Archive for the 'Magazine' Category

Maybe we cannot handle the truth…

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Time Joins Newsweek In Thinking That Americans Really, Really Don’t Care About Afghanistan

U.S. edition
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European edition
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Rachel Sklar | Posted Sunday March 25, 2007 at 05:34 PM
“…Time’s cover story is an essay arguing in favor of teaching the Bible in schools…On the cover of its international edition is a story that is less easily boiled down: […]

“C’mon, W. Let’s blow it up good…

Monday, February 26th, 2007

like Billy Sol Hurok on SCTV!”
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CNN LATE EDITION with WOLF BLITZER FEBRUARY 25, 2007
INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR HERSH
About his article in New Yorker Magazine 
 
(excerpt from transcript) 
BLITZER: Explain what you were hearing, because that’s obviously a very explosive charge.
HERSH: Yes, it’s probably the single most explosive, if you will, or depressing or distressing sort of thing […]

It’s Quiz time!

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Where was the following article published?

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Critics: Army holding down disability ratings
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Feb 25, 2007 9:04:49 EST
The Army is deliberately shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans’ advocates, lawyers and services members, and the Inspector General has identified 87 problems in the […]

Wolf Loves Wall Street Journal.

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

 The Wall Street Journal editorial page–dispatches from the Winter Palace.
Trial exposes White House crisis machine
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
Fri Feb 9, 9:22 PM ET
David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation.
In the fall of […]

Do it blind-folded!

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

In more genteel days, people would pay to watch side-show workers
bite the heads off live chickens.
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Media Matters for America listed what they considered the radically conservative side’s “most outrageous comments of 2006.” Remember, these were not found on secret tapes or overheard in the locker room of an ‘exclusive’ country club, but burst onto the […]

Despite Freedom Fries!

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

‘French troops had bin Laden in sights: documentary
By Francois Murphy Tue Dec 19, 1:55 PM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - A documentary says French special forces had
Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire.
The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the […]

It is humorous that TIME magazine questions Representative Pelosi’s qualifications.

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

“Did Nancy Pelosi Get the Message?
She followed up her victory with a self-defeating blunder. Now people are asking, Is Pelosi up to the job?”
Time Online November 19, 2006
Many journalists seemed to have thought W was up for the job under which he has turned the USA into a debtor nation, has allowed nuclear arms to […]

“All play and no work makes W a duller boy.”

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

NEW YORK Magazine did a major story about Bill Keller of the New York Times. Bush had warned him that printing a story would result in his having American blood on his hands.
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THE BRIGHT SHINING LIE?

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Images:(Shining)faculty.washington.edu; (Bushtable)Reuters-perso.wannado.fr (Bushranch)AP Photo-guardian.co.uk

Please find the article here.