Archives for June 2005

Remember Listen to the call or Edna Buchanan would have loved it. It’s a reminder of her

My staff of thousands just couldn’t keep its pilfering hands off this. Matt Haber posted it last week at Low Culture: The photo comes via related reference clever beyond words. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Our versifier laureate penned “effuse words” about Straight Up’s Leon Freilich But don’t take him for a pushover. In re: devoted to Billy Graham. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

told the nation. He was talking about his war in Iraq, of course. If you don’t believe him, perhaps this will convince you: “We are helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We are advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of […]

Your messages must have video of the David Rothkopf interview. Go there and click “Watch.” It runs for an hour. The first 15 minutes is background that will familiarize you with the players of the past. As Rothkopf gets closer to the present his observations cut closer to the bone. For those who have followed […]

It’s easier to read, easier to use, and prettier too. When ArtsJournal editor-publisher Doug McLennan is finished, Straight Up archive, not to worry. This is a soft launch, and my staff of thousands will be fixing them soon. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

If you missed James Bamford’s interview of David J. Rothkopf, author of the new book “Running the World,” which ran twice Sunday on C-SPAN, beseech the network (email: online@c-span.org) to post the video in its online archive pronto, before Georgie Boy’s speech on Tuesday night. Rothkopf’s cool, penetrating assessment of the Cheney-Rummy tag team and […]

Have a listen to Low Culture’s premiere podcast, a comprehensive glimpse of the arts scene called NO JACKET REQUIRED. The show, satirizing NPR’s pretensions, is hosted by Guy Boombast and features an interview with a one-named film-remaker, a report by Patrick Mulcetone about the Detroit arts revival with an on-the-scene interview of curator Vanessa Ovaloid […]

When it comes to ending poverty in Africa, David Brooks says economist Jeffrey Sachs is all wrong. Sachs is a liberal. Too trusting that Africans will do the right thing if given the chance. Brooks sides with Georgie Boy on Africa, ‘cuz Georgie’s a conservative. He doesn’t trust Africans to do anything right. Sachs wants […]

James is on a tear. Have a look at these recent items: Glenn Reynolds Out-Stupids Himself, A-Roving We Will Go and Kristol Ball. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

By JAN HERMAN Parsing words is the liar’s last resort. So Cheney Boy had nowhere else to go to justify his absurd claim that the Iraq insurgency was in its last throes. “If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period, the throes of a revolution,” he said on […]

Earlier this week in Monday Morning Quarterback, a regular correspondent wrote that Joe Biden “has the experience and the smarts to be a fine president.” I myself like the Democratic senator’s shoot-from-the-lip style. But voting for him over Hillary because “the Clinton baggage [might] make her easy to defeat,” as our correspondent noted, is another […]

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A labor arbitration hearing has been finalized for July 7 to settle the case brought against National Public Radio by the union representing a staff editor who was disciplined for his supervision of a David D’Arcy report about the Museum of Modern Art’s involvement with a painting looted by the Nazis. That’s a mouthful, but […]

The demonization of Bill Moyers is not limited to conservative venues. It also finds a warm, comfy outlet on supposedly liberal PBS. George Neumayr, executive editor of the hardline right-wing American Spectator Magazine, was given ample time last night to spew his venom on PBS’s NewsHour in a softball interview with Jeffrey Brown. But that’s […]

Prompted by Time magazine’s Inside the Wire at Gitmo, about an interrogation at Guantanamo’s Camp X Ray in which a sleep-deprived prisoner is kept awake “by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music,” the legal eagle at Underneath Their Robes has filed a confidential opinion that asks, Is Christina Aguilera’s Music “Torture”? […]

Need some entertainment on a Monday morning? How about ABC chief White House correspondent Terry (“Bulldog”) Moran, right, questioning White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan the other day? I don’t know which to admire more, Moran’s tenacity or his sense of humor. As reported by Editor & Publisher, here’s how that went: MORAN: Scott, is […]