Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
by John Cole| 12 Comments
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Clearly, this is not what the Kerry campaign in mind.
Kim Jong Il’s website hosted by the Kerry campaign.
Saddam Hussein has one too!
Here are the screenshots for when these pages get disappeared.
Something tells me this was not really well thought out by the Kerry campaign.
by John Cole| 23 Comments
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I also am surprised that Kerrey stooped to the level of political grandstanding that he did, and I forgot to mention the most irksome (other any of the seeping idiocy that oozed from Ben Veniste) part of the Rice testimony:
KERREY: Let me move to another area.
RICE: May I finish answering your question though because this is an important point.
KERREY: I know it’s important. Everything that’s going on here is important but I’ve got 10 minutes.
RICE: But since we have a point of disagreement I’d like to have a chance to address it.
KERREY: Actually, we have many points of disagreement, Dr. Clarke. We’ll have a chance to do in closed session. You can’t – please don’t filibuster me. It’s not fair. It is not fair. I have been polite. I have been courteous. It is not fair to me. I understand that we have a disagreement.
RICE: Commissioner, commissioner, I am here to answer questions. And you’ve asked me a question.
Silly Ms. Rice. You aren’t here to answer questions- you are here for election year political posturing.
I never thought my opinion of Democrats could get lower, but they always manage to out-do themselves.
*** Update ***
Jeff Goldstein offers up this nugget:
The most interesting fact about yesterday’s Condolezza Rice testimony before the 9/11 commission? Of the 25000 or so words exchanged, Ms. Rice — whom the commission insisted needed to testify publically lest Truth be throttled — spoke only 15000 of those words, or sixty percent. The other forty percent of the time, television audiences were treated to Bob Kerrey throwing a salty, context-challenged testosterfit, or to Richard Ben Veniste attempting to play headline gotcha like some bitter, nerdy hall monitor avenging a G. Gordon Liddy wedgie.
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In case you have not noticed- I joined the Milblog webring.
In another completely unrelated matter- Kinja rules.
This post is in: Democratic Stupidity
I think between my post on the issue and this definitive post from Jay Caruso, MarK Kleiman should be able to recognize that his creative interpretation of Kennedy’s Vietnam comment is pretty laughable.
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This administration’s obsession with regulating decency is not only indicative of an annoying and creeping paternalism, but it is also damaging businesses:
he U.S. radio industry’s long-awaited recovery remains on track for 2004, but the specter of rising fines for on-air indecency could threaten the already fragile rebound.
If programs get boring and listeners turn off, advertisers might pull the plug on an industry hoping for 6 percent ad sales growth this year compared with a meager 1 percent in 2003, industry analysts said.
“Obviously, programing is on the air because it’s popular and profitable, and so far we’ve seen (operators) stand by talent and programing,” said Gordon Hodge, financial analyst with Thomas Weisel Partners.
“If regulation arose that stifled popular programing, then there would be economic repercussions. Long term, it could be problematic,” Hodge said.
Federal lawmakers have taken up broadcast decency with a vengeance in the wake of public outrage over Janet Jackson’s breast-baring Super Bowl performance, pushing legislation to raise the maximum fine for indecency to $500,000 per incident.
Back off.
by John Cole| 9 Comments
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I am not sure why Jesse finds this idea so bad:
Wal*Mart is getting ready to sell a DVD player that strips out the offensive content of movies for you.
Clearplay scans movies for dodgy content, and then programs that data into its system.
Subscribers can then watch standard copies of the 500-or-so films on its list, with the assurance that they will automatically skip over mute anything that children or the squeamish may not like.
Now, if you want to take precautions on live television, fine. But nobody forces you to put anything into your DVD player. If you want to watch a movie, but without the sex, swearing or violence, here’s a novel idea: there are thousands upon thousands of movies on VHS and DVD. Watch something else.
I can’t decide if this is just lazy or stupid, but part of me really wants to see the Clearplay version of Wild Things. I’ve heard it’s thirty minutes of the finest Matt Dillon standing, sitting, walking, and blurting out sentence fragments that Hollywood has to offer.
This is what is known as a market solution, and I am all in favor of it. This is personal responsibility- they are buying a product which allows them to view what they want, without material they find offensive, and guess what- it does not impede or infringe on the rights of anyonke.
Jesse has it ass-backwards. He should be encouraging this sort of idea.
by John Cole| 10 Comments
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Shameless man prostitute for the DNC.
This really is quite revealing- appearances really are everything to the left. Clinton does nothing for 8 years, but ‘appears’ committed to the fight against terrorism. Bush refuses to play the press games, and therefore he is unconcerned about anything.