[Meanwhile, in our professional media...]
but omitted that President Obama was the top recipient of money from BP during the 2008 election cycle...
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Friday, June 11, 2010
CNN Highlights 'Big Oil' Cash to Republicans, Omits Obama's
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Iran Unbowed
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'Isolated' Iran Seems To Have Lots Of Friends
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"Isolation" has failed to deflect Iran's nuclear ambitions, but it does enjoy incessant repetition by the administration....
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Israel targeted in U.N. nuclear debate
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[Yup, that should be the focus of the middle eastern nuke threat: Israel.]
[The organization is worse the worthless.]
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Taliban Hangs 7-Year-Old Boy in Grisly Warning
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The Afghan accused of spying was a 7-year-old boy.
[Our enemy.]
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Debt Spreading 'Like a Cancer'
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The economic situation today is drastically worse than a couple years ago, and the euro is doomed as a concept, Nassim Taleb, professor and author of the bestselling book ''The Black Swan,'' told CNBC on Thursday. ''We had less debt cumulatively (two years ago), and more people employed.
Today, we have more risk in the system, and a smaller tax base,'' Taleb said. ''Banks balance sheets are just as bad as they were'' two years ago when the crisis began and "the quality of the risks hasn't improved," he added.
[I.e., northing's been fixed.]
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Bernanke: ‘Things Will Come Apart’ If Entitlements Are Not Reformed and Spending Controlled
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Video: Bernanke Says There's 'NOTHING on the Table at this Point' to Tackle Fiscal Crisis
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While appearing before Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was asked by newly-elected Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) whether or not the federal government has a plan to tackle the continuing financial crisis. Check out his answer:
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POLL: Plurality Oppose Kagan's Confirmation To Supreme Court
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows 33% think Kagan should be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. But 41% do not think she should be confirmed, up eight points since President Obama announced her nomination in early May. Another 26% remain undecided.
What Bias? Re: WaPo Devotes 60-Paragraph Front Page Story to Workaholic Kagan, Pays Little Attention to Her Philosophy
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Borrowing a line from one of her Harvard colleagues, the Washington Post entitled its June 10 front-page profile of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, "Her work is her life is her work."*
But the 60-paragraph story by staff writers Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker shed barely any light on the judicial philosophy that Kagan's life work demonstrates. Instead, Gerhart and Rucker presented a gauzy profile that rehashed the usual trivia -- Kagan loves poker and the opera -- while painting Kagan as a workaholic who still has time to lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on to friends in distress:
She has arrived at the age of 50 in a blaze of accomplishment. But her achievements can obscure how relatively narrow her world has been...
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U.S. Moves Toward 'Majority Minority'
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Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority among newborn children in the U.S., marking a demographic shift that is already reshaping the nation's politics and economy.
The Census reported Thursday that nonwhite minorities accounted for 48.6% of the children born in the U.S. between July 2008 and July 2009, gaining ground from 46.8% two years earlier. The trajectory suggests that minority births will soon eclipse births of whites of European ancestry.
[This isn't counting 'immigration' {of various forms}.]
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POLL: 67% Say Military Should Be Used On Border To Stop Illegal Incursions
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A new Rasmussen Reports nationwide telephone survey finds that just 18% are opposed and another 15% are not sure.
A majority of Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters all support the concept of using the troops to stop illegal immigration.
President Obama recently announced that he is sending troops to the Mexican border, but the stated purpose is to prevent the spread of drug-related violence.
The new survey also finds that just 26% of voters believe the U.S. Department of Justice should challenge the legality of Arizona’s new law in federal court. Fifty-six percent (56%) oppose such a challenge, and 18% more are not sure. Earlier polling found that most Americans trust the Arizona state leaders more than leaders in Washington, DC on the topic of immigration...
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Were You Fooled By the Biggest Hoax Ever-Global Warming?
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Being taken for a fool was never an easy thing to admit and when it came to the biggest, most expensive hoax ever committed on modern man, even the brightest people were taken in, especially if they were of a liberal mindset and actually consider the major media trustworthy...
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Scientist booted off oil panel over writing
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[Pay attention America: this is how ideological tyrannies are grown, one step at a time.
Consider: now that our government has a monopoly on college loans, how long will it be before past postings of applicants are checked to ensure none with the 'wrong' ideas get their educations financed by tax payers?]
