Songs from the Site Meter: NPR comes around for Jack Burkman, Jr. so they can say they tried...

Site Meter--They don't have to remind me why I never give them money. This is from NPR in DC. They won't do anything about him or look any deeper. Do-nothings, know-nothing careerists (tell us something we don't know, Matt).

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Then there's someone possibly trying to cover their tracks... Domain Name georgetown.edu ? (Educational) IP Address 141.161.133.# (Georgetown University) ISP Georgetown University Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : District of Columbia City : Washington Lat/Long : 38.8933, -77.0146 (Map) Language English (U.S.) en-us Operating System Macintosh MacOSX Browser Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 Javascript version 1.5 Monitor Resolution : 1280 x 800 Color Depth : 24 bits Time of Visit Dec 2 2009 11:14:23 am Last Page View Dec 2 2009 11:14:23 am Visit Length 0 seconds Page Views 1 Referring URL http://www.google.co...Afm5f3RBQ&usg=AFQjCN Search Engine google.com Search Words jack burkman jm burkman and associates Visit Entry Page http://chickasawpick...-gop-pundit-and.html Visit Exit Page http://chickasawpick...-gop-pundit-and.html Out Click Time Zone UTC-5:00 Visitor's Time Dec 1 2009 11:14:23 pm Visit Number 64,705 And now NPR is data-mining my site: Domain Name in-addr.arpa ? (Unknown) IP Address 205.153.36.# (National Public Radio) ISP National Public Radio Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : District of Columbia City : Washington Lat/Long : 38.9097, -77.0231 (Map) Language English (U.S.) en-us Operating System Microsoft WinXP Browser Internet Explorer 7.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022) Javascript version 1.3 Monitor Resolution : 1024 x 768 Color Depth : 32 bits Time of Visit Dec 3 2009 5:53:16 am Last Page View Dec 3 2009 5:53:16 am Visit Length 0 seconds Page Views 1 Referring URL http://chickasawpick...-gop-pundit-and.html Visit Entry Page http://chickasawpick...05:00&max-results=50 Visit Exit Page http://chickasawpick...05:00&max-results=50 Out Click Time Zone UTC-5:00 Visitor's Time Dec 2 2009 5:53:16 pm Visit Number 64,743

Right wing columnist Robert Novak belatedly dies at the age of 78

WWW--He was a demagogue, a player, a hater, and just one-of-many jackapes screeching in our collective-ear for the last 30+ years, ramming a failed and moronic rightist agenda down all of our throats. At the end of his very pathetic and partisan career as an ostensible journalist and political commentator for old and young fools alike, he outed an active CIA officer for political purposes, for the Bush II administration. That's not a columnist, a journalist, or even a talking head. That's a political mercenary who deserves no respect whatsoever, a hack like Tim Russert or former NYT journo, Judith Miller.

But you wouldn't know any of this listening to NPR today, those scions of ass-licking. I expected this since they're as predictable as a Rush Limbaugh monologue, but they were gunning for a new low today and their rush to the bottom was achieved. When NPR offers the same drivel as the rest of the mainstream media--which is generally free--why pay for it at all? Thankfully, few are, and jazz fans are going to have to deal--all 10,000 of them.

Whenever I feel the slightest twinge of guilt over never having contributed to public radio, it's days like this that remind me that it was always a good move. But NPR are hardly alone in this bizarre adulation of this not-a-man, this moron, this careerist slimeball. No, we shouldn't be mourning Robert Novak, we should be mourning the perfectly viable cancer cells that had to die with him, it's not fair. That he was intellectually bankrupt is a given. That he was annoying is a given. That he was a liar is a given. There's no reason to celebrate him anymore than it would have been when some clone-like apparatchiki died in the former Soviet Union. Good riddance.

Nixon's former counsel John Dean (no, not Howard Dean, former DNC chair) once told the late President Richard Nixon that, "There's a cancer on the presidency," referring to the Watergate burglars. He was far too optimistic--Nixon was that cancer. When thinking of the late conservative columnist it just brings-to-mind the obverse: "There's a Robert Novak on the cancer." Poor cancer. He wasn't a journalist, he was just some asshole powerful people gave a soapbox to, and for far too long. Thanks for reminding me that mortality's not so bad, Bob, thanks for the reminder (thanks God!). At least you die too.

And what should be his epitaph? We already know: Valerie Plame, and the fact that he did a hit-and-run on someone, went to the doctor, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. That seems to sum-up the reactionary right. Finally, I and millions of others don't have to tell this asshole to shut the fuck up.