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GravatarLately I've noticed at it is Lou Dobbs, of all people, who is giving the Bushies a hard time.


GravatarCNN International is considerably better than the American version.


GravatarAny entity with a shread of honesty will show criticism of Bush. Look at the change in the Economist.


GravatarOT but very important: al-quaeda terrorists not involved in iraq attacks on americans, says our military. they say a good number of US-trained iraqi police are, however ...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/...AP-Iraq.html? hp

And Bush wants to transfer control of Iraq to the Iraqi "police"? Sounds like an even worse disaster than what is already in place.


GravatarCould be that Headline News doesn't have the time to report the basic facts of the story, which are not kind to Tipsy. On CNN proper, they have lots and lots of time to fill...


Gravatarit's the opposite - headline reports the facts while the cnn "talent" endlessly spins..


GravatarIt is a little concerning when Dobbs and Buchanon start sounding like the voices of reason. Dobbs the other day looked like he was going to choke a guy that was saying the loss of jobs to India and China will balance out in the long run. He was reporting some bad news for Bush a few weeks ago and had that look O'Reilly had when he did his show on pigboy (solemn but about to break out laughing when camera feed cut).


GravatarAtrios - I've noticed a distinct change in the way the Dallas Morning News handles stories about Bush, Iraq and the Republican Congress. For instance, this morning, the Iraq trip was the lead story, but under the headline it said that some Iraqis were flattered while many were upset and angry that the president had been there.

I find it significant that the paper in a staunchly Republican city like Dallas has been including stories and editorials that slam Bush pretty hard.


Gravatarit's the opposite...

I'm sorry, that's what I meant - should have read "Headline News doesn't have time to report more than the basic facts..."

And I've had my coffee! (But no pie yet...)


GravatarI've also noticed that the gild fell off this lily awful darn quick... even on CNN.


GravatarYeah, when CNN becomes the voice of reason, y'know we're in bizarroland for sure.


GravatarAtrios: Sometimes your items are SO elliptical--there's not even a link in this one. Is this the headline your item refers to?

"November deadliest month yet for coalition in Iraq"

If so, I agree with you, pretty unfriendly fire for the Bushies, but I'm not sure that's the "CNN Headline" you meant. . .


GravatarOT, sort of, but I don't watch television, except maybe sports. I went over to Juan Cole's indispensible website and he links to another blogger who links to le Nouvel Obs and to the Reuters film of the Iraqi insurgents shooting down (damaging) the DHL Airbus 300. Has this been getting airplay? It's not long, and it's not gamorous, but it shows, to me, that the insurgents are operating with near impunity. These guys do not look worried--they even watch a Blackhawk patrol in the distance. They haul ass after the hit the Airbus, but then they film the damaged plane as it lands!


GravatarI think Headline News can be more critical because there is so much shit happening on the screen at the same time (text and picture boxs, two tickers) that the Wingnuts get confused. Remember they have a hard time dealing with complexity. They're probably too dizzied to notice the negative coverage. That or the abundance of information on the screen causes them to flip the station to avoid a meltdown.


GravatarCNN international may be better than our CNN but it's still crap. And they show lots of God-awful stuff like Larry King and Lou Dobbs. I recently spent a month aborad and it was a pleasure to watch BBC (or even NHK or Deutsche Welle or the Australians) rather than CNN.


GravatarGood morning, everyone. How you all doing?


GravatarLets face it.....the only news you can really trust is the "Nude News" on the Playboy Channel


GravatarIt's weird - MSNBC actually has the best *news* operation out of the three cable nets. It's just that the main coverage is so dominated by the interminable Fox-ripoffs (do we really need a four-hour Hardball special for every major political event, guest-starring Peggy Noonan and Larry Elder?) that the network becomes unwatchable.


GravatarDoes Jon Stewart count as news??


GravatarI have started the Buy nothing on Fridays movement.

The Buy nothing Friday movement will work this way.


