1. I love Paul Krugman.
2. In Glenn Beck's recent nonsensical rant, a dismissal of the American Dream as Communist plot (thanks Media Matters), I was struck by an awesome irony (surpassing the irony that bleeds like arterial wounds from all things FOX).
This week, myself, my partner, members of diverse unions and others with common sense and shreds of humanity, rallied in support of Wisconsin Union workers outside of Fox News HQ near Rockefeller Center. After the rally, we walked the bowels of Rockefeller Center en route to the subway. There we noticed the ads. Fox, Beck's employer, has advertisements plastered all over the basement corridors of Rockefeller Center saying "FOX NEWS and FOX BUSINESS" - "HOME OF THE AMERICAN DREAM" (Replete with a blazing banner shouting "Opportunity!" above a white house with picket fence, manicured lawn, etc...) We rolled our eyes in the moment, but after Beck's latest mania du-jour denouncing the very thing the network is trying to 'sell', we had to guffaw at the absurdity. And write Rachel Maddow in hopes someone else might pick up on it.
Glenn gets a call from PR saying, "Glenn! You can't call the American Dream communist! We've got ads trying to sell that very bait and switch to the schmucks who go to that dungeon Wendy's down there! Stay on message, those were expensive posters!"
