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CNN spliced out standing ovation greeting Lowery’s WMD remarks at King funeral. It was a seamless splice without mentioning it as such. In this way, CNN presented a distorted view of what actually occurred; a view that – surprise, surprise – painted the best possible light on the preznit.

During a discussion on civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery’s address at Coretta Scott King’s funeral, CNN aired a video clip of part of Lowery’s remarks, in which he mentioned the failure to find WMDs, cropping out 18 seconds of applause and the standing ovation he received without indicating that the clip had been doctored.

In their attempts to out-Faux Faux, they’re just making themselves look even more amateurish than before. Meanwhile, MSNBC is kicking the asses of both networks that refer to liberals as bin Laden lovers and wish for the destruction of San Francisco. And MSNBC isn’t even liberal, they’re just not foaming at the mouth ideologues.

The pearl-clutching right wing racist ninnies have been covered in depth, and well, elsewhere where where… Suffice it to say, we’re getting a lot of “those people” not knowing how to act with proper decorum at a funeral. In other words, know your place, darkies! That Lowery has been a part of the civil rights movement since before I was born or that speaking truth to power is exactly what Coretta Scott King would have done is beside the point… if you’re a wingnut. Both Kings were national treasures, and they will be missed.

I would blog about these things…

George Deutsch, and how he is the perfect characterization of the Bush administration. An ignorant, fundamentalist, lying zealot who harms the nation. And Deutsch is just a pimple on the right’s ass.

The American Taliban strikes again, this time the geezers at the Superbowl Halftime.

Bush’s close relationship with Jackoff Abraham.

The reanimated Egyptian zombie/waste of space Kate O’Beirne’s pearl clutching on Hardball over the politicization of Coretta Scott King’s funeral.

How McCain is a scary, crazy wanker, and how the media wants to suck his cock anyway. Obama’s our hope and McCain’s already trying to take him down… and Lieberman is helping him. More than help, actually. Lieberman not only sold Obama down the river, he sold tour packages for the ride.

Time, Inc.s aiding and abetting the furtherance of a criminal conspiracy from the White House, just as much as the NYT, WaPo, and Novakula did.

… and about 30 other things.

Oh, and I’m totally jonezing for some baseball right now.

He lost it today with regards to latinos. Open Letter To Chris Matthews has the details, but please take a moment to contact MSNBC and the companies who advertise on Hardball:

Intuit
Verizon
Toyota

Here’s a full list of the email addresses at OLtCM, for easy copy pasting:
scott_gulbransen@intuit.com, ivan.g.seidenberg@verizon.com, bob.ingalls@verizon.com, judy.verses@verizon.com, jerri.devard@verizon.com, john.j.bonomo@verizon.com, sharon.cohen-hagar@verizon.com, don_esmond@toyota.com, dennis_cuneo@tma.toyota.com, pat_pineda@tma.toyota.com

Be polite, but be firm. We are the majority and we do not appreciate being compared to Osama bin Laden. The conservatives are motivated by money. Hit them where it hurts.

Responses after the jump. Read more…

Jamison Foser breaks down the difference in how the media covered a consensual relationship between adults and a president illegally wiretapping US citizens.

Synopsis: for the media, it’s all about the blowjobs.

Chris Matthews must be fired. I think an apology is not going far enough, not leastwise because it would be insincere.

For those that don’t know, yesterday Matthews compared Michael Moore to Osama bin Laden:

Matthews: I mean he sounds like an over the top Michael Moore here, if not a Michael Moore. You think that sells…

Write to MSNBC. Be polite. This was my letter:

Dear MSNBC management,

I write to state my strong objections to the disgusting, unforgiveable comments of Mr. Matthews comparing Michael Moore to Osama bin Laden. There is no place in civilized society for such discourse and Matthews has brought shame onto not only himself but also your organization as a whole.

At the very least, Matthews owes America an apology. At the very least, MSNBC owes it to America to fire Matthews immediately.

