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May 31, 2008

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This Gift's For You:-)

Another depressing story.  :-(

When I get down, I pull out my autographed picture of Kirsten Haglund. I don't know how she does it, but she always shows up in the nick of time to lift a fella's spirits. God Bless Miss America!

Phil

"Contains errors and cannot be displayed," now that is depressing.

This Gift's For You :-)

Darn it! It appears your system may be protecting you from a non-threat. Can't be too careful, I guess.

Here she is, too.  Happy Days!

matrullo

Not pressure, but a sense of pressure. Not people who own corporations, but corporations "who own where we work".

This news moran earns her $15,000,000.

This Gift's For You :-)

(Hint: Put your misgivings under your pillow and hit the sack. Any fairy'll do in a storm!  :-)

Phil

They own where we work, but they do not own us. We are professionals in Wealth Bondage.

JJ Commoner

I wonder when Katie's book is coming out ?

It's almost disgusting (well, actually not almost) to see supposedly intelligent people saying such things after so long spent wallowing in all the misinformation and disinformation of which they were primary enablers.

Wealth Bondage has 'em by the short and curlies, i think. Almost like being a management consultant, billing and bonuses dependent upon mastering the phrase "Yes, sir .. three bags full".

Phil

"False consciousness" is the phrase Sartre used to describe a mind disassociated so as to avoid the assumptio of personal responsibility. His example was that of a woman whose lets her mind be elsewhere as the man's hand creeps over her unresisting body. She doesn not consent and is not respondible. It is his fault. He makes her do it. Katie's account of her behavior is similar.

JJ Commoner

"extremely subtle and very very effective"

Scotty and Katie had bosses with a slow hand, I guess.

As the midnight moon, was drifting through
The lazy sway of the trees
I saw the look in your eyes, lookin' into mine
Seeing what you wanted to see
Darlin' don't say a word, cause I already heard
What your body's sayin' to mine
I'm tired of fast moves
I've got a slow groove...
On my mind

I want a man with a slow hand
I want a lover with an easy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
When it comes to love, I want a slow hand

Slow Hand, Pointer Sisters

Phil

Great song. In this case, though, Katie was wronged. She is innocent, was coerced by subtle signs. She had to deseive the nation, not that she was deceived, but because her bosses wanted it that way. We can't blame her. And the bosses were looking at ratings and ad revenue. So who is to blame? The crowd! The wisdom of ignorant jingoistic misinformed heavily propagandized crowds. We each member of that audience must take the blame. We are responsible. Kaite was just serving her bosses who were serving us.

JJ Commoner

Well, sure ... and we in turn twist ourselves into knots of rationalization to avoid anyone saying anything true, or clear enough that it would interrupt the advertising and buying. Who was it again that once said something about a society that is a spectacle, a fun house of forever-reflecting mirrors ?

We have met the enemy and they is us. The bosses just carry the quivers full of arrows for us .. another type of valet service

Fit in or fuck off is another phrase that makes the rounds and comes to mind. Edward R. Murrow would have been fired long ago, in this era.

Phil

"Good night and good luck." If Katie had been reading Wealth Bondage during the buildup to the war she might have been better informed and might have gotten up the courage to speak out herself. AKMA, you, I, Matrullo and so many others called it as fraudulent, it was so clearly so. And it was scary at the time, at least in Dallas, to say so.

Katie Couric

I'm gonna get you, Harry Shearer!

Katie Couric

Oopsie Woopsie. Don't know much about Huckabee

Phil

Nice clip, very professional job, Katie. I can see now why you did not exercise independent news judgment.

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