tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post116901812972915267..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Media Dumbnambulism -- Part 2 of 2.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-13743364425791784042007-04-17T20:22:00.000-05:002007-04-17T20:22:00.000-05:00This is a great Blog! But health care costs money....This is a great Blog! But health care costs money.<BR/>If you want to supplement your income you need<BR/>a simple method. Even with the severest handicap,<BR/>you can work at home with a system that is as good <BR/>as owning your own ATM Cash Machine!<BR/><A HREF="http://urlfreeze.com/1/L-6b9/”" REL="nofollow"> ATM CASH</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169843302162769132007-01-26T14:28:00.000-06:002007-01-26T14:28:00.000-06:00I've said it before and I'll say it again: Driftgl...I've said it before and I'll say it again: Driftglass is the best writer on the intertubes. Dude, every time I think about starting a blog, all I have to do is read Driftglass and I realize I can't compete. I've got facts and figures but Driftglass throws out the bon mots like beads at Mardi Gras.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169672660736776282007-01-24T15:04:00.000-06:002007-01-24T15:04:00.000-06:00Ashley,Drift Baby gets a lot of satisfaction from ...Ashley,Drift Baby gets a lot of satisfaction from the way his writing looks and sounds and rightfully so. It has logical as well as poetic integrity and is therefore compelling and inviting of endorsement and comment some of which is quite passionate.Being an aficionado of right wing spin babble is a luxury you can afford but a lot of people world wide are crippled by your idiot Decider and his idiot decisions and they cannot vote in the US to change things.They can however make comments here.If Driftglass did not have this blog forum someone else would - it rightfully and democratically belongs to the readership as well as Driftglass, you should not imply that it is some sort of exclusive sniggering club.<BR/>During the 70s when there was student unrest in Europe and the US and Decider Nixon decided to shoot up a campus it was I in Germany who came out and said "Nixon is not an intelligent man".No one in the US seemed to notice that he was dumb because he was your revered President.<BR/>My point here is that comments are important in this extended debate even if they look as though they are naive or shilly or even stupid.<BR/>We should admire people where it is merited but we should never worship them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169525075910243622007-01-22T22:04:00.000-06:002007-01-22T22:04:00.000-06:00I'm a total grammar snot and I didn't catch the ty...I'm a total grammar snot and I didn't catch the typos, for whatever that's worth.<BR/><BR/>Furthermore, I demand you bump Bradbury and adopt "some fun prose" as your subheader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169417369637581132007-01-21T16:09:00.000-06:002007-01-21T16:09:00.000-06:00Some fun prose and turns of phrase but 5 or 6 typo...Some fun prose and turns of phrase but 5 or 6 typos/errors is where some readers start to drift into wishing they were at least the amusing kind which seem to plague FoxNews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169369272587496902007-01-21T02:47:00.000-06:002007-01-21T02:47:00.000-06:00The biggest difference between the Constitution-de...The biggest difference between the Constitution-destroying power-grabbing imperialist regimes of Nixon and Bush the Younger are not in the regimes themselves, but in the role of the media in their depiction of the respective regimes to the public. It was not the constitution that reined Nixon in, nor the separation of powers, it was not checks and balances, nor was it the Congress and Senate. It was certainly not the CIA, the FBI or the military, all of whom eagerly aided and abetted every crime. It was the press, and particularly Woodwards and Bernstein of the Washington Post.<BR/><BR/>The reight wing learned from their mistakes, and vowed to take control of the media so it would never happen again.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/042805.html" REL="nofollow">The Left's Media Miscalculation</A><BR/><BR/>By the time of Iran/Contra, which if anything was much worse than Watergate (they subverted the official military chain of command and sold fucking US high-tech hardware to the enemy ferchristsake -TREASON, plain and simple) the media was a tame lapdog, trained not to bark.<BR/><BR/>By the time Bush the Younger came to power, the lapdog had learned to bark again, but only to bark exactly what it's master wanted to hear. In the interim, they put the fairness doctrine to sleep, and litigated to ensure the hound could howl whatever ear-piercing keen it wanted to, at whatever volume.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/11.html" REL="nofollow">Court Ruled That Media Can Lie</A><BR/><BR/>These two links are among the most important you'll ever click on. They explain a lot.SadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169070236256105332007-01-17T15:43:00.000-06:002007-01-17T15:43:00.000-06:00Mate,right wingers have the ancient and dominant b...Mate,right wingers have the ancient and dominant born-to-rule gene. They regard most of the population as productive farm animals and themselves as farmers making pragmatic decisions about their charge's nutritional input.If you feed them with the "correct"diet from Phocks etc <BR/>it will downgrade their upstart quality of life expectations.You are doing a beautiful job of reminding the brain abused populace of the possibility for having a thoughtful,fruitful life in spite of the feudal ambitions of their masters in oilfields far away.<BR/>Because they are feudal lords you cannot expect right wingers to condone or even understand ordinary democratic ideas.They will do everything to stay in power because their only morality is the material aggrandisement of their class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169066828905455802007-01-17T14:47:00.000-06:002007-01-17T14:47:00.000-06:00..for MSNBC read 'OLBERMANN', cause, you know, CAR.....for MSNBC read 'OLBERMANN', cause, you know, CARLESON and MATTHEWS are SO fulla SHIT they must be an industrial HOG farm...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169051547734949702007-01-17T10:32:00.000-06:002007-01-17T10:32:00.000-06:00For a bit of fun, go here, http://www.rightnation....For a bit of fun, go here, http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=115960&st=160<BR/>and watch the right get suckered into arguing the US isn't a democracy (post #167 by the eloquent "rtfa") in the midst of a debate over the legality of the war. Every stereotype about the Right is demonstratably true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169047969536803232007-01-17T09:32:00.000-06:002007-01-17T09:32:00.000-06:00And then there's a long conversation some of us ha...And then there's a long conversation some of us had last year on firedoglake and dailykos inspired by this article concerning the motivations of media run by giant for-profit corporations where profit is the bottom line, not necessarily informing the public.<BR/><BR/>http://www.makethemaccountable.com/coverup/Part_04.htmBitterHarvesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369427899704828145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169037571786124872007-01-17T06:39:00.000-06:002007-01-17T06:39:00.000-06:00Thank you for clearing that up, Ivory B. :-)Thank you for clearing that up, Ivory B. :-)driftglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1169020664564567032007-01-17T01:57:00.000-06:002007-01-17T01:57:00.000-06:00"What are the real reasons why the Pundit Class co..."What are the real reasons why the Pundit Class continues to lie deliberately to the American public?"<BR/><BR/>Because that is what the right-wing businesscritters who sign their paychecks pay them to do.<BR/><BR/>This has been another edition of "Simple Answers". :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com