Today on The Lionel Show - Monday Septmeber 8th.
If you’re a devoted follower
of this blog, you need to go here.
I kid of course.
If you read my blog regularly,
you know that I struggle daily with the concept of a “liberal media elite”. I struggle
with it not because of a priori conclusions or brainless deference to Leftism,
but rather because I genuinely don’t see the evidence for it. If you’re talking
about blogs, then sure, I can see that there are some far-Left loonies writing
poorly thought-out, conspiracy-laden pieces of sensationalism designed to
undermine any and all conservative agendas. But these blogs surely have their
counterparts on the right; the internet is rife with racist screeds,
“Obama-is-a-Muslim” articles, and the like. In short, everybody’s crazy except
you and me, and you can go sit on an air hose for all I care.
When it comes to the
Mainstream Media, however, I do not see a liberal bias. In fact, 9 times out of
10, I get a decidedly conservative vibe from cable news and the network
heavyweights. Those on the right could not disagree more, or more loudly. When they tune in to CNN or ABC, they see a cardboard
cutout of Karl Marx reading the news, wearing an Obama ’08 pin on his breast.
How can I see one thing while
my friends on the right see the exact opposite? I’m no nut, nor am I a
cheerleader for The Left, so I feel reasonably secure in my abilities to
perceive bias in the way news is covered in this country. Yet there are people
on the right who think I’m absolutely nuts
for not seeing a liberal bias every time I turn on the TV (or, in my Luddite
existence, the radio).
As I usually do when I feel
that I’ve lost my spiritual compass, as I must do when I feel aimless and
without a guiding light, I turn the The Voice of the People in the Daily News. Here
in these brief pieces of correspondence from shut-ins and inarticulate ravers
all over NY, one can often locate the confusing, contradictory pulse of a
nation still struggling to define itself. To whit:
Voice of the People for September 8th, 2008
Over Here
FROM: Adam Marigliano, Bayside
The Daily News’
anti-Democratic bias is suffocating.
Over There
FROM: Edward Klenovich
Your left-leaning rag is a
joke.
There you have it, folks:
different strokes for different folks. You say potato, I say smear tactics. Would
that we could call the whole thing off.
BEHOLD: THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF LIONEL’S
HARD-HITTING, INCISIVE PHOTO-JOURNALISM ESSAY FROM THE RNC.
Who says Lionel’s not a
sensitive, cerebral guy? Below please find the first installment of his
achingly beautiful photos from his trip to
Lionel’s photos will be on
display at the Cincinnati Bow-Tie Gallery in
Two photographs appear below,
taken on the site of a recent political sex scandal. If you can identify it,
you win a free night on the town with Doobie (your treat!).
Never Accept Chocolate From A Proctologist
It really is amazing how differently news can be interpreted from one person to another. But it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise because most people just watch or listen to a particular station only to reinforce their preconceived notions. Lionel is one of the few people on the radio who actually looks at each issue critically and applies logic, rather than emotion or a party’s position, to a topic.
Keep up the good work, Lionel!
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By saspoorSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:05amOK- 1) I am exhausted with
OK-
1) I am exhausted with Mika's INSANE hyperdefensiveness of Palin "on behalf of all women". She even went so far as to claim this morning that it was above Chuck Todd's "paygrade" to discuss working mothers. This Palin thing truly has become a cult of personality- disregarding any shread or shadow of policy.
2)- where's the chat room? Am I just blind, or is there no longer a link?
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By caspere1September 8, 2008 - 8:23amRe: the Chat Room
Hey Caspere,
For some reason, AAR has disabled the chat room. A few of us have moved over to an alternate chat service. Join us at
http://www.wikkedwire.com/javachat.html
Channel #AirAmericaRadio
Hope to see you there.
~ZapfChance
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By zapfchanceSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:41amWhat if this is the real reason.........................
Currently Bush is the president on paper, but Cheney makes the decisions. What if Sarah Palin makes the decisons and John McCain is the president on paper only?
This makes sense!
