by Stephen Lendman
Amber Lyon
Sanitizing news and suppressing what’s most important is bad enough. Imagine compounding it by producing infomercials for despots. CNN stands accused. More on that below. It’s well known that Western major media represent wealth and power interests. Fox News is a Republican party house organ. It also reflects Rupert Murdoch’s worldview. Continue reading »
Maher: Still afraid of letting go of an illusion?
By Patrice Greanville
LOTE, acronym,
| Lesser of Two Evils |
LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE OF BILL MAHER’S HBO comedy show (see below), Real Time with Bill Maher (5.25.12) packed a nice, perhaps encouraging surprise. At the closing of the show, apparently irritated by the Right’s nonstop drumbeat of insane—often cynical—claims that Obama was a dangerous leftist, a foaming-at-the-mouth radical, a stealthy socialist bent on imposing tyrannical antibusiness laws, and an agenda that would make Obama one of the most revolutionary presidents in the history of the United States, Bill finally came out and started dissing Obama for his total lack of semblance to the Right’s description of the man. Continue reading »
By George Milton, Hipographia
Crack-TV Chronicles
The housewife that couldn’t
Gretchen Rossi—one of the stars of Bravo’s seminal franchise, Real Housewives of Orange County, is a lucky genetic accident. By that I mean she’s outside the norm. In the bell-shaped distribution she’s one of those creatures sitting pretty on one of the extremes—the extremely fortunate one—the coordinates inhabited by people blessed with perfect body, features and voice, the kind that answers a teenager’s wet prayers. Rossi’s looks are the prime if not sole reason why Bravo picked her to impersonate a “real housewife”—a suitably Orwellian term for a woman who’s neither a housewife nor very real. Continue reading »