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Chris - 2006-06-29 16:11:01
I was on a flight with Joe Lieberman (Ny to Wash shuttle) and greated him while boarding and told him the same thing. I said I was a lifelong Democrat who supported much of his agenda but none the less hoped he would lose the primary unless he admitted his iraq mistake. He was very polite (as was I) and went into some standard political blah blah blah. In the flesh he still looks like a muppet.
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Paula - 2006-06-29 16:20:28
Wow, good for you! You should have followed that up with "But neverless, Joe, would you like to see my puffy cloud movie?"
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Greg - 2006-06-29 16:25:57
Not a fan of Joe L. and don't want religious conservatives of any denomination in public office, unless they're all Jimmy Carter. Big fan of Michael Franti for a long time. He can be Jimmy's Minister of Peace, Justice and Cool Tunes. But way to go Eli--Good call! Lets turn up the heat on these guys who sold us out.
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Chris - 2006-06-30 06:46:07
Paula. Indeed I did give him my DVD. I also gave him the new Sonic Youth disc, cause I know hes a big fan of jam bands. Also congrats to Eli. It takes a certain outrage to prompt a letter to the editor
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Eli - 2006-07-02 22:21:20
Thanks very much. Of course you should know getting a letter printed in the NY Daily News is about as easy as blinking. Have you ever read the NYD letters column? You can get in there with something like this. - - "To the guy driving a blue Crown Victoria who cut me off on the Major Deegan last Tuesday, I hope you can live with yourself." That being said, the editorial that prompted my ire was the most ridiculous defense of Ole Sen Joe I've read. It said the Joe was a man of principle for sticking to his Iraqi guns and Democrats should be thankful he exists. So, according to the NY Daily News, an anti war stance ISN'T principled. And this is a liberal paper? I hope people who may read this will support Ned Lamont.
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Greg - 2006-07-03 07:55:53
Eli: It's incredible that the myth of the "liberal media" still holds so much sway. It's boggling that the NY Times, despite a couple moderate writers, still has any credibility amongst liberals. Their coverage of the current situation in Gaza is appallingly lame. What a bunch of milquetoasts! The TV News--well, they're hopeless. I'm going to have a hard time voting for anybody who voted pro-invasion in the first place, even if they've changed their minds since. Yet they may offer the quickest way out. I'm torn though. They may just pay lip service to the idea of peace to get re-elected and then leave us swinging again.
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Eli - 2006-07-03 14:20:14
Greg: Another example of the "liberal" media was the reporters round table on Meet the Press 7/2/2005. It was WSJ reporter/columnist John Hardwick, former NYT columnist William Safire, WAPO's Dana Priest, and blowhard William Bennett. Three conservatives, one maybe liberal, and Bush mouthpiece Andrea Mitchell. These TV roundtables notoriously skew right day after day and week after week. Media Matters studied the issue and issued a report that all the networks freaked out about, but couldn't refute. I reccomend websites like Media Matters and FAIR, and blogs like Crooks & Liars. The more you know, the more you see on your own, and the more outrage it produces.
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Eli - 2006-07-03 14:39:43
John HARWOOD of the WSJ, not Hartwick, HARWOOD....sorry.
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Greg - 2006-07-03 15:01:00
Thanks Eli--FAIR is on my daily stops but I haven't seen Media Matters, nor Crooks & Liars. These are especially trying times on the outrage meter--Like, I guess the war took a break for a day while George and the Japanese P.M. toured Graceland. The ensuing joke "Don't be cruel, to a whale that's blue" took a bit of the edge off but it's harder and harder to find humor in any of it.
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jon - 2006-07-07 16:11:41
Paula, you wrote, "I don't think the Anti label has yet to release an album that I didn't at least partially like" (a strange construction of a sentence). What do you think about Jolie Holland? I am a latecomer who just started listening to her album Escondida. She seems to succeed very well at creating her own world, or at least sounding like a voice from the past.
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Paula - 2006-07-08 10:49:03
Hi Jon--I like Jolie Holland. I've mentioned both her albums in this very glob.
And you're right, that was an awkward sentence--if it wasn't clear, what I should've said was "I like Anti--they always put out good stuff."
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