Huzzah! After a tortuous career comprised of reporting opinion as fact and suckling at the teat of corporate America, espousing hate while claiming to speak for the people, Lou Dobbs, arguably one of the worst “newsmen” and commentators ever to be conveyed via cathode ray has left CNN. His next endeavor is to change the world, a goal the confines of CNN simply could not accommodate. Ignore that he’d become a festering lesion on CNN’s ass by virtue of his incessant, blathering stupidity.
Given that it’s a dog chasing its tail sort of an exchange as well, I don’t fault them for that: You need a story. You’ve got a good clip. Where’s the “money” statement? Everyone likes flubs in the face of direct confrontation on live TV–they entertain and inform. A “gotcha” is today’s journalistic brass ring. Could be there are a number of other reasons to promote this exchange with such a heading. And even though in my opinion, none of the above transpires here, I still think it’s worth a look.
Lebanon, PA: According to the AP and SF Gate,com yesterday, a pistol-packing soccer mom and her husband were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Melanie Hain, who rose to national attention by showing up at her 5 year-old daughter’s soccer game openly “packing heat” and husband Scott were found shot dead yesterday at their home. The couple’s offspring, who were present but unhurt during the incident, are reportedly staying with friends and relatives.
Perhaps you don’t fall for the notion that “Round Mouth Beck,” King of outrage, Grand Poo-bah of bluster, Dictator of indignation is a blessing. Maybe you consider the mollusk a millionaire that acts like a child (a very BADLY behaved child) but can’t control his emotions (or for that matter, his bowels). It could as well be that you harbor disdain for the liar in chief primarily due to his abject inability to speak from his heart.
Rod Argent is a gifted keyboard player and musician of considerable skill that cut his teeth in one of the most underrated sixties bands, the Zombies. Although they had a couple of hits with “She’s Not There,” “Tell Her No” and later “Time of the Season,” the Zombies never broke out of the British Invasion like some of their better known contemporaries, for instance, the Kinks or the Who.
Argent was a later incarnation of the Zombies with key personnel changes that coupled the stellar keyboard work of Rod Argent, with the creative, accomplished voice and guitar of Russ Ballard and showcase vocal ability the Zombies had hinted at but that Argent ramped up considerably.
By the way, Both were lying about Obama not meeting with US Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. McCrystal and Obama met on Air Force One. Just another example of how low standards, totally absent fact checking, axes to grind and malicious intent combine to make Fox News: Your Place For Lies. And let’s not forget Rush. He says the decision is a direct reflection of Obama’s failure. Try to find the clip on You Tube. Rush acts like he’s about to have a seizure.
The phrase “Nattering Naybobs of Negativism” is but one of many reasons I’m glad Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) appeared on Blind Woof Blintzen’s uh, “Situation Room” in the face of cacophonous criticism from the GOP. Republicans, red faced and panties fully bunched demand an apology for Grayson’s definition of their “Health Care” Plan as 1) Don’t Get Sick, and if one does get sick, 2) Die Quickly. But Grayson will have none of it.
If you watch the nightly pundits, chances are you saw this. In case you didn’t, it’s brilliant.
Of course the republican response is predictable. I admit that Grayson’s hyperbolic presentation is “in your face.” Even so, it lampoons a version of what the right has been trying to pass off as a plan, despite how frequently experts cite it as if not lame, only moderately ambulatory.
See the queue of right-wing piggies gathered in a row? Hear them snorting all together, rocking to-and-fro? Little do they know, Barack knows better.
Some nerve. In a thinly veiled “economic development/PR trip to Copenhagen, reportedly to lend the weight of his office for a total of 18 hours, in an effort to get the Olympics to play out their drama in his hometown and on “America’s Main Street,” Chicago, we all know what he really wants–some “me” time with Oprah. Except that Michelle will be there. Okay, so it’s just a feeble way to inject himself in some bush-league, international event that has, until now, had nothing to do with sitting US presidents. Has he no shame? What an attention strumpet!
Dramatic “showdown” votes yesterday on inclusion of a Public Option in pending Health Care Reform legislation exposed a long discussed weakness of the Democratic Party, a perennial character flaw that surfaces any time democrats are in power (in this case, the dem-controlled senate).
The weakness is this: regardless of what our constituents think, despite how much power we wield over republicans, in total blindness to the importance of a bill beyond its political implications, dems simply refuse to do what we must to accomplish what we were elected to do. We don’t bring home the bacon. On Health Care, we could have called this process last year.
You can count on us to ultimately cave in to minority opposition, even when the visible manifestation of it is a horde of corporate-sponsored, monosyllabic Cretans packing iron.
In other words, yesterday our neutered Democratic Majority Senate stowed their spines in their closets, ignored the hue and cry of the majority and gave in to a bunch of hate-mongering, whining, muck-raking, miscreants, whose testicles already impeded the perilously dubious vision of Democratic Party luminaries Max Baucus and his co-signers, who in yet another in a long parade of “money talks, bullshit walks” escapades voted their career survival rather than what’s best for the nation. And why? For “bipartisan” legislation, which has eroded to a flaccid attempt to woo a single senate republican, Olympia Snow? Holy mother of God.
RawStory posted this video with the headline “Did Hannity Fib to Michael Moore about attending Mass? , a benign conclusion, given the exchange, which is about much more than Sean or Michael’s comparative religiosity.
Lebanon, PA: 
Perhaps you don’t fall for the notion that “Round Mouth Beck,” King of outrage, Grand Poo-bah of bluster, Dictator of indignation is a blessing. Maybe you consider the mollusk a millionaire that acts like a child (a very BADLY behaved child) but can’t control his emotions (or for that matter, his bowels). It could as well be that you harbor disdain for the liar in chief primarily due to his abject inability to speak from his heart.
See the queue of right-wing piggies gathered in a row? Hear them snorting all together, rocking to-and-fro? Little do they know, Barack knows better.
Dramatic “showdown” votes yesterday on inclusion of a Public Option in pending Health Care Reform legislation exposed a long discussed weakness of the Democratic Party, a perennial character flaw that surfaces any time democrats are in power (in this case, the dem-controlled senate).
The Dobbsmeister Bows Out
November 12, 2009 by Paul Sonderman
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