Reasons why the MSM can kiss my ass
I know the MSM is all about either selling papers or grabbing viewers, but they are getting so far over the line lately that it is truly starting to sicken me. Let me explain.
I get to work this morning and the first headline I see is:
So let me get this straight. If you promise change, you have to use all brand new people, ignoring people who are at the top of their field, and go with a total outsider? Someone not familiar with the White House, politics, or anything? If that were going on, you know what the headline would be then, right? It would be, “Obama choices risky; Noms have no political experience”.
Seriously. Does the entire MSM get it’s talking points from the spackle of Rupert Murdoch’s colon, or are they just aspiring to?
Douchebag alert!
Mark Halperin had been contentious and questionable during the entire Presidential election, like the week that John McCain could do nothing without it being gaffe-filled and Obama had a stellar week, but by Halperin’s take, McCain “won the week”.
Still, it’s good to read various reporters, no matter what slant they try to put on the news. Yesterday, Halperin put out a “final report cards” for the 2008 race, where he was complimentary to Obama and his staff. Cut to the report card for John McCain, where the terms “risky”, “rudderless”, “erratic” and “uneven” were used, but Halperin still managed to squeak out a B- as McCain’s final grade. But what is the icing on the cake? Halperin had this to say about McCain’s campaign:
He lost his bearings as often as he failed to drive a message, and presided over a campaign so disorganized and faction-filled that it might as well have been the effort of a Democrat.
Wow… Thanks for playing, Mark, but you’re still a douchebag.
Karl Rove does…Dunkin Donuts commercials?
Okay - I almost spit when I heard the latest Dunkin Donuts commercials. But first, a little background. Who do you think owns Dunkin? Did you heard that they got bought out a few years back? I did, and the name just blew me away. It was a three partner buyout that included the Carlyle Group. You remember them, right? George H. W. Bush and his ilk? The same people that were meeting with Osama bin Laden’s family on September 11th, 2001? Yeah, they are part owners in Dunkin Donuts now.
So I thought it was going to be a little odd, but hell, they’re capitalists and want nothing more than return on investment. They have slowly tried to rebrand away from donuts and towards coffee. They seem to be doing okay so far.
That brings me to tonight’s new commercial airing on The Discovery Channel during some mindless show. It’s a lady in a labcoat, asking people to judge two different coffees. The person chooses “A”, and the shot goes to the clipboard where “A” is Dunkin Donuts and “B” is Starbucks. (Note: You only ever see cup A - you never see cup B at all!). After a few people from the street/garage/etc tell her that “A” is their choice, and she checks it off her sheet, the announcer comes on. And what does the announcer say?
REAL hardworking Americans prefer Dunkin
Wow… So do these REAL hardworking Americans only live in Palin’s pro-American and more-patriotic sections of the US? Come on, Dunkin Donuts. Why don’t you just start using the “elitist” crap on Starbucks patrons?
How to look like a right-wing tool
What the hell, Mark Halperin? Are you trying to look even more like a corporate right-wing tool? Well you raised some eyebrows when you declared McCain the “winner of the week” a couple of weeks ago when McCain was in the midst of falling on his face. Now in an interview with someone on the Obama campaign, you ask:
Does Obama think it is acceptable to serve on a board with — and have personal ties — to an unrepentant domestic terrorist?
What the hell? This is “the liberal media”? Oh hells no… This is more like the fluff that the male escort turned White House reporter Jeff Gannon would ask!
Make a donation, receive a threat
Wow… This is going beyond the pale when it comes to the right wing being nasty and threatening. Howard Rich is heading up an effort with “Americans for Limited Government” (a right wing group) is threatening anyone who makes donations to progressive organizations. Apparently he’s sending a letter out (and I hope to hell that I have a letter like this at home!) that states:
Your name has been put in our database. We are monitoring all reports of a wide variety of leftist organizations. As your name appears in subsequent reports, it is our intent to publicize your involvement in your local community. Should any of these organizations be found to be engaged in illegal or questionable activity, it is our intent to publicize your involvement with those activities. You should know that instances of coordinated voter fraud are surfacing all across America and investigations into possible criminal coordination are underway.
Nice… Use coersion and threats on those that oppose your ideas. Idiotic neanderthal jerks… Just so that they know, I made a donation in his honor today to NARAL, and another donation to Planned Parenthood in honor of Sarah Palin. Think I’ll get a letter now?
Why not ban the gays?
Oh this is something that I just about blew my top over… So the religious right isn’t happy enough that McCain is ignoring their calls to start yabbering about like George W. Bush did on Gay Marriage, so what do they do now? They equate smoking with being gay. Yeah, like it’s a bad habit or something. And not only that, but they are calling for it to be BANNED. After all, if you can support a ban on smoking, then ban all other bad habits! Stupid hypocrites.
Just so this doesn’t get taken down too soon, I took a nice little screenshot to hold on to - just in case… I’m just surprised they didn’t put a big red circle with a slash through it on the pink triangle they used!!!!
With McCain down in the polls, what does the religious right say?
To quote the homophobic “Focus on the Family” and those other organizations that deny reality:
Can you believe that? The economy is in the toilet. We are going to have a bailout of $700,000,000,000 of public companies (like the $500,000,000,000 bailout of the Savings and Loans THAT JOHN MCCAIN HELPED CAUSE AS PART OF THE KEATING FIVE) and all they can suggest is to start pushing the class warfare that is gay marriage.
Tools… Jesus would weep, and be thrown under the bus by these people if he were alive today.
McCain suspending his campaign, eh?
Okay - so the “Maverick” calls for suspending his campaign, ending commercials, calling off the debate, and as the accidental leak of the talking points say, suspending campaign fundraising.
So… Hop on over to JohnMcCain.com and look around. Okay, so the “Contribute” button still works. That’s odd… Oh, and there’s a “McCain Compliance Fund”. Well that one still works too.
Does that make McCain a maverick, or just a liar?
The best piece on the bailout
One of my heros is Dennis Kucinich, and he came out with a plan that is the best thing I’ve read on how we should deal with this. You can read it here, but his plan is outlined below:
- Reinstatement of the provisions of Glass-Steagall, which forbade speculation
- Re-regulation of the finance, insurance, and real estate industries
- Accountability on the part of those who took the companies down:
a) resignations of management
b) givebacks of executive compensation packages
c) limitations on executive compensation
d) admission by CEO’s of what went wrong and how, prior to any government bailout- Demands for transparencey
a) with respect to analyzing the transactions which took the companies down
b) with respect to Treasury’s dealings with the companies pre and post-bailout- An equity position for the taxpayers
a) some form of ownership of assets- Some credible formula for evaluating the price of the assets that the government is buying.
- A sunset clause on the legislation
- Full public disclosure by members of Congress of assets held, with possible conflicts put in blind trust.
- A ban on political campaign contributions from officers of corporations receiving bailouts
- A requirement that 2008 cycle candidates return political contributions to officers and representatives of corporations receiving bailouts
And, most importantly, some mechanism for direct assistance to homeowners saddled with unreasonable or unmanageable mortgages, as well as protection for renters who have lived up to their obligation but fall victim to financial tragedy when the property they live in undergoes foreclosure.
Best quote of the week
I love this, in the shadow of the $700,000,000,000 bailout (yes, seven hundred billion):
We’ve just been raped, and now we’re being asked to pay for the rape kit.
Shamelessly stolen from The Stephanie Miller Show (Jim Ward), who stole it from DemocraticUnderground.com
