Category: Media Say the Darndest Things

  • Billmon explains the swiftboating of Kos

    I know the seven or eight readers of this site are not blog junkies and may not have been following the recent campaign against Markos Moulitsas Zúniga and his “minions” for… well, it’s confusing, but for an excellent summary slash analysis see Billmon’s The Swiftboating of Kos in his venerable Whiskey Bar. (Note: Even Atrios…

  • Alternate Reality #666

    Pertaining to nothing, ran into an article talking about the use of “666” in the marketing for The Omen remake, and it featured the following quote: “Normally, a marketer is going to be very, very wary about using the devil,” said Robert Thompson, professor of television at Syracuse University in New York state. “But 666…

  • Rolling Stone Rolls W.

    Was the whole reason George Sr. and company wanted George Jr. to become president just to make Sr.’s adminstration look competent by comparison? Well, on that score at least, mission accomplished. Now Rolling Stone (credit where due, I first saw this mentioned on our beloved dailykos) weighs in on the possibility that W. may be…

  • Michael Jackson Bailout

    Michael Jackson Bailout Said to Be Close – New York Times

  • Whose Eyebrows?

    Drudge is linking to a story on wcbstv.com and echoing their subhead, which reads: “Clinton’s Use Of Word ‘Plantation’ Raises Eyebrows.” I don’t know about you (I mean, really, I don’t) but when I read that headline over on Drudge I thought, ‘Holy cow, Hillary went and said something racially insenitive on MLK Day. What…

  • Desperate times

    OK, so horrific earthquake in Kashmir. Delay, Miers, Libby, Rove, all that. Wilma’s kinda fierce. Deficit’s growing. Continued Katrina fallout. Inflation mebbe. Gas prices. You know what I’m talking about here, right? I’m talking about news. There’s lotsa news. Like, big stories. Everywhere. And what are the good folks over at Fox focused on? Well…

  • Is that really news?

    Didn’t read the article. (Couldn’t be bothered.) But the headline made me chuckle: “Announcement of Supreme Court Nominee May Be Soon”

  • Classic Freudian Slip by Fox’s David Asman

    And the truth shall set ye free.

  • Mistah Kurtz, he dead

    The Poor Man takes the piss out of Stanley Kurtz (Stanley Kurtz Wins the Wankathalon) in such excruciating detail that I’m afraid the feeble old wanker may never recover.

  • Taking David Brooks to the woodshed

    A pointer from Politics from Left to Right led me to Kirsten Powers’ Progressive Pundette blog, where I greatly enjoyed her giving David Brooks what for (David Brooks — Ultimate White Boy). Sometimes I can’t tell if Brooks is a deluded tool or an insidious creep.

  • There they go again

    Now that CBS has scaped a few goats to appease the Republicans, it’s worth dusting off the most appropriate summary of what 60 Minutes did to George Bush on the National Guard AWOL story: They framed a guilty man.

  • F-Bomb-a-rama

    As part of our ongoing War on Terror, is it too much to ask that we ban use of the phrase F-Bomb by so-called major media? Seriously, folks. Lame is lame. And that phrase is. Lame.

  • A Wily Adversary

    Reuters: “Hundreds of mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, rocket launchers and bomb-making equipment have been uncovered inside couches, behind hidden walls and even on top of the city water tower, Marine officers said.” –Glass? Last thing you’d suspect!

  • Press more embedded than they realize?

    In PressThink: Not Up to It, Jay Rosen predicts a sea change in the journalism’s ability to explain itself.

  • Is Wolcott on a roll or what?

    Wow. James Wolcott nails the hypocrisy of upper-class journalists trying to fit in with the jes’ folks phonies: Howling Wolf: “Democrats like Gore and Kerry have to weigh and calibrate their every move because one ill-chosen word or phrase or gesture will be tattooed across their fore[head] by the media’s trained monkeys. I mean, Kerry…

  • Could you just roll that back a little, please?

    I love the abrupt juxtaposition of styles in this AFP article, where the gray grit of war slides suddenly into comfy corporate pastel. I leave it to you to decide where the transition seems to occur. This is an unbroken quote from the article. “Four Turkish nationals have been executed at the hands of hostage-takers…

  • Matt Drudge: Liar

    I’ve been extra-super-special repulsed by Drudge’s coverage this week (with apologies, I just can’t stand to throw a link to this guy). There’s been a different piece of tear-them-down news for every cycle, all timed so evenly you have to figure it was all drawn out well ahead of the convention in color-coded crayon —…

  • Slate Open About Being Duped

    Slate is being very sporting in the way that it’s reporting its own gullibility in this article. It seems that they promoted a poster in their “fray” discussion are to the Diary role and did not percieve that he was playing fast and loose about his identity and his professional affiliations.