tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4956488006045751598..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-46251864711772806592016-03-29T23:31:05.814-05:002016-03-29T23:31:05.814-05:00Bravo. A fine summing up. Bravo. A fine summing up. Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-62093850796303918642016-03-29T20:54:57.322-05:002016-03-29T20:54:57.322-05:00Kraken, you are correct. Not sure why Kristof wad...Kraken, you are correct. Not sure why Kristof waded way into a field (the GOP cesspool) that he literally never writes about, He mostly focuses on outrages in Sudan (female genital muttilation, Darfur), Southeast Asia (sexploitation, refugees) and similar. Good, worthy stuff. So it was weird seeing him going to Trumpism and failing big. But Kristof is not your media bad boy on the NYT (see DFB and Ross Cardinal Douthat not t mention useless Dowd, the Friedman Unit and others).Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67792345301627187562016-03-29T20:46:00.840-05:002016-03-29T20:46:00.840-05:00Jimbo,
http://gawker.com/would-be-divorce-david-b...Jimbo,<br /><br />http://gawker.com/would-be-divorce-david-brooks-bought-a-1-9-million-hom-1655054510driftglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50616977628814209122016-03-29T20:34:48.975-05:002016-03-29T20:34:48.975-05:00A couple of comments: Cleveland Park as home of th...A couple of comments: Cleveland Park as home of the villains is misplaced; it is a pretty liberal home to government bureaucrats and some private sector/NGO types, usually. The MSM bad boys and GOP operatives are much more likely to live in Fairfax Co., VA or Potomac MD or, yes, the Watergate Apts. in DC. (I'm a local.) Also, when we dump on the media, let's make sure we target the Op/Ed pages of the papers and the entire radio/TV media (with the occasional exception of public broadcasting) As well as the festering cesspool of the right-wing Internet. Point is that the ordinary journos who do real reporting and investigative journalism (and I have two brothers who do both) are not generally part of the Conservative fellating community. Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7483954059875518992016-03-29T18:42:14.472-05:002016-03-29T18:42:14.472-05:00Maybe I have not followed closely enough, but it f...Maybe I have not followed closely enough, but it feels like Kristof does not bear the same level of culpability as DFB or the other usual suspects. He mainly writes about people outside the USA and not domestic politics so despite the mea culpa he did not spend nearly as much time fluffing he, trump, as others. Maybe I am wrong. The Krakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384401125404650604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7574602021556444102016-03-29T12:29:18.908-05:002016-03-29T12:29:18.908-05:00The news media ownership class have in their mind&...The news media ownership class have in their mind's eye an vision for the TV and print news in America, as a sort of Pro-Wall Street Pravda, with nary a bad thing to say to spoil the sacred quarterly earnings reports. Public interest journalism is dead, and we who still shout at the Sunday shows are the equivalent of the 4th Century Romans wailing over the toppled stones of the Forum while Alaric rides by grinning, drenched in blood. It's gone, friends, now let us get these rocks out of here and get on with living, whatever that will look like?Brad in Dallashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06823123535800923865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50367404033873049012016-03-29T09:36:47.421-05:002016-03-29T09:36:47.421-05:00No, they will not do better next time. because as ...<i>No, they will not do better next time. because as it is configured now -- as a piston in a corporate engine -- the media is incapable of reform.</i><br /><br />I think this is, literally, the "money quote." There was a time when the 3 networks were independent corporate entities. Now they are just part of essentially "conservative" corporate mega-structures that had/have no interest in rocking the boat. The "both-sider" posture suits the corporate agenda perfectly, politically and as a matter of "business as usual." <br /><br />It doesn't explain the cravenness of the NYT, but that's another story of family dynastic dysfunctionality. The bottom line, though, is that the Establishment 4th estate has ceased to function. And yes, it's nauseating and very depressing to watch.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75225359102880914532016-03-29T09:34:51.236-05:002016-03-29T09:34:51.236-05:00They're all just mad because Trump is horning ...They're all just mad because Trump is horning in on their grift - that's the long grift by the Oligarchs who utilize the US govt as their personal ATMs. Ripping off the rubes for shits 'n grins. Now Trump wants in on some of that action, and the other Oligarchs - the Kochs especially, who created the Tea Party, the Scaiffes, Shelly Adelson, etc - are ticked off at arriviste Trump attempting a coup from the sort of center. So those other Oligarchs have gotten their courtier fop journos to publically wring their hands from their fainting couches, clutching their pearls and exclaiming like Blanche DuBois: "Why I never!"<br /><br />Kudos to you, DG, for the most excellent video at the DFB's "speechifying" at that University in Illinois. I especially enjoyed your choice of music! Gad, what lying, disingenuous, skeevy, shitty knob he is. <br /><br />Yes, you're entirely correct that these shit stains are most afraid of what remains of the "left" in the USA because we're sane and rational and still living in reality. And we see what scum sucking bottom dwellers like DFB have done in service to those who are solely interested in their greedy personal gains to the detriment of our once great nation and to the detriment of most citizens.<br /><br />No, they never ever ever want to have to truly answer to any of us, and if they're caught - as frickin DFB was at that "lecture" - they'll writhe and wriggle away and simply not answer. Because there is NO acceptable answer that they can give for the perfidy, greed and disgusting ability to sell themselves and our country out for a few desiccated cocktail weenies. <br /><br />That's also why these courtiers and the bellowing monsters on Hate Radio, Fake Noise, "Christiany" networks, etc, all constantly direct their brainwashed rubes to believe and say that it's the "left" who are the real racists, who hate America, and all the usual brickbats that they hurl at us... while we simply tell the truth. A truth about our present reality that none of them want to really see... because it would mean realizing and accepting that they've been had by a bunch of circus clowns and carney barkers intent only in ripping them off.RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82929575635757701142016-03-29T08:51:21.259-05:002016-03-29T08:51:21.259-05:00'Original Thinker'. That's some nice ...'Original Thinker'. That's some nice soft language, I'm surprised it hasn't been co-opted to describe bipolar.Gruntledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185651695987033393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48066636268463841362016-03-29T00:24:58.695-05:002016-03-29T00:24:58.695-05:00Yeah, I've about had it with the whole "w... Yeah, I've about had it with the whole "who is to blame for Trump" shtick. Like someone baked him up and he just leapt up off of the cooling tray brand new and started running amuck. No. He didn't. He's been around for almost seventy years and all of those media fuckwits you listed, ALL OF THEM have one kind of relationship with him or another, and a relationship with his money, as there's not all that much else of him to have a relationship with. He arranges their golf games with famous and/or powerful people at his golf courses. Of course they defer to him by default, how else are they going to spend an afternoon with Samuel L. Jackson or Bill Clinton without having the personal media juice to warrant it? There's a club, etc. "Journalists" who write inconvenient stuff that messes up all of that gravy, I mean access? What good are they? What kind of ratings are they pulling down? I only hope that one of the scurvy bastards has had the foresight to invest in Bactine stock so they can gouge all of the rest of them when the whole stupid beast starts dining upon their asses.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com