Paying Attention: Hold My Hand

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Tuesday February 08, 2011 · 11:34 AM PST

2011/02/08 · 11:34

I've been on Dkos for a number of years. In that time there have been many contentious issues, ugly primary wars, pie fights, etc. There have been periods when I didn't participate here very much, others when I've logged on many times a day.

So this is my community. One thing I've loved about DailyKos is the attention paid to our troops, even when many of us have been concerned about, even opposed to, our country's wars. The gift boxes, IGTNT diaries and thousands of respectful comments over the years have reflected well on this site.

I respectfully submit the following, as a perhaps unorthodox, but heartfelt attempt to say it again: let's pay attention to what's going on in our name.

perro amarillo

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 1:05 PM PDT

2007/05/15 · 13:05

It is the job of the blogosphere to keep an eye on the blather of the Big Media and correct it from time to time. I'd say we're pretty good at it, as, for instance, the New York Times learned following Judith Miller's paid complicity in the run up to war.

Miller, seems to me, was a fully-conscious shill for the Bushies, trading stories for flattery and easy access to power. No one could argue from the evidence that she is stupid or badly trained or casual about overlooking new directions that a story wants to take. She was on the take.

Others who write news for national consumption - and who are not necessarily shilling for the man - might as well be. When stinky little turds are left lying around important stories and passed off as posies, the quality of news suffers.

A small, but non-trivial example follows:

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Maybe my brain is just overheated?

57 votes Vote Now!

Maybe my brain is just overheated?

This is all too typical of the MSM

21 votes

MSM? Don't they make movies?

6 votes

Why should they report what we already know?

3 votes

Ha! They sure report the Bushista's point of view, don't they?

11 votes

Your brain is broiling in the Texas sun.

4 votes

Pie, nothin but pie. Key Lime if you've got it.

12 votes

On Gay Sheep, Dkos, and the New York Times

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 9:23 PM PST

2007/01/25 · 21:23

In a science article entitled Of Gay Sheep, Modern Science and Bad Publicity , New York Times writer John Schwartz looks at the bizarre and erroneous coverage that complex stories often receive from respected mainstream media - especially, perhaps, when the topics might be touchy.

Follow me toward the meadow...

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Friday July 28, 2006 · 12:19 PM PDT

2006/07/28 · 12:19

Tomorrow morning, I'm leaving Austin with a truck and Uhaul full of my daughter's household goods. She and her boyfriend are moving to Salem, where he's enrolled in law school. She'll be looking for some kind of non-profit or activist job, such as she's done in Houston.

They're young and excited; I'm old and a little sad to have her moving so far away, and a little envious, frankly, of their big adventure.

But you know what? The kids are all right, and they're really looking forward to living in a more liberal community than Houston. More and a chance to get involved on the flip: Read More

"We are teachers and we are fighting the government. They have guns." With pix from today.

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 2:22 PM PDT

2006/06/15 · 14:22

No matter how hip I think I look, in my jeans and sandals, she spotted me for a tourist and stepped out of the march to explain what was going on. She spoke little English but her statement was as concise and accurate as could be. Tears welled up in my eyes.

"Yo se," I replied. "Soy muy simpatico."

But for most of the two weeks we've been in Oaxaca, the statewide teacher's strike has been a nuisance. Teachers have been camped all over the downtown tourist district, with low-hung ropes tied to every wall and lamp post, supporting tents and tarps of all descriptions, offering difficult passage to turistas and reduced incomes to stores and street vendors.
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Winger sees the light! Time for a new Left/Right Alliance?

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Wednesday May 10, 2006 · 7:43 AM PDT

2006/05/10 · 07:43

Many Democrats have known for a long time that George W. Bush and his cohorts are dangerous and foolhardy men. We are acutely aware of the assaults on our Constitution, even on common sense, that they have undertaken. We have lately been cheered to see some on the other side of the spectrum now coming around.

A column by a winger so pure that he's a lifetime Bircher - former staff member there - raises an interesting question and offers some historic examples of times when left and right cooperated to good purpose.

More in the foggy otherside... Read More

Republicans don't hate freedom of speech. Oh, yeah? With Poll

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Friday March 31, 2006 · 2:43 PM PST

2006/03/31 · 14:43

The hell they don't. Here's just one more damn example. And it's a doozy.

