Posts Tagged ‘ Cnn ’

Stephen Colbert Befuddles Some Media Commentators

January 23, 2012
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Stephen Colbert’s super PAC exposes the corporate news media’s incapability to express what would be in normal life circumstances a totally justified sense of righteous outrage. Why do people become upset with the notion of anonymous corporate donors filling the coffers of Super PACS and corporations being considered “people?” It must offend a sense...

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What “Center?”

November 9, 2010
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On what set of national policies was President Obama anything other than a “centrist?” How many times did he “reach out” to Republicans? On the war in Afghanistan, education, health care, Wall Street reform, immigration, and climate change he bent over backwards to accommodate the opposition party. Yet the Republicans stiffed him on all...

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Why Liberals Don’t Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media

October 6, 2010
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Last March, when President Obama announced he was fast-tracking a bunch of deepwater oil leases, mainstream media commentators told us what a politically sophisticated move it was. He was showing the “courage” to defy his base among the anti-drilling crowd and when those dolphin-huggers screamed foul, he stood his ground. A few weeks later,...

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Recession Is Over! (If You Want It)

September 22, 2010
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The National Bureau of Economic Research tells us the Great Recession is “over.” In fact, it ended in June 2009! Hip, hip, hooray! The only thing this announcement reveals is just how out of touch, cruel, and compassionless those who view human society through the lens of quantitative measurements can be. Numbers don’t begin...

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An Unsanitized Look at the Origins of the Iraq War

August 31, 2010
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Neo-conservatives within the Bush Administration – Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle, and others, repeatedly told us on TV that individuals who opposed President George W. Bush’s attack, invasion, and occupation of...

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Media Coverage of Haitian Earthquake Can’t Go There

January 18, 2010
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The most devastating natural disaster to hit the Western Hemisphere in decades inundates the American news media. The humanitarian effort from across the globe in response to the disastrous earthquake in Haiti has been astounding. Mainstream television has produced an array of shocking and heroic visuals sandwiched between car commercials and ads for Viagra...

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The Wrath of Suburbanites and Independents

November 4, 2009
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Suburbanites and independent voters in Virginia and New Jersey broke Republican in yesterday’s election. Last night I saw CNN’s John King tell his viewers that this phenomenon could only mean that people are sending a signal to President Barack Obama that they’re fed up with “all that spending” in Washington. King’s assertion is interesting...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment

May 30, 2009
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President Barack Obama has done a symbolically extraordinary thing by nominating for the first time in U.S. history a person of Latino descent to the Supreme Court. The President has stayed true to the theme of his long campaign when he adopted “Si Se Puede” from the legendary Latina leader, Dolores Huerta. Right-wing talk...

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