Interesting anti-Perdue ad

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Saturday November 28, 2020 · 3:03 PM PST

2020/11/28 · 15:03

I turned on a local sports radio station as I got in my car this afternoon, and I happened to hear an interesting ad. It started by saying that Perdue enrolled in the Air Force Academy in 1968, then dropped out without ever having served a day in Vietnam. It closed with roughly this tagline: “Is David Perdue a coward, or just another rich draft dodger?”

I have no idea whose ad this was, but I was ready to give them money as I rolled laughing down the street.

Turn it all off....

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 4:50 AM PST

2016/11/09 · 04:50

There was a handful of willing co-conspirators in this election: the corporations that own the bulk of the media in this country. Time-Warner, CBS, ABC, Fox, etc. Without them Trump never would have existed, and they greedily and happily helped him to become what he sadly has. So how do you let them know that you’re aware of their role in this, and you’re deeply displeased?

TURN IT OFF.

Hurt them where it counts. No watching, no page views. Nothing. No sitcoms, no medical drama. Nothing.

And you could write letters. I drafted this one to Les Moonves of CBS, who said, "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS”:

Dear Les,

Thanks a lot, asshole.

Love,

America

Meanwhile, back in Redsville

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Thursday November 08, 2012 · 11:08 AM PST

2012/11/08 · 11:08

Yeah, yeah, I'm relieved Obama won, hopeful he'll manage to do what needs to be done in spite of the same old GOP obstructors sitting in Congress. I'm actually pretty excited about Elizabeth Warren joining the Senate as well.

But here in Georgia, there's nothhing I see to be cheery about.

We spent 8 years with a corrupt, thickheaded governor named Sonny Perdue, then replaced him with the seemingly smarter yet much sleazier Nathan Deal (you may recall that CREW ranked him among the 15 most corrupt members of Congress--then we made him Governor.

Between them (and our GOP-dominated Legislature) they gutted our state ethics commission. It's much easier to break the laws when there's no one to enforce them, right?

So nothing good happened in Georgia on election day, which had me a bit glum, but what really set me off was trying to deal with a bill for my son's recent hospital stay.

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Sunday October 30, 2011 · 2:58 PM PDT

2011/10/30 · 14:58

I was reading some of the comments in Mark Sumner's fp'ed diary on the tea partiers, and it made me wonder: Just who do folks think the 99% are? The 99% seems like a pretty non-exclusive club to me. It's folks with phd's and folks who never finished high school. It's mineworkers and Southern Baptist ministers.

It's not just a few thousand protesters in a park; it's pretty much everybody you like coupled with pretty much everybody you don't like.

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Monday April 11, 2011 · 9:46 AM PDT

2011/04/11 · 09:46

The meddling of the Koch brothers in Wisconsin politics has laid bare some things that have been going on for quite some time. You watch things spiral out of control as they spin down the toilet (e.g. the budget "compromise"), and you're asking yourself, "What's happening here?" I feel more and more certain that the most significant driving force in politics today is the transfer of wealth to the richest Americans from all of the rest of us. Everything else is window dressing. (more below the fold.)

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Wednesday December 15, 2010 · 6:39 AM PST

2010/12/15 · 06:39

It seems like a tide of like-minded sentiment has been growing: Obama is weak, alienating his base, capitulating to his enemy--basically screwing up. With his tax bill, he's created something for everyone to hate--if you can't find something in there that pisses you off, you're not looking hard enough. So here's my one sentence of advice:

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 6:42 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 06:42

This was mentioned in a recced diary about f'ing with the NYT, but it seems like it deserves some discussion on its own

Twenty-six large financial institutions are under DOJ investigation for fraud related to the mortgage meltdown.
Twenty-six.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 8:41 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 08:41

Why oh why do I do it? Sometimes I just have to turn it on to see what nonsense he's spewing this week. Every now and then he amuses me, and once in a blue moon I actually agree with him.
Lately, though, his show has become less interesting as it's become more and more a right wing propaganda machine.
Today, though, was over the top.

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 7:39 AM PDT

2008/09/07 · 07:39

There's a recced diary with a nice hockey metaphor for Sarah Palin. The one on my mind is baseball related.

I was thinking about this: what, according to the GOP-generated storyline, is Sarah Palin? She's a religious conservative, and she's a Washington outsider who's not afraid to take on the good old boys. It strikes me that there's no need to attack her religious cred--Dems aren't getting those votes anyway. But the thing that gives her any appeal outside of that is her supposed maverickiness.

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 8:04 AM PDT

2008/04/18 · 08:04

I've read (or read as much as I could stomach) five NYT editorials this week that dealt with "Bittergate" and/or the debate. Every single one of them missed the mark. How out of touch is the pundit class? Let's see.

We'll start with Krugman, since he's the most recent of the ones I've bothered with.

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 5:34 AM PDT

2008/04/15 · 05:34

With HRC taking the pure BS attack of calling Obama "elitist", Joltin' Joe Lieberman doing his Zell Miller imitation, & the right wing radio "Obama is a Marxist" garbage showing up in the New York Freakin' Times, I couldn't help but flash back to the last presidential election.

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 7:30 AM PDT

2008/03/26 · 07:30

I tried to find if someone had diaried this before, but I didn't find mention. I've been thinking about this: If it's next to impossible for Hillary to win the nomination, why is she going on? Why does she boost McCain and attack Obama?
I think the answer may be 2012.

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Interesting anti-Perdue ad

Turn it all off....

Meanwhile, back in Redsville

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NYT editorialists: Batting .175 for the week

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2012