Archive for the ‘media’ Category
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A Tip O' the Satirical Cap to Station Agent
Fill in the blank. A New Yorker magazine cover is to Barak Obama what a National Review cover is to (blank).
A geriatric John McCain in a wheelchair! Get it? Now THAT'S funny! But, what about those thousands of Nimrod-in-Chief Hitler caricatures? Funny ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Barack, Campaign News, Contributors, Democrat, Democrat elections, John McCain, Obama, Political, Politics, Republican, Rhetoric, candidates, humor, media, presidential elections, satire | 6 Comments »
Monday, July 14th, 2008
AP has been around, according to Politico, for 162 years. Recently, many in the blogosphere have turned sour on AP due to some legal grumblings by a blogger that was lifting entire articles from AP and posting them on his blog. But that isn't what this post is about.
AP has, ...
Posted in Politics, media | 18 Comments »
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The NJ state Republican web site was running a banner slogan saying "Obama Loves America like OJ Loved Nicole" - boy, that's the kind of political discourse that elevates the process. Who, them racist? No "oh my God, it's a scary black man!" theme there. Subtle as a flying mallet, ...
Posted in 2000 Presidential Campaign, Agenda, Campaign News, Current Affairs, Election News, General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, Miscellaneous, Obama, Politics, Quickie, Race, Republican, Right Wing Nut, conservative, media | 8 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
"The obscene vitriol on the left wing blogs really is mind-blowing. You see virtually none of this on conservative blogs."
Marlowe on Skewz
"To me, it's straightforward: Conservatives are adults, liberals are adolescences (sic). Conservatives value rational and logical discussion, liberals crave juvenile name calling."
oleneo65 on Skewz
Politics is a rough neighborhood. Stakes ...
Posted in Contributors, Democrat, General, Republican, Right Wing Nut, Weblogs, conservative, media | No Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
(photo from msnbc.com/Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Tim Russert, of NBC News and Meet The Press, collapsed today while recording voice-overs for his Sunday program Meet The Press. Russert was 58 years old. Early reports said that Russert's death was due to a heart attack, but that information has been withdrawn and the ...
Posted in BIO, Politics, media | 10 Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Fox News likes to pretend that their reporting is fair and balanced. Unfortunately, the more they fear that the Democrats might defeat their beloved GOP, the more they exhibit their bias and serve as a shill for the party.
The degree to which their bias is evident took an exponential leap ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Agenda, BIO, Barack, Campaign News, Election News, IDIOT, Obama, Politics, Race, Rhetoric, Television, media | 3 Comments »
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fox Noise ambushes Bill Moyers at NCMR", url: "http://www.teambio.org/2008/06/08/fox-noise-ambushes-bill-moyers-at-ncmr/" });
Posted in Video and Animation, media | No Comments »
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Its is 39 minutes long but worth your time. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bill Moyers speech at NCMR today", url: "http://www.teambio.org/2008/06/07/bill-moyers-speech-at-ncmr-today/" });
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The religious loons never cease to amaze me. Following Froday's premiere of the new CBS show, Swingtown, the American Family Association is leading the charge to get the program banned from local CBS affiliates on the grounds that it violates their broadcast licensing because it doesn't "serve the public interest". ...
Posted in BIO, Politics, Religion, Right Wing Nut, Television, conservative, media | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 6th, 2008
A lot of John McCain's support is based on his portraying himself as a 'straight talker' who speaks his mind, damn the consequences. The truth is that he's taken diametrically opposite stances on a lot of key issues - it seems as if he says whatever he thinks his current ...
Posted in 2000 Presidential Campaign, Campaign News, General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, John McCain, Miscellaneous, Politics, Republican, Rhetoric, Rove, Video and Animation, candidates, media | 5 Comments »
