inkbluesky

 a satellite photo of southern california wildfires. when you can see smoke from that far away with plumes that large you have some real problems. i don’t know what cnn’s talking head glen beck’s salary is, but with searing insight into natural catastrophes like this he earns every penny, some rightwing gibberish

I love America. We all love America. We just disagree on how we should function, what we should do, big government, small government. It doesn’t mean you hate America. I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. (emphasis mine)

One killed, homes damaged as wildfires rage in Southern Calif. digby is being kind when she says gibberish. beck’s weird rantings are something you might expect to here from an inmate at a home for the criminally insane. yet he is not in a padded room on lithium he is on a cable news program a couple hours a day. and its not an issue of free speech. he is free of course to say what he pleases. the issue is that what pleases g.beck is letting those crazy voices in his head make him believe that he is a smart rational person who loves his country and cnn is irresponsible enough to give this wacko a nation wide forum. the extreme, the fringe, the shrill, the unhinged off the chain assclowery of g. beck and his clones have become accepted as normal.

cyan horizon 

Female Journalists to Be Awarded

MEXICO CITY (AP) — She set out to expose a pedophile ring in Cancun, naming the rich and powerful she says were involved, and became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.

Lydia Cacho peered into Cancun’s underworld and came up with a stinging indictment not only of the alleged abusers, but of powerful friends and politicians she says did little or nothing to stop a prominent businessman accused of luring poor girls in the Caribbean resort to his home so that he and his friends could have sex with them.

Two years after the publication of her book “The Demons of Eden” in Mexico, Cacho’s fight against those who would silence her is now before Mexico’s Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, she collects a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation in New York - a tribute to her bravery in reporting on women’s and children’s rights.

We could use a few more journalists like that here. Reporters that aren’t afraid they might offend the powerful and wealthy. It’s not that we don’t have any. There are just not enough of them and their voices get drowned out by the loons like Beck.