The Brodesky/O’Dell tag team (AKA, the B&O Journalistic Railroad)
by David Safier AzBlueMeanie commented on this morning’s O’Dell article defending Brodesky Advertisement against the evil City of Tucson, which dared release a rebuttal to Brodesky’s poorly written, nasty, inaccurate column. The Meanie is absolutely right. A decent paper doesn’t send out someone with skin in the game, like O’Dell, to fact check a city … Read more
Beautiful stuff
by David Safier Fitz's tribute to his father and family is quite a break from the usual comic takes on the week's events in his Saturday column. It's also a hell of a column — a personal, cultural, sociological biography of his family in a few hundred words. None of the usual maudlin, sentimental stuff … Read more
The Usual Suspects
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Since when does one ask the suspect to conduct the investigation into himself? Yet this is precisely what the editors of the Arizona Daily Star did by asking reporter Rob O'Dell to fact-check the response from the City of Tucson to an opinion by the Star's opinion writer Josh Brodesky (Josh Brodesky: … Read more
Countdown With Keith Olbermann to Return Monday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: No, not on MSNBC. You are going to have to find your way to Current TV (Al Gore's cable network). "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" is slated to launch on independently owned Current TV on Monday, June 20th. Find which channels carry Current where you live. For more, go to http://current.com/shows/countdown/channelfinder or http://on.fb.me/lk5wEU. Promo … Read more
Tea-Publican Tyranny in Ohio: The People Fight Back With The “People’s Veto”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Governor FAUX News troll John Kasich is about to get his ass handed to him for his attacks on America's middle-class and union workers. The campaign working to repeal the heinous anti-worker bill in Ohio has collected more than three times the required signatures to put a referendum to overturn the bill … Read more
Arizona’s Political Leaders Evade Their Responsibilities
By Karl Reiner It is approximately 360 miles from the New Mexico state line across Arizona to the border with California. On the south side of the line is the Mexican state of Sonora, part of the territory of a foreign country. Arizona is one of four U.S. states sharing the international border with Mexico. … Read more
Now Forbes is making Huppenthal look bad
by David Safier Talk about your liberal media! First it was Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal. Now Forbes is making Huppenthal look like a fool over his ignoring (same root as "ignorance") the MAS audit he commissioned. Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal says the ethnic studies program in the Tucson Unified School District is … Read more
