WJ: Weldon Cancels Advertising

[KharmaTrain]

Get the fork out for Mr. Able Danger...looks like the RNC has given up on 'ole Kurt here. He won't be on radio or TV in the final critical days of the election. Congrats to soon-to-be Congressman elect Joe Sestak and the fine folks in that Pennsylvania district whose long nightmare is about to be over.

Let's wish Mr. Weldon well in his future of being on the business side of the judicial system.

Good riddence to bad rubbish.

One down, 15 more to go...GOTV, GOTV, GOTV.

Had enough?

[NNN0LHI]

1. Oh man, this thread is good news

Lou Dobbs will really miss having Kurt "The Screamer" Weldon on his show at least once a week.

Don

[KharmaTrain]

2. Add To This The Military Times Editorial On Monday

Looks like the RNC needed Weldon's money to try to say Felix Macaca. Now whose the next to get the rug yanked? Sherwood? Sweeney? Buehler?

Cheers...

:hi:

[Toots]

3. Don't count your butter before the chicken spreads

I think there was something about hatching dinosaur eggs as well :shrug:

[KharmaTrain]

4. When They're Pulling Ads And Money...

Remember, these are the George Steinbrenners of politics. They believe they can buy an election no matter how crooked the politician. They are loath to give up like this...especially on an incumbent...this close to election day. To completely pull the plus says that Weldon not only is in trouble big time in internal RNC polling, but probably that what the National Party thinks of Mr. Able Danger...sticking him high and dry in his "moment of need"

Trust me, I'm not counting anything yet...but imagine if this happened to a Democrat and what the corporate media spin would be.

Next to Rectorum, his defeat on Tuesday will be one of the early pleasures in what I hope will be a very enjoyable night following a Democratic wave from coast to coast.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Just what I was thinking. You sleeved the vest before I could.

[POAS]

7. Exactly. we have to

keep our eyes upon the donut and not upon the hole.

[1932]

6. NPR is picking up the slack:

Campaign advertising in the guise of news reporting:

Generation Next
After Fighting in Iraq, Political Activism at Home
by Judy Woodruff Neva Grant, NPR
Nick Miccarelli is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Generation Next

The 42 million 16- to 25-year-olds in the United States -- roughly 14 percent of the population -- will have a major impact on American society as they rise into adulthood. In a series of profiles on NPR's Morning Edition and PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Judy Woodruff looks at what makes Generation Next different from its predecessors.

Morning Edition, November 2, 2006 · Nick Miccarelli is a member of the National Guard and has served in Iraq. Now he's fighting on a political front at home. The 24-year-old is a College Republican and a political director for Pennsylvania Rep. Curt Weldon's bid for re-election, one of the most hotly contested races in the country.

Miccarelli says Weldon connects with people like him and his family.

"We're Catholic, blue-collar types," Miccarelli says. "We want secure jobs, and especially now, a secure country."

As part of the Generation Next series, Judy Woodruff asks Miccarelli about how he became interested in politics, and why he still supports the way the country's leaders are conducting the war in Iraq.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6419153

[Eric J in MN]

8. Did NPR do similar profile of Democratic campaign workers? NT

NT

[1932]

9. Nope. This is the third in a series.

The first one was about 6 weeks ago and it was a profile of two Muslims growing up in Chicago talking about having to assimilate (so, they were invoking Iraq by implying that this is a big issue post 9-11). Then NPR squeezed two right wingers in just before the election. Two weeks ago, they did a story about a 24-year old who designs video games (war games of course) and who says that Iraq insipired him to do the next best thing after joining the army: he now votes in every election (and the strong implication is that he's voting Republican and that it's unpatriotic to vote otherwise).

Then this story.

This series has been an advertisement for Republicans and every story has been about Iraq, while none have been critical in the least (they should talk to a 16-25 year old who had to drop out of college because of the rising cost of education and now takes care of her paralyzed Iraq War vet brother).

[w4rma]

10. Figures. Judy Woodruff is a Republican hack. (nt)

[Eric J in MN]

11. If Democrats win the House on Tuesday...

...then maybe NPR will kiss up to the Republicans less.

[1932]

12. They do this not because of who is in power but because of the nature of power

[Eric J in MN]

13. Are you agreeing with my post? NT

NT

[1932]

15. I don't think things would change at NPR if Dems win Senate, House and/or

Presidency.

When Clinton was president, NPR was a 24/7 promotional arm for stock brokers and executives with stock options and stocks they wanted to unload to an unsuspecting market place. Every story, every day was about how the market could get even higher and that there was nothing easier in the world than becoming a dot-com millionaire.

NPR spends most of its time today telling you what's for sale rather than how working people and middle class people can have more power and control over their lives. In other words, they spend most of their time greasing the skids for the flow of power to people who already have a great deal of wealth and power.

They did a story on credit ratings about a year and a half ago and the lesson was that if you have bad credit, you should buy a copy of your credit report. Guess who the only expert they interviewed was... It was the President of a company that sold credit reports.

That isn't a news story. That's and advertisement for shifting power to the powerful.

Their foreign reporting is the other side of the same coin.

I've never heard them criticize neoliberalism (if I ran NPR, Joe Stiglitz would be on all the time commenting on stuff and debating Jeff Sachs). In that vein, their coverage of Venezuela is reprehensible. They did a story on Chavez winning the recall election and they played sad, somber minor-key music after the story. During the story, they translated government officials using people with the most gruff sounding absurd, staccato, dictator-like accents imagineable, while the translation for the opposition was done by "actors" with thoughtful, academic, soft-spoken accents (and you could hear the speakers underneath the translation -- they didn't match the tone an inflection of the translators at all). That's called propaganda. And you know what kind of propaganda? Say it with me: the kind that shifts power to people who have a great deal of power already.

I don't see that changing unless there were a radical shift in their funding. No more boards populated by the executives of the corporations who donate huge sums of money to them.

[bigtree]

14. All of the special interest money he took over the years . . .

c'mon voters!