Maria Cantwell speaking at the Democratic National Convention last August Don’t think there’s vid up on this yet but this morning on CNN’s State of the Union, host John King interviewed second term Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Old White Guy Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), probably the Rethugs most experienced spokesperson, adept at framing an issue and sticking to the …
Jacques Ellul points out the key role that “power words” play… …to break the barrier of the individual’s indifference. They must penetrate like bullets; they must spontaneously evoke a set of images and and have a certain grandeur of their own timeliness…To the extent that propaganda is based on current events , it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. …
Rethug Propaganda Minister Michael Steele on the Chapiquidic News Network warning about a death manual for veterans (originally prepared by the Bush Administration): If you want an example of bad public policy, just look at the situation with our veterans, when you have a manual out there telling our veterans, you know, stuff like “are you really of value to …
This is hard to watch. An Oklahoma woman whose husband has traumatic brain injury is kicked out of a hospital and she has no way to care for him. She goes to a town hall meeting run by her Rethughlican senator, Tom Coburn, who’s also a doctor for crissakes, and desperately pleads her case. The first words that come out …
Three years ago I had a mild stroke and was admitted to an LA County hospital emergency room. The only place to park my bod was in the waiting room. Initially there wasn’t a single chair available. Finally, someone got up and I grabbed it, exhausted. I turned and looked down the hallway towards the actual ER. It was lined with gurneys on either side occupied by patients in various states of disrepair, reminding me of a movie about a train crash with dozens of injured passengers stacked up waiting to be triaged.
Let me get this straight: A LaRouchie stands up at a town hall meeting and demands to know why a Congressman who happens to be Jewish and gay (two categories of people who were mercilessly murdered by Hitler’s goons) is supporting President Obama’s “Nazi” health care reform proposals… And all Fux News can complain about is how rude Barney Frank …
