Archive for August, 2009
TV 8… This is What Passes as News Today
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Media on August 29, 2009
August 29, 2009… This is what passes as news at Channel 8, Fox’s WJW-TV these days.
This was sent by a young woman living in Minneapolis to her parents here. This was not supposed to be comedy but maybe mainstream TV news is picking up on John Stewart without even knowing it. Giving us laughs about the nonsense of the news even as the news!
Try it. Things can’t get much more ridiculous… click here.
Plain Dealer’s O’Brien… Torture OK if Called “Rough Method”
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Media, People on August 27, 2009
August 27, 2009… I didn’t really know until today that the Plain Dealer endorsed torture.
Then today I read PD Deputy Editorial Page Editor Kevin O’Brien, the paper’s right wing bomb thrower.
“Water flowed,” he said, “up some deserving noses.”
How cavalier.
“Yes, our guys did this. They did it to our enemies. They did it to protect us. And they did it knowing full well that when word of their rough methods got out, they would be demonized.”
“Rough methods,” huh? Afraid to call it what it is, Kevin?
Be a plain spoken right-winger. Be honest at least. Call it “torture.” But to “enemies,” so it’s alright.
Why the Pee Dee has such a rabid right-winger tossing us right-wing propaganda I don’t know because this is not exactly even Southern Ohio, never mind the Deep South where this stuff sells well these days.