Sunday, August 21, 2005
Dead Wrong: Inside the Media's Intelligence (Design) Meltdown
Claudette Colvin: what does this women have to do with the Civil Rights movement and the Cindy Sheehan story?
Body and Soul breaks it down on why Claudette Colvin is the unsung heroine of the Civil Rights Movement and what she has to do with the Right's current jihad against Cindy Sheehan here. (related: Frank Rich on the swift boating of Cindy Sheehan.)
Bush can try selling this crock-of-sh-t war as hard as he wants but I think it's pretty clear which way the momentum is going and his track record on selling policy with these kind of junkets is not impressive. (related: Inside 9/11 on the National Geographic channel TONIGHT)
And conservatives, knock it off: the bogeyman of the "Death Tax" you are always crying wolf over is bullsh-t.
While the budget deficit is a lot worse than the Bush administration is admitting to also.
And surprise, things seems real shady with respect to the nomination process for John Roberts. But Democrats are pretty much rolling over and allowing this guy to be confirmed unchallenged despite his hostility to what should be clearcut positions on basic equality issues.
I wonder if Bill Frist will take up Boing Boing's $1 million challenge?
Or maybe Bush is working on it during the record amount of vacation time he's taken off this month.
But why is the Times giving these "Intelligent Design" religious nut cases this kind of air time? I get sick every time I see examples like this of how shook the MSM is still by the Bush administration despite everything that's happened in the last 3-4 years. Let me link to it again for those who skipped by it above: this should be enough reason why the media should get their weight up and step they fccking game up. Like what happened to the Rovegate story, for example? Why is that not the center of the media's focus the same way the Whitewater/"Monicagte" Ken Starr inquiry was (for way longer than it warranted) during the Clinton era? I swear if Libby and Rove walk away from this thing totally scott-free, I'm gonna lose my fccking mind....
