Comments on: If They Cut Off Your Rent-A-Generals, Just Buy-An-Advisor

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:35:10 +0000

Remind me not to drink that toxic brew ;-))
… still chuckling… (and wincing)

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:22:59 +0000

Great image, rOTL. Maybe bumper stickers in NYC with the CNN logo on them:

THERE’S HEMLOCK IN THE KOOL-AID!!!!

By: watercarrier4diogenes

watercarrier4diogenes — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:44:56 +0000

In the finest Rethuglican traditions, anything to do with sex gets you impeached (David Vitter and Vito Fossella notwithstanding), actual criminal behavior, up to and including war crimes, not so much…

Ohio Dems Impeach the Dannimal

Enough to piss you off for an entire lifetime…

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:35:40 +0000

Three cheers for Asdrubal?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....id=3393381

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:24:28 +0000

Yeah, or maybe he is polishing something else for Meacham…..

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:22:21 +0000

And there was that noxious putrid quote in the NYT - or maybe Jon Meacham is just making shit up.

Mr. Meacham said Mr. Rove had been received surprisingly well in the magazine’s newsroom, where he has been a reliable colleague who files his articles on time and works diligently with fact checkers.

“After one editor dealt with him,” Mr. Meacham said, “the editor called me and said, ‘This just complicated my world view. I may like Karl Rove.’ ”

Maybe he’s also fetching coffee for the secretaries and washing Meacham’s feet with his hair.

By: AZ Matt

AZ Matt — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:14:00 +0000

How about rent-a-pimp, Karl Rove who has lotsa time for Faux News but no time or desire to talk under oath to the House Judiciary Committee.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:08:07 +0000

17 – JL, I meant to thank you for the link to the Marjorie Cohn testimony you provided earlier. I missed that until you pointed it out.

By: dosido

dosido — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:07:46 +0000

I listen to the generals who tell me what I told them to say.

“President” Bush

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:56:10 +0000

When did CNN decide to drink more hemlock?
In the larger media context, it sure doesn’t look like the ‘audience’ that is fed up with the war in Iraq, paying $3.80/gallon for gas, starting to take more transit trips, and paying a whole lot more for food is really going to tune in simply because CNN paid a BushCheney wingnut to opine. The costs of gas and other goods are all driving ‘lifestyle shifts’ that in turn prompt additional changes in behavior — including where the tv, the TiVo, or the browser are aimed.

With anti-war sentiment so high, and George “Wrong Direction” Bush at the helm, the MSM is having a hard time getting its mind around the idea that its audience has moved on and no longer is content with right-wing schlock. MSNBC allows KO to run amok, but what else is there? Many people now get their “news” from comedy shows, like the Colbert Report.

I’d like to see a graph of KO’s ratings compared with GWBush’s ratings. But I wonder if there’s a “lag factor,” whereby it takes the MSM a bit of time to realize the public mood has shifted, and undertake a course correction.

Bob in HI