Just something to, you know, think about. Or dismiss if you’re so inclined. Which some of you are. In which case, feel free to join this group of viewers:
Fox News, long a preferred source of news for the right, has lately become an information refuge for some American Jews who believe that the mainstream media has been too hostile to Israel.
But more than any of the other major cable news channels — and perhaps more than any other major American media outlet — Fox News has wrapped itself in the Israeli flag in the weeks since the Hamas attack. Its coverage tends to emphasize the radical and antisemitic elements of the pro-Palestinian opposition, particularly on college campuses, while playing down the civilian casualties from Israeli strikes.
In case you didn’t know, ‘information refuge’ means refuge from information. AKA propaganda.
Philly’s Hack Political Boss Hates Himself Some Progressives. Threatens to fire ward leaders if they support WFP candidates over Rethugs in Council elections. Why? The words ‘graft’ and ‘corruption’ come to mind:
Call it Bob Brady’s final admonishment in the struggle between Philadelphia’s Democratic Party and the progressive Working Families Party, ahead of Tuesday’s election for City Council at-large seats.
Brady, chair of the Democratic City Committee, emailed ward leaders last week, warning that the 100 committee members who had just signed on to a letter proclaiming support for City Councilmember Kendra Brooks and her WFP running mate, Nicolas O’Rourke, would be expelled from their positions unless they recanted before the election.
The WFP argues that it is only trying to win seats that might go to Republicans and that the five Democratic candidates for at-large seats are mathematically assured victory next week, even if voters drop two of them to back WFP candidates.
The WFP touted the signatures of 100 Democratic committee people from 17 wards as a sign of growing political strength. For context, there are about 3,400 Democratic committee people in the city’s 69 Wards.
Brady said nearly half of the signers for the WFP letter have since contacted the party to recant. Eric Rosso, a spokesperson for Brooks and O’Rourke, accused Brady of lying about that.
“To hell with him,” Brady responded.
Bosses of his, wait for it, ilk, are endangered for a reason. WFP is a big part of that reason.
Yes, we’ve featured a lot of music on the blog this week. Since there is no such thing as an inordinate amount of music (unless it’s Question Mark & The Mysterians doing ‘Sally Go Round The Roses), I had to share this NYTimes piece on ‘5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Thelonious Monk’. It’s not five minutes if you listen to the musical choices, which are mind-blowing. He’s on my Musical Mt. Rushmore for a reason. Whenever I listen to him, I try to wrap my head around how any mere human could come up with this stuff. I like Mary Halvorson’s quote:
