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Court TV?
Posted: 14th March 2010 by admin in UncategorizedTags: Citizens United, Fox, Supreme Court
The current Supreme Court is a bit of an ideological abomination. Little makes that clearer than the recent decision in Citizens United.
However, now the NY Times has weighed in, backing popular opinion that the S Ct’s proceedings should be televised:
They would also allow voters to hold presidents accountable for the quality of justices they nominate.
Prompting [...]
The Observation that Was too Scathing for Maureen Dowd to Handle
Posted: 10th February 2010 by admin in Big Brother, Constitution, Famous People, Media, UncategorizedTags: Citizens United, Citizens United v FEC, Citizens United V. Federal Election Comission, Constitution, entertainment, Maureen Dowd, NY Times, President Obama, teleprompter
This humble, and somewhat obscure blog, if known, might not always be a favorite of Maureen Dowd’s. Here’s a very recent, but we think fair, example.
Today, Dowd wrote a column in the NY Times very space limited op ed pages, essentially saying that 3d movies are cool, or might be cool, or that people [...]
“When Democrats Attack,” according to the dictionary of far right wing blogging, is whenever they open their mouths, and say something that the far right wing does not like.
Obama makes a point about the Supreme Court. A good point, too, since it will be impossible to disentangle the pure nationality of many large [...]
Fox is Tops
Posted: 27th January 2010 by admin in UncategorizedTags: ACORN, conservatives, Fox, Mary Landrieu, mini watergate, most trusted, most trusted name in news, Pimp
Fox, most trusted name in news, largely because it’s ridiculously trusted by ideological conservatives.
It couldn’t possibly be because this heavily ideological “news” station, with the thinnest of obscuring veneers of “fair and balanced” over its persistent and cleverly veiled advocacy, tells some people what they want to hear (while convincing them of how fair and balanced they [...]
NY Times Maureen Dowd Indulges Freudianally, But Loves Stereotypes Even More
Posted: 27th January 2010 by admin in UncategorizedDowd seemingly loves stereotypes, hypocrisy, and playing right into the worse kind of media “false balance” creation. Here is an example where Dowd chastises Republican “caricatures” of Hillary Clinton (mean, and unfair ones, too) and then later engages in similar caricatures herself, in the exact same column:
Notice the irony:
The Alaskan [Palin] who shot to stardom a year [...]
Hmmm, Where Have We Heard this Before?
Posted: 20th January 2010 by admin in Congress, Political Communication, Political Strategy, UncategorizedTags: Boston Red Sox, Curt Schilling, democrats belittling opponents, Democrats taking voters for granted, disparaging, Jon Stewart, Martha Coakley, Mike Dukakis, NY Times, political commentator, Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan, in a NY Times column online:
Of course, Martha Coakley, the Democrat who lost in a state where only 13 percent of voters identified as Republicans, ran a campaign that should be a mandatory lesson for all her supporters in Cambridge.
Among other great sins, she belittled the retail politics of her opponent, who stood [...]
Speaking of the Donkeyness of the Democratic Party…
Posted: 19th January 2010 by admin in Uncategorized…as we just did in the previous post, one Democrat who is absolutely not a Donkey is Rep. Alay Grayson. Whether we agree (sometimes) or disagree (other times), Grayson takes control of the conversation, and frames as well as his political opponents do — something that can not be said for most Democrats.
Here is a [...]
That’s Exactly What We Wanted to Know
Posted: 18th January 2010 by admin in Climate Change, Environment, Science, UncategorizedTags: " "George Will, Antartica, Arctic, BBC, CH4, climate change skepticism, CO2, ice core, NASA, oceans, permafrost, rush limbaugh, volcanic aerosols
Wang, from Brussels, asks:
One final point: why does the “Green Room” never give space to articles from “global warming sceptics”? Where is the platform for these views on the BBC? The odd reader’s comment sneaked at the bottom of the usual “warmist” article is not enough. Wang, brussels, belgium
Exactly.
And another question [...]