Finally, after way too freaking long, Buraka Som Sistema has released their latest album, Black Diamond. The song above, Sound of Kuduro is by far the best on the album, but there are some other nice gems on here. MIA is featured on several tracks, and the rhythm is just addicting. I cannot sit still when this is on.
Click on the image to download the album (as DRM free MP3s) from Amazon.
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The Republicans are filibustering nearly everything that comes up in the Senate. Not just some things, but everything. So, while the house has passed some 293 separate bills, the Senate hasn’t moved on most of them.
A year ago, Republicans and the media that parrots their talking points would’ve been up in arms about obstructionist Democrats and the evils of procedural delays and/or ‘filibusters’ to obeying the will of the people. Now the Republicans are in the minority, are doing the same thing, but there’s not even a peep of this out of the major media outlets.
And they say that the media is liberal. Bullshit. They’re Republican through and through.
Basic consistency and fairness is something the modern news media doesn’t understand. Having a friend of the Republicans moderate a Republican debate is a pathetic mistake in judgement.
You can watch the Clinton interview I mentioned earlier on Think Progress. They have a video capture of nearly the entire thing.
I think it’s telling that Wallace can’t even look President Clinton in the eye when asking his smear question. Clinton is upset, but under control. It is about time someone did this to Fox, on Fox.
I know I said I would limit my posts about the Path to 9/11, but this is completely horrible. The movie contains a scene where a CIA agent supposedly calls the White House for authorization to kill bin Laden after supposedly having surrounded him Afghanistan. Sandy Berger is portrayed as not answering before the line gets cut.
One problem. The incident never actually happened. It’s a complete fabrication. From CQ:
Berger, reached by phone after the screening, seconded Ben-Veniste’s criticism. “It’s a total fabrication,” he said tersely. “It did not happen.”
That is not likely to prevent the film from being embraced far and wide among Bush supporters.
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Neither Berger nor Ben-Veniste was consulted on the film. Kean, however, is an official adviser; he says the incident was a fictionalized composite. It was “representative of a series of events compacted into one,” he replied to Ben-Veniste at the time. In a phone interview a few days later, he added, “It’s reasonably accurate.” And he offered a prediction that the show will “get just as many howls from Republicans.”
It’s worth pointing out that Kean has something to gain by kissing up to the Republican establishment: his son is running for office in NJ.
Contrast this account to the comments by Richard Clarke, Larry Johnson, Rand Beers, Paul Pillar, all former NSC or CIA officials who worked in the Bush administration. Take a look at this account of Richard Clarke’s focus during his time in both administrations. Kean simply isn’t credible and this movie is nothing but a rehash of the “blame Clinton” line that Republicans have been peddling since 2000. It may be winning elections, but it’s flushing our country down the drain.
Early reports make the Path to 9/11 a sorry excuse for a docudrama. Mendacious might not be strong enough.
Here are some more blogs, newspapers, and magazines talking about this fictional bit of historical lovemaking to the Bush administration.
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I’ll keep this updated as I find more. It will probably be the last post on this subject.
(Standard disclaimer applies — see here.)
Just go read the article. It’s about Republican or conservative bias in the mainstream media and it’s very good.
Very long, but very good rundown. Excerpt:
We expect that some of our readers are angry that we’re raising these matters. Good. You should be angry that anybody would raise John McCain’s wife’s addiction to painkillers, or a supermarket tabloid report about George and Laura Bush’s marriage. It is, as David Broder once wrote, no way to pick a president.
But if you’re angry about this, you should be far more angry that for years, the media has employed a double-standard in covering progressives and conservatives. You constantly hear about the Clintons’ personal lives on television; you read about it in the newspaper. John McCain doesn’t get the same treatment; nor does George Bush or Rudy Giuliani. Intrusive, irrelevant tabloid-style coverage of candidates is wrong. Intrusive, irrelevant tabloid-style coverage of some candidates, while others are afforded an appropriate zone of privacy is even worse. And it can’t go on.
If you ever needed proof of Fox’s bias, Media Matters shows it’s not that hard to find:
Only on Fox: “RNC headquarters evacuated” (and the White House and Capitol, too)
During Fox News’ coverage of the Capitol and White House evacuations on May 11, the channel’s “Fox News Alert” banner twice read “RNC headquarters evacuated,” referring to the Republican National Committee. Other messages that appeared on the banner included: “White House and Capitol evacuated,” “U.S fighter jets over White House,” “Capitol Building evacuation ordered,” and “Fighter jets tracking small plane 3 miles from Capitol.” Fox’s alert banner did not note that the Democratic National Committee headquarters was also evacuated.
The worst thing is that this is such a petty thing to make distinctions over… (found via Atrios)
