BLANK NETWORK

Dot Tool* to be named later. This is just a list of the Wills and Bills.
[Not Necessarily the News Guru, but divagation or not maybe linked.]

The Anti-Billy Club
The Club of Association
King of Rhetoric?
A Generous dia-Gnosis.
Report from Sabbatical
Sabbatical

This is not necessarily a Newshounds blog, Colbert Report or Daily Show.
I don't read or view things so you don't have to, sometimes you do, and sometimes just scrolling over may provide enough. It is divagation and stochastic at its best, or sometimes worst. But it is not just all about them or us. My Navigation label needs updating, and the Navigation II label is about our course, or a combination or demonstration of it.

While names are not the thing(and they are coming slowly today), there is value in comparing and contrasting, and sometimes associations matter. Leadership and representation matters, and in journalism there is the ledership which sometimes leads back to my point: our headings, navigation and having to follow for oneself. Part of the spirit of this has been diffused in all seriousness, by the focus on the list and the Bills and Wills, but it is more about the network and bringing things to the table. So while the banner or name for the effort is still pending, as well as more on the principles(The club of association) I will begin listing the inspirations for the columns or sides of the table.

* Blank Network (Anti-Billy Club: see links)

RESEARCH (So I am frackin' fudging a bit with the Will, the HasselB, and the Williams.)
Bill O'Reilly
George F. Will
Elizabeth HasselBECK
William Kristol
Walter Williams
William Safire
Willam F. Buckley

DEVELOPMENT
Bill Maher
Will Rogers
Bill Press
William Shakespeare


Similar Wills
Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Steve King
Sarah Palin
Michele Bachmann

Honorary Anti-Billy Clubs
Noam Chomsky
Thom Hartmann
Rachel Maddow
Jon Stewart
Steven Colbert
Lawrence O'Donnell
Norman Goldman
Ed Schultz



[Under-construction, italics are postumous honors. Apologies for the orders, they are at my whim or some consideration or other. It is not about heirarchy or honors, or just Bill O'Reilly and Bill Maher. And it may be asked, do some really want to be at the table? If they don't work well with others? That may play out as the list and the principles evolve.(Network Theory)]
[2-17-11 Update: Walk Like A Cheesehead. Wrap mine in tinfoil..PU! NOT! But close enough to government work.]

"Truthiness" of Ranked Words.

Banned Words are listed by a Michigan university, and those words in the headline itself are tongue-in-cheek as in not really the truthiness. But "truthiness" did rank(def. 9) in their rank(def. 19 or 24 slang) of words. It was however honored as "the word that best summed up 2006 in an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster."

Congratulations to my name sake, Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, or rather his choice of name as the inspiration for my choice of The Liaison Report.

Speaking of words (and I suppose purists would say writing of words), as the year closed I thought of the origins or my rank of a few words.

"Bush Basher" and "Context".

And since 2006 was about change of course, I will MoveOn for the moment and pick up this track in the next post.

A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR, but I feel we turned a few pages before the last closed.

Not your Liaison Report

The Ed Show
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report

[4-16-09 Update: Just what was I alluding to? Just the superiority of the above links. And it is just to apologize for not including Keith Olbermann and Countdown to Change.
And follow up to justice.(ACLU)*]

* update (CCR) 4-21-09

Moos Room

thanks to
The Colbert Report &
Mitt Romney***
(not to mention Aaron Sorkin)
MR-RM???
Rupert Murdock
Rachell Maddow
Cowpie Central ?
RL LR
Liaison Report!

[SEGUE]
Now I have stepped in it.
I could not have more Turd Blossoms** for The Newsroom.
Network meets Countdown for blastoff!*
HBO meets Swift Dawn Keys!

* I re-craft any Molotov metaphors. 
** Not to Mitt-Flop stars or thumbs.

[Seriously, I could not have been more thrilled with the first episode of The Newswroom.
From the producer of The West Wing, an HBO drama begins for the field of TV journalism.  The first episode and special features are available in the Top Picks section of Xfinity OnDemand even without an HBO subscription.]
*** I must eventually thank someone for playing a ColbertReport clip.
[UP?]

7-1-12
[The Newsroom, will get your patriotc juices flowing for the hope and changey thing of Edward R. Murrow.]
[Not exactly Good Timing ! Where's the party AT? ]

Cropping the News?

The Daily Show Lewis Black cedes Beck.
The Colbert Report Colbert routes FOX.
Some weep what they so**.
Sow check* your crop.

*thanks to Casey Kasem
** and some misspell
[updates: 5-17-10 Commity(sp?!), Charlie Rich?, the Free*** Market?, Re;-)sources?(Comity Label added)]

*** non-value or non-prophet

Weak End Update: Fun'n Edifying

(No, I actually intended to spell it that way.)
A post or so ago, my flip-flop ofor satire to sarcasm, merited a correction or at least clarification.
(Again spelling checked and intended)
Mis-Infotainment Tonight segued into...

Actual Fun'n Edifying (as corrected)

*** A TRIBUTE TO ***
Miller, Rhodes, Stewart and Colbert
*** FOR ACTUAL
Fun'n Edifying: ***
The Stephanie Miller Show
The Randi Rhodes Show
LOCAL RADIO
and Real Infotainment *.
(And National Fun'n Edifying:
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report

As opposed to Enternewsmeant

* forgive the self-reference and tribute to Secretary Rumsfled
(again spelling...check!) And ofor Miller time?
Not to mention Miss-"Frame of Reference" Goldwater/Buzz Killer
[Actual *footnote: Secretary of Infotainment was my pet name for Rumsfeld.(no pun on departure)]

Pap Attack on Thompson

"He really should be the GOP's pick for president..."
"almost a true reflection of Cheney, Bush and Rove and all the other thugs..."

See my earlier link, below.
[8-12-07: OK... too embedded in that last link, "Tangents from Angler" somewhere is the implication
that the 2008 race WILL BE, Clinton versus Thompson.
Even more buried is any link to information in that regard.
Here they are.
Not all would put a heroic sheen on Thompson's Watergate role
from The Boson Globe
Fred Thompson, Nixon's Mole
from The Stump AOL News Elections Blog
The 2008 Race could not only rehash accountability but the media's role:
Also found at - (Nixon's mole)
Media Matters
No Quarter
Raw Story
Related USA Today ]
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Labels? NOT!

[The Colbert Report: The Word
The Daily Show: The president in his own words.
ifilm from SPIKE TV]

March Madness

Normally this refers to Basketball,

which involves a tournament.

There are reasons Sarah Palin is not in the running.

She is only in the change game.

And that is a shame.

Simply put: Put up or shut up!

Get in the Republican race and you can have your debate.

Short of that, someone should accept her challenge.

And I don't mean Hillary or Katie*.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin might do well to find out what a debate entails.

Even Comedy Central or MSNBC, should not be considered as early round qualifiers for the Final Four.**

* The Colbert Report or No Labels is not the shame, but Olympia Snow did come up. Being an enemy does not make you a candidate or a debater, let alone a journalist.

**Who would compete in this evolution?[i.e. Who would stoop to taking Sarah Palin serious let alone qualified to debate. Not that that would qualify her to advance to a final debate round. There was so much C-rap here, I thought I would d'ribble the punch line. Wouldn't we love Palin to actually debate*** someone of her watch-ama gotcha?]

[But speaking of tournaments, I don't think the Raw Money Class wants to be facing Obama anytime too soon.]

*** Buddy Roemer has left the building. Not to mention Gary Johnson.(C-Hillary Link*/see "actually debate" links.)

[3-21-12 Robert Reich ponders run.]

Congratulations KPTK! WE GOT ED!

And Randi and Stephanie, and Thom
[4-24-07: loopy link inserted for reconstruction]

- -
[8-2-07: ADJUSTED THIS DATE -
GO LEFT TV
Air America Radio
Progressive Talk Radio KPTK AM1090 Seattle
FILTER OF SORTS]
- -

[adjusted this date 8-11-07: ifilm of Spike TV
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show ]

Five of the Heavy Hundred are on one local station: AM1090

The 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America!

NUMBER 5.
Ed Schultz www.wegoted.com

Number 13.
Randi Rhodes: The Randi Rhodes Show

Number 36.
Stephanie Miller: The Stephanie Miller Show

Number 51 Thom Hartmann: The Thom Hartmann Show

Rounding out the court. Maybe the center.
Number 27. Clark Howard.

OK! My progressive spin almost missed Clark, but the term "important" over "popular" was a factor in the "Heavy Hundred", and his 1 hr time-slot midnight to 1AM may hint at that and the progressive lean of the listeners or hourly demographics. Clark is both important and popular, just not labeled progressive.*

FLIP FLOP THE LIST!
Considering these personalities and their news value, entertainment and progressive intent,Rachel Maddow (while not even found in the top 250) must be on the bench.
What I am saying is that, rounded out to a balance of sort
but with progressive and informative and entertainment value, she may have topped a list with the numbers flipped. It would be hard to say that Thom, Stephanie, Randi and Ed have any particular strengths that would flip-flop the list, other than my feeling that being progressive, informative and entertaining should be considered in that order, rather than the method used for the Heavy Hundred.
On my scale Rachel Maddow plays well off the bench and deserve her own honors, not to mention her on-air teammate Kent Jones.

MY IDEAL PROGRESSIVE LIST[Reality Flip Flopped]
Or from spirited to spiritual. Going up?

[RACHEL MADDOW] A UNIQUE BALANCE OF INFO AND HUMOR
THOM HARTMANN
STEPHANIE MILLER
RANDI RHODES
ED SCHULTZ
MIKE MALLOY: REALITY BASED
[NOT BEST REPRESENTED IN LINEAR FORM]

[Apologies for not noting one of the top 250, Mike Malloy who is a spiritual warrior of sorts.
If there were a FOX NEWS of the left, Mike Malloy would fit the bill as the nightly lead,
but for me he is too much on a Reality Rant to make good bedtime stories.]
Now just to sort my own review, I love all these guys, for different reasons, but would put progress over money and fun, and that is what I wish for all.

