Stewart’s Sanity Speech, Citizens United, & The Mid-Term Elections

Jon Stewart lays down the predicate for his Restore Sanity speech Criticisms of Jon Stewart’s closing speech at his and Stephen Colbert’s Restore Sanity and/or Fear Rally in D.C. last Saturday are varied. One has it  that he didn’t encourage people to just simply vote. As far as I saw, watching the whole thing on my teevee, the only person …

The Violent Fruits Of Beck’s Paranoia

The scariest part of this interview is how rational Byron Williams sounds. That could mean that the propaganda spew of his “teacher” Glenn Beck is working on more than just the feeble minded. Then again, Goebbels‘ propaganda infected what was then one of the world’s most literate populations. I wonder how many more sponsors Beck’s going to lose once they …

Exposing The U.S. Chamber Of Foreign Commerce

The new appropriately named DNC ad: “Stealing Democracy” Over a year ago in a post titled Soylent Green And Corporations Are People Too, I warned about the implications for our democracy if the corporatist dominated US Supreme Court ruled the way I expected them too in the Citizens United case. And when they ruling came down last January, in A …

Recycling Rethugs

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Indecision 2010 – Revenge of the Fallen – FearStock.com www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive Keeping fear alive with Stephen’s interactive clip art Per the Colbert clip above, the Rethugs don’t need to stop at duplicating clip art for their fear mongering commercials. Since they …

Rahmbo Farewell

Classic SNL skit that captures the two sides of former WH Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel Back in May, in a post titled Sometimes You’re The Windshield, Sometimes You’re The Bug, I called on President Obama to get rid of his Chief of Staff,  Rahm “fucking liberal retards” Emanuel;  and a month after he took office,  the two key players …

The Summers Of Our Discontent

Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …

Afutilestan (IX) XI

On the ninth anniversary of 9/11 (the day that America became unhinged and ushered in a lucrative national security state), we remember the innocent victims and the heroes who lost their lives trying to save them and others. Seven thousand miles away, a hundred thousand American troops and another hundred thousand plus private contractors and NATO troops are supposedly fighting …