Citing the public’s “. . .deep seeded antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party,” former Republican Party leader Rep. Tom Davis this week observed that “the Republican brand is in the trash can. . . if we were dog food, they would …
O.M.F.G. . . . Did you catch the music?!? Wrong about the day he was born?? Wrong about being born during “Happy Hour”?? (Did they even have “Happy Hour” in the Neolithic?) How does this help us to think he’s not too old to remember who the Sunnis are? But twenty-seven bottles of Scotch?? For a baby?? Well MY mom …
Well, it’s been two weeks since The NY Times broke the story of the Pentagon‘s psy ops, perception management campaign created to sell the Iraq War to the American public by 75 former military officers– reverse embeds, if you will. Thus far, not a single television network or cable news company has bothered to respond to the charges, despite a …
That was a popular jingle in my youth, referring to a brand of tire. A Madison Avenue version of the old Jedi mind trick of suggestion. (It didn’t work on me, as I had opted for Dupont radials for my first car, a 1956 Austin Healy.) Little did I know that a few decades later we’d be treated to a …
So, there were a couple of hearings on Iraq yesterday in the Senate. There was the predictable charts and graphs showing a reduction in violence in Baghdad, the main target of the “surge.” (Surprising just how much ethnic cleansing a few well-motivated death squads can accomplish when they really put their minds to it.) And in Western Iraq, where the …
That’s how Glenzilla (Glenn Greenwald), describes the juvenile delinquents who are running our MSM in his new book “Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics.” Here’s an excerpt, taken from his blog today, titled “The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell” : Most certainly, the press will pretend to be above it all (“this is not something …
