Hypocrisy Watch category archive
This New Gilded Age 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary minces few words about our new robber barons.
All the News that Fits 0
Dick Polman deciphers the duplicity. Here’s how he states the problem:
But last week she did something historically bold that checked all three boxes…and guess what: Barely anyone paid attention.
You gotta wonder why. But read on, because I know why.
Follow the link for the whys.
Both Sides Don’t, Reprise 0
Whether or not this holds true for the post-debate analysis–the coverage is still being uncovered–this is certainly an accurate depiction of the campaign coverage in general, extending back even to before Joe Biden withdrew from the race.
Via Job’s Anger.
All the News that Fits 0
Driftglass decodes de code.
All the News that Fits 0
I submit that this article from Psychology Today Blogs, though it’s not primarily about news or even politics, offers some useful pointers for dealing with the right-wing media manipulators apparatus.
Freedom of Screech in This New Gilded Age 0
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk threatens to take advertisers to court so as to force them to place their advertising speech on Twitter X, because he is absolutely in favor of freedom of speech, or something.
Yeah, I know, it sounds absolutely insane. Follow the link and decide for yourself.
Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0
At the Charlotte Observer, Kate Murphy, pastor at The Grove Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, pushes back at the current wave of they-call-themselves Christians and their push for establishmentarianism. A snippet:
If the governor of Florida can, by the power not vested in him, unilaterally declare that the church of Satan isn’t a religion, then he can also wake up one morning and decide that Islam isn’t a religion, or Hinduism, or Catholicism or any faith that allows women to preach or doesn’t handle snakes.
The point of the separation of church and state, as any fourth grader with a reasonably competent history teacher can tell you, isn’t to limit a citizen’s ability to practice their faith, but to protect it.
(Broken link fixed.)
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*Methinks in this context, “Christian” is New Speak for “Secesh.”
All the News that Fits 0
Dick Polman takes issue with the claims of Donald Trump’s lawyers that what the National Inquirer did for Donald Trump is somehow “normal journalism.” Here’s a tiny pit of his article:
The entire piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read.
Giving America the Business 0
NJ.com reports on what Barry Diller, a businessman with a long track record of success, has to say about Donald Trump’s taking Truth Social public. A snippet;
“Why are you even talking about this? It’s a scam just like everything he’s ever been involved in is some sort of con.”
Misdirection Play: Hot Air about Windmills 0
Rebecca Burns, author and journalist based in Georgia, to discuss her recent piece in The American Prospect entitled “Against The Wind.”
Aside:
I think that this story, which appeared in my local rag yesterday, may be an example of the misdirection play discussed in this clip.
Most of the valid reports I’ve seen of harm to whales involve collisions with boats, not with stationary objects.