Chris Wallace is nothing more than a rancid corporate hemmoroid that has sold out his soul. The perfect image of this corporate garbage is of a monkey , complete with it's little hat on, tethered to an hand held organ and dancing to the tune of the corporate master who is grinding away on the handle creating the 'tune' that this garbage dances too.

I wrote on the Cheney apology thread below:

My mom went to high school with Mike Wallace, father of Chris and one of of the great journalists of the last 50 years. (Both statements are true).

I can't imagine the shame Mike must be feeling at the Murdoch/GOP shill his son has become.

What a shame.

Disney taking over Marvel will destroy the superhero genre.

Uh Huck?? Does the 9th Commandment mean anything to you?

Maybe this will help... Exodus 20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."

efgoldman,

>I can't imagine the shame Mike must be feeling at > the Murdoch/GOP shill his son has become.

Oddly enough, he doesnt. Mike was happy and proud of Chris's work at Fox. That was just before Chris called his father a 85 year old who has lost his mind or something. But by that time Chris has established himself as a deragned idiot.

Also, I was surprised Jon Stewart respects this idiot and says everyone else at Fox is partisan(It wasnt meant to be joke).

Why so upset at Disney buying marvel? The marvel movies have not been especially good. You have X-Men, X-Men 2, Spider Man, Spiderman 2, and The Hulk. But you also have The Fantastic 4 movies, daredevil, the 3rd x-men movie and wolverine, the third spiderman, ghost rider, and the punisher.

I would say it has been a mixed bag. Lasseter is an amazing film maker and the Marvel people seem excited to work with him. All their current contracts will stand meaning that things should continue as it for several years and disney is being very careful with their 4 billion dollar investment leaving a philosophy of don't fix what aint broke.

The only downsides I could see are a) The degradation of quality of Disney films because Lasseter is getting overstretched or b) The consolidation of media into fewer and fewe companies.

Poor Mike, Chris is such a pale shadow of his father.

Regarding Town Halls-- in Rhode Island we saw our Congressman, who is in a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury, shouted down by people who came with the intention of blocking any discussion. They even shouted down the conservative questioners.

No surprise about Massa's meeting...we live in his district and it is chock full of "classy wingnuts" now there is an oxymoron for ya!!! The sad thing is many of them actually think they know stuff...

Regarding Town Halls-- in Rhode Island we saw our Congressman, who is in a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury, shouted down by people who came with the intention of blocking any discussion. They even shouted down the conservative questioners. Posted by: Nancy Green on August 31, 2009 at 6:44 PM

Where was security? Serious, why weren't the cops there banging some heads? Frankly I think we need to photo the rightards that get off the HC industries buses and start posting them as paid goons to some website.

Or confront them before they even leave the bus. Demand that the bus leave. I know I will at my townhalls.

Four billion dollars for Marvel is a steal. I'm surprised anyone at Marvel undervalues there property to this degree.

I'm also concerned about Marvel being under Disney from a purely artistic freedom point of view. Both Marvel and DC, though not at the forefront of social issues, have nonetheless taken on some fairly touchy subject matter. I wonder if Disney would ever have allowed Captain America to die given the subsequent fake outrage by conservative 'news' outlets.

Huck: no longer respectable.
Chris Wallance: WTF did his dad do wrong?

Also, Creigh Deeds' campaign here in VA may get a boost from revelations of how radically conservative Republican Bob McDonnell, the GOP candidate for governor in Virginia, is. I just got an email writing that he "has been hiding shockingly extreme views in hopes of convincing voters that he's in the mainstream. But now, the truth has come out"

The Post reports that McDonnell "described working women and feminists as 'detrimental' to the family" -- and in his writing he describes feminism as one of the "real enemies of the traditional family."
McDonnell opposed a Supreme Court decision allowing couples to use contraception.
He has proven in the past that he would prefer to criminalize the medical decisions of women and their doctors, and not allow any medical recourse for the victims of rape and incest -- and this blueprint confirms that stance.
His blueprint also calls for government to "restrain, punish, and deter" homosexuality.

Democrats.org

I'm from Las Vegas, and speaking for me only, the Las Vegas Review Journal is a really bad paper.
If it wasn't for the fact that the Las Vegas Sun is printed with the Review Journal, I wouldn't even read it. Well, I'd buy the Sunday paper for the TV guide.