You will tell your friends and family and colleagues who do not use the net, to avoid buying anything on Fridays. You and everyone you speak to will tell their merchants that we do not support the chimp and we're going on a purchasing strike on every Friday until the Nov 2004 election. You also tell them that you hope they will do everything they can to help vote the chimp out and their republican congresspeople out in 2004.

You will tell your friends, family and merchants If the chimp steals another election or somehow wins, you will also avoid purchasing items on Thursday and this will inflict more punishment on them for not doing enough to unseat the chimp in the 2004 election.



Petition: TELL CONGRESS WE WANT A PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT UNDER MEDICARE PART B

(put this link in a browser at work and at a public library and leave the page showing. Make it a


GravatarRight now Keith Olbermann's show on MSNBC is the best cable TV has to offer.


GravatarA little more OT, but...

From Copernicus up thread, the most pertinent line in the article:

Attackers killed two members of a Spanish intelligence team Saturday as it returned from a mission south of Baghdad, the Spanish Defense Ministry said. A journalist who drove by the scene said he saw four bodies in the road, a jubilant crowd kicking them.


Gravatarits refreshing to see a grunts eye view of our leadership...


Gravatartws - that was fucking priceless - thank you!


GravatarWhich one is more critical of Michael Jackson? CNN or Headline?


GravatarGood morning, everyone. How you all doing?

I'm doing great. You? I'm too lazy to go to your blog, so can I pre-emptively bash you here?

tws - one of your pictures showed the shattered WTC. How dare you use 9/11 for political aims? Only the GOP can do that.

Kinda on topic: Atrios, isn't your hed missing "News"?


GravatarRepublican Campaign Starting for Real.

Via Drudge and USAToday:

"A top counterterrorism official says al-Qaeda operatives dropped plans this year for several small attacks in the USA to focus on plotting a "more spectacular" assault comparable to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The U.S. counterterrorism official, who has access to all intelligence on the terrorist group, told USA TODAY this week that officials have no specific evidence to indicate how or when al-Qaeda might try to launch a massive strike on U.S. soil."

Get you duct tape out. Scaring people to the polls.


GravatarToday:

-Two American GIs were announced killed, one killed Thursday.
-Americans killed two girls gathering wood, one 12, the other 15, near Baquba. It's apparently big news in Iraq, where I doubt it will win us much goodwill (justifiably so)

But I didn't find one fucking mention of these two stories in the Post or Times? How can they be so callous? Only the story of the Spanish ambush makes to the front page.


GravatarThe Spanish story takes lead because somebody won the office pool of which "coalition" country would get hit next.

Of course, the winner has to buy beer for everybody after work.

Kinda like the Terrorism Futures Market.


GravatarGUFFAW!!!

Hey everyone!! The whiny losing liars and panders at the Weekly "Standard" are bitching and whining that there is some sort of "media conspiracy" to stifle their "intrepid" reporting of the fluffy and silly "Feith Memo Leak":

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Co...03/ 428gpkbi.asp

HAR!! HAAR!! There is a media conspiracy to bury the Weekly "Standard"!!! When they report on the neocon cabal's insistence on the near-occult Feith office "intelligence" proving a "link" between Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood!

HAR!! Pooooor rightards at the "Standard"!! Not even Mighty Murdoch the Prevaricator could help them overrule the Pentagon's own summary dismissal of ... the Pentagon's (Feith's) leak! It looks like voodoo intelligence cherry-picked by loons in the former Office of Special Plans no longer gets sensationalized. Pooooooor rightards lost their gratis PR megaphone in the media after Iraq was uh WRONGFULLY invaded,


GravatarAgreed with Rich upthread, BBC News is very good for breath and depth of reporting and analysis - I don't know CNN quite so well, but they do seem to be heading in a similar direction.

But why go abroad to get BBC? It is possible to get BBC World News on the BBC America channel (if anyone gets that on cable) or on PBS every so often.

Or, for those who prefer the humble wireless (or the happy, shiny digital radio over the Internet!) there is the BBC World Service at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice.


Gravatar...Is this the headline your item refers to?

