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It took a while, but The Muppets are finally firing back at Fox News for that network's absurd suggestion that their recent film brainwashed young children against the oil company, big business, and capitalism itself. In the video statement, Kermit responds to Fox's Eric Boiling's ridiculous assertion in a dignified manner, while Miss Piggy summarized Boiling's claim as "almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of being news."
http://veracitystew.com/2012/01/30/the-muppets-fire-back-at-fox-news-video/It took a while, but The Muppets are finally firing back at Fox News for that... more
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"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff. Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations are bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."
http://veracitystew.com/2011/12/05/fox-says-muppets-brainwash-kids-against-capitalism-video/"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a... more
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CNN reports that during an interview Wednesday on Fox News, Sarah Palin "shrugged off a recent sexual slur directed her way from comedian Bill Maher, saying, 'I'm through whining about a liberal press that holds particularly conservative women to a different standard, because it doesn't do any good to whine about it.'" Palin added, "Nobody ever promised life was going to be fair. And politics really isn't fair, the scrutiny, the double standards, and all that."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/24/im-through-palin-says/CNN reports that during an interview Wednesday on Fox News, Sarah Palin "shrugged... more
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The hidden-camera exposé of shady business practices is a staple of sweeps week on local TV news. But when the target is National Public Radio and the videomaker is a practiced political provocateur, the 11-minute takedown of a fundraising executive has reverberations well beyond simple consumer outrage.
An 11-minute, edited video of a meeting between supposed Muslim donors and NPR fundraisers, posted last week on the conservative political news site the Daily Caller, was quickly picked up by news organizations. The fundraiser's anti-Republican, anti-Tea Party comments cost the head of NPR her job. Today, the House will likely vote on yanking NPR's public funds — a speedy reaction that few mainstream media investigations achieve.
James O'Keefe, the political activist who orchestrated the sting, says his video is investigative journalism. Many journalists say it absolutely is not, because O'Keefe used false identities and misleading editing.
The video follows a long, if not always honorable, tradition of muckraking exposés. It also is a stepchild to the political tactic of tracking an opponent with video until a gaffe occurs, then capitalizing on it. The sting's impact was magnified by the quick dissemination-without-scrutiny that is a hallmark of Internet-driven media.
O'Keefe, 27, previously made a video about ACORN, the voter-registration group that disbanded after fraud allegations, and audio recordings about Planned Parenthood. He and colleagues dressed as phone repairmen to get into the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and unsuccessfully tried to get CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau to do an interview on a boat loaded with sex toys. He says he launched the NPR project after the news organization fired commentator Juan Williams last fall for saying on Fox News that he was afraid of Muslim passengers on airplanes.
O'Keefe's tactics combine "the guerrilla of Borat, the gotcha of Dateline ... and the gonzo approach of Hunter S. Thompson," O'Keefe said in an interview. "It doesn't matter what title you use to label us. ... We try to get to the truth, and we believe that it's morally necessary and justified to use these tactics."The hidden-camera exposé of shady business practices is a staple of sweeps week... more
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A spokesperson for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is pushing back against criticism from liberal pundits today over the governor's praise for a segregationist group.
Here's the backstory: Over the weekend, the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard published profile of Barbour, a major GOP operative and potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate. The profile highlighted Barbour's ties to his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi, where schools were integrated without violence during the Civil Rights era.
Barbour, who was only a few years out of school himself at the time, credited the lack of violence to the Citizens Councils, a segregationist group that resisted integration through economic means.
The Weekly Standard reports:
...Yazoo City was perhaps the only municipality in Mississippi that managed to integrate the schools without violence. I asked Haley Barbour why he thought that was so.
"Because the business community wouldn't stand for it," he said. "You heard of the Citizens' Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
The Citizens' Council, initially called the White Citizens' Council, formed after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision with the goal of maintaining segregation through economic and political pressure.
Dan Turner, the official spokesman for Barbour, told Talking Points Memo that criticism of the remarks were intended to paint the governor as a racist -- when "nothing could be further from the truth."
"Tell me what in Gov. Barbour's past gives any indication of any racist leanings, and I'll be glad to address the question," Turner said. "Otherwise, it's not a legitimate question. There's nothing in his past that shows that. If you pick out a sentence or a paragraph out of a fairly long article and harp on it, you can manipulate it. And that sounds to me like what you're trying to do."
Ben Smith of Politico, meanwhile, points to another potentially-problematic remark from Barbour's past. A 1982 New York Times article details an anecdote from the campaign trail (Barbour was running for Senate) in which an aide used a racial slur. The Times reports that "Barbour warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."
Greg Sargent, a liberal blogger for the Washington Post, argues that Barbour's statements on racial issues could seriously hurt his chances as a presidential contender.
"Barbour has repeatedly been overly casual about matters of race," Sargent writes. "He seems incapable of acknowledging that race is the third rail of American politics, or even acting as if that's the case."
Hari Sevugan, spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, jumped on Barbour's remarks, tweeting, "Re Barbour's "not that bad" comment: He's not ready for prime time or not ready for the 21st century - either way it's disqualifying."A spokesperson for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is pushing back against criticism... more
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Let's get the old and Ugly out of Washington!!!!!
No more SSDD. You know the acronym.Let's get the old and Ugly out of Washington!!!!!
No more SSDD. You know the... more
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It looks like the corporate media may soon use Byron Williams to demonize the Tea Party movement. Earlier today the Associated Press reported that the man who confronted police and ended up in a pitched gun battle on Interstate 580 in Oakland, California, had it out for the ACLU and Tides Foundation. “Oakland police Officer Jeff Thomason says Byron Williams was upset with the ACLU and Tides Foundation for their left-leaning political views.”
The Tides Foundation is funded in part by George Soros’ Open Society Institute. It is a high level globalist operation that also gets cash from AT&T, ