Gary Secondino's Weblog

Kevin Drum has posted a story, The Times of London has gotten hold of the minutes of a private meeting between Tony Blair and his staff that was held on July 23, 2002 after talks with the Bush administration.

By summer of 2002 Bush had already decided on war regardless of Saddam Hussein's actions; democracy promotion was not even mentioned in passing as a reason for the war; postwar reconstruction was an issue of no concern; and, as Andy Card tacitly admitted even at the time, the "marketing campaign" for the war was deliberately timed to coincide with midterm elections.

True or False - read it and you be the judge.

John: "The far-right along with the Republican party has declared war on not just liberals, but on objective and independent American thought. They have adopted the tactics of fascism, national socialism and communist dictators, and every other tyranny in history"

"Read the atrocity that is taking place at PBS. Doing stories about Tom DeLay's ethics are now "anti-Tom DeLay" stories according to the GOP head of PBS. George Orwell, party of one. And any story that even vaguely isn't positive of something President Bush has done is "anti-Bush."

These freaks and ideologues are slowly taking over our government and our society, piece by piece, with a brazen, to-hell-with-what-you-think hubris that should by now scare the hell out of anyone who cares about what this country used to stand for. It's time for not just the left to wake up and fight back, but for the middle and for Republicans who love this country and don't embrace the far right agenda."

The far-right-wing majority directors at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have a secret they don't want to tell the American public. CPB board Chair Ken Tomlinson and his cronies have kept the results of two "National Public Opinion" surveys under wraps. These documents, stamped "confidential," reveal that the overwhelming majority of the U.S. public is happy with PBS and NPR programming. Such conclusions are bad news for the GOP-led CPB board, which is pushing an agenda designed to reshape public broadcasting programming to suit their own ideological biases. Consequently, CPB has refused to make the poll data public.

A conservative Republican coup is underway at PBS.