"November deadliest month yet for coalition in Iraq" ...

Poin D | 11.29.03 - 12:30 pm | #


The initial headline in the index, "US Finds No Hard Evidence of al Qaeda in Iraq", was then changed to the above. (Hmmmm.) The one you quoted appeared on the inner page for the story, though.


GravatarTweety is still pushing the W-is-a-man-whom-the-average-guy-would-like-to- have-a-beer-with bullshit. I suppose if you're the type of person who enjoys eating Thanksgiving dinner at daybreak, you might still entertain that possibility.


GravatarPooooooor rightards lost their gratis PR megaphone in the media after Iraq was uh WRONGFULLY invaded, much to everyone's consternation.

That's the problem, I guess when you shoot your credibility in one of the most jaw-dropping BAD intelligence/war fiascos in the history of the entire nation, if not THE WORST such fiasco.

Look's like Mad William Kristol will have to sell his snake oil somewhere else for a while.

Altogether no: NO CREDIBILITY WHATSOEVER!!


GravatarThe most hysterical part of that silly WS article:

Whatever the reason, we're not surprised by bias among the mainstream media. And we rarely complain about it, since we take it for granted. But we do have a complaint about the Bush administration. The administration says, repeatedly, that "Iraq is the central front in the war on terror." They produce a memo for the Senate Intelligence Committee laying out the connections between Osama and Saddam. We obtain the memo, and make public those parts that don't endanger intelligence sources and methods. But now the administration--continuing a pattern of the last several months--shies away from an opportunity to substantiate its own case before the American people and the world.

Within 24 hours of the publication of Hayes's article, the Defense Department released a statement that seemed designed to distance it from the memo written by its third-ranking official, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith. The Pentagon stateme


GravatarYou hit the nail on the head, Barryus. Cons have a hard time handling one new thought at a time, much less 5 at a time. Hard to have new thoughts when one already assumes one knows everything.


GravatarThey seem to be in complete denial. "Rummy" is out of business in Iraq. The Office of Special Plans has been terminated. But they don't seem aware of what has happened to their credibility (that toilet-flushing sound you hear ...)


GravatarRight. Like, damn that Bush administration. It keeps missing that opportunity to substantiate its prewar claims about the danger of Iraq. It's been missing that opportunity since 9 April, darn it. What could be into those boys? They're just so careless.

For God's, sake, no one tell those saps at the Standard that Harvey Firestein was only pretending to be Mrs. Santa Claus in the Macy's parade, okay?


GravatarBrian C.B. - It's interesting that neither the Post nor the Times carried the story of the two girls who were killed by U.S. soldiers. I read it in the Dallas Morning News. WTF is going on? That doesn't make sense...


GravatarI'm lucky. I live within reception of CBC Radio, so I can have that and NPR whenever I want. The difference in coverage between the one, the other, and The Big Five is astonishing. (And the classical music on CBC-2 is the best for soothing my poor liberal soul.) Give a listen:

http://www.cbc.ca/audio.html


GravatarTena: I wonder about the veracity of the girls' story. I only found one mention (Reuters, I think) of the death of another American soldier in Mosul. (Juan Cole reports he was killed in the 101st Division Heaquarters by a mortar round. That sounds like the HQ is none too safe.) Reading the AFP site (in French) I discover that the reports are of seven dead Spaniards, and that there is a film of the bodies being kicked by Iraqi youth. Also, American troops shot a seven year old boy in the foot when they saw him carrying a Kalashnikov--I think he'll be okay.

Does this shit go on all the time unreported to those of us who are not news sponges?


GravatarBrian C.B. - you are obviously better informed than I am, since you've read more news about this. I haven't, so I have no idea.

But, since I'm tempted to speculate, I would venture to say that much more of that kind of thing has been happening than has been reported. I'm just somewhat agog that my conservative hometown paper has been steadily reporting bad news from Iraq, and bad news about the treatment of our military here in the U.S. It may have something to do with the fact that an awful lot of the soldiers deployed to Iraq have left from Texas bases.


