Political Theatre category archive
Bush League 0
Paul Krugman sees more to Jeb Bush’s week of wonderful waffling on the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq than what it might say about him. He finds it symptomatic of larger problems within the Republican Party and its ideological world-view. A bit (emphasis added):
Follow the link.
Loyalty Oaths 0
Out Roanoke way, a long-time Republican is fed up after trying to vote in a “firehouse primary” (whatever that is–sounds sort of like a caucus).
I’ll quote a bit of his article, but, really, you should read it.
One asked if I was in support of the “principles of the Republican Party” and the second required that I affirm that I would support/vote for whomever the Republicans had nominated to run in the November election.
Believing for a split second that Vladimir Putin would suddenly appear and congratulate me for showing up to ensure that he would receive the usual 96.7 percent of the vote, I was incredulous.
When I responded that I had no idea what the “principles of the Republican Party” were . . . (read the rest–ed).
Chris-Crossed 0
Alfred Dobbin reminds you,
Follow the link to find out why.
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:
(snip)
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.