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http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/ Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM Tom Brokaw. With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.WHO SET UP GOVERNMENT ‘PROPAGANDA’ CONFERENCE CALL?
WHO SET UP GOVERNMENT ‘PROPAGANDA’ CONFERENCE CALL? Newly Revealed White House, NEA Audio Contradict by Patrick Courrielche Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues. Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com, posted her experience with a meeting that occurred on August 27th and confessed that she also felt “uneasy” about the government’s arts effort.Despite Economy, Spending on Pets is Up
When the going gets tough, the tough have shown they become serious softies about their furry and feathered friends.
Despite the recession, this year Americans are expected to increase their spending on pets to $45.4 billion, up $2.2 billion from last year, according to the American Pet Products Association. Meanwhile, over the same period of time, retail spending on human luxuries, like those bought at department stores, are down double-digit percentages.
True Blood Season 2, Episode 7: Release Me (Let’s Discuss)
This contains big time spoilers. If you haven’t watched the episode, I am advising you turn back now. Save yourself.** BTW, sorry for the late post, but life gets in the way sometimes.'Torturing Democracy'
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship ...During his speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute last week -- immediately on the heels of President Obama's address at the National Archives -- former Vice President Dick Cheney used the euphemism "enhanced interrogation" a full dozen times. Smothering the reality of torture in euphemism of course has a political value, enabling its defenders to diminish the horror and possible illegality. It also gives partisans the opening they need to divert our attention by turning the future of the prison at Guantanamo Bay into a "wedge issue," as noted on the front page of Sunday's New York Times.Gruesome recipes of drug cartel's 'disposal expert' shocks the public
By William Booth The Washington Post updated 1:00 a.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 27, 2009 MEXICO CITY - As the nation's drug war rages on, with its weekly tallies of headless torsos, it is getting harder to produce a shock wave in the Mexican media.MAUREEN DOWD on Obama and earmarks
By MAUREEN DOWD Published: March 3, 2009 (The New York Times) Stage of Fools If only Shakespeare had known how to Twitter. There was a bit of King Lear in the scene on the Senate floor, a stormy, solitary John McCain on “this great stage of fools,” as the Bard wrote, railing against both parties and the president in fiery speeches and rapid-fire tweets. “He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath,” the Fool told Lear.Jonas Brothers Present Letterman Top Ten (video)
Catch the Jonas Brothers present the “Top Ten Surprising Facts About the Jonas Brothers” List in their first appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman TONIGHT (February 12) @ 11:35PM ET/PT on CBS.
Letterman also asked them whether they’d had any “famous relationships, like Miley Cyrus. Was there somebody here involved with Miley Cyrus?” Nick confessed that “we went on tour with Miley… Again, going back to the ups and downs, I think that I was 14, so it’s, you know, I was pretty young, so I think you can just consider it a young little relationship.”
Letterman then threw out the name of singer Taylor Swift – “Does that ring a bell here?” Joe, who dated the country cutie, said, “No, um, yeah, you know, we didn’t work out.”
The JoBros and audience roared with laughter, to which Letterman joked, “Yeah, it’s funny now, but try saying that when you’re 62.”
Please read the FULL Top Ten list… They mention Angelina Jolie!
A truncated presidential honeymoon?
A truncated presidential honeymoon? By Tony Blankley It was fairly common chatter from congressional Democrats in Washington during the autumn months of the presidential campaign that while Barack Obama was almost certain to win, in 2009 policy would be driven from the House speaker's office. While I didn't doubt that the congressional Democrats would try to lead Obama around by the nose, I rather doubted that Obama would cooperate.Naughty Mommy Confessions
Okay so we all try to be the best parents we can but nobody's perfect. We all have a little something we need to get off our chest. I'll start- here's my confessions, what are yours?
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