Oh, saw the thread here MCDONNELL'S THESIS IN VIRGINIA: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019701.php

And BTW above link really goes to D' dot org, they just link right to WaPo. There's more at the whole site.

Regarding "poison for the public discourse," appears this wonderful letter in Pennsylvania:

Re: Dishonest 'debate'

"It is obvious that the negative protesters at recent town hall meetings are the same folks who campaigned against the election of Barack Obama; they are the angry and wrathful witnesses to his momentous election and the simultaneous loss of their conservative political power. They never will accept the fact that a black man is the president, and their efforts are designed to dislodge him from office.

The posters from the presidential campaign that depicted Mr. Obama as a monkey have morphed into swastika-adorned signs propped on baby strollers and pictures of Mr. Obama with a Hitler mustache. Whether tea-baggers, birthers or angry town hall protesters, they are the same group of disgruntled, out-of-touch-with-reality losers who want to see our president fail even at the risk of undermining national and public interests.

The conservative media manufacture the outrage and put the themes and words into the mouths of their devotees, and then recycle for media consumption the ranting, as if universal public opinion. There is no intellectual honesty, which would permit realistic appraisal of the issues confronting us as a nation. The effort is not just to promote a conservative view; it is to have demagogic effect.

The Republicans have proposed nothing in the way of solutions to the problems confronting this country, and yet they are the first to obstruct proposals and/or distort proposals offered by the Democrats. The intent of all of this is to undermine the efforts of this talented, dedicated president -- to pull him and his administration down, in order to recover the ground they lost through their eight-year history of destructive governance. They want us to forget that they were the architects of unregulated miscreancy and exploding deficits.

No, they have no shame!"

So, in summary, mendacious jerkoffs continue to be mendacious jerkoffs.

Sigh.

Regarding above post that "The Post reports that McDonnell "described working women and feminists as 'detrimental' to the family" -- and in his writing he describes feminism
as one of the "real enemies of the traditional family."
"McDonnell opposed a Supreme Court decision allowing couples to use contraception.
He has proven in the past that he would prefer to criminalize the medical decisions of women and their doctors, and not allow any medical recourse for the victims of rape and incest -- and this blueprint confirms that stance.
His blueprint also calls for government to "restrain, punish, and deter" homosexuality. "

Hello--sounds like that Republican in Pennsylvania we eventually referred to during elections as "Dump Rick" Santorum-- a senator who routinely detracted from working women, calling us selfish for continuing to work.
He was ultimately and famously ousted from his self-righteous throne by Democrat Bob Casey.

Late to the table, so will post my McDonnell comment here, not on the original (early morning) thread...

When McDonnell went to Regents for his theo-law "ejucashion", Regents was so new, it wasn't even called Regents, yet; it took its name from Robertson's broadcasting station (Christian Broadcasting something-or-other). *And* it was so new, it didn't yet have its accreditation.

It takes a high degree of zealotry to get your degree, *by choice* (not necessity; apparently, he could have gone to a real law school) from an unaccredited school, because the prospects of employment are dicey -- could be the reason why he went into the legislation, instead :)

Nor will the "callow youth excuse" hold up in the wash; not only was he 34 (not 18 or even 22) at the time he wrote the paper, but he's also had a headstart on "real life" -- he had been in the army for 4 years, was married and had two children -- all responsibilities of an adult.

Once again today listening to Ana Marie Cox attempt to apologize and gloss over (with Rachel Maddow) for McCain's flip-flopping and lack of follow through on his statements about torture...

Good on Rachel for slowing her down some and confronting Cox on specifics that were glaring and screaming out for elaboration.

I noted finally what irks me about Cox: She has this knack of sort of brushing over things, as in a hurry--as in covering up or perhaps truly not interested and just wanting to get the whole thing overwith...I don't get her heart is in it, she seems distracted all the time, like she has a flight to catch or something...

Ana Marie Cox is a bit slippery as she slides all sorts of stuff in that is rather, um...VERY important-- and screams out for pause...while nonetheless sounding rather blase about it all..I don't know..it's like she's somehow divorced from her words.

And I have no doubt she's been given excessive latitude for this gap in delivery and in substance that would not be afforded others who were not as sexy or appealing/flirty as she clearly presents.

Happy Hurricane Katrina Anniversary!!!!

Errrr, or maybe "Happy" is the wrong word to use in "celebrating" this anniversary.

