Fabulous! Alterman on busting WH media manipulation
am posting this piece in full, with link, because I think it's really worth reading. Wake-Up Time Yes, Bush has bullied the national media. But are they really powerless? Only if they play along....
View ArticlePoll-- Bush's photo on Kos--
I know someone commented on this, on an open thread a while back. Why bring it up again? Because if my distaste is this strong, how smart are those ads? It's supposed to mobilize me. IN fact, my...
View ArticleE-voting, untimely death of an important advocate
I took this first paragraph off Common Dreams. Please follow the link and read the whole article. I'm no conspiracy nut but this is troubling. quote: Death of a Patriot: No More 'Blind Faith Voting'...
View ArticleNPR-- a poll and a call for your opinions/attention
Remember when GWB appointed 2 new directors to the board of NPR during the same interim that gave us wingnut judges? At the time, 1 of them said she believed a director had the right (or was it,...
View ArticleQuery -- explanation of idiom apparently familiar to
everyone but me. That is: tin foil hat. Where does it come from? South Park? Do you remember the first time you heard it? Do you use it? Like it? I get the meaning, of course; the image is clear. But...
View ArticleSecrecy is one way of hiding, vagueness is another
They've been hiding a lot of things besides the memo. I don't just mean Cheney's energy task for, either, or any of the other known obfuscations. I mean the party line about June 30th & not yet...
View Articleprivatize the army?
When was the decision made? Was there public debate? Was it done incrementally? Can it be undone? What purpose does it serve? To free a volunteer army for more "urgent" jobs, requiring superior...
View Articlewho's organizing "Republicans for Kerry" ???
Can we talk about this? Clearly, a lot of moderates, establishment types & ordinary republicans are turning against this administration. Is an appropriate umbrella being created? If not, How can...
View ArticlePatriot--isms
Start with the case of Brandon Mayfield, the lawyer from Oregon: (an expanded version of a post from yesterday) They had him on a list, of course. A caucasian muslim convert with an egyptian wife--...
View Articlecampaign issue ?
One of the things that always drives me wild is when something really infuriates/frightens me & noooobody in the media mentions it. Here's one-- for me a gen-u-wine hot button: stealth...
View Article"utopia" for the neo-con, hell for the rest of us
For the life of me (literally, these days,I guess) I don't understand how they can possibly want/dream/aspire to the things they do. Example: Bruce Bartlett writing in the Grey Lady lists their...
View ArticleWhee! A strategy for debunking GOPer lies at work!!
Read Frank Rich today! It's like the old tried-and-true adage in Hollywood PR-- you cannot "kill" a story (bad pr/ exposes) --the only effective way to get rid of it is to replace it with another...
View ArticleGood news for the Dems
Every time something like the LA Times poll shivers my timbers (even just a little) I take refuge in a certain tally I like to run. And it leads me to this question: When every part of the culture,...
View Articleconservative journo comes out for Kerry
Fowarded to me by email on a day darkened by ignorance and cant, it is a bit of an antidote. Hope it's not months old. Still it was news to me. "Charley Reese is a columnist for the King Features...
View Articlearticle about Iraqi resistance-- NOT TO BE MISSED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1302719,00.html One man's resistance: 'Why I turned against America' by Jason Burke in Baghdad 'There is no greater shame than to see your country occupied'...
View ArticleExtraordinary, the Democrats, the GOP & the military
Talk about patterns! Take a look. The difference between those who served and those who didn't is extraordinary. What do you think it means? I'd really be interested in hearing kossack opinions.
View ArticleAn antidote to Rove's psy-ops
Clearly, Rove ops like the one described here (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/22/21730/538) depend entirely on poor communication to be effective-- they have to pass unseen, in the shadows of...
View ArticleBuying blue: boycott Amazon.com
Yesterday I read diary: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/30/173123/14 It provides links to http://www.projectbluechristmas.com/ a site which provides lists of companies that do not donate...
View ArticleA 'brand' new media strategy for reform Democrats
this was the 329th comment on KO's thread & so I don't think anyone will ever see it. Thing is,I got more and more enthusiastic about this idea/observation as I wrote it; so I am cross-posting it...
View ArticleSmartest take on the filibuster & the "nuclear option"
Hendrik Herzberg's column in the New Yorker has just been posted online. Even for him (the best!) this is a whopper. Check it out. http://newyorker.com/talk/content/index.ssf?050314ta_talk_hertzberg...
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