Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Tuesday Stuff


David Doel discusses Mehdi Hasan calling out our corporate media on our withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Biden, and this includes (by association) MSNBC, Hasan's own network...



...and Emma and Matt of The Majority Report tell us of Rob O’Neill’s comment about that country (“just give me 9 guys and let me kill everybody” – terrific)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us how Fix Noise fourth-estate-weasel-in-training Peter Doocy tried to con Jen Psaki into another bullshit right-wing talking point about Biden allegedly leaving Americans "stranded" in Afghanistan...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that, apparently, the Cyber Ninjas fraud audit in AZ is going to be held up because of a COVID outbreak...I realize there’s nothing funny about our ongoing plague, but if I were to wish it on anybody, it would be them (and good luck to Cousins with his recent carpal tunnel surgery)...



...and John and Francesca of The Damage Report tell us about AOC shutting down The Swanson TV Dinner Heir over the latter trying trivialize the Dem U.S. House Rep’s concerns about sexual violence (no bar too low for the life forms of The Roger Ailes BS Factory)...



...and Cenk and Ana tell us about conserva-Dems caving a bit on the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill (of course, “Curtsy Kyrsten” is set to kill it in the Senate...and yes, this is pretty amazing stuff, but before we do handstands and rejoice, let’s look at this with a bit of a wary eye for a little while longer as Cenk and Ana, and David Dayen, quite rightly point out)...



Update: Yeah, I think this pretty much says it.

...and Thom Hartmann reminds us (in this 2011 recording) of The Powell Memo – we observed the 50th anniversary of this thoroughly scurrilous (IMO) document written by eventual Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell yesterday – so much to be said about this that it might take a month at least to post about all of it...



...and truly, a giant has left our midst - RIP Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones.

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