I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
The best rupert is on the Simpsons.
Yeah, first. Been a while...
When do you expect the war to break out?
Keith Olberman had the director on tonight and he told the story of how when he worked for fox sports he broke a story about one of the teams Murdoch owned, and before he aired the story he spoke with Murdoch's PR people and they told him it was okay.
2 weeks later he was fired. Apparently on Murdoch's orders.
Oops, forgot my new blog address.
I have succumbed.
Fourlegsgood, how about that clip with Dennis Potter saying that he'd shoot Murdoch if he had the time and energy? Whew.
And my pal used to work for FOX Networks (not News), and he would bring home the memos that the director referenced. They really were creepy.
I wonder if Fox's US reporters, producers, et al., are contract employees or at-will. If they're at-will, there will be no war, just a quiet gassing of the disloyal.
SCLR, how are you professional journalists treated employee-wise?
Wow, Atrios is apparently not at all worried that Fox will wreak its retribution upon him.
Not that I'd be worried, either.
After "Outfoxed" breaks box office records, will some little weenie asshole make a film called, "Anti-FOX Filmmaker Hates America"?
OT: This from the LAT. Look for the smoke curling up from the smoking gun. We don't know who was holding it yet, but it's there....
....
But the Senate committee's sharpest criticism of the unclassified document focused not on changes made in haste but on the systematic alteration of the classified version.
For example, the panel cited changes made in the section of the NIE dealing with chemical weapons:
"Although we have little specific information on Iraq's CW stockpile," the classified NIE read, "Saddam Hussein probably has stocked at least 100 metric tons" of such poisons.
In the unclassified version of the report, the phrase "although we have little specific information" was deleted. Instead, the public report said, "Saddam probably has stocked a few hundred metric tons of CW agents."
The Senate report also noted one instance in which a dissenting view was left out of the unclassified version.
In that example, the classified NIE stated that Iraq was developing unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, "probably intended to deliver biological warfare agents."
But in a footnote, the U.S. Air Force's director for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance said he did not agree.
By eliminating that footnote from the unclassified version, the panel said, the public NIE "is missing the fact that [the] … agency with primary responsibility for technological analysis on UAV programs did not agree with the assessment."
During a nationally televised speech in October 2002, President Bush cited the threat of Iraqi drone aircraft being used for terrorist attacks against the United States. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell also discussed the UAVs in his speech to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003.
The committee's report describes not just sins of omission, but of addition.
The classified NIE stated, for instance, that "Iraq has some lethal and incapacitating BW [biological weapons] agents and is capable of quickly producing … a variety of such agents, including anthrax, for delivery by bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers and covert operatives."
In the unclassified version, the words "potentially against the U.S. homeland" are inserted at the end of the statement.
During a briefing before the report was released, one committee aide said the Senate panel had asked Tenet and Stu Cohen — who, as acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council, oversaw production of the NIE — who was responsible for inserting those words into the unclassified document.
"They did not know and could not explain," said the aide, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A similar degree of mystery surrounds the larger question of exactly how the classified NIE morphed into its unclassified version.
According to the committee report, the intelligence community began preparing an unclassified white paper on Iraq's banned weapons in May 2002, at the request of the National Security Council.
Months later, as the
OT: This from the LAT. Look for the smoke curling up from the smoking gun. We don't know who was holding it yet, but it's there....
....
But the Senate committee's sharpest criticism of the unclassified document focused not on changes made in haste but on the systematic alteration of the classified version.
For example, the panel cited changes made in the section of the NIE dealing with chemical weapons:
"Although we have little specific information on Iraq's CW stockpile," the classified NIE read, "Saddam Hussein probably has stocked at least 100 metric tons" of such poisons.
In the unclassified version of the report, the phrase "although we have little specific information" was deleted. Instead, the public report said, "Saddam probably has stocked a few hundred metric tons of CW agents."
The Senate report also noted one instance in which a dissenting view was left out of the unclassified version.
In that example, the classified NIE stated that Iraq was developing unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, "probably intended to deliver biological warfare agents."
