07 September 2005
the use of the word "refugees" gets us back to the idea of politics and the english language. i don't really think that george w. bush has a problem w/ black people, but i think there's a correlation between the color and the economic class of those left behind and the use of the word "refugee." when i think of a refugee, i think of a person w/o a country or, worse still, a fugitive. for good reason, for as my dictionary defines it, a refugee is "a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster." who, really, sanctioned the usage of this word? it wasn't endemic to conservatives; it was in use throughout the whole of the press. |
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: the left: the right: *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.    |