# Larisa Alexandrovna

Larisa Alexandrovna (born December 7, 1971) is a journalist, essayist and poet. She currently works as Managing News Editor of Raw Story, and contributes opinion and columns to blogs such as the Huffington Post, online publications such as Alternet, and has had her work referenced in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Newsweek among others.

## Quotes

* We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.
** Mr. Bush, Go Cheney Yourself!.
* I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.
** The Big E: Ethics, Bloggers, and Independent Media.
* Many have defined the neocon movement based on the highly intellectual, albeit warped, musings of Strauss and Bloom. Yet one could hardly call the current leadership intellectual or even capable of digesting this philosophy. Even neocon thinkers are jumping off the ship. Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?
** Question to Scott Ritter in Scott Ritter: Neocons as Parasites.
* No oath of office or obligation of duty demands that a particular political party be supported, preserved, defended, protected, and adhered to — because no political party defines what an American is.
** You Are An American.
* Perhaps [Condoleezza Rice] would have made a more timely cameo in New Orleans had a Chevron tanker caught fire. Jane Crow seems to be just as willing as old Jim was.
** Defending Those Who Know; "Jim" is a reference to Jim Crow laws.
* I say we pardon the turkeys, but not our elected officials.
** Congress gets a vacation, but what about the troops?.
* If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.
** Some Recent RAW Stories.
* Our duty - as citizens - to the Constitution transcends every other point of disagreement that every person and/or every group of people can have with one another, no matter how deeply felt. Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.
** You Are An American.
* Stop any person on the street and they will tell you their own version of what it means to be an American, perhaps accurately, but mostly not. Some might say that being an American means wearing the US flag as a lapel pin. Others might say that in order to be defined as an American, one must attend the right church and be the right type of Christian. Still others will tell you that supporting the troops and, above that even, supporting the President is what makes one American. Some might even venture that being born in this country or of parents who are citizens of this country is surely enough. On this last point there is some truth, but only in terms of rights, not responsibilities. As such, it presents only half of the equation.
** What is an American? in You Are An American.
* Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.
** Et Tu The Press Club?.
* If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.
** Bush's Colon - Or the Neutering of Karl Rove.