The Bush administration deliberately withheld federal emergency disaster aid from the flooded New Orleans to make matters worse so that their smear campaign against Louisiana Democrats, Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin, would work that much better.

If anything, we should be celebrating the arrest, prosecution and conviction of all those Bush Republicans, especially Karl Rove, who were responsible for politicizing a natural disaster for political gain..

South Carolina politics just got a lot more interesting.

S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer Outed

I haven't seen the documentary "Outrage" yet, but I will when it comes either to my area, or out on DVD.

I also hope that Steve can follow-up on this tomorrow, if other sources can confirm.

"The situation in Afghanistan is serious, but success is achievable and demands a revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort," General McChrystal said in a statement. The report does not call for additional U.S. troops, but that's likely to come soon."

Ha ha ha! More troops! Hee hee hee! "Success is acheivable"! Heh.

Hey, why isn't anyone else laughing, guys?

It's only a matter of time before Wolverine's claws are replaced with menacing sunflowers...

"Success is acheivable"!
WTF ?
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Vietnam lives on. The shame of it all. the military will never changre... more money, arms, soldiers, and more wars.

Marvel and Disney both cut their teeth on cartoons, but Marvel never sexualized children to the extent Disney does.

Buying Marvel is meant to improve Disney’s following among men and boys. Disney acknowledges it lost some of its footing with guys as it poured resources into female favorites such as “Hannah Montana” and the Jonas Brothers.

“Disney will have something guys grew up with and can experience with their kids, especially their sons,” said Gareb Shamus, whose company Wizard Entertainment Group runs several of the Comic-Con conventions around the nation.

Marvel TV shows already account for 20 hours per week of programming on Disney’s recently rebranded, boy-focused cable network, Disney XD, and that looks likely to increase, Iger said. The shows are “right in the wheelhouse for boys,” he said.

Marvel bankrupted itself via overextension and poor comic book adaptions, but Disney is morally bankrupt: actual cheerleaders are not that sexy.

TimeWarner/DC doesn't have that problem.

The notion that success (However that's defined) in Afghanistan is necessary to deny safe havens to terrorists is just about as fallacious as the notion that success in Vietnam would stop the spread of Communism. The terrorists have plenty of other safe havens, they don't need a whole country all to themselves. This is the same bullshit rhetoric that was prevalent during the Vietnam war and it is to the same purpose: attempting to write another nation's history when we can barely write our own anymore.

True - TimeWarner bankrupted itself (financially and morally) in ways that were even more idiotic. As a former employee for the better part of two decades, I got to see it up close and personal, and management was so clueless it was almost... congressional.

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I don't watch all that crap on TV. I watch this crap.
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"The situation in Afghanistan is serious, but success is achievable and demands a revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort."

More bodies for the meat grinder, but hey, we got a Dem in the WH, so who gives a fuck?

Flipping thru the CSPAN channels tonight I came across a town hall with Sen. Diapers Vitter. Couldn't watch much as I can't stand seeing brainless people act stupidly, and Vitter egged them on all the way.

"Shame on you, Sen. Vitter. You know better than to push this crap" I yelled at the teevee. That's what we should all be saying to the R's "SHAME on you!" Of course they don't really have any shame or they wouldn't be lying to their constituents just to be the Party of No. Health care is not a game.

As far as these Health Care Reform town meetings go, Republicans have a lot to answer for. They have abandoned democracy and now practice a bizarre form of intimidation politics that is intolerant, disrespectful and authoritarian.

Maybe this is all they have left, having squandered America's wealth and respect during the Bush years. It's pretty sad, but also revolting. If this is what they feel they need to reinvigorate their movement then they will be unable to govern if they do manage to get back into power. They have lost the ability to debate and to deal meaningfully with people who disagree with them.

Thanks Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Very nice thoughts hope it will end the war of Afghannistan.

The numbers in the Japanese election are amazing. The incumbents only got about a third of the vote. That's what I call a landslide and a mandate for change.

Side note, the likely new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has a Ph.D. in engineering from Standford University. Is the start of a trend where after decades of Reagan, Thatcher and Bush that countries start electing intelligent leaders like Obama and Hatoyama?

At my congressman's town hall, wingnuts shouted during the opening prayer and booed the rabbi when he said our health care system needs fixing, and then shrieked "under God!" during the pledge of allegiance.

If you're not conservative, apparently you're not worthy of any respect at all. Since when is that "traditional values"?

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