tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1952158692610593579..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Down: This Business We Call "Show" Editiondriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63093153608670300762016-08-29T20:40:29.779-05:002016-08-29T20:40:29.779-05:00Heard Cokie Roberts on NPR this morning. Paraphras...Heard Cokie Roberts on NPR this morning. Paraphrasing; "People are upset that the government doesn't work any more. The Congress couldn't pass a bill to help in the fight against Zika. Both sides are to blame."<br />stratocruiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705099378204455741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20565296035012340912016-08-29T19:49:50.105-05:002016-08-29T19:49:50.105-05:00PAID facilitators of fascism. For some inscrutable...PAID facilitators of fascism. For some inscrutable reason, The Soros Continuum did NOT send me, Mr. Driftglass, or a thousand other lesser points of light, a honkin' fat muthafuckin' check this week to , let's say, keep on fighting the good fight while paying the rent and putting gas in the car. Never mind paying for a vacation to Burning Man to ride a decrepit motorcycle 130 mph across the scorched plain with two almost naked women clinging on and screaming for the scary joy of it...Sorry. Got carried away with the thought of those SorosBux.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14907642869054378167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64237574600814312172016-08-29T13:18:52.307-05:002016-08-29T13:18:52.307-05:00When the M$M starts having for-real leftist voices...When the M$M starts having for-real leftist voices on their stupid shows, then we can talk about "both sides." In all versions of the M$M what we mostly see is ONE Side decrying BOTH sides, who allegedly "do the same thing" but in different ways - and 99.9% of the time the real message is that the so-called "leftwing" side is far far far WORSE than anything on the right, no matter what.<br /><br />Mrs. Allen Greenspan can stick it where the sun don't shine. She and her husband have done more damage to this country than almost any other political power couple out there. A frickin giant POX on all of her houses (as I'm almost sure that she owns several).<br /><br />As soon the M$M starts to have a very few truly left voices on their programs or in their print media, they get scrubbed out very quickly or they're tamed down and have a leash and muzzle put on them so they STFU pretty quickly.<br /><br />I know many didn't like Keith Olbermann, and he could be very bombastic. Nonetheless, Olbermann did speak the truth, and he backed things up by actions, such as sponsoring health fairs for poor citizens to show up and get health care. But the PTB put a muzzle on Olbermann. Love him or hate him, he spoke the truth but got shit-canned for it. When was the last time someone on the right got shit-canned in a similar way?<br /><br />Jon Stewart lasted as long as he did because he played court jester and could be mocked and derided, if need be. We certainly don't see Stewart or Michael Moore - equally mocked and derided on a routine basis - on the Sunday (or other) shows.<br /><br />Whether it's for profit$ or just to have constant & only rightwing talking points thrown out there, we are given shit in the M$M, and most of it utterly false and often depraved. <br /><br />There are many issues with the Clintons, but the dissembling going on in the name of somehow making Trump look "better" by comparison is not just odious and disgusting. Frankly, it's setting an ever more dangerous precedent. I think we'll pull this one off, and Trump will go down in defeat. But who comes next? And what even more disgusting stories will that person have to sell to credulous, overly propagandized deluded citizens?<br /><br />As you indicate, Driftglass, these disgusting specimans, like Todd, Hewitt, Greenspan and their ilk are <i>collaborators</i> in promoting fascism in the USA. RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-845900866671470892016-08-29T12:21:53.110-05:002016-08-29T12:21:53.110-05:00Brother Charlie Pierce just linked to this article...Brother Charlie Pierce just linked to this article a few minutes ago from Esquire:<br /><br />http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a48120/hillary-clinton-presidency-preview/<br /><br />Of course, I had already read it since you are my first stop every morning when I fire up my laptop. Keep on keeping on, brother!Mr.Shemphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13244248498291247725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39876300734801527062016-08-29T11:59:57.107-05:002016-08-29T11:59:57.107-05:00Funny how the Left's version of Brietbart'...Funny how the Left's version of Brietbart's/Anne Coulter's/Milo/etc don't get to go on primetime cable or network news along with the Southern Avenger to prove the Both Siderists thesis once and for all.<br /><br />Seems like, if indeed real, it would be an easy enough thing to do...