Palast on The Majority Report

[AG78]

coming up next. At least I think he is. I was just walking in the room as they were going to a break, and believe I heard Palast's name mentioned.

[kaitykaity]

1. I hope he talks about his Reagan obit.

It was GREAT!!!

[frank frankly]

2. on...NOW

give them hell, GREG!!!

[Mika]

3. Palast up next (9:20 pm est)

n/t

[Political_Junkie]

4. Keep us updated please?

eom

[Mika]

5. You can listen online here

http://www.airamericaradio.com/pub/globalDefault.htm

[Political_Junkie]

7. Thanks

[eleny]

6. Right after the break

Oh, what a treeat this is gonna be!

[NightTrain]

8. I wish Garofalo would learn how to pronounce "Palast."

The accent is on the FIRST syllable, not the second! :grr:

[kaitykaity]

9. He says he's in an "undisclosed location"

because all the FReepNuts are pissed about it.

And he's been unGoogled.

[Mika]

10. He says Google stripped his Reagan obit from their search -not true

He says that he's been degoogled


NOT true,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Killer+coward+con+man&btnG=Google+Search


KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN
GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER ...
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
http://www.gregpalast.com/

[ConsAreLiars]

13. it appears to be stripped from the NEWS search

However the seach for "palast" does bring up the article under that title and others, so the search for "KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN" is in fact being blocked. The data is there, but that search fails.

[Mika]

15. The search in post #10 is just that - Killer coward con man

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Killer+coward+con+man&btnG=Google+Search

Greg Palast's site is #6 on the list.

He say's he's been degoogled and claimed it as some sort of honor, but I went to google and punched it into google and its there.
:shrug:

[ConsAreLiars]

17. Right - But that works only within the general "web" search

Doing the same search from the "News" search page gives nothing, even though the article is on several of the news sites included in the google news database.

Edit to add: Greg Palast's site does not appear at all when "palast" is searched within the "news" interface. I don't know if his site and articles were previously linked there, but his site is definitely omitted from the search on his name, and the search using the article title yields zip even though it can be found (on other sites) by more a circuitous search.

[Bozita]

11. link to the Palast article --- it's really something

http://www.gregpalast.com/

[DaveSZ]

12. Maybe he's a fraud

On another note, Jeanine's use of the word "cracker" will probably turn off some listeners.

[LittleApple81]

14. I didn't even know what the word meant so I went and checked:

a poor white person in the southern United States
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn


Originally the white slave driver because he would "crack" the whip, hence the noun cracker.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cracker


Besides being somebody that breaks into computer systems illegally. But I guess this would not be an insulting term.

I can see why people would feel offended by the term.

[LizW]

16. The things you learn on DU

I never knew about the origin of the word "cracker". I always knew that, for reasons unknown (to me, anyway) it was considered more insulting and offensive than "redneck". Now I understand.

[maggrwaggr]

20. a more specific link, takes you to the whole thing

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=336&row=0

[maggrwaggr]

21. and if you haven't read it, you gotta!!

It's awesome

[LittleApple81]

18. He said the Reagan created "the old version" of Gore? What was

that all about?

[DaveSZ]

19. He's right about that

Gore used to be very conservative and represented the RW of the Democratic Party - before he found his soul.

I thought it was interesting when Greg talked about how GE propped up Reagan as a front man for the big corporations.

If you turn on NBC, CNBC, or MSNBC, all you see is a gushing Reagan lovefest.

I also remember reading an article about how Karl Rove had made a deal with GE to prop up * and perpetuate the myths that Gore was a liar.