The Knee-Jerkedly Objective Mainstream Media (Updated)
In light of Mark Halperin's denunciation of the so-called Obama bias in the media's coverage of the presidential campaign, I have decided to repost this diary. I honestly believe that the cognitive...
View ArticleLeft or Right? A Test (20 Questions)
Here are twenty questions, covering multiple topics, whose answers should distinguish conservatives from liberals.
View ArticleOh look: Fluff in my Navel. Part II
Alternative titleI am a crazy left wing purist...apparently.I have read a number of diaries and comments about how radical the Daily Kos is and how we shouldn't demand too much from the Democratic...
View ArticleWhere are the sore winners now?
Looking at the 2004 book Sore Winners (And the Rest of Us) in George Bush's America, I'm fairly certain that the author, John Powers, and not the publisher, chose the title. It isn't just a catchy...
View ArticleENOUGH of the Right Wing Nut Jobs
It's time to take our country back from the proud ignorant, religious nut jobs and wako's. We should not be ashamed to be intelligent, ration, thinking people. We can have differences of opinion and...
View ArticleIs the Left Wing Like an "Aging Prostitute?"
The phrase caught my eye this morning as I was perusing Ynet, an Israeli newspaper. I was reading an article about how the left in Israel has lost its youthful vigor. The left in Israel is against...
View ArticleSenator Bernie Sanders and the current state of American politics
The presence of the Socialist from Vermont in the present U. S. senate is a very good benchmark for the measure of where "left", "center", and "right" really are in this country at this time. For...
View ArticleObama's Mistakes In Judgement
Obama was not prepared for this Presidency. But it wasn't for a lack of International experience. It wasn't because of inexperience. It wasn't even because he had to dig the economy out of the scorched...
View ArticleOK, I confess: I'm an unreasonable extremist of the far left!
It's no surprise that those who are opposed to real health system reform are doing what opponents of reform have always tried to do: marginalize proponents as extreme, unrealistic and unreasonable.We...
View ArticleDo Not Read this..... Death of Democracy... Money
A thousand Diaries will follow this one. And you will make 7000 comments on Hilary's Hair, or Michelle's Arms, Obama's Speech, but only if written by a front pager, But you will not read this. Even...
View ArticleWhy do the media leaders waste their breath on...
Why do the media leaders waste their breath reporting what right wing, know nothings have to say?Every night segments on Countdown, Maddow, Ed, etc. retell whatever guttural utterances have been...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Does Not Dispute False Assertion that American Is Center...
While Rachel Maddow has done a great job in defending and promoting liberalism on her show, like many other liberal guests on these MSM news shows, the Right is allowed to make many statements as fact...
View ArticleThe Issue is Rhetoric
If you are among those who call the President every dirty name in the book and then respond when criticized about your language that you are just engaged in constructive criticism, then this will not...
View ArticleBarak pulls a Carter, Gaza & more
Hello, everyone. I begin writing this diary after a few very hectic days. A good friend of mine, mother of two wonderful children, has been hospitalized this week, and it looks like she has some form...
View ArticleThe Still Obtuse Chris Matthews
After my last diary, The Obtuse Chris Matthews, there was a comment on the show to the effect that, well, bloggers don’t have to govern. The implication was that if you weren’t in Congress then you are...
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Sunday Snooze Talk: The Skewpot
More than four decades after the civil rights movement and the second wave of feminism delivered two new paradigms to the nation, my survey of the past 16 months of six Sunday television talk shows...
View ArticleIt is not a sin to be a liberal Democrat.
As we rush to the center over the next two years, can we remember that it is not a sin to be a liberal Democrat?
View ArticleTHE AMERICAN DREAM: A Flawed Conspiracy Theory
Are we Americans: Democrats, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Libertarians, Rotarians, Progressives and Hypochondriacs- all of us, being played like one huge, oxygen starved, exhausted, gullible fish? Is...
View ArticleReflections on America by Heart
The Guardian has leaked some passages from Sarah Palin's much anticipated new book, America By Heart, in which she goes after President Obama. In the byline, Guardian writes, "Palin tackles areas that...
View ArticleTank Man/Wellstone of the year
In these times, it can be very easy to recriminate and condemn. The idiots and the ass clowns are running amok in government, business, the culture and especially the media. It can be very easy to...
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