GravatarOT, but absolutely hilarious.


http://www.extraugly.com/shirts/...rts/ frothy.html


Gravatari avoid any news channel to preserve sanity.


GravatarI haven't had cable in over a year. Can't afford it and the DSL, and I use the DSL much more, anyway. I find I don't really miss much, apart from the cartoons.

Plus, I admittedly had the unhealthy habit of watching the various cable news networks for hours at a time. My personal best was 12 hours straight when I was laid up with the flu. I really don't recommend doing that.

Back in September, my band was playing a little beer-and-burger joint here in Athens called Allen's, and there was a big screen TV showing a pre-season football game. I was entranced, as I do love football, and my brother - whom I'd recently moved in with - said "If we get cable, all you'll do is watch football and CNN, right?" I said, no...I'd watch MSNBC, too.

So, no cable for me...


GravatarIve noticed Lou Dobbs actually questioning Bush Policy. My guess is that now the networks are realizing a loss may be in the works and maybe they should stop with the propaganda or they fall into Fox cartoon network status.


Gravatar"There was a piece in the Wall Street Journal the other day about the difference between CNN and CNN International, two different networks owned by the same company. And they talked about the difference on that day, the day that the statue was pulled down. On CNN, all day we watched that statue pull down and went back up and pulled down again."

....

"On CNN International they also showed the statue pulled down but it was a split screen and on half the screen they showed the casualties of war and on the other half they showed the statue pull down. Now I'm not talking about the difference between CNN and Al Jazeera. I'm talking about the difference between CNN and CNN International. It means that that company knows exactly what it's doing."

Independent Media at a Time of War


Gravatarjohnx - that the story was in the WSJ is some of the best news I've had in awhile.


Gravatarpoin d brings up a good point, and i hate to nitpick, atrios, because you are doing a fabulous job, but...

your caption for this piece "cnn headline" is very confusing. it should read "cnn's headline news network," otherwise people (such as poin d and myself for a couple of minutes) will try to find the specific headline (or news caption) that cnn blared out to which you are referring.

when in fact you are referring to cnn's sister network, headline news network.

other than that, everything you do is perfect, and please keep doing more of it.

that being said, i find myself watching headline news for the actual news these days, at least at the top of the hour. everything else is just spin (well, maybe not the fairly odd parents on nicktoons, but otherwise...)


GravatarIs it not true that CNN has been losing viewers since it started moving to the right? I refuse to watch it now. And many liberals have stopped because of the right wing bias.

If they want to chase after the FOX trolls then good luck, but don't expect me to stay watching while they do it.

Dobbs is unbelievable, he used to do just business, then they gave him freedom to venture off into News, which he is obviously not very good at.

I can not even watch it when they are doing non political stuff like Jackson. Because then you have to listen to Nancy Grace! AAAAAHHHHHHH


GravatarLately I've noticed at it is Lou Dobbs, of all people, who is giving the Bushies a hard time.

Maybe Lou is paying attention to his online polls after all


GravatarAmerican troops shot a seven year old boy in the foot when they saw him carrying a Kalashnikov.

At least they didn't aim at him to kill him. Was there any more information? Could a 7-y-o actually shoot a rifle like that?


GravatarHeadline News might be better in general, but Rudi Bakhtiar is awful...she gushes and swoons every time she reports on Bush and literally sneers at Democrats.


GravatarAmerican troops shot a seven year old boy in the foot when they saw him carrying a Kalashnikov.

At least they didn't aim at him to kill him. Was there any more information? Could a 7-y-o actually shoot a rifle like that?


Yes, but most would not be able to control the weapon after firing. I wonder why they could not get him to drop the gun. He could be lame for life now, etc.


GravatarBecause then you have to listen to Nancy Grace! AAAAAHHHHHHH
sally

which usually means she's on the Larry King Show! AAAAAHHHHHHH AAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHH ...


Gravatar"the Defense Department released a statement that seemed designed to distance it from the memo written by its third-ranking official, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith"

Translation... It is clear to everyone but the Weekly Standard that Dougie Feith is a raving lunatic.


