The latest embellishments come from the McCain camp. Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with them.
The McCain campaign had also put out the story that Mother Teresa “convinced” Cindy to bring home two orphans from Bangladesh in 1991.
Mrs. McCain, it turns out, never met Mother Teresa on that trip. (Once contacted by the Monitor, the campaign revised the story on its website.)
Charles J. Hanley, special correspondent for Associated Press (AP), has written a compelling, fascinating and sad tale of the execution of purported Korean "Mata Hari", Kim Soo-im, at the start of the Korean War. He linked her torture and death to the recent revelations about the more than 100,000 murders of leftists or suspected leftists sympathizers in 1950 by the U.S.-allied (and some would say puppet) regime of South Korea.
I'm breaking my 4 year rule on writing a diary. I know I'm ashamed, but Newscorp pissed me off....Can't take the fire, I guess....They and my friend Tom really hates us for our freedom.
I did a diary last week on Kent Smith and Derek Hess's newly written and illustrated book 'Please God Save Us'.
Very intersting vid ironically exposing Fox news for its own "character and conduct." Found it on the social networking site liveleak. Expect the second half to be even better.
-As described by talking monkey"
"Fox News Channel aired the first of two presidential candidate documentaries called "Character and Conduct." First up: Barack Obama, whose documentary pretends really hard that it's not full of stereotypes and insinuations."
In preparation for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver, it's best to map out a small, but effective little guide to first timers and those watching from home.
The results of the new Pew Survey on News Consumption (taken every two years and released this afternoon) suggest that viewers of the "fake news" programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more knowledgeable about current events (as judged by three test questions) than watchers of "real" cable news shows hosted by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and Larry King, among others -- as well as average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.
The national average for answering the three questions was only 18%. But 34% of The Colbert Report fans got them right, with 30% of The Daily Show viewers doing so -- even though the two Comedy Central shows draw younger audiences which generally scored less well on the "test" than older viewers/readers.
This week I had CO-4 Candidate Betsy Markey back on my radio show to talk about her vision for the district and for Colorado. The interview is great on its own, because, well, Betsy Markey is hands down a better candidate Marilyn Musgrave. The interesting part of the story is that Marilyn Musgrave went on the local Fox affiliate KCOL of Ft.Collins earlier in the day with their show's host, John Clarke, where they went on to smear Betsy Markey for 'making up a scheduling conflict' to 'avoid a debate on KCOL' and accusing her of being 'afraid to debate' (just like Mark Udall and Barack Obama are 'afraid to debate')
making up a scheduling conflict
But Marter told PolitickerCO.com Friday afternoon that Markey can't debate Musgrave on KCOL-AM Saturday morning, as she'll be on a different radio show - "Ultimate Politics" on KCKK-AM 1510 and KSXT-AM 1570.
Musgrave manager Jason Thielman responded
"That (other radio show booking) is conveniently appeared, I believe," Thielman said.
I know, and I agree...politicians should stay away from Fox News. They're a vile, hateful, propaganda machine.
We're not politicians, we're actors and comics who perform satire. When asked by an employer to do an appearance on Faux Noise to promote an event? What do you do? Well, this is what we did...
I just caught the end of an interview that Wes Clark did on Fox News. While I was only able to see him answer three or four questions, it solidified my position that Wes Clark would make the best VP pick.
Wow, Faux really blew it here, bringing in a 12 year old Ossetian girl "hero" to talk about how bad the Russian aggression was, first-hand, only to have the girl stop the flow of the interview and point out that her ordeal was caused by Georgian troops, and she thanks the Russians who helped her escape.
Death threats and the like coming from GOP wingnuts are, sadly, not much of a surprise any longer, and neither is hypocrisy by Bill O'Reilly and the people at Fox "News".
But here's a particularly egregious example of the convergence of these forces.
Death threats do appear to be all right with O'Reilly and Fox, as long as a right-winger makes them.
Jerome Corsi worked for George W. Bush during the 2004 election. Until Bush and McCain deny it under oath, I submit that Corsi is a McCain/Rove/Bush operative.
Corsi claims that he is not supporting John McCain. I say he is and I can simply use this diary as my proof of that. I'll just use this diary as proof of my claim. That's one of Corsi's favorite methods to prove his claims. He just cites himself.
And, I admit that this is an ad hominem attack. So what? Corsi’s books were ad hominem attacks. Corsi's main response to Media Matters spokesman Paul Waldman was that Media Matters was making ad hominem attacks on him. That's true; Waldman was personally attacking Corsi's history of publishing hateful lies.
The piece is funny in a number of ways, firstly that Corsi is now crying about being attacked and how unfair it is that people call him names like Liar. It may be factually correct to call him a Liar but apparently it hurt his feelings, so sorry, you big fat Liar.
The only format I can find right now is the Quicktime format, I'll keep looking for another version. If you don't have Quicktime, you can download it here.
The video has a woman talking about her home getting foreclosed, along with McCain's insensitive comments about home foreclosure, while showing McCain's multiple multi-million homes, and they mention the shoes and Cindy's comment about the small private jet being the only way to get around Arizona and she just up and bought the plane because she loved it so much.
Faux News thought they had a coup when they brought in a 12 year old girl who fled the South Ossetia war zone. They believed the neocon BS that whoever was fleeing was running away from those eeeeeevvvvviiiiiiiillllll Russians.
To help keep pace with all of the election coverage on the 24/7 news channels, Jed has been archiving closed captioning data. However, the sheer volume of text makes it hard to analyze.
In this diary, I'll show several automatically generated images (word clouds) that I created that highlight the prevalence of certain words in election coverage on these three channels; the analysis is over the last week's worth of closed captioning feeds. Let's look at the top 20 words on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News (from left to right):
Don't mind my diary errors, I only write one here every 4 years, I swear.
So far.... ;0)
The subject of politics is one that you can never grasp at one glance, it's something you have to live through daily to even understand how it works, and one of my subjects I tend to read about most often. The first favorite topic for me though is art. I wanted to be an artist when I was in the 8th grade at St Agnes, but I had this teacher who told me I had no talent. (BTW I'm now 45yoa) My parents told me I had to study something that had a safe salary behind it, and art was not it. In my junior year in college, my parents came to visit me on campus and was looking at some graphite sketched images taped to the walls, and pronounced that my roommate was very talented. I then quietly informed them that I had done them in between elementary education classes. And they, after closing their mouths, asked "Why didn't you tell us you could do this?" And I, being the long time obedient Catholic schooled oldest and only daughter before 5 brothers, replied "Because you told me I had to do something in which I would have a steady salary."
