>> ^marinara:

quality
I love Robert Greenwald's stuff. Too bad he's a believer in the global warming sham science.


Thanks man!

*quality

I love Robert Greenwald's stuff. Too bad he's a believer in the global warming sham science.

@blankfist, stop flirting with Michael Moore. Stop trying to get oral sex from Obama, you know he's not into you (and you're probably just trying to set him up for impeachment anyways).

Seriously though, I think Moore's heart is in the right place, but I'm not sure it'd be such a big help to the Afghans if we left.

I'm not sure how much it helps if we stay, either.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm in favor of whatever plan results in the least amount of bloodshed over the next 10 years, and I'm not at all convinced that just leaving would be better than what we're doing.

Obama's plan is to ramp up our presence, try to make a lot of progress in a short period of time, and then say to the Afhgans that they're going to be on their own because they're the ones who'll need to fix their country.

I'm nervous about that, because it seems like that could very easily backfire, but then, so could just pulling up stakes and leaving.

Robert Greenwald's advocacy goes a long way towards convincing me that there's no hope of us being able to help, no matter what we do. Other people are more optimistic, but I definitely want to see the end of our presence in Afghanistan happen while Obama's president; though it might not be until his second term.

He said he's going to start drawing down troops in July 2011 from Afghanistan. That seems to be enough to keep Democrats from getting out the long knives at the moment, but he's got a huge political incentive to make things right with his generally anti-war base on this topic. It would be very easy for him to start sounding like Bush if he pushes back on calls for withdrawal, and from the reactions I saw to the July 2011 date, that's about as much patience as progressives are going to have for an Obama Afghanistan Surge.

For now I'm in wait-and-see mode. I hope what he does works. I hope if/when it doesn't he does what I expect him to do, and get our troops out of there.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mccain, election, 2008, clinic, women' to 'mccain, election, 2008, clinic, women, robert greenwald, brave new films' - edited by kronosposeidon

Continuation of the Robert Greenwald & Brave New Films writeup regarding the description of this series of videos:

"Since we first released "The Real McCain" a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: 'The Real McCain 2.'"

Here's another. (There's one more of the 10 in total that no one has posted, but my queue is already tapped out).

Not a dupe

Continuation of the Robert Greenwald & Brave New Films writeup regarding the description of this series of videos:

"Since we first released "The Real McCain" a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: 'The Real McCain 2.'"

Here's another. (There's one more of the 10 in total that no one has posted, but my queue is already tapped out).

Continuation of the Robert Greenwald & Brave New Films writeup regarding the description of this series of videos:

"Since we first released "The Real McCain" a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: 'The Real McCain 2.'"

Here's another. (There's one more of the 10 in total that no one has posted, but my queue is already tapped out).

Continuation of the Robert Greenwald & Brave New Films writeup regarding the description of this series of videos:

"Since we first released "The Real McCain" a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: 'The Real McCain 2.'"

Here's another. (There's one more of the 10 in total that no one has posted, but my queue is already tapped out).

Continuation of the Robert Greenwald & Brave New Films writeup regarding the description of this series of videos:

"Since we first released "The Real McCain" a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: 'The Real McCain 2.'"

Here's another. (There's one more of the 10 in total that no one has posted, but my queue is already tapped out).

Continuation of the Robert Greenwald & Brave New Films writeup regarding the description of this series of videos:

"Since we first released "The Real McCain" a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: 'The Real McCain 2.'"

Here's another. (There's one more of the 10 in total that no one has posted, but my queue is already tapped out).

Robert Greenwald's compilations would be so much more enjoyable if he didn't end EVERY SINGLE ONE with white letters on a black screen telling me to "Do Something". A bit self-righteous. Maybe if we all made media mash-ups like his, the world would be a better place.

The whole point of the campaign is to beg other networks not to follow the Fox on this.

From the link - http://foxattacks.com/iran
"Dear ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN,

"My station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at FOX News."

That is CNN's Christiane Amanpour explaining why the major television networks failed to accurately inform the public in the lead-up to the Iraq war, choosing instead to follow FOX's lead.

Now, FOX is beating the drums for war with Iran. Robert Greenwald's short film, "FOX Attacks: Iran", outlines the evidence from the station's own broadcasts, comparing their reporting before the Iraq war with what they are saying now about Iran.

You have a sacred responsibility to the American people to provide accurate and reliable information so we can best make the decisions which affect our lives. We urge you to accurately and thoroughly report all sides of this important story.

Please do not blindly follow FOX down the road to another war."

On May 10th, 2007, this video was banned in Congress Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show. Republicans insisted this not be shown. This clip is the banned video clip.

So bad, it's good. And ON-J looks better than I remember.
The director, Robert Greenwald, has recently carved a niche out for himself making left-leaning straight-to-video political documentaries.
But from the looks of this video, I'm guessing he and most of the crew were snorting a lot of coke back then.