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By jointfitter1969September 8, 2008 - 8:27amBooks You Shouldn't Read in Alaska
The following is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla. I am not sure that Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Maya Angelou and Geofrey Chaucer would be considered dangerous to children. Judy Blume give me a break. Harry Potter, who is kidding who. I also fail to see why Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff should be banned.
This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.
When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
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By jakepirateSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:36amNice, if it were true
As much as I would LOVE for this to be true- and I would LOVE even HALF of it to be true- It just isn't.
The list of books has never been released, at the request of the parties involved, both the librarian and Sarah Palin. All claims to the contrary have not been proven to be true. I received the same list (give or take a few titles) from a mass emailing this past weekend. It is just made up. Some of the books (the Harry Potters) weren't even published at the time of this attempted censorship (1996).
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By caspere1September 8, 2008 - 8:44amThe Chat Room
Caspere, Vienna, Celene, Shameful, MikeEmm, Derm, and all you other wonderful chatters:
The Chat room is still AWOL. Come join us at
http://www.wikkedwire.com/javachat.html
Channel #AirAmericaRadio
Hope to see you there.
~Zapf
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By zapfchanceSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:47amWhere is Lionel's book signing Tomorrow?
I want to stop by but need the address.
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By EnemaSeptember 8, 2008 - 10:08amCommentary has become confused with journalism
We keep hearing that we are in an information economy. This couldn't b farther from the truth. We are flooded with information that has no value. What we have is an attention economy. There is rabid competition for people's eyeballs.
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By wsessumsSeptember 8, 2008 - 10:19amTHAT'S IT MORE TOMORROW!
THE MONKEY'S DEAD THE SHOWS OVER SUE YA!
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By jointfitter1969September 8, 2008 - 11:00amHow is it that the media
How is it that the media keeps repeating the story of McCain having to "carry his bags" and "fly coach" when his campaign hit snags last summer..
when he of course is too rich to fly coach...
and why does every commentator repeat that Sarah Palin was/is the most popular governor...
when nobody knew who she was ????
These little stories & details sound great...but come on....
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By Boris31September 8, 2008 - 11:10amDear ENEMA....
the book signing is in Washington, DC. Where's the NYC signing? I want to meet Lionel.
Anyway...Lionel said TROVER SHOP. I googled it for you...
TROVER SHOP
221 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE on Capital Hill
202.547.2665
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By LionelfanSeptember 8, 2008 - 11:12amjust a distraction.
Sarah Palin is just a distraction.
McCain would make a lousy president and they with the help of the media are trying to make us forget that with the repetitive chant of...
SARAH PALIN ! - SARAH PALIN ! - SARAH PALIN !
etc.
http://raw.dailyskew.com/blog.html
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By R-A-WSeptember 8, 2008 - 1:12pmdefending against Palin
Lionel,
I was listening to your show today. I am new here so I don't know how this works - I don't know if you respond to bloggers. You raised the question, how does the opposition defend against Palin? It is my opinion that Democrats try too hard to base their arguments on facts. While this is a noble way to go it can be a losing proposition. First what is wrong with replaying the attack adds used on McCain in 2000. Hard for conservatives to say that is unfair as it is what got George Bush into the White House.
Specifically about Palin, I would replay some of her quips at the convention and then morph her into Bugs Bunny or some other cartoon character. Ask the people if they want a cartoon for VP. Once people see how void of ideas Sarah is they will have a tough time voting for McCain. If you want to win, you must not be afraid of the nastiness of politics. The Republicans get it and the Democrats many times do not.
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By camccSeptember 8, 2008 - 6:39pmCamcc
Couldn't agree with you more.
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By LionelfanSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:19pmTwo Down... The Rest Of The Media To Go...
I notice Lionel hasn't said anything about his personal Budha, that loon, Keith Oberman and that other nut, Chris "Warm Shiver Up My Leg" Matthews have been removed by MSNBC from any further election coverage!
The equalizing has begun.
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By BrentCraigSeptember 8, 2008 - 8:20pm