Tales of a shady world

I promise to make hot lunches free too!
McCain and Hillary’s unvarnished ploy for votes — the supposed “tax holiday” on gas sales across the country — is under an intense barrage of criticism.
Signs of the surveillance state
In Detroit, a mail carrier ‘illegally’ tipped off a resident that he was under postal surveillance, meaning all mail [...]

Greenwald rips establishment media

Glenn Greenwald spent his weekend doing a little research on what the media covers:
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
“Yoo and torture” - 102
“Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” [...]

Lou Dobbs: these cotton [picking]…

In a moment of near-vanity, CNN’s Lou Dobbs begins to decry black leaders as “cotton,” but catches himself before blurting out the obvious “picking.” Classy, Lou. Roll the tape:

[H/T TPM]

Chinese hackers attack SafeDarfur.org

For the second time in two weeks we’re learning about Chinese hackers doing its government’s dirty work:
The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition, a national advocacy group pushing to end the six-year-old conflict in Sudan…The [...]

5 years ago tonight…

Former CNN producer unloads on network

CNN fires Chez Pazienza for blogging. Pazienza then writes a devastating summation of his experience at the network [obvious]. Here is the heart of his critique:
I watched my bosses literally stand in the middle of the newsroom and ask, “What can we do to not lead with Iraq?” — the reason being that Iraq, although [...]