Quote Of The Week

K-Drum on the Right Wing Noise Machine efforts to kill banking reform:

And that, boys and girls, is how the game is played.  Just portray a bill meant to rein in banks as a bill meant to bail out banks and see if the noise machine plays along. If it doesn't, try something else. Maybe suggest that instead of protecting consumers, it will remove consumer protections. Or that instead of regulating derivatives, it will set them free. Simple. Why bother making up complicated lies when simple ones will do just fine?

Agreed.  The best lies are the boldest and the simplest.  There's a reason why Bush's Orwellian double-speak was so successful.  War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Reforms are bailouts.

When the corporate owned media is complicit in the crime, who is left to even know a crime is committed?