AP compares Bush to fake Reality TV

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Sunday November 06, 2005 · 10:38 PM PST

2005/11/06 · 22:38

Frazier Moore, the AP's television columnist, turns in a scathing critique of how Bush's blatant attempts to sell his canned message is just like the fakery of "reality tv". It's a brilliant synthesis of pop culture and politics, and he nails Bush on his transparent stunt on the Today Show with Matt Lauer as well as his "open"ly-scripted Q&A with the troops:

Coaching the soldiers beamed onto a TV screen from Tikrit, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Allison Barber stood in for Bush: "I'm interested in how your pre-election operations are going. Can you give me a quick update on what you've been doing for the last couple of weeks?"
At the same lectern a few minutes later, Bush asked the same thing: "One of the, you know, questions I have is about the pre-election operations, about what you've been doing, and what are - what's your strategy, and how do you think it's going for - to make sure the people have a chance to vote?"
Maybe that's his strategy for making something scripted come off sounding unscripted.

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Sunday November 06, 2005 · 6:26 PM PST

2005/11/06 · 18:26

When we talk about a post-9/11 America, we mean heightened national security, increased anxiety and how we have to be more "on guard." This caution is carried out in random searches on the NYC subway, and in the judging eyes of other passengers. What we don't discuss is how this culture of fear has decreased feelings of security for Muslim Americans, South Asian Americans, Arab Americans, and people who look like they might be any of the above.

In the Sunday Chicago Tribune, staffer Ahmad A. Ahmad describes a journey from hell. He decided to take a train instead of a plane because he was sick of getting searched "8 out of 10 times." When the train ahead went off the tracks, he called his mom to let her know that he would be delayed. A fellow traveller heard him speaking Arabic, and phoned 911 claiming that Ahmad was going to blow up the train.

He cursed at me and called me a terrorist. "Come and fight me!" he yelled. "You're lying out of your teeth! You know you want to blow up the Amtrak!" . . .
For the majority of Muslims, who are peaceful, law-abiding citizens, we, too, are living in a new America.
This is our reality.

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Saturday November 05, 2005 · 7:49 PM PST

2005/11/05 · 19:49

Last night I wrote that I thought Libby would delay for as long as possible the upcoming trials so as not to hurt Republicans' (already diminished) chances in the 2006 elections. Then should he have to go to jail, Dubya would pardon him after November 2008.

Via Americablog today, I see an article by John Dean that says the same thing. His most important point, however, is the hit that Cheney will take if his "firewall goes down."

So if Libby can take the heat for a time, he and his former boss (and friend) may get through this. But should Republicans lose control of the Senate (where they are blocking all oversight of this administration), I predict Cheney will resign "for health reasons."

This is all the more reason for us to take back the Senate in 2006 - hit hard, fast, and as frequently as possible. Keep hitting them until they don't rise.

It's also all the more reason for Corzine not to give into certain Green Party candidates-turned Republicans who are calling for him to hold a special election to fill his Senate seat. We need every last seat.

Of War and Plates - why Bush is the joker, not the sage w/poll

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 8:16 PM PST

2005/11/04 · 20:16

When I think of Bush right now, I see the stereotypical joker/juggler, trying to spin umpteen sets of plates, or scandals, on a dining room table. He's got a look of trepidation mixed with severe concentration on his face, like when he was reading My Pet Goat to elementary school kids.

He's looking nervously at the stacks, trying to figure out which one, which one to save. One tall stack, wobbling something ferocious, curving towards the ground is Scooter Libby. Another set is Rove - I always thought he was made of Pyrex, but he's looking more and more like clay to me. The war on Iraq represents a third, Delay a fourth Corningware pile with large tacky corporate logos emblazoned all over. Frist makes an aristocratic Waterford fifth. Domestic issues make for a sixth tower that is no less deadly to step on when shattered. The joker veers far far away from this one. Read More

santorum = playa-hater or pedophile?

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Tuesday July 13, 2004 · 9:15 PM PDT

2004/07/13 · 21:15

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/14/national/14gays.html

"You can say I'm a hater," said Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania and a leading proponent of the amendment. "But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and children who deserve the right to have a mother and father."

So in other words, Santorum loves kids, right? Really loves them. Maybe the way Woody Allen loves kids like Soonyi.

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