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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
A real American hero. Who are the terrorists again? Rewarding calamitous failure with vast riches and fame has become the signal motif of our nation. See link below.
Glenn, this is Pulitzer, or whatever the real journalism equivalent of a Pulitzer is, material. The PDF "Our Defense Meltdown" has another poster child for Pentagon pathology.
He must be trusted. When he chomps a cigar and utters manly mutters, he looks like John "Hannibal" Smith from A-Team.
What more do you want, you damn pinkos.
Oh dear Jesus, that chummy muppet David "Stretch" Gregory is rumored to be the next Meet the Press host and - along with such a title - ultimate, incontestable arbiter of all universal political Truth and Importance.
The great ghost of banality lives on, spreading its ghastly, gossamer wings of mediocrity, immortal in its many earthly husks throughout the ages.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/david-gregory-to-moderate_n_147540.html
Now that you mention it, does not Brian Williams also bear an uncanny resemblance to "Howling Mad" Murdock?
If only he were that interesting. Brian Williams reminds me of some smarmy guy you meet at an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Vallarta, sitting lobster red in the hot tub as he prattles endlessly about golf.
Three comments from me in close proximity - that's my cue to bow out before I make a mess of the place.
Keith can't have it both ways. He gets on every night and just rips into "Fixed News" for being nothing more than a propaganda outlet for the Bush Administration. But, at the same time his network (Brian Williams, The Late Tim Russert) continued to spew propaganda without a hint of buyer's remorse. And NBC continues to this day to use General McCaffrey because GE wants the behind the scenes defense contracts that drastically impact the bottom line. The same contracts McCaffery's propaganda helps make possible.
Keith Olbermann is forever "Keith O The Hypocritical Clown" until he grows a pair and calls NBC out.
Remember, we tend to hate what we despise in ourselves.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/1/194943/785/916/668272
Maybe you should call Keith out from your pulpit. He was pretty weak last time you called him out on FISA. But, this is beyond weak.
It's pure hypocrisy and Keith O is as guilty as anyone.
Well . . . Much to my (feigned) shock . . . Neither Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Brian Williams nor Rachel Maddow even mentioned General McCaffrey's name on their December 1st programs!. . . Not a word. . . If this situation had existed on any other network - in the world - it would have been at least briefly discussed. . .If this had occured on a Fox network it would have produced an Olbermann "special comment" and lengthy kvetching by Matthews and Maddow.(Williams is hopeless.)
OK . . . So, since neither Keith nor Rachel (our current faves)do not have the stones to talk about the General - what shall we do? . . . I suggest daily emails to our duo.
Here's McCaffrey!
http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/reviews/pics/palisades_8_sam2.jpg
[They're called] Predicates.
[They express] Complete thoughts.
[Some find them] Useful.
http://nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?pagewanted=all
James Marks, a retired Army general and analyst for CNN from 2004 to 2007, pursued military and intelligence contracts as a senior executive with McNeil Technologies. [...]
General Marks was working intensively on bidding for a $4.6 billion contract to provide thousands of translators to United States forces in Iraq. In fact, General Marks was made president of the McNeil spin-off that won the huge contract in December 2006. [...]
[...] CNN said it had no idea about his role in the contract until July 2007, when it reviewed his most recent disclosure form, submitted months earlier, and finally made inquiries about his new job.
“We saw the extent of his dealings and determined at that time we should end our relationship with him,” CNN said.
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CNN's vetting was pathetic and belated but still, CNN ended up by doing something other than merely spouting PR spin.
"General McCaffrey is a retired Four Star General, a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second highest award for valor . . . He is a true American hero"
And McCain was a POW!
NBC is owned by GE, a major defense contractor. What could be simpler?
The Pretend News, bogusly sourced, slantedly opinioned, product placement oriented, drives the market to conclude it must buy more death and then pauses to sell other little odds and ends like food, cars, insurance, phones, and tvs.
Isn't corporate advertising wonderful?
The news is really a secret ad!
Clever. I didn't know. I stopped watching the regular networks since i got cable. I channel surf away from ads or mute them. And i never wasted time with the big network newscasts, because i know most of it is way below the normal standard of objective/unbiased journalism.
Seldom does clarity escape preconceived agenda.
It will be morosely fascinating to see how possible it will be for the Obama team to unshackle our disfigured publicity from the delusionary vipers who own enthrone it.
Or whether they care or dare to make any attempt at it.
I've worked at newspapers. Been behind the veil. I don't really want to know the sick secret plans for the eyes of spies and lies. That's too much for me. The best path to peace and freedom is the careful solution to each issue which confronts the perilous plight of all humanity.
Just went to Brian Williams' web blog to see what he's got to say. He's getting misty about what a wonderful job Bush has done on the AIDS front:
"When weighing the legacy of President Bush, we must count that African mother who is alive because she is receiving treatment, and her baby born without HIV/AIDS who may one day be a friend of the United States and a leader for the world."
I have to admit, if Bush has done anything good at all, this is it, but I have very strong doubts that a different president who would not have attacked Iraq, who would not have tortured, who would not have spied on Americans, who would not have ignored global warming, who would have not ignored all the warning signs that our economy was about to implode, I doubt such a president as that would have, unlike Bush, ignored the AIDS crisis. Brian is living in a dream world.
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
