June 2008 Archives

If there was any doubt in your mind that McCain is just warmed over GWB, Lindsey Graham, one of McCain's most prominent surrogates, provides a stark picture of what a presidency under him would look like.  He squared off with John Kerry on George Snuffleupagus yesterday morning to talk the key economic issues of the campaign.  While I'm not a big fan of John Kerry, either, he was pretty much able to shut Graham down...

This last weekend the National Conference for Media Reform was held in Minneapolis.  This movement was started 5 years ago by Bill Moyers (one of my heroes) and other concerned organizations to call attention to media consolidation and the degradation of our independent national press coverage.  I've talked about media consolidation before, especially the propaganda and spin broadcast by Fox Noise, controlled by Rupert Murdoch and run by GOP attack dog Roger Ailes.  For those...

Hillary, at long last, has conceded what the rest of the civilized world has known since March...Obama won, she lost.  She gave her concession speech yesterday at a post mortem rally in DC before hundreds of loyalists.  Party leadership skipped it.  She finally gave up this week after her arrogant "sore loser" speech after Tuesday's primary results put Obama over the top.  Always the gentleman, Obama has avoided all criticism of Hillary, although he had...

I discovered Eric Johnson, from Austin, back in 1990 when he released Ah Via Musicom, a spectacular album that introduced one of his best songs, "Cliffs of Dover".  He merges rock & roll, jazz, fusion, and new age into a style like no other.  He's never really gotten the exposure he deserves, partly due to his own perfectionism.  It took him 6 years and something like 3 masters to get Musicom "right".  Here is Eric...

On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller.  The conclusions reached by this report were vastly different from the Phase 1 report under Republican Senator Pat Roberts, where he essentially stonewalled any serious investigation for over 2 years until the Dems took the Senate in 2006.  The report documents the manipulation of intelligence, the distortions, and the...

In the wake of the worst speech ever given in the history of world politics, McCain got skewered by every major network and pundit including - wait for it - Fox Noise, the Official Network of the GOP.  It was so bad, Britt Hume and even the Prince of Darkness, Karl Rove, were almost speechless themselves.  There was nothing redeeming about the speech, it was 100% Obama negative, and even tried to co-opt Obama's change...

In true Clinton hard-headed fashion, Hillary apparently is trying to force her way on to the Obama ticket as VP behind the scenes.  She is unwisely witholding her endorsement of Obama and is refusing to release her supporters to unify behind him to get it.  The good thing is that her closest loyalists are starting to turn on her.  Charlie Rangel, Representative from New York and huge Hillary supporter, told ABC today that it was...