It took her four days to get all of her ghost-writers together and try to get the right words from Google all untangled, but finally today the Quitter from Wasilla issued a statement (if by 'statement' you mean self-serving video message on Facebook) that slammed the media for trying to point some of the blame of the Arizona shootings towards her fiery campaign rhetoric. This meant that she neatly avoided having to answer any uncomfortable questions in person like "if you didn't have anything to be be concerned about, why did you scrub your website of the gunsight imagery right after the shooting?"
Anxious not to fan the flames of anger by using insensitive or inciteful rhetoric she accused her critics of starting a blood libel. Oopsie! So much for that idea. You see, a blood libel actually refers to the false accusation that Jews used the blood of children in religious rituals and has been used as one of the reasons for anti-semitic violence for many, many centuries. Apparently her "fact-checkers" thought it meant something else. You want to know what else her "fact-checkers" missed? Congress-woman Giffords is Jewish.
Way to go Sarah. You not only look like a complete idiot for trying to walk away from your own violent speechifying that is out there in the public domain for everyone to research (you know, on the internets you betcha, also) but you have managed to further insult the primary target of this attack while she fights for her life in a hospital bed. Nice one.
Sarah, your 15 minutes of fame are rapidly coming to a close (so sorry that your six-part infomercial on TLC got cancelled, but I'm sure the wildlife in Alaska will breathe a sigh of relief now that you'll stop parading around the countryside with a rifle and a camera crew pretending that you're an outdoorswoman), and for that we are all eternally grateful, but the real tragedy is that it took the deaths of six innocent people at the hands of a deeply disturbed nutjob to bring your political career to an end. From the moment you were plucked out of obscurity and thrust onto the national stage by possibly the most short-sighted old geezer in history, you have done nothing but poison the political sphere with your bile and spite. You did all of this whilst at the same time enriching yourself beyond the wildest dreams of a third-placed beauty queen from Wasilla. In other words you are the prototypical republican. But now, that is over. Try as you might you will not be able to run away from this tragedy or your "lock and load" rhetoric, and it will be fun to watch your expression when you suddenly realize that it isn't the "lame-stream media" or the "liberal elites" tearing you apart, but members of your own party.
Karma's a bitch. You betcha!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Arizona shooting tragedy, why the M$M is in full-on spin-mode..
According to a CBS News overnight poll, 58% of those surveyed said that the awful tragedy that occurred in Tucson, Arizona over the weekend was not due to angry, violent political rhetoric from the right-wing.
Wait, what?
Okay, first off, who knew that CBS still had a news division? My impression, judging by their current nightly 'newscasts', was that they were no longer in the 'serious' news biz and had just fully given into being corporate apologists 24/7 with the occasional celebrity fluff piece thrown in for shits and grins. This became even more apparent after they hired quite possibly the worst excuse for an anchor-person in the history of network television (absolutely zero journalistic credibility, but a nice pair of legs and a blindingly white smile), and their ratings still went straight through the floor.
Secondly, I doubt that 58% of those that CBS claims to have surveyed could find Arizona on the map, never mind Tucson.
Thirdly, this poll is the most glaringly obvious example of the smoke-screen the M$M is laying down in an attempt to cover up their own culpability in the tragic events of this past weekend. Whilst the gunman is quite clearly out of his frigging tree, his rantings and ravings point to a train of thought that is decidedly right-wing in nature. So what does the M$M do? They spend the next 48 hours doing their damnedest to paint him as simply a "crazed, lone gunman" (gee, why does that sound so familiar?) rather than someone that spouted right wing talking points in his garbled messages on youtube.
Why would they do that? Simple. The corporate media in this country enthusiastically embraced the emergence of the far-right Tea Party, as well as the grammatically-challenged morons that came crawling out of the woodwork, atrociously spelled signs and all, after Barack Obama was elected President, and now after one of the inevitable chickens has apparently come home to roost, they are desperately scrambling for cover.
You don't believe me, you think I am exaggerating? Take a look at their actions over the last couple of years.
