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Today in total F-ing amazement.
I'm actually on vacation today and I'm still perusing the blogosphere because everywhere I turn I end up ROFLMAO. It's just bizarroland in the US today. For your enjoyment:
The WaPo is selling access to WH insiders and congresspeople to lobbyists like freakshow hawkers on the midway.
Helen Thomas has been around a while and she's never seen a snowjob like this.
Last but not at all least, I have to quote from Greenwald today. This is not a joke - he's serious.
There are several noteworthy developments since I wrote on Tuesday about the refusal of NPR's Ombdusman, Alica Shepard, to be interviewed by me about NPR's ban on using the word "torture" to describe the Bush administration's interrogation tactics. Given the utter vapidity of her rationale ("there are two sides to the issue. And I'm not sure, why is it so important to call something torture?"), I was momentarily amazed to learn that she actually teaches "Media Ethics" to graduate students at Georgetown University (my amazement quickly dissipated once I recalled that this is the same institution that, until last year, paid Doug Feith -- Doug Feith -- to teach students "national security policy" and that Berkeley Law School has John Yoo "teaching law" to its students; next semester at Georgetown: Karl Rove teaches Civility in a Post-Partisan Age, Bill Kristol lectures on Accountability in Punditry, while David Gregory examines The Role of Intellect in Adversarial Questioning).
You can't make this stuff up. Please add whatever off the wall oddity you come across in comments. Have a good 4th!
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You're on vacation for goddees sakes. Besides I can't imagine why you'd be surprised by this.
You've seen I assume, how his "open" town meeting and "unknown" questioner were all scripted this week? This is no drama Obama after all. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/07/023939.php
And here's the drink
Civil Discourse - ERA - A Mother President - Women's Rights - Primary Reform
That drink looks good.
Note that the post is more about the media than it is about Obama. His antics are not much of a surprise anymore. But the spectacle of watching the 4th estate self-immolate is for me a morbid fascination. Formerly intelligent people would willingly transform themselves into fawning syncophants, and seem to be enjoying the process of losing all self-respect and getting screwed over. OK, fellas. Hand me the popcorn while I sit back and watch.
Independently adrift
We needed this. Thank you!
WHERETHEHELL IS MY ERA???
We have traded the Bush mindset for the Obama mindset and so sometimes it seems we haven't changed anything. This is especially true, because both men share the same scorched earth philosophy. This is evident from one of the sources Greenwald sites at the end of his post you linked:
"Jane Hamsher details the extremely aggressive tactics the White House and House leadership used to coerce liberal environmentalist members to vote for the cap-and-trade bill despite their belief that it helped polluters more than it did anything else (and remember their ability to do that the next time they claim that a bill they ostensibly support simply couldn't pass because it lacked the necessary votes). Jane quotes from a Politico article reporting on White House anger towards environmentalist Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, due to an impassioned floor speech he gave arguing that the bill was so industry-friendly that it would do more harm than good. That article contains this quote:
This has become an emerging theme among both the White House and House leadership: that progressive members of Congress have an obligation to carry out "the wishes of the President" even when they disagree (now, apparently, it's "stunning" when they defy his dictates). "
Perhaps better expressed as Lèse majesté (Law French, from the Latin laesa maiestas "injured majesty"; in English, also lese majesty or leze majesty) is the crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9
A Dishonest/Biased Media Is A Crime Against Democracy!
I still try to make some time to read and catch up, but can't always post.
Independently adrift
Now it's "obstructionist." What do you suppose the next epithet will be?
WHERETHEHELL IS MY ERA???
I'm sure I'll be it. Because anyone who holds this POTUS to the same standard as any other POTUS -- accountability, transparency, rational thinking, logic, following his own principles/practices, etc. -- is automatically an "obstructionist." (And let's not get me started on all the nasty things we PUMAs were called when we refused to vote Obama, OK? Or we'll be here all night.)
There's no excuse for this, DNC. You screwed the pooch; time to pay the piper.
just shows how similar he is to Bush -- except that G. W. Bush was excoriated for ignoring the "dean of Washington's press corps," while other than a few long-term journalists expressing their anger, I've heard absolutely nothing over Obama's exceptionally poor treatment of Ms. Thomas.
There's no excuse for this, DNC. You screwed the pooch; time to pay the piper.