Falsies
The Center for Media and Democracy, that online leftie group created to counter PR spin and point out media foibles, has come out with its top three honorees for the 2007 Falsies Award.
Sharing the gold is Nancy Pelosi and the other leaders of the national Democratic Party for making a lot of noise about ending the war, then not doing it, and the Republican-backed lobbying group, Freedom's Watch.
Second prize go to the dwindling number of global warming deniers (motto: It's better than global colding!).
Third goes to the baby formula industry that has created sock puppety online presences that are really ads.
Here at the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), we've dearly treasured our Falsies since we gave the first awards out in 2004. After 12 months of reporting on the cynical, manipulative and just plain anti-democratic pollution of our information environment, we love adding an extra dash of humor to our work. But this year's Falsies Awards are extra super special.Why, you ask? Well, more people responded to our Falsies Awards survey than ever before. Thanks to the more than 1,400 people who took part! Our Falsies are your Falsies, too.
Read all about it here.
It turns out that Nacey knew about the whole waterboarding thing as early as 2002 and did nothing to stop it. I'm not convinced either way that waterboarding is or isn't bad since it leave no permanent physical damage only emotional. But I think this is bigger then Nacey not following through on stopping the war. At least with Republicans you know where they stand on this issue rightly or wrongly. It now seems that the Democratic leadership is ok with it behind closed doors as long as no one knows.