But in a footnote, the U.S. Air Force's director for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance said he did not agree.
By eliminating that footnote from the unclassified version, the panel said, the public NIE "is missing the fact that [the] … agency with primary responsibility for technological analysis on UAV programs did not agree with the assessment."
During a nationally televised speech in October 2002, President Bush cited the threat of Iraqi drone aircraft being used for terrorist attacks against the United States. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell also discussed the UAVs in his speech to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003.
The committee's report describes not just sins of omission, but of addition.
The classified NIE stated, for instance, that "Iraq has some lethal and incapacitating BW [biological weapons] agents and is capable of quickly producing … a variety of such agents, including anthrax, for delivery by bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers and covert operatives."
In the unclassified version, the words "potentially against the U.S. homeland" are inserted at the end of the statement.
During a briefing before the report was released, one committee aide said the Senate panel had asked Tenet and Stu Cohen — who, as acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council, oversaw production of the NIE — who was responsible for inserting those words into the unclassified document.
"They did not know and could not explain," said the aide, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A similar degree of mystery surrounds the larger question of exactly how the classified NIE morphed into its unclassified version.
According to the committee report, the intelligence community began preparing an unclassified white paper on Iraq's banned weapons in May 2002, at the request of the National Security Council.
Months later, as the
Wait till they strike back.
WITH GREAT PRODUCTION VALUES!!!!!
And they will, with all the think tank spin, media whores and PR talent they can buy.
Then we'll be sorry. It will be their JOB 24/7 to prove us wrong some more. We only have the truth on our side and as
Jack said, "You can't handle the truth!"
Now watch this drive.
Continuing...
Months later, as the administration began to make its public case for war, Congress requested an official NIE. Officials at the National Intelligence Council decided to merge the white paper with declassified elements of the NIE to produce the official unclassified version.
Yet committee staffers said Friday that, after a year of investigating, they were still trying to get to the bottom of how the key differences between the classified and unclassified versions came about.
One such difference, the committee reported, is that the classified version presented intelligence findings as assessments — usually beginning with the words "we assess that" — whereas the white paper omitted those words and stated the assessments as facts.
"We assess that Baghdad has begun renewed production of mustard, sarin, GF [cyclosarin] and VX," the classified NIE read, according to the Senate report.
The unclassified white paper read, "Baghdad has begun renewed production of chemical warfare agents, probably including mustard, sarin, cyclosarin and VX."
According to the intelligence committee report, staffers asked intelligence officials why words like "we judge" and "we assess" were removed during the declassification process.
They were told that, because officials believed the white paper would be made public as representing the view of the entire U.S. government, not simply an intelligence community product, it was more appropriate to take references to "we" out of the document. This was done, committee staffers were told, "purely for stylistic reasons."
These are definitely interesting times to live in. Too bad that wishing it for someone is a curse.
I don't watch Fox News except when I'm visiting right-wing relatives, and then I have to detox, so I don't have much to say on this topic. But it's interesting to think that one man is behind most of the wingnut propaganda in this country, and that man wasn't even born here.
OT; This is from Bush's speech in Penn. today.
I think we should keep an eye on these people and their companies that Bush talked about in his speech, to see if they have the “George-Bush-praised-me-in-a-speech-and-now-my-
life/company-is-a-mess” jinx. (See Ahmed Chalabi and Timken Manufacturing)
They were vetted to provide the right mix to feed the dopes in the base. I wonder how long it took to dig these folks up. Is this the best he can do?
1) Roger Schmidt works for E.J. Breneman, Highway paving company (love those government projects! The money for those projects come from where?)
2) Dale and Sharon Stump, He is a self-employed builder/remodeler and she just retired to be a full-time mom and wife, “we home-school our three children now”. (Home schooling often a code phrase for fundamentalist wackjobs who don’t want their kids learnin’ no evolution stuff.)
3) Jim Griesemer, was laid off from unknown company for unknown length of time, now at C.H. Briggs Hardware. Doing what? Who knows? Making more money? Who knows? Happy to have any job? You bet!
