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 I've been a long-time reader of Salon and I frequently post links to them. In fact, I've actively encouraged people to subscribe. But now I'm thinking of letting it lapse. The best days are behind it, I think. The straw that broke the camel's back is explained here.
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Or like shooting a 78-year-old man in the face.
There are days when the Daily Show folks must really, really love their jobs, and yesterday was one of them. John Stewart, visibly excited, said it was so good he'd even consider returning his paycheck. I'm not the only one who thinks this might be their best episode in a good long time, or at least the most newsworthy.
Honestly, the best part was when Ed Helms just kept repeating variations of the obvious headline, "A 78-year old man was shot in the face by the Vice President of the United States of America." I mean, come on--peppering? Spraying? The veep shot some dude. With a shotgun. In the face. It really shouldn't be so funny to hear an accurate headline over and over again, but such is our current media universe.
If you missed the show last night, catch some of it at Crooks & Liars.
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I admit that's probably a pretty obvious headline coming from me, but I think the recent troubles with the Danish Mohammed cartoons really underscore the point. Read the excellent Salon.com article on the story to get a sense of how true this is from the Danish perspective.
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish paper that published the cartoons (and requested they be produced in the first place), is a right-wing organ of the right-wing party currently in power. They were intentionally trying to provoke a response to get a rise out of their conservative readership.
On the other side, leaders on the extreme right of the global Muslim community, such as Iran, have been provoking people in countries, where the cartoons have never even been seen, to riot and tear apart Danish and other Western targets.
Where does this leave moderate Danes and Muslims (and, worse off, Danish Muslims)? Caught in the crossfire of the crazies who are trying to provoke a worldwide religious war as a means of pursuing their own political ends.
The problem isn't cartoons, or free speech, or rioting, or anything else. It's the right-wing leaders, of every religious and national affiliation, who keep throwing gas on a very, very long-burning fire. It happens in the US, it happens in Europe, and it happens everywhere else. And I'm fucking sick of it.
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Someone told me today they saw the headline "Drug Lab" used in connection with the puppy muling story. He wasn't sure who it was, but it smelled like the New York Post to me. Bingo.
For all the "righteous" indignation of that lede graf, there's really
no low they won't stoop to. That's really classy, guys.
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David Brooks is a "moderate" conservative because he hides his racist
authoritarianism behind "common sense" appeals to order and tradition.
In today's editorial, he tells
us that the Dems lost guys like Alito when "cultural politics replaced
New Deal politics, and liberal Democrats did their best to repel
Northern white ethnic voters."
On the surface, we all know what that
means, and Brooks dutifully spells it out by quoting Democratic
strategist Fred Dutton writing in 1971: "Dutton argued that white
workers had 'tended, in fact, to become a major redoubt of traditional
Americanism [whatever that is] and of the antinegro, antiyouth vote.'"
Very simply, white folks who work for a living tend to be racist,
sexist, and authoritarian. Like the Vice President, they want a
"strong, robust executive authority." Economically, they think of
themselves as DIY-ers who despise those just below themselves on the
class ladder.
None of this is ground-breaking news--it is essentially
the thesis of Thomas Frank's book What's the Matter With Kansas? Brooks is a moderate conservative, however, because he explains the truculent, anti-democratic tendencies of this minority
constituency as "common sense." As I'm sure Brooks knows, however, the
ancient father of democracy, Pericles, forced the citizens to participate
in their government, dragging them to the ekklesia by force if
necessary. And what does that mean for America, Mr. Brooks? We liberals
must educate the racist, authoritarian tendencies out of America to
make America a true democracy. 2 comments
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I'm not even kidding--CNN told me so. Huzzah to the Colbert Report (not credited by CNN) for coining the term. Let's see what they can do for 2006.
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I just had to repost this story I saw on Drudge about a new study out
of the UK about how
music downloading has affected our experience of music. It
kind of rang true. I was just thinking about how simultaneously
exciting and anticlimactic it was to be handed a leaked copy of the
new
Belle and Sebastien record a month before its release when I
had been waiting with much anticipation to buy it. I will still
purchase the record, but it's just not the same loading it into my iPod
a month early rather than pulling the wrapper off and listening to it
on my stereo with the liner notes out.
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It has become as regular as the Rudolph special and Black Friday--Bill O'Reilly's yearly "defense" of Christmas against people, well, like me, I suppose. How best to defend your right to scream "Merry Christmas" against the unwashed "Happy Holidays" hordes? Buy an O'Reilly holiday ornament for your holiday tree. I. Shit. You. Not. Who's making baby Jesus cry now, Bill?
By the way, how soon will it be until the rest of the media takes a hard look at O'Reilly's list of enemies and realizes that he's a raving anti-Semite? He's practically rehashing the old Zionist Occupied Government chestnut the Neo Nazis are always on about, with a few convenient replacement words. He's just inserting "Soros" for "the Rothschilds" or whomever the Big Evil Jew is supposed to be in whatever idiotic rehash you can find of this retarded conspiracy theory. Typical bullshit racist paranoia dressed up as a crusade to save the fiberglass nativity scenes of Wal-Mart America.
If He were around today, Jesus would totally kick Bill's ass.
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