BINSK.ORG Calls Bullshit On Dan Froomkin

Dan Froomkin - 2006 Nov 30:

What is it about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that makes them so refreshing and attractive to a wide variety of viewers (including those so-important younger ones)? I would argue that, more than anything else, it is that they enthusiastically call bullshit.

Binsk - 2004 September 29:

You know why Jon Stewart commands a well-educated audience?

You know why Jon Stewart is arguably the most respected television personality involved in this election?

You know why THE DAILY SHOW is actually “Fair and Balanced”?

Because Jon Stewart calls bullshit on people.

They make shit up, and he says, “I call bullshit on that.”

It’s that simple.

Of course we kid. BINSK.ORG loves Dan Froomkin.

Even more if he’d get a damned haircut.

A Little Perspective On Iran

The always sensible Matthew Yglesias:

The Iran debate has really become rather surreal. You have the “Islamofascist” locution jumping from the fever swamps of rightwing punditry into the mouth of the President of the United States. You have the Secretary of Defense issuing dire warnings of another Munich. These things are being done by the exact same people who, four years ago, were utterly dismissive of claims that invading Iraq was likely to serve Iranian interests better than American ones. Indeed, you have the exact same people who two years ago were assuring us that it made sense to commit American blood and treasure to fight Sunni insurgents on behalf of Iranian-backed Shiite militias now saying we need to commit more blood and treasure in Iraq to stop… Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

You have Richard Cohen, who backed the Iraq War and came to regret it, turning around and saying it’s time to party like it’s 1938. Meanwhile, this entire view of the world has, as best I can tell, no relationship whatsoever to reality.

The entire piece is worth reading.

Ah, drugging your wife. I've been there. Careful though, it's a slippery slope. One day it's caffeine, the next you're rooting around the nightstand at two in the morning trying to find an adrenalin shot to counteract a valium overdose.