4) Marcie Hartman, commissioned salesperson for cleaning company (wanna bet all those janitors and cleaning ladies aren’t part of any unions?) Commissioned salespeople = telemarketing?
Note how Bush is gleeful that Marcie is spending her money and not saving it? Go, Go Consumer Debt machines!
THE PRESIDENT: Marcie Hartman is with us. Hey, Marcie, thanks for coming. Tell us your story.
MS. HARTMAN: I just recently switched positions to ServiceMaster by Round the Clock. It's a better-paying job. I'm a commissioned salesperson, and obviously, the economy is doing better because I'm getting commissions.
THE PRESIDENT: There you go, yes. (Applause.) See, people are -- in a growing economy -- one of the things that's important for our citizens to understand, in a growing economy, when there's a sense of optimism about the future, when people are investing, new job opportunities come along. People are able to change jobs to embetter themselves. She worked in one job, voluntarily left, I think you told me.
MS. HARTMAN: Yes, I did.
THE PRESIDENT: That's always the best way. (Laughter.) And is now making more money.
MS. HARTMAN: Yes, I am.
THE PRESIDENT: And keeping more money.
MS. HARTMAN: No, I'm spending more. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, well, that's good for the person you're spending -- for the store you're spending it in. That's what we like. That's how the economy works. It's an interesting point she just made. She just gave us an economic lesson, didn't she? She's making more money. Instead of keeping more money, she's spending more money. That's what we want. See, the economy works when she decides, I've got a little extra money in my pocket, I'm going to demand an additional good or a service. Somebody has got to produce the good or service to meet her demand in the way our economy works.
She made the point about how tax relief works. Tha
con't
That's why Congress must make sure they don't raise the taxes on people like this good lady. (Applause.)
Boy, you've been posting late Atrios. You wouldn't happen to be out here on the left coast?
Just got back from the Bay Area dKos meetup in Berkeley. Good showing, including Markos himself. Odd attaching fake names to real names to faces. Kos seemed very down to earth, a real mensch. Swopa of Needlenose was there as well, as was John Gorenfeld, who I tried to help brainstorm his next post-Moon investigative project.
This ends this OT liberal blogging celebrity gossip post.
Do any of you guys remember the last Faux-specific OT story we linked? Dig this:
Faux decided that the heads of CNN missed Connie Chung (there were stories about this going around), and they decided to rent a billboard just outside CNN HQ (in view of windows there) and this billboard was supposed to have some kind of mean-spirited thing about Chung, like "Come Back Connie!" Not advertising, just mockery.
Only the billboard company wouldn't do it.
So (wait for it...) Faux sued them and got thrown out of court.
I regret to inform you all that I inadvertently support Fox News with my ratings every day. You might wonder why someone who can see through Fox "News"' B.S. would watch it.
I can only compare it to the same macabre curiosity that forces you to look around the scene of a car accident for a severed head or something.
It really interests me to watch these morons. I play a little game in my head of trying to figure out which ones believe their own lies and which ones just don't care.
I have a very unhealthy fixation on a desire to strangle Neil Cavuto. His neck's too small for his massive head, which is funny, because it holds a brain the size of his penis.
Then we'll be sorry. It will be their JOB 24/7 to prove us wrong some more.
What a great way to tie them up.
We saw this great tantrum by Cavuto once, where he used his "My Two Cents" type bit to scream (by which we mean shriek like a little boy not used to delayed ice cream of the wrong flavor) at the camera about this doctor who was a little late to an appointment. The personal is political.
"There is no no need to argue with the masses,
slogans are much more effective.
Slogans are like strong drinks to people.
The crowd doesn't react like men but like women,
who rely on their feelings,
rather than on intelligence if any.
Propaganda is a great, difficult and noble art,
therefore it calls for a genius.
-Joesph Goebbels
But it's interesting to think that one man is behind most of the wingnut propaganda in this country, and that man wasn't even born here.
The sad thing is it's not just Murdoch. A lot of the people who work there believe the winger crap too.
Kind of like when people used to think the world was flat.
