I am tired. I will be so glad when the daily gina & krista round-robin is over and it goes back to just Friday. It's fun to read but it's been a lot of work -- a lot -- for everyone to pull together and turn out these daily newsletters.
I'm tired and talked out from the roundtable we just completed. So I'm just going to note a video I think is really important.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Tuesday:
Tuesday, January 19, 2021. We take a look at the stupidity.
Picking up from yesterday, press whores and fan bois never learn. Chris Willman of VARIETY. I was nice yesterday, I didn't single out any of the whores by name. But Chris learned enough to grasp that he couldn't blindly praise Phil Spector, the convicted murderer. So, instead, he offers an embarrassing column that questions his sanity. That would include the praise he heaps on the late Jack Nitzsche -- a roll dog of Phil's who did a lot of the arrangements for Phil. You know what else he did? He beat Carrie Snodgrass with a pistol, threatened to kill her and her son and then he raped her. Little man, if you're looking for a hero, it's not going to be Jack Nitzsche.
It's a sad time for little men with tiny penises and a desire to terrorize women. Back in 1973, the landscape was so different, wasn't it? Back then, the hideous Chris Hodenfield, writing about the stars of a TV variety show, could work in this little 'gem' in an article for ROLLING STONE, "Many of my friends favor the belief that after work, Sonny beats the s[**]t out of her with a tire iron." "Her" is Cher. Oh for the days when the fan boyz could be as misogynistic as they wanted. These days, these same boyz have to pretend it's something other than hatred of women that keeps so many women from being inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Shirley said an e-mail -- a lengthy one -- came in stating that David Geffen getting hit by Phil Spector was fine because David "didn't know anything about music until the eighties so in the seventies he was just an idiot and Phil Spector knew what sold."
Phil Spector knew what sold in the sixties. In 1974, Phil didn't know what sold. In 1974, David headed ELEKTRA/ASYLUM. David started ASYLUM and then it was merged with ELEKTRA and David was over both. In 1974, David's label saw the release of many hit albums including Carly Simon's "Hotcakes" (featuring the hits "Haven't Got Time For The Pain" and "Mockingbird"), Joni Mitchell's COURT AND SPARK, the Eagles' ON THE BORDER, Jackson Browne's LATE FOR THE SKY and Bob Dylan's PLANET WAVES.
David knew music.
Does anybody know Iraq? I think often that it's a bad thing that Iraq gets so little attention from US media. Then I catch the nonsense JACOBIN served up 'on' Iraq.
Felix Biederman 'protested' online. Does he "shampoo" online as well? That would explain the hair. "Protesting" online is nothing to brag about. He never went to a protest. So why is he on the show?
I saw the video -- didn't stream it -- last night. I think JACOBIN has serious issues with Ana and that they need to drop her. So I've been avoiding noting JACOBIN. But I slept on it and thought, "It's Iraq. We should note it." And then I streamed it.
What a stupid and wasteful discussion. Everyone knew, the unwashed Felix says, that the war was going to last forever. Oh hell, no, you little piece of crap. I stated at THIRD years before 2008 that the site (THIRD) would end in 2008 and that the Iraq War would still be going on. Jim will tell you he thought I was wrong about the war still going on. We were going to elect Democrats to both houses of Congress and they were going to end the war!!! Readers of THIRD also rejected my assertion. It's not fun being a Cassandra and Felix is an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about. (I've never encountered the bathing-challenged Felix before this video.)
So it's nearly 18 years after the start of the Iraq War and apparently we still can't acknowledge the Iraqi people -- we can't acknowledge how they've suffered or how they continue to suffer.
Let me be clear to the two dumb women hosting -- your giggles in the face of the Iraqi dead and the birth defects, in the face of a land of widows and orphans? It's embarrassing and it's shameful. The lives of the Iraqi people are not a joke. How disgusting that they thought they could treat the subject like that. It's a lot like Bully Boy Bush with his jokes "Those weapons of mass destruction have to be around here somewhere."
It wasn't funny when War Criminal Bully Boy Bush tried to turn the Iraq War into a joke and it's not funny when Felix tries it.
Heaven forbid that we have a mature and real discussion about Iraq, heaven forbid that we talk about the realities that the Iraqi people continue to deal with as a result of the US-led Iraq War that destroyed their lives and their country.
Felix is an idiot wanting to tell jokes. But you're the hosts. Try to maintain some dignity. This isn't a joke topic.
And it's very telling how quickly the thread of Iraq is lost so that they can focus on how Donald Trump said mean words about John McCain.
I'm really damn tired of this nonsense. It's shameful.
And I don't know why, in 2021, JACOBIN is letting a guest call people "pu**ies" and do so as an insult? That's what we're doing now in 2021 -- from 'woke' JACOBIN?
I'm sick of the sexism and I'm sick of the stupidity.
And two female hosts going "Yeah, yeah" over and over to everything a sexist and uninformed man says is really sad as well.
Today? Joseph Haboush (AL ARABIYA) reports:
Multiple explosions were heard south of Iraq's capital overnight Monday in what reports suggest may have been US or Israeli airstrikes on Iran-backed militias.
AAJ TV states 9 people were killed in the explosions with "dozens more elected." The US Embassy in Baghdad Tweeted the following:
The following sites updated:
