Over at the Morning Sedition site, they’ve posted the “last weekend thread.” 🙁 This isn’t the last weekend thread here, of course, but it’s with heavy heart that we approach the last week of Morning Sedition. Did you watch “Homecoming” on Showtime last night? Are you planning on seeing “Syriana” this weekend? Blog away, Seditionists.
It IS one of the last weekends of (taped) MS on AAR. But it’s the blog community that goes with the show that makes the experience. (Like the Deadheads around the concert. Did I just date myself?) Anyway. Have a great weekend.
I rented a movie about the New Wave singer/performance artist Klaus Nomi. Late ’70s early ’80s heyday. Lived in the lower east side of NYC. Good documentary.
20/20 had a segment on about mothers of soldiers that have died in Iraq and made absolutely no mention of Cindy Sheehan. Write them a quick note and let them know what you think. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123566&page=1
I couldn’t even find the story listed on ABC’s site. Here is what I wrote.
I watched the segment last night about the mothers of soldiers that have died in Iraq and was appalled that there was not a peep about Cindy Sheehan and the movement she has spawned. This omission makes it quite obvious that you have no interest in informing people but are engaged in the same propaganda that Fox News and the Bush administration have been foisting on the American people for years.
Got Journalistic Integrity?
Didn’t Klaus Nomi die from AIDS?
Tom T. in Tokyo sent me an MP3 of Marc reading a listener e-mail on the 11/17 show, set to music. It’s linked over there under multimedia as Angel-Header Hipster.
Dig it.
Didn’t Klaus Nomi die from AIDS?
Yes, he did.
He was truly an amazing artist.
What’s this about a Samson Option?
I assume that meant that Danny would tear down the network when they fire him (which he’s doing a pretty job of, I think).
Richard Pryor has died. That sucks. 🙁
Last-minute climate deals reached (thanks to Bill Clinton, apparently).
If he wasn’t such a visually oriented guy, Pryor would have been perfect for satellite radio. Would Jim Earl dare combine Richard Pryor with the death of Morning Sedition on Monday’s remembrance? That would be way too fitting — and depressing.
Several comments:
1) 20/20 will never be mistaken for journalism as long as John Stossel is there. When he was new at ABC, I described him to a friend as “Geraldo in training,” and he’s done nothing since to change my opinion. “Give me a break,” indeed. Elizabeth Vargas probably goes home and takes a shower after every taping to cleanse herself.
2) As sick as he was, Richard Pryor’s death was not unexpected but is still a great loss. The man re-defined comedy. The edge was wherever he decided to make it. Who knows, the guys may drop the politics on Monday and just discuss Pryor for the entire show.
3) In terms of timing, Eugene McCarthy picked a really shitty weekend to die. For the younger bloggers, he’ll be the white guy in the little insert picture somewhere under the big picture of Richard Pryor on the front page of tomorrow’s paper. I was too young to campaign for him personally, but I remember 1968 vividly, and he was instrumental in the sea change that eventually got us out of Vietnam.
Which politican will stand up like that in 2008? Dennis Kucinich did it last time around. Maybe Russ Feingold will be the one this time.
4) Is everyone else sick of hearing about the campaign against Christmas? It was bad enough when it was just Fox, but at least they have the excuse of doing it to sell John Gibson’s book. What’s up with the other MSM jumping on the bandwagon? Show some guts and cover REAL news for a change.
And Bill O’Reilly: Happy fucking holidays, asswipe.
Less than meets the eye re the climate change talks – the admin got what it wanted, which is to kick the ball down the road. They cynically used the fears of the developing world having limits put on growth to help keep the current situation, which is (in their view) to the US’s short term economic advantage: limits on Europe, no limits on the US.
Yes, the US, in effect did nothing but agree to actually participate in non-binding talks.
Still, it appears that the Bushies have finally gotten it through their thick skulls that the US does, indeed belong to the global community, and at least needs to pretend to give a shit about what the rest of the world thinks. It aint much, but it’s at least a start.
It will be a cold, lonely world for the US when it’s bankrupt & insignificant, the Euro becomes the international monetary standard, and its institutions have been purged of science.
I would like to talk about Mumia abu-Jamal sometime on this blog. His is an important case. The national police lobby has done much to stifle debate over the matter. Is this a reason why AAR rarely if ever mentions it?
Sad weekend. Loss of two important Americans.
Do the right thing, Arnold S.
Democracy Now! regularly or Laura Flanders on occasion will talk about Mumia. Othrewise too many topics and not enough time.
James Wolcott, friend of the show.
God, this all makes me want to cry, and I’m a rough, tough, big boys don’t cry Irishman type, too.
Drobny has another Huffington Post up:
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