Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
Ruling elite mouthpieces like George Will earn mountains of cash and fame for their service to the powerful, who in the final analysis are their enablers. By David Walsh • 20 May 2010 NOT TO PUT TOO FINE A POINT ON IT, Washington Post columnist George Will is a pompous windbag, one of the most [...]
El mojigato Ramos atenta atrapar a Evo Morales Univision’s rat-in-residence Jorge Ramos attempts to redbait Evo Morales in this semi-interview he conducted with the Bolivian president-elect in 2006. Observe closely how this repulsive example of pseudo journalism is actually surprised by Evo’s ballsy response.
Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud— Everything that is revolting about abject careerism in America and success for the sake of success is embodied in Glenn Beck, an opportunistic media criminal that fits the times. But these creatures—given their pitiful stock of talents—could never make it to the top without the support and encouragement [...]
Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media By David Swanson March 22, 2010 We need independent media. Is that not yet crystal clear? The strongest grassroots community organization in the country, ACORN, has been swatted away like a fly through the endless airing of fraudulent, badly edited, and irrelevant, but salacious video clips. Elected officials or [...]
Alan Grayson’s Four-Page Medicare Buy-In Bill Introduced WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW By: David Dayen Wednesday March 10, 2010 8:54 am EDITOR’S NOTE: If Barack Obama had been serious about getting a real healthcare reform program approved, all he needed to do was to introduce a “Medicare for All” bill, which would have been almost [...]
By Peter Dreier Published on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by CommonDreams.org With a selection of important comments from the original venue Sociologist Frances Fox Piven often gets requests from students who want to interview her about her political theories and activism. So when Kyle Olson phoned her in January, told her he was a college [...]
By Kate Randall 22 March 2010 With a special bonus feature by Jane Hamsher, sorting out myth from truth throughout the bill. After months of closed-door negotiations with insurance CEOs and pharmaceutical executives, Obama made the absurd claim that the measure came “from the bottom up.” In fact, the legislation was entirely dictated from the [...]
February 1, 2010 The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News By Chris Hedges Editor’s Note: Alexander Cockburn wrote a very incisive piece on this very phenomenon almost five years ago (6.30.05). He paid special attention to the ludicrous notion of “balancing the two sides” of any issue (a glaring form of obfuscation, since as Hedges [...]
David Horowitz in ATC obituary with substance-free attack Fair Special Alert: To spit or not to spit, that is the question Dateline: 1/29/10 WHEN PROGRESSIVE HISTORIAN HOWARD ZINN died on January 27, NPR’s All Things Considered (1/28/10) marked his passing with something you don’t often see in an obituary: a rebuttal. After quoting Noam Chomsky [...]
Tomgram: In Haiti, Words Can Kill Along with this went the usual self-congratulatory reporting about American generosity and the importance of American troops (they secured the airport!) in a situation in which aid was visibly not getting through, in which people were not being saved. We need to banish the word “looting” from the English [...]
