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June 24, 2007

At your peril

Sunday, June 24, 2007
New York Times Editor Admits: We Slanted the News to push withdrawal from Iraq

(CNN.Com) A former Times news editor admits:
"We slanted the news towards a withdrawal from Iraq - because we had sons
there."

Speaking at the Journalists Conference on Saturday several former and current
news editors and reporters  discussed the tremendous influence they nearly all agreed they had on The United States  national agenda.


That's an actual news item, but I changed the media and location from the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and Lebanon. to something we can more easily relate to.  Here's the Actual report. This news drives home the power a nation's media exerts, and if allowed to run amok can guarantee defeat.  The broadcasters involved should face years in prison, if not a firing squad.  When the Bush Administration backed off charging New York Times editors with treason when they disclosed  our al-Qaeda tracking methodology, it sent the message that they're still playing something of a game,  not waging war.  The American media are certainly at war with our elected government, and they have no boundaries.

June 15, 2007

Oomph

Letting Loose Here Boss!

This is how my day began. 

At 6:30 the XM radio clicked on  (my new alarm clock).  Without opening my eyes I found the remote and began surfing.  I land on 150, the dirty comedy channel.  151 is clean comedy, so almost all content is 30-40 years old.  153 is Canadian stand-up comedy which is largely anti-US diatribe, and 154 is National Lampoon Comedy which is the best.  It airs raunchy content but beeps out f**k and  four letter "C" words.  Anyway, I'm on 150 when the host, one Sonny Fox,  says "And here's my good  friend Will Durst."   Here's stuff Durst would find funny.

"Yeah I was in my car today and some guy had a bumper sticker that said re-elect President Gore. Ha Ha. Thought I'd fuc_'n die"

Yeah, I was watching the Sopranos and every time someone got killed I pretended it was Republican. Ha Ha. Thought I'd fuc_'n die"


Crap like that. Before I could twitch the muscle that works the kill button he'd launched (and I paraphrase really close here).

 "Yeah did you see that clown General Petraeus said the surg -  (click).

 I opened my eyes, turned on the computer and looked up Sonny Fox's e-mail addy so I could ask him a question
no response yet
about his choice of friends. Of course this is typical of the entertainment industry. Liberals play before liberal audiences and think they have a clue. Like actors.

In the past I've noted the stupidity of people whose livlihood depends on broad acceptance from the ticket buying public, and yet will go out of their way to insult half of us with a senseless political indulgence that, genearally speaking, leaves them looking foolish. You don't see the CEO of an automobile company antagonizing
http://www.smartusa.com/
the car buying public that way, do you,  I've asked? Because they're businessmen. 

People who sell computers for a living are not about to kill half their market with imprudent
I told you Apple sucks
political posturing, are they?  Of course not.

The day did get better though.