America Is Back! History was made on August 28, 2008, when Barack Obama accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for President of the United States. On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the manifestation of that dream has come to pass. The fulfillment of this dream [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Aug 28
To Fox News Hurricane Gustav Is A Political Problem
Currently a top story for Fox News is one that is blaring this headline: Gustav Threatens GOP Convention Plans That’s right…The category 3 hurricane that is bearing down on the vulnerable population of New Orleans and the rest of the gulf coast, is identified by Fox News as merely a threat to the GOP. Never [...]
Aug 26
US News Reporting On Glitches
US News & World Report has an item on recent polling of the presidential race: “One intriguing result from Sunday’s Washington Post/ABC poll (which showed Barack Obama maintaining a narrow, 4 percent lead among likely voters) was the Democratic candidate’s vault over John McCain on the question of leadership.” Not satisfied to simply publish the [...]
Aug 25
Fox News Ad Says That CNN Is Partisan
In a feat of heroic irony, Fox News published an ad promoting itself that called CNN a partisan network. It is beyond me how they could have completed work on the ad with all the laughing that one would expect to ensue. But they did complete it and it was printed in several newspapers including [...]
Aug 22
McCain Photo Leaked From Republican Convention Hall
As Democrats finalize preparation for their convention starting Monday, Republicans are still getting their event organized. However, News Corpse has obtained a secretly taken photo from the tightly secured rehearsal hall: This photo confirms that McCain’s campaign strategy for the fall is going to rely on his status as a prisoner of war. In 1967, [...]
Aug 19
The Rachel Maddow Show Coming Soon To A TV Near You
MSNBC announced today that Rachel Maddow will be getting her own show following Keith Olbermann’s Countdown. The program is scheduled to debut on September 8, 2008, just in time for the general election circus. This is a move long expected by insiders, or at least by me. Maddow is one of the brightest stars in [...]
Aug 18
Don’t Forget Limbaugh’s Threat: Riot In Denver
A week from today the Democrats will begin their nominating convention in Denver. This seems like a good time to recall the incitations to violence that were voiced last April by Rush Limbaugh. The Conventional Media is as consumed today with trivialities as it was four months ago when they virtually ignored Limbaugh’s overt and [...]
Aug 17
Jon Stewart: Ready For His New York Times Close-Up
It is not surprising that Jon Stewart is getting some “real media” cred. Four years ago I wrote an article titled “The Real Fake News.” It illustrated how far the Conventional Media had sunk. While they were littered with plagiarists, fabricators, tabloid trivialities, and press releases produced by parties with vested interests in the content, [...]
Aug 15
John McCain and T. Boone Pickens Share A Racist Joke
In a meeting today in Aspen, John McCain met with oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens to discuss his plan to address U.S. dependence on foreign oil and focus more on alternative energies including wind and natural gas (in which Pickens is heavily invested). Before they even sat down to talk, the subject of a recent [...]
Aug 13
John McCain’s Fear Of The Internets
Last month John McCain said that Americans are tired of the Internet. It’s highly unlikely that he was actually speaking for all Americans, or even anything more than a small brood of Luddites. It is more likely that he himself is tired of the Internet, or perhaps just tired, period. He has never been particularly [...]
Aug 12
Bush: Back On The Bottle?
The national embarrassment that is our president once again raises its reddened face. In photographs from the Olympics in China, it appears that recovering souse, George W. Bush, is relapsing. In one picture his face is flushed, his eyes droop, and his expression is dopey. In all fairness, that may be his normal expression. However, [...]
