Her allegiances, her alliances, her voting record, lack of accomplishments, totally inbed with corporations and huge money. posted 04/11/2008 at 15:10:02
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My favorite example, and maybe how this all started was Reagan with his "there you go again".
I don't even remember who it was....Mondale?
But when the sonorous, well-reasoned Dem talked and talked
The republican comes up with some kind of demeaning, Better Dead Than Red, For It Before He Was Against it, etc.
It's as if, we as a country stand around like a huge Roman Coliseum and we are suggested things to chant.....we always choose the easy, demeaning, irrational Republican Chant. "You Suck You TreeHugging Fuck" always seems to beat out "We Cannot Sustain Ourselves Any Longer By Wanton Waste Of The Natural World"
Lefties know this. Every time on Every Issue, we try to convince a largely irrational nation to behave rationally. We know the Uphill Struggles, Underdog Status, and that stupidity and gluttony and greed are much much stronger than reason and rationale and moderation.
Lefties know that you can get an audience to the point of realizing that Math Works, Science Works...and that we live in a closed system and we are killing it.....and one person can yell that "you live in a house made from dead trees and you drive a car so everything you say is a lie you treehugging fuck" and the audience just dissolves.
Mountains of facts leveled by some cowboy hollywood line. posted 05/18/2008 at 08:12:41