Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the ABC mega-hit The Bachelor decided that having physically beautiful women cater to the whim of a smug man for weeks on end in a competition to become his… whatever… wasn’t degrading enough.
by
David Forsmark | February 17, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
At the peak of his popularity as a Green rock star and Oscar-winning propagandist, Gore founded Current TV, a cable channel. So far, he has been able to attract a whopping 23,000 viewers. Now he’s sure that Keith Olbermann- whose name identity among the general population is about .0005% of Gore’s, but whose cable audience was about 80 times his, can save his cable venture.
by
David Forsmark | February 11, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
The premise behind the title of the anti-nuke propaganda flick The China Syndrome was that nuclear reactors were in danger of melting down, and the core would burrow it’s way to the earth’s core—or even further!
by
David Forsmark | February 10, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
In 1955, satirist Leonard Wibberly wrote a sendup of American foreign aid called, The Mouse that Roared, in which a microscopic, medieval and poverty stricken country, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, invades the United States in order to be defeated and rebuilt like Germany and Japan. In 1959, it was released as a pretty good adaptation starring Peter Sellers. This week, Chris Matthews declared war on Glen Beck, undoubtedly hoping Beck would respond and millions of people who don’t know Chis Matthews exists would become aware of his TV show, Harball.
by
David Forsmark | February 5, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
It’s really hard to think of anyone with a public forum who is dumber– and louder and prouder about it– than Joy Behar, the woman who calls Sarah Palin stupid, then wonders if calling the day after Thanksgiving “Black Friday” is racist.
by
David Forsmark | February 5, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
Newsweek’s outrageous cover implies that a Confederate radical, a disillusioned Communist, and an Islamist gunman were flag waving Americans… like the Tea Party?
by
David Forsmark | February 2, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
It’s really hard to think of anyone with a public forum who is dumber– and louder and prouder about it– than Joy Behar, the woman who calls Sarah Palin stupid, then wonders if calling the day after Thanksgiving “Black Friday” is racist.
by
David Forsmark | February 1, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
The calls for withdrawal from Afghanistan get louder by the day; and even supporters of the war are nearly universal in their condemnation of Afghan president Hamid Karzai as a hopelessly corrupt thug– with some justification, to be sure. But I wonder if any of the commentators have a clue that in 2001 Hamid Karzai [...]
by
David Forsmark | January 29, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
Chris Matthews shows his ignorance while shouting that Michele Bachman is ignorant. But his real fear is of Constitutional principles.
by
David Forsmark | January 28, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »
If Obama was channeling anyone during the State of the Union address, it was not Ronaldus Magnus, but Big Bro. The phraseology was positively Orwellian.
by
David Forsmark | January 27, 2011 | Posted in
NewsReal Blog |
Read More »