* I don't relish labels, but then, it is a sorting. Long Story Short: (or in my usual way: Runting the Rant) Maybe the Heavy Hitter (Oops) Hundred list does reflect the order of "Agressive Progressives", but I would flip flop the list and call it Just Progressive! But the problem always is, coming from a perspective or getting somewhere.

Mis-Infotainment Tonight

Well, last night.

Since it is likely that the above link will be pulled* from the internet, this proves there is a conspiracy of the liberal media.

Nevertheless, I will comment on Bill O'Reilly's interview of Dennis Miller, comedian.
Dennis Miller makes Bill O'Reilly look...like a "fair and balanced" interviewer. Dennis Miller makes Jonathan Swift look...like a satirist.
I could go on, but it was all about Dennis Miller and... hate and... lame at that. Except for one laugh: "I don't know why people say things out loud sometimes. I think maybe..."

Speaking of lame: Rachel Maddow is spoofed on SNL. I don't know if it is just me, the characters or the writers, but it was not so funny. Maybe it is hard to spoof someone who is funny and doing a good job, without needing to do an even better job. Burris may even fall into that category, but it could be just in comparison toBlog-oy-ya-bleep.

For more fun'n edifying:
*** ***
[CORRECTION: Poor transition!]
*** ***

FOR ACTUAL Fun'n Edifying:
The Stephanie Miller Show
The Randi Rhodes Show

* this link was emailed with the urgency that it was going to be pulled from the internet because Democrats did not want the truth out there. It is not.
[For the irony challenged, I flip-flop between facts and "frame of reference"** rather than straight satire. So I will con descend to flip the con text: It is not at this point pulled or the truth.]

** apparently the genre of the right, not to mention the Miller's...

LOCAL RADIO and Real Infotainment.(Time Stamp 9:10 AM)
And National Fun'n Edifying:
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report(TS 9:40 AM)

And for real "fair and balanced" see Huffington Post though not really radio or TV. But something must be "read into" that by Bill Kristol: The reason conservatives had food is that they provided it, which was nice for Will to host Obama, while the "liberals" were invited by Obama and he was just being conservative or not letting you read something into that also.

Initialism

Not to pun on Recreationism [!]

But Crypto Political Science deals with a more dimentional political spectrum of global exceptionionalism.  (FP1)

(not there yet)
In the begining...
Long Story

BLANK NETWORK (scroll click){Paper U?}
{Re insert} Speaking of Pre Post or Us ... Knowwww!!!!*

* Colbert Daft Anachronism
(MSNBC search for "Failed States" flailed bridges)

{OK, the original sentiment is that there is politics of a third kind^.  Not just the libertarian(6) , but international perspectives (14) that clash with the old partisan ships. The glint of tinfoil(17) is actually a tool in the shed of progress that cannot be emptied by executive order**.  There is a war on terrorism, it was declared by congress, and the president is the commander-in-chief.  It is tough enough dealing (f.c.)^^ with adversarial states, let alone protect America from it's legacy(such as it is)*** in a world that is changing, from the global to the local.  Crypto Political Science as I have coined it relates, to the wise crack of perception being reality.  Knot[!] to mention, truth being the first casualty in war.  It his hard enough dealing with a divided congress, let alone pre-constitutional or crypto-political organizations.}

** Ctrl F/papa
*** history in general/leading in particular(b.s.)
[OBAMA AM/Tonight Show: Changing the box ... of Tetra Heed Run.]

^ Embassy closings cover for actions or prudence in the unfolding middle-c of Turkey and Yemen?  [To The Point ?]
(The Point *link* is yet to be inserted: an NPR report on Terrorism.  A tangent? Who would be the counter-balance to Alan Simpson?  But where is Joe Scarborough? LET ALONE THE CYCLE.) 

[8-9-13 P.S.] ^^(f.c.)4ment change see (6)th link "dimentional". Let alone the Point !

EH?

Esoteric Humor?

Homage to oops ?

This is a bit of self-reflection.  Not that I have fully read(vetted) or digested to my satisfaction the links above, but I am concerned with the hazzards(mind field) of irony and satire.

1. Twitter killed Stephen Colbert's joke
2. Critical Spontaneity
3. Word Herstory
4. Change Logos: 
5. Creative Avatar [/?] #CancelColbert
^. Our Story
7. Economics 2011 (s.c. )
8. a. "Truthiness" of Ranked Words.  b. Moos Room,  c. Not your Liaison Report
9. 10. Joan Walsh on irony and irony .
11. Economics... (s.c.)

^5.(or%)  a. NO JOKE, b. i. Mess Age Monger, ii., iii.->, Ctrl F "bottom line" [/?]
iii.-> [ i., ii., iii., iv., vi., ...%(e.g. # / d. c.)]

[Not to mention ...EH ?]
[Let alone ...]  Seriously, now that I have 3 schools of EH, I must remind the reader of my "vetted" reference in regard to economistic heterodocksea.  # * Labels.