Mike's Blog Round Up
Welcome, ladies and germs, to the legendary C&L Blog Roundup and Comedy Club. Your emcee is Steven of The Opinion Mill, and he'll be here until Saturday -- or until Mike figures out how to block his e-mails. (Ba-dum, bish!) Be sure to send love and submissions his way at steve[dot]theopinionmill[at
Whatever you do, don't talk to a Muslim on Ramadan or the Republicans will call you a traitor. Actually, they'll conduct a push-poll that suggests you're a traitor, then pretend the whole thing was a misunderstanding, but you know what I mean.
So far, Bush's War On Terror (he gets an auteur credit over the title) has been a rollercoaster of suspense -- kind of like an Alfred Hitchcock movie scored to the rumblings of Mike Chertoff's gut. We've had the arrests of the Shoeless Schmoes of Miami, the Jersey Pizza Jihadis and the JFK Jokers who were plotting to blow up an airport with a Bic lighter, but can your heart stand the knuckle-gnawing tension of the Salt Shakin' Seven? Cue shower music from Psycho!
Winger, can you spare a dime? They're scuffling for spare change at National Review Online.
Meanwhile, it's high time we stopped usijg the word "comedian" to describe the Pilonidal Cyst Poster Child. Whackity schmackity doo!
On a cultural note, here's another preview of Redacted, the movie about a 2006 atrocity in Iraq that will have the warwhores screeching and pulling their hair.
BOOK NOOK: David "Babbling" Brooks pretends to have read Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road on the occasion of its 50th anniversary; in response, David "Fafblog" Ehrenstein waxes nostalgic for the days when Brooks was sequestered behind the Times Select firewall. Stop the presses! The reviews are in! My Grandfather's Son, the new memoir by Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, is a twisted mass of lies and distortions that demonstrate the winger justice has a can of worms for a mind and wouldn't know the truth if it left a pubic hair on his can of Coke. Other than that, though, it might be a fun read.
Don't forget to try the veal!
Bush Vetoes Child Health Bill Privately
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and CARL HULSE
After he vetoed a bill that would have expanded government
health insurance for children, President Bush said he was
open to compromising with Congress by spending more money
on the program than his budget has proposed.
Democrats Won't Block Hearing for Gonzales Successor
By PHILIP SHENON
Senate Democrats are suggesting that they will not hold up confirmation of President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, despite differences over Senate access to documents involving Justice Department actions.
Are the Dems part of the repug party or not?
'Public Hair'?
BaScOmBe @ 2:
We're calling them "Repug Lite" just to denote the slight differences but yes. They are. They are paid to pretend to be an opposition to the wingers.
dennis miller is funny.
When?
biff diggerence @ 5:
Back when he was doing the fake news on SNL. I think it might have been the early 80's. Nothing since then.
Now we're making progress.
Secessionists Meeting in Tennessee
By BILL POOVEY – 1 day ago
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk.
Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g2ax-qLr2hKTc6PJMZIgs3jr9ekwD8S1K47G0
MargeAggedon @ 6:
Yes, when other people wrote his material.
NetBank, the first and largest internet bank went under on Friday.
biff diggerence @ 5:
dennis miller is a douchbag , thats been worn out serviceing barbra bush once to often!
Who Owns your House?
XYZ sold parts of your loan all over the world.
Go Figure!
Thu Sep 27, 6:57 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Toys and children's necklaces made in China were recalled Wednesday, including five more items from the popular Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line, because they contain dangerous levels of lead.
Oh my oh my. Where's it end?
Later
Weaseldog @ 8:
LOL :D
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
get used to lead from communist china its the prelude to the lead were going to recieve out of the muzzels of thier guns!
Much olbiged for the mention, Steve-o!
obliged even...grrrrrrrrrrrr
I recommend the prime rib. And, be sure to tip ya waitresses, you cheap bastards :-)
L.A. Confidential @ 9:
who lost money on that? Inquiring minds want to know!
MargeAggedon @ 4:
Actually, that was a rhetorical question and I'm in full agreement with your assessment. If Lieberman's people are advising Obama and Hillary and Bill used to love Gore, who picked Lieberman as a running mate, it shows that it's nothing more than an insider's party to attract the 'opposition' vote. It really looks like "1984" is more of a blueprint than a prophecy!
great news ,i recieved an email from a lawyer in ahinya in africa , hes informed me that a rich family was killed in iraq by blackwater and im to be awarded thier family fortune, all i have to do is send him two thousand dollars for prosseing the claim and ill recieve 20 million pastards ,god has been good to me , with that money i can joine the republican party and become a bush democrat , finally a dream come true!!!
MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK
[Honoring reporters who just can't handle the truth!]
