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Don’t Let It Bring You Down, It’s Only Castle’s Burning

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Helen, Helen, Helen.
Some things are beyond inde­fen­si­ble, so thank you for not

“But I’m just a soul whose inten­tions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood”

crying on Nightline .

There are more opi­nions on this than on the war in Afgha­nis­tan, the Gulf Oil Spill, and the Immi­gra­tion situa­tion com­bi­ned. I’m kee­ping my opi­nion to myself, but I like these.

Within a few days, the media’s “Israel narra­tive” shif­ted from Israel beha­ving badly to Helen Tho­mas beha­ving badly, lea­ping the moral gulf bet­ween com­plex issues and knee-jerk ones.
John McQuaid
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Let Helen Tho­mas go; she ear­ned her unem­ploy­ment. But let’s not ignore Pat Bucha­nan, who has been able to suc­cess­fully laun­der his racism through CNN, MSNBC, and as a syn­di­ca­ted colum­nist for deca­des
Michael­Faun­troy


I pre­fer the live ver­sion and I don’t have it so here’s a video, go 55 seconds, he has equip­ment issues. You can lis­ten to the stan­dard stu­dio mp3 below if you prefer.

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