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The Koch Brothers Contango Strategy: Oil Prices as Political WMD Against Obama

In 2012, ABC News, Americans for Tax Reform, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Bureaucracy, Business, Campaign 2012, CBS News, CNN, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, Current TV, Dead Billionaires Club, Democrats, DeVos Family Foundations, Elections, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Fascism, Federal Government, Fox News, GOP, Grover Norquist, Ideologies, Jack Abramoff, Koch Brothers, Liberals, Lobbyists, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, NBC News, Neo Conservatives, Newspapers, Newt Gingrich, Organizations, Partisan News, Patriotism, PBS, Politics, Republicans, Rick Perry, Roger Ailes, Ron Paul, Social Media, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Totalitarianism, Wall Street Journal, Years on March 5, 2012 at 3:16 pm

Gasoline prices are up. These ‘mysterious’ spikes every few months are palmed off on Libya or Iran, but they trace back to the Koch Brothers “contango” strategy. With an economy on the mend, are the billionaire brothers turning a profit center into a political weapon of mass destruction aimed at their very public enemy, Barack Obama?

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A State of the Union, Without Rebuttal

In 2012, ABC News, American Values, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bobby Jindal, Bureaucracy, CBS News, CNN, Constitution, Current TV, Democrats, Federal Government, Fox News, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, GOP, Ideologies, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Liberals, Libertarian, Media, Media News & Criticism, Mitch McConnell, MSNBC, NBC News, Neo Conservatives, New Media, Newspapers, Partisan News, Patriotism, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Radio News, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, The White House, Totalitarianism, Washington Press Corps, Years on January 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm

Democrats have a few whopping-bad ideas that we inject from time-to-time into the political system. One of them, the “response” to the State of the Union address, initiated under King Richard of Nixon in 1966, really has to go. [1] Read the rest of this entry »

Ugly America

In 2011, ABC News, American Values, Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Campaign 2012, CBS News, CNN, Current TV, Democrats, Elections, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Herman Cain, Ideologies, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Karl Rove, Keith Olbermann, Liberals, Media, Media News & Criticism, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, NBC News, Neo Conservatives, Partisan News, Patriotism, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Race, Rachel Maddow, Racism, Radio News, Religious Right, Republicans, Right Wing Talk Radio, Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party, Television News, Years on November 13, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Ugly America: How the Far Right uses Fear, Hate, and Faux-Franchised Patriotism to Sell the Message of the 1% to 23%

That we have the kind of crass, horrific incivility in our polarized politics, and our Right-intimidated media, is not surprising.  What is sad, shocking, and somber, is the conduct of thousands, perhaps millions of Americans who do the bidding of the 1% even when it contradicts their own self-interest and their personal moral compass.

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Don’t like the Message? Shoot the Messenger

In 2011, Bureaucracy, CNN, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Government, Ideologies, Keith Olbermann, Liberals, Media, MSNBC, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on August 8, 2011 at 4:25 am

Shooting the messenger is not merely a literary metaphor for punishing the bearer of bad news.  Lately it seems to be the way that those in power, whether it be in public or private organizations, literally eliminate anyone with the temerity to expose wrongs.

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The Casey Anthony Trial: Can Justice Be Served in Center Ring of the Media Big Top?

In 2011, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, Law, Media, Media News & Criticism, MSNBC, NBC News, Radio News, Television, Television News on July 9, 2011 at 2:27 am

The Casey Anthony case is over. Hours will be spent by the nauseating Nancy Graces and dishwater dull Dr. Drews of the world rehashing why Ms. Anthony missed her place on death row. How does the media circus affect the outcome of a case?  Did your fascination with the trial contribute to the verdict?  Is there a better way to get justice for victims like two-year-old Caylee Anthony? Read the rest of this entry »

Keith Olbermann Announces His Return to TV

In 2011, Corporatocracy, Current TV, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Media, Media News & Criticism, MSNBC, NBC, Political Punditry, Rachel Maddow, Television News, Years on April 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm

He's baaack. Keith Olbermann announces his return to TV

Olbermann has not lost one sardonic step. His FOK News Channel (Friends of Keith) made the announcement yesterday, including the show’s new name and when it will air. All that I can say is: I feel bad for Lawrence O’Donnell.

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Barack Obama & The Nine-Headed Serpent of D.C.

In 2010, ABC News, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Three Auto Makers, Bill O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, CBS News, CNN, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, D.C., Democrats, Federal Government, Fox News, Glenn Beck, GOP, Health Care Reform, Keith Olbermann, Legislation, Lobbyists, MSNBC, NBC News, Partisan News, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Radio News, Republicans, Right Wing Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Sirius/XM POTUS, Television News, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Public, The Senate, The Supreme Court, The White House, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street, Washington Press Corps on January 11, 2010 at 11:40 am

Barack Obama and the Nine Headed Serpent of D.C.

President Obama’s stab at changing government is a lot like Heracles’ famed battle with the Hydra of Lerna, a nine-headed serpent with poisonous breath. Every time Mr. Obama proposes cutting off one head of a foe of change, two more grow back. The worst part is that many of the heads are found in his own government.

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Can We Separate Television News from the Game Show Mentality?

In 2009, ABC News, Anderson Cooper, CBS News, CNN, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, Fox News, GOP, Karl Rove, Media, Media News & Criticism, MSNBC, NBC News, Partisan News, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Roger Ailes, Television News on November 26, 2009 at 7:31 am

Can we separate television news from the game show mentality?

American television news is returning to its roots as an information wasteland. Pretty faces with largely empty heads read teleprompters and mug for the camera. A dollop of information surrounded by a thick sugar coating of Kewpie doll. The major difference between the evening news and Jeopardy is that Alex Trebek is probably better informed.

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Dick Cheney: Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

In Barack Obama, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Fox News, GOP, Halliburton, MSNBC, Republicans on April 22, 2009 at 10:33 am

Dick Cheney, Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

Should it be surprising that Dick Cheney, the guy who is the chief architect of the morally and ethically bankrupt Bush Administration policies on everything from the Iraq War to torture to padding Halliburton’s pockets to shipping jobs overseas to the gelding of the media now wants to use his Fox News mouthpiece to try and spin a positive light on his misdeeds in office? It is as if he is daring the Obama Administration to put him on trial. The question is, why?

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