Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Internet uprising overturns Australian censorship law
Friday, February 5th, 2010I don't think this news story got enough attention: from Ars Technica I read that an internet uprising led to the overturning of a very Orwellian censorship law in Australia. The law, which had taken effect just weeks prior, banned anonymous political commenting online. Can you imagine the twisted set ...
Ted Kennedy, good riddance
Saturday, August 29th, 2009The more gracious sensibilities inside me prevent me from ranting and raving about what a terrible scourge on humanity Edward Kennedy was, but he really was a terrible senator. I detest the common notion that we should focus only on the recently deceased's good qualities or only say kind things ...
Politics breeds hypocrisy. Who knew?
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Michiganders must be some of the biggest hypocrites in the American political scene today. All I heard on the radio for the entire fall was how the country needed the auto industry to be bailed out at almost any cost, it was the lifeblood of the middle class, a fundamental ...
Bill O’reilly – Liar Extraordinaire
Friday, November 14th, 2008It has recently been brought to my attention that during a recent Daily Show interview, Bill O'reilly - one of the worst big-government neocons - told Jon Stewart that he was an anarchist. Sure enough (check the 4:02 mark): That's right. Bill O'reilly, the same guy who could find no fault ...
Heroic Peter Schiff compilation
Thursday, November 13th, 2008The best parts are all the optimistic State cheerleaders scoffing in derision at Peter Schiff and his doom-and-gloom predictions. This will probably be the best ten minutes of TV you watch today. One of many favorite exchanges from this compilation was between Peter Schiff and Art Laffer: Schiff: It's not wealth ...
Democratic vs. oligarchic news sites
Friday, October 10th, 2008Recently Jeffrey Tucker wrote about the reasons he doesn't like Digg.com as much as he used to: There was a time, I vaguely recall, when Digg was a must read. Nearly every item unearthed some smart, interesting bit of inside knowledge, tech news before it became mainstream, fascinating observations that you ...
Crazy, libertarian extremists were right about the boom and bust
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Yes, I read a Karen De Coster post and wasn't immediately repulsed or offended. She makes two points I've thought to myself recently: The point being that "crazy, extremist" libertarians/contrarians/skeptics, who long ago pointed out the facts about statist policies propping up an unsustainable economic boom, are just crazy and extremist. ...
The MSM are clueless
Sunday, September 14th, 2008I'm glad that this week I perused Taki's Magazine for the first time in months, since I found this excellent commentary on the Fannie and Freddie government takeover. One amusing aspect of the New York Times’s coverage of the government takeovers of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is that throughout ...
Why I Don’t Vote
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Following yesterday's article in my University's paper, another writer wrote a follow up article which essentially praises both Presidential candidates. I'll admit, I didn't read the whole thing since the first few sentences seemed to be filled with glowing praise of politicians, and I'd rather not waste my time. Instead, I ...
I don’t believe him
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008After saying, "What color is he?... Oh, okay, there you go," regarding Adam "Pacman" Jones's criminal record, Don Imus defends his comment by saying, "I meant that he was being picked on because he's black." It was supposed to be sarcastic, because everyone knows he's black and everyone knows blacks ...
Ron Paul and Obama on USSR, Iran
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Hey, Will Bunch: since you are probably still concerned with the reasons intelligent, informed Americans hold stupid, State-loving journalists like yourself in such low esteem, here is yet another example for you: Who said the following: Here’s the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn’t have a ...
THAT is real journalism!
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Keith Olbermann gets a bad rap from libertarians because of his left-liberal socialism and the rarity of a dissenting commentator ever appearing as a guest on his show. Not having watched or heard much from him, I can't back up the latter accusation, but I've watched enough to know the ...
The economy is worse than you know
Saturday, May 10th, 2008I must offer a small retraction and an apology to at least a small number of MSM-print journalists out there because apparently some of them still do some worthy political commentating and question the establishment on serious matters. Kevin Phillips of Harper's Magazine wrote sort of an exposé on the ...
TANSTAAFSTVARS
Friday, May 9th, 2008BBC News claims, "A free satellite television and radio service backed by the BBC and ITV launches across the UK." I hope even my non-libertarian friends aren't fooled by any government's claim that something is "free"; obviously it is funded by money that was taken at the point of a ...
Democracy disgraced
Friday, April 25th, 2008After the debate in Philadelphia between Obama and Hillary, ABC moderators George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson were widely and harshly criticized for the way they ran the debate; specifically, the questions they spent the first 45 minutes on. Viewers, writers, and Obama's camp complained that voters did not hear anything ...
Even Cartoons Get It
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Why are you looking at me like that? You act like you haven't seen me in a while or something. This past Sunday, lacking anything to entertain myself, I tuned into an episode of King of the Hill. The fates must have been smiling upon me that day because it turned ...
Statolatry on the radio
Monday, April 21st, 2008A quibble I have with women, by and large, as regards their moral-political thought processes is that they are too hesitant to take a definitive side, to make a polarizing statement, to pronounce a strong (negative) judgment of people, ideas, or institutions. I made sure to say "by and large" ...
2008 Pulitzer Prize winners
Monday, April 7th, 2008Well, I'm not on the list, so I guess I'll keep my day job and keep blagging for at least another year.
Open letter to Boortz listeners
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I was very interested to see this open letter to fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz and his radio show listeners. I hope certain residents of Georgia who are co-proprietors of this site can listen to Boortz on Thursday or Friday and see if he mentions this ...
Fox News: Omitting Ron Paul again
Saturday, January 19th, 2008From the Ron Paul campaign's blag: I wonder if fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz will mention this on his show on Monday. Thanks to Lew Rockwell.
Undecided voters
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008As I've heard people on TV, the radio, in person, and my friends on Facebook declare themselves undecided voters in the Michigan primary and other states, I keep recalling Brian's line in a recent Family Guy episode: "Undecided voters are the biggest idiots on the planet." (I would have provided ...
Home air fascism
Thursday, December 27th, 2007The December 14, 2007 edition of NPR's "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow was a veritable orgy of statolatrist megalomania and top-rate fodder for libertarian ranting. Their topic during the hour in question was toxins in the air in our homes. You can listen to the entire hour here (click the play ...
Ron Paul on WRIF
Monday, December 24th, 2007I'm honestly a little surprised at the paucity of presidential candidates' commercials I've seen on television, but that could be because I don't watch much TV and not the stations that run the majority of the commercials (basic network TV and the 24-hour news/politics channels). I do watch Tucker Carlson ...
Ron Paul on Meet the Press
Monday, December 24th, 2007Lew Rockwell wrote a pretty good summary of Tim Russert's interview with Ron Paul yesterday. My verdict on the interview was that Dr. Paul did pretty well, and the content of what he said was about as good as it could have been, but he seemed a little...defensive, unsure, unsmooth. ...