FCC Should Yank Fox Broadcasting License
When an MSNBC anchor is suspended for 2 weeks for using the term “pimping Chelsea” and this evil excuse for a human being named Liz Trotta is doing THIS (please watch it, it’s only 15 seconds or so), it’s a real statement on how devoid of all human decency and morality the Faux News Network has become:
Here’s the transcript:
Trotta: …and now we have what some are reading—as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama , umm, ah… Obama, well both if we could…haha…
Q) Talk about how you really feel?
Write to the FCC and Fox News, and boycott their advertisers, please.
If you’re concerned at all that the statement was taken out of context (it wasn’t), here’s a link to a longer clip.
I could go on and on and on about how outrageous this is, but I won’t. It was a toss-off, a signal and sign of how nasty, mean-spirited and evil the mouthpieces of the Republicans have gotten, and it should not stand.
I see that a commenter on the Daily Kos diary has notified the Secret Service. Good. Because this goes beyond freedom of speech. This is shouting fire in a very crowded, very contentious room, and Rupert Murdoch and Fox should lose their license and right to broadcast for a very long time.
Oh, and yes, Liz Trotta should also be fired.
Sphere: Related ContentComments switching to Disqus
The amount of spam I’ve been getting here necessitates a change. I really like Disqus and have been using it on my personal blog for about six months. One of the best aspects of the system is the ability to moderate posts via email, and also for you all to join the community and the discussion via several different avenues — Friendfeed, Facebook, email, or right here on the blog.
The disadvantage is that it hides all comments made on the blog in the past which means that discussions made as recently as an hour ago cannot be viewed. For that, I apologize but I think now is the best time to make the transition.
I’ve decided to set the Disqus settings for new posts or posts with no comments for the time being so as to preserve the comments made to recent discussions. In about a week, I’ll close comments on those and transition entirely over to Disqus.
Thanks to everyone for the great conversations here lately!
Sphere: Related ContentWhat’s wrong with this headline?
Feinstein backs Clinton-Obama ticket
Yes, folks. Order really does matter.
A Personal Note About Assassination and Murder
Defined: The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
Hillary Clinton’s remarks hit me in a place too close to home. Not only from a political standpoint, but from a personal standpoint. Those who know me, know that I don’t look forward to Memorial Day weekend, because my grandfather, my father’s father, was murdered in downtown Los Angeles close to Union Station on Memorial Day weekend, 1971.
To this day, we’re not 100% certain of who actually did it, though LAPD closed the case and tied it to a black guy on a rampage (presumably over drugs, though that isn’t known for sure because the archived files were destroyed. In a murder case, go figure.) The problem with the LAPD theory is that their file was incredibly thin, so thin, in fact, that they could not put the man on trial for my grandfather’s murder. He was convicted on the murders of two others, one of which had an eyewitness.
My grandfather was shot once on the right side of his neck at point-blank range, and once on the left side at point-blank range, then stuffed into the trunk of his car and left for the police to discover 3 days later.
Assassination usually applies to political killings. My grandfather was simply murdered. Whatever verb is used, it is an ugly, horrible memory. Invoking that on Memorial Day weekend sent shivers up my spine.
I generally crawl into my own self on Memorial Day and come out the day after. The only difference this year is that I’m inclined to do it a couple of days early.
If she were standing in front of me with that self-righteous shake of the head, I’d have to suppress the urge to slap her, while asking what exactly she meant through clenched teeth.
There are some things never forgotten. I don’t need an ambitious, cynical candidate to magnify them. If that’s how I feel, how much more must it have stung the Kennedys and those who lived through that horrible night when RFK was assassinated in LA? And why the dig at California?
The sooner she crawls back under her rock, the better.
On this 37th year of the murder of Charles G. Hayes, we all still remember.
Comic Relief
What would an IM conversation between Hillary and Mark Penn look like? Unlike anything you could possibly imagine. Or not.
Who Knew?
John Adams is alive, well, and blogging. Uncensored, even.
Kidding about the alive and well part, but the blogging uncensored part is true.
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