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Posted
11:27 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Parry, Sam Parry, and Nat Parry
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7:56 AM
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11:42 AM
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1:24 PM
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Greg Palast's DVD Vultures and Vote Rustlers: Greg Palast Investigates Vol. 2 comes out in November
Posted
8:36 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Interview with Jen Senko who is making the film The Brainwashing of My Dad. Watch the Kickstarter video.
Posted
2:30 PM
by Scoobie Davis
Michael Lind has the best article I've ever read about the nature of the Tea Party. He cuts through the fog.
Posted
10:30 AM
by Scoobie Davis
"Exposed: Enron billionaire's diabolical plot to loot workers' pensions" by David Sirota
UPDATE: Matt Taibbi has more. Also, read Taibbi's priceless post on Robert Benmosche.
Posted
9:17 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Salon articles on the GOP's unsuccessful rebranding effort and its race-baiting for the one percent. In the comments section of the later article:
. . . This has been going on for decades. Republicans know that there are large parts of the middle and working class white population who would rather cut their own economic throats than share a piece of the American Pie with black or brown people. And even though their throats are cut and bleeding, these morons CONTINUE to vote Republican. They believe that White is Right and Republicans are the White Party. I think they would rather starve to death than see a single black mother get a few dollars worth of food stamps every month. This race war is not new. It has been going on since the founding of our country and EVERYONE is losing. These people can't die out fast enough for me.
Posted
9:12 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Two must-reads: Andrew O'Hehir "The GOP's 'Hunger Games' Vision of America" and Jonathan Bernstein "Ted Cruz's Bullying Formula."
Posted
9:50 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Paul Krugman, "The Crazy Party":
[T]his story is all about the G.O.P. First came the southern strategy, in which the Republican elite cynically exploited racial backlash to promote economic goals, mainly low taxes for rich people and deregulation. Over time, this gradually morphed into what we might call the crazy strategy, in which the elite turned to exploiting the paranoia that has always been a factor in American politics — Hillary killed Vince Foster! Obama was born in Kenya! Death panels! — to promote the same goals.
But now we’re in a third stage, where the elite has lost control of the Frankenstein-like monster it created.
So now we get to witness the hilarious spectacle of Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal, pleading with Republicans to recognize the reality that Obamacare can’t be defunded. Why hilarious? Because Mr. Rove and his colleagues have spent decades trying to ensure that the Republican base lives in an alternate reality defined by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Can we say “hoist with their own petard”?
Posted
8:56 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Amanda Marcotte on how weird wing-nut ideas become mainstream:
The problem with that theory is that right-wing, apocalypse-obsessed Christians are not marginal characters who have little power in the world. They constitute a huge percentage of Americans, and just as disturbingly, they have influence over another huge number of Americans. They actually don’t want attention drawn to their wacky beliefs a good deal of the time. On the contrary, the preferred fundamentalist right-wing communication strategy is to use their own spaces—spaces that are often far from the prying eyes of the larger world—to talk about their lurid fantasies, and they prefer to show a more sensible, moderate face to the larger world.
Posted
11:03 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Sorry about not posting for a long time. I've been on vacation. I added to the Reagan and Racism blog--as a response to Michael Reagan on his father's racial legacy.
Posted
9:29 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Media Matters on Fox and the non-voter fraud non-scandal:
Wilson took his campaign to Fox News, where he received a platform for softball interviews from several anchors. The network used the "dead voter" story to promote South Carolina's voter ID law, which had been blocked by the Justice Department.
Again, these claims were always dubious - deceased voter fraud claims are often revealed as unfounded, the result of data errors or other explanations.
Indeed, on July 3 the public release of an investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) provided the answer we anticipated: No voter fraud was found, no charges filed. As of noon E.T. on July 8, Fox had not reported on those findings.
Posted
10:33 AM
by Scoobie Davis
I went to Barnes and Noble the other day. I was amused by Joe Muto's book An Atheist in the Foxhole; there was a chapter titled, "Loofah, Falafel, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." I also noticed the book Ben Shapiro's book Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans. I looked through it and thought, "What a douchebag!" Anyhow, I wrote an Amazon.com review. If you like it, you can give it a thumbs up on Amazon.
