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Dear Mr. Lloyd Blankfein: Are you ready for “OCCUPY GOLDMAN SACHS”? [GS --who refers to us all as "Muppets" has just started a gauzy PR campaign on TV]

Published on May 4th, 2012 by Malachi

[Today's New York Times has a piece on the frontpage about Goldman Sachs new TV campaign, after it came out this week that GS referred to its suckers as "Muppets"]
My letter should appear in the Comments Section at the end of the article, later today.]
Here in the meantime is the complete text:
“Thank you for your [...]

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Exhilaration –a brief reflection (Thanks to Jon Stewart and his good-humored but relentlessly cutting sendup of FOX News’s ongoing use of ‘talking points’ as demonstrated on this evening’s Dail Show (2.28.2012) [This is Part Two of two parts.]

Published on February 29th, 2012 by Malachi

When I watched the Jon Stewart show this evening (–as described in the foregoing post) I laughed pretty hard, I can tell you. In a few short minutes I was feeling a sort of exhilartion that is –sad to say– simply too rare.
Exhilaration! I had no doubt –that was The Correct Word for it.
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Exhilaration –a brief reflection (Thanks to Jon Stewart and his good-humored but relentlessly cutting sendup of FOX News’s ongoing use of ‘talking points’ as demonstrated on this evening’s Dail Show (2.28.2012) [This is Part One of two parts.]

Published on February 29th, 2012 by Malachi

Tonight’s Daily Show showed off the great powers of satirist Jon Stewart. Clearly he is one who follows not just the news but the extraordinary partisanship with which it is almost always presented.
Trying to follow “the news” on ANY channel, but especially on Fox News, in this political season of Exalted Polarization can be deeply [...]

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