INDC Journal snags a three-part interview with the movers behind CBS News’ controversial Draft reinstatement piece, which aired Tuesday evening and was subsequently cited by several commenters as an example of CBS’s penchant for advocacy journalism. Bill’s interview is eminently fair (at times too fair, perhaps), but it does manage to expose an institutionalized bias among certain factions of the mainstream media establisment—a bias that may or may not be
September 30, 2004
CBS exposes the materialist flaw in Bakhtinian theoretics (or, “the story was like, totally in the air, you dig…?")
September 30, 2004
Another question for my Levi’s
me: “So? Whaddya think…?’ Levi’s: “Dude, are those clogs?” me: “No, they’re Birkenstock Tatami Kyotos. And they’re huge in Europe.” Levi’s: “Yeah? Well here they’re clogs. Which, how do you plan to accessorize with those—carry a poodle and a Truman Capote novel with you everywhere you go?
September 29, 2004
RatherGate 2: The Wrath of (the) Con
protein wisdom EXCLUSIVE. MUST CREDIT protein wisdom. Internal CBS memo* from correspondent Richard Schlesinger to segment producer Linda Karas reveals plans for a cover up concerning last evening’s draft story. The memo also reveals Schlesinger’s awareness* that Beverly Cocco, the key subject in the report, may have switched her story. *“Fake but accurate. As in, I made it up. Entirely. Nevertheless, I think it captures the spirit of what’s going
September 29, 2004
John Edwards offers John Kerry some debate advice
Edwards: “…And if you can slip it in, it wouldn’t hurt you to mention bunnies a few times. Ducklings, either.”
September 29, 2004
Reuters : Switzerland :: Teresa Heinz Kerry : Taco Bell
Reuters: “Bush seen with debate edge over Kerry” U.S. President George W. Bush’s ability to stick to a simple, Rove-generated script of his policies on Iraq and terrorism should give the monosyllabic chimp an edge over his nuanced, cultured, Democratic rival Senator John Kerry in Thursday’s presidential debate, analysts say. […] The keen-minded and intellectually superior Kerry will likely showcase new hard-hitting language about chaos and casualties in Iraq by
September 29, 2004
Kerry: “It just was a very inarticulate way of saying something, and I had one of those inarticulate moments late in the evening* when I was dead tired in the primaries and I didn’t say something very clearly.”
9 more articulate ways John Kerry might have said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it” “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I recognized that to have any chance at winning the Democratic nomination I was going to have to appeal to the anti-war crowd that was threatening to throw its weight behind Howard Dean. The truncated mini-tyrant. “As a rule,
September 29, 2004
All things being equal, I’d Rather be in Skokie
RatherBiased keeps watching CBS News so I don’t have to, bless them. Unfortunately, their server is down at the moment, so I’m going to post their latest bit o’ CBS punking here, in its entirety: “CBS Does It Again: Network Touts Phony Emails Alleging Return of Military Draft” For months now, left-leaning interest groups have been trying to scare America’s young people into believing that the Bush Administration is eager
September 28, 2004
2004: The Year of Bill INDC
Go vote Bill’s INDC Journal the “Best Inside the Beltway” blog in the Washington Post’s Best Blogs contest. And while you’re there, vote protein wisdom for…uh, nothing. Because I wasn’t nominated. For anything. At all. Nada. Which, thanks for that. protein wisdom: achieving mediocrity since going on always. **** update: fafblog!
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on protein wisdom’s exclusion from the Washington Post’s “Best of the Blogs” competition
Garrett: “Not to harsh your mellow or anything, brother, but c’mon. Fafblog! That’s like, a different league… “Tell you what. Let’s go get us a couple cranberry muffins, my treat. Because trust me, it ain’t even possible to stay bummed with a cranberry muffin in your head…”