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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
quickstrategy
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Baldie says
I doubt anyone here thinks Wright is of no interest whatsoever in this election year
You answered by saying why Wright's _opinions_ are of no interest, which is half the story. I think his media spectacle is of news interest, and should be covered (as I commented above) but for my part, it has no (or almost no) bearing on whether anyone should vote for Obama.
(I'd take it a step farther and say whether Obama started running for Pres in 2004, and whether he was being strategic when he joined the church, are also non-issues ... though they do affect some people's perception of OB, esp on the matter of why maybe he's not so different a pol. I didn't put special weight on him over this whole aura, so I don't take any away from him now. I'm still waiting for some specifics, though)
I agree with most everything you say, but on the shame front, well, there are a long line of elections I've voted in where I thought my pride in the process and my fellow voters had reached its nadir, but ...
Sorry, but does "I agree with x but ..." make me sound like a concern troll?
And does this handle make my ass look fat?
missed the Annual Mullet Toss at the Florabama
Why would you let some other dude toss your haircut?
said the Jewish "stranglehold" of the media was ruining the United States and must be broken
And this was *before* Roseanne Barr.
Amazing!
BTW, you used to write some good stuff here. What happened? :->
Ouch! Look, man, they can't all be gems.
And, I'm in a scatological frame of mind.
Ba-baba-de-doo-wa ...
We now return you to the serious, earnest and rigorously minded quickstrategy, recently released from his undisclosed location.
What is that, something you can get in a bad part of the woods for $30?
Yeah, but it's the environmentally kind.
Also, great blog.
Also, that bit about focusing on the mongoose was quite nice. Can I steal that?
environmentally FRIENDLY kind.
way to ruin a joke, I know
One good turn & c.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know."
Got it. Thanks.
Like you, I just returned to the US from several years overseas (I left in 2002, came back late last year). I don't disagree with most of what you wrote here, but I had to laugh at the appearance of "UAE" and "critical media coverage" in the same sentence. (Can't say about Spain or Brazil or Norway)
I lived in Dubai for two years (flying out to other points for work), and there is nothing critical about the coverage form any of the outlets. They're trying, bless 'em, and even being nudged to be moreso by the government, but they're mostly young, inexperienced, not very professional, and scared to death of crossing those red lines. Meanwhile, al-Arabia is a Fox News-style answer to Al Jazeera (very pro-US; and Jazeera is hard to get) and Dubai TV gets their feeds from the same sources. Both have significant Saudi ownership, btw, like a lot of pan-Arab networks, and 'critical' just ain't in their lexicon. (Not that they don't sneak a piece or two in, usually in response to some popular thing that happened on Jazeera).
Entertainment wise ... satellite is awash in '24', 'e-Ring', 'Sleeper Cell' (everything that's bought in syndication is a year old), which appeals to people for the same reasons it does people here, I guess, intrigue, suspense, secret squirrel plots, intelligence, whatever ... though I think they also feed some fantasies that people have had a long time, so in that small way, yeah, they probably view shows like that a little different from 'muricans.
"General Downing, I sense ... bullshit!"
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