<br /><br />Oh wait....pre-2008 they did have people like Moore, Maher, and Stewart on and they made people like Todd, Hewitt, Reid, and Mitchell look like the ignorant, right wing propaganda-spewing whores and the Bush administration looks even worse....can't have that. <br /><br />I honestly don't think the change in "news" had anything to do with profit and everything to do with making sure the only conversation in the Public Square is Republicans talking to Republicans in order to preserve illusions about the social political make up of the electorate and that electorate's expectations of government. <br /> trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31452566638585044022016-08-29T11:44:46.126-05:002016-08-29T11:44:46.126-05:00One more word on the concept of "maximizing p...One more word on the concept of "maximizing profit by making every division a profit center".<br /><br />In the early 60's American Express had a small division engaged in financing warehouse receipts. It was a very pedestrian, but steadily profitable business making a couple of million annually in 2016 dollars (hey, maybe not unlike the old-timey news division of a network!).<br />Then the genius president of American Express decided each and every division of AmEx had to make the 2016 equivalent of at least $10 million in profit every year. This was a real stretch for the warehouse receipts people simply because of the nature of the very profitable, but small, warehouse receipts business. In order to make their numbers, the warehouse receipts people became more, uh, accommodating to their customers, especially their biggest customer, one Tino de Angelis.<br /><br />Here's how that turned out:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_De_Angelis#Warehouse_receipts<br />SPOILER ALERT: by the denouement Tino de Angelis had warehouse receipts for more vegetable oil than actually existed and AmEx ended up having to make good on the fraudulent contracts it had certified! <br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90041576580845144462016-08-29T11:26:34.823-05:002016-08-29T11:26:34.823-05:00I would probably have destroyed our TV set, just s...I would probably have destroyed our TV set, just sayin', so good thing I didn't watch. But it's pretty clear that Hewitt was hired to be the campaign junk yard dog for the Toddler's wretched excuse for a TV show and that come 13 November, he will be shitcanned. Considering how long Andrea Mitchell has been a TV "reporter", she is astonishingly and ludicrously ignorant.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-43847503698206300942016-08-29T11:20:34.683-05:002016-08-29T11:20:34.683-05:00I'm not sure, and I may be biased here, that i...I'm not sure, and I may be biased here, that it's even possible to find Coulter et al's equal on the left. Chomsky doesn't even begin to reach their levels of insanity and bat-shit-craziness, yet I doubt I'll ever see him on television. Now maybe this has a little to do with him not firmly representing any of the two parties, but since when did that stop them. So I'm not only denying that there are 'equals' on the left, I'm also denying that it's even possible for the left to host them in the first place. But sure, both sides. Ugh.Andrew Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18120330961481831641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-86117561612381322982016-08-29T11:14:38.549-05:002016-08-29T11:14:38.549-05:00I love this, Driftglass. And at the same time I...I love this, Driftglass. And at the same time I'm saddened by its truth. I read you everyday. And I tried donating via Paypal but it doesn't accept the type of debit card I have. (I gave up credit cards long ago.) I also listen to the podcast every week. The view from the cornfield is right on. Thanks.Jim Buttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09076856552208106513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31182271064499875222016-08-29T11:09:41.061-05:002016-08-29T11:09:41.061-05:00In the "Race to the bottom" roundtable, ...In the "Race to the bottom" roundtable, Shucky encapsulated his ethos.<br />"We live in a post-truth world." Ignoring his own contribution to our arrival in such a hellish place. Hugh Hewitt, Ms. Alan Greenspan and Robert Costas may have mouthed an AMEN! It's hard to tell from the video...Rehctawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995444077162800445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70107153564782281942016-08-29T11:03:04.726-05:002016-08-29T11:03:04.726-05:00Great stuff.
Great find on the audio clip too, esp...Great stuff.<br />Great find on the audio clip too, especially where the Toddster lets the cat out of the bag about "... it all started when the news division had to become an independent profit center on its own" [or words to that effect]. <br />We'll just pass over the public service obligation supposedly tied to their use of the public spectrum. And thank goodness we still have profit-making news divisions, because once they learn the money to be made in porn instead you know what's gonna happen. "Free market!"<br /><br />And, not to be a bore, let me just drop my favorite quote in here one more time: <br />"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"<br />Alexis de Tocqueville<br />Letter to Ernest de Chabrol, June 9, 1831bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.com