Listen to how this MSM guy named Dan tries to make an issue out of General Clark’s remarks! It’s a theatre of the absurd! This MSM guy Dan won’t give up trying to extract a story out of this, trying to prove that General Clark attacked MSM darling John McCain’s war record. [...]

Where can you find real news? Well, not on the networks. Lets hear it from Lara Logan and Jon Stewart via www.theREALnews.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6zDb7jx4gw

Thanks to Juan Cole for posting the above so that I could copy it here.
Tags: Jon Stewart, juan cole, lara logan, real news

Juan Cole presents this video on how Fox Producer Porter Barry ambushes Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform 2008. Later the Fox Producer gets a little taste of his own medicine. Very interesting live show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_2IZT4VgDY

Tags: Bill Moyers, National Conference for Media Reform, Porter Barry

Just take a look at this Jon Stewart video. Thanks Brian.
Tag: Jon Stewart

As an example of the depressing state most of the American radio talk show circuit is in, here’s a Chris Matthews interview with a right-wing radio yakker. The yakker proves he doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
Listen, if you can stand it! Chris Matthews is bad enough but this yakker, Kevin [...]

John McCain has been getting a free ride from the media. Here’s a new book on the subject: Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock and Paul Waldman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqoZfS1GsXg

Here’s the Book Description from Amazon:

We live in a gotcha media culture that revels in exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of our politicians. But [...]

OK, back to politics. Charles Pierce has a wild way with words. Here’s his latest (last paragraph) from Eric Alterman’s Altercation:

That story this week about how the war in Iraq has fallen off the general radar is almost incomprehensibly sad, and not merely because it advantages The Saintly Straight-Talkin’ Maverick Dude, which it [...]

I couldn’t pass up this opening paragraph from Juan Cole this morning:

I review the news below and don’t somehow conclude that the US occupation of Iraq is a success story. I know we are paying a lot for our presence in Iraq. I can’t figure out what the average American is receiving for the money. [...]

Here’s a wonderful article by Robin Morgan taking apart the hypocrisy of many in the MSM in regard to Hillary Clinton and women in general.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, MSM, Robin Morgan, womens issues

OK, now back to getting mad again. Shouldn’t do that: it gets my blood pressure up! Anyway, here’s a YouTube I copied from Daily Kos: Brandon Friedman vs. Rush, that’s Rush, as in Rush Limbaugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBYbWDGl0w

Tags: Brandon Friedman, Iraq, Rush Limbaugh, veterans, VoteVets