Mike's Blog Round Up
"They are interested in your stuff, however, and sooner or later, they will swamp your kind out of existence." Sadly No on the dwindling honkie tribe.
Jesus' General's effort to seek guidance from Wiley S Drake results in little satisfaction.
Marc McDonald looks at how FOX blew it's chance at credibility.
You'll want to save this for when you've got more than a minute - Blue Herald's massive new Right Wing Cartoon Watch
And finally, it's a passing as sad as any, and as I hold the final issue of the Weekly World News in my hands, I must try hard to think about the good times, even though the grave of Elvis grows a bit colder, and Bigfoot trudges sadly through the frozen tundra which scientists predict will be a tropical paradise next year after the reversal of the magnetic poles. When again shall we see the everyman outrage of Ed Anger, who introduced the phrase "pig-bitin' mad" to the English lexicon? Or the sage advice of Dottie, who routinely advised the lovelorn that their best course of action would be suicide? So long, Bat Boy. Branches Up, Roots Down offers the eulogy.
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The Right Wing Cartoon Watch - link is down - this one works
http://blueherald.com/rwcw
The Weekly World News is gone, but FOX News lives on.
Check Out This Fantastic Video From Fox Attacks!
It compares the pre-Iraq Fox coverage to what they are doing NOW in their coverage of Iran
This piece really tells the story of what a corrupt tool for propaganda Fox is. It also should tell people that our battlelines do not end with Bush and other Republicans. It is the media that is our biggest threat and that starts with Fox. We must now resolve to stop being accomplices in our own downfall...
• Detox from Fox: Starve The Beast
No more capitulation by our representatives and Fox's competitors. It cannot and must be tolerated. Do not cooperate with Fox in any way. Just say no!
The correct link for the "Right Wing Cartoon Watch" is http://www.blueherald.com/rwcw
I wish everyone would do the roundup so that all links opened in new windows. The target=blank HTML code used to be considered bad form in the old days, but with modern tabbed browsers it really makes things a lot more convenient.
Off the topics but wow this is a big story that MSM will probably not cover.
Police accused of using provocateurs at summit
Here's the YouTube video showing these underhanded tactics:
We need to catapult the propaganda on this one so the American people (and Canadians) will be more aware of the depts that the powers that be will go to sow chaos and undermine legit efforts of citizens to effect change they want.
If you right click on a link you will get a menu. Just choose "open link in new window" Then after you read whatever is at the link you can just close that window and be back here at c&l :)
Yeah, right click already.
Sinch @ 6:
they've been using provacateurs since the fifties. It's not a new tactic.
Where will I get my 50-pound baby news now?
comsympinko @ 10:
Subscribe to the WSJ. Rupert will lead them to Tabloid Town.
Yeah i know it's old hat for the police but this video really nails it.
The reich wing political cartoon watch is scary. Are these people living on the same planet as the rest?
"We win." win what exactly? Do you even know what you're talking about? It's not a war with a front. It's an illegal occupation of a foreign country. Puppet government and all. Now they're ARMING the people they were supposedly fighting and THAT'S ok too but hey ... if the dems weren't such wimps we'd win!
WTF?
If ONE of these war mongering fuckwits had to face a DAY in Iraq they'd have chimpy himself by the throat by the end of the next one.
The level of ignorance is absolutely staggering.
MargeAggedon @ 13:
I wouldn't call it ignorance... ignorance would be a complement. What it is, is stupidity.
The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that ignorance is you simply don't know... stupidity is you ought to know better. The ignorant were never exposed to the facts, whereas the stupid were shown the facts, but chose to deny them.
Anyone see that ABCnews dump the democratic debate polls twice? Where it showed that Kucinich was in the lead both time, and yet they reported a story without any reference of where they got the polls(made it up?) that there was a three way tie between Clinton,Obama, and Edward.
I haven't seen very many polls on the Democratic contender and now I think I know why.
Sinch @ 12:
you're right! the triangles on boots is kind of extremely blatant.
The Weekly World News is going under!?! Man, that sucks! Must mean the rapture is at hand. The world is surely ending now.
Wow, bummer.
While we're talking about hypocrisy and whining...Mr. Murray, of the Murray Energy Co., you know...the owner of the mine that collapsed is moaning about the criticism he is receiving for "running an unsafe mine" and "not doing enough to save the miners".
Call the WAAAAHHMBULANCE..."I've been under a doctor's care, I'm living in a trailer, I came apart when I heard about the collapse" he has said.
Waaaaah. Under a doctor's care...oh...I'm sure HE has a great medical plan...did he pay his deductible...probably doesn't have one...ya know...executive privilege...one of the perks of ownership. Living in a trailer? Waaaaaaah...I can't go to my big cushy home bought and paid for by exploiting underpaid mine workers working in unsafe conditions...ohhh...but it keeps cost low...so...it's all good. He came apart? Yeah...first thought.."OOOOH NO....there goes my insurance!!"
Thanks for the link! I'm honored to be in such distinguished company. Yes, you definitely need more than a minute to read that tome!
(Thanks to Rusty and upstatetimmy for giving a live link for RWCW. WordPress 2.0 has been a bit twitchy. Their link will work until the next one is posted; here's the permalink.)
The guys at Weekly World News already have new jobs replacing Tony Snow.
I tried getting through Right Wing Cartoon Watch, I really did. But about 7 or 8 toons into it, my nose started to bleed a bit, so I figured my skull was depressurizing and I needed to stop.
I too mourn the closure of Weekly World News for nostalgia's stake (and because they published one or two of my photos back in the 82-83 when I was in that line of business). Though it seemed to be American ( there was no more deranged a patriot than Ed Anger) I'm pretty sure it was written and edited almost entirely by Englishmen and Scotsmen. The whole thing was an entertaining hoax.
Sadly, current reality has ovetaken it. The lunatic notions it represented on its day at 25-cents per grainy, idly acquired copy are often now represented by "mainstream" media.
Note to ysbaddaden... you are mistaken. The crew that worked on WWN were indeed a cynical lot, but their ambition was to have some fun with the "fringe", not to empower it.
Richterscale @ 21:
Haha! I've heard that before. I normally head to Bob Geiger's weekly round-up of liberal editorial cartoons to clear my head.
paul @ 17:
Yeah... too much competition from News Corp., apparently.
Sinch @ 6:
I have a post up at Les Enragés.org on this, and it's already been submitted to tomorrow's Roundup. If you want to get a jumpstart on it, see There's a Riot Going On. And Bascombe @ 9 - you're absolutely right, the FBI were pulling this shit on the SDS back in the Vietnam War era. They never got caught quite so red-handed though. This is dynamite shit!
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