Great Article by Joe Weisenthal

The article is titled "You idiot, of course there's going to be a newspaper bailout".

Here's the link:

http://www.businessinsider.com/you-idiot-of-course-theres-going-to-be-a-newspaper-bailout-2009-5

Bernanke's lips are moving. What does this tell us?

Another Newspaper Columnist who Got it Backwards

I can't even tell who Rick Holmes really writes for.

Newspapers have so blurred the lines between opinion, fact, columnist, reporter, and blogger.

Here's his column: http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1194151696/Rick-Holmes-Why-newspapers-are-in-trouble-and-whats-at-stake

He seems like a nice guy, but he's another media insider who doesn't realize that Americans recognize lazy biased journalism, and we pulled the plug on it.

Rick says:

Opinionated writers are easy to find, and a lot of them blog for free. What's expensive is hiring someone to report the facts on which we base our arguments, and if there's no one to pay professionals to do it, we'll only have the facts those with a vested interest want us to have.

Sorry Rick. We figure you do have a vested interest, at least on the national level. Lots of us watched bitterly while CNN, the New York Times, and Boston Globe buried the facts and pitched biased stories at us, until we finally canceled our subscriptions and turned the channel.

Rick says:

A newspaper does more than make money by transmitting information. It builds a healthy community. It connects people to their neighbors. It helps set community priorities and guide public debate. It serves as an invaluable watchdog on government, business and politics.

That's the problem Rick. Newspapers don't even transmit information any more. It's like all the editors and reporters want to do is get home for dinner on time. They don't care about the news -- except the "big news", and we get that in multiplicity, redudantly, from TV, radio, local newspaper and national newspaper.

Rick you want the public to mirror your pro-Newspaper cultural bias. And when we don't mirror your bias you want to cast us as uneducated yokels who are too stupid to appreciate what you have done for us. Did you ever hear of "last ink"? That's the phenomenon, typically in a local newspaper, where the editor orchestrates one or two reasonably factual stories about an issue or political candidate and then pours on the hate juice. It used to be that the candidate's only recourse was to send out his own mailers or just suffer. The internet has changed all that, and we're never going back again.

And here's a guy who got it right.

http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090416.wreynolds0417/BNStory/robColumnsBlogs/home

Things to look at

Devvy Kidd

http://www.devvy.com/index.html

http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest128.htm

http://centristatheart.blogspot.com/2009/03/rep-sam-rohrer-on-10th-amendment.html

Find the missing attorney generals

Funny article in the Washington Times -- "States prepare to combat stimulus strings".

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/20/states-cite-10th-amendment-in-effort-to-cut-stimul/

What is so funny about this article?

Well, in the above article, as in many others, a singularly odd phrase keeps cropping up -- "send a message"; and now conservatives are supposedly happy that state legislatures are "sending a message" to Washington D.C. about the tenth amendment, by passing 10th Amendment Resolutions, but that is crazy.

If the Federal Government is in violation of the 10th amendment, should not the states' attorney generals take the Federal Government to court?

Starting with the Civil War, can anyone point to a single historical instance of state legislatures combatting federal incursions by passing resolutions. The anwer is no?

So what the heck is really going on?

If states were serious about asserting the 10th amendment, they'd put their attorney generals on the job, same as when they wanted to get their share of tobacco settlement money and sue microsoft for anti-trust violations.

This is obviously some kind of fence straddling ploy on the part of participating states; and in a large regard it is working, as nobody from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washinton Post, Salt Lake Tribune, or any other major regional daily paper seems to be questioning the irregular approach.

Once again, main stream journalist have abdicated their responsibility to bring these important issues to the attention of the public; instead, preferring to concentrate on off color tea bag sexual innuendos, and whatever else fill air time but requires no research or other journalistic effort..

Two Views of an American Tea Partier

Last week, nearly 1/2 million Americans held a peaceful demonstration against government spending and higher taxes, which may have had the unintended side effect of triggering a psychotic schism in actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo.

Garofalo's interpretation of the event seemed to be in sharp contrast to that of other observers who saw saw middle class Americans exercising their first amendment rights in a peaceful demonstration.

". . . Let's, let's be very honest", said former Saturday Night Live cast member Garofalo, ". . . this is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks."

	As seen by Janeane Garofalo		As seen by normal non-psychotic Americans

Garofalo appears to have acted independently -- veteran civil rights leaders Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and NAACP spokespersons were silent about the Tea Party demonstrations.

"I'm a black woman, I'm a Democrat, I attended a Tea Party and I was shocked . . .

Heard on Sean Hannity 20, April, 2008 from a woman who identified herself as Lorell:

"I'm a black woman, I'm a Democrat, I attended a Tea Party and I was shocked to learn that I am a redneck and a racist."

Lorell went on to say that she wasn't the only non-white at the demonstration, "It was the rainbow tribe with an attitude out there."

Her comments were in response to charges of racism against the tea partiers by actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo. According to Garofalo:

". . . Let's, let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know you can tell these type of right-wingers anything and they'll believe it except the truth . . ."

Kevin Jackson, of "The Black Sphere" said, "As a black man, I love it when ignorant white women like Janeane Garofalo speak for all blacks. It's thrilling to me that Janeane would take time out of her busy Hollyweird life to protect me and my peeps -- the downtrodden, the oppressed...the lowly Negro."

Read the rest of his comments on Garofalo at the following link:

http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/2009/04/racist-garofalo-to-rescue.html