Tag: NPR
Occupy Wall Street v Teabaggers
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Parks and Demonstration www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Jon Stewart compares the Occupy Wall Street and Teabagger movements As the Occupy Wall Street protest movement spread to cities all over America, including Los Angeles, Boston, Tampa, Chicago, Minneapolis, …
Corporate Welfare Queens (Update)
Corporate Welfare Queen, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt During his 1976 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan captured the public’s imagination by creating a cultural icon: a rich, Cadillac driving Welfare Queen (code for “Black”) to symbolize all welfare recipients as manipulative fraudsters out to game the system at taxpayers’ expense. His pogrom against the poor came to fruition when President Bill Clinton …
GOP Declares Emergency Session!
Anthony Weiner takes it to the House Forget record foreclosures, near depression levels of unemployment, 50 million medically uninsured, and the prospect of draconian social cuts in the face of record deficits at home. Forget the devastation of a 9.0 earthquake, 30′ tsunami waves, and radiological contamination from failed nuclear reactors in Japan. Forget the two unsustainable wars we’re already …
The Manchurian Lunatic
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c George Soros Plans to Overthrow America www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity PART ONE Where Roger Ailes, in a rare moment of introspection and projection says this about NPR: They are of course, Nazis. Where Glenn Beck uncovers a sinister plot to overthrow …
BP’s Bleeding Assholes
Ordinary citizens mobilize in response to Gulf tragedy Despite the best efforts of the BP/US government duopoly to minimize the sheer magnitude of the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists, reporters, politicians, community leaders, and activists of all stripes are saying enough is enough, and are taking the initiative to deal with it. In previous weeks, much of …
Oh My Oilmageddon God (Update)
Yesterday during my daily sorta nature walk, I made the mistake of tuning into NPR. First thing I hear is the breaking news that the scientists they hired to estimate the amount of oil gushing from the BP rupture could easily be 14x the previous estimate, equal to the amount of the Exxon Valdez oil spill every four days. It …
