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Posts Tagged ‘CNN

A Wedding and a Funeral

May 5, 2011

    We know there’s a god, or the death of Osama bin Laden would have come the day before the royal wedding. Imagine then the shrieking and screaming from all who still believe in fairy princes and princesses, were the best news about the world’s worst terrorist allowed to infringe on Happy Times in Britain’s […]

This Just In: the Spin is On

November 3, 2010

Wednesday morn, cup o’ joe in hand, I turned to major news channels for post election analysis–CNN’s usual straight election reportage complete with views from Dems and Publicans, and Fox’s “fair and balanced” anaylsis limited to the things they could most crow about: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. “Fox and Friends” is the lamest stab at truth-telling […]

What Is WRONG With These People?

July 22, 2010

These days are nothing short of temporary social insanity. Such is human nature when stress is virtually intolerable and the body politic is hurting. I say “temporary” because we can only hope and pray that it is. At such times, certain behaviors are excusable to a degree but there is a difference when inmates attempt […]

CNN Is Drinking the Tea

March 5, 2010

Pygmies casting such long shadows is a sign of how late in the day it has become. CNN is drinking the “Tea,” a libation as lethal as Jim Jones’ cool-aid in Jonestown, and, in its infinite tolerance, purveying this deadly potion to the public. As U.S. politics boil to extreme temperatures, CNN’s apparent pull-back from […]