Category Archives: Observations

FOX News Airs Piss-Poor Photoshops, Proves Conservatives Aren’t Funny

This comes to us from the good folks at Media Matters (and so do the pics): During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven … Continue reading

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ANWR vs. Reality

Yesterday, Media Matters posted about MSNBC’s Brewer uncritically aired Bush’s misleading assertion that ANWR, continental shelf drilling would “give this country a chance to help” with gas prices. Hannity and Buchanan and every other right wing nut is spouting this … Continue reading

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Sign Of The Times? Countrywide Forecloses On Tonight Show’s “Ed McMahon”

Tell me if this doesn’t wrap up the situation in a sad twist.

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Americans Are In Trouble: Debt, Declining Life Expectancy, Shorter Too

Thinking of Bobby Kennedy’s real passion during his ’68 campaign for the American worker highlights exactly why our candidates – and our next president – needs to pay some serious attention to the plight of Americans, especially those of the … Continue reading

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Remembering Bobby Kennedy (And The American Worker)

It was 40 years ago today that Robert F. Kennedy, having just won the California Democratic Party Primary (a huge deal) and on his way to speak with hotel workers in the hotel’s kitchen, was shot, mortally wounded, and subsequently … Continue reading

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Who Will Be The New Congressional Democratic Lions?

I hate to bring up such a sad subject at such a tough time but, considering times don’t appear headed for wild wonderfulness any year soon and the subject’s too important to ignore, here goes: With the hospitalizations of two … Continue reading

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The Right “Puzzled” By McClellan’s Criticism

You know, I wasn’t inclined to pay much attention to fomer White House spokesman Scott McClellan’s new book about his tenure beginning soon after our dance of death began in Iraq. As McClellan took the job, we heard a lot … Continue reading

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The War That Opposes Al Jazeera More Than Osama Bin Laden

I don’t know whether you caught it here or elsewhere last week, but we’ve lowered the jackpot someone gets who snitches and leads to the death (wanna bet?) or capture (right, uh huh) of Osama bin Laden. But here in … Continue reading

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The Puerto Rico Primary – Fair? Or Not?

I know the issue of Puerto Rico’s status – whether its “just” a possession or whether it should ever be granted statehood like Hawaii was after enjoying a similar status – is always a thorny one, but with the news … Continue reading

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Reflections On This Memorial Day Weekend

Hopefully, most of us realize that the Memorial Day many will celebrate this long weekend indeed stands in memory of something: soldiers dying for a noble cause as designated by our government. Sadly, what does this Memorial Day tell us … Continue reading

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OpEd Pages Dominated By Fat, Old White Men – But Here’s What Is Not Rich

Since it’s the Sunday of a long holiday weekend (though fewer and fewer Americans have jobs that a) pay anything as “fluffy” as holiday pay, b) where just one paycheck gets them by, so even if their other three jobs … Continue reading

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Hillary Clinton And The RFK Assassination Reference

Is it just me or is this issue being blown out of all possible proportion? As Time and some other media outlets note, Hillary has referenced the June candidate selection before using her husband’s ’92 selection as candidate and the … Continue reading

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Speaking of John McCain’s Free & Easy Ride In The Media

First, the mainstream media joined the tighty-righties in villifying Barack Obama for about three minutes worth of comments given by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, over the decades in which the men knew one another while simultaneously, they paid … Continue reading

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This Is How Bad It Gets, When Media Casually Admits They Give McCain An Easy Time

The so-called left wing doesn’t have to make charges that the mainstream media is taking it very easy on Republican presumptive presidential nominee John McCain, compared with his Democratic Party challengers, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Lefties don’t have to … Continue reading

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Someone Finally Grabbed The War Blank Checkbook From Bush

We haven’t heralded this move by House Democrats last week (joined by two whole Republicans) that kept Bush from getting another blank check from them (on our dime and the lives of our countrymen and women) to wage endless, pointless … Continue reading

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Bush Likens Obama Diplomacy To Hitler Appeasement/Holocaust

President (I can never believe he bears this title) George W. Bush has done so many reprehensible things during his “administration” that it’s hard to find a new source of outrage. Yet he managed to provide just that when, in … Continue reading

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Give The Media A “C” For Consistency on Clinton

You have to hand it to the MSM: they yelled even louder for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the Democratic Party race for presidential nomination after she won West Virginia as they did before. While I still feel very … Continue reading

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Want To Lose Your Social Security Savings? Vote McCain

Yes, sir. John McCain was a big proponent of Bush’s plan to kill Social Security and steal your savings, which he tried to sell as a bonus at the same time his packed courts keep ruling against retirees who suddenly … Continue reading

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Burma: We Need To Send More Than Our Prayers

Whether you call the nation Burma, as many of its citizens refer to it, or Myanmar, a name adopted by the militaristic crew leading it, this is a nation that was in one big hurt BEFORE the cyclone struck (and … Continue reading

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Supreme Court Approves Of New Poll Tax

That’s exactly how the Times Argus of Vermont, hardly a liberal rag (believe me!), characterizes the U.S. Supreme Court’s rubberstamp of states who’ve decided to force voters to pay fees other than directly at the ballot to cast a vote. … Continue reading

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