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A short interview with Republican spin doctor #1
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- Thursday 28th May 2009
Meet Frank Luntz, the man who puts the twisted words in the mouths of the Republican Party (when their feet aren’t in there).
Excerpted from the NY Times:
Your new 28-page memo, “The Language of Health Care,” was sent to Republicans in Congress and recommends that they speak about health care reform in ominous phrases. For instance, you suggest that they refer to “a Washington…
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Republicans building strong team of candidates for 2010 elections
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- Monday 18th May 2009
And you thought it couldn’t get stupider than Sarah Palin?
from the AP:
GOP Senate hopeful from Arkansas quoted calling NY’s Schumer ‘that Jew’; apologizes
ANDREW DeMILLO | Associated Press Writer
3:48 PM EDT, May 14, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A Republican state lawmaker hoping for his party’s nod to run for Senate reportedly referred to Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer as…
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Proof that Bush had the mental capacity of a challenged 11 year-old
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- Monday 18th May 2009
And I mean no offense to challenged 11 year-olds.
Perhaps you’ve heard how Rumsfeld and the other slimeballs helped jolly Bush along as the Iraq war began to fail? Bush’s daily briefings (mostly BS, as it turns out) had covers made up of “inspirational” PR photographs from the army, captioned with bible verses about the victorious armies of Christ vs. the infidels.
Maybe it would have…
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Jon Stewart examines the many faces of Obama
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- Friday 15th May 2009
And finds that not many of them speak the truth when it really counts.
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A lot of famous actors in one video
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- Friday 15th May 2009
About the Employee Free Choice…
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The latest (somewhat smaller) online version of the Columbia Journalism Review
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- Wednesday 13th May 2009
I think CJR is one of the best magazines I read on a regular basis; finding out what journalists of all sorts have to say to each other is more enlightening than any number of mass media “experts” opining on the state of the world.
Unfortunately, for reasons I can only attribute to monetary pressure, the number of CJR articles available online has declined from past months. I imagine they…
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Torture the american way; the more we know, the worse it gets
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- Wednesday 13th May 2009
A few links:
CIA Headquarters Micromanaged Torture
Andrew Sullivan offers a reasonable rationale for the Bush torture policy; the people we snatched didn’t confess the things Cheney wanted to hear.
CIA “ghost prisoner” and torture victim apparently kills himself while in CIA-overseen custody.
There may be a good chance to hang John Yoo and Judge Bybee along with Bush, Cheney,…
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Representative democracy in action
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- Wednesday 13th May 2009
While various Senators and a certain President point proudly to the transparently bogus claims of the health-care industry that they will lower prices and save us all money as long as they’re guaranteed no meaningful competition from the public sector, several people acted like true citizens and “disrupted” the proceedings in Washington on behalf of universal, single-payer health…
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The Health Insurance Blues, take 2
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- Tuesday 21st April 2009
In brief:
Unfortunate young man has bad, bad, BAD testicular cancer.
His mom loses her job.
He’s shit out of luck.
Story in the NY Times.
“Like many others, the Walkers live on a knife’s edge of risk. Without insurance to cover her high blood pressure or his diabetes, they defer doctors’ visits when possible and obtain their prescriptions – nine between the two of them – for $4…
