break ... iv. to make a way through, or lay open by breaking; to penetrate; to open up. 16. b. to solve (a code or cipher); to decipher.

08 September 2005
the opinion i've come to regarding federal response is this: bush can say one of two things. he can either say, "hey, we dropped the ball on this one, mistakes were made" (which he kind of has said by saying "we think the response is unacceptable." gah?) or, more frighteningly, he can say, we haven't learned the lessons of 9/11, that if terrorists had blown up the levees, this is the best we could have done.

somehow, though, the administration has found a third way, embodied by bush's "unacceptable" comment. one really wishes someone would have asked him what the hell he meant by that, and who "we" is (the royal "we"? the shadow government?) but would the nobility have deigned to answer?

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all text, unless otherwise noted, (c) 2005 fred solinger. please do not use without permission.

my name is fred solinger. on wednesday, september 7, i will provide running commentary on seventeen straight hours of running commentary, opinion, and straight news from a variety of radio stations and television networks. my objective is to be objective ... beyond that, i'm not quite sure, but hopefully it'll be more lucid at 4am, when all of this is over. one thing is for sure: i won't be lucid at that hour.

links to the monitored programs, arranged ideologically*, in alphabetical order, lest i be charged w/ bias:

the fair & balanced:
all things considered
countdown w/ keith olbermann
the daily show w/ jon stewart
dayside w/ linda vester
factcheck.org
hannity & colmes
hardball w/ chris matthews
the newshour w/ jim lehrer
nightline w/ ted koppel
the o'reilly factor

the left:
the al franken show
the majority report w/ sam seder & janeane garofalo
media matters
the randi rhodes show
springer on the radio

the right:
media research center
the rush limbaugh show
the savage nation w/ michael savage
scarborough country w/ joe scarborough
the sean hannity show
the situation w/ tucker carlson

*that is, when the host has an avowed political position; otherwise, they are assumed to be independent. this is as applicable to bill o'reilly, who leans right, as it is to jon stewart, who leans left.





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