The previous post arises out of my disgust with the lack of congruency between Bush’s words, and his “deeds”. It stands right up there with the level of propaganda he so ardently opposes in his rhetoric, and probably secretly admires for its level of deceit. What the Bush team really wants , is nothing they can lay claim to in Continue Reading

Carlos at Jesus Politics points to this article in the NYT, and asks: “Freedom or Hypocrisy?”. Uh, B. This eleoquent and profound anaalysis of Bush’s “concept of freedom” from Orlando Miller in the NYT, also falls prey to what amounts to me as a false civility; for the sake of civility at the expense of what I consider to be Continue Reading

Carlos at Jesus Politcs reflects on MLK’s VALUES: MLK’s Moral Values King explained that robbing the nation’s treasury to fund military misadventures abroad did not fit into any definition he knew of “moral values.” Indeed, he suggested, morality called Americans to oppose presidents who embarked upon careers of empire — for the sake not just of victimized nations on the Continue Reading

Bush cites warnings given prior to Iraq invasion: Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy (washingtonpost.com) A new report released last week by U.S. intelligence agencies warned that the war in Iraq has created a training ground for terrorists. Bush called the report “somewhat speculative” but acknowledged “this could happen. Jim Wallis and many Church leaders presented a last -ditch effort Continue Reading

Josh points to this bit of nonsense and BS from Bush: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: January 16, 2005 – January 22, 2005 Archives “The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.” No, they chose what you misrepresented to them. You Continue Reading

And this in the same week when his own administration sees the conclusion of the search for WMDs, which was the sole reason and source of warnings used to scare the American people and Congress into agreeing to it in the first place. Does he really think (or maybe he “realizes”) that Americans are idiots? How can the media let Continue Reading

NOW | PBS Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on mercury in your food. (RFK Jr. wrote the book Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy ) 9pm Eastern, PBS

KOS posts today about how he doesn’t cringe, like he does when the Religious Right speaks and uses the Bible, when the Bible is the attributed source of things like concern for the poor, action against war, and against discrimination. Perhaps he heard somebody like Campolo or Wallis, or read some key blogs that have made it one of their Continue Reading

Eric points to a Salon article that shares my disgust (and that of others) with the Fox Networks REAL goal (and its not reporting the news, but pushing partisan Republican slants on it , in their “No-Spin” Zone. But SPIN is all they have, as evidenced by their fantastic efforts to create spin and vile out of this disaster, sinhce Continue Reading

Larry Hollon has a blog, where he is commenting upon faith, media and Culture, and has an entry about “Civic Journalism”; which is the approach of journalists to keep their own communities informed about what kind of dialogue is going on at the local level, or what NEEDS to be become the subject of dialogue; matters which concern the public Continue Reading

Lerned via JOHO about Dan Gillmor’s new frontier, inspired by his visions outlined in We, The Media, which I read at the end of last summer (boy, does time fly!) Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism For the first time in two decades I’m not on the payroll of a large media corporation. As of today I’m on the payroll of Continue Reading

D.Weinberger at JOHO asks: Joho the Blog: Forced compassion And why the hell did it take pressure to get Bush to begin to do the right thing? It took Bush three days to announce the $35M. He is addressing this catastrophe through press releases. What does it take to make George W. Bush’s heart hurt? Sadly, I ‘m afraid that Continue Reading

Bill Moyers sees a lot of things very clearly, and articulates it as so few can or ever have. On Receiving Harvard Medical School’s Global Environment Citizen Award As difficult as it is, however, for journalists to fashion a readable narrative for complex issues without depressing our readers and viewers, there is an even harder challenge – to pierce the Continue Reading

I keep asking when I hear people talk about Barak Obama’s youth or inexperience, “So what did Bush have when he ran?” One term as governor. Before that, nada. A “Business” career that exuded incompetence and corruption. A “previous life” of avoiding anything that would be “hard work”, inclusing serving in Vietnam, and even his “cush duties” in the National Continue Reading

Now before anybody says “Bush and Hitler? Com’on!!!”, I’m not in any way putting Bush on a level with Hitler. I simply think that Bush has committed a crime against humanity, regardless of the amount of cognizance he really has about the real impact of what he’s allowed to happen, or what he’s been complicit in, or what he has Continue Reading