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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
TCinLA
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I hate to say this, but - someone is surprised that Walt Disney News (formerly the ABC network) shills for Republicans?
Anyone in who's been in Hollywood professionally more than 30 days can tell you all about working at Mauschwitz. As a good friend of mine once said, "I'll never have any trouble writing a screenplay about life in a not-so-benign police state - I've worked at Disney."
Disney's far right connections go back to Walt's admiration of fascism in the 30s, a fascination that nearly got him prosecuted during World War II under the Trading With The Enemy Act, and led to the company making all those godawful propaganda cartoons about our wonderful "little brown brothers" south of the Rio Grande. If you look throughout the Disney universe you will find - as Ariel Dorfmann did 30 years ago when he wrote "How to Read Mickey Mouse" - that "Disneyfication" involves the promotion of a very right-wing FantasyLand.
And if you look over the years at ABC, you will see that once Disney purchased Capitol Cities in the late 80s, you will see that the news "slant" changed from "slightly-conservative/centrist" to what is now out-and-out "Republican/right." Coincidence? Not.
Progressives who give Disney a dime for anything are helping to finance The Enemy.
Given that Christian Fundamentalists are more like Islamic Fundamentalists than they are like actual Christians, and also the fact that the Right wants to make a big deal about people who go to madrassas, let's change the name of Pat Robertson's "school": Regent Madrassa Law School. It says everything you need to say about the place and the slimy little scum who come from it.
The sad little victims of homeschooling who go on to graduate from obscure Southern madrassas that one finds at Redstate wouldn't be "cool" if they were packed in ice and frozen.
Watching "Conservatives" (actually, far right radical revolutionaries - these bozos are about as "conservative" as another far right radical revolutionary movement that called itself "conservative" in a certain Central European country 70-odd years ago) paint themselves as a "persecuted minority" only makes them more pathetically hypocritical than they normally are.
Oh, if only it was true that we only hve 21 months till we can open the re-education camps and unleash the black helicopters. Though in the case of the American Right, looking at their "work," it would have to be "education camps" since it is so glaringly obvious that the home-indoctrination has been such a disastrous failure.
And when oh when will we get to hear that Dick Morris was found in his car with a .22 blood alcohol, wrapped around a lamp post?
Wow. Big-time Republican with power and all, and this bow-wow is the best he can do in the trophy girlfriend department???
Obviously a failed Republican. Go over to Wolcott's blog and look at Fred Thompson and Miss Tits, er, his trophy lady. Now that is a Republican trophy girl. Two trophys simultaneously!
It might be useful to remind people that RedState's Ben Domenech resigned that position a year ago when he was publicly exposed as a serial plagiarist. They've obviously decided he's done his penance, but there's nothing wrong with a little character assassination of righties - give them what they dish out.
AP now reports that Giuliani's organization complained about Keith Olbermann co-hosting the debate with Tweety. Yeah, we can't have the only liberal anchor who actually has a brain involved with anything involving Republicans, not when they have the old reliable public-suckers-and-swallowers like this crowd of otherwise-unemployables around to fawn over us.
Given the real politics of Arianna Stassinopolous (English Tory), the hiring of Tom Edsall fits right in with Celebrities Only Need Apply Here. Does anyone really give a rat's patootie what the under-educated over-egoed celbrity halfwits who post there have to say about anything? You can tell the ones who post on their own and the ones who have their Political Consultant do it for them - the former usually can't compose a coherent sentence, let alone a short paragraph.
It's true that there is now a change in policy at the Huffington Post about comments. You post and there is a warning at the end now that "any attacks on any memeber of the Huffington Post community will result in you being banned from further commenting." I saw this specifically when I went to respond to Jonathan Alter's display of permanent pre-adolescent b.s. The fact is the Huffington Post is becoming defensive because people are getting tired of Arianna's constant sucking-up to celebrities for the fact of their being celebrities. The truth is, for anything original,insightful or useful, the Huffington Post is the last place on the lefty blogosphere one needs to go. If it's posted there, it's the equivalent of "sun continues to rise in th east."
Christianity. Judaism. Islam. Nouns that identify great systems of faith and belief that have changed the world.
Put the word "Fundamentalist" in front of them and they become adjectives, describing the color of the shit they have been turned into.
No wonder fundamentalists see eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge as a sin, since they celebrate moron stupidity as "faith."
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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