Once again, Maverick Johnnie put himself in a no-win situation:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Republican presidential front-runner Sen. John McCain on Thursday defended his statement that U.S. troops could spend “maybe 100″ years in Iraq — saying he was referring to a military presence similar to what the nation already has in places like Japan, [...]
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Defending The Indefensible
Posted in dissent, education, hypocrisy, internet, media, politics, tv, tagged 100 Years in Iraq, McCain, War on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John McCain Is A Brave Leader
Posted in constitution, dissent, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, politics, tv, tagged cowards, CPAC, McCain, shirking duty on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But he’s too cowardly to do his goddamn job:
Given a chance to act as a recession looms, more than 40 Republicans today said no to helping 20 million seniors and no to 250,000 disabled veterans.
But McCain didn’t vote “no.” McCain didn’t vote at all. Maybe he was afraid to piss off potential [...]
When Xenu Sees This, He’s Going To Be Pissed
Posted in copyright, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, politics, private press, property, technology, tv, tagged cults, fishman affidavit, OTIII, religion, scientology, Xenu on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The kids at Digg have noticed that someone posted a huge collection of Scientology documents on the web. And from digg, someone posted a torrent of the file to PirateBay. As I suggested last week, this is the obvious and natural consequence of drawing attention to that silly Tom Cruise video- people will yank the [...]
God Bless America
Posted in constitution, dissent, education, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, politics, prejudice, tv, tagged constitution, God, Huckabee, religion on January 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Mike Huckabee has totally jumped the shark this week. In addition to frying squirrels in his dorm room, he made a campaign speech (apparently in all seriousness) that suggested he would seek to amend the U.S. Constitution to reflect his half-assed understanding of the bible:
I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than [...]
Assault And Battery
Posted in advertising, criminal law, economics, ethics, media, torts, tv, tagged O'Reilly on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I bet Crazy Bill can just throw money at this problem until it goes away, like he did with that falafel thing.
The incident was triggered when O’Reilly–with a Fox News crew shooting–was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson “Move” so he could get Obama’s attention, according to several eyewitnesses. “O’Reilly was yelling at [...]
(Here’s Hoping That) The Emotional Center Cannot Hold
Posted in advertising, dissent, economics, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, private press, public domain, technology, tv, tagged GE, NBC, net neutrality, tv news is crap, Wired on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a gripping account of what goes wrong when the reporting of public news is made into a private corporate profit center. It’s long, and it’s worth the read, because it goes a long way towards explaining what is wrong with the institution of TV news in this country:
This was one in a series [...]
Fair And Balanced Copyright Infringement
Posted in advertising, copyright, economics, ethics, hypocrisy, media, property, technology, tv, tagged dog in a santa hat, Fox News, infringement on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like even the big media guys aren’t above stealing photos off the internet:
I also had to endure the endless tape-loop of FOX’s NFL copyright warnings, which seemed to repeat every five minutes or so. Hilariously enough, FOX Broadcasting and the NFL are apparently very, very concerned about legal rights to their telecasts and rebroadcasts [...]