They actively covered the Teabagging rallies (if that is what you call Klan meetings these days) thereby legitimizing them, and even used the Teabaggers vernacular in their reporting, 'Health Care Reform' became 'Obamacare' for example. They gave them the forums into which the rightwing could pour all of its angry, hate-filled discourse.
They gleefully covered townhall meetings where they felt physical conflict might result in someone getting a good old-fashioned ass-kicking (don't forget the number one mantra in news journalism has always been 'if it bleeds, it leads').
They allowed right-wing lunatics like Sharon Angle of Nevada to repeat, over and over again, that perhaps citizens should consider "2nd amendment remedies" if they didn't like what Congress was doing, and they didn't chide Caribou Barbie, the half-term ex-governer of Alaska, when she went so far as to put a map of the US on her website with gunsight targets over several Democratic districts. (She also said about her supporters "they don't retreat, they reload" the M$M thought that was 'folksy' and just 'Sarah being Sarah').
They didn't say a word when extremist commentators in the right-wing media called for the killing of liberals as an example to others (Ann Coulter R-Adams Apple), or suggested that all liberals be killed, except a few that should be left on university campuses across the country as examples of political fossils (Rush Limbaugh R-Oxycontin).
They didn't say a word when a certifiable lunatic on the Faux network (I know, I need to be more specific here because they are all a bunch of certifiable lunatics, in this instance I am of course referring to Glenn Beck, the Lunatic-In-Chief, if you will) said that he had thought about murdering Michael Moore, and poisoning Nancy Pelosi's drinks.
They said nothing. Not a sausage. At least, not until this past saturday.
It's almost as though they were getting into high gear even before the echoes of the gunshots had faded, trying to frame this in any way they could that would minimize their own culpability. The right-wing media immediately tried to paint the shooter as a 'pot-smoking liberal' (hence the insistence on only using his high school yearbook picture when he had long hair, you know, just like a godless hippy, rather than a more recent one which showed him with much shorter hair). The rest of the corporate media allowed a not un-surprisingly large percentage of republican politicians versus democratic ones, to use the airwaves to express their 'shock' and 'horror' in a pathetically transparent way of trying to get in front of the issue.
It wasn't until it almost got completely derailed by the local Sheriff when he came on the air and spoke very passionately and eloquently of the blame the media shared in allowing such vitriolic right-wing hate speech to pollute political discourse, that the presstitutes really went into overdrive. They got every commentator they could find, no matter how irrelevant, onto the air to talk about how "we can't be sure of the shooters' political affiliations" and how when it came to violent rhetoric "both sides do it". That second part is the most blatant and shameless of all of the lies they have spouted since Saturday. We may indeed not know 100% what the murderers' political bent is, but we DO know for an absolute fact that the 'left' does not, in any way, shape or form, engage in the same sort of violent, hate-filled rhetoric which is de rigeur for the right. Not even close, but according to that CBS poll this morning, their spin seems to have worked.
Mission Accomplished.
Wait, what?
Okay, first off, who knew that CBS still had a news division? My impression, judging by their current nightly 'newscasts', was that they were no longer in the 'serious' news biz and had just fully given into being corporate apologists 24/7 with the occasional celebrity fluff piece thrown in for shits and grins. This became even more apparent after they hired quite possibly the worst excuse for an anchor-person in the history of network television (absolutely zero journalistic credibility, but a nice pair of legs and a blindingly white smile), and their ratings still went straight through the floor.
Secondly, I doubt that 58% of those that CBS claims to have surveyed could find Arizona on the map, never mind Tucson.
Thirdly, this poll is the most glaringly obvious example of the smoke-screen the M$M is laying down in an attempt to cover up their own culpability in the tragic events of this past weekend. Whilst the gunman is quite clearly out of his frigging tree, his rantings and ravings point to a train of thought that is decidedly right-wing in nature. So what does the M$M do? They spend the next 48 hours doing their damnedest to paint him as simply a "crazed, lone gunman" (gee, why does that sound so familiar?) rather than someone that spouted right wing talking points in his garbled messages on youtube.
