Boy, Scottie McClellan’s decision to come clean — well, I say clean, I mean slightly less dirty — on his role as the Mouth of Sauron, and how the press corps passed along the White House’s propaganda to sell the invasion and occupation of Iraq, has really opened all sorts of floodgates.
In addition […]
Entries from May 2008
McClellan, Yellin, and the Press Under Pressure
Posted by Dave Awl on May 29th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Tags: News · Politics · Media · Foreign Policy · Video · Journalism
Roundup: Spotty Jove and the Return of the Scottish Beaver Edition
Posted by Dave Awl on May 27th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Tags: Meta · News · Politics · Culture · Science · LGBT · Comedy · Film · TV · Comics · Science Fiction · Doctor Who · Video · Nature · Fantasy · Racism
Judybats on Popdose, and First Judybats Album Reissued
Posted by Dave Awl on May 26th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Tags: Culture · Music · Blogs · LGBT
Saturday, May 24: The Relaunch of Planet Earth Chicago at Subterranean
Posted by Dave Awl on May 15th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Tags: News · Culture · Music · Chicago · New Wave · Nightclubs · Planet Earth Chicago
Sunday, May 18: Wordslingers Poetry Radio Show
Posted by Dave Awl on May 15th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Tags: Culture · Journal · Chicago · Poetry · Fringe · Performance · Lit
Colbert on the O’Reilly Meltdown
Posted by Dave Awl on May 14th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Tags: News · Culture · Media · Comedy · TV · Video · Journalism
Wild Puppet: Kate Pierson Plays “Speed Quiz” on Pancake Mountain
Posted by Dave Awl on May 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Tags: Culture · Music · Comedy · New Wave · TV · Video
Mr. Fish on Obama-Wright, That Ad, and the Big Gas Tax Swindle
Posted by Dave Awl on May 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Comics · Foreign Policy · Energy · Video · The Economy, Stupid · Infrastructure
Capes and Crumpets with Roz Kaveney
Posted by Dave Awl on May 4th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Tags: Blogroll · Culture · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · LGBT · TV · Books · Lit · Science Fiction · Doctor Who
After Hours Press Poetry Reading at DvA Gallery, Friday May 2
Posted by Dave Awl on May 1st, 2008 at 3:00 am
Tags: News · Culture · Journal · Chicago · Poetry · Performance · Lit
Roundup: Pansies vs. Chair Sniffers Edition
Posted by Dave Awl on May 1st, 2008 at 2:40 am
Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Science · Food · LGBT · Comedy · Factory Farming · TV · Doctor Who · Video · Nature · Religion · Organic Food · Roundup · Racism · Gender
