Bill Moyers was the guest on The Daily Show tonight, and made a comment that immediately registered. When discussing how current politicians (in particular the far-right, but not them exclusively) view the media, he said that legitimate journalism “scares the hell out of these guys.” Anything that fails to toe their party line constitutes “bias.” [...]
Archive for June 23rd, 2005
Amen to That
Posted in Media, Politics on June 23, 2005 | 10 Comments »
Responding to Rove's Villany
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on June 23, 2005 | Comments Off
Peter Dauo: I’m devoting much of today’s report to Karl Rove’s vile comments denigrating half of the American public. My office overlooks Ground Zero, and I’m looking at the gaping footprint as I write this. My wife and I were in New York that day, on our way to the WTC for a morning meeting. [...]
Karl Rove — or is that Joeseph McCarthy?
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on June 23, 2005 | Comments Off
Karl Rove thinks liberals like me want to see soldiers like my little brother and my brother-in-law killed: “Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Mr. Rove, the [...]
Democrats: Learn
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on June 23, 2005 | Comments Off
This is more like what Durbin should have said: Still, I thought he’d be able to see through the false logic and deceptive paraphrases offered by my critics and focus his concern where it belongs: On what FBI reports say is being done to prisoners at Gwan-tahn-a-mo in the name of the United States of [...]
A Question For Democrats
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on June 23, 2005 | Comments Off
Do you get it now? Do you understand how these people work? They aren’t interested in political discussion as a means to govern. They use political discussion as a club. They will never be satisfied with any apology you can offer — an apology is just a cue to attack harder. And now they have [...]
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