Why would they do that? Simple. The corporate media in this country enthusiastically embraced the emergence of the far-right Tea Party, as well as the grammatically-challenged morons that came crawling out of the woodwork, atrociously spelled signs and all, after Barack Obama was elected President, and now after one of the inevitable chickens has apparently come home to roost, they are desperately scrambling for cover.
You don't believe me, you think I am exaggerating? Take a look at their actions over the last couple of years.
They actively covered the Teabagging rallies (if that is what you call Klan meetings these days) thereby legitimizing them, and even used the Teabaggers vernacular in their reporting, 'Health Care Reform' became 'Obamacare' for example. They gave them the forums into which the rightwing could pour all of its angry, hate-filled discourse.
They gleefully covered townhall meetings where they felt physical conflict might result in someone getting a good old-fashioned ass-kicking (don't forget the number one mantra in news journalism has always been 'if it bleeds, it leads').
They allowed right-wing lunatics like Sharon Angle of Nevada to repeat, over and over again, that perhaps citizens should consider "2nd amendment remedies" if they didn't like what Congress was doing, and they didn't chide Caribou Barbie, the half-term ex-governer of Alaska, when she went so far as to put a map of the US on her website with gunsight targets over several Democratic districts. (She also said about her supporters "they don't retreat, they reload" the M$M thought that was 'folksy' and just 'Sarah being Sarah').
They didn't say a word when extremist commentators in the right-wing media called for the killing of liberals as an example to others (Ann Coulter R-Adams Apple), or suggested that all liberals be killed, except a few that should be left on university campuses across the country as examples of political fossils (Rush Limbaugh R-Oxycontin).
They didn't say a word when a certifiable lunatic on the Faux network (I know, I need to be more specific here because they are all a bunch of certifiable lunatics, in this instance I am of course referring to Glenn Beck, the Lunatic-In-Chief, if you will) said that he had thought about murdering Michael Moore, and poisoning Nancy Pelosi's drinks.
They said nothing. Not a sausage. At least, not until this past saturday.
It's almost as though they were getting into high gear even before the echoes of the gunshots had faded, trying to frame this in any way they could that would minimize their own culpability. The right-wing media immediately tried to paint the shooter as a 'pot-smoking liberal' (hence the insistence on only using his high school yearbook picture when he had long hair, you know, just like a godless hippy, rather than a more recent one which showed him with much shorter hair). The rest of the corporate media allowed a not un-surprisingly large percentage of republican politicians versus democratic ones, to use the airwaves to express their 'shock' and 'horror' in a pathetically transparent way of trying to get in front of the issue.
It wasn't until it almost got completely derailed by the local Sheriff when he came on the air and spoke very passionately and eloquently of the blame the media shared in allowing such vitriolic right-wing hate speech to pollute political discourse, that the presstitutes really went into overdrive. They got every commentator they could find, no matter how irrelevant, onto the air to talk about how "we can't be sure of the shooters' political affiliations" and how when it came to violent rhetoric "both sides do it". That second part is the most blatant and shameless of all of the lies they have spouted since Saturday. We may indeed not know 100% what the murderers' political bent is, but we DO know for an absolute fact that the 'left' does not, in any way, shape or form, engage in the same sort of violent, hate-filled rhetoric which is de rigeur for the right. Not even close, but according to that CBS poll this morning, their spin seems to have worked.
Mission Accomplished.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Psssst...wanna buy a forest?...Or Selling England by the Yard..
Back when I was a young lad (stop snickering) there was an album released by Genesis called "Selling England by the Pound." It was an album full of yearning to return to the days of yore, the days before there were newly-mega-rich Arab Oil Sheiks flooding the country with suitcases full of hundred pound notes and buying up all the old manor homes and castles they could find. I remember being genuinely panicked at the time that the Oil Sheiks would buy up the whole country and kick us all out (hey, I said I was a young lad at the time, gimme a break). Turns out all they wanted to buy was a few old houses, some department store chains, the odd football team, a shit-ton of Rolls Royces and a Prime Minister or two.