LITTLE BROTHER IS WATCHING reads a billboard atop a Massachusetts parking garage. There's a dark image of GWB on it. The billboard is owned by John Rosenthal who is also responsible for the message. Now, powerful Republicans are trying to force Rosenthal to remove the sign.

''It's censorship on the part of the Republican administration either here or in Washington that doesn't appreciate the humor or, frankly, having their tyrannical policies questioned," Rosenthal said. ''If that billboard said, 'Support Our Troops,' no one would be questioning it."
Rosenthal added, ''There's no agenda here, other than a public discussion."

More and link below... ADDED: Check Here:Little Brother is Watching Read More

Who's the stand-up guy? George W. Bush or Saddam Hussein? With Poll

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Wednesday March 01, 2006 · 10:47 AM PST

2006/03/01 · 10:47

From the BBC::

No one else to blame, says Saddam Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has told his trial in Baghdad that he alone should be made to answer for the actions of his regime.

Hussein has stood up and said that he was in charge and therefore should be charged, if anyone is.

At the end of a second straight day of prosecution evidence, he said the court should not be trying anyone else - a reference to his seven co-defendants.
Earlier, he admitted razing the farms of those convicted of trying to kill him in the town of Dujail in 1982.

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The personal is the damn political. Privatization Ripoffs. W/poll

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Thursday October 20, 2005 · 9:54 AM PDT

2005/10/20 · 09:54

Ok, Ok, I concede that on the scale of the war in Iraq, the deliberate bankrupting of the United States government, rampant cronyism, the highjacking of foreign policy by the Vice President and the neocons, a lousy healthcare system, inability to respond to real, not imagined, disasters, etc., ad nauseum, this is a little thing.
But is it?

How about private ripoffs of state agency services?

More after the fold:
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Pentagon gone mad! Wrong troops to wrong places

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 5:19 AM PDT

2005/10/11 · 05:19

This is clear evidence the administration has utterly ruined a fine military. You want more torture, more killings of prisoners, more loss of American lives, you got it, right here.

From the LA Times.

WASHINGTON -- Straining to find ground troops to maintain its force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has begun deploying thousands of Air Force personnel to combat zones in new jobs as interrogators, prison sentries and gunners on supply trucks.

Air Force personnel? Lemme tell you flip side. Read More

It's the POLICIES, stupid.

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Tuesday September 27, 2005 · 4:13 PM PDT

2005/09/27 · 16:13

So Karen Hughes is off to the Arab world on a mission to get 'em to like us better. I never did see what she has to offer. She's been pretty good cleaning up Bush's miserable communications skills in the past, but she's sure as hell no diplomat.

This from the Washington Post blog:

Karen Hughes Catches Flak

Arab analysts recognize Hughes' skill at staying on message -- not entirely unlike being simple-minded. But her naivete seems to be showing.

Hughes found her message greeted politely but skeptically in Egypt, even by audiences selected and controlled by U.S. officials. Today, she meets with college students and journalists as the Saudi Gazette headlines doubts about her "cosmetic" approach.

So even in the most controlled environments, it ain't working.

More below; Read More

Bloody New York Times can't find dKos with both hands!

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Monday November 01, 2004 · 8:52 PM PST

2004/11/01 · 20:52

So, their editorial page decides to include what the bloggers are saying:

The Revolution Will Be Posted

Published: November 2, 2004

Every four years, by journalistic if not political tradition, the presidential election must be accompanied by a "revolution." So what transformed politics this time around? The rise of the Web log, or blog. The commentary of bloggers - individuals or groups posting daily, hourly or second-by-second observations of and opinions on the campaign on their own Web sites - helped shape the 2004 race. The Op-Ed page asked bloggers from all points on the political spectrum to say what they thought was the most important event or moment of the campaign that, we hope, comes to an end today.

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Winger sees the light! Time for a new Left/Right Alliance?

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Who's the stand-up guy? George W. Bush or Saddam Hussein? With Poll

The personal is the damn political. Privatization Ripoffs. W/poll

Pentagon gone mad! Wrong troops to wrong places

It's the POLICIES, stupid.

Bloody New York Times can't find dKos with both hands!