tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5372499556582143068..comments2024-03-19T01:31:03.691-04:00Comments on the daily howler: By George, we think she’s got it!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-27937861990531082082013-07-25T22:18:18.129-04:002013-07-25T22:18:18.129-04:00I'm a witness. I finally had enough of networ...I'm a witness. I finally had enough of network evening news shows when they promoted Diane Sawyer to her current niche. Diane Sawyer, partisan hack (good grief). The end of network news was when news was shifted to the entertainment divisions. The movie Network, released in 1976, was prescient.Horace Feathersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54177594895443631942013-07-25T21:18:22.195-04:002013-07-25T21:18:22.195-04:00Nancy Grace has spawned? Punishment freaks, truly ...Nancy Grace has spawned? Punishment freaks, truly horrible, twisted people.MaxFrostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54685933298420436312013-07-25T20:51:55.588-04:002013-07-25T20:51:55.588-04:00Perhaps a little OT, but does anyone really believ...Perhaps a little OT, but does anyone really believe this "Leather" character?<br /><br />She sounds to me like an obvious sockpuppet, a setup, a shill, even down to her phony "liberal" Facebook page. I think she's a corporate plant-- her awkward use of language on this Facebook page gives it away.<br /><br />PR firms spend millions on this kind of stealth every year. And her comment today, that Wiener told her that he "loved" her, is beyond belief. I think she went too far and harmed her credibility.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79362579435377204712013-07-25T20:46:59.403-04:002013-07-25T20:46:59.403-04:00News stories have been replaced by news features, ...News stories have been replaced by news features, in a nutshell. It's a big problem everywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89228895359599755542013-07-25T20:45:48.233-04:002013-07-25T20:45:48.233-04:00Actually, Clinton did not have "sexual relati...Actually, Clinton did not have "sexual relations" with that woman.<br /><br />Sexual relations is an old-fashioned term for coitus. And unlike how the definition of "rape" has now been changed to apply to apparently any unwanted sexual contact at all, I'm not aware that this usage has been altered as well. I guess though that if it fits the bias it soon will be.<br /><br />People forget that everyone thought Clinton was sleeping with ML. He was not. So he wasn't lying at all.<br /><br />The whole ML/Bill Clinton story totally turned me off to the news media for good. At that point I finally realized that our culture was not being run by adults.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51274573025175542512013-07-25T15:31:19.810-04:002013-07-25T15:31:19.810-04:00Bob,
To paraphrase what you say again and again (a...Bob,<br />To paraphrase what you say again and again (and stealing from some Rapper, I don't know which one. If I did I would give him credit): "It's ALL about the Benjamins".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15401958673907994302013-07-25T15:17:09.382-04:002013-07-25T15:17:09.382-04:00"Gennifer Flowers, who once chronicled the Cl...<i>"Gennifer Flowers, who once chronicled the Clintons’ murders"</i><br /><br />Exactly. And, Bill Clinton, who said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" in a nationally televised White House news conference.<br /><br />What a pair! Made for each other.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4109902154198996672013-07-25T14:46:58.473-04:002013-07-25T14:46:58.473-04:00"Our society is hanging on to its sanity by a..."Our society is hanging on to its sanity by a slender thread. <br />.....<br />Our society is barely able to hold a discussion of any topic. <br />.....<br />Our intellectual culture is on life support."<br /> <br /><br />How many other witnesses see it hanging by a slender thread? Is the thread black, white or Hispanic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29149759952057944092013-07-25T13:06:18.957-04:002013-07-25T13:06:18.957-04:00The fascist takeover of our country?
I think the...The fascist takeover of our country? <br /><br />I think there's a middle ground between the sort of bread and circus we have on the one hand and the fascist, corporate takeover on the other.<br /><br />And I'd suggest that a media focused on triviality isn't unique to these times nor is it unique to the coming fascist reign.<br />Steve M. Galbraithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728237625873443198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46943043333663290902013-07-25T13:03:14.640-04:002013-07-25T13:03:14.640-04:00The insanity that was referred to in the post is a...The insanity that was referred to in the post is actually a symptom of exposure. Exposure to corporate greed and affirming its normalcy does something to emotional balance. Subverting one's internal beliefs for those that are acceptable to the fascists taking over our country must be highly unsettling. <br /><br />Using the news to sell pabulum to the masses is dangerous to one's connection with the self. Acceptance of what one knows to be terrible outcomes and actions is responsible for the loss of connectedness with others. The result is the type of reporting we experience from our news sources. <br /><br />The inappropriate reactions to real events create a void between emotions and critical thinking skills. The media attempts to fill that gap with human interest stories in which warm, fuzzy or outrageous are supposed disguise the yearning for realism.<br /><br />...jus' sayin'gcwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07990785263482839943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65990312064414985682013-07-25T12:44:18.803-04:002013-07-25T12:44:18.803-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.gcwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07990785263482839943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39847288859908748862013-07-25T11:55:34.047-04:002013-07-25T11:55:34.047-04:00"Gennifer Flowers, who once chronicled the Cl..."Gennifer Flowers, who once chronicled the Clintons’ murders"<br /><br />And yet we STILL have to hear that she's credible, that we ought to believe the things she says! <br /><br />Lawrence, do you have any sense, any at all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90267730982122321552013-07-25T11:28:08.443-04:002013-07-25T11:28:08.443-04:00I don't see a problem talking about Weiner; th...I don't see a problem talking about Weiner; the problem is (as Bob says) that even without Weiner, it's not like our millionaire press corps would be discussing or enlightening us with anything important instead. Marcusnoreply@blogger.com