THIS WEEK IN THE NEWS

A few more things happened in the national media this week that really illustrate the agenda they follow. You would think they would be satisfied with merely helping lie us into an unnecessary war
that has ruined or ended uncounted thousands of lives and enriched the Bush Crime Family and associates at U.S. taxpayer expense. These things aren't unusual, of course, but the transparency and boldness of their bullshit reveals a raised level of contempt for the public.

    1. The Philadelphia Inquirer has hired former kook senator Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum to write a column for their rag. I guess they have confused themselves with National Enquirer supermarket tabloid.

Personally, I think they should have hired Ed Anger from the sadly now out of business Weekly World News, my fave tabloid of all time. If the so-called mainstream media is just going to go all tabloid all the time on us, why not? They already think they can never have too much Britney, why not Santorum? Sure, he isn’t quite as talented as she is but… What’s next? A Larry Craig column on travel and dating tips?

    2. On Tuesday, several TV stations including the whole FOX and MSNBC networks ran FEMA's phony press conference where FEMA EMPLOYEES POSED AS REPORTERS and asked questions of a FEMA deputy press flak. THE QUESTIONS for the phony reporters were provided by FEMA. There were no REAL reporters in the room. There was no explanation that it was a fake news conference. We
are just supposed to constantly buy into the crap they put on our TV screen. The whole thing was TOTALLY SCRIPTED, another fraud by the current administration. I guess it wasn't enough to have a few ringers and fake reporters in the White House press corps to go along with the regular reporters/accomplices from the national media.

    3. Oh, and how 'bout Corporate News Network's Glen Beck and his hateful gibberish about people who hate America losing their homes in the California fires.

    4. Then there’s one of my local dailies, Newsday. On Tuesday, their joker, Tom Brune, declared Mitt Romney the "Family Values" candidate. I guess the other candidates in both parties are devil worshipers or something. Hmmm. I can see evidence of that for several of them. It’s typical of media hacks to equate rightwing extremists with "Family Values", as if those in the center or the left are just busy beating their kids and cruising airport mensrooms. Brune typically doesn’t even bother to define what that neat little slogan means. [Ed- maybe it means opposing health care for needy children, the way Romney and the rest of teh pathetic pygmies™ do.] But, was it "Family Values" when Mitt tied the family dog to the roof of the family car and eased on down the road? Hey, if you can consider waterboarding to not be torture, I guess you can feel OK about terrorizing and torturing a family pet. After all, Mitt would make a fine replacement for the current lowlife in the White House. You know the guy who put cherry bombs into the mouths of frogs and then considered hooking up wires to a man’s testicles to be perfectly acceptable.

Thus far, I haven’t seen any mention in Newsday of Romney paying bribes to the hallowed leaders of the ChristianReich for their endorsements. One "minister", a christocretin named Don Wilton, felt a pang a conscience this week and tried to send the money back. No coverage of that, either. Can you imagine the play it would get if a Democrat had done the same?

     5. It ain't just FOX "NEWS". Orwell predicted them all. Our news media is now the farcical news media that we heard about the U.S.S.R having decades ago.

NOAH