Mike's Blog Round Up
Good morning. I’m Brad Jacobson, the dog behind the face of MediaBloodhound, and I’ll be your guest host this week at the round-up. I’d otherwise attempt to whet your appetite with some witty observation…but I just spent nine hours in an Ikea in Elizabeth, NJ, on a Saturday. Best. Birth control. Ever. (I’m sorry if that’s offensive to young children, but they shouldn’t be reading this anyway.) All right, here we go:
Even as the destroyed CIA tapes scandal widens, most national news outlets refuse to utter the word t-o-r-t-u-r-e. Greg Mitchell has the details.
Via Think Progress: NBC not only caves to pressure from White house front group Freedom’s Watch, but rewrites its ad standards guidelines to do it.
Vast Left at Corrente points out that “nice guys” always finish last, unless they’re Republicans. Then the majority of our MSM turns a blind eye to gay-bashing, interminable hypocrisy, deranged episodes and bald-faced lies. (Don’t miss the New York Times video within the links of Vast Left’s post – a prime example of what’s wrong with big media campaign coverage.)
C&L’s Logan Murphy posted on this earlier in the week. But in case anyone missed it, Walter Cronkite says, “Our troops must leave Iraq.” That used to mean something to a president in this country. When Cronkite (who’s in his ninth decade on this planet) said this on CBS News in February 27, 1968, President Johnson knew it was time to hang it up.
A Tiny Revolution’s Jonathan Schwarz says, “Robert Parry's Consortium News is starting a $50,000 fundraiser. Parry is one of the greatest investigative journalists in the United States, and I encourage you to donate.” I encourage you to do the same. Here’s an interesting interview Mr. Parry did over at BuzzFlash in 2004, discussing his book Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
Finally, Happy Chanukah to all my Jewish friends out there! I hear ham is a "delicious" way to spice up the Festival of Lights this year. Who knew?
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Brad you a Fake Jew or Real Jew?
LOL . . . don't get on me now because in fact I have family thats Jewish. Grew up around Jewish folks, worked for them, entertained them, joked around with them, all the while being a baptized Protestant. (Ugggh)
And I also had a relationship with a Hot Jewish Princess a long time ago.
Forgot that.
Finally, Happy Chanukah to all my Jewish friends out there! I hear ham is a “delicious” way to spice up the Festival of Lights this year. Who knew?
I ordered one shaped like a star of david, smothered in bacon bits.
The headleine about NBC caving to White House pressure is incorrect.
NBC revised their rules, in order to allow the ad to be run, not to block it from running.
Cobalt, the headline's correct. Maybe it'll be clearer to you when you click the link. NBC first turned down the Freedom's Watch ad. After receiving pressure, NBC subsequently caved. In order to run the ad (and, presumably, in order to justify its new decision), NBC then altered its rules.
The deaths of U.S. Troops or Iraqis is no longer covered on either the local, or national news. If you ask any of them about this, the thin skinned news whores sniff, but we don't cover international news. Fair enough. But in an age of Globalization and a so called Global war on Terror located in the former secular regime in Iraq it's sort of weird. I thought we learned after Nine Eleven that we don't live in a isolationist bubble. Speaking of Nine Eleven, even though I know we aren't supposed to talk about it on C&L, what happened to the hunt for the 9/11 'Conspirator' Osama Bin Laden or the U.S. Military Grade Anthrax Terrorist Dr. Philip Zack??? How can you have a 'War on Terror' if the two alleged masterminds behind the triggers are not that important? Why do you think there is so much disbelief about the offical stories? The local 'news' networks take money from Freedomwatch.org. USA! USA! USA!
Brad, here's my favorite Chanukah ham for you.
I just found out that our income taxes go towards paying for interest on outstanding government debt, and nothing else. They don't go to raods, schools, healthcare, etc.
We are being screwed.
L.A. Confidential, that would depend on your definition of "real Jew" and "fake Jew." Nonpracticing? Uncircumcised? Catholic? Lover of stars of David smothered in bacon bits? (h/t curtilingus...dude, you're never going to get a serious job with that name.)
Brad J. @ 9:
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2007-12-04-zigmannewnew.jpg
I hate to be a prig, but Walter Cronkite, born November 4, 1916, is at age 91 in his tenth decade on this planet, not his ninth. (When you're 1 year old, you're in your first decade, when you're 11, you're in your second decade, etc.) Unless he spent his first decade on another planet. Is that what you meant?
L.A. Confidential, that's hilarious! Thanks for sharing. According to that chart, I'm really a mixed bag.
Yes Hannukah Ham is a hearty meal. Serve it cold on those large square Jewish crackers and wash it down with near beer. Yummo.
Absolutely brilliant explaination of hoe the NIE report on Iran is "besides the point". Hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyiGTJqzWU
Was your experience anything like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ
(45 seconds long, worth watching.)
Freedomwatch, human stupidity personified.
When you watch the NY Times video on Huck, make sure you read the comments. People who saw this on YouTube clearly took the bait.
kudos to Robert Parry. I hope everyone can donate to him. He always speaks truth to power
Let's see, now - it's subtract the 7 and carry the ... errrr, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the square of ...
Actually since Uncle Walter is 91, he has completed his ninth decade - and is now working on his tenth decade .
Why am I so picky? It's because I had to hear all that crap about 2000 v 2001 - and I won't get to use that minutiae for another 1,000 years. So, this would then be a corollary to the "When-The-Hell-Does-The-Millennium-Actually Start-And-Who-The-Hell-Cares-Anyway" ... Let's PARTY!
Brad, many thanks for the link!
Rudy's Woodie
New York Times, cut the foreplay and just mount Huckabee's homophobic member, you tease. I swear they could make Stalin look like Daddy Warbucks.
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