Fools on the Hill: Nicole and Nicole on the Radio 8-23-10
In case you missed it like I did, here's our own Nicole Belle with Nicole Sandler with their Fools on the Hill Sunday talking heads show roundup from past Monday. Nicole Sandler has more here: Grayson & Tudor – Florida Progressives!
And in hour two, Nicole Belle of Crooks & Liars returns for our weekly Fools on the Hill segment, discussing the Sunday talking head shows. Here’s her take on the Sunday shows:
So I think today’s theme is cluelessness:
Chris Matthews asks his panel if the Tea Party will have veto power over the 2012 GOP nominee. First and foremost, they are using Sarah Palin as some benchmark of influence, which is ludicrous. Her endorsement is by no means a shoo-in for any candidate right now, and there’s nothing that says her influence will strengthen in the intervening years. If anything, if she opts to pursue a national candidacy herself, I suspect that the media scrutiny will result in her having even less credibility.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/39178
It also gives the tea party itself far more credit than they deserve. I think we’ve seen middling electoral success from them in primary races, but they have yet to show themselves successful in full elections and given the polls for Angle, Paul and others, I don’t think they should crow just yet.
Which segues nicely into Howard Dean. He points out to Candy Crowley that although the conventional wisdom is that the party in power suffers electorally in mid-terms, when your alternative is the Party of No, conventional wisdom may be wrong.
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/howard-dean-name-one-thing-republican
And then we have Dick Armey, the corporate head of the Tea Party, spouting off some truly unbelievable stuff:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/dick-armey-medicare-trashes-constitution
He says that Medicare trashes the Constitution. Huh? What does he think those lazy, entitled senior citizens should do? Work to pay for their Alzheimer’s treatment? For proof, he brings up the example of “the” Christian Scientist, whom we apparently should feel bad is being forced to sign up for a doctor to get Social Security. Of course, no one says he has to GO to the doctors, just sign up for Medicare. But again, David Gregory falls down on the job of calling out this crap, and lets Armey filibuster through the segment and not allow Granholm to respond.
And then, in light of the protests on the Cordoba House in NYC over the weekend, Fareed Zakaria wants to remind Americans that we are not in a war with Islam and that al Qaeda hates factions of Islam as bad as they hate us.
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/fareed-zakaria-gps-al-qaeda-vs-islam
By the way, a commenter made this video of the NYC protests when the haters went after a passerby, who happened to be a construction worker at Ground Zero and not a Muslim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwaNRWMN-F4&feature=player_embedded
George Will thinks that the Mideast peace process is the biggest obstacle to Mideast peace.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/39185
Amazingly, I actually agree with him if only for this story:
http://crooksandliars.com/ian-welsh/israeli-pm-natanyahu-america-easily-move
I think if we really want to see Mideast peace, then the US needs to come to grips with the dichotomy between what Israel officially tells us and what they say behind closed doors.
And then Fox chooses to use Judith Miller of all people to discuss the study that American people have lost faith in broadcast news
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/39175
Really, what can you say about them using the person the Bush White House used to feed propaganda about invading Iraq to?
Our own Howie Klein and Rep. Alan Grayson joined the show this week as well. Go over to Nicole's site to listen to the whole show.
Fools on the hill really sums it up.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
'Cause neither Nicole is a fool, and the only hills in South Florida (Nicole Sandler's home) are the landfills...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Has to be DC.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
the title seems strange (and open for attack).
Nicole Sandler is a great radio personality. I listened to her for a couple of years in Miami before WINZ (940AM) changed formats.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Radio Snot?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Snot this radio? Then which one?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Okay let's say for argument sake that the legislative powers of Congress are restricted to Article I, Sec 8, (which it is not. That's the power the fed has that the States do not).
And let's say dick armey is an ardent Amendment II supporter.
There's nothing in Article I, Sec 8 saying specifically that Congress has to enforce the Amendments. There is in the Amendments themselves, but that is not Article I.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I wish when progressives bring up the debate about elections and discuss who is going to win them etc, predictions, we should always talk about the fact that we don't run our elections. Diebold type corporations who use secret software to count our votes are in control. This should be repeated until the situation no longer exists.
The Tea Partiers are fun to talk about and ponder, but the real issue we need to confront is Election Integrity.
We should also quit pretending anyone in the mainstream media deserves any of our respect. They are corporate whores who have no interest in properly informing the American public. Let's not pretend otherwise. The corporations don't want to inform the public and if we continue assume that pretense we are in fact the fools.
Let's not fall into the trap of intelligently discussing the paid corporate representatives who make up the mainstream media and at the same time discounting anyone who delves deeper into the truth or acts as a true muckraker or whistle blower as a worthless conspiracy theorist. That is a mistake.
I'd rather spend a half an hour talking about those who lie outside the norm and their theories on terrorism or disaster capitalism than discussing what the mainstream media sets as the parameters of proper debate on a regular basis.
It is a weakness to allow NBC, FOX, CBS, and ABC to set the terms of debate. These people aren't our friends. They are the war profiteers.
Of course your career and money making potential would be better off following the lead of those people.
Pretending to be dumb is a smart career choice when it comes to journalism. "Why would George Will keep being invited on these shows??" Huh. I just don't know. Come on. It is a corporate road show. He is one of the players. He doesn't deviate from the norm, which is a crucial trait for these shows.
Judith Miller should be a total disgrace amongst any legitimate journalist and she should be considered a waste of time. Anyone who respects her opinion should be totally discredited as a serious person or resource.
Yet too many of us still shy away from investigative journalists who discuss the anthrax attacks, or election fraud, or false flag terrorism, or the federal reserve, etc. We only listen to and discuss what is near or just outside our comfort zone and dismiss anything that challenges too much our viewpoint on the world.
Good interview. Get well soon :)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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