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God Bless Rolling Stone!

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Issue 1108 – July 8, 2010

Everyone who knows me will tell you I would marry Rolling Stone if I could.  😉 Ah, yes, The Now World-Famous Feature, which finally came in the mail yesterday.  As usual, “On The Media” did a great job explaining why McCrystal’s aides felt so free. And as usual, “Democracy Now!” did a great job of  illuminating the larger political context.  I’m still confused as to the outbursts by David Brooks and Lara Logan, since, like my hero Matt Taibbi, I was taught in journalism school that you don’t worry about the reaction to/results of the story. (Gordon Parks understood this best: I remember reading that he told the Black Panthers and others he covered to not say or do anything in front of him that they didn’t want in Life magazine.) Clearly Brooks and Logan are too close to power to remember that. Logan, the reporter of the two, should know better.

AUGUST 10th UPDATE: I’m sure Hastings is not surprised by this. And I wasn’t surprised by this.

The Last Word On……..

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…..the debate between Jews on Gaza. Once again, NPR’s “On The Media” provides great (mainstream) radio. I also enjoyed the reaction.

……Helen Thomas. Damn. Talk about no one being safe. The real loss is the vaccuum of White House press corps skepticism that will now be all too evident.

…….Wilbert Rideau’s coming out party. Congrats!

CLICK THE ABOVE IMAGE for additional PHOTOS OF DEBRAHLEE LORENZANA.

…….the woman who claims she got fired from her job because she was too fine. I believe her! LOL! 🙂 Yes, sue, sue, sue! And CONGRATS to my blog sponsor Saswat, who took the inital pictures of her seen around the globe! My friend Saswat is now a prominent photojournalist in addition to being a new daddy and a revolutionary! Hat trick! LOL!

I Fully Admit That…….

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…..as “Captain Planet” homages go 🙂 , I thoroughly enjoyed “Blackest Night.” (I even have a Blue Lantern Corps ring and button.) I would have switched the colors of what represented “life” and “death,” though.  🙂  I would have loved this even more if it had an actual ending, instead of a transition into the next storyline.

Aftermaths (Or, Tavis Smiley, Black Nationalist)

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I almost don’t know what to say  here. I saw the Negro Cup-of-Soup (it was too downscale to be called a Negro Bowl), and I dunno. Tavis Smiley said we needed a Black agenda, and he wrote one, right? So why did they/we have to meet? Couldn’t they/we have just presented President Obama with a copy of The Covenant and called it a day? I mean, didn’t one of the panelists basically say that Obama was doing some stuff from that list? At least, what he was going to do for all Americans, since that’s his public bag.

(And it’s not like a lot of people didn’t see all this coming. *SIGH*)

It’s funny to me that Smiley, a preacher’s kid from Indiana, is now holding the torch for 21st century Black nationalism. Again, not sure what to do with that. 🙂

On that topic, happy that Smiley is telling the truth about Martin Luther King vs. Obama. And I like that he has the resources (money, PBS platform) to say what needed to be said.

Meanwhile, in post-health-care-victory America, hate media continues to be on the march against the centrist Obama. Who is a proxy—target?—for all people of color. Who will one day (like, tomorrow or the day after) be the racial majority in  America. White fright,  fright night. So now what? I dunno.

P.S.  I don’t think this kind of thing really helps anything but Republicans, since they will use it to create a (false) sense of victim balance.

P.P.S. This sure reads good. I hope it’s true. And my Morgan colleague, Dr. Greg Adamo, called Obama’s student loan law “single-payer for college students.” Again, hope so.