tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post2482959157092565203..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: The Great TabooMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-40104926079090339662010-01-11T12:44:20.331-06:002010-01-11T12:44:20.331-06:00Wow! At least he could put a tiny bit of effort i...Wow! At least he could put a tiny bit of effort into pretending this isn't a quid pro quo. ...but surely our intrepid media will expose such an obvious conflict of interest...krameroneillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456862371043233217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-29812004675725078512010-01-11T11:40:23.838-06:002010-01-11T11:40:23.838-06:00Kramer, Yeah, even Robert Scheer was heard to say...Kramer, Yeah, even Robert Scheer was heard to say this week that such scanners are obvious and should have been implemented long ago. <br /><br />btw: Michael Shirtoff (Skeletor) is cashing in big on these machines. In an <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122018593&ft=1&f=1003" rel="nofollow"> interview </a>with Robert Siegel last year, Professor Bob pressed him hard on the issue:<br /><br />SIEGEL: In your current role as a consultant, do you have an interest in body scanners?<br /><br />Mr. CHERTOFF: You know, I, to be - we consult with all kinds of firms including firms that you manufacture body scanners. <br /><br>As Steve Benen of Washington Monthly <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144906/michael_chertoff%27s_pushing_%22full-body_scanners%22_for_airports_but_he_has_a_conflict_of_interest/" rel="nofollow">points out</a>, in the same WaPo issue where it is noted that Chertoff has been lobbying hard for these scanners (less than a year after leaving his HS post...is that legal?) he has...well,<br /><br><i>And yet, in the same newspaper, on the same day, in the same section, none other than Michael Chertoff has a 736-word op-ed calling for the expansion of whole-body-imaging technology at airports, and dismissing skeptics as "privacy ideologues."</i>geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-64713683003676578292010-01-11T11:09:12.528-06:002010-01-11T11:09:12.528-06:00Yeah, I heard something similar a week ago on...We...Yeah, I heard something similar a week ago on...Weekend Edition, maybe? (I was in a store where they were playing it, as I'm taking a break from listening, for obvious reasons.) Summarizing the Christmas would-be terrorist attack, an anchor said something like "people aren't worried about privacy issues anymore" regarding full-body scanning machines. Just like that: nobody cares, because this one attack happened [almost]. "Let's throw a few billion at some useless technology; I must have talked to three or four people, and they all agree, it's worth it!"<br /><br />Short, short attention spans over there.krameroneillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456862371043233217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-23432739027906370722010-01-10T10:43:44.556-06:002010-01-10T10:43:44.556-06:00GG has another post. This one is on how Helen Thom...<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/09/thomas/index.html" rel="nofollow">GG has another post</a>. This one is on how Helen Thomas was ignored when she tried to ask about the motivation of terrorists.Nate Bowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-49508900249465005662010-01-10T08:26:14.514-06:002010-01-10T08:26:14.514-06:00Mr. Greenwald would be quite possibly the most wor...Mr. Greenwald would be quite possibly the most worthy individual to take up the mantle for the soon-to-be-memory-holed Moyers Journal... in a perfect world.<br /><br />However in our typically imperfect and entropic reality, Dr. Mara Mabuse Medusa maintains for wicked life the cushy chair with her nameplate on it at #1-rated Fox (wha'???) Power Panel poker table, double-dutying all the while with an ostensibly "public" news organization.byg!pynk!fvzzy!bvnny!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-69492405171111316372010-01-09T21:24:01.547-06:002010-01-09T21:24:01.547-06:00The transcript of Mara's complex commentary fi...The <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=122366587" rel="nofollow">transcript</a> of Mara's complex commentary finishing with the usual turn of the screw: <br /><br><i>LIASSON: And to make that happen, says Podesta, the president will need to get out of the scrum on Capitol Hill, spend less time cutting deals with lawmakers and more time leading like a president.</i><br /><br>blithering idiocy dressed up in tones of sage insider truth. I wonder if Podesta said that? These California pols tend to corrupt at a rate something like .9 of the typical Haitian puppet.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-82033766010040599872010-01-09T19:39:08.611-06:002010-01-09T19:39:08.611-06:00Ha ha ha! See, Hear, Speak No Evil Happy Monkeys! ...Ha ha ha! See, Hear, Speak No Evil Happy Monkeys! Enn Pee and Arghgeoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.com