Citizen Ray

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert share top honors as having the most knowledgable audiences of any U.S. media. Fox News viewers rank among the least informed.

Editor and Publish has the story in brief.

Pew Trust's surprising survey results.

CAPITOL CRIME CONTINUES UNABATED, the media sees no evil. The people see no good in caring about anything more intellectual than a good tapioca pudding recipe. The criminals see no point in morality, except to point it out to the fools who still trust in government and religion instead of self-reliance and educating themselves as an aggessive citizenry opposed to all enemies, foreign and domestic.

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ON THE MEDIA:

"Although tyranny, because it needs no consent may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people." -- Hannah Arendt

The first institution criminals like the Bush & Cheney Crime Families sought to destroy was the corporate media. No greater stinking heap of excrement can be imagined. The Mighty Wurlitzer has the sheeple dreaming of American Idols. How precious. HOW DANGEROUS, for our precious democracy that it is in the hands of criminal elites and craven, clueless tapioca consumers.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, sororité!

You go, gurrl!

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Update 1: Rick MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Monthly happens to be one of my heroes. Here he describes his vote in the French elections

The existing oil reserves in all national territory…belong to the republic and are goods of the public domain. Venezuela is exercising its right to administer its natural resources for the benefit of the people.

Viva La Revolución Bolivariana!

Update below.

Scurrilous sex. Salacious, scintillating succubae. Solicitation and surrender. This story has everything so far, except the White House Wiener Schnitzel in this recipe for disaster dining.

Let's do a reality check on Calvinism, shall we? Did Calvinists bring down John Profumo for sleeping with a more attractive woman than Calvinists could attract to their own bed? Yes.

Did Calvinists attack Bill Clinton's purported political biases toward caring for people on the basis of sex? Yes.

Will Calvinists who are getting f*cking rich from the subsidies, largess and outright nepotism that George Bush is bequeathing upon them go on to attack the hand of the master-baiter who feeds them our money? Hell, no. George is our Sacred Cow. He can't be bullied. At least not by the Holier-Than-Thou-Hordes who are sucking at the Golden Teat.

OK, so what is this rant all about? Well, only the most profound sex scandal in four decades in the Anglo-American world. (As if there were any other world).

In your wildest dreams, could you write this script?

I couldn't. No one would believe me. A madam named Palfrey? Too rich. And she's about to sell her client list? What? Is she some sort of a pimpette? Holy Cow.

Looks like Global Warming is finally coming to Washington-On-The-Potomac....

Not a minute too soon. Smell the Cherie Blossoms boys...

Some of us hope that the wicked city in the Feral District never rests on an even Keeler again.

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UPDATE 1: Defendant Palfrey today (May 1) provided ABC News with a list of 15,000 clients of her escort service. Including several high ranking military officers and Bush Administration officials.

Naomi Klein does a nice job of vivisecting Paul 'Comb Spit' Wolfowitz and his institutional fraud, the World Bank.

Garrison Keillor having a little fun at Shrub's expense.

A hero of mine, Saul Alinsky wrote that one cannot really be fully alive unless one is willing to contemplate his own death for his cause.

Perhaps a tad less dramatically, Rosie O'Donnell, celebrity host of ABC's gabfest "The View" seems to have transcended much of the fear that grips craven corporate media creeps from coast to coast.

Rosie has really come out swinging for "9/11 Truth". Here's her blog on the topic .

It appears that yapping hyenas Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, absolute ringers for government pysops agents in their roles at Faux News, seem to have managed to end Rosie's reign of righteousness at The View. I'm curious what the next moves will be....

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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