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Well, Fox News has decided

LisB — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:10:16 +0000

Well, Fox News has decided that everything but Superbowl Sunday is trivial, and Georgia's Republican Rep Bobby Franklin has decided that rape is too.

Happy Sunday!

Egypt is going thru birthing

Beetlejuice — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:51:03 +0000

In reply to Where's the News?

Egypt is going thru birthing pains at the moment. Best let them be so they can discover for themselves what they're gonna become when all is said and done. The more we're in there, the more they'll blame us if whatever is birthed isn't what they're expecting. In the meantime, while we're all transfixed on the boobtubes and web...just like during the first Gulf War...our political debates are still raging, but not too many are paying attention simply because what's going on in Egypt is more entertaining. What is going on in Egypt is the shock Naomi Klein wrote about. And as she pointed out, once the revolution in Egypt is all over with don't be surprised to find some unannnounced changes in the political rhetoric at home that wasn't there before.

I somehow knew I could count

SleepinJeezus — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:52:00 +0000

In reply to Ok, right. Revolution in

I somehow knew I could count on DanK to put it all in perspective. We can't know for certain how it all works out, but these developments in the Mid East have easily got the potential to be the historic events that shape geopolitics for the next generation and beyond.

Somehow, the importance of pickle-faced men in suits promoting wedge issues in Congress that don't have a ghost of a chance of actually being enacted tends to fail in comparison, IMHO. I can read all about that in the Sunday papers.

Ok, right. Revolution in

Dan Kervick — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:32:11 +0000

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Ok, right. Revolution in Egypt is a "trivial issue" concocted by the masters of the universe to distract the masses.

I thought I withdrew the

jollyroger — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:56:31 +0000

In reply to I suggest you re-read this

I thought I withdrew the "spin" comment in my last sentence...I did re-read the op and that's why I edited the comment. You are correct.

I suggest you re-read this

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:54:32 +0000

In reply to Come on, AA, I think you may

I suggest you re-read this post:

Since Egypt has fallen into political disarray, has anyone taken notice all MSM resources, both print nd web, are focused intently on the situation on the ground there while the rest of the world is slowing dissolving under the weight of their own destructive powers. As Nomi Klein so aptly put in her book, The Shock Doctrine, redirect the attention of the public to some other trivial issue away from what you're doing so when their attention is back and focused, the changes have already been approved and implemented and there's nothing they can do. I wonder what kind of mischief the GOper's were able to gum up because everyone's attention was distracted?

I am not spinning, he is bemoaning the interest in Egypt here with this post, suggests Congress is up to no good and not being covered while we are "distracted" by Egypt. My first comment upthread was to show that it is still being covered. Now I'm moving on to his suggestion that it's a bad thing that people are so interested in what's going on in Egypt....

Come on, AA, I think you may

jollyroger — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:48:28 +0000

In reply to Except I get the impression

Come on, AA, I think you may be putting a deliberate "spin" on the demon that he doesn't deserve.

Or, I could be wrong, he'll prob'ly be here in a minute to defend himself. I sort of took his original post to be a backhanded acknowledgement of what a shitstorm journalists are subject to in the ordinary course of doing their job when upheaval is the topic.

No, wait, I'm talking about a post in the list of atrocities visited upon journalists...carry on.

Except I get the impression

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:37:07 +0000

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Except I get the impression that point of this post is that Mr. Beetlejuice doesn't want to see all that furriner's news, i.e., whether Egypt or EU, it''s none of our business. Isolationism....doesn't like seeing the populace so "distracted" by news of other countries, which is none of their business; i.e., U.S. politics 24/7, mind you own biz and quit worrying about what Germans think is important!

Similarly, I enjoy Deutsche

Verified Atheist — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:58:19 +0000

In reply to I'm gonna plug the english

Similarly, I enjoy Deutsche Welle (auf Englisch).

I'm gonna plug the english

jollyroger — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:35:57 +0000

In reply to Where's the News?

I'm gonna plug the english (or original, if you are that educated.) version of Der Spiegel.

German thoroughness, and all that.

Plus (openheadexpode) The Germans are possibly the hippest people in the world right now (close headexplode)