ID TRACKING NUMBER FOR ALL
"PUBLIC SERVANTS"
By the power vested in me as one of We the People, without whose consent this country cannot possibly be governed, I hereby declare that what this country really needs is a permanent identification number for all politicians, of all levels of government from the President down to "local" school boards, including the millions of unelected bureaucrats. All "public servants" from Cabinet members to federal agents of all the hordes of federal agencies, to judges and prosecutors, governors, mayors, country administrators, down to the local police and dog catchers shall be issued a permanent identification number as soon as they take their oath of office and begin work.
Kenny Boy = Bush
It's easy to see the ties that bind, friends who are more alike than different. CEO Lay presides over accounting practices that manipulate the numbers in such a way to hide the truth and promote the lies. CEO Bush presides over government agencies that manipulate the data to obscure the truth and lobotomize a willing populace. Our Congress and Supreme Court: KPMG, our Media: Arthur Anderson.
Was just at the newshounds site and it was pretty good. I am amazed that people can watch FAUX and not get sick to their stomach, but I guess if you are watching for and recording the gross misrepresentations and outright lies, the sense of purpose can give you strength. They have some comments posted, and although the trolls were definitely posting, the gem of the night for me was the comment about FAUX being Al-Jazeera West. (smirk)
Under a deal reached this year between Republicans and Democrats, the Bush administration's role will not be addressed until the Senate Intelligence Committee completes a further stage of its inquiry, but probably not until after the November election. As a result, said the officials, both Democratic and Republican, the committee's initial, unanimous report will focus solely on misjudgments by intelligence agencies, not the White House
Define: Complicit
Oh look. It's lk trying to pretend to be Anonymous.
Good grief, I'm drunk and I spotted that one.
it's cute when they play politics with terrorism. KABOOM!!! stupid ass mother f....
"Fox News is Great" Dick Cheney
JFK, I admit to a slight twinge of sickness when I watch it, again for that morbid sense that I am somehow peering into what it must have been like for those whackos who participated in the early Nazi rallies, oblivious to what they were doing.
I am their worst nightmare. Not only do I NOT buy products from many of their sponsors but I CALL these companies and tell them I WILL NOT BUY and on several occasions, like with CitiBank, I actually called and CANCELLED my card (which I had for over (12 years) BECAUSE they advertised on faux heavily.
Did I like their ads? (the ID theft ones) yea but their customer service had been slipping so while watching faux I made the call and the rep was just like "uh, what?" and I said "make sure in your customer notes you put down that I was cancelling because you advertised on faux."
Fuck.
Them.
Just had to repost this post I saw on yahoo:
"I am a War President" -- G.W. Bush
*
"I am a widower." -- O.J. Simpson
I apologize to anyone who was offended by my allusion to Neil Cavuto's penis; no one should be subjected to such mental images.
New image: Greta Van Susteren naked.
BWAHAHAHA. Got 'em!
Fox is owned by News Ltd - an Aussie company. Luckily for us, Murdoch is upping stakes and transferring News from the Australian stock exchange to the NY stock exchange.
We've had thirty-five years of him here in Australia: rigging elections, buying policiticans (of both sides), inventing stories. You're welcome to him for the rest of eternity.
One consoling thought: one day he'll get sick of Bush and support the other side. Why not? He's done it in every other country he's ever done business in. Don't think you're immune over there. One day you may find yourself watching Fox just so you can see the Rethugs bashed - fair and balanced, of course, but bashed just the same.
Don't believe me? No-one here did, either until he did it in 1972 (yes, that long ago) by supporting Labor for election. He supports Blair, and he's Labour (British). Don't think it can't happen there.
Fool's gold: Murdoch's support.
JFK...you bastard!
P.S. He also kow-tows to the Chinese Communist party, 'cause he needs the Hong Kong market.
Don't let al the Stars and stripe flying fool you. Murdoch's a REAL media whore. Pay him to be your friend and his legs will open wide.
where is kevin drum?
OT:
Look at the picture of chimpy on cnn.com.
That is a bush or chimp picture if I have ever seen one.
Kevin Drum absconded with his blog and a thousand poor Lations to the Cayman Islands, in order to try his new experiment, "people-blogging".
