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Items by Mike Finnigan

Crooks and Liars

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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 21st, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  The Cunning Realist: One helluva gamble. It’s hard to understand how anyone would trust another Republican to run anything.

  First Door on the Left: Supporting the troops

  Obsidian Wings: Is there any corner of the Bush administration that isn’t hopelessly corrupt? Now it’s Medicare officials who’re caught not doing their jobs, lying about it, and costing us billions.

  The Belgravia Dispatch: Thoughts on Georgia

  Beat the Press: Why do reporters find it so difficult to understand protectionism for people like themselves? The atrocities continue below…

  ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: They print the propaganda first, because their good friends in the White House tell ‘em to…WaPo or The Onion?…The Sleeping Media….Nearly half of Americans favor government mandated political balance on radio and TV…Lifting the ban on press photographing coffins of returning dead…The corporate media continues to operate as the propaganda arm of the Pentagon…Limbaugh: “Nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy”…Any press criticism of the Israeli government is off limits…Corsi frequent guest on White Supremacist radio..News Corp stock in the toilet…US targets Al Jazeera

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 20th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  Undiplomatic: According to the Bush administration’s definition of torture, John McCain was not tortured.

  P.M. Carpenter: Be a conservative’s friend and promote Bob Barr

  The Brad Blog: A lot of voting zeitgeist in the media of late. What took ya so long, folks?

  democracy arsenal: Why does the anti-science Bush administration’s Secretary of State need a science advisor?

  Roger Ailes (not that Roger Ailes): All Veepstakes, all the time.

  HOLY CRAP: It’s official, Obama not the Antichrist!…I’m not a molester, you’re a Jesus-hater…Ya gotta have faith…Wonder if Javon’s parents voted? Yeah, they did…slacktivist on Saddleback…Will our new national pastor also have ethics?…bizarre mash of paranoia and fantasy…More crazy sh*t…Christian body care & soaps…Family News…Mega-church pastor endorsing politicians from the pulpit…Ten Commandments back in court…The State Department’s religious blog…Theocrat Rod Parsley attacks Pastor Dan…Texas roots of the Religious right

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  The Mahablog: The GOP Advantage: Stupid is easy. Smart is hard.

  The G Spot: Health Care, Obama, and the perils of post-partisanship

  Faithful Progressive: New McCain ads based upon other classic Russian novels

  The Root: It Breaks A Village

  Right Wing Watch: “New Evangelical” Warren just like the old ones. He calls pro choice pols “holocaust deniers.”

  Ezra Klein: The rich define the rich

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  The Evangelical Panderfest: The Political Carnival, Corrente, Romenesko

  TBogg: Easily the top Christianist pander. This is film script material a la those old Victor Mature, Chuck Heston sandal and shield flicks.

  Prometheus 6: Krugman joins the chorus

  gin and tacos: We’re Number One!

  Scott Horton: Military judge finds political manipulation in Gitmo - again

  OK, see if you can wrap your head around the concept of this blog! In the linked post, he’s still upset with those cheese-eating surrender monkeys. As J.C. Watts’ father famously remarked, “a black person voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.”

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Round Up

  Posted: August 17th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  CQPolitics: You don’t forget that your mother sued your ex-wife–unless your mind is going.

  uggabugga: WaPo B.S.

  GOPnot4me: Nebraska rethugs follow the playbook.

  American Torture: Physicians, Psychologists and “The Dark Side“

  The Opinion Mill’s Sunday Bookchat asks: Will the credibility of a major publishing house be the last casualty of the Bush administration? Will a list of books make you a better citizen? Will Hanif Kureishi finally get the recognition he deserves? Will Ron Suskind be the reporter who finally gets the impeachment ball rolling?