GravatarGlad to see someone mention the CBC. I rarely listen to CBC radio - it tries too hard for that cardigan-and-a-mug-of-ovaltine listenership during it's regular, non-news broadcasting, but both CBC radio and television have been excellent since before the invasion. CBC's The Fifth Estate did an entire hour-long show a few weeks ago on the connections between the Bush family and the Bin Ladens.

Slightly off-topic question: the 'Bush lied about WMD' meme seems to have taken root in Canadian mainstream print media. It's used as a handy joke by every hack entertainment columnist and so forth.
(Not sure if this is a good thing, by the way - it can easily trivialize the whole matter, making it the equivalent of a showbiz scandal)

Is this happening in the US? I know Letterman has made a lot of Bush jokes, and the SImpsons, but what about the 'lighter side of the news' columnists in the papers, and the like?


Gravatarrich:
I agree with you on the BBC and Deutsche Welle, by the way you can get these channels here on NWI (366 on DirecTV). But, I do have to give Lou Dobbs credit; he is the only one I’ve seen on the so-called mainstream media that is discussing things of some substance. What makes you think he’s stuff crap?


GravatarI too use the BBC and CBC as an alternative to U.S. media outlets. In the evening, I can get CBC News on the radio from a high-power station in Toronto. And the BBC World Service can be monitored all day on shortwave radio. Yes, shortwave! The band they used to include on American radios as an alternative to AM before FM. And some shortwave radio services are now available on satellite radio.


GravatarI can deal with Larry King but Nancy Grace makes me want to claw my eyes out and shove a rod of re-bar through my ears for good measure. It certainly makes me switch channels. What little I've seen of her lately, she seems to have finally been persuaded to drop the hammy sneering and contorted faces. What a nasty, vindictive little c-word. I think she's trying to be the female Adam Walsh/Dr. Laura.


GravatarI find it interesting that CNN continues to shill for ThuCo at every opportunity.
This despite the fact that they got passed over for the Big Baghdad Trip in favor of Faux.

At this juncture, CNN could go one of two ways - they could toughen their stance against the White House, or grovel even more in an effort to curry favor.

I'd like to see the former, but knowing the media in this country the way I do, I'm pretty sure we'll see the latter.

CNN will commit to fellating harder, I'm afraid.


GravatarOops. Last post was me.


GravatarOops. ThugCo.

Typing on a laptop is harder than it would seem.


GravatarDammit. Last post was me. Again.


Gravatar...I can not even watch it when they are doing non political stuff like Jackson. Because then you have to listen to Nancy Grace! AAAAAHHHHHHH...

Nancy Grace on CNN?!

I'm glad I gave up CNN.


GravatarI'll give this to CNN Headline News:

When I was in DC for October's protests, only CNN Headline News did appropriate coverage of the event. We got 15 seconds or so on FauxNews (as did the fifty or so assholes with anti-protest slogans on them), and CNN gave us lip service. CNN Headline News did a full segment, well over a minute long, on the size and intensity of the protest.

Why is it that only the "quickie" news channel got it right?


GravatarYou may be right about the leanings of the networks, but CNN Headline news has become more tabloid in the last year or so. They go into sports sometimes after only 8 min (including a commercial break) of news at the start of each half hour now. Their coverage overall has become much more "fluffy." Still, I am sometimes surprised at how honest they are about Iraq, Bush, international dissent, etc.


GravatarDon't let Lou Dobbs fool you. When push comes to shove (election time), he'll be shilling for Bush like nobody's business. His somewhat balanced coverage seems refreshing, but right before the election in 2002, he went to the right in a big way. He'll do it again.


GravatarAtrios and All:

Y'all are just pits. You love anyone (even a bad person) so long as that person hates Bush and is critical of Bush. Is this your life? No wonder, democrats (aka liberal-hypocrites) are most boring people one can ever meet. You have no class at all. No class. Period.

