March 15th, 2007
This is an important point at the center of the brouhaha over the republican partisan nature of Faux News:
[T]he money people are noticing the animosity against Fox News, and realizing that the Fox News brand isn’t necessarily something their clients should want to be associated with.
The corporate world is cautious about politics, and they don’t like to get in the middle of political spats. They prefer their politics quiet and out of site. It’s probably just better for them to put their ads on CNN and MSNBC, and leave Fox News for the penis pills and the like.
March 3rd, 2007
"Bless your heart." I love hearing the phrase… here’s how the Urban Dictionary defines it:
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1: phrase used by Southern women to excuse themselves for speaking ill of someone else.
2: an expression of sympathy or pity.
3: a polite way to respond to an ignoramus, particularly male, who showers upon you flattering but unwanted compliments.
1: "She’s as ugly as a mud-fence, bless her heart."
2: "Well, bless your heart, that must have been terrible!"
3: drunk fella: "I think you’re beautiful! Even if you were ugly, I’d STILL think you were beautiful!"
recipient: "…bless your heart."
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A polite way to say "go to hell"
a: *gives the finger*
b: Bless your heart!
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I specially love hearing the phrase when delivered to conservative blowhards. Here’s Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright delivering a much deserved "Bless your heart" to über-conservative Sean Hannity of Faux News:
Video courtesy of Crooks and Liars.
February 22nd, 2007
There’s been a lot of discussion lately in grassroots blogs about how politically tone deaf some in the establishment Democratic party seem to be about the Republican Noise Machine, and its main TV propaganda arm: Fox News.
Even after Faux News has gone after Democratic party candidates in the past, the Nevada Democratic party has made a deal with Faux News to carry one of the early nomination debates. And more recently Faux News has gone after Sen Obama, a leading presidential candidate, Robert Greenwald has more:
Earlier this week it was announced that FOX would host a Presidential Primary debate for the Democratic Party of Nevada. This farce must be stopped. FOX cannot be allowed to pretend for one day they are a news organization.
If you are thinking, ‘why bother? Who cares? No one believes or listens to what FOX says,’ I have two words for you — Swift Boat. Keeping the Swift Boaters alive was FOX’s main contribution to the 2004 elections. FOX’s bias does not just reach those who knowingly tune in to the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Other media become influenced by and pick up stories from FOX. Thus, the bias spreads like a cancer — destroying honest news coverage.
February 17th, 2007
Just another example in a long list of mainstream media bias against opposition to Bush’s Iraq war:
A Divided House Denounces Plan for More Troops
That’s the NY Times headline covering the recent Democratic Party resolution rebuking Bush’s Iraq war escalation. Here’s the bias, as others have commented:
That would be the New York Times editorializing in its news story about yesterday’s House vote on the Iraq escalation. It gets even more ridiculous in the lede:
A sharply divided House of Representatives passed a resolution on Friday formally repudiating President Bush’s decision to send more than 20,000 new combat troops to Iraq.
Never mind that there were 17 Republicans voting against their own President and with the Democrats. On any other vote that would have been called "bipartisan."
January 27th, 2007
Great catch by Crooks and Liars:
Look at this Yahoo headline of a Reuters story:
Bomb kills 15, Bush critic Pelosi visits Baghdad
"Bush critic"? That’s the best descriptive Yahoo can think of to give Pelosi?
Not "Speaker of the House" Pelosi? Not "Third in Line for the Presidency" Pelosi?
Not even "California Congresswoman" Pelosi?
But, yes, all you lurking Freepers, keep crying that the media is liberal.
Tell you what, when Yahoo News refers to Bush as "Constitution Ignorer" George W. Bush or "Human Rights Violator" George W. Bush, you might just have a point.
