Al Franken Rules!
Go buy his book, and find out what the hell is really going on.
Do it.
Now!
October 10, 2003
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October 6, 2003
Ah-Nold's Real Agenda
Get a close look at the sort of thing the Gropinator intends to do to the state of California.
Get a close look at the sort of thing the Gropinator intends to do to the state of California.
October 4, 2003
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If you are a movie fanatic and own a DVD player, run, don't walk to Netflix.
'Nuff said.
If you are a movie fanatic and own a DVD player, run, don't walk to Netflix.
'Nuff said.
Call A Plumber!
Years ago a family friend whose father worked for the CIA was asked what he told people who wanted to know what his father did for a living. He replied:
"He's a plumber."
Seems his services are needed today in the Bush Respectability Retirement Home on Pennsylvania Avenue. So much for integrity and all of that - when crossed, these bastards will stoop as low as they need to for their petty revenge. In the case of Joseph Wilson, they've outdone themselves, committing a felony in order to get their "enemy." The White House deliberately outed his wife, a CIA undercover operative. Since Republican abuse of the independent counsel statute prompted Congress to pass on renewing it, the only avenue of redress lies in the Justice department, headed by America's favorite lawman, John Ashcroft.
You can see why the Shrubites expect to get away with this one. I expect they will, but the message is sent - go along or we'll stop at nothing to hurt you, even if it involves committing felonies and possibly endangering national security. Hey, sounds like a great Republican administration of yore, where a lot of the current crew served.
And in the event you are having trouble getting your mind around how easy the press has been on Shrub, just imagine this had all taken place during the Clinton administration...
Yikes!
Years ago a family friend whose father worked for the CIA was asked what he told people who wanted to know what his father did for a living. He replied:
"He's a plumber."
Seems his services are needed today in the Bush Respectability Retirement Home on Pennsylvania Avenue. So much for integrity and all of that - when crossed, these bastards will stoop as low as they need to for their petty revenge. In the case of Joseph Wilson, they've outdone themselves, committing a felony in order to get their "enemy." The White House deliberately outed his wife, a CIA undercover operative. Since Republican abuse of the independent counsel statute prompted Congress to pass on renewing it, the only avenue of redress lies in the Justice department, headed by America's favorite lawman, John Ashcroft.
You can see why the Shrubites expect to get away with this one. I expect they will, but the message is sent - go along or we'll stop at nothing to hurt you, even if it involves committing felonies and possibly endangering national security. Hey, sounds like a great Republican administration of yore, where a lot of the current crew served.
And in the event you are having trouble getting your mind around how easy the press has been on Shrub, just imagine this had all taken place during the Clinton administration...
Yikes!
You Get What You Pay For...
...And ESPN has just discovered this for themselves. Having hired the motor-mouth conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh to inject some "controversy" into ESPN's Sunday night football pregame show, the execs who made that dubious decision got exactly what they paid for.
Seems they didn't like it much. Rush is a football illiterate, which begs the obvious question: What the fuck did ESPN expect him to contribute? Apparently, crappy analysis and cutting edge racist commentary was what they expected, 'cause it only took 4 weeks to get it.
The only shocking thing here is that Rush was hired in the first place. Afterall, his stock in trade on the radio and back in the day of DittoHead TV was exactly the kind of barely disguised code he employed in his comments about Donovan McNabb, who, regardless of what Rush may think, is so good he scares the shit out of opposing teams. Rush has built a multi-million dollar empire on fact-challenged so called "political" commentary rife with white middle class scare tactics: Black folks are taking your jobs, fucking your daughters, and the "liberalmediaestablishment" colludes to promote this agenda. It's all misdirection while Rush's masters loot the public treasury for themselves while telling the rest of us to work longer hours for less pay, and never mind the over time!
As for ESPN, well, they are in it now. Whoever hired Rush knew full well what they were getting, and it will be to their everlasting discredit that they pulled this stunt in a cynical ratings grab. Sports, despite the associated problems, has time and again been out in front on race issues, sometimes dragging a reluctant society with it. ESPN has taken a regressive step with this foolishness. One good thing to come out of this is that ESPN's football drama Playmakers is coming under some much needed scrutiny. Billed as a hard hitting, reality based show about a professional football team, it feels a lot more like a bad 1980's gangsta rap movie, all drugs and gold chains and no plot. I won't say it is racist, but it is absurd...
...And ESPN has just discovered this for themselves. Having hired the motor-mouth conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh to inject some "controversy" into ESPN's Sunday night football pregame show, the execs who made that dubious decision got exactly what they paid for.
Seems they didn't like it much. Rush is a football illiterate, which begs the obvious question: What the fuck did ESPN expect him to contribute? Apparently, crappy analysis and cutting edge racist commentary was what they expected, 'cause it only took 4 weeks to get it.
The only shocking thing here is that Rush was hired in the first place. Afterall, his stock in trade on the radio and back in the day of DittoHead TV was exactly the kind of barely disguised code he employed in his comments about Donovan McNabb, who, regardless of what Rush may think, is so good he scares the shit out of opposing teams. Rush has built a multi-million dollar empire on fact-challenged so called "political" commentary rife with white middle class scare tactics: Black folks are taking your jobs, fucking your daughters, and the "liberalmediaestablishment" colludes to promote this agenda. It's all misdirection while Rush's masters loot the public treasury for themselves while telling the rest of us to work longer hours for less pay, and never mind the over time!
As for ESPN, well, they are in it now. Whoever hired Rush knew full well what they were getting, and it will be to their everlasting discredit that they pulled this stunt in a cynical ratings grab. Sports, despite the associated problems, has time and again been out in front on race issues, sometimes dragging a reluctant society with it. ESPN has taken a regressive step with this foolishness. One good thing to come out of this is that ESPN's football drama Playmakers is coming under some much needed scrutiny. Billed as a hard hitting, reality based show about a professional football team, it feels a lot more like a bad 1980's gangsta rap movie, all drugs and gold chains and no plot. I won't say it is racist, but it is absurd...
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