Remember back in November of 2011 when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign made an ad which featured President Obama saying this, ""If we keep talking about he economy, we're going to lose." Big problem. Obama didn't say that. He was quoting somebody from Sen. John McCain's campaign. Outright fabrication.
Now Romney has done it again. On Thursday, Romney stood in front of the failed solar energy company Solyndra. He said this, "“an independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded that the administration had steered money to friends and family, to campaign contributors.” There's even an ad that says this. It makes the failure of Solyndra which received government stimulus money sound like criminal behavior. One thing. IT'S NOT TRUE.
That's the way Republicans play politics. It goes back to 1988, when George H.W. Bush blamed the Willie Horton crime spree on Gov. Mike Dukakis. You saw this lying during 3004. That's when right-wingers made war hero Sen. John Kerry look like a coward. Now, Romney directly tells the lies.
As a child, I remember Batman, the campy TV series as being one of my favorite TV shows. I took it seriously. It was only years later that I realized, "Hey these guys aren't serious." It was camp. The TV show Batman did lead me to read the comics. I also loved Spider-Man. I read the comics and watched the animated show. On TV, I also caught Captain America. I loved the patriotism. I thought his uniform was cool even though he was a walking American flag.
I'm not going to tell you how old I am. I'm an adult. But this summer is the summer of my youth. Live action film versions of my favorite superheroes are coming. The Avengers movie with Captain America is out. And it kicks ass. Later this summer, The Amazing Spider-Man debuts. (7-3) Yeah, it goes back to the high school years but it looks great. Then comes The Dark Knight Rises. (7-20) Geek heaven.
How about the video of the theme songs from those sixties TV series.
Batman.
Captain America. When Captain America throws his mighty shield...
Spider-Man. Spider-Man, Spider-Man does whatever a spider can...
The other day, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign released an IPhone App which allowed a user to shoot pictures and superimpose Romney slogans over your photos. One problem. One of the slogans said, "A Better Amercia." Sic. As Homer Simpson would say, "DOH!" Well, this mistake allowed Stephen Colbert to do some classic satire. He argues that Romney has created a new country. So, Colbert decides to sing "America the Beautiful" with spelling errors to celebrate this new country. Silly. Very Silly. And very funny. Check it out. (It's the second part of his Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger segment.)
The Citizens United decision (558 U.S. 50, (2010) is threatening our American democracy. Anonymous billionaires fund secret Super PACs to produce ads which can lie about the facts. While the First Amendment protects anonymous speech, it was never designed to prevent others from criticizing other speakers. So if a billionaire funds a Super PAC and remains anonymous, we may never know his motivation for a particular cause. Perhaps, it's about his own greedy need to maximize his profits. If that's the case, this great country won't advance. Things get done dependent on how much money you have. Yesterday, Rachel Maddow did a great piece on "Dark Money." Check it out and learn.
Last night, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show bemoaned that the upcoming presidential election featured a cerebral and boring Barack Obama versus a boring square Mitt Romney. Tough to do comedy on these guys. But the comedy gods provided us with salvation. Donald Trump is back with his crazy racist birther stuff. Here's Jon Stewart's funny pieces.
During yesterday's "Fox & Friends" on Fox News, the network aired a video that purports to depict the last four years of President Obama's term of office. (Video is below.) Now remember Fox News says it's "fair and balanced." Well the video looks like an attack ad made by a conservative Super PAC. It features dramatic music. And it slants the facts to show life under Obama has been miserable. There's nothing in the video about Obama's successes. Yeah, it doesn't feature Obama promising to get Bin Laden and then his triumph at getting him. Fair and balanced, my ass.
This reminds me of the time when a Fox News producer urged a crowd to get louder for the the cameras. Now they produce and run what can only be termed an attack ad against President Obama. Believe this now. Fox News is a propaganda tool for conservative Republicans.
"As the guy who challenged the Obama administration two years when it tried to deny Fox News access to interviews and other opportunities offered to the media on the grounds that Fox was not a legitimate news operation, I have to tell you even I am shocked by how blatantly Fox is throwing off any pretense of being a journalistic entity with videos like this. Don't be fooled by Bret Baier's Boy Scout smile or all the talk about how some shows are news and some are opinion on the channel. Any news organization that puts up this kind of video is rotten to the core."
Fox News' Bill Shine, vice president for programming issued this statement about the video.
The package that aired on 'Fox & Friends' was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the senior executive level of the network,... This has been addressed with the show’s producers.”
The video was removed from Fox News website.
Well, if you watch Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy, he approves of the video. I believe Doocy's feelings are Fox News views. It's just that they got caught broadcasting what was Republican propaganda that forced them to pretend that they are a news organization.
I've never published this many posts in one month. With this post, I'm at 71. Time to celebrate. Here's the classic Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog at the Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Premiere. He has a lot of fun at the expense of Star Wars fans and I have to say they are good sports. At the end of the video, a special guest that Star Trek fans will love.
Sarah Palin described bloggers as people in their pajamas sitting in their mother's basement. Well, Sarah I sometimes blog in my pajamas. Your comment has inspired a great name for this blog. Thanks, Sarah.
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