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June 9, 2012 Leave a comment
I missed this when it was released last month. It’s a short film by Mike Birbiglia, spinning off of his appearance on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where he promoted his book Sleepwalk With Me. It starts off simply whimsical, then there’s a moment where I actually laughed out loud. See if you can spot the subtle shift. Perhaps for Fresh Air fans only.
June 9, 2012 6 Comments
Reason #253 why MSNBC is not a left-leaning partisan alternative to the far-right political activism of Fox Republican News, is that MSNBC allows the establishment conservative Joe Scarborough to host more hours on their network than anyone else. Could you imagine Fox allowing an establishment liberal like Chris Matthews to host their morning show?
It’s part of a fairly common media double standard against progressives, one which Scarborough embraces wholeheartedly when he attacks The New York Times for reporting on Mitt Romney’s opulent homes, in their “Home” section. The Daily Show played clips of an outraged Scarborough wanting to know when the Times had ever applied the same standard to John Kerry.
SCARBOROUGH: Did the New York Times ever dispatch reporters to John Kerry’s homes — because John Kerry’s worth a lot more money, obviously, than Mitt Romney…