Thank you for your time.

Chris Moore (no relation)

Update: Matthews did not apologize. He said he was ‘misunderstood.’ Not that in his ‘clarification’, which is really another smear, he keeps Michael Moore in the mix, but adds John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. Putz.

Update 2: Michael Moore gets Matthews back.

His inner Frenchman was speaking to him again. It’s a lot funnier if you’ve been following the pathetic excuses that the NYT and WaPo have put in the omsbudsman position in the past couple of years, particularly Danny boy and now Debbie girl.

How about profound, then? From George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. The P.S.U.C. militiamen whom I knew in the line, the Communists from the International Brigade whom I met from time to time, never called me a Trotskyist or a traitor; they left that kind of thing to the journalists in the rear. The people who wrote pamphlets against us and vilified us in the newspapers all remained safe at home, or at worst in the newspaper offices of Valencia, hundreds of miles from the bullets and the mud. And apart from the libels of the inter-party feud, all the usual war-stuff, the tub-thumping, the heroics, the vilification of the enemy—all these were done, as usual, by people who were not fighting and who in many cases would have run a hundred miles sooner than fight.

WaPo turns off comments. Oh my, the ivory tower of sheltered professional opinion makers has been assaulted once again. See, when they’re called to the carpet for doing a horrible job (it was Debbie Howell, the new omsbudsman, who was not doing her job by regurgitating RNC non-factual talking points as opposed to being the People’s voice at the paper. We, the People, told her to do her job. She cried. The WaPo took their ball and went home).

Outside of Hollywood, is there a touchier set of exposed nerve pansy babies than our corporate media? Murrow would have kicked your ass twice before lunch and a third time just for good measure.

Truly a pathetic display.

If Al Gore gives a great speech on Bush’s violation of the law and our Constitution, but the media refuses to cover it, did he really give a speech?

In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.

His speech — which compares the wiretapping of Martin Luther King to the broad surveillance now imposed on Americans by President Bush — called on Congress to resume its oversight responsibilities, and enjoined Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor.

(full text of the speech below the fold)

What’s currently the top story on CNN? A speech by the Atlanta mayor. In politics? Bob Ney stepping down.

MSNBC? “United front” anti-Iran chest-beating. US News? Ralph Reed. Politics? A poll.

Faux? Iran. US? 2 pilots killed in helo crash. Politics? Abramoff is nothing special, historically. Wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow 100 years ago. (Seriously. I giggled when I read it. More of a crazy manic giggle than a humored one, I’ll admit)

NYT? Medicare. US? Abortion foes abandoning politics (yeah, right. “A Kentucky Bible study for women coping after abortions represents a less-visible but wide aspect of the anti-abortion movement.” Sure, it’s like the the less-visible but wide silent majority, right John?). Politics? No special section.

WaPo? Iran. US? Translator case. Politics? Tom DeLay’s reelection woes/Dems can’t filibuster.

LATimes? Sewage spill. US? Stardust. Politics? Schwarzenegger.
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Scott Ritter on Alternative Radio right now talking about Iraq. Ritter is a former marine, a traditional conservative republican, and former weapons inspector. He’s been screaming about the Iraq WMD bullshit since day one. During the Bush leadup to war, he was smeared by the Rove machine and painted to be a crazy, bitter, vindictive bitch.

The problem for Rove is that Ritter doesn’t stop. He’s aggressive, active, and charismatic. And he will. not. stop.

Richard Clarke and Scott Ritter are the darlings of the progressives even though they are conservatives for one simple reason: they speak the truth. I have not-insignificant disagreements with both, but they are a remarkable fresh breath of air: traditional conservative straight talkers. They aren’t the slimy, mendacious neocons with apocalyptic visions of martyrdom. They are realpolitikers with a penchant for speaking truth to power.

And for that, I salute them.

