Well, well, it looks like “Tuckums” is OUTTA HERE, as former Phils announcer Harry Kalas likely would have put it...David Shuster offers a bit of a remembrance; we’ll just have to see which biped life form The Roger Ailes BS Factory decides to put in his place; I’m sure there are no shortage of humanoids clawing and scratching their way all over each other to try and land that “crowning jewel” of a prime time slot...here is my thought about this (which I’ll likely never be able to verify of course); Rupert The Pirate told Carlson he had to apologize on air for the Dominion stuff and he said he wouldn’t do it, so he went buh-bye (more here and some interesting stuff about Carlson's departure is here)...
...and this prior clip form Joy Reid tells us about Carlson and all the “race lady” stuff...if The Swanson TV Dinner Heir had had any guts, he would have just said the “N” word instead since that’s surely what he really wanted to do (and it’s not like it would have hurt him with his elderly boomer white bread audience – they probably would have given him better ratings for it)...
...and I think the prior two clips are pretty good set-ups for this from Second Thought, in which we learn that You’re Not Immune to Propaganda...good job to mention Edward Bernays and how his methods of persuasion in advertising were used by non-benign political actors tied to neoliberalism, and I honestly didn’t know about Bernays’s link to United Fruit – “neoliberal propaganda communicates the most shallow and meaningless definitions of freedom and democracy” indeed...I have to admit that I also didn’t know about the Macron quote where he said “just cross the street and you’ll find work” to the unemployed French dude..sacre bleu!...
...and as David Doel tells us here, another “head rolled,” you might say, in the corporate media biz, and that was Don Lemon of CNN...how telling is it that Lemon confronted a conservative on air and was given the boot for it, and that was indeed a particularly ridiculous lie from Vivek Ramaswamy about the NRA and the second amendment allegedly aiding the civil rights struggle (more here), and to say that to an African American like Lemon was in singularly bad taste IMO...as I’ve said repeatedly for what it’s worth, the worst thing you can do in media is piss off a conservative, and I get the whole “access” thing, but that’s still no excuse...lying and embellishment (see Brian Williams and an alleged Iraqi helicopter ride), not so much in terms of being allowed to keep your job – “if you want sunshine and rainbows, watch Teletubbies”...nicely done...
...and turning to the latest developments regarding Our Treasonous Orange Pustule who continues to walk amongst us as a free man (and this was a particularly revolting recent story IMO), Farron Cousins tells us that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is allowing Gym Jordan to send a subpoena to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, meaning that Pomerantz will testify in front of Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee; Bragg may have done this because he understands that this is only going to end badly for Jordan since a lot of stuff the Gropenfuhrer wasn’t charged on under former Manhattan prosecutor Cy Vance and Pomerantz may end up getting read into the Congressional record – womp womp...
...and sometimes I need a tune to mellow out a bit after a morning of driving on the PA Turnpike and the “blue route” in these parts (long story), so I now offer the following.
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