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CBS News Correspondents, the night before the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1956, on What's My Line. Behind Walter Cronkite -- left to right Charles Collingwood, Eric Severeid, Douglas Edwards and Robert Trout.

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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Abbybwood's picture

Wonder how Israel will respond to this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38988030/ns/world...


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

the victim card. Honestly, it's all Israel has.


"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui

iTunes! :D


"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui


"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

That's one of my favorites.

Here's an oldie but a moldy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMQbedCZj0


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

walt kovacs's picture

boy, i missed when israel was the one crying about collective punishment and calling tel aviv the worlds largest outdoor prison

wall and my medications are kicking in. But I hope you'll have a nice Labor Day weekend. :)


"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui

walt kovacs's picture

as long as i dont see another biased post against israel on the site

guess you missed the last few terrorist attacks that happened just this past week

shoot...of course you did...cuz unlike the mavi marmara, which got tons of press, and a few threads on this blog....those attacks have remained virtually uncovered

but of course...just israel playing the victim again...right?

walt kovacs's picture

they will turn it down

wonder if they will send the same invite to iran

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Abbybwood's picture

Reminds me of Felix the Cat....


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

ysbaddaden's picture
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Bimbo, Betty Boop's boyfriend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GARjop8e_w


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Alerta_Alerta's picture

So it's not fritz x?


Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

woodytus's picture
Alerta_Alerta's picture

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-111...

"BP has removed the blowout preventer that should have stopped oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico when a drilling rig exploded in April. "

"But company officials have said the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, put into place by the Obama administration, had harmed its cash flow.

"If we are unable to keep those fields going, that is going to have a substantial impact on our cash flow," David Nagel, executive vice-president for BP America, told the New York Times. "

Fucking A!


Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/

Rich H's picture

My son, who I adopted, is from China. He's gone all the way through high school and two years of college and he still can't get a green card. The whole system is a joke.

walt kovacs's picture

i thought adopted children get fast tracked

that totally sucks ass

oh...and did you see the pbs pov on china adoption?

it was very well done...here is the link

http://www.pbs.org/pov/woainimommy/

Rich H's picture

The worst part is, all licenseing and inspections are done through the State and there are major fees involved (and I'm not talking about China). So, once the gov.'t says it's o.k. to adopt, and after you've spent aprox. 30k (here in the U.S.) then they put you through the wringer on validating it (green card). Money for services, no problem, money for certification etc... no problem, getting a green card is a whole nother matter.

on length of clips, but here's a real feel gooder. (if your in the mood).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao
Validation

Happy Labor Day everyone.

ysbaddaden's picture
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I'm already feeling a contraction...


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Wayne A Schneider's picture

I wrote a new song parody about them. I hope you like it. You can find it at my blog.

Tequila's picture

Gee, I wonder why. Brewer lied about illegal alien-associated beheadings. The Pentagon handled pederasts as well as the Vatican. Blackwater had 30 shell companies. GOP incumbents could end up getting kicked out, too. Who cares about international law when I know I'm right? Um, they're fucking fortune tellers. What are you going to do, ask them to make accurate predictions? Hiring not enough to keep up with unemployment. It only took five decades to clean up a rocket waste site. Of course, it'll be seven more years before they actually get to it. Obamacare not very good at fulfilling claim of making insurance more affordable. Corruption in the USDA over recalled eggs. Uber prison-industrial complex, Jerry Brown-style.

VegasRage's picture

Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

Great video


Goodnight, Frau Blücher

Sooth Hussein Sayer's picture

"Sevareid"

Mr. Green Jeans's picture

Doing the show must have been fun for them.


"Let's talk dirty to the animals"

Evet's picture

I was four in 1956. These were your choices.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/1...

draftedin68's picture

Once upon a time, broadcast companies actually hired journalists to inform their audiences and they hired clowns and other actors to entertain.

The ratio of journalists to clowns was probably something like 20 to 1.

For programs labeled "news" in today's Corporate Controlled Media, the ratio of actual journalists to clowns is more like 1 to 200.

If Edward R. Murrow came back and saw what is being done in the name of journalism he'd never stop throwing up.

ysbaddaden's picture
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But that would be from all the chemo from all the chain-smoking he did...


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Mike The Riverine's picture

Back in the days when America could trust the people that brought them the news.

Many of those gentlemen came up through the newspaper ranks and were excellent reporters of the facts. And most had seen and felt the horrors of war firsthand. Eric Severeid, along with Murrow, reported on the Nazi threat even before the war. Robert Trout was one of the first broadcasters to flash the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Walter Cronkite was a war correspondent in the field with the US Army in Europe.

Cronkite also saw through the lies of Vietnam and expressed his opinion vigorously, forcing LBJ to admit, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the country".

This was The News, and the talking heads on many networks today are essentially bovine fertilizer distributors.


Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years

Kreskin's picture

I agree Mike , being older and getting towards the end of the conveyor belt I gotta say that I sure miss the old days , things have changed so much and not for the better . As for news and the media , so called journalists and talking heads today , they are for the most part nothing but methane dispensers and fountains of BS , no doubt about it one of the main reasons that this country has gone all to hell and has fallen so far .I am glad I'm not young , the future looks pretty friggin bleak for all but those sitting pretty at the top .


Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .

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