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High School Politics Makes Real World Problems Impossible To Fix

September 9, 2011 by DJ Lanphier

The jobs problem in the USA is one of our most pressing issues, it affects us all very deeply, and President Obama’s speech on the issue was one of the most important of his presidency. Here’s Dana Milbank in his article titled “The Irrelevancy of the Obama Presidency” in the Washington Post today:

Obama on The View: Playing by the New Media Rules

July 27, 2010 by DJ Lanphier

Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania has gone after President Obama for deciding to appear on the daytime talk show “The View”: I think there’s got to be a little bit of dignity to the presidency. [...] I think there are some shows. I wouldn’t put him on “Jerry Springer,” too, right? … I think the [...]

Golf During Wartime

June 22, 2010 by DJ Lanphier

President Obama is taking undeserved heat from the right for playing golf during a time of national crisis. So much so that the White House felt compelled to actually address the issue. If you’re feeling a bit struck by deja-vu on this matter, it’s because we’ve seen this divisive and silly meme before. During the presidency [...]

Be Careful With That Axe, Jim Hoft

March 4, 2010 by DJ Lanphier

Jim Hoft, the last great American Patriot in America gets all litigious on Al Gore: A seven-month old baby girl survived a shot to the chest after her parents shot themselves and their two-year-old in a global warming murder-suicide pact. [...] Someone should sue Al Gore. He played on their fears and now a whole [...]

talkin’ john birch paranoid blues

September 6, 2009 by DJ Lanphier

YouTube vid of Bob Dylan’s banned satirical song about paranoid right wing racists written in 1963 as a response to the popularity of the John Birch Society. It was dropped from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan due to political concerns and remained unreleased until the Bootleg disc in the mid 90′s. Could have been written today. [...]

webuzz: obama, racism, media and other stuff

July 24, 2009 by DJ Lanphier

Weekend reading list…. Matthew Yglesias » Bias, Racism, Being a Jerk, and Abuse of Power – Good insights… Peter Daou: White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination Even more good insights… You Hate Journalism? It WAS the Hiring Practice…Stupid. – Good article on how bad media became bad… Feeling the Wrath of [...]

The Birther Movement is Racism

July 23, 2009 by DJ Lanphier

The “birther” movement is an extreme right wing disinformation campaign that proffers the idea that President Obama is not a US citizen, and was born abroad in Kenya. Here’s the rub: there are no actual facts to support this claim, rather the disinfo subsists on a form of cognitive dissonance – denial – and is [...]

media humps own knee over “obama vs cheney”

May 22, 2009 by DJ Lanphier

And, Obama covers Bush’s Greatest Hits…. and more… from The Daily Show. (via The Nation.)

Rush Limbaugh: Pied Piper of the GOP

January 30, 2009 by DJ Lanphier

The Conservative media icon is leading his brethren to their demise. Last week on Campbell Brown’s show on CNN, Republican Strategist Ed Rollins was asked about Rush Limbaugh and the perception by the public that the GOP is a “bunch of white guys”, and that Obama won, according to Limbaugh, because he was black, and [...]