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Cleaning Up the Nation
Austin Bay:
If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at
Rank Materialism
Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some
Fallujah Fonda
Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:
Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.
Acros
John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism
In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:
Rall and Anti-Rall
Mark Byron posts some right-wing porn that's easily the equivalent of Ted Rall's lefty letter to the Iraqi resistance. I know nothing about Byron, but he surrounds his fantasy news item with disclaimers that he would never actually support the assassination of Democrats. And Rall of course uses the device of making the Iraqi insurgents the author of his anti-American screed (though that 'underclass' bit sounds more like the socialist left than Ba'athists and jihadis). In both cases it's just so much eating their cake and having it too.
I guess it's not remarkable that wartime will inflame extremists of various stripes. I was going to add that it would be helpful if most of us could ignore such inflammatory partisan rhetoric, but of course that's already the case. Most people have lives. (Via Demosthenes, like too much else on this blog.)
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