The Juan Williams Pledge Drive Bounce

I like to listen to NPR on Saturday mornings - "Wait Wait, don't Tell Me" is my favorite show (radio, TV, or Web). This is a fundraising week and as of noon today, they are well ahead of their projected pledges.

Must be the result of sacking that two-faced Fox News hack Juan Williams.

It has always been a serious disconnect for me that Juan Williams worked for NPR and was a contributor to Fox News and a panelist on Fox News Sunday. WTF?

The Bush administration bullied NPR with threats of de-funding and intimidation for years keeping NPR on the defensive, running Republican partisan stories they may not have run otherwise. I used to keep track of how much time John Kerry would get compared to Bush, before the 2004 election, during news hours. It was no contest, Bush cronies would get double and sometimes triple the airtime that the Kerry camp would get. The content from the repubs was always the same discredited bullshit. Drove me crazy. Then, watching Moira Liasson and Juan Williams on Fox News was the nail in the coffin that told me that they were trying a little too hard to please the conservatives.

And now the conservatives want to de-fund NPR. Big Whoop. They always want to defund NPR.

I read Mike Moore's article on this and agree that (paraphrased) ANYONE who shills for corporations and ignorance on Fox News is a traitor to this country, an idiot and deserves to be fired from a legitimate news organization like NPR.

Moira, you're next.

The Ant and the Grasshopper - 2009

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for the Vid

Republicans Continuing to Shred Reality

Just got This From Driftglass and is he pissed - check it out.

What if Everyone Had Medicare?

From Common Dreams

"...Improved Medicare-for-all, by replacing our dysfunctional patchwork of private health insurers with a single, streamlined system of financing, would save about $400 billion annually in unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy. That's enough to cover all of those now uninsured and to provide every person in the United States with quality, comprehensive coverage."

"A single-payer plan would also furnish us with effective cost-control tools, like the ability to negotiate fees and purchase medications in bulk. It would permit patients to go to the doctor and hospital of their choice."

Read the rest here

Robert Reich on Where We Stand

Via TPM Robert Reich on the state of the economy, the Great Depression and his new book 'Aftershock'. And look at the statistical correlation he notes between 1927 and 2007.

Katy Perry Will Never Be As Cool As This

I'm not happy about it..(Katy's Cleavage Conundrum) Most kids that watch this show see more tits in a day than you or I in a year.. but Sharia law is coming... from the American Taliban

Katy Perry Is Not Cooler Than This, Either

..." I just got out of a Scandanavian Jail and I'm on My Way Straight Home to You..

Evil Has More Money

Working my Way Back...






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I used to be a lobsterman and knew more than one guy like Eddie.

Breaktime - Going Fishing

"They Talk About Me, Like a Dog..(Talk About the Clothes I Wear..

..But They Don't Realize... They're the One's Who's Square.)

Live, From NBC - A HUGE Slap In The Face From Your Corporate Overlords

"Outsourced", a proud look from a corporate perspective on how funny it is for all our jobs to be moved overseas. A regular riot of sad jokes, underpaid slave labor, clueless ugly Americans and a big reminder of how broken our economic system really is.



WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? Are the Corporate Elite that out of touch with reality? Who would watch this? Maybe rich people who made a shitload of money by outsourcing their manufacturing and customer service jobs overseas. This is a travesty and will fail miserably IMHO.

Fox News - Public Enemy - Terrorist Cabal

Fox News and Hate Media continue to be the biggest threat to our Democracy in modern times.

From Raw Story

"Fox News co-owner funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam: report"

"The second largest shareholder in News Corp. -- the parent company of Fox News -- has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News.

According to the report from Yahoo!'s John Cook, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who owns seven percent of News Corp., "has directly funded [Imam Feisal Abdul] Rauf's projects to the tune of more than $300,000."

Cook reports that Prince Al-Waleed's personal charity, the Kingdom Foundation, donated $305,000 to Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, a project sponsored by two of Rauf's initiatives, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, which is building the Manhattan mosque."

More here

Okay friends - here is a little ammunition. Spread it amongst the brainwashed masses and see if we can de-program a few Americans.

We can only do it together, one at a time.