Woke to hear more glorification of war by dear old NPR. They are branding the series "conversations." How refined.
The soldier kept saying "taking a casualty" during urban warfare when he really meant killing a person. We teach them to dissociate, creating future mental cases, which will bring home the war in ways we can only hope will not do more harm. The war machine plays today, we'll pay tomorrow.
I laughed out loud to hear the news reader breathlessly report they ACTUALLY were able to get some clips of President Bush's speeches in Europe, which they played. Oh, the WONDERS of Radio! Don't you love them new fangled thangs.
Then Don Gonyea explained for the duller listeners among us that when the President speaks of Hungary, we are supposed to metaphorically think of Iraq... as if, AS IF the Bush Invasion of Iraq somehow equates with a popular uprising by citizens against its own dictatorial government.
Don, Don, Don.
Wake up, Don.
Hows that for drinking the Kool-aide.
I heard a few days back that 22 million Americans are "on" the latest sleep aid pharmaceutical.
No wonder.
One of the center left political net-roots groups has been sending out e-mails to help save "Sesame Street" from more budget cuts by the public radio- and public television- hating Republicans. Are they kidding? The public media have been co-opted by the right wing for years now, with your tax dollars. I guess we'll have to sacrifice that old liberal Big Bird (and the slumbering Don Gonyea) by not answering the pledge drives.
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Gonyea is gettting worse and worse. He's losing credibility with his audience with that breathless imitation of Elisabeth Miller's stenographer approach to covering the White House. What is it with these Beltway journalists, anyway? Have they completely lost their bearings?
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