Tony Harris' mind is BLOWN about Chicago being eliminated...

[bridgit]

May sometimes the grass *don't* grow and the wind *don't* blow does make you wonder though where 'the committee' will be staging their Olympic politics next time after kowtowing to China's notion of fair play & Olympic Moment

[Myrina]

1. wtf?

:shrug: Who is Tony Harris and what does your post even mean? :shrug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. CNN talking head, I think.

The rest of the post seems to be in regards the issues with the Olympics which were held in China? :shrug:

[bridgit]

7. Yes, and recent inductee into Daily Show's hall of photo-shopped shame...

Due to his little impressed views on Colbert's treadmill

[CoffeeCat]

2. Ummm....

...the armadillo speaks at midnight under the umbrella?

[bridgit]

8. No, he's at The Radisson waiting for his limo

:eyes:

[CoffeeCat]

12. Will the radishes flourish...

or will the lamps take the feldspar?

[bridgit]

14. Finally a Q we could've run through univac if I hadn't split Dr. Pepper on my keypad

:cry:

[Blue_Tires]

18. one of the objects in that photo is also a SEX machine!

[CoffeeCat]

26. You're funny...

...nice to see someone with such a fun sense of humor.

Loved the picture. :)

Sorry about the keyboard though...

[sharp_stick]

3. Isn't it a little early to be into the sauce?

What the hell was that and who the hell is Tony Harris?

Sometimes a little context can be a helpful thing.

[bridgit]

9. Shit people, pull your heads out of the sand and take a look around...

This declination of Chicago as a potential site to hold the Olympics *is already being framed as* a colossal Obama failure on the world-stage. And please, DU cares some of the very least about "context" don't kid yourself

[Aramchek]

10. you're framing it right now, aren't you?

[bridgit]

11. Negative, it was just reported on CNN as such...I'm the one telling you the train is coming...

If you want to keep standing on the tracks that is your business more power to you

[Aramchek]

13. You're not telling anybody anything.

But you are aiding in the spread of products from the Lie Factory...

[bridgit]

15. Some people are disinclined to paying any attentions, my sense is that you are one of them...

[Aramchek]

16. why pay 'attention' to right-wing garbage?

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[Gabi Hayes]

19. of course it's happening, just as EVERY single thing Obama/dems do, no

matter which side any action falls on, will meet with intense vilification by the Right Wing noise machine

it's all they have. it's what they're bred to do

PR is their last resort, applied to all areas of human endeavor

they throw their shit against the wall, en masse, wait to see which turd the M$M picks up, then hype the turd until the stench wears off, meanwhile flinging steamer upon steamer against the wall, until the next one is scooped off

how much more obvious does it have to be?

if it's not birthers, it's death panels

for the next time period it's going to be Obama's epic fail/loss of international influence/general fecklessness that the media will harp upon, gladly swimming in right wing shouters' wake

Chuck Henry's doing it RIGHT NOW:

"President's Pitch Fails"

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[Gabi Hayes]

21. their target is whoever sticks his/her head up the highest at any particular moment.

ask Grayson.

Obama, and the presidency, of course, is always in their sights

here's an interesting column on 'government by publicity stunt,' which was honed to its sharpest point by the previous junta:

Now, if you find you are unable to see what I mean when I say the US under demagogic corporate rule is like a big, slow-motion suicide cult, do not fret. You may still be able to get a job at Fox News Channel. You probably already work there. If not, perhaps your brain is actually a tiny nucleus, and you are a one-celled organism. In which case you probably work at the American Enterprise Institute, and God bless you.

The question is, when policy is based on such mangled yet pervasive premises, what exactly does a policy-maker do? To illustrate the paradox of our present situation, let me compare policy making under the prevailing economic logic to riding a bicycle based on the theory that a bicycle will take you anywhere you want to go if you just put a bag of magic beans on the seat.

First you need a motley collection of gullible fools. We'll call them The Markets. The Markets believe in the magic bean theory. So when someone puts the magic beans on the seat, The Markets get all excited and start saying, "The bicycle's getting ready to go!" They tell everyone who will listen that the bicycle is on its way. And so for a while the theory is convincing.

But what about when the bicycle doesn't go? Then it's up to the Bicycle Rider to convince The Markets that there aren't enough beans in the bicycle-seat beanbag. Or the person putting the bag on the seat isn't the right kind of person. Or the bag itself isn't pretty enough and needs new decorations. And so policy-making becomes an exercise in manipulating the parameters of the bicycle-seat-beanbag theory.

So, for example, if we just make Arnold Schwarzenegger the Governor of California, then for a while The Markets will believe and get everyone else to believe that the California bicycle will go. That euphoria will last a little while. Then maybe a big corporation will fire a bunch of people, and The Markets will get excited again. But again, the bicycle will not have moved, and eventually another dazzling spectacle, another publicity stunt, will have to be arranged. Or maybe a new technology will be developed, and The Markets will resume jabbering happily. But still the bicycle will not move, and as the confetti settles and the party balloons sag and wrinkle, the sobering image of a motionless bicycle with a bag of magic beans on its seat will again come into focus

Yet there's really no finite supply of publicity stunts. In fact, the art of governing has become the art of producing publicity stunts. And a really good policy maker is a guy who can come up with an engine for producing a long chain of publicity stunts that seem to follow logically from one to the next, based on some kind of principle or other. Like "family values" or "the strong, independent American." Or "Jesus is Lord." Or "poor people just don't have what it takes." Or "War on Terrorism."

Now go back to FDR. I don't know why, I just see his policy-making as more authentic. I'm no historian, obviously. But I just I don't see the New Deal as a series of publicity stunts. Certainly FDR's attempt to manipulate the makeup of the Supreme Court was fascistic. But was it a publicity stunt? Maybe I'm wrong, but the jobs programs seem like a genuine attempt to get money, food and housing to people who didn't have any by creating jobs the corporate sector was unable or unwilling to provide.

http://mejeffdorchen.oblivio.com/moments/moment_beans.html

[bridgit]

24. That's it, "government by publicity stunt", thanks for the link

[bridgit]

22. of course it's happening

[Gabi Hayes]

23. wow! they deleted your responses. interesting. care to rephrase them in a less

'personal' framing, I guess?

cause what you said was spot on, and needs to be seen

thx

[bridgit]

25. Eh, I hear'ya, but it doesn't matter people are in the shape they want to be in

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Had to look up "Tony Harris." Apparently an anchor on CNN.

[bridgit]

6. Ding! Correct answer, apparently an anchor on CNN; and right when you think DU is all about...

The Hipness :hippie: