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Red Phone Ad-NOT
CORRECTION to DISPATCH: There was NO Red Phone. The phone was white; the tone calm; the message -- that having experience, knowledge, and pre-established relationships with world leaders (ie familiarity and trust) facilitates successful communication, response, and problem solving when ''something's happening in the world''. This was about ...
Posted to Dispatches by Reese on March 4, 2008
Plotz, err Blackbeard is right!
Listening to this weeks Gabfest I was particularly hit by David Plotz's observation about how America has transformed into a fearful nation. I liked his expression ''terror pornography'' because in many ways it seems that is what of the media does nowadays. As Gore noted in An Assault on Reason, and Drew Curtis noted in It's Not News, It's Fark, ...
Posted to Gabfest by Blackferne on July 20, 2007