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Frank Rich on Tea Party Marketing

Posted January 17th, 2010 by wirtes
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I'm not usually a fan of Frank Rich, but he has a good point here about carpetbaggers in the Tea Party movement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17rich.html

Steele is representative of a fascinating but little noted development on the right: the rise of buckrakers who are exploiting the party’s anarchic confusion and divisions to cash in for their own private gain. In this cause, Steele is emulating no one if not Sarah Palin, whose hunger for celebrity and money outstrips even his own.

Roger Ebert on Rush Limbaugh

Posted January 15th, 2010 by wirtes
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Roger Ebert has an interesting post calling out Rush Limbaugh in an open letter to Rush.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/OPINI...

Having followed President Obama's suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims.

Is Rush Limbaugh an asshole? Absolutely. Is this news? Absolutely not.

This is the way the industry ends

Posted January 15th, 2010 by wirtes
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The ratings are in, and conservative Clear Channel talk radio station KOA has tanked from first place to tenth in the ratings. Why? Arbitron switched from paper diaries to People Meters.

Read all about it in the Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14167621

Harry Shearer on Dick Cheney

Posted December 30th, 2009 by wirtes
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Harry Shearer has an excellent take on how to handle Dick Cheney:

The problem with pretending we're at war, rather than understanding we're dealing with a criminal syndicate -- like the Mafia -- is that it gets our resources overextended and tied down in geographical areas, like Afghanistan, while the opponent is free to move and relocate (hello, Yemen!, hi, Somalia!).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/cheneys-game_b_407368.html

Rahm Emanuel's Southern Strategy

Posted October 21st, 2009 by wirtes
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Or why Barack Obama wants to double FOX News' ratings.

FOX News is all a flutter about the White House War on FOX News. Rupert Murdoch is calling it a ratings boon, and FOX News just can't seem to stop creating stories about how they're now on the Obama White House's "enemies list."

But I have to laugh at all the serious journalists who are wondering if it's "wise" for the White House to go after FOX this way. Of course it is.

ZeFrank is Back (or I just re-found him)

Posted October 9th, 2009 by wirtes
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America Loses...GOP Giddy

Posted October 3rd, 2009 by wirtes
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On September 11, 2001 networks filmed people celebrating in the streets in Ramallah. The PLO confiscated the footage, fearing a PR nightmare. Too bad the GOP couldn't get to this video.

Here we can see people from the group Americans For Prosperity -- a main tea party organizer -- celebrating America's loss of the Olympics in 2016. It begs the question, do you have to be an unpatriotic American to be a good Republican these days?

Yes, you read that correctly. "Americans for Prosperity" cheered at the news that America lost the Olympics in 2016.

Read more at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/conservatives-revel-in-ob_n_307...

Jon Stewart Is Back!

Posted September 16th, 2009 by wirtes
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And not a moment too soon.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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Michael Moore: Newspapers 'Slit Their Own Throats'

Posted September 14th, 2009 by wirtes
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An interesting Michael Moore clip popped up on the Huffington Post today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/michael-moore-newspapers_n_2860...

We will call you out: Lying about crowds

Posted September 13th, 2009 by wirtes
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Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com posts an excellent piece on how the right-winger Matt Kibbe lied about the crowd sizes at the Glenn Beck rally in Washington DC on 9/12. This caused an official DC Fire Department estimate of 60,000 - 70,000 people to be reported as 2 million people by fellow right-winger Michelle Malkin:

The way this false estimate came into being is relatively simple: Matt Kibbe, the president of FreedomWorks, lied, claiming that ABC News had reported numbers of between 1.0 and 1.5 million when they never did anything of the sort. A few tweets later, the numbers had been exaggerated still further to 2 million. Kibbe wasn't "in error", as Malkin gently puts it. He lied. He did the equivalent of telling people that his penis is 53 inches long.