Political Theatre category archive
Chris-Crossed 0
Chris Christie, responsible fiscal:
All told, New Jersey taxpayers have spent about $10 million on lawyers working for Christie, state Democrats running a parallel investigation and individual state employees whose legal costs are covered by the Attorney General’s Office.
More fiscal responsibility at the link.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Chris-Crossed 0
Dick Polman struggles to find the right analogy for Chris Christie:
Follow the link to see which one he selects.
Sucklers at the Public Teat 0
John Cole has the best headline I’ve seen about the propagation of House of Windsor.
American media’s fascination with the idea that rich persons who attend ceremonies for a living are capable of procreation does rather baffle one, eh, what?
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
Warning: Worse taste than usual.
All the News that Fits, Ministry of Propaganda Dept. 0
The Las Vegas Sun’s Brian Greenspun points out that, too often, propaganda masquerades as news and serves, not the pubic interest, but the public biases. A snippet:
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Just look at Congress.
We have people in charge of science and technology who believe the world is 5,000 years old. We have people in charge of foreign policy who believe venturing away from the shores of America is a foreign concept. We have people who talk about women in a first-class way who legislate laws about women as if they were second-class citizens.
I ask myself why that is every day. And now I know the answer.
There is an entire industry of very smart people who realize they can manipulate Americans like sheep just by telling them lies, over and over again. Lies the people are only too willing to hear. Sound familiar?
Read the rest.
All the News that Fits 0
Will Bunch reviews the Revenge of the Pseudo-Nerds.
What’s in a Name 0
China Hand points out that words may not mean what we think they mean:
Follow the link to see why he says this.
School for Scandal 0
Noz senses the presence of “fatigue fatigue.”
The Case of the Disappearing Talking Point 0
Dick Polman investigates. Follow the link for the rest of the case file.
Gee, I wonder why they were so quiescent.
Actually, there’s no need to wonder. Here’s why: Obamacare is a success. It has demolished every dystopic Republican prediction, and, at this point, five years after its passage, it would be politically nuts to campaign against it.
Yes, we still get the random rhetorical blast – Ted Cruz wants to repeal “every word of Obamacare,” Marco Rubio talks about a “post-Obamacare era,” Scott Walker occasionally strokes the conservative base by mouthing the word “disaster” – but there is no sustained fervor.