I've written before about the use of the "Ask the White House" web page to spread admin propaganda.

My complaint then was that the Q&A was obviously contrived to get out the White House message.

New complaint: sometimes it simply ignores what appears to be a real question, and STILL contains contrived questions designed to spread the talking points.

In Bush's America, bad news and PR campaigns go together like Ohio and corruption, or Florida and vote suppression--you can't have one without the other.

So, of course, the news that Bush's poll ratings have hit a new low in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll is datelined the same day that the Washington Post reports that federal agencies (all cabinet level and subcabinet groups) are being told to work the good news about Iraq into all speeches, no matter what the hell the actual subject is.

Ahh, perspective.  Great thing to have, horrible thing to warp.  And the religious right is indeed in full warp.  Forget the rights of gays, what about their right to not be gay?  And so it goes.

Say, didn't there used to be a wall there?  Right there, between that federal building and those churches?  Huh?

As if you needed any more parallels to Russia or Nazi Germany.  But life provides whatever you don't need, so:

Remember "The Truth Project," the group of religious war protesters whose meetings were at Lake Worth, Florida's Quaker Meeting House, yet who ended up on the Pentagon's "watch list?"  Guess how the Pentagon now claims they got there?

I am in tears, folks. I haven't laughed this hard since reading Lee's "Outer Limits" piece, The Edge Of Blight....

Uh-oh. Not good. Seems someone got hold of an old 1995 memo sent around by Chevron....

Another episode of America's very own Dope Opera, "The Edge of Blight"

We begin today's episode as the president announces the resignation of a CIA chief he appointed not that long ago.  As he speaks, the president looks sideways, at the departing chief.  What is that in his eyes before he quickly lowers and turns his gaze?  Disgust?  Envy? Sorrow?

Fade to Black

When AARP supported the patchy and strange Medicare prescription drug plan ("Part D"), several critics said it was because AARP was in the insurance business.  AARP denied it.

Now we get new info that the AARP-affiliated health plan, UnitedHealth Group, is the biggest enroller of seniors under the new plan.  So you decide.  AARP: commercial shill or protector of its aging membership?

My wife got this in an e-mail, with no indication of who the author is. Just thought I'd share it.

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