Here’s Montel Williams, making sense on the subject of press coverage of Heath Ledger versus coverage of troops killed in Iraq.
According to this post on daily Kos, from which I lifted this idea,
Three minutes into this awkward segment on Fox, one host cut off Montel in order to go to a commercial. Montel did not return after the break. Four days later, after 17 years as a television host, Montel lost his job.
Speaking of Fox and its hamhanded style of shaping discourse, here’s a clip on their klunky transparent fluffy of the candidacy of Rudy Giuliani. Man, this is Soviet-style propaganda, about as subtle as a freight train. Maybe if they had been a little less strident they would have been more successful.
Or maybe Rudy’s just such an asshole that not even Republican voters would fall for his schtick.
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I know I shouldn’t be surprised. But it is SHOCKING that we’re now in a place where state Governors have to order their police not to cooperate with other states’ uterus patrols hunting women & girls across state lines. It’s nightmarish. And unsustainable. We must resist. https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1543157584882008064
When Cassidy Hutchinson commented that “Jim” had been trying to reach Meadows by phone as the Capitol was being breached. “Jim” was Representative Jim Jordan. https://realpolitick.com/2022/07/new-evidence-shows-jim-jordan-was-a-key-player-in-the-jan-6-conspiracy-complicit-in-everythng/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
This is insane. No money for lifeguards because it all goes to cops in helicopters telling you to get out of the pool https://twitter.com/phriendlyphotog/status/1542670077052567552
Hey John,
I added you to my blogroll. Cheers!
Thanks, and yours to mine.