October 4, 2007
The New York Times Political Coverage:
For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
Before we turn this week's Media Putz nomination over to BuzzFlash reader Tom Wieliczka of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, we should note that the Buzz has long differentiated between the generally liberal NYT editorial page (although they did support the Iraq War) and the anti-Democratic news section.
The national news coverage of the Times still includes stories about Iraq without challenging the Administration's propaganda; it still tends to caricature Democrats while rarely running a piece about Bush's numerous personal failings and lies; and was one of the key papers beating the drums for the "investigations" used by the Republicans to try and impeach Clinton. The Times also rode the bandwagon of ridiculing Al Gore while generally giving Bush a pass in the 2000 election.
The Times has many good, solid reporters and columnists, but it is clear that its editors lean toward appeasing the Republicans (including apologizing for running the paid-for MoveOn.org ad), and its publisher had to be dragged kicking and screaming before he forced Judith Miller to leave the paper.
It has a secular outlook, but politically its "news" is tilted toward Bush, particularly in its White House and foreign policy coverage. Now, Tom, take it away:
"I nominate the entire New York Times Staff, from the Editor down to every NYT Reporter, as this week's Media Putzes.
As of October 2nd at 4pm, I did a search on the NY Times Web site with no date restrictions. I did not find ONE article that referenced the "Phony Soldier" comment that Rush Limbaugh made last week.
I also did a NY Times search, going back as far as I could, and could not find one article about Limbaugh calling Paul Hackett and Max Cleland "Staff Puke," after they lost their elections. Again, I found no hits.
It's not like The New York Times does not write anything about Limbaugh in their paper. Just doing a search on "Limbaugh" by itself gave me 1,241 hits.
How ironic that when I did a search on the NY Times Web site for any articles they had about MoveOn and General Petraeus fiasco, I had 31 hits.
Excuse me but don't all the Republicans and talking heads on the Rightwing Media always refer to anything written in The New York Times as "Liberal" or as "The Liberal Media"? Years ago, Eric Alterman wrote a book with the perfect title. It was: "Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?" If this does not prove that the Mainstream Media we are Reading and Watching today is very conservative, then nothing will.
The New York Times has dropped the ball big time on how Rush Limbaugh slanders our soldiers and then gets away with it in the MSM. They deserve this week's Media Putz Award -- BIG TIME!!"
We aren't as sweeping in our condemnation of the NYT as Tom is, and don't think the entire staff is at fault (Paul Krugman is in our pantheon of columnist heroes), but he makes a solid point, doesn't he?
People forget that news editors make subjective judgments all the time about what "news" is covered and how it is reported. In that regard, the political news content at the NYT does frequently reach the level of Media Putzdom -- and the editors call the shots.
[THANKS TO BUZZFLASH]
Anybody willing to set up a site for a Pilonidal Cyst Foundation telethon hosted by Rush Limbaugh? It could become the way for Rush's redemption, a means to give back to society something for all he has gained from it. Lord knows it is a misunderstood and little-known malady. With the research this event could fund, it might be discovered that such cysts are a leading cause of children's shyness, now seen to be a major mental illness.
tyree @ 20:
It's not genuine if it isn't processed through a Nigerian bank. Let me know if you need help with the financing.
I, myself, found out that a former high-government official needed by bank account to offload 4 million dollars US. I gave them access to my Netbank account and look what happened after my first withdrawal. :lol:
oh say ,does anyone know what the exchange rate is on the pastard and the american dollar, nobodys going to screw me out of my inhearintence
BaScOmBe @ 23:
sure you rich folks can afford a smiley face, he he
The Values Test By JAMES C. DOBSON
If the major political parties decide to abandon conservative principles, the cohesion of pro-family advocates will be all too apparent in 2008.
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so james dobson (focus on family) gets an oped ion the nytimes. I hope the nytimes don't wonder why they are mediaPutz of the Week
tyree @ 25:
"We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake. " --Monty Python [Four Yorkshiremen Sketch] ;)
I remember when Dennis Miller was pitching Miller beer.
Mickey Spillane was funnier.
That always sounded like a line from I Love Lucy, "Lucy, you got some spillane to do!"
"Waaah!"
Re Clarence Thomas:
National Review Online has been a wall-to-wall Clarence Thomas lovefest this week.
This is typical:
Kathryn Jean Lopez, 'Interview with a Grandson'
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWJiMmZlMjUzOTY3NmZiMTE4M2FhNWYxNzl...
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
It will end when they bring back George Carlin to voice the stories. His interpretation of Sir Topum Hatt has always been the best - much better than that hack Alec Baldwin...
David "Fafblog" Ehrenstein? What's this mean, that Ehrenstein knows where Fafnir is? And Giblets? Make him tell us!
You almost gave me a heart attack.
FAFblog is not FAblog, nor the other way around neither, mores the pity.
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