When President Obama names the new Attorneys General across the USA, how long will it take for the conservative talk radio folks to distort the issue (all incoming Presidents do it) and say that the Dems are hypocritical for doing what they condemned Bush for doing just last year?
Rush or Dennis mentioned Friday that a return to the fairness doctrine may be on the Obama agenda. In Australia, radio has a variety of formats and community radio (which is a lot like the radio version of local TV cable access shows) are the norm. Rush will want his listeners to protest the fairness doctrine. It will be twisted into blocking the unfair ratio (90 conservative to 10 liberal) of talk radio as a way of promoting freedom of speech. Is it time for an update column?
Did you see an item on-line this week saying that Republicans are promoting a bill that would eliminate all IRS tax penalty fees?
Which is worse; the journalists in Thirties Germany who could not tell the truth or the American journalists who stifle themselves so as not to antagonize the Bush family? (When George HW Bush spoke about the possibility of Jeb becoming President, did any mainstream journalist say just the phrase "Broward Savings and Loan," let alone elaborate on why that might be a relevant side-bar story?
On radio in the San Francisco area, in promos, Mike Savage is saying that now that Barack Obama is President, folks should follow the money. He doesn't indicate if it would be important or of interest to follow where the bank bailout funds went. Is that unfair and unbalanced?
This past week Rush Limbaugh seemed to be quarterbacking the Republican strategy. He wrote an article outlining his version of a good bailout legislative package. Would a column speculating about the possibility that this might be an early part of a Rush for President effort be premature? If Rush is not the Republican "front-runner," then who is?
Sean Hannity (on Thursday) suggested that the Obama program would be to go toward "European style socialism." Any thoughts that the Bush banks bailout funds were socialism for capitalism, was not verbalized. Would a column outlining that contention be appropriate for this weekend?
If (conservative moles/trolls please note the use of the subjunctive mood)President Bush & Co. were guilty of war crimes, does the mainstream media silence about "justice," indicate a move to avoid any allegations of "accessories" because of their poor performance on that story? (Was Robert Brasilach guilty of collaboration or just a misplaced effort to be fair and balanced?)
Should we write a weekend column speculating on the possibility that Murilee Martin ever leaves Alameda and if he does why does he?
What can readers do with pictures of their smiling dogs?
Isn't "the Bark" magazine looking for such material?
Would folks in the SF Bay area rather see "The Blue Angel" (Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Berkeley Art Museum) than the big football game and all those cool ads? Can that question be expanded into an interesting column?
What is the mathematical probability that any readers of this site would read a column about "the Monty Hall problem"?
What are the odds that Rush would use this Gen. George S. Patton quote:"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."?
Now our disk jockey will play Seasick Steve's "Save me." It's time for us to ask: Will Karl Rove testify for . . . Jesus? Have a "hallelujah" type week.
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