Dave Winer (the “h” is invisible) comments on the aftermath of the unctuous handjob Bill Moyers gave Jeremiah Wright, wondering why it’s so quiet, and stating that he’d expected to find much more on the order of Karl’s piece posted on the tubes:
The most I could find was this post on Protein Wisdom saying that Moyers didn’t play hardball with Wright. It’s true, he didn’t. Instead he did what I wish more journalists would, he interviewed him in a way that helped us get to know the person. He let him speak his piece, so we could listen.
You know, I was under the impression that we’d been hearing an awful lot of Reverend Wright speaking his piece candidly, in front of like-minded people where he might not have to pull his punches and censor himself the way one often does in “mixed company.” And I’m terribly afflicted about all the objectification he has suffered after having so viciously and falsely vilified so many fellow Americans.
I wish there were something clever that I could do to make the lyrics match the situation better, but I’m afraid that this sums up Moyers’ interview and Winer’s apologies for race-baiting idiotarianism so well that altering it would only detract: Enjoy.
More: Wright’s Right; Right Is Wrong
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Not unctuous so much as a nipple-pinching hair-tearing type of no-showering Bangladeshi smelly explosive type of handjob I thought.
You kids.
One’s understanding of Moyers’ interview is greatly enhanced by viewing it as a fanzine regurgitation of PR pablum instead of a piece of serious journalism. Think Chris Crocker doing an investigative look into Britney’s life and you’re in the neighborhood.
This week on Bill Moyers Journal? Matthew Hale, with your guest-host, Glenn Greenwald.
I don’t understand what you said. Could you explain in plain English. (And good one about my last name. Never heard that before. LOL.)
You sad fuck.
No, I’m not going to explain it to you in any form of English, Dave. If you can’t understand that, maybe you can get someone to translate it into Fortran.
Hey! One more thing: how cool is Huffington’s book title, man! It is to LOL!
He let him speak his piece, so we could listen.
That is what a mic stand does, Dave. An interview requires a little more interaction.
Oh that’s the Dave Winer what didn’t let my comment out of moderation. Fascist.
maybe you can get someone to translate it into Fortran.
Translate it into an Atom feed. That’ll really piss him off.
See if I try to Godwin your threads no mores.
Obama’s topdog,David Axelrod, hires a crisis management PR firm for Trinity church and Rev. Wright goes on PBS, sounding like Joe Lieberman on valium.
It’s all for your own good, ‘feet. And so the assembled throng isn’t upset by heterodox ideas. It’s all about teh unity, baby. Didn’t you get the memo?
I really hope that Obama wins.
First, if what he is saying and implying is true that should be good for us.
If what Dan and Karl are saying is true then it may cause the averse reaction to any even slight Marxist inclinations in our country for a long , long, time… “Bitter” cure/pill
Oh. My comment is there now. Thanks, Mr. Winer.
Instead he did what I wish more journalists would, he interviewed him in a way that helped us get to know the person. He let him speak his piece, so we could listen.
Isn’t that what Larry King is for?
Ha ha ha. At Kos this morning they were celebrating this wonderful interview, and further down the rec list they were celebrating the two-year anniversary of Stephen Colbert’s truth-to-Bush moment.
– And here I thought it was a silent “g”.
– On the the brain-dead Kos front, I’m taking bets on how long it will be before the good Rev flies off the rails again. The Libturds are going to be beating the word “context” like a 50 year old shag rug for the length of this election cycle.
– BTW. If all of this kerfluffle about “god damn America” was just an innocent case of mistaken context, why the hell was BO ob the mike yesterday saying he feels that many of Wrights comments were “Objectionable”, and he certainly didn’t agree with them. (Again, he didn’t get the memo.)
– Note to moonbats. Get it together bozzos. All this dissonance is getting clownish.
– Newsflash. Geraldo thinks that none of the polling in reference to Obama is correct or honest. Says that people are lying about voting for him because they don’t want to be seen as racist. No, its not an original idea, but with all the craziness in the Dems primary circus, there must be some things of that nature going on here. The upside down results of party versus candidate Rasmussen poll of a few days ok is a prime example. Que passe’ E’ burros?
“You know if this was just a question of civil rights, I’d vote a Benjamin Spock/King ticket, in an instant. . .
he’s speaking like a Maoist. . .first
domino will fall” CSM. “Confessions of a Cigarette Smoking Man” X-files.
I know this episode is around ten years old, and in another context, it illustrates Hollywood’s BDS even before
W.is in the White House. But it illustrates the point about Obama, his
particular associations (Wright,Ayers, Auchi, whose connection was being scrubbed by NewsWeek’s Periscope as we speak)the endorsement of Hamas’ political director Yousef, the pro-Obama
‘tells’ of the FARC in contact with Democratic emissaries, et al, that are
signifiers of the greater problem
Is that The Dane, from “Miller’s Crossing”?
Yes, Patrick, it is.
sashal:
1) If you’ve looked at history and can’t tell whether Marxism “works” or not, you probably should stick to your other hobbies.
2) If you haven’t looked at history, you probably should stick to your other hobbies.
3) Nope, that about covers it.
I’m beginning to think that, instead of a whole left/right individualism/collectivism chart, we just need a score – how many bodies your philosophy has racked up.
But, I’m sure that it would also be subject to endless argument, and it would be biased in favor of oddball ideologies.
You know:
Communism: 238,000,000
East Durkistanian Political Theosophy: 38
Oh Dan, given all The Dane did, and his end, that’s a particularly pungent reference.
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