Murdoch is truly an evil prick and always has been.
If he's not vulgarizing or banalizing the culture with his sexual genitalia obsessions, he's supporting and funding the most regressive and fascist factions of a nation's political process.
Today's Boston Globe reflects the influence of this Mad Australian Hatter as they blare on their front page the fact that a Kerry support group of entertainment celebrities had the gall to bash Bush!!! The Globe also hastens to note in it's headline that the Kerry camp is "embarrassed" by these actions!!!
Has the Globe listened to Talk (Hate) Radio or TV lately? Have they heard the insults, the innuendo or the lies told about Kerry by the "rightwing celebrities," many of whom were created by Madman Murdoch?
And unlike the Kerry celebrities who denounced Bush only at this rally, the rightwing character assassination machine operates 24/7, 365 days a year.
The Repukelican "values" are in.
We must work to abolish all sin.
If you wish to take part,
Don't follow you heart,
Confine sex to your next of kin.
Thanks for the Murdock flash, mate! In other words he's a shameless, whoring opportunist?
First the Senate Intel report, now "OutFoxed", and the indisputable F911. Am I seeing a long overdue groundswell of truth bubbling up? God, I missed it!
I can't wait to see Outfoxed. I watch Fox News quite a bit, actually. I think of it as doing a mental word finder puzzle. Instead of searching for words, I am looking for spin and lies. It can be quite entertaining--my favorite is Bill O'Reilley (now that guy is full of shit). But I do have my limits: I have to change the channel when Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter start talking.
"Outfoxed" = bought. Loved the trailer and clips, especially the one from Robt. McChesny.
And, for those of you who watch Faux for the "train wreck" angle - quit. Just check in with newshounds.us a couple of times per day.
OT - Check out the NYTimes' editorial on the Senate Intel Committee report [link]. Excellent.
One consoling thought: one day he'll get sick of Bush and support the other side. Why not?
Don't believe me? No-one here did, either until he did it in 1972 (yes, that long ago) by supporting Labor for election. He supports Blair, and he's Labour.
Aussie Bob
It's the Sun Wot Won It
US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) walks away from a briefing with the media, refusing to answer questions after he was asked about Enron and the reported indictment of former CEO Kenneth Lay, who was a close adviser and fund-raiser for Bush and his father, earning him the presidential nickname of 'Kenny Boy.'(AFP/Paul J. Richards)
Go ahead; watch the Faux News clowns! You're not really adding to their ratings in a substantive way anyhow. They're very entertaining in an obtuse, Eugene Ionesco way. It's like Rhinoceros with splashy graphics.
I watch Dennis Miller on CNBC too. It's truly the worst thing I've ever seen on TV. You've got to be aware of what propaganda the enemy is spreading and they are the enemy in every way.
Truth be told, they're all really sweating profusely and going green behind the mask. 80% of the Faux broadcast is now devoted to bashing Kerry and showing homo-erotic snaps of the Johns. Even the mouth breathers who watch Faux won't be sticking around much longer unless they change their tune and go back to Osama footage and Shock and Awe tactics.
you people need help
please stop suporting your own bias and think of what's actually good for this country...
Re: Washington Monthly and Kevin Drum--for two days now can't get to site.
Any info? Hack attack or...?
you people need help
please stop suporting your own bias and think of what's actually good for this country...
I watch Fox News daily, based primarily on the Buddhist principle that those who anger/torment us the most are our greatest teachers. I watch for as long as I can (sometimes up to ten minutes), then meditate on why merely seeing Neil Cavuto's face incites such a tidal wave of blind rage in my soul.
Looks like I picked the historical period to search for Enlightenment.
And don't even get me started on that Shep Smith . . .
you people need help
please stop suporting your own bias and think of what's actually good for this country...
Should be, "the wrong historical period"
and for the record, I'm talking to the people who post on this site
"suporting"
should have two p's
and for the record, I'm talking to the people who post on this site
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
you win
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
you win
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
Not at all. You're wrongness is wholly independent of your spelling incompetence.
Shit..."your wrongness"...