Strawman Arguments Prevail in this Book
Shapiro is in the new crop of right-wingers attempting to appeal to the graying, shrinking, overwhelmingly white talk radio audience. The book notes Shapiro's impressive educational credentials, which makes his McCarthyite approach and appalling ignorance of basic issues in the book all the more egregious. A notable example of the Shapiro's supercilious tone and the lack of grasp of simple fundamental issues is his approach to the "chickenhawk" issue.
The term "chickenhawk" was coined in the 1990's (about 30 years too late) to describe the phony machismo of many pro-war advocates who took great effort to avoid the dangers of combat (through clever means such as rigged draft boards, questionable medical deferments, and "champagne units"--more on this later). Taking his cue from the right's playbook for the last 45 years, Shapiro addresses this issue in the chapter Shapiro sneeringly titled, "Anti-Patriotic Bullies": "Leftists routinely called President [George W.] Bush a chickenhawk, even though he served in the Air National Guard, because his daughters didn't join the military. (Bill Clinton, who actually dodged the draft, was not a chickenhawk, presumably because he is pro-abortion and raised taxes)."
This passage illustrates either abysmal obtuseness or intellectual dishonesty. Bush's chickenhawk status has nothing to do with his daughters; it has everything to do with his own actions. After Bush graduated from Yale (and no longer had a student deferment), Bush's father, George H.W. Bush (who, by the way, voted for the Vietnam War), used his influence to push Bush the Younger to the front of the very long line to get into the Texas Air National Guard. The reason there was such a long line was not that large numbers of Texans were interested in the Air National Guard; rather, it was because it was an open secret that it was a notorious "champagne unit." A champagne unit is a reserve or National Guard unit that, during times of national conscription, serves to protect the pampered progeny of the influential from the dangers of the wars they supported (and whose stock portfolios were often fattened by a wartime economy). The prevailing thought among much of the American elite of the time was that dying in Vietnam was for the little guy---i.e., Appalachians, inner-city blacks, and men living in the barrio. One of Bush's professors at the Harvard business school noted how Bush swaggered around in his Texas Air National Guard bomber jacket and bragged that even though he was pro-war, he used his father's pull to get a spot in the Guard. Yuck!
Shapiro also demonstrates ignorance of the concept in his discussion of Bill Clinton. Under no circumstances could Clinton be considered a chickenhawk. Certainly Clinton didn't want to go to Vietnam but he didn't want any other Americans to go either.
Shapiro is obviously bright. It's a pity that he prostituted a promising intellect to try to become the next Rush Limbaugh.
Posted
9:11 AM
by Scoobie Davis
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney on the right's lie machine. It's an excerpt from “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America”
Posted
8:47 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Also, read my blog on Reagan and Race.
Posted
8:36 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Joe Muto on the fallout of the O'Reilly/Mackris/Falafal/Loofah affair at Fox News. Hilarious.
Posted
8:35 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Read Alex Seitz-Wald's article on the Viginia gubernatorial race. I'm glad I don't live in Virginia. The Republicans nominated a wing-nut for governor and the GOP's choice for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson is completely batshit crazy.
On the other hand, the Democratic nominee, Terry McAuliffe is such a smarmy hack that I could never entertain the thought of voting for him. Read my previous posts about him here, here, and here.
Posted
10:50 AM
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Michael Lind, "Voting is not a right." Lind sums up the cuurent stat3e of affairs in one sentence: "The declinists of the White Right sense that they have lost the future, so they are doing what they can to delay their political downfall, while sabotaging the nation-state that the eventual victors will inherit."
Posted
9:09 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Alex Seitz-Wald on debunking George W. Bush's cronies' attempts at historical revisionism.
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11:55 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Gary May on how ALEC and the right use voter fraud as a pretext to attack voting rights. In the comments section is an insightful post by "Captain America":
This is hardly breaking news. It was manifest a decade ago. In fact, just about every "problem" that demands a right-wing "solution" is manufactured, either out of whole cloth or as a result of previous "solutions":
- Creating budget shortfalls to justify government cutbacks.
- Manufacturing terrorist sting operations to justify the GWOT and constitutional eviscerations.
- Underfunding schools to create bad outcomes, which are used to justify privatization and union bashing.
- Deregulating banks so they can create a bubble and extract the wealth before it pops -- and then bail them out and prosecute their critics.
- Imposing upon foreign nations debt burdens so great that government assets must be sold off to private-sector U.S. campaign donors in a fire sale.
- Taking advantage of the need for immigration reform and piggybacking more HB1 visas on the legislation, even though there are available U.S. workers.
- "War on Christmas," which requires affirmative pro-Christian statements by local governments.
Every crisis is an opportunity, even if you have to create the crisis.
Posted
8:50 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Dr. Benjamin Carson:
Last week, Carson came under attack for comparing advocates of same-sex marriage with advocates of bestiality and the North American Man/Boy Love Association. He then cast himself as a victim of political correctness, besieged by white liberals — “the most racist people there are” — who could not countenance his heterodoxy and wanted to keep him on the “plantation.”
The plantation metaphor refers to a popular theory on the right. It holds that the 95 percent of African-Americans who voted for a Democratic president are not normal Americans voting their beliefs, but slaves. A corollary to the plantation theory is the legend of the Conservative Black Hope, a lonesome outsider, willing to stare down the party of Obamacare and stand up for the party of voter ID. Does it matter that this abolitionist truth-teller serves at the leisure of an audience that is overwhelmingly white? Not really. Blacks are brainwashed slaves; you can’t expect them to know what’s in their interest.
Posted
10:27 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's diploma mill, is intended to created "tens of thousands" of Kirk Camerons. Also, watch Bill Maher comment on Liberty U. last year.
Posted
8:31 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Tracy Thompson, "The South still lies about the Civil War."
Posted
11:45 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Matthew Yglesias on Senator Rob Portman's change of heart about gay marriage upon finding out that his son is gay:
But if Portman can turn around on one issue once he realizes how it touches his family personally, shouldn't he take some time to think about he might feel about other issues that don't happen to touch him personally? Obviously the answers to complicated public policy questions don't just directly fall out of the emotion of compassion. But what Portman is telling here is that on this one issue, his previous position was driven by a lack of compassion and empathy. Once he looked at the issue through his son's eyes, he realized he was wrong. Shouldn't that lead to some broader soul-searching? Is it just a coincidence that his son is gay, and also gay rights is the one issue on which a lack of empathy was leading his astray? That, it seems to me, would be a pretty remarkable coincidence. The great challenge for a Senator isn't to go to Washington and represent the problems of his own family. It's to try to obtain the intellectual and moral perspective necessary to represent the problems of the people who don't have direct access to the corridors of power. . . Senators basically never have poor kids. That's something members of congress should think about. Especially members of congress who know personally well that realizing an issue affects their own children changes their thinking.
Posted
7:34 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Michael S. Lofgren, "Scientology for Rednecks: What the GOP Has Become"
Posted
10:57 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Union activists should picket Amway rallies.
Posted
9:57 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Obama appointed lowlife sleaze Ben Ginsburg to his voting commission!!!!
UPDATE: BradBlog has more.
Posted
9:08 AM
by Scoobie Davis
1. When President Obama mentioned 102-year-old Deseline Victor who waited 7 hours in line to vote in Florida--the long lines were intentional.
2. The fact that Ted Nugent didn't crap his pants again.
UPDATE: Conpassionate Conservatism--Fox Mocks 102-Year-Old's Long Wait To Vote. It's not surprising to me that one of the mockers, Bill Hemmer, is a Miami of Ohio grad.
Posted
8:00 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Last fall, I recommended Greg Palast's Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps. Even though the election is over, the book is still very relevant. It's scary and a great read.
Posted
3:20 PM
by Scoobie Davis
Since Media Matters for America has been monitoring Limbaugh, I have listen to Limbaugh's show less often. I turned it on today and Limbaugh put on a caller, Sylvia from Clinton Township, New Jersey and she let El Rushbo have on the Sandra Fluke matter and started to take him on regarding health care legislation when Limbaugh cut here off. Limbaugh later called her a "seminar caller." Seminar caller = someone who can cut through Limbaugh's bullshit. Essentally that's what Limbaugh accused me of being when I called him during the 2000 campaign.
Posted
10:18 AM
by Scoobie Davis
David Sirota, "Ayn Rand is for Children"
Also, read my post on Paul Ryan and Rand.
Posted
11:59 AM
by Scoobie Davis
Must reads: Michael Tomasky on the neo-Confederacy of Dunces and Michael Lind on recent failed right-wing utopian schemes.