At the end of a fun read over at Watching the Watchers on “horrible fiendish cackling harpy” Ann Coulter’s latest pile of self-serving venomous horsehit slash apology vis a vis the Gannon/Guckert Scandal, the good (though hard to type) ~A! picks up on a subtle shot that Fox “News” seemed to toss at the Right’s favorite new whipping boy, Raw Story.
As ~A! noticed…
Why, ~A!? Because Raw is in the business of reporting news and, of late, they are doing it like no other site on or off the net. You’ll note that Fox also took the time to link to faux “news” organization GOPUSA in their article as well. We suppose they’d hate for any of their reader/zombies to start noticing the difference between real news and Fox “News”.
While you’re watching the Watcher Watchers, you may also want to check out what they’ve uncovered from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz, whose great offering to history will have been his instructions to his GOP clients to use such words as “Death Tax” instead of “Inheritance/Estate Tax” when hypnotizing their zombies. Well, it worked. And the “Death Tax”, along with many other clever turns of lexicographical trickery has made its way into the daily GOP parlance. Yes, language does matter. Especially to zombies.
And as our own aside, by way of reminder, we’ll be panelling tomorrow (Sunday) at the Election Reform Teach-in in Santa Monica, with an esteemed group including Congresswoman Maxine Waters and a bunch of other Election Reform All-Stars. If you’re local to So-Cal, and the rain has still stopped, come on out and say hey!
We’ll be talking, amongst other things, about VR’s “Divestiture for Democracy” campaign the creation of which is just one of the too-many reasons we’ve had less time than usual to blog of late. We’ve quietly launched the VR DV4D campaign this morning and plan to plan to make quite a bit of noise about it this coming week.
But you, dear BRAD BLOGGERS, have heard about it before just about anybody else! So check it out, and send the bad guys a letter while you’re there! You’ll be glad you did!
More…as ever…later.
Wow, Brad, two links to me in one post. Thanks. Guess I can’t bitch about not being linked like someone who shall not be named. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed the Coulter piece. As an aside, I have an interesting anagram for her name I could email you, since I don’t think it’s really appropriate here on your blog. Funny what happens when you rearrange the letters, though.
I’m looking forward to your BlogCall, dude.
~A!
I guess I should take the time to applause everything RAWSTORY has done. They’re sort of the central ground where all the good blogging gets reported. If a blog has a legitimate story, then it would almost assuredly get reported on RAWSTORY.
After the Nixon debauchle, corporations have slowly but surely bought out every independent mainstream press in existence. Hell, they even have PBS in their pocket books. I think it’s important that RAWSTORY always stays afloat. That’s the one ship that can’t sink (That and Bradblog). Without them, the Clint Curtis, Jeff Gannon, John Conyers type stories never would have been reported. Outside of Keith Olberman, I can’t even remember one news show that gave John Conyers airtime during the Ohio mess.
I haven’t donated to them yet, but I will eventually. Can’t say enough good things about RAWSTORY. And don’t worry, Brad. I haven’t forgotten about you. As soon as the welfare check clears, I’m handin it straight to ya. (Man, this liberal guilt thing is kinda hell on my beer fund, but at least it’s better than the Christian guilt thing. Drinking the Kool-Aid just isn’t an option for me).
Raw Story is a staple in news journalism and few things are more annoying than theft of source, by the so called *news* media. A few otherwise respected bloggers are guilty of the same practice as well.
Some are respectful right out of the gate, such as John Conyers Jr. with his excellent new blog, ConyersBlog. Perhaps J. C. Jr. would be interested in a BlogCall someday.
FYI, that Anne Coulter excerpt that Watching the Watchers used is a CENSORED one.
That’s right!
You’ll never believe what Anne actually said. In fact, it should be creating controversy itself! Why? Because the comment is downright racist.
Check it out at:
Newsclip Autopsy
MISTRUTH: Anne Coulter Racist Remark Censored by Syndicator
Coulter is certainly a fool – nobody cares what she thinks. She’s only in the news because she shocking(ly nasty). She a one woman(bitch) "reality" show! Why does the media think anyone wants to listen to her? How many fans does she have? Bet she hates them too! There doesn’t seem to be a "nice" bone in her body.
If the repubs can re-name the estate tax as "Death Tax" can we call the Bu$h deficit "The future generations Birth Tax?"
The problem with ~A! isn’t so much that it’s hard to type, it’s that it’s so difficult to pronounce…
Dunno what thread it was on, but one anagram of Ann Coulter is Nuclear Ton. And blinkin’A isn’t all that hard to say, long as you’re alone
not nuclear
not unclear
nucleon rat
rat on uncle
not clear no
OK! – Enough! – It gets ugly now
Anne Coulter persuades no one but those who are already commited to her ignorant worldview and share her venomous hatred of all things "liberal", progressive, or even moderate. :crazy: