Señor Jehuda, aka "El Blogo de Liberto", is an attorney and media professional with a background in TV marketing and production, copywriting, independent filmmaking, and spontaneously speaking perfect Spanish. A proud Texan who recently escaped from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, he spends far too much time thinking about movies - especially since his job requires it. Jehuda is also a contributor at YesButHowever.com and PJ Lifestyle.
She’d rather focus on misrepresenting the truth, I suppose: Andrea Mitchell On Fast And Furious: “It Is A Distraction, It Is Politics”.
The people of Mexico would probably disagree with TV-personality-masquerading-as-a-journalist Andrea Mitchell. And who can blame them? After all, tens of thousands of dead don’t exactly sound like a distraction…
Double-reverse anti-nostalgia: Blade Runner: What has come true?
Related: Looking back at the Minority Report “idea summit”.
Of course, of all the possibilities posed by Minority Report, Uncle Sam had to develop this one…
LAWFARE IS A REAL PROBLEM: EFF Will Represent The Oatmeal Creator in Fight Against Bizarre Lawsuit Targeting Critical Online Speech.
Definitely not limited to Leftie Hacktivists and their ilk. We need a federal anti-SLAPP statute.
R.S. McCain Connects the Dots: Leader of Anti-Limbaugh Effort Brags About Obama Campaign Ties.
Not sure ‘brags’ is the right term here. The Anti-Rush effort was a failure and the Obama Campaign looks incompetent pretty much 24/7 these days.
R.S. has been connecting a lot of dots lately…
Free on Kindle through tomorrow, Thursday: Sick (A Project Eden Thriller).
It’s another novel from my ex-colleague Brett Battles, award-winning author of the ‘Jonathan Quinn‘ series of actioners; but this one is a bio-hazard thriller. Well-reviewed!
A show about nothing? Andrea Mitchell to address WaWa clip.
Address? How about apologize on behalf of the producer of the Romney segment? Or fall on her sword, assuming that Andrea Mitchell knew about the dishonest editing that took place?
I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt, assuming that she was merely acting as on-air talent in this instance. Anchors don’t always know what’s behind the pieces they introduce on air. But if Mitchell is indeed a reporter and an electronic journalist, she will take some responsibility for failing to know the story behind the story.
What is more clear is that MSNBC is becoming cable news’ Home of the Edit-gate, with their journalistic standards evidently being as solid as Michael Moore’s commitment to document the truth. How many times, I suppose, have they gotten away with misreporting? Is deceptive editing when opportune and convenient to the MSNBC ‘lean leftward’ agenda in fact standard operating procedure at MSNBC?
This is so grossly inappropriate, I wouldn’t be surprised if Lefties disapproved of it as much as the Dextrosphere seems to be outraged by it. It looks bad – and it is bad, no matter on which side of the political fence you find yourself.
UPDATE: Mitchell addresses the matter with a pathetic ‘We didn’t know‘. Really!? How did your producers get to the bit they found so newsworthy without watching the video from the beginning?
As someone who’s worked for cable channels and cable shows for over a decade, I can assure you that no producer worth a cable news paycheck would even begin to put a piece for air together without first watching the source footage from beginning to end – UNLESS said producer is told in advance by a supervisor how the piece should look and where the “money soundbite” may be found (but how did the supervisor come to know this in the first place?), which is a perfectly legitimate way of producing for air. But that’s not news reporting. That’s mere entertainment; or – in this case – propaganda.
MORE: Ed Driscoll links with related content: ”When you’ve lost David Schuster…” As I wrote above, I’m not surprised. This is just too egregious. Thanks for the link, Ed!
Your Moment of Geek: STARSHIP DIMENSIONS: “A Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships.”
Via Geekosystem.
So, yeah, another extended period of no blogging. I’ve failed to comment on a lot of important stuff going on in the world of politics. But things have been busy at work; and weekends have been busy in their own way. Sorry…
“Free Culture”: NPR intern has 11,000 songs in her collection. Has only bought 15 CD’s in her entire life.
The opposite of Free Culture is the Rights Culture, which is also problematic.
Well, the president did promise us ‘Hope’: MSNBC Host: I’m Hoping Blaming Bush Will Work.
Probably not a member of the Reality-Based Community…
Tolerance: Study Shows Liberal Anti-Mormonism On The Rise.
The Other McCain: SWATting Supect ID’d?
The plot thickens. And the shoe leather’s on it…
CIVILITY UPDATE: Joy Behar wants to see Mitt Romney’s House Burn Down.
Sounds like she really wants to earn that gig at Current TV. This is a horrible thing to say about anyone’s house, though. But I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to her staggering stupidity – of which there can be little doubt if you’ve ever listened to her on The View.
Univision Anchor to Obama Campaign: Don’t use me in your campaign ads.
Ouch. I guess he’s not a member of Journo-List…
Current Agonistes: Joy Behar Joins Current TV.
Times is hard…
An argument in search of a punchline: The Guardian: “Increasingly, Democrats are making the argument that the real culprit for the country’s economic woes lies in a more discrete location: with the Republican Party.”
Increasingly? It’s not quite a Monty Pythons gag, but you can’t beat The Guardian for comedic effect on this one.
Dems always blame the GOP for everything. But arguments like the above are usually reserved for when a GOP president occupies the White House. Which only goes to show how lost Democrats must be feeling right now.
But yeah, if you ignore:
...then, yeah, I guess if you try hard enough you can maybe – possibly – come to believe that jobs are not being created and austerity is being enforced through legislative means by evil GOP Congress-critters.
The GOP isn’t perfect and I’m sorely disappointed with our Ruling Class in general, but I’m more of the persuasion that Obama is an incompetent leader and that Dems up on the Hill are not quite cutting it either. But that’s just me…
Executive Backpedaling: “President Barack Obama stressed the U.S. economy is ‘not doing fine,’ seeking to clarify his earlier comments about the private sector”.
Oh, and it’s all the GOP’s fault, by the way, of course.
Too late, though. The attack ad wrote itself. Might as well claim that there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe…or something.
No hope, but plenty of change: NPR: Generation Rent: “The economic hammer has fallen especially hard on twentysomethings…Plagued by high unemployment, many have had to delay careers, marriage and having children. And the idea of owning a home is more often being put off or written off entirely.”
Related: NYT: More young Americans out of high school are also out of work.
[White] House of Bad Optics: First that Anna Wintour video, now this: President Obama Has Private Meeting with 25 Young Stars at Beverly Hilton.
I guess you can never project enough elitism…
Sad but true: Ed Driscoll on free speech: “The future that Bradbury was trying to prevent is happening now.”
Paging The Other McCain: Christina Hendricks is the cover story of the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter.
Related: An insightful review of this week’s shocking episode. I think I agree with pretty much all its points. Watch out for spoilers!
That exploding cigar feeling: ABC News Reports on Brett Kimberlin Shenanigans.
Lawfare has its limitations…
Judge Gag (aka Judge C.J. Vaughey) must be scratching his head. More on his flawed gag peace order here.
What does democracy look like? So when I heard that Governor Walker had handily defeated the recall (by a 53% to 47% victory which is ridiculously being described as close across the MSM) I couldn’t get a certain image out of my mind of an invincible character from the movies that its enemies simply cannot match. But I couldn’t quite place the character of the movie. It’s not Superman and it’s certainly not The Terminator. But after racking my brain for an hour or so, I think this scene from Ironman is the most apt movie allegory for Governor Walker’s battles over the last year and a half:
The Left and the public employee unions threw everything they had at Governor Walker. And it was a long battle, but he has prevailed - with the support of the Tea Party movement and a majority of Wisconsin voters.
Now, I certainly don’t mean to compare Walker’s opponents to the terrorists in the video above. But given the reaction of some of them last night, any comparisons might be justified.
As for the claim that this is Citizen’s United fault, how is it that the Super-PAC’s that the Supreme Court made legal in that decision were such a big part of the strategy of Walker’s opponents? Ah, I get it: Super-PAC’s are bad only when they serve GOP interets. How could I forget?
Forget the Google Doodle: Obama Not Scheduled to Commemorate D-Day.
It’s not like the effort and sacrifice of so many to stop worldwide fascism all those decades ago is a big deal or anything…
UPDATE: More Americans died during D-Day invasion than during all of Iraq War.
Journalism Is Hard: Politico: Wisconsin recall: the worst night on cable news.
I’m sure we haven’t seen the worst one of the year yet. Just wait for their coverage on the night of November 6.
Fortunately, there are people out there who still know how to do actual reporting…
I realize I didn’t comment on the Wisconsin recall election or even celebrated Walker’s victory. It’s just been a very busy week at work (and it’s only Wednesday). In fact, I haven’t blogged for about 3 days now.
But I will definitely post something substantive on the matter soon. For now, suffice it to say I’m very glad that Wisconsin has successfully repealed annexation by Greece, once again.
You mean ‘blame’? CNN’s Candy Crowley Asks GOP Governor If Obama Deserves ‘A Tiny Bit Of Credit’ For Economy.
But isn’t that just what you’d expect them to say? CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents.
War on Women: 766,000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office.
That ‘Life of Julia’ slideshow finally starts to make sense…
