Hunting for the story in O’Dell’s Rio Nuevo article
by David Safier Lurking inside the Star's Rob O'Dell is a journalist's conscience which demands he put all the relevant facts into his articles. It's just that O'Dell says to his conscience, "I don't have to put the facts I don't like in the opening paragraphs, do I? I can bury them in the last … Read more
Bob Schieffer gets schooled by a guest
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I love it when one of the media villagers gets schooled by one of their guests. On CBS’s Face The Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris about what Roosevelt would think of the Tea Party movement. What happened next was something rarely, if ever, heard on a Sunday … Read more
Neocon McCain saber-rattling, threatening regime change – yet again
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Neoconservative warmonger who was the Washington patron of Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress and advocate for "regime change" in Iraq is at it again. Sen. John McCain is just another Neoconservative who gets off on saber-rattling and threatening war with anyone every time he gets a wild hair up his … Read more
When lying becomes acceptable as part of a politico-theology
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The utter falsity of a statement is no barrier to Republican leaders repeating it. And so it was Sunday, as South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham offered his version of the GOP's Uber Lie that tax cuts pay for themselves. Lindsey Graham Regurgitates the GOP's Tax Cut Whopper: Appearing on Fox News Sunday … Read more
Al Melvin: I’ll tell you what you can read in my district!
by David Safier It looks like Sen. Al Melvin is a staunch defender of the First Amendment — except in restaurants in his district. The Republican lawmaker, who was just re-elected to a second term representing Legislative District 26, tried to bully an Oro Valley restaurant into getting rid of a Tucson Weekly rack that … Read more
Tucson’s Brig. Gen. John Adams talks START Treaty on MSNBC
by David Safier Last Monday, Tucson's Brigadier General John Adams (Retired) was on MSNBC's Daily Rundown for a five minute interview on the need to ratify the START Treaty. An excellent summary of the issues and the need for ratification, soon.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s deficit-reduction alternative is superior to the Bowles-Simpson “chairmen’s mark”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A liberal member of President Obama’s deficit-reduction commission released an alternative plan to reign in federal red ink, a proposal she says “protects the poor and the middle-class.” Deficit Reduction Alternative ‘Protects Poor, Middle-Class,’ Beats Obama Targets: Rep. Jan Schakowsky unveiled her plan last week an alternative to the proposal by the … Read more
