Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
One of Hawkins‘ finest:
Anyone who follows politics knows that the mainstream media has two sets of rules: one set for conservatives and another set for liberals. Conservatives spend most of their time correcting smears and trying to explain to the public what they really believe. Liberals, on the other hand, can count on the press to hide their unpopular beliefs and put the best spin possible on everything they do. This is why you often hear Republicans say, “Imagine what they’d say if a Democrat had said that,” while you almost never hear Democrats say, “Imagine what they’d say if a Republican had said that.”
Those two separate sets of rules shape how politicians behave, how they’re perceived, and the issues that they spend most of their time talking about. In Barack Obama’s case, the media would be focusing on an entirely different set of issues if he were a Republican.
Of course it’s all speculation, but not very far-fetched as far as speculation goes. See if you don’t agree. The six items:
1) This guy is way too stupid to be President of the United States!
2) Obama’s an amateurish cowboy who’s wrecking our image around the world!
3) Obama’s going to bankrupt the country by giving our money to his corporate cronies!
4) He’s the job-killing, gas-price-raising, economy-wrecking President!
5) Obama’s not an authentic black man.
6) He’s an arrogant jerk who cares about no one but himself!
John Hawkins did forget about one, though: It’s going to take the next President all sorts of time and effort just to clean up all of the messes this one is making.
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It seems like items 1 through 4 (at the least) and possibly 6, WERE said about Bush, despite his having had run a completely different campaign, with a substantially different philosophy behind his governance once in office – despite having many of the same policies. (Had he been black, 5 certainly would have been in the mix, as well as the one you pointed out, Morgan.)
I did notice that when the Libyan campaign began, suddenly the media didn’t seem to care about civilian casualties, “blood for oil,” acting at the behest of corporate interests, UN mandates, the monetary cost, the cost to overall military preparedness or whether the services were getting “spread too thin,” the lives of our individual troops, whether or not some alternative regime would be preferable to the current one, the “endgame,” or any of the other questions they all kept asking Bush over over (particularly about Iraq). Or, you know, the questions the Right DID ask both presidents.
It was refreshing to at least have the kook-fringe Left come out against the Libyan involvement. I had to give the likes of Michael Moore a very small prop for at least being consistent.
Come to think of it, they didn’t ask Clinton any of that stuff about his ceaseless, pointless, ridiculous involvements in Bosnia, Serbia, or Somalia, either. The Right did…and we were ignored.
- cylarz | 06/01/2011 @ 12:51