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Entries from April 2008

Dr. J.’s Commentary: Less Gotcha? No, more!

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

BY STEVEN JONAS

Unscathingly yours. The (so far) unsinkable Molly Clinton.
Crosspost with BuzzFlash on Wed, 04/23/2008
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/jonas/111
Everyone (well, lots of people) has been complaining about the 45 “Gotcha minutes” that Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos ran in the ABC “debate” April 16. Much too much, is the general opinion, with some folks holding out for […]

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Corporate Reporters Tell Lies for a Living

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

A debate without substance further adulterated by the corporate media machinations.
BY GLEN FORD, Editor, Black Agenda Report
The 41 signers of an open letter denouncing ABC’s farcical conduct during the most recent presidential debate may have thought they were doing the right thing - but they managed to send the wrong message. Although there is no […]

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Tags: American Way of Life · American brainwash · Bourgeois Democracy · Capitalist Whores · Class Struggle · Corporadoes · Eternally stupid Democrats · Ideological Combat · Media Reform · Mediocrats · Misinformation · Propaganda US style · Pseudo Journalism · The Contemptible Media

WHY I QUIT HUNTING

April 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

BY WAY OF PREFACE TO A PERSONAL STORY

Man is a creature of astonishing contradictions and enormous moral range. The same species that produces fools, knaves, cowards, a massive number of mediocrities, and assorted monsters of depravity, also gives us geniuses, saints, and heroes of exemplary virtue. The spread of behavior is so vast as to […]

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Natural Progression Interruptus

April 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

LIFE IS BARREN in a padded cell, leading one to incessantly reflect on matters large and small. My present preoccupation is the reluctance of disaffected capitalists to adopt socialism, and I am not referring to the uninviting amalgam of democratic socialism. Understandably, some “closet socialists” are fearful of being ostracized by such […]

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Tags: Abominable Speciesism · American Politicians · American Way of Life · American brainwash · CJO'S OpEds · Class Struggle · Classic Archives · Communism · Controversy · Eternally stupid Democrats · INHABITED LIVES · Ideological Combat · Obstinate Conscience · Pathetic Idioten · Polemicist · Socialism & Communism · The Left & Pseudo Left · kulturkampf

War and Pain: Nothing New Under the Sun

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Young Greeks riding to the battlefield almost 3000 years ago.
By Gaither Stewart
THE WORLD GOES ROUND and round and human beings say and do the same things again and again, so that it seems there is truly nothing new under the sun. The perplexing unchangingness of man’s behavior and the ways of the world have […]

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Filth to the brim

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The disgustingly ambitious George Stephanopoulos, ABC’s and Hillary’s weapon of disinformation, along with clueless Charles Gibson.
More filth from the filth factory. The dirty shenanigans of the Clintonites and their media assassins clearly spell the bankruptcy of establishment liberals, which they so obviously represent. Such is their lust for power at any cost, that they make […]

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Tags: American Politicians · American Way of Life · American brainwash · Establishment Whores · Ideological Combat · Liberalism · Liberaloids · Media Reform · Pseudo Journalism · Punditocracy · The Contemptible Media