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calimary's JournalSigned! Maybe we should start calling him "Todd-blossom."
A riff on "Turd Blossom" that still fits kkkarl rove to a T.
Very happy to see this is starting to pick up some attention. Huffington Post, for example.
As a retired broadcast journalist myself, it's my opinion that reporters, anchors, and interviewers DO have an obligation to present the truth, and correct the record when it's presented incorrectly, or misrepresented entirely. That's why you ask those follow-up questions (that nobody seems interested in asking anymore - because they insist on clinging to the pre-assembled list of questions rather than responding to funky flimsy "answers" that need further examination, vetting, probing, and challenging).
Remember when Rachel Maddow had rand paul on, when he was running for Senate, and she asked him about his hands-off attitude towards government vigilance on social justice and racial equality issues? And he danced and dawdled and made excuses and she kept at it. And the segment ran long and even slopped over into the next segment (when something else had been planned), and she threw out the plans and kept at it with rand paul. She even commented by the end of the extended interview that she had all these other questions she hadn't been able to get to because she felt compelled to follow up on this racist-apologist bullshit he was spewing - and that he never fully answered but just kept weaseling around.
THAT is journalism. Candy Crowley even accidentally committed it during that debate she moderated between President obama and wrongney. And she corrected the record when mitt went off on the party line of misrepresenting and distorting the White House's Benghazi reaction. I was stunned! Pleasantly surprised that she'd do that. I was NOT expecting it.
Tim Russert never did that. He sat there on the other side of the table from cheney, rummy, wolfie, dougie, rove, contradicta, and a cast of thousands of bush2 cretins and liars and apologists and just smiled and nodded his head while trying to look really earnest and impartial, and didn't question Thing One about ANY of their assertions. Just let 'em stovepipe it straight through the TV to the gullible "Meet the Press" viewers at home - who had no one setting the record straight so they could get the facts and the truth about the Iraq war. All those folks at NBC News who still speak of him with hushed tones - I don't get it. Doesn't make ANY sense. That was one thing I always disliked about Keith Olbermann. He practically burned incense to the guy. Sorry. Tim Russert was a wholly-owned subsidiary.
No kidding. Broke my heart, too. NO mother should have to see or go through that.
That's her baby there. I cannot imagine the pain and anguish. Just beyond imagining. And to have that on TV for everyone to see. I can see how the thinking would be - well, show it warts 'n' all so the message is clear and the pain is visible and in-yer-face. But CRIMINY!!! These poor people are being made a spectacle of. Just another heartbreak story for titillation and ratings. And soon, the public becomes inured, and numbed, and apathetic. NOBODY wins here. Even those who think they're winning by providing winning programming. We are ALL the poorer for it.
Truly breaks my heart.
KICKING THIS.
And recommending. And bookmarking.
The people these cheap, selfish, greedy, short-sighted, willfully-ignorant, heartless bastards demean and dismiss as lazy moochers are the same people that Christ our Savior referred to as "the least of My brethren." AND - as His own very Self. "What you did to the least of these, you did to Me."
Matthew 25: 35-40
35 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;
36 naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?
38 ‘And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?
39 ‘When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’
40 “The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’ "
From DUer Brigid's thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023699724
God I LOVE Andy Borowitz!
But the thing is - sometimes his columns are too real to be too funny.
"Do-gooders." Funny how that term has become some sort of pejorative.
I hear it used as some sort of smug, snarky put-down - WAY too frequently.
So doing good is somehow a bad thing? Or a stupid thing? Or a naive thing? Or a "tsk-tsk, poor dears just don't underSTAND" thing? Usually spoken with a sneer or a curled lip or an upturned nose.
Jesus was a "do-gooder." Wonder if they have a problem with THAT?
Yeeeeahhhh, that good ol' republi-CON austerity-for-everybody-else-but-the-rich schtick.
How's that freedom-freedomy free-markety thing workin' out for ya, GOP?
Hey, I think about that every time I see a little kid.
Mine are grown. One is already gone - off to the races on her own. She'll be 24 in a couple of weeks. The other has one foot out the door - it won't be long, I'm sure, since he's 21. Most of the other boys in the band are 23 and have either moved into their own places by now or are thinking seriously about it. I know it'll seem like two or three days til it happens. Seems like two or three days ago they were born.
Oh boo-hoo, asshole.
One out of seven Americans would be down-on-their-knees grateful to be making HALF of that. One in seven. That's the ratio of poor people in America. One out of every seven lives in poverty.
Well then why don't you quit, asshole? I'm sure the fucking Heritage Foundation or the koch brothers or some such viper pit would take you in and pay you what you think you're worth. They wouldn't pay you what I think you're worth, though. I think you're worth less than NOTHING.
Dayum, she's BEAUTIFUL!
What's so bad about her hair? I guess other people see an issue with it, but I sure don't. MAN she's gorgeous!
I LOVE photos like this one! Anything with President Obama and little kids.
Just so very dear!
He has a very gentle heart.
Thanks for posting this, Cha. A keeper for sure! And that little girl dressed in her Sunday best. He probably appreciates moments like this even more as he realizes his own little girls aren't so little anymore.
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