4/29/09- TWD's Agenda For The Day: Can We Just Get To the 101st Day Already
Because "100" is a shinny nice number that the press glosses over on like they're putting some "Head On" on it for their own trivial means doesn't mean we still can't get sucked into it over at The Whole Delivery. With that, here's the perfect synopsis of overcoming the inanity of this day (which originally started off as truly poignant and meaning something when FDR implemented his plan on fighting the Great Depression).
Media Matters (how the sane can't live without them) has their top 12 choices so far of how wonderful our traditional media has been at showing how inept they continue to be at this 100 Day landmark:
Olyyyyy! Why the hell do I even bother posting this irrelevant man's response to tonight's press conference?
Maybe I posted it for those who still think he is irrelevant? I shudder to think what is up in those people's heads.
Think Progress's new video man Victor Zapanta complies a video montage of how conservatives and conservative moment have behaved in these ballyhooed 100 days. (It maybe, just maybe, is a little bit of a stretch to say they won't be garnering any Noble Peace or Humanitarian Prices this year, or any time soon).
A five star effort from Zapanta, but Think Progress has a ways to go to catch up to Media Matters consistent efficiency. Here's another classic from the "Double M", this time delivering the innumerable constituents of why Fixed Propaganda is so bad that Obama sometimes ignores them purposefully (like tonight) or makes fun of them (like earlier today):
And a key reason why Media Matters is phenomenal is this columnist, with viewpoints like this:
But more often than not, it seems the press has spent its time wallowing in minutiae and pointless speculation. It has celebrated the mundane and chased after White House nonsense in a way I don't think we've ever seen before in modern American politics. And the tone of the coverage is without question unrecognizable when compared with the respectful media greeting Bush received during his first 100 days in office, when a blanket of calm seemed to descend on Beltway newsrooms and where a polite, distant tone for the White House was the accepted norm.
Keep kicking that a...... derriere Mr.Boehlert.
And finally, closing it out in fashion, is the one and only Mr. Stewart (who also gets his two cents in on the Arlen Specter mess).
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| How to Judge a Guy in 100 Days | ||||
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Peace!
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