Hi all, Happy Monday! Here’s what I’ve been reading with my coffee this AM:
Black Friday’s Retail Numbers
The big retail analysts are touting an increase of more than 9% in “Black Friday” spending/shopping. I’m all for celebrating indicators that the economy is improving, but as any retail manager worth their salt knows, if you are open an extra 8 hrs over the weekend, you’ll see an increase over LY. In my not so humble opinion, this stat should be taken with a grain of salt. #JustSayin
Where the Hell Did FAUX News Come From Anyway?
Nixon White House aide Roger Ailes in the 1970′s created fake news stories that favored President Nixon. He shipped these pre-mixed video packages to TV stations around the country at the expense of rightwing extremist Joseph Coors. It was all b.s. all the time, but the TV stations, pretending they had a correspondent in Washington, ran this propaganda as straight news. Now that Ailes runs FOX News, his goals are the same: to spread republicanism by altering the news.
FOX is a “relentless agenda-driven 24 hour news opinion propaganda delivery system” ~Jon Stewart
“They’re a Republican brand. They’re an extension of the Republican Party with some exceptions” ~Larry King
”[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.” ~Anita Dunn
Colin Powell used the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers to illustrate why the tea party is destined to lead the Republican Party to failure in 2012.
Powell Plays Tea Party Nostradamus
“Gen. Powell was speaking in realistic terms when he mentioned the bleak 2012 future for the Republican Party if they continue to follow the tea party way. The problem that all anti-incumbent movements face after victory is that they become the incumbents. The same no compromise strategy that got them elected will see them defeated for governing as they campaigned. The American people didn’t vote for no compromise. They voted for change, but it is impossible to bring about change when one party refuses to work with the other.”
Alan Moore on the popularity of the Guy Fawkes mask, and the Place for Masks in Populist Movements
“Back in the early 80s, approaching the end of Vendetta‘s epic 38-part cycle, Moore was struggling to think of another “V” word with which to title a closing chapter. He’d already used Victims, Vaudeville and Vengeance; the Villain, the Voice, the Vanishing; even Vicissitude and Verwirrung(the German word for confusion). “I was getting pretty desperate,” he says.
He eventually settled on Vox populi. “Voice of the people. And I think that if the mask stands for anything, in the current context, that is what it stands for. This is the people. That mysterious entity that is evoked so often – this is the people.”
Occupy LA gets Evicted
“Villaraigosa, a former labor organizer himself, has said he sympathizes with the movement but that he felt it was time it moved beyond holding on to “a particular patch of park.” He said public health and safety could not be sustained for a long period.”
That’s it for Monday Morning Linkage. What stories are you reading this morning?
`TheVault
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