Limbaugh’s fatwa against NYT’s Revkin
In the midst of my wife having a baby (!!!!), I forgot to post last week’s Media Mayhem column from the Mother Nature Network:
Powerful media personalities seem to be shouting “off with their heads” a bit often. Tsk, tsk. Where’s all the rage coming from?
This was a terrible injustice. Here’s Rush Limbaugh, your ordinary hardworking American earning $50 million a year, and he won’t be allowed to crack the whip …
To read the rest of this edge-of-your-seat column, click to the Mother Nature Network.
Glenn Beck, the Rev. Billy James Hargis and the Fairness Doctrine
In 1974, the Rev. Billy James Hargis presided over the marriage of two of his seminary students in Tulsa, Okla. The newlyweds went off on their honeymoon. That’s when the bride told the groom she’d partaken in sins of the flesh before they were bound together. The worst of it was that her partner in sin was the very preacher who’d married them.
Isakson won’t take my health insurance advice
I met with an aide to Johnny Isakson yesterday afternoon to urge the Republican senator from Georgia to support health insurance reform. Though the young man I spoke with was courteous and smart, I left the meeting depressed and not very optimistic.
Now, I’m more depressed. Around the same time, as it turns out, Isakson was claiming to the Macon Lion’s Club that the discussion currently underway in Congress is a “classic debate between single-payer health care and private sector delivery.”
That’s about as true as the claim that the bill contains a provision for “death panels,” a canard that Isakson earlier this week called “nuts.” Read more
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