he Guardian has a great piece by Al Gore today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2086737,00.html

A drive for global domination has put us in greater danger

Moral authority, which is our greatest source of strength, has been recklessly put at risk by this wilful president

Al Gore
Thursday May 24, 2007
The Guardian

The appears in the “Comment is free” section; the link is toward the bottom of the page.

Posted at May 24, 2007 8:52 AM in response to Gore, Obama, And A Coalition Against The Politics of Fear

My point exactly: tune in for the evening news to hear Brian Williams: "According to the latest subliminal and undercover statements from the White House..."
Has it come to that?

Posted at July 14, 2006 11:15 AM in response to Where is W?

Where Is W?
I'll tell you: he is wherever he needs to be in order to busily broadcast subliminal ideas to the media. That's why we are hearing the meme bounce endlessly through media space that Iran and Syria are involved.

From ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Middle East on the Brink
Aired July 13, 2006-23:00 ET [with John Roberts interviewing Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein]

ROBERTS: What do you make of the line that the White House is trying to walk today? The president on the one hand saying Israel has got the right to defend itself, and then Condoleezza Rice, on the other, saying whoa, urging restraint here on the part of the Israelis?

KLEIN: Well, they're sending three different messages.

The main message comes from President Bush. And it's appropriate. Israel has a right to defend itself after this extreme act, which was Hezbollah crossing the border.

Condoleezza Rice's message is to the rest of the region, saying, we want the Israelis not to go berserk, and to restrain themselves.

And then the third message is the one that's kind of coming, you know, subliminally and undercover to a lot of us in the press, with the administration officials saying, you know, Iraq and Syria were behind this.

And I think that the emphasis here -- not Iraq -- I mean Iran and Syria were behind this. And I think that the emphasis here is Iran.

Are the Neocons using microwaves? What's the frequency? I haven't heard any official comment from the Bush administration that points the finger at Iran and Syria.

Posted at July 14, 2006 8:30 AM in response to Where is W?

It is time for someone to ask Bush, in a televised press conference, just what it was that Saddam Hussein did that suppressed the kind of violent warfare that currently exists in Iraq and how the "new" Iraq, with the help of the American military, might reproduce the stability. I would like to hear Bush's reply to a query about why regimes such as Hussein's exist and what other similar sorts of regimes exist in the world today.

Posted at July 10, 2006 6:54 PM in response to Counterinsurgency for Fun and Profit

But...the Times could write about many things other than the ideology of and accustaions made by
the Republican Party members. Jeesh! There's a world 'o stories! How about this one, for starters: a week-long series looking at everything known about, including all know photographs of, the new American Embassy in Baghdad, and then more about what is NOT known?

Posted at June 28, 2006 1:40 PM in response to Bush Confused About Leaks

I forgot about an auxilliary prong: controlling the courts.

"The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out part but kept most of a Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights."

Posted at June 28, 2006 7:49 AM in response to Bush Confused About Leaks

The only thing the Times can really do is just stop writing anything about the Rs: I would love to look at the front page of the Times and not see any stories on Bush, Cheney, Frist, Hastert, Inhofe, Santorum, McCain, Lott,.....

The two main prongs of the R machine involve increasing control over the only two things they don't completely control: the media and the vote counters. The rest of the efforts by the Rs is just entertainment, and in a way does control the media (flag burning: irresistable, though rare, photos of burning stars and stripes; gay marriage: nice photos of same-sex kisses; etc.).

Controlling the media and controlling the vote count. That's all they are about. Power ad infinitum.

Posted at June 28, 2006 7:43 AM in response to Bush Confused About Leaks

I second that request: where did the post go? We don't need to have things hidden from us; if it was pulled, please explain.

Posted at June 23, 2006 1:11 PM in response to Miami's Al Qaeda Cell?

Well, reality needs an entirely new cast....let's just cancel the existing show being broadcast from D.C. and start over. Now. Prime Time.

Posted at May 15, 2006 10:04 AM in response to 2 More Years of Bush Without The West Wing

I watched with sadness...wondering if Bush was watching...as Sheen handed over his dog-eared copy of the Constitution, knowing that our "real" president could never undertake this gesture. Can you imagine elder Bush giving a copy to 10-year old George, or shrub bush carrying a copy around?

Another thought: it was no coincidence that NBC had Al Gore sitting in the White House on SNL and then aired this final episode of West Wing on Sunday night. A meme was planted here.

Posted at May 15, 2006 10:02 AM in response to 2 More Years of Bush Without The West Wing