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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: When Presidents Attack!
Let the Birthers be silenced, let those who question the veracity of Obama’s patriotism be damned. And put to rest any doubt about his commitment to the nation’s ideals. By dropping bombs on an oil producing country, he’s kept alive a rich White House tradition of using military force to assist oil companies, to enrich [...]
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Glenn Beck’s Moment of Truth
Was it a joke? Or was it a momentary lapse into reason? Did Glenn Beck actually say something poignant and trenchant? Nah. We must’ve been hearing things. It’s inconceivable that FOX’s primetime showman would dare to feature a central tenet of environmentalism in one of his shock-seeking, jingoistic rants. But, then again, the transcript doesn’t [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Reel Bad Arabs by JP Sottile.
vector56…
…add to this anti-Arab feeling the fact that Arabs are, indeed, Semites. Arabic is a Semitic language. Anti-Arabs are…well…you get the picture.
I do strongly suggest that you watch the film I have linked. And share it. It is eye-opening and, frankly, stomach-turning to see what we’ve just accepted as normal out of Hollywood.
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Reel Bad Arabs
If you doubt the depth of the racism that feeds the likes of Peter King, Newt Gingrich or Glenn Beck, take a closer look as the diet of racial stereotypes and demonization that has become so familiar it is barely noticed. In 2006, a gut-wrenching documentary film explored these depths. It came. It went. You [...]
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: The Global War on Celebrity
Our ever-vigilant news media cannot stop reporting on the war. Each day, journalists engage us with in-depth, hour-long explorations of every facet of the war. Tireless reporters report on location about the war’s smallest details and the war’s mounting causalities. Despite cynicism about the indifference of the American public, all that relentless attention has got the [...] -
JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Rewriting the Union Label
Why do anti-union crusaders and their corporate backers seem so bent on attacking teachers and public employees? Well, it’s a simple matter of supply and demand. They demand the opportunity to finally break the economic and political power of unions. And they demand that we somehow blame unions for the dysfunctional economic system created by [...]
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Entitlements “R” Us
The NFL punctuated another profitable season with its bloated, advertising-laden Super Bowl bash. The end of their big game also signaled the kick off of America’s other ad-revenue bonanza. That’s right, folks. The 2012 Presidential Election is underway. Not officially, of course. But that hasn’t dissuaded possible candidates from piling on the corpse of the American [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Leaf Blower America by JP Sottile.
Cheers.
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Leaf Blower America
Nothing more accurately symbolizes the current state of America than the proliferation of the leaf blower. Every day, people across America hear the loud whine of tiny two-stroke engines as they belch out a mixture of smoke and unburned fuel. We see the dust and debris fly by with hurricane force as the flailing tube does [...]