Nowadays in my homeland you don't have to worry about outsiders buying it all up, the crooks in Parliament Hall are giving it away. After displaying all of his supposed 'green credentials' in the run up to the last general election as a way to woo the unsure, and appease the sceptical, David Camerwrong has promptly discarded them all and is now pursuing a course of what appears to be total environmental pillage. His newest plan is to sell ALL of the national forests in the UK to private corporations, most of them timber companies. You know, the companies that chop trees down and turn them into breakfast tables or salad bowls. Oh, don't worry, planning permission will still be required before Sherwood Forest is chopped down and sent to the local B & Q (I'm not sure how much planning it takes to say 'See all those trees? Cut 'em down'), but in a not unsuprising twist of fate, those regulations too have been chopped down, in order to 'streamline' the process. Imagine that. Rather fortuitous timing, no?
Not satisfied with selling off the country's woodland heritage, Camerwrong has also given the green light to deep-water oil-drilling off the Shetlands, because the odds of another Deepwater Horizon BP-size fuck up is apparently so remote. Yeah right, that worked out well for the folks on the Southern U.S. coast now didn't it? What could possibly go wrong? Chevron has warned the PM that an oil spill out in the North Sea could mean releasing upwards of 77,000 barrels of oil a day, and be hellaciously more difficult to clean up than the Gulf oil spill, but that apparently doesn't seem to worry the green PM. It would appear that the only 'green' he is concerned with is the color of the money coming into the Government's coffers.
Time for a vote of no confidence perhaps? Yeah, pull the other one mate, Camerwrong would just send out Nick Clegg to do his version of Tony Blair's poodle-dance while the old Etonian just sat back and counted the cash.
Where's Robin Hood when you really need him?
Nowadays in my homeland you don't have to worry about outsiders buying it all up, the crooks in Parliament Hall are giving it away. After displaying all of his supposed 'green credentials' in the run up to the last general election as a way to woo the unsure, and appease the sceptical, David Camerwrong has promptly discarded them all and is now pursuing a course of what appears to be total environmental pillage. His newest plan is to sell ALL of the national forests in the UK to private corporations, most of them timber companies. You know, the companies that chop trees down and turn them into breakfast tables or salad bowls. Oh, don't worry, planning permission will still be required before Sherwood Forest is chopped down and sent to the local B & Q (I'm not sure how much planning it takes to say 'See all those trees? Cut 'em down'), but in a not unsuprising twist of fate, those regulations too have been chopped down, in order to 'streamline' the process. Imagine that. Rather fortuitous timing, no?
Not satisfied with selling off the country's woodland heritage, Camerwrong has also given the green light to deep-water oil-drilling off the Shetlands, because the odds of another Deepwater Horizon BP-size fuck up is apparently so remote. Yeah right, that worked out well for the folks on the Southern U.S. coast now didn't it? What could possibly go wrong? Chevron has warned the PM that an oil spill out in the North Sea could mean releasing upwards of 77,000 barrels of oil a day, and be hellaciously more difficult to clean up than the Gulf oil spill, but that apparently doesn't seem to worry the green PM. It would appear that the only 'green' he is concerned with is the color of the money coming into the Government's coffers.
Time for a vote of no confidence perhaps? Yeah, pull the other one mate, Camerwrong would just send out Nick Clegg to do his version of Tony Blair's poodle-dance while the old Etonian just sat back and counted the cash.
Where's Robin Hood when you really need him?
Thursday, January 6, 2011
So much for transparency...or how it took less than 24 hours for the lying to begin..
Newly appointed Weeper of the House, John Boner (R-Oompah Loompah), spoke grandly in his introductory speech yesterday after taking hold of a comically massive gavel (apparently over-compensating for something) from Nancy Pelosi, that he was there to usher in a new era of responsibility and transparency, and an end to 'business as usual'.
