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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
January 10, 2010
Good Manners
Let's take another look at this stuff about Roger Ailes:
...the 9/11 attacks had a profound effect on Mr. Ailes. They convinced him that he and his network could be terrorist targets.On the day of the attacks, Mr. Ailes asked his chief engineer the minimum number of workers needed to keep the channel on the air. The answer: 42. “I am one of them,” he said. “I’ve got a bad leg, I’m a little overweight, so I can’t run fast, but I will fight."
The Ailes article was written by New York Times reporters David Carr and Tim Arango. When Ailes told them this, the blindingly obvious question any normal person would have asked him was how he felt about U.S. and Israeli targeting of media outlets. For instance:
• In 1999, the U.S. bombed Serbia TV, killing at least five people.
• In 2004, George Bush told Tony Blair he wanted to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar. Whether intentionally or not, the U.S. also has attacked Al Jazeera's offices in Kabul and Baghdad. (In addition, former British David Blunkett has said that he advised Blair to bomb Al Jazeera.)
• In 2006, Israel bombed Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, Future TV and the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, killing at least one person.
Fortunately, New York Times reporters have good manners, and never ask the blindingly obvious questions any normal person would ask. That's how they get to be New York Times reporters in the first place.
—Jonathan Schwarz
Posted at January 10, 2010 02:08 PMUpton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Posted by: Leon Benjamin at January 10, 2010 02:38 PMThe Upton Sinclair quote explains our current President's actions very well.
As well as the situation regarding the wonderful
network and media outlets in this nation.
'former British David Blunkett', you little tease Jon, last I had heard of him was when he was attacked by a cow(s), so you can understand why he's paranoid.
Incidently, "nobel peace of the dead prize" is only 68 results less than "david blunkett cow attack", a good target to aim for this year!
Posted by: Euripides at January 10, 2010 06:43 PMIn 1999, the U.S. bombed Serbia TV, killing at least five people.
16. And liberals cheered.
the latest from William Blum...on topic.-Tony
http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/4104
Posted by: tony at January 11, 2010 11:25 AMTony:
That's an excellent article by William Blum, who consistently pushes against orthodoxy in eye-opening ways. I had forgotten that fabulous remark by Hiss about prison having been an excellent corrective for three years at Harvard.
Those people who don't think we have an active intelligence bureaucracy that is regularly "working" the media (and blogs and internet) probably won't appreciate the humor of one of the (phony) Osama videotapes praising Blum's book Killing Hope. To me, that just showed that some of those intel guys have a sense of humor, even if some of them are also psychopaths. (It may be the same ones.)
Posted by: N E at January 11, 2010 10:56 PM
