Wednesday, August 12, 2009

They grow up so fast

Big Boy

Rush Limbaugh, via Joan Walsh:

"...We get tarred and feathered as Nazis because we don't just bend over and grab the ankles and let you guys ram whatever down our throats that you want."


I'll spare my gentler audience a visual depiction of this...but those with a rarer taste are free to bid on one privately, of course.

;>)

Monday, August 03, 2009

War Of The O'ses

War Of The O'ses

Glenn Greenwald - Salon:

Does anyone need it explained to them why it is so dangerous and destructive to have our political debates controlled by GE executives, sitting in their offices censoring the journalism of our leading media outlets in the name of "civility," code for: you will respect those who can harm us?
Our entire political culture is already designed to ensure corporate control of our political institutions. Their lobbyists literally write the laws enacted by Congress and control their implementation. The reason the journalism industry insisted for so long on the ludicrous fiction that corporate parents never violated the sanctity of journalistic independence is precisely because everyone understood why that would be so dangerous.
Apparently, they no longer feel a need to maintain that fiction.


It's not that we didn't see it coming. Absorption of an inconveniently independent media as a means of controlling the message is a strategy as old as the hills, irrespective of the ideology espoused.

Right-wing eradication (including such acts performed under the Clinton administrations) of laws covering media ownership and a contrasted balance of viewpoints merely hastened an inevitable process in America...The shaping of public perceptions into a form congruent with corporate dictates, the replacement of objective truth with subjective nuance, and the marginalization of contrary information.

Now, what can be done about it?

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Sunday Overnight



1915 - 2009




Al Bowly with the Ray Noble Orchestra, It's All Forgotten Now, 1934.



Vernon Dalhart, There's a New Star in Heaven To-Night, 1926.



The Ink Spots, Bless You For Being An Angel, 1940.



Bing Crosby, Swinging On a Star.

Via con Dios, Abuela

;_(

Everything Is True, No Thinking Is Permitted

I fought their "anal probe", my friends...

Raw Story:

TV host Glenn Beck has a theory about the real reason the US government launched the “cash-for-clunkers” program: It’s a secret conspiracy to take control of your computer.


It used to be that, in the Right wing propaganda spearpoint game, a seemly number of days or weeks would pass between eruptions of incoherency, giving the overtaxed cortexes of the subscribing demographic clinging to every word with raggedly masticated fingernails a chance at repeating the falsehoods to themselves and their cohorts enough so that a belief unshakable by inconvenient facts could be established.

But now it seems that, as in so many other entertainment occupations requiring regular beast feeding, an increasing tempo of providing specially tailored crackpot product to satiate the 'imaginary playfriends' crowd has been deemed imperative.
This of course is no doubt due to ratings - after all, you don't get to be the network choice of birthers, flat earthers and other lower berthers by sticking to reruns of daytime soaps and the Teatime Movie.

It would be one thing if elements of relevant truth were attached to these incendiary prevarications...After all, one of the elements within the successful Big Lie is to incorporate just enough factual data to infer plausibility upon whopperish screeching to the less easily gulled.
This, of course, is not for the benefit of the 27% of fish head-eating geeks who believe unquestioningly anyone or anything that affirms their prejudices directly - merely the mass of mentally incurious fence sitters who require a stiffer breeze to fill their tattered sails.

Now, however, they (and by 'they' - well, you know who I'm talking about - If you don't, you're one of them) don't even bother. Safe to assume, perhaps, that their contempt for intellect and critical thinking is reaching its apex.

;>)

Saturday, August 01, 2009

They all do, eventually

Red Hot Running Mate

...I have this power, you see...

HuffPo

Palin Goes "Dark," Leaves Supporters Wondering


And once you've had dark, nothing else requires a remark.

;>)