So I’m listening to Scott Ritter right now. Ritter’s opening points: the Iraq war is not Bush’s war, it is America’s war. Because we, the People, the sheep let them take us by the nose and lead us into this idiotic adventure. He knows what we are against, but what are we for? Then he goes into the history of the region, propaganda, and politics. The elephant in the room whose culpability and complicity he ignores: the media.

More Ritter:
In 1992, the CIA knew there were no missiles in Iraq.
In 1992, the CIA knew there were no WMDs

They knew mathematically. The entire Iraq imbroglio can be traced back to GHWBush comparing Saddam to Hitler. The rest flows from that.

War is coming with Iran. If we don’t change Congress, it is likely in 2007. If we don’t change Congress and the administration, the Bush doctrine of preemptive attack will likely lead to us dropping nuclear bombs on Iran.

Also, he really, really dislikes both Clintons… but not as much as he hates Shrub. And he also dislikes Bush41.

Good times. Like any other zealot, he is a whirlwind of energy that is fresh when first encountered. I doubt I could take him very frequently, but on occassion? Not bad. Give him a listen if you are able. The CDs are too expensive for my tastes, but it’s a good speech. Maybe he’ll come to your town.

News Corp (owners of Faux News, AKA Rupert “evil mofo” Murdoch) bought myspace back in July, thinking they had just tapped a huge growth market already populated by millions of them young ‘uns (see also, my prediction post). It turns out, News is just as autocratic here as they are in the faux news business and are censoring and blocking competing sites.

Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites.

The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, which News Corp bought for $629m (£355m) last July, discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens.

The intervention by News Corp in the traditionally open-access world of the web – in particular the alteration of personal user profiles – provoked a storm of angry posts in online “blogs”.

Two things come instantly to mind: one, News Corp bought the platform but do not control the community. With technology with such a low barrier to entry and with a multitude of substitutes available, if you negatively effect the community, you’ve just lost your one asset. News Corps actions have, I think, just flushed a good part of their $630M down the drain.

The other thing is that I see this, and think – people don’t think corporate control and consolidation of information outlets isn’t a dangerous thing? How can they be so blind?

The self-hating, low self-esteem, pinhead says he’s going to go after the NYT people.

Bill O’Reilly threatened to “get into” the “lives” of Bill Keller and Frank Rich of The New York Times because they are “the two main culprits” at the newspaper, which “routinely uses personal attacks to hurt people with whom it disagrees.

To which I reply: falafel, loofah, and liar.

Color me shocked.

I was writing a speech on welfare reform, and the president looks at it and says, “OK, I’ll go with it, but this is not going to get covered. Leak it as far an wide as you can beforehand. Maybe we’ll get something in the paper.” And so I go back to my office and I get a call from a reporter, and he wants to know about foreign affairs or something, and I said, “Hey, you want a leak? I’ll tell you what the president will say tomorrow about welfare reform.” And he took it down and wrote a little story about it. But the FBI was illegally tapping his phone at the time, and so they hear a White House speechwriter say, “Hey, you want a leak?” And so they tapped my phone, and for six months, every home phone call I got was tapped. I didn’t like that. And when it finally broke–it did me a lot of good at the time, frankly, because then I was on the right side–but it told me how easy it was to just take somebody who is not really suspected of anything for any good reason and listen to every conversation in his home–you know, my wife talking to her doctor, my–everything.

duhbya has done what Nixon could not – get Safire to turn on a GOP preznit. You’re doing a heckuva job, Bushie!

Take the poll! At least make them uncomfortable on their administrative-fellatiating kneepads.

Results as of the time of this post:

Seriously, who are the 16% of the idiots out there who would vote “Yes” or “I don’t know”? Bunch of cowardly, moronic, despot-lovin’ bitches, that’s who.

^^^ that’s me, raising the level of discourse in ’06. New resolution: raise it further.

CNN hires racist/compulsive gambler Bill Bennett as a political analyst. Yes, the “drug czar” Bennett. Yes, the same Bennett who said:

you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down

Nice, CNN. I’m sure the Stormfront people would like a show too.