As with anything else said by that overly-tanned links-rat, it was of course complete and utter bullshit. Hell, the reptiles hadn't even taken office officially yet and they were already backing away from one of their promises to reduce spending by $100 billion in their first year. That $100 billion number apparently was only 'symbolic' and not an actual hard number, this according to several congress-critters cornered by reporters on the topic, none less hypocritically than Eric Cantor (R-Asshole) on a breakfast chat show. When pressed about this blatant bait-and-switch on Good Morning America, his stammering response had all the markers of a guy that, contrary to his indignant protestations that he was in church with his wife at the time, has just been shown a video of him shagging the shit out of the babysitter on the living room floor. Doggy-style.
So, with the full knowledge that ne'ery a word that escapes the lips of these lying hounds should be taken at anything remotely close to face-value, comes today's stunning example of the 'Do as I say, not as I do' party in full swing. Whilst voting on various and sundry rules packages on the floor of the House, a rule was introduced by a Democrat from New York that would have simply required each and every congress-person to publicly disclose whether they were receiving Federal Health Benefits. Nice and simple, a straight-forward disclosure of whether they had tax-payer funded health care. What did the newly-minted republican majority do? You know, the 'transparent' and 'responsible' party? They voted it down of course. Get that? The very same assholes that want to repeal "Obamacare" (that would be YOUR government healthcare) don't even have the stones to admit that they themselves fully take advantage of "government healthcare". See, government-run healthcare is good when they benefit, but bad if it's extended to everyone else.
They've been in power less than 24 hours and they're already up to their old tricks. Methinks it's going to be a long, LONG two years...
As with anything else said by that overly-tanned links-rat, it was of course complete and utter bullshit. Hell, the reptiles hadn't even taken office officially yet and they were already backing away from one of their promises to reduce spending by $100 billion in their first year. That $100 billion number apparently was only 'symbolic' and not an actual hard number, this according to several congress-critters cornered by reporters on the topic, none less hypocritically than Eric Cantor (R-Asshole) on a breakfast chat show. When pressed about this blatant bait-and-switch on Good Morning America, his stammering response had all the markers of a guy that, contrary to his indignant protestations that he was in church with his wife at the time, has just been shown a video of him shagging the shit out of the babysitter on the living room floor. Doggy-style.
So, with the full knowledge that ne'ery a word that escapes the lips of these lying hounds should be taken at anything remotely close to face-value, comes today's stunning example of the 'Do as I say, not as I do' party in full swing. Whilst voting on various and sundry rules packages on the floor of the House, a rule was introduced by a Democrat from New York that would have simply required each and every congress-person to publicly disclose whether they were receiving Federal Health Benefits. Nice and simple, a straight-forward disclosure of whether they had tax-payer funded health care. What did the newly-minted republican majority do? You know, the 'transparent' and 'responsible' party? They voted it down of course. Get that? The very same assholes that want to repeal "Obamacare" (that would be YOUR government healthcare) don't even have the stones to admit that they themselves fully take advantage of "government healthcare". See, government-run healthcare is good when they benefit, but bad if it's extended to everyone else.
They've been in power less than 24 hours and they're already up to their old tricks. Methinks it's going to be a long, LONG two years...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Code Orange: Boner becomes Weeper of the House
The Las Vegas line for the over/under on when John Boehner (who claims it's supposed to be pronounced 'Bay-nor' not 'Boner', yeah right buddy, not in MY house it ain't) breaks down and sobs uncontrollably as he takes over as Speaker of the House today is set at seven and a half minutes. The probablity that the M$M whores will then call that display 'authentic' and 'proof that he's one of us' is set at 100%...Welcome to 2011...and the beginning of the rethuglican reign of error..
NEWSFLASH!!!!!
The big girl's blouse didn't even have the gavel in his hands before he started crying....
Good grief dude....Sack up wouldya? It's not like Nancy said she was going to use it on your nuts...
NEWSFLASH!!!!!
The big girl's blouse didn't even have the gavel in his hands before he started crying....
Good grief dude....Sack up wouldya? It's not like Nancy said she was going to use it on your nuts...
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