I didn’t think it was possible for him to get any crazier, but then…
What’s amazing to me is that we’ve already had a couple of incidents of Beck-inspired near bloodshed. And then Glenn goes on teevee or the radio and makes some quiet noises about how he [cough cough cough] abhors violence, and that’s good enough for the powers that be at Fox and he’s back at it again the next day.
—Jason
I’m too tired to drive anywhere anyway right now.
10. When I Was a Young Girl – Feist
9. Singapore – Tom Waits
8. Halfway to Crazy – The Jesus & Mary Chain
7. Drive – The Cars
6. Tunic (Song for Karen) – Sonic Youth
5. Lose Yourself – Eminem
4. Shadow People – Dr. Dog
3. Free – Cat Power
2. Great Expectations – Gaslight Anthem
1. Witch Hunt – Wayne Shorter
Bonus:
—Jason
Fair and Balanced and such.
At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News’ controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network’s journalists not to use the phrase “public option.”
Instead, Sammon wrote, Fox’s reporters should use “government option” and similar phrases — wording that a top Republican pollster had recommended in order to turn public opinion against the Democrats’ reform efforts.
Journalists on the network’s flagship news program, Special Report with Bret Baier, appear to have followed Sammon’s directive in reporting on health care reform that evening.
Sources familiar with the situation in Fox’s Washington bureau have told Media Matters that Sammon uses his position as managing editor to “slant” Fox’s supposedly neutral news coverage to the right.
Sammon’s “government option” email is the clearest evidence yet that Sammon is aggressively pushing Fox’s reporting to the right — in this case by issuing written orders to his staff.
But MSNBC does it blah, blah, blah.
-Ian
Are all of you as tired of everything as I am? Here is a quick recap of the last week: Republicans act like monsters, Democrats fold like lawn chairs. There.
-Ian
I’m on a good mixture. I don’t want to waste it.
10. She Loves Me – Muddy Waters
9. Everyday – The Field
8. Too Long – Daft Punk
7. Oh, Goddamnit – Hot Hot Heat
6. Dance or Die – Janelle Monae
5. Sonny Feeling – Wilco
4. Hair Down – Cold War Kids
3. Don’t Haunt This Place – Rural Alberta Advantage
2. Something’s Wrong – The Jesus & Mary Chain
1. October Fires – Wolf People
Bonus:
—Jason
There was a moment there, early on, when it looked as though sanity might prevail, if even in only in some small way. But…no. Our Rulers have decided that the only way to restore our economy is to drop mountains of money on the criminals who created the crisis in the first place, while issuing stern lectures from the Wall Street Journal opinion page and the cables about the Very Serious necessity of the little people sucking it.
—Jason
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