Friday, February 04, 2005
White House Slouches towards Goebbels
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website. Jeff Gannon calls himself the White House correspondent for TalonNews.com, a website that says it is 'committed to delivering accurate, unbiased news coverage to our readers." It is operated by a Texas-based Republican Party delegate and political activist who also runs GOPUSA.com, a website that touts itself as "bringing the conservative message to America.' Called on last week by President Bush at a press conference, Gannon attacked Democratic Senate leaders and called them 'divorced from reality.' During the presidential campaign, when called on by Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Gannon linked Senator John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, to Jane Fonda and questioned why anyone would dispute Bush's National Guard service."
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Boston.com / A&E / Media / White House-friendly reporter under scrutiny
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Friday, February 04, 2005
We Were Founded on Enlightenment
"One of his Administration's current favorites is the whopper about America having been founded on Christian principles. Our nation was founded not on Christian principles but on Enlightenment ones ... Our Constitution makes no mention whatever of God ... Alexander Hamilton ... said that the new nation was not in need of 'foreign aid'; according to another, he simply said 'we forgot' ... "
The Nation | Article | Our Godless Constitution | Brooke Allen
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Friday, February 04, 2005
Ward Churchill Becomes Adolf Eichmann
"Consider the professor’s twisted logic: People who work in the financial industry are legitimate military targets. Where do you draw the line? What about the secretaries who serve coffee to the little Eichmanns? They keep the evil system caffeinated, should they die? What if you own stock? Does earning dividends on GE mean your apartment building should be leveled with you in it? What if you keep your money at Chase or Citibank? Buy stuff at Wal-Mart? Pay federal taxes? Or better yet, what if you work for the government? Churchill himself works for a state university. He takes a paycheck from an institution that in all likelihood does military research and is probably ten times more complicit in the actual machinery of war than any junior currency trader."
Guerrilla News Network
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Friday, February 04, 2005
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Measured Assessment of Iraqi Election
"Four hours after the polls closed, a clearly relieved President George W. Bush spoke at the White House in praise of the bravery of Iraqis who turned out to vote and “firmly rejected the antidemocratic ideology” of terrorists. But the US president seemed to edge away from his usual encomiums on a “victory for democracy.” Nor did he actually commend the Iraqis for the big step they took towards establishing a free and democratic government ... "
DEBKAfile - Initial Breakdown of Iraq?s First Exercise in Democracy
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, January 30, 2005
Nazi Adopt-A-Highway signs last less than a week
"A pair of signs proclaiming that the American Nazi Party has adopted a road in rural Salem are gone.
Marion County commissioners have not changed their stance on allowing the group to participate in a volunteer litter cleanup program, but the signs were vandalized this week and won’t be replaced unless Nazi party members pay to have the county install new ones ...
News - StatesmanJournal.com
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, January 30, 2005