The Obama Flag Fiasco: Let’s All Miss the Point Together (0)
3/15/12 •
For the past two days, the front page of the Leesburg Daily Commercial has reported – with conspicuous glee – the embarrassing removal of an Obama-themed U.S. flag from the property of the Lake County Democratic Party in Tavares. County chairwoman Nancy Hurlbert, confronted by angry veterans who seemed ready to take matters into their [...]
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Tax Fairness: Parsing the Propaganda of Plutocracy (0)
3/03/12 •
As an exercise in media criticism, this website owes a debt of gratitude to the Leesburg Daily Commercial for continuing to publish the plutocratic propaganda of Russ Sloan, whose Sunday soapbox, The Bottom Line, provides a rich vein of cliches, distortions, loaded language, and various other manipulative techniques all cleverly designed to lead gullible readers [...]
Divide et Impera: The Malicious Folly of Welfare Drug Testing (0)
2/25/12 •
Today’s Leesburg Daily Commercial included an Associated Press article on the growing movement around the country – in Republican-dominated states, of course – calling for recipients of welfare benefits to undergo drug testing as a condition of eligibility. This is a trend, we are told, of which Mitt Romney – the man who would be [...]
Fool Me Twice: The Iranian Crisis and the Evil of Popular Passivity (0)
2/22/12 •
Coverage of the mounting tension with Iran, in the Leesburg Daily Commercial as elsewhere in the mainstream media, continues to portray Iran as bellicose, irrational, and threatening. The United States, we are told, stands ready to protect the world – and its vulnerable ally, Israel – against Iran’s nuclear ambitions. One might have hoped that, [...]
Obama Delivers for His Base: The Bank Settlement, Poison Pills, and American Corporatism (0)
2/14/12 •
While the Leesburg Daily Commercial gave yet more column inches to right-wing firebrands assailing “Obamacare” for requiring churches to make contraceptives available to their employees, the United States took a further, massive step toward the entrenchment of corporate power at the expense of the citizenry. The multi-state bank settlement announced last week represented the latest [...]
Faith, Fantasy, and Fallacy: Russ Sloan’s Triad of Ignorance (0)
2/01/12 •
This website has often asked why the Leesburg Daily Commercial continues to provide Russ Sloan with a forum for his plutocratic propaganda. Sunday’s edition provided a partial explanation: there’s a market for this kind of dross. The Letter of the Week, which might merit dissection in Republic of Jitters were it not so banal, is [...]
The Leesburg Daily Commercial Insults Martin Luther King (0)
1/16/12 •
On Monday, January, 16th, the Leesburg Daily Commercial sunk to an all-time low. As the rest of the nation celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, the Daily Commercial insulted his memory by printing the hysterical delusions of Star Parker, whose extreme right-wing propaganda is diametrically opposed to the views espoused by [...]
Russ Sloan Misses the Ball Completely and Falls Flat on His Backside (0)
1/15/12 •
The weekend editions of the Leesburg Daily Commercial offered far more topics for discussion than time permits. Saturday’s reports of the intensifying risk of conflict with Iran – the probable next target for our bloodthirsty military empire – were followed by a news item today featuring Rick Santorum’s opinion that the United States should not [...]
Defending the Indefensible: Russ Sloan Makes Excuses for Wall Street (0)
1/08/12 •
After several weeks of playing Mr. Nice Guy with innocuous, grade-school level essays that were a complete waste of print, and then one week off (yay!), Russ Sloan returned to the Money section of the Leesburg Daily Commercial today with one of the worst contributions to public discourse that one could possibly imagine. As with [...]
We The Corporations: The Terrifying Alternate Universe of Jay Ambrose (0)
1/07/12 •
On Wednesday, January 4th, the Leesburg Daily Commercial exposed its readers to the toxic corporate propaganda of Jay Ambrose, providing a frighteningly clear insight into the agenda and priorities of the right. This was the kind of opinion piece that inspired the creation of this website – a truly shocking case of special pleading for [...]