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Oil Spill: Leftist Hollywood Circles Wagons For Obama; Demand Higher Taxes, Fewer Jobs
This is a little off-topic, but whenever I read something conjured by some A-lister over at the HuffPo, I’m always struck by how dull and humorless the writing is. These are big shots, performers, stahs, and most of them write as though they’re submitting some kind of college entrance exam...
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Feds backs off plan to take Vt. farm for border port
Score one for David. Goliath decided it just wasn't worth the fight.
The federal government has decided to close a tiny U.S.-Canada border station rather than push ahead with a controversial plan to expand it by seizing a dairy farmer's land, officials announced Thursday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection had sought to renovate the sleepy Morses Line port of entry in Franklin — which gets about 2 1/2 vehicles an hour — by seizing a 2.2-acre parcel from the Rainville family dairy farm, which adjoins the station....
[It can be done, we need do it more often.]
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What Bias [ignorance]? Re: GOP Women Win Primaries,
ABC News Thanks ...
Hillary Clinton
All three network morning shows touted the good showing by a bevy of Republican women and Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln in yesterday's primaries. NBC's Today and CBS's Early Show both headlined "Ladies Night," while ABC's Good Morning America's take was "Women Rule."
But ABC fill-in anchor Elizabeth Vargas suggested credit should really go to Hillary Clinton, because she "helped by running for president," paving the way for "all these other women about to possibly take office, high office, in those states."READ MORE
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
ESPN: 'The Questions Remain' About Duke Lacrosse Players - Despite Exoneration?
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The Last Defiant Roar Of the Old Media Dinosaurs
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Much as the dinosaurs of earth’s past died out to due to changes in their environment, the old media of TV, newspapers and reports are finding it hard to adapt to the changes in the environment of the new media.
One of the true dinosaurs of the old media, Helen Thomas, recently lashed out at the new media and the fact that a majority of Americans now get their news, information and opinions from the new media, which happens to include talk radio, the internet, bloggers and video from camera cell-phones...
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[And why our government is now moving to silence such independent information gathering:
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Obama and the language of the locker room
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In a Today Show interview on June 7th, President Obama said that expert input he was getting about the oil spill would help him decide "whose ass to kick."
That was a first. By uttering that line, Obama crossed a line that no president ever crossed before, passing another milestone in the advance of vulgarity in our culture, and lowering public discourse to a new nadir...
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Angry Man Obama
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"I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants."
Filmmaker Spike Lee also voiced his frustration with our unflappable president last week when he said, "If there's any one time to go off, this is it,"
[Well we know who he listens to for his political 'advice'.]
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Obama's getting really, really mad _ or is he?
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First he was going to make BP pay for the Gulf oil mess. Then he declared himself in charge. Now he's trying to find out "whose ass to kick" and making clear he'd fire BP's chief if only he could.
President Barack Obama is talking ever tougher as the Gulf oil spill crisis drags on, the public's patience wears thin and the peril to his presidency increases.
But his tough talk addresses only the assignment of blame, including his creation of a commission to get to the bottom of fault - but nothing in the way of helping stop or contain the leak...
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Senate to vote on Obama’s power grab
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On Thursday, the Senate will vote on S.J.Res.26, a resolution to block EPA from usurping powers never delegated to it by Congress. 
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[Then ACT >
"OPPOSE S.J.Res.26... "
YOUR Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfmCalifornians:
Barbara Boxer web mail http://boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm
Dianne Feinstein webmail
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe
or: Speed Message them with your personal distribution list...
and as always, pass it on...
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MSNBC: White Working Class Voters Racist?
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MSNBC continued its defense of President Obama against “racist” critics Tuesday morning. The network’s show “Morning Joe” featured a panel of journalists discussing just how some opponents of President Obama’s agenda refuse to support him–because the President is either a Democrat or African-American. After host Joe Scarborough and Time's Mark Halperin ripped the Drudge Report for its headline painting President Obama as “going street,” Dee Dee Myers and Norah O’Donnell jumped in to offer their two cents about racially-motivated oppositions to President Obama’s agenda...
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AP: 'Tolerant' Sweden Can't Tolerate 'Far-Right' Party
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The Associated Press's Karl Ritter clearly doesn't recognize how close to parody his 'report' ("Rightist group jolts Sweden's tolerant self-image") on the mini-rise of the right-leaning Sweden Democrats Party is (I'll use "SD" as an abbreviation in this post).
Ritter is not afraid to label the SD, but won't label others. He begins by telling us that the SD is "far-right" because it is "preaching sharp cuts in immigration and calling Islam the greatest threat to Swedish society" -- conveniently, I believe, omitting the term "radical" in describing Islam. Other parties, of course, are "mainstream."
The AP reporter describes Sweden as having "a self-image of being more tolerant."
Self-image notwithstanding, a reader who gets as far as the nineteenth paragraph of Ritter's report learns that "tolerance" is a decidedly one-way street (bolds are mine):
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WaPo Implies Students in Constitution Class Are Probably Fringy Militia Types
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"Since the nation's earliest years, some Americans have revered the Constitution as a bulwark against government expansion."
[Some? That's exactly what it was and is meant to be. Evidently, some professional journalists don't know this?]
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Name That Party: Tax-Funded Scholarships Edition
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The article, which runs about three-dozen paragraphs, doesn't mention that Molaro is - hang on to your hat here - a Democrat.
As documented repeatedly on NewsBusters, party affiliation is often overlooked in news stories reporting improprieties by Democrats. Quite a coincidence, isn't it?
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MSNBC Promo Implies Tea Party Seeks VIOLENT Overthrow Of Government
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There's no other way to put it: in an MSNBC promo for an upcoming Chris Matthews special on "The Rise of The New Right," Matthews juxtaposes words and images to imply that the Tea Party seeks the violent overthrow of the government.
As images roll of camo-clad men shooting automatic weapons, Matthews proclaims in the voice-over: "the Tea Party is determined to take power."
This is nothing short of a smear. Matthews/MSNBC need to pull the promo--or face a Tea Party libel claim...
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NYT Blames Oil Spill on Bush, Cheney, Beck, Palin, Tea Party and Rand Paul
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['Economy of slander' I guess.]
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NPR Paints Conservative Virginia Attorney General as Persecutor of Science in Climategate Suit
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What's most infuriating is the notion that it's Cuccinelli who's "politicizing" science, and not Michael Mann's openly politicized e-mails explaining his data manipulations and plotting to censor his political opponents. Somehow, the Union of Concerned Scientists is painted as non-political.
Host Michele Norris began: "The University of Virginia says it will fight a demand from the state's attorney general. He wants the school to turn over private e-mails and documents related to a former professor's climate research. The case has sparked a national debate over academic freedom."[?!?]
[When such 'academic study' is used as a backbone for political activism, should it not be subject to critical review? Or is academic freedom to mean free to fabricate lies with impunity?]
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MSNBC Pretends America Isn't Conservative, Champions Immigration 'Overhaul'
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New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa agreed that the legislation Arizona Governor Janet Brewer (R) signed into law in April divides the country along racial lines and think the federal government should pass comprehensive immigration reform.
“But the fact of the matter is this is a divisive measure, it’s unconstitutional,” insisted Villaraigosa, who supports the Los Angeles City Council’s decision to boycott Arizona. “It violates the rights of people in Arizona and it’s the wrong way to go.”
Mitchell declined to ask how the bill is 'in fact' unconstitutional, and instead asked questions clearly based on the premise Mr. Villaraigosa's opinions were indeed fact...
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ABC Attacks Gulf Coast Official as Ignorant for Criticizing Obama Oil Spill Response
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Good Morning America's Elizabeth Vargas on Friday played defense for the White House, suggesting that a Gulf Coast official might be ignorant for attacking Obama's response to the oil spill as slow. Vargas huffed, "President Obama said in his news conference yesterday, that, quote, 'Those who think we were slow in our response or our response lacked urgency don't know the facts.'" [Audio available here.]
She complained to Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, "Do you think he was talking about you?"
It didn't seem to occur to Vargas how insulting that might sound, given that Nungesser is on the ground in Louisiana.
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Twofer funny...
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Who will bid on Newsweek?
Today's the day. Those interested in purchasing Newsweek need to make their interest known by C.O.B. today. Who will bid? Keith Kelly: The field looks fairly light as the deadline for first-round "letters of interest" comes due today for Newsweek. The weekly magazine lost $28.3 million last year, but cut red ink down to $2.3 million in the first quarter, according to filings by The Washington Post Co., which owns the mag. Observers think the potential for strategic buyers — who could pick it up and plug it into existing operations is fairly limited...
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Liberal Heads Explode Over Prospect of Newsweek Acquisition by NewsMax
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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