Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Thursday Apr 17, 2008 10:00amBill Ayers: Turns out the "unrepentant terrorist" that Sean Hannity, the hacks at ABC, and other GOP shills, are so obsessed with, has a blog.
The Curious Capitalist: So, uh, when did Charles Gibson turn into a supply-side nut job?
Fafblog! Another edition of BARACK OBAMA: THE FINAL THROES
Of Two Minds: Hilarious music graphs (h/t apostropher)
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Bill Moyers says that journalism's mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden. Now somebody tell these guys and these guys...Tim Robbins' no-holds-barred keynote address to the National Association of Broadcasters...Proof of hackery is David Brooks' approval, and James Fallows contempt...The very annoying Washington Post...When the Wall Street Journal puts a "Nude Miss Subways" on page 6...Penetrating analysis...The stupid burns...Torture news strike
Login or Register to post comments.
Holy crap! Fafblog is back! I finally stopped checking after seeing nothing for over a year.
Leary explained in his 1983 autobiography Flashbacks:
"'Turn on' meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. 'Tune in' meant interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. 'Drop Out' meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean 'Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.'"
Democracy is in it's last throes.
Liberal AND Proud @ 3:
Going to be interesting to see what rises from the ashes thats for certain.
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
No thanks. I'll wait for the movie.
Liberal AND Proud @ 5:
The latest spin on the financials is that finally they are “coming clean” on losses, and cutting everything but the kitchen sink.
The Road Warrior Mad Max eCONomy lives.
Thieves drill gas tanks to steal fuel. High pump prices prompt thefts.
"Someone cut through a fence at King Collision on Holman Road, drilled holes into gas tanks on a pickup truck and mini-van, and stole 30 to 40 gallons of gas, police said."
Sad and embarrassing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw
Dean tells superdelegates it's time to decide
An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”
Howard it's about "Obama overtakes Clinton in electability battle" this week.
getalife @ 8:
You're right, it's sad that you actually think Obama is making an overt attempt to flip off Hillary. It's also embarassing that you believe it.
How come this guy doesn't get Air Time.
Fox news owned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0wvQMqSzTM
Can we call the World Series baseball in it's final throws?
ysbaddaden @ 12:
Why? Something happen?
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
Luke 14:26 Jesus said, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters-yes, even his own life-he cannot be my disciple."
That being said Obama keeps handing out more and more red meat to the reichwingers.
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
Ever notice how these Fox reporters view news and interviews as an ego competition? Rather then the job of just informing the public and letting the public come to their own conclusions about things?
ThunderMonkey @ 10:
Flipping her would be quite a feat. ; )
13 L.A. Confidential
I was punning on someone elses misspelling of throes.
ThunderMonkey @ 10:
It is not just me:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/obamaflipsoffcl.html
And:
http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/04/17/did-obama-give-hillary-the-fing...
Liberal AND Proud @ 16:
So the winner is whoever gets two falls out of three first?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBfyO21Ncw
ysbaddaden @ 14:
Let me correct that interpretation. What it means is. . if one does not have hate for anything, he doesn't need me. He's already a master of his own kingdom.
The scribe who wrote that must was probably stoned on grape also.
ysbaddaden @ 17:
Okay
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
Faux doesn't deal with facts. They take a video and crop it to their tastes. I don't understand how we can allow them to be on the air ways or cable.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
*fixed*
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
its just begun! highway robbery!
Just finished listening to Tim Robbins' address noted above. It was a humorous though serious, discourse on a difficult and important subject - how the media has lost it's way in the past several years. He dissects the problems with surgical precision and presents a challenge to those listening to correct the situation, and to once again become relevant to the good of the country.
Bravo Mr. Robbins! Those with about 10 minutes to spare should listen to this wonderful address.
Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. Notice in his blog ayers doesn't say, "I wish I had not set bombs" nope. He says that the administration during the vietnam war were the real terrorists not him. He waltzes around the question of whether or not setting the bombs was wrong by redefining what terrorism is.
He says in his blogs
"I’ve never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently."
But he blew up his own girlfriend in a bomb. He is point blank an unrepentant terrorist. As Max Weber says: Gewaltmonopol des Staates. The state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. One must believe in this to live in a civil society.
One can not murder someone because it's the "right" thing to do. One can not blow up a federal building in Oklahoma because it is the "right" thing to do. The state is the only legitimate organization in a society which can send a man in prison to his death, which can use it's force on the citizens, and while we can protest this use of violence, to protest it by using violence is to undermine the state itself and to encourage violent overthrow of the United States government.
This is bad. This is a terrorist's point of view. And this is Bill Ayers. Who is plainly and simply an unrepentant terrorist. The only reason that he quit setting bombs is because he doesn't want to go to jail.
I think we have seen enough problems with failed states, especially in our escapade in Iraq to understand that the first priority of a citizenry is to be able to life safely and work and to have the protection of Gewaltmonopol des Staates.
He is a bad man and should not be defended.
It's great timing for the Anals of Journalism. (Well, it's always time, but still.) One caveat... it's the annoying Washington Post editorial board, not the whole paper. The WaPo has some tools as well as some great reporters, with the Angler and Walter Reed Pulitzers well deserved. That's the way it's supposed to be done. But the editorial board has been consistently, embarrassingly awful. They occasionally get more local issues right, but they recently argued we need to stay in Iraq, and misrepresented opponents of our continued occupation to do so. As with Sulz hiring Kristol, they're dead set on validating and making respectable their catastrophically horrendous judgment.
ysbaddaden @ 17:
Along the same lines, I wonder if we can refer to relief pitchers as "tossing off" in the bullpen? ;-)
Mike, here's a big one to add:
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/
Robert Reich Endorses Obama (Directly this time, instead of saying he endorsed chocolate bunny over white marshmallow...)
When will the media learn that trying to out-sleaze Fox "News" is a losing strategery?
Click here to tell the media they suck!
-slag
Eric Taylor,
You are a liar and a person who materially supports a terrorist organization. You do it every time you allow federal taxes to be taken out of your paycheck.
eric taylor @ 26:
So, he's in jail, right? Supermax in Colorado, or maybe Gitmo?
Oh wait... he's a highly respected professor at a top public university. But how can that be, when he's a terrorist?
The Elite Rusty Shackleford @ 32:
He has a lot of interesting things to say. I would go to one of his classes. But, that doesn't mean he is a good person. The right wants us to come out in support of Ayer because it's much easier for them to attack Ayer than it is for them to attack Obama.
eric taylor @ 33:
"Not a good person" is very different from "unrepentant terrorist."
Login or Register to post comments.