  OFF THE BEATEN PATH: moose & squirrel, one good move, Walled-In Pond, The Whole American Hog

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Round Up

  Posted: August 16th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  Jerry Wexler, RIP: I’m proud and grateful that Jerry was a friend of mine, beginning the day in 1975 he called me, out of the blue, and said, “I like the way you sing. Let’s make a record.” I couldn’t have been more surprised and thrilled if I’d received a phone call from God. I’d grown up listening to Jerry Wexler-produced records. He’s one of the reasons I’m a musician. He took me to Muscle Shoals, Alabama and we did an album for Warner Brothers. Being around Jerry was a constant joy. He was a walking encyclopedia of popular American music, especially R&B and jazz. Aside from his important contributions as a genuine musical pioneer, and his unique talents as a producer, he was a wonderful raconteur, a man of exquisite taste, a tough businessman, but a gentleman, and a soft touch for musicians.

  I could ask him something like, “tell me about Solomon Burke…” and he’d do an hour of lively, informative and often hilarious commentary on that subject and related topics, one story sparking another. I spent countless hours with him in New York before and after our project, in Alabama while we were recording, and on many occasions in the succeeding 30 years, pestering him to talk about his life in music, which he was always happy to do. I learned a lot. About his experiences with everyone from Ray Charles, to Willie Nelson, to Wilson Pickett, to Aretha Franklin, to Bob Dylan, and on and on. The last time I spoke with him several weeks ago, I opened the conversation by asking how he was doing. “How the hell you think I’m doing,” he replied…”I’m 91…!!” What an honor it was for me to have had the opportunity to work with Jerry Wexler. I lost a friend. American music lost one of the greats.

  Thought Theater: Compare & Contrast: Family Values and the 2008 election

  Frameshop: What America needs to hear about Jerome Corsi, and the denialists riding the slime machine.

  Pam’s House Blend: Do your homework or Teach might pop a cap in your ass.

  The Big Picture: Financial Innovation

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 15th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  Jack & Jill Politics: An important message from Rick Santorum

  Words of Power: We live in a nation that has lost touch with reality.

  Obsidian Wings: It just should not be possible for our government to kidnap someone, ship him off to Syria knowing that he will be tortured, and then have no one be in any way accountable.

  Petrelis Files: That reporters must give up some basic rights if they’re denied, or even receive, credentials makes me queasy about how the national debates for presidential candidates will be conducted.

  The Washington Independent: Look who’s back…

  Threat Level: Experts accuse the Bush administration of foot-dragging on DNS security hole

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Round Up

  Posted: August 14th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  Bob Fertik: Did McCain get an alzheimers test?

  Talk Left: DNC protester warehouse described as “Gitmo On the Platte.”

  Dennis Perrin: Masking Reality

  Brilliant at Breakfast: Swiftboating Goes Mainstream…again

  Emptywheel: Hard Qweschins: What the tradmedia will never ask McCain, but should…

  Olympic Views: From Unqualified Offerings, Cynic’s Party, James Wolcott, and Shakesville

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 13th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  Bring It On: Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States, pay no income taxes, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.

  Drexel Dems: Meet John McCain’s policy director. We already know about his idiotic, neocon foreign policy advisor. At least one rightie blogger is concerned that the McCain campaign is antagonizing their own supporters.

  Lost in Tarnation: A position of strength? Actually, the POTUS is just a lowly spectator.

  The Debatable Land: Did you know Putin is really another Hitler?

  Alas, a blog: We don’t need no stinking environmentalists…Jesus already saved the planet!

  Our Future: Confronting rising drug prices

  

  
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  Mike’s Blog Roundup

  Posted: August 12th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by Mike Finnigan

  MediaBloodhound: The Ivins anthrax case is yet another black eye for Network News

  Martini Revolution: I wonder if all the rightwigers who give sole credit to Ronald Reagan with winning the Cold War will blame Bush and his epic failure of leadership in losing the post-Cold War? Now, John McCain wants to compound the blunder! If McCain’s speech had been part of a college term paper, he’d have flunked.

  EconoSpeak: Who are the Ossetians?

  Corrente: We need Health Care, not Health Insurance

  The Pump Handle: Anthrax is in the news but which bacteria should we fear?

  How Appealing: Juror: “Hamdan didn’t seem like an Al Qaida warrior.”