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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Karl Rove’

Axis of Weasel

By Denis Campbell • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
I’ve been angrily watching George Bush and Karl Rove lie with impunity. Living abroad for 10-years their FCC appointees systematically took decisions that eliminated media accountability, competition and created a war propaganda machine for the Administration using the public airwaves. A we saw in the financial crisis, a very few, very rich, white [...]



The GOP Must’ve Learned Lowering Expectations From A Master

By Charley James • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
 
 
by Charley James
 
No, it’s not Karl Rove. I’m speaking of Murray Warmath.
And who is Murray Warmath when he’s home? He happens to have been the world’s greatest expert on lowering expectations.
From 1954 through the 1971 season, Warmath was head football coach at the University of Minnesota. Although he won two Big Ten titles, mostly he [...]



Fiction is Better Than This Reality

By Denis Campbell • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
“What will be the next thing that challenges us? That makes us work harder and go farther? You know, when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century. Surely, we can do it again. As we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, [...]



National Masochism: Only Way To Explain Tight Presidential Poll Numbers

By Charley James • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Politics Too
by Charley James
I don’t understand.
Republicans came to Washington in 2000 with a solid majority in both houses of Congress and on the Supreme Court, allowing them to steal the presidency. If you ever wanted to know what a pure Republican Party government unhindered by Democrats or anyone else might look like, this was the moment.
After [...]



Jon Stewart Rips Television News

By Denis Campbell • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Innovators
Yesterday at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart ripped the 24-hour cable news beast for the current campaign craziness. We’ve often chastised the media here for the 600 word newsfeed rip, place two opposing quotes, add an expert opinion and presto! News.
Jon has a history of trying to get news outlets to do their job [...]



The Race Card

By Denis Campbell • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]



Perception, Terrorism and Race

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]



Nice Big Bucks Conscience Call There Scotty

By Denis Campbell • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics
Amazing what a big publisher’s advance brings. When one starts to imagine the big lecture bucks available on the rubber chicken circuit, it’s no wonder stories change and blend. When the Republican antichrist Bill Clinton earned over $100 million he had to be thinking, “hey, I can do that with the dirt I have gathered.” [...]