WTF Is It Now?!?

All the voices in my head are singing "Gloria"

It was warm this morning: 29 degrees! And we have three-to-six inches of snow expected for tomorrow. Just....swell.

I couldn't deal with Crossfire last night - did I miss anything?

Reposted from a week ago, but it will be sliding off this page today: I'm trying a hover-craft thing with the article links. Keep your mouse pointer over them for a few secs. Of course, I still can't get the permalinks to work, but what the hey. And Blogger hasn't fixed the templates yet, so the new links still aren't showing up.




The White House Press Corps politely grabs its ankles
Talk about "cream of the press corps":

The Bush press conference to me was like a mini-Alamo for American journalism, a final announcement that the press no longer performs anything akin to a real function. Particularly revolting was the spectacle of the cream of the national press corps submitting politely to the indignity of obviously pre-approved questions, with Bush not even bothering to conceal that the affair was scripted.

Appearing on Hardball later, Tiger Beat Newsweek's embarrassing Howard 'the Walking Hormone' Fineman 'gushed' when asked if Smirky McGolfcart was really a "cowboy":

"If he's a cowboy he's the reluctant warrior, he's Shane...because he has to, to protect his family." "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go wipe myself." - snipped from Matt Taibbi's column, here.




Journalists: missing in action
"[W]hile I read accounts during the election campaign describing George W. Bush as a calm, middle-of-the-road conservative and consensus builder, I somehow missed those stories suggesting that he would be the most radical right-wing president in American history. The press kept telling me what a great guy W was, so why has Mr. Nice Guy alienated every ally in the world?" - link. Don't get me started.




"In a World Gone Mad"
"You just look at the TV and see this guy who's supposed to be representing us and it just feels ridiculous": the Beastie Boys break a five-year silence to comment on the state of the world under pResident Evil:
You build more bombs as you get more bold
As your mid-life crisis war unfolds
All you wanna do is take control
Now put that Axis of Evil bullshit on hold.

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