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
you win
I wonder if S. Sondheim wasn't thinking of Rupert's view of life when he wrote Sweeney Todd's song about the world being shit. If there is a more cynical, amoral person alive it would be hard to imagine them. Well, maybe Krauthammer is close.
Since the Republicans have imported him pretty much the whole of our news media have taken a raft trip down his sewer. Even the most august organs of the news are effected, and I don't count venues such as NPR, C-Span or The New Republic as among the most august.
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
You also need to stop hitting "reload" or "refresh".
Kudos to the Guardian
"It is clear that the Guardian is becoming the English language global liberal voice. It has earned an incredibly high degree of trust. That means that today's journalists have a much bigger influence than any previous generation of Guardian writers.
"The bigger the internet becomes and the more voices there are on it, the more important it is to have a voice that is recognisable, truthful and reliable."
What is our equivalent to The Guardian in the US ?
We don't have one
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
you win
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong.
No, your fascistic idiocy means your wrong. But thanks for playing!
You can return to Unka Karl's circle jerk now...
Florida List for Purge of Voters Proves Flawed
Of nearly 48,000 Florida residents on the felon list, only 61 are Hispanic. By contrast, more than 22,000 are African-American.
Snip
black voters are overwhelmingly Democratic, while Hispanics in Florida tend to vote Republican.
This winter there was a story about the Guardian's plans to establish a US version... smart move politically and business-wise
BTW, am I the only one who noticed CNN.com managed to go the whole day yesterday without once posting the story about Tipsy's dog eating his service records on the main page of their website? Funny how that happened...
and I eat my boogers....
ok, you got me... my spelling means I'm wrong
you win
an american
Shouldn't that be "my inability to spell correctly..."?
Just askin'.
another american who DOES think of what's actually good for this country..
i am a human hemorrhoid
See, what's good for our country is that 900 of our kids have died in a war with a country that never attacked us and posed no threat; that millions of jobs have been lost and/or sent overseas; that we turned a groundswell of international good-will into an international consensus of hatred and disgust; that our Constitution has been shredded and free speech effectively quelled; that in three short years we went from record surpluses to deficits that will haunt our kids for decades after we're gone; and that the public education system has been decimated; and an anti-intellectual plague has descended upon us.
Think of America, not yourselves, you selfish bastards! Isn't it clear to you?
Yer wrong Moolah Omar. The worst TV show ever was ALF's Hit Talk Show on TVLand Wed. nite.
The only reason to watch FAUX is to oogle the chunky bottle blonde infobabes with their skirts up to their hooch. If CNN was really interested in beating FAUX in the morning, they'd put Robin Meade in a mini.
RE: Kevin Drum's disappearance
DNS is screwed up, but you can get to it with this IP:
64.62.196.6
Or click here
But comments, some images, etc. won't load on their own. You can replace the www.washingtonmonthly.com bit with that number in the address bar whenever you get errors, but it won't truly work unless you (temporarily) put an entry in your hosts file.
Or WM gets a new DNS provider.
"change jobs to embetter themselves"
"Embetter" is not a word.
I really hate this man.
Thnx, OKRavenhurst for the Drum info. (Not that I even know what a "hosts file" is!) But can read entries--imagine comments are way down anyway.
I really hate this man.
Hecate
It takes an embiggened man to use the word "embetter".
I also have toe jam and.....halitosis.
you win
A woman takes her dog to the vet bacause the dog can't hear. After an exam, the vet determines that the dog's ears are stopped up with hair. The vet gets some Nair, cleans the dog's ears out and the dog can hear fine.
The vet then tells the woman to get some Nair from her drugstore and treat the dog's ears once a week.
The woman goes into the pharmacy and asks the druggist for Nair.
The pharmacist tells her, "When you use the Nair on your underarms, don't use deodorant for 2 or 3 days."
The woman says, "I'm not going to use it on my underarms."
The pharmacist says, "Well, if you use it on your legs you won't need to shave them any more."
The woman says, "I'm not going to use it on my legs. If you must know, I am going to use it on my Schnauzer."
The pharmacist says, "Then don't ride your bike for a week."
OT, but right now Christopher Andersen is on MSNBC, flogging his book, "American Evita," some slash & burn piece about Hillary Clinton. He flung a few jabs about the Clintons leaving a "wake of financial scandals as well as a suicide, and that was a friend," as evidence of the terrible Clnton years.
The anchor then asked about the "removal of all the W's from the keyboards, etc.," that happened before they left the WH. "Yes," he nodded, "and it went much further, into serious vandalism. But the Bush admiistration kept quiet abut it, not wanting to criticize the former administration."
Wow, gotta love those Bushies. Positive, forward-looking, not at all negative about the Clinton years.
I thought the removal of W's from the keyboards (which Andersen hints was done at the suggestion of Hillary,) was largely apocryphal. And that if any real vandalism had taken place, charges would have been levied, etc. Does anyone have the definitive story on the missing keys? I'm not sure the CIA is up to that investigation right now.
The 'vandalism' story is all here. Note Fox News involvement.
http://tinyurl.com/3a8oz
Meanwhile, back on topic: Rupert Murdoch in my opinion has probably caused more injury to humanity at large than any other individual in the past 20 years, through his pollution of the public discourse and his care and feeding of reactionary political forces in this and other countries. The American far right would not have anything near the power it enjoys today without Murdoch.
I for one would love to see someone bring an antitrust action against him. Breaking up that bastard's media cartel would most definitely serve the public interest.
Damn you, MisterX, you beat me to the "embiggen" reference! May someone decapitate YOUR statue!
Yeah, but what will be the repercussions for Buffalo Tim Rupert of Press The Meet?
"It takes an embiggened man to use the word "embetter". MisterX"
Husband informs me that "embiggens" (and other elements here) are Simpsonsish. Which means, of course, that the obvious is smackin' us all directly in the face... Apparently, Karl Rove feeds Prez. Bush a daily diet of the Simpsons to maintain his understanding of reality. And to boast his vocabulary! I'm now officially afraid for both my progeny AND the Country.
Boast = boost, DOH!!!
"Embetter" is not a word.
But "embitter" is.
[b] These are definitely interesting times to live in. Too bad that wishing it for someone is a curse.
I don't watch Fox News except when I'm visiting right-wing relatives, and then I have to detox, so I don't have much to say on this topic. But it's interesting to think that one man is behind most of the wingnut propaganda in this country, and that man wasn't even born here.
Echidne [/b]
You're forgetting Moon. There are two of them, and neither one was born here. But the real horror of it is that people listen to these goons' whitewash and believe it.
Remember when "Moonies" were considered sort of harmless, largely ineffectual, and somewhat pitiable?
Boy were the people who thought that missing the point.
Murdoch, Moon and Scaife - you can only call one of them a traitor, because the other two are foreign agents.
Embetter and embiggen? perfectly cromulent words the pair of them.
"Apparently, Karl Rove feeds Prez. Bush a daily diet of the Simpsons to maintain his understanding of reality"
I actually wish that were true, the Simpsons formerly being the smartest show on American TV. Dubya and his ilk were the people who protested the Simpsons thinking it was about to threaten the fabric of society when it reared its head in 90's.
Oh and as bad as the Murdoch papers are in the UK, at least they are not the Daily Mail. *vomit*
stuthelimey, I should have stipulated that Bush wouldn't "get" the Simpsons, so much as emmulate them! My Bad.
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P.S. Had to explore "cromulent," found this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/d...?
term=Cromulent
Rupert Murdoch meets Alfred Bloomingdale at a cocktail party, many years ago:
MURDOCH: "Alfred. How come it is that you never advertise in my newspaper?"
BLOOMINGDALE: "Rupert, your 'readers' are my shoplifters."
Jack, I LOVE THESE:
"I am a War President" -- G.W. Bush
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"I am a widower." -- O.J. Simpson
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Here's my new one.
"I am an orphan." -- Erik Menendez
FYI: The NYTimes Sunday Magazine section (available via nytimes.com) has a feature article on Outfoxed today (tomorrow).
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