Wes Anderson. Tilda Swinton. David Lynch. All rape defenders. Heartbreaking.
Now someone needs to start a list of people in Hollywood who believe that being convicted of raping a child deserves incarceration.
ABC News confirms that it will chase any right-wing “fight” even if it’s baseless; even if it’s “unfounded.” In reporting those fights, ABC News will purposefully exclude Democrat voices from the story. And ABC News, while acknowledging a fight is ”unfounded,” will allow partisan Republicans to blame the White House for the “controversy.”
R.I.P., indeed.
The larger problem is that mainstream environmental publications like Treehugger see environmentalism as a compartmentalized “issue” that has nothing to do with women’s rights. In that view, exploiting women’s bodies is bad, unless, of course, it’s for a “good green cause.” Then it’s just “using sex” to sell environmentalism—and who could disagree with that? I mean, what are you, a prude?
The other “Angry Green Girls” videos show bikini-clad women lathering up Priuses and “rejecting” men who don’t happen to drive hybrids—the subtext being that if you choose the right car, these women will be sexually available to you. Here, the message is that women are objects to be obtained through the right male behavior—no different, really, than suggesting that if you buy her dinner, she’d better put out.
Media: Angry right-wingers are important; angry libs are annoying | Media Matters for AmericaDuring the week of August 10-16, the topic of health care, and specifically the politics and the protests of health care, accounted for a staggering 62 percent of all cable news coverage, according to the Pew Research Center’s weekly survey. My guess is that you would be hard-pressed to find a single week during the run-up to the Iraq war when liberal anti-war protests accounted for just 6 percent of the cable news coverage.
Why the gaping disparity? And how come Dean’s anti-war anger was out of bounds, but mini-mob anger is perfectly acceptable? How come liberal anti-war protesters were shunned by the press, but the mini-mobs are showered with incessant coverage? It’s because apparently when angry — and overwhelmingly white — conservatives protest, they come attached with a direct line to the American psyche. Liberals, though, most certainly do not.
Bottom line: Liberal protesters don’t tell us anything about the mood of America. But angry right-wingers do, according to the press.
Mike Tyson, convicted rapist, gives the Jonas Brothers a haircut at the Teen Choice Awards while making a joke about how he “hates seeing people get hurt.”
Disturbing that of all the things he could do, Mike Tyson is trying to make his comeback by associating himself with stuff that 13-year old girls find cool.
Do I file this under “stupid” or “evil”?
Jon Stewart = America’s Most Trusted Newscaster.
via Time Magazine.
Newsstands have been treating GQ’s July cover, featuring a nude-but-not-all-hanging-out Sacha Baron Cohen is like porn. But a tipster at a Hudson News in Manhattan has noticed the decision has lead to some interesting juxtapositions. At left In this picture taken near Grand Central Station is an as-the-good-lord-made-her Bar Refaeli on the cover of Esquire. At right is dirty, dirty pornography.
Because women are supposed to be objectified, duh! When a naked man is on a magazine cover it’s all scandalous and gross and stuff.
more evidence that Bruno = satire fail
