After moving junior yesterday, pretty much everything I’ve got hurts like hell today, and I’m still beat. So this is gonna be a quickie
Press the Meat has SecDef Robert Gates and a roundtable with Harold “where’re the white women” Ford, Jr., asshole Republican (I know, that’s redundant) Mike Murphy, Dee Dee “sure, I’ll have another one” Myers, Mornin’ Joe Scarborough.
Faze the Nation has Rahm Emanuel.
Fux News Sunday has Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen, Krazy Jon Kyl and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, along with a bunch of fuxheads.
On the Goebbels Network, it’ Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag and Republican Whip Eric Cantor. Then a roundtable with Pillsbury Dough Nazi Karl Rove, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and George :jerk: Will.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Bob Simon reports on Harry Markopolos, who told the SEC about Bernie Madoff, and they blew him off. Anderson Cooper reports about drug cartels in Mexico. And Morley Safer profiles liar and hypocrite, Bobby Jindal.
Me? Jusot gonna see if I can stay awake long enough to catch Big Love. Have a good one.
It’s snowing! Looks like March really took that “comes in like a lion” stuff seriously. I don’t know if it’s snowing in Syracuse but if it is, my sympathies to PJ’s sore muscles.
Last week, CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli rocketed from being a little-known second-string correspondent to a populist hero of the disenfranchised, a 21st-century Samuel Adams, the leader and symbol of the downtrodden American masses suffering under the onslaught of 21st century socialism and big government. Santelli’s “rant†last-week calling for a “Chicago Tea Party†to protest President Obama’s plans to help distressed American homeowners rapidly spread across the blogosphere and shot right up into White House spokesman Robert Gibbs’ craw, whose smackdown during a press conference was later characterized by Santelli as “a threat†from the White House. A nationwide “tea party†grassroots Internet protest movement has sprung up seemingly spontaneously, all inspired by Santelli, with rallies planned today in cities from coast to coast to protest against Obama’s economic policies.
But was Santelli’s rant really so spontaneous? How did a minor-league TV figure, whose contract with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation? Why were there so many sites and organizations online and live within minutes or hours after his rant, leading to a nationwide protest just a week after his rant?
What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party†rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfingâ€) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that’s because it was.
What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant†was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party†was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.
http://www.playboy.com/blog/2009/02/backstabber.html
Not much snow here, but it’s about 9 degrees so it’s a little chilly. Big coastal storm on the way that looks like it’s gonna miss us. A foot of snow possible for you folks in Philly and NYC though.
A foot of snow is OK. That means no school, Monday. Of course NYC schools will be open, but I have long passed the heroic stage and if it’s dangerous, I stay home. Besides, although the kids can walk to school, the teachers come from much longer distances and a great many of them (like me) won’t show, so all the kids get put into the classrooms of the teachers who do show. Nothing that resembles teaching goes on. But the schools get to count it as a school day which allows them to collect state aid.
Katrina isn’t exactly noodging Mr. Rove in the soft white underbelly. Greenberg isn’t slouching either.
Just a repost from late last night-
Here’s a review of Marc’s new one-man show that he’s workshopping , by Ann Carr. Not sure who she is but her comic boy-friend thinks Maron is a genius.
http://anncarr.blogspot.com/2009/01/blood-and-guts.html
New interview with Marc.
http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/2009/02/video-interview-a-tight-five-with-marc-maron/
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Boy I gotta tell ya Art I really like that gravitar.
Travis, I thought that was gonna be funny. :tap:
Damn! I knew spending too much time away from the blog would fuck up my mental funny-compass. :doh:
28 fuckin’ flavors. Kinda gives me the creeps.
Brush Lintball
Doesn’t Marc have a genius retarded joke?
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