In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many
Looks like The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune, BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com all presented a fake manipulated image.
Monthly Archives: July 2008
News Events
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The news networks may be limiting their coverage of the Democratic Party convention.
Obama’s decision “makes it enormously more expensive,” said Paul Friedman, senior vice president at CBS News. “It does add to the overall question of how the networks should cover what is a non-news event.”
Networks may limit convention coverage
Since CBS News thinks that the [...]
FISA Bill Passes
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The FISA bill passed the Senate 69-28. Obama voted for it. Hillary voted against it.
If Hillary had not voted for the war in 2002, I’m convinced that she would be the nominee right now. Perhaps her vote on FISA means that she’s learned the hard way that giving in to the bullies doesn’t pay off [...]
The Third Rail
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that’s a disgrace. It’s an absolute disgrace, and it’s got to be fixed. — John McCain
For those not familiar, the phrase “the third rail of politics” is a reference to subway rails. The [...]
I Ate Four
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
My relationship with ice cream sandwiches is not healthy for me or for the ice cream sandwiches.
What’s Past Is Prologue
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
One thing’s for sure, John McCain is no kissy-face hippie. Hippies don’t love America. John McCain does.
Why is it that political discourse still contains anti-hippie rhetoric forty years later?
And what’s up with the McCain campaign’s consistent use of the feminine pronoun for America? “I served her…” “…puts her country and her people before self.” Sure, [...]
What Sovereignty?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Premise 1
Peter G. Peterson: Let me give you a hypothetical, senator. What would or should we do if, in the post-June 30th period, a so-called sovereign Iraqi government asks us to leave, even if we are unhappy about the security situation there? I understand it’s a hypothetical, but it’s at least possible.
John McCain: Well, if [...]
Hollywood Is Like So Bad
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
After the Vietnam War, movies like “Apocalypse Now” and “Born on the Fourth of July” helped cement an image of psychologically damaged Vietnam veterans.
“In the ’80s and early ’90s, the Vietnam War vet was the ‘other,’ ” Breasseale said. “Hollywood had created the crazy Nam vet.”
The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre
I know [...]
Stay Classy
Monday, July 7, 2008
You can’t make this shit up.
“I hate the gooks,” McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. “I will hate them as long as I live.”
McCain Criticized for Slur
Who’s Really Running Things Around Here?
Saturday, July 5, 2008
The state of California fined Anthem Blue Cross a million dollars, but they’re not going to try to collect because they’re afraid they’ll be “outgunned” in court.
Who’s really in charge here? The people? Well, not directly. So then it’s representatives of the people? Well, they’re apparently unable to govern things either.
Obama’s FISA reversal has removed [...]
