FAUX NEWS

Fair and balanced my ass. The Fox News Channel, and Bill O'Reilly in particular, really really REALLY piss me off. Say what you want about liberal bias in the media but at least the other network news divisions WILL go after a Democrat - see what they did to Clinton. But Fox will not EVER criticize or even look critically at the Republican admnistration or the Republican Congress. Change is gonna come and when it does, the backlash is going to stun and terrorize the Republican lapdogs in the media that is Fox News. Hopefully I'll get to personally kick O'Reilly's ass. He doesn't seem tough at all; he's the man now, dog, when he's the scorekeeper AND the referee in his little fiefdom that is Fox News. What he is, in truth, is a fucking bully. And bullies always crumble in a fair fight.





So, go immediately to Outfoxed. It's a fantastic documentary about how Fox News is effectively the media arm of right wing conservatives. Look at the trailer and clips. And tell everyone you know about it. Shout it from the rooftops.

Never let them alter your image

Wow, two posts in one day! Better pace myself.

So I get this link from a list-serve I subscribe to to which I subscribe. And it has a Flash-based interactive drawing screen. So naturally I must subvert the system:





You'll have to forgive my scrawl. I did it with my right mousing hand and I'm a lefty, a term from which - after reading my blog entries - one can suss nuanced meanings.

Feel free to go there and write your own message. Email the screen capture to me - jonez "at" macdotcom. I'll post the good ones.

Like Shiva looks at a sea slug

Mark Morford and Bill O'Reilly, it can be said, are two extremes of the same continuum. Except the MM uses humor and doesn't scare the hell out of me or make me shake my head - EVER - with his particular style of bombast.

Here's the takeaway, the only thing you need to know: Bill O'Reilly is a walking, snorting cautionary tale. For those of us who occasionally tread similar terrain of barbed political commentary (tempered, I hope, with satire and hope and sex and humor and fire hoses of divine juice), he is the Grand Pariah, the threshold, the Place You Do Not Want To Go as an intellectually curious human soul. He is the guy you can always look to, no matter how bad it gets, and say, Wow, at least I'm not him.

I take it back: they're entirely on different planes of existence:

And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9-11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains...

HOLY CRAP!

Hear that whistling sound? That's the future of our children getting sucked away.

According to the Treasury Department, from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions, but in the past four years alone, the Bush administration borrowed $1.05 trillion.


And yet he gives tax cuts to the wealthy. Good thing he's a fiscal conservative. Dumbass.