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That is the biggest load of garbage I've read so far today.
Senator LIEberman is not to be commended for taking a decisive stand on the Iraq war and occupation. The war's very existence is based on lies and repellent alterior motives (global hegemony; long-term military presence in the Middle East to protect Israel and that precious, sweet, sweet oil; enrichment of corporations with longstanding ties to the Administration and its families), which makes its very premise illegal and immoral. LIEberman chooses to continue supporting the war. Since the truth that contradicts the premise of the war is now self-evident and out in the open, that makes the oh-so-more-pious-than-thou LIEberman a hypocrite and a willful accomplice in the war's continuation.
Worse: LIEberman is indeed a consistent, reliable shill for the Republican Party. He obviously loves the attention and adulation of Duh-bya, Darth Cheney, the rest of the Administration and the bloviating right-wing nutjobs over at Fox News Channel, and his willingness to be trotted out to criticize every rational, morally-just position of the Democrats (and other progressive figures) is disgusting. After all, when LIEberman goes on a Fox show where the prevailing message is "Anyone Who Criticizes the President Is a Traitor" (remember Goebbels' Rule: Repeat the lie often enough to the uncritical ear and it becomes the truth) and criticizes Democrats for criticizing the President, the uncritical viewer makes the lazy corrolary "Non-Lieberman Democrats = Traitors". He's a willing lapdog for the Republican machine-- their bitch, if you will.
Time for LIEberman to be flushed out of the system. Then we can have someone investigate what WAS in the war for him. I bet it's not a very lofty motivation.
Stephen Colbert dared to do what journalists are supposed to do: Point out injustice and abusive exercise of power by our elected officials. We can't let him be crucified by the MSM!
Someone should immediately get a DVD of his performance printed and put up for sale on amazon.com. Maybe play it daily on public access TV and public radio. The masses know funny, and they know truth. By wielding satire and irony, Colbert exposed the last five years of Bush's rule for the atrocity that it is, with Truth shining through his hilarious Truthiness.
Stephen Colbert is a comic god, and one of the few purveyors of Truth left in the mass media. And we have to support him. I bet the Powers That Be will try to get his Comedy Central show pulled. We can't let that happen.
What was the point of Scherer's bitchy swipe at Anderson Cooper?
Yeah, maybe Cooper's a bit overexposed, maybe he seems a bit superficial and self-absorbed, but I would suggest that, deep-down, he probably does care about the subjects he covers as a journalist, and given the toxic state of US mainstream media, it's a refreshing change that he has even a minimal progressive stance.
Could progressives maybe, just once in a while, STOP with the whining about HOW a message is conveyed and GET ON BOARD WITH THE F#CKING MESSAGE ALREADY? Can we stop eating our own for a few minutes and get down to articulating, in simple words, REAL ACTION TO GET THE COUNTRY BACK FROM THE DOMINIONISTS AND THE FASCISTS and TO MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD TOWARD PEACE AND FREEDOM AND EQUALITY AND JUSTICE?!
Or are we just going to sit back and bitch and moan and complain about glib pretty-boy newspeople, even when they manage to do a little bit of good?
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"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
