Archive for November, 2008
Much To Be Proud Of
Apparently, in the time of Bush, you can be a government spokesman only if you define your job as the judicious recitation of fiction. Here’s State Department spokesman Sean McCormack with a practical demonstration: I would put the record of this administration up against any American administration or any other government around the world in [...]
Whipped Cream Bikini
Varsity Blues was on TNT last night, (New Classic?) and I can’t be the only one to notice that Miss Davis, the sex ed teacher who moonlights as a stripper, bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain recent candidate for federal office… Pr0n Secretary, indeed. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with [...]
The National Media: Telling It Like It Ain’t
The garbage that leading media organizations put out in the guise of news these days is downright depressing. And what is striking is how many of these organizations, and how many so-called journalists, will faithfully trumpet the right wing’s stupidest and most pathetic talking points. AP‘s Kevin Freking provides a perfect example: President-elect Barack Obama [...]
Swimming Upstream
It takes brass balls to write an uncritical, borderline hagiographic story on Hank Paulson given all we know today. That clanging sound is just David Cho walking down the hall to collect his Pulitzer or whatever the prize is called when you get everything exactly wrong: During his 28 months at the Treasury, Paulson has [...]
To The Rescue
It’s interesting to see who’s leading the fight against the Somali pirates who have been all over the news in recent weeks: An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate “mother ship” in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said Wednesday, as separate bands of brigands seized Thai [...]
The Best Political Team On Television
That would be the CNN-White House team. Not the people who cover the White House for CNN. But the following-in-the-footsteps-of-Fox-News alliance of CNN and the White House. The lovely informal off-the-record arrangement by which CNN slants the news in favor of the Bush White House. CNN aired a story this afternoon reporting that human rights [...]
Dean Baker on Hank Paulson
Precisely: In short, we have one of the chief arsonists telling us about his heroic efforts to combat the huge fire he faced. I’ve been documenting Paulson’s antics for almost two years now. This isn’t a game of “gotcha” based on one unfortunate quote or action. He’s simply been wrong about everything, all the time. [...]
Loving Lieberman
So it looks like Senate Democrats are poised to rap that pathetic and odious little fake Democrat from Connecticut as gently as possible on the knuckles with the softest feather-duster they were able to conjure up: When Senate Democrats meet Tuesday to decide Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (ID-Conn.) fate, leaders are expected to propose that he [...]
United Parcel Ostriches
UPS won’t give annual peak shipping day projection – AP (11/16/08): Weak October retail sales and the uncertainty of the upcoming holiday season amid the worst financial crisis to hit the U.S. in decades has prompted shipping giant UPS Inc. to decide not to release a projection for the amount of packages it expects to [...]
Barrier to Entry
This week the SF Chronicle is marking the anniversary of the “10 Days that Shook SF,” the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the Jonestown Massacre. As part of their coverage, my new Congresswoman Jackie Speier tells her horrifying story: I was curled up behind the wheel of an airplane on [...]