(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
It has been at least 15 minutes since I last said something justifiably nasty about Pejman "I've Gotten Way Too Prolixy" Yousefzadeh. Lately, he's been on a "What Liberal Media" rant. First, he does a terrible job of debunking Eric Alterman's new book, both at his blog and at Tech Central Station. Then he's been arguing that the media is liberal because it's not pushing Estrada's nomination enough. You would think that he would be happy that the right has the Supreme Court, most of the appeals courts, and a Republican Senate. I suppose those aforementioned facts are more evidence of the liberal media and their unholy Green Party-like transformative effects upon the body politic. As if CBS news had the same spin as Democracy Now, a show run by real left of center people. Please. Come on. It's the ownership, stupid. Trust me: I've worked for Republican newspaper owners. I know.
I don't see what he's so upset about frankly. The almost completely bought off Dems will cancel the Bork and give us the Scalia everytime, as this great Kurt Nimmo post will attest to. (Kurt has a great blog by the way...)Their tactic should be to filibuster tic for tac. Bring back the Clinton nominees and force the White House to accept one of yours for one of theirs. It's their limpwristed capitulation on the courts--which their rich sponsors love--which probably cost the Dems the White House in the first place. They only needed one vote. I won't hold my breath for a real backbone.
Meanwhile, I'm sure I'll get plenty of progressive left encouragement from Limbaugh talk radio, General Electric owned NBC (have they ever done an anti-nuke piece, ever...?) Bill Maher-free ABC, that wild anarchist group CBS, the Mike Savage MSNBC and our good friends at Fox News, not to mention my content free local news that reminds me of the manufactured dream world so articulately drawn in the Truman Show. Dog Fancy, indeed, as the Great Rationalizer of Republican Evil might say...
