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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Despite all the stuff that's been revealed about NBC and the retired officers, it's unlikely that NBC is going to change its tune. In effect, they're telling the viewing public to f**k off. Let's hope that NBC's viewership declines as a result of this travesty.
My compliments to Charles Kaiser of the Columbia Journalism Review. His forthright take on the NBC mess is what good journalism is all about.
Now, about Greenwald: I read Tina Brown's item at Politico, and it was good to see. Brown, correctly, thinks that Meet The Press needs fresh blood. They need to get away from the worn out, Establishment hacks like Tom Brokaw and David Broder. She mentioned Greenwald as a possible host of Meet The Press.
Mr. Greenwald, while I think you'd be a fine host of that show, let's be honest here: I just don't think you--well, fit in with the prevailing D.C. Beltway ethos!
...We on the right notice such things as high level Clinton advisors (Stephanopolous) anchoring the ABC news. How about the proposal that Karl Rove do the same at CBS? Naturally the former is business as usual for Glenn, while the latter would produce apoplexy. -- shooter242
This is pretty weak tea, shooter, and you know it. Talk about false equivalencies; it's rather like suggesting who can race to the bottom the fastest (p.s., Rove wins).
sysprog: "I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt."
I remember Obama saying this and was bummed at the time. What I didn't recall was this: I often get questions about impeachment at town hall meetings and I've said that is not something I think would be fruitful to pursue because I think that impeachment is something that should be reserved for exceptional circumstances.
By this standard (or, essentially, the absence of a standard at all), there is nothing under the sun (sorry, Solomon) that would trigger impeachment. How we've matured as a nation since those sorry days of Lewinsky and stained dresses.
Is it all right to call you: Harley Derbig Moo`Chardonay? You drink Sam Adams frothy suds and drip tears in beer.
You, sir, can call me anything you want (unless it's "late for dinner").
Just for you: Glenn Greenwald's take on George Stephanopolous' performance at one of the primary debates:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/17/debate/
I'm saving myself the bother of copying and pasting, this time- you'll have to click the link at my signature.
SPOILER ALERT
Greenwald doesn't exactly fawn over him.
The NYT says that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a renowned child psychiatrist, pushed Johnson & Johnson to fund a research center whose goal was “to move forward the commercial goals of J&J.”
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: November 24, 2008
When a Congressional investigation revealed in June that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist, had earned far more money from drug makers than he had reported to his university, he said that his interests were “solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study.”
But e-mail messages and internal documents from Johnson & Johnson made public in a court filing reveal that Dr. Biederman pushed the company to finance a research center at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, with a goal to “move forward the commercial goals of J.& J.” The documents also show that the company prepared a draft summary of a study that Dr. Biederman, of Harvard, was said to have written.
Dr. Biederman’s work helped to fuel a fortyfold increase from 1994 to 2003 in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder and a rapid rise in the use of powerful, risky and expensive antipsychotic medicines in children. ...
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Corruption and dishonesty is the norm in American society. No wonder that NBC has no integrity left. The question is "what caused all this?" and "what can be done to return honesty to an honored place?"
Kill them all.
"I'm sorry but I don't think so. We on the right notice such things as high level Clinton advisors (Stephanopolous) anchoring the ABC news. How about the proposal that Karl Rove do the same at CBS? Naturally the former is business as usual for Glenn, while the latter would produce apoplexy."--shooter242From Cabdriver:
@shooter242Just for you: Glenn Greenwald's take on George Stephanopolous' performance at one of the primary debates:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/17/debate/
Read the what is in the link, Shooter, and then do the only honorable thing left to you: apologize, and admit your error.
Shooter won't apologize, of course, because if he did he would have to go back on his comments history and apologize for equally inane and clearly not researched comments or just outright lies literally hundreds of times.
Unfortunately, McCaffrey is representative of the way that the entire Iraq War was sold and conducted -- ie We're All Embeds Now! It almost makes one sympathetic to Fox News for its brazen behavior and slogan, simply because it is brazen. The other networks have been more covert, professing to simply report the news while advancing the same central myth perpetrated by the Bush Administration, we know what's best for you people and that's what we'll give you. It's not that they don't understand the notion of a conflict of interest; it's that they assume there can't possibly be one, because we are all on the "same side." That misplaced notion of loyalty not only fueled the war, but has tainted almost every aspect of mainstream journalism. Unless they are explicitly political, so-called experts are introduced to the public with little regard as to their natural biases. NBC is not only defending McCaffrey, it is defending its own laziness and lack of accountability to the public.
Judge Vaughn Walker
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/feds-eff-arguin.html
Oral arguments in Walker's courtroom are scheduled for 10 a.m. PST on Tuesday. Threat Level will cover the proceedings live.
These people act as if they just gave birth to war profiteering, and that it will take the public time to discover their novel baby!
No doubt, the Bush years brought on a flood of hubris, empowering war enablers with the sense that they could get away with ... well, when you see people getting away with torture and murder, who will care about mere war profiteers?
Everyone who is against war will, because war and profiting from war are historically conjoined twins. The only new spawn NBC might be bearing is an historic level of arrogance.
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
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