Gannonschtick

MEDIA
* "General Motors said it was pulling all of its advertising from the (LATimes) in response to a series of unfavorable articles." i hope that they sell heaps fewer cars. and i hope the LATimes has actually been pulling its punches becuase GM was a client - and now they will feel less constrained... LINK

* digby (kinda) picks up some of my points on the notgannon notpanel: "Gannon has quite the schtick going for him. I don't know if it's a natural gift or if he has had help, but he handled it all quite deftly... I expect that he's on his way to a comeback. The right takes care of its own..."
i still dont know why they are looking after notgannon, lets not forget that they are hanging DeLay out to dry at the same time... odd. odd. LINK

* the reprehensible rita crosby on fauxnews did a piece outraged that a canadian company is apparently selling tapes of some of the audio from firefighters et al from 911. of course, fauxnews broadcast the audio, with transcripts on the screen for minutes, before being outraged: "how dare they profit from 911!!!!". stupidrita made a big deal out of the fact that the company is canadian. methinx we might see a new wave of canada-bashing.

* apparently finkelstein is behind a campaign called StopHerNow - her being Hillary. LINK

* frankrich: "We don't know the identity of the corpse that will follow the pope in riveting the nation's attention. What we do know is that the reality show we've made of death has jumped the shark, turning from a soporific television diversion into the cultural embodiment of the apocalyptic right's growing theocratic crusade." LINK

OTHER STUFF
* "A man charged with the attempted murder of his wife after she was found near death in her car boot has vowed to challenge any move to turn off her life support system... (if) his wife subsequently died, his charge of attempted murder could be upgraded to murder" lol. schiavo redux. culture of wife. LINK

* "A reporter asked Cardinal Francis George of Chicago in a news conference last week whether the church would consider approving the use of condoms to prevent AIDS in places like Africa.
"Your solution is to exterminate the poor?" he said, referring to the births that contraception would prevent." LINK
Your solution is to exterminate logic??

* people are pointing to this video (its huge) - some guy singing earnestly about how good america is. its pretty (unintentionally) funny - mostly for the graphic editing.