Newt Gingrich and the Judiciary: Blowing the Fuses of Conventional Minds (0)
12/27/11 •
Dan K. Thomasson’s syndicated columns in the Leesburg Daily Commercial often come across as a welcome voice of reason in comparison to the shrill certitude of the right-wing propagandists to whom we are so frequently subjected. But this rather extreme contrast tends to mask the fact that Thomasson epitomizes exceedingly conventional wisdom, single-handedly reminding us [...]
Clueless: Star Parker Sells Republican “Freedom” to Black America (0)
12/24/11 •
Thankfully, the Leesburg Daily Commercial hasn’t subjected us to too much of Star Parker’s ethnic treachery lately. Of course, with its staunch commitment to intellectual diversity, the paper was bound to expose us to her delusions eventually – all in the interests of balance, you understand. Today’s offering from one of the G.O.P.’s favorite black [...]
We’re All Supply-Siders Now: An American Odyssey (0)
12/21/11 •
Reporting on the payroll-tax debate, in the Leesburg Daily Commercial as elsewhere, has focused on the intramural incompetence and barefaced hypocrisy of the Republican Party, particularly in the House. The Republicans’ sudden embrace of a tax cut they never liked – because it helps the wrong people – has been quite entertaining for those of [...]
Phony Populism and Bad Economics: The Daily Commercial Opposes Five-Cent Gas Tax for Lake County (0)
12/21/11 •
Displaying its typical courage and wisdom, the Leesburg Daily Commercial used its in-house editorial today to urge Lake County commissioners not to impose an additional five-cent gasoline tax on the motoring public. The Commission, quite rightly, is trying to figure out how to pay for necessary road repairs and improvements in this era of weak [...]
Mission Accomplished: American Hubris and the Iraqi Tragedy (0)
12/17/11 •
The Leesburg Daily Commercial recorded America’s official withdrawal from Iraq with two pieces from the Associated Press (AP) and an opinion piece by Dale McFeatters. The surprisingly salient feature of the coverage was its recognition of the magnitude of the suffering inflicted upon the Iraqi people by the eight-year, American-initiated conflict. Finally, after years of [...]
The Daily Commercial is Still Wrong on Anti-Tethering Ordinance (1)
12/10/11 •
The Leesburg Daily Commercial continues to oppose an anti-tethering ordinance for Lake County that could protect household pets from the cruelty and ignorance of their owners. And the editors of the newspaper continue to insult their readers by dissembling about the real reason for their opposition to the ordinance. Ignoring compelling and heartbreaking evidence that [...]
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- Cal Thomas Flip-Flops in His Desperation to Eliminate Mitt Romney
- Russ Sloan Enlists Thomas Jefferson in His War Against Social Security
- Larry Metz’s Crusade Against Medical Care for the Poor
- Cal Thomas Showcases the Cynical Hypocrisy of the Right on Immigration
- Star Parker and the Dangerous Myth of American Exceptionalism
- The Gun Nuts Fire Off More Blank Shells
- Cal Thomas on Thankfulness and the Occupy Movement: The Right’s Shameless Lies Continue
- The Meaning of Thanksgiving – A Response to the Editorial of 11/23
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The Obama Flag Fiasco: Let’s All Miss the Point Together1/16/12 •
The Leesburg Daily Commercial Insults Martin Luther King12/21/11 •
Phony Populism and Bad Economics: The Daily Commercial Opposes Five-Cent Gas Tax for Lake County12/10/11 •
The Daily Commercial is Still Wrong on Anti-Tethering Ordinance11/24/11 •
The Meaning of Thanksgiving – A Response to the Editorial of 11/23
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Tax Fairness: Parsing the Propaganda of Plutocracy2/01/12 •
Faith, Fantasy, and Fallacy: Russ Sloan’s Triad of Ignorance1/15/12 •
Russ Sloan Misses the Ball Completely and Falls Flat on His Backside1/08/12 •
Defending the Indefensible: Russ Sloan Makes Excuses for Wall Street12/04/11 •
Russ Sloan Enlists Thomas Jefferson in His War Against Social Security
