By now you’ve no doubt heard that House Republicans voted to strip federal funding from National Public Radio. The bill, which was rushed through before the scheduled House recess, passed 228 to 192, with only seven Republicans voting against it. If passed by the Senate, the bill would keep an estimated $90 million from NPR. […]
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National Public Radio under attack and in jeopardy
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Weiner, corporate media, FOX News, fundamentalist religion, guns, Ira Glass, James O'Keefe, John Boehner, Joyce Slocum, Juan WIlliams, library privatization, Libya, media consolidation, mochery, Muammar Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, NPR, racism, reality deficient, Ron Schiller, sarcasm, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, tomahawk missiles, Vivian Schiller, xenophobia 24 Comments
Astroturf wars, and the battle to defund NPR
The following video, taken last year during a training session for Tea Party activists in Nashville, is of a young man from a group called the American Majority. His name is Austin James, and, on the video, he can be seen instructing folks how they should go about waging guerilla warfare online by, among other […]
Posted in Media, Politics Also tagged Amazon, American Liberty Tour, American Majority, astroturf, Austin James, book reviews, Juan WIlliams, Koch brothers, manipulation of the stupid, movie reviews, Shirley Sherrod, stop watching NPR, tea party, teabots, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism 10 Comments
The Great Tea Party Swindle
Frank Rich, in today’s New York Times, suggests that the Tea Party movement is being fostered because it allows ready access easy marks. Here’s a clip: …Both Steele and Palin claim to be devotees of the tea party movement. “I’m a tea partier, I’m a town-haller, I’m a grass-roots-er” is how Steele put it in […]
Posted in Media, Politics Also tagged American revolution, bejeweled tea bag, Betsy Ross, Bill O’Reilly, Burberry, Conservative Political Action Conference, Erick Erickson, flags, Frank Rich, Glenn Beck, Jeffery McQueen, Michael Steele, movements co-opted by hucksters, Nashville, On Point, Opryland, RedState.com, Sarah Palin, swindles, tea party, Tea Party Convention, Tea Party Emporium, Tea Partyfication, the exploitation of the stupid, the straw that brought the camels back, Tom Ashbrook 7 Comments