Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Glenn Greenwald Salon.com (updated below - Update II) The Washington Post’s Dan Balz has an article today perfectly illustrating how the modern journalist’s conception of “balance” leads them to distort the truth. Balz’s article is about the increasing use of “character attacks” in the presidential race, and rather than state the truth — that the McCain/Palin ticket is now relying almost...
The Blue Voice (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Sean Hannity, a big pusher of the Ayers filth, was smacked down by Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs. Glenn Greenwald explains it all here . I agree with Glenn; if Democrats must appear on Faux News, this is how it's done. Ever the town fool, Hannity never figured out that the louder he protested, the more he confirmed what b.s. the whole Ayers guilt-by-association nonsense...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... be necessary? How many whistleblowers have to come forward to warrant a hearing? For more, read Glenn Greenwald . For related Cato scholarship, go here .
Dullard Mush (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Apparently the new meme among pundits is the "hate" crowds that McCain and Palin are firing up. And by hate crowds, they actually mean a handful of morons, in a sea of others, shouting "terrorist" or something to that effect. But no matter, it is an outrage of epic proportions to Glenn Greenwald and Joe Klein. "The rallies at John McCain and Sarah Palin’s events are rabid, drooling lynch...
A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... their dicks to our conversations. Good thing Obama voted for telecom immunity, though. [Via Glenn Greenwald. ] .
The Garlic (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Ahhhh ... The old "What goes around, comes around" in action. Following the debate last evening, Obama Spokesperson Robert Gibbs appeared on the Faux News program, 'Sean Hannity' and bludgeoned the warped host with a dose of his own medicine. Glenn Greenwald - Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News Over the weekend, Sean Hannity hosted a show on Fox News entitled...
One Utah (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... it a lie — because we were definitely listening to Americans who had nothing to do with terrorism… Glenn Greenwald calls this “the most unsurprising revelation imaginable.” With no oversight and no legal restrictions of any kind, it would be surprising if abuse of power was not taking place on a large scale within secret U.S. government surveillance programs. Kinne said that “US military...
Death Wore a Feathered Mullet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The other day Sean Hannity hosted a fair, balanced program on Fox News entitled Obama and Friends: The History of Radicalism. The "expert" who appeared on the show was Andy Martin, once known as Anthony Martin-Trigona. Want to know something about Andy? Read what salon.com's Glenn Greenwald knows about him: First, a bit of background: in the 1980s and 1990s, Anthony Martin-Trigona was...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Number of comments: 1 Glenn Greenwald reports : It wasn't just the quantity but the content that made [Anthony Martin-Trigona's] litigious behavior so notable. The documents he filed were routinely filled with the most extreme anti-Semitic venom one could find anywhere this side of Mein Kampf. The lawsuits were often based on the theory [...]
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Glenn Greenwald has a great post about the irony of the 4-year jail term handed to pornographer Max Hardcore this week in Florida. Hardcore produced and distributed pornographic films of consenting adults simulating torture. For this, he's off to federal...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
By Carol Gee "Police state" stories, about the sad turn of government events in the United States, came to my in-box in stacks from my regular contributors in recent weeks. The following set of posts about the same news story is my post's lead today. Overturning Posse Comitatus ? Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com , asks about an article at Global Research , " Why is a U.S. Army brigade being...
FinanceProfessor.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
On my way to do a radio interview on the economy and I did some Google searches to see what other finance professors had been saying. Here is one from a while ago with Richard Sheehan of Notre Dame. Sheehan is a critic (or at least was as of Sept. 23) of the bailout. Salon Radio: Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com : "The question that I would love...
Paris Parfait (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Keith Olbermann talks about Sarah Palin's ridiculous claims and her own glass house, complete with close "terrorist" associations here: In Salon, Glenn Greenwald writes about "John McCain's Unprecedently Ugly Speech..." Sarah Palin: Serial liar.
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Been kind of a depressing week, so here’s a bright spot for you. The Strange Bedfellows Coalition, which we endorsed briefly here, is already preparing for the 2010 cycle. If you don’t know, the PAC formed under that rubric—Accountability Now—is an effort of the best of the progressive and civil libertarian netroots (Markos Moulitsas, Glenn [...]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on a nation we’re supposed to respect: …In the Land of the Free: if you’re an adult who produces a film using other consenting adults, for the entertainment of still other consenting adults, which merely depicts fictional acts of humiliation and degradation, the DOJ [Department of Justice] will prosecute you and send you [...]
