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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: stovepiping
Brangelina
I never, ever talk about celebrity culture in this blog. Some friends tell me that’s a shortcoming, but I think of it as my own personal rejection of the Huffington Post formula. Nevertheless, I admit the news of Brad Pitt … Continue reading
The MSM Stovepipe
We’ve seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity. This one began with a post at the Chicago Tribune Swamp page: One … Continue reading
The Permanent Campaign
Mark Bowden, author of Blackhawk Down, investigated the strange coincidence of all the TV networks having Sonya Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” speech cued up the instant her nomination was announced, finding that: The reporting we saw on TV and on the … Continue reading
Breitbart Stovepipes Teh Crazy™
I want some help figuring out why I keep getting mysterious forwards from a gun club in Atlanta, Georgia. Maybe Faux Noise can figure out what dire conspiracy keeps filling my inbox with the latest evidence of Obama’s secret, evil … Continue reading
9/11 and Obama’s Birth Certificate
Blogger Ben Cohen’s Thursday piece in the Huffington Post has drawn a lot of criticism — not because he calls the birthers racist, which they are; but because he claims the birthers and 9/11 “truth” conspiracy nuts are connected, which … Continue reading
Wingnuts are Smart!
Michelle Malkin has gone birther: Has anyone seen it? Why shouldn’t the record be in the public domain for presidential candidates? It’s a real winner of an argument, isn’t it? “Why not show his birth certificate?” Of course, this is … Continue reading
Stovepiping Teh Wacky™
Via DailyBanter.com: Sadly, I have to agree with Zandar Versus The Stupid: the Republicans now openly and deliberately promote birther conspiracy. For those of you who missed Cheney’s virtuoso play to the fringe, here it is: Cheney backs away from … Continue reading
Press Fail
When Mark Sanford got back from Argentina, he had lots of messages waiting from reporters. Here are a couple from David Gregory, inheritor of that televisual institution known as Meet The Press: Left you a message. Wanted you to hear … Continue reading
The Cost of Nontroversy
Remember when I said that Big Media’s manufactured controversy over Obama’s use of new media was allowing the wingnuts to stovepipe their insanity? In a blog post titled “The Cost of Controlling the Press,” K. Daniel Glover complains that the … Continue reading
The Hyperlink Age and Big Media
I’ve been posting lately on the failures of Big Media and their consequent resentment and jealousy of new media. Not only does this lead the MSM to manufacture controversy, it enables the right wing media machine to stovepipe their insanity. … Continue reading
Sunday Sermon: Meet The Press
Last week saw a flurry of triumphal denunciations of Obama for “controlling” the questions at his health care town hall meeting. Tellingly, the attacks began before the town hall began. CBS News’ Chip Reid and Hearst News’ Helen Thomas tore … Continue reading
