MEMBER BLOG TAG: nbc
| Thursday, June 5, 2008 8:20AM | | | | Scott McClellan, enabler | Tags: liberal media, George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, NBC, MSNBC
| | | | It required former White House spokesman and Bush toady Scott McClellan to shatter the near-sacred Big Lie of a “liberal” media.” He revealed conservative, even right wing, unpatriotic, “deferential, complicit enablers” of George W. Bush. If you’re “complicit” in an illegal war, torture, rendition, spying on US citizens and other crimes don’t dare call yourself a patriot. It doesn’t matter how many times you dodged the draft or how fervently you have encouraged your children to duck the military or how earnestly you begged them to serve their country by shopping and fudging on taxes like their role models. If you are complicit in crimes against the American people you are not a patriot.
As governor, Bush was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice... | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:54PM | | | | Save the AJC Book Section! | Tags: NBCC, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
| | | This has nothing to do with the PEN World Voices Festival but a lot to do with the climate for literature in the good old US of A. The Atlanta Journal Constitution, one of the major papers of the Southeast, has announced plans to fire their book editor, Teresa Weaver and eliminate their book review section. Well. I don't need to go on and on about why this is bad, even if you don't like reviews much. It's still important for books to have a place in major papers, for them to be part of the cultural discussion.
The NBCC has started an online petition to protest the Atlanta Journal Constitution's decision Here's the link.
http://www.petitiononline.com/atl2007/petition.html
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