PS: Check out Iraqi blogs (by ordinary Iraqis who (I am sorry to say) LOVE AMERICA, especially Bush's visit. You can also check a soldier's analysis of Hilly-baby's sad trip to showboat. So, glad that Bush busted her. Now, finally, I have something good to feel about Bush.

http://www.instapundit.com
(for Iraqi blogs and Hilly-baby solider notes)

Ali Karim Bey


GravatarIn my last note, I meant as a sorry for you all that Iraqi blogs are pro-US. I of course am happy to see anyone love America. (I do not care for French or France, by the way


GravatarI wonder if there's an Iraqi equivalent of a house negro?

Since I'm convinced at this point that AKB is neither Muslim nor Iraqi, but rather a poor parody of what GWB had hoped Iraqis and Muslims were like, I will continue to wonder.


GravatarHey Ali -

I suppose you'll be wanting some Freedom Fries with that whine.

Love,
A boring lover of bad people


GravatarAKB, you couldn't make it at Kos, so now you're being an annoyance here.

Ignore him, everyone.


Gravatar(I do not care for French or France, by the way
Ali Karim Bey

You've really let them do a job on you, Ali. I know you're young, so please try to keep a more open mind. You're wrong about Sen. Clinton's trip and the more you 'dis' her, the more people here will not listen to you or respect you. When I see you've posted now, I inwardly groan 'oh, no'. Such a young person should not always be so negative.

Have you ever been to France? It is an absolutely beautiful country, with much, much freedom, and a beautiful culture.

We are aware that many do not like Sen. Clinton and possibly many soldiers don't like her. But I think if you're a soldier occupying another country, you're probably very grateful when someone like a senator comes to visit you. Especially on such an important holiday.


GravatarGOP wants FBI to arrest folks who attend rallies for Democratic Presidential candidates
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A Republican television campaign ad in Iowa charges that "some" are now attacking President Bush for attacking terrorists. Put alongside an FBI memo to law enforcement officials instructing them to monitor anti-war protesters, the ad raises the disturbing possibility that people attending straightforward Democratic political rallies will become the subjects of FBI information-collecting actions.

Last week, the Republican National Committee began airing in Iowa, in advance of the caucuses, an attack ad that puts on the screen the words, "Some are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists." The ad is targeted against Democratic candidates who are including criticism of Mr. Bush’s Iraq war policy in their campaign speeches.

Of equal concern is an FBI memorandum circ
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GravatarAli,

With all due respect, why don't you wander over to the bar and get yourself a nice frosty mug of STFU? Thanks.


GravatarChief (Bey), what do you mean, we "support anyone as long as they're against Bush?" Do you refer to the patchwork as diverse as America itself that hates and fears that lying incompetant Emporer?
Do you see anybody saying, "God Save Kin il-Jong," "Gee I hope I get murdered tonight for the greater glory of al-Qaeda" or "If Adolf Hitler were alive right now I'd vote for him rather than Bush"? Has anybody said anything like that?
You got a more practical attack on ibn-al-Bush than uniting with real conservatives?

And what's up with this Manhatten dialect post-yiddish, "Ya got no class. No class. Period." Whadda classy wayda sprech, ya schmendrick! Since when is it classy to talk like that? What's classier than opposing our own destruction?


GravatarThis Zionist fellow pretending to be an Arab (incidentally, there's a small community of Sabra in Hollywood who live supplying the action movies with "arabs," so this is quite a done thing in racist ideologies, like people pretending to be Negoes or Chinamen in an earlier American empire), this Chief Kareem, should not be ignored per se nor should we waste time with posts like the STFU nonsense. ("STFU"? Do you really think that will do anything?)

We should do what I did just now, demand that he demonstrate a certain discipline instead of ranting. Granted, he will probably "respond" by introducing new lies, instead of actually defending positions he's already taken: a rhetorical guerilla. A very strange guerilla, to flee the peasants instead of the mechanized, numerically superior sort of force guerillas normally harry. For this type of cowardice look at anything mentioning a certain "Arianna." But as with the cowardice of al-Qaeda or ibn-al-Bush or any other terrorists, t


GravatarBut as with the cowardice of al-Qaeda or ibn-al-Bush or any other terrorists, their evil never excuses us from fighting well, which never implicitly meant success but rather a way of not taking the easy way out.


Gravatarkei & yuri,

You handle him your way, I'll handle him mine.

I'm sick of him calling all liberals hypocrites. If he were to be standing in front of me and said it to my face, you can bet your ass I'd tell him to shut the fuck up.


Gravatar(eyeroll)Wow, Iraq is a debacle! Who could have imagined that the asshole rightwing power elite were this stupid, arrogant, and power-hungry! Noone EVER could have seen THAT coming!!!(/eyeroll)


GravatarI'll second CNNi. They actually have good reporting and that Richard Quest is a trip.


GravatarHave you ever been to France? It is an absolutely beautiful country, with much, much freedom, and a beautiful culture.

Damn good food, damn good wine, damn good coffee!


Gravatar like people pretending to be Negoes or Chinamen in an earlier American empire

Every been forced to read "Black like me"? Its a good book, but its a shame that some many white people attempt to learn what its like to be black by reading a book written by a white person pretending to be black. Hello? Try reading a book written by a black person. Racism wont be cured by white people learning more about black culture. Racism will be cured by white people learning more about curing racist white supremist culture. More on this topic here. (MP3 link)


GravatarLike this, it actually starts to make sense:

THA CORNER HAS AN EMAIL FROM A SOLDIER 'bout Big Baby Bush's Baghdad visit:

The President's visit wuz even mo' of a morale boost da Iraqis than that shiznit wuz da troops." When da President of da U.S.A. visits a place like this, that shiznit's like da most popular kid in school coming a party hosted by da A.V. club n' shit. The Iraqis feel validated 'n Al Jazeera looked foolish in da eyes of da Iraqis trying find a negative spin da story n' shit.

And there's this observation 'bout Hillary Clinton's presence there:

Sen n' shit. Hillary Clinton also is in Iraq, know what I'm sayin'? So far, at least, brizzle’s not criticizing Big Baby Bush n' shit. She’s not saying da war wuz unjustified or a plot hatched in Texas n' shit. She’s not dropping hints 'bout how da U.S. could cut-'n-run 'n make that shiznit look like an endorsement of da U.N. or of principled multilateralism."

Instead, brizzle’s


Gravatar... Instead, brizzle’s praising da troops." She’s praising da humanitarian effort." She’s praising Coalition efforts assist an Iraqi “transition toward democracy n' shit. ”

It’s probably true that no one espousing such views can win da Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. But if yo' ass expect da Democratic candidate be licking tha dude's wounds 'bout this time next year, 'n if yo' ass has yo' eye on 2008, this is da smart play n' shit.

And that shiznit may be mo' than that n' shit. Not everyone on da Left is a post-humanitarian 'n an apologist fo' terrorism 'n Islamist totalitarianism n' shit. Could that shiznit be Hillary – of izzall muthas --who leads da Left back from its current dance wit da devil?

One can hope n' shit.

posted at 04:44 PM by Glenn Reynold


Gravatar... Richard Quest is a trip. anon |

I love Richard Quest! I don't have CNN-Int now, but occasionally he's on regular CNN.


GravatarCould that shiznit be Hillary – of izzall muthas --who leads da Left back from its current dance wit da devil?
One can hope n' shit.


Dave, all of the text is in italics on my PC, so I can't tell which are Reynolds' words, and/or your comments.
Is this his wishful thinking?


GravatarStreaker,

Thanks. Understood your wisdom. Did not mean to offend you personally.

AKB


GravatarJust offend you in a stereotypical sense.


GravatarI work for CNN. Headline News can afford to be bolder (in my estimation, and I'm just a grunt) because hardly anyone watches it.


GravatarHey V:

Try not to let CNN whore you out when you get to be higher than a grunt ... best of luck otherwise, though!!


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