Bill Moyers, speaking a few weeks ago before a group of broadcasters on the importance of investigative journalism, had the following to say about the Freedom of Information Act and Wikileaks. The entire speech is worth a read, but I found this section to be of particular interest. …Here’s a sidebar: I remember vividly the […]
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Bill Moyers on why facts matter
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1966, democracy protests, Egypt, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, investigative reporting, Iran, John Moss, journalism, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reality deficient, Reza Alsan, Tunisia, Wikileaks 7 Comments
We all work for Fox
There’s been quite a bit of good analysis in the wake of the Republican implosion on health care, and the pant-shittingly hysterical psychotic meltdown that accompanied it. I particularly liked what Bob Herbert had to say in his New York TImes op-ed today. Here, for those of you who didn’t see it, is a clip: […]
Posted in Media, Observations, Politics Also tagged Allison Kilkenny, bigotry, Birthers, Bob Herbert, David Frum, death panels, fear mongering, FOX News, Glenn Beck, ignorance, John Lewis, Kevin Phillips, Negrophobe whites, Nixon, race baiting, racism, Republican lies, Rush Limbaugh, tea party, Tea Partyfication, teabaggery, the collapse of the Republican party, the hijacking of the Republican party, the southern strategy, the White Disenfranchised Male, Voting Rights Act 27 Comments
“So, you spent Thanksgiving sharing criminal memories with your family? I thought it was bad enough when I read your diary entries about trying to get young men to buy you drinks, leering at nudie photos of their girlfriends, and fantasizing about blowing bus drivers. I hope you’ll be able to check this sad decline.” –Doug Skinner
It never occurred to me that the readers of this site would misinterpret or, worse yet, purposefully twist my words for comedic and even hurtful effect. However, that is just what one Mr. Douglas Skinner has done to me. He has jumbled my words together and turned them against me! Does his cruelty know no […]
Posted in Other Also tagged Abercrombie and Fitch, attacks against Mark, bankruptcy, Bill Clinton, breast augmentation, Britney Spears, Catholic Church, child molestation, Doug Skinner, elevated breast gurney, Eminem, Extreme Makeovers, Giants of Guadalcanal, half-man cannibalistic sex-machine, Howard Stern, Iraq, John Poindexter, Mark's health, migraines, Monica Lewinsky, moon, Mrs. Doubtfire, National Security Agency, oral sex, plastic surgery, poop-touching, priests, privacy, religious persecution, Robert Redford, sexual abuse, The Monster of Cannibal Island, Three Days of the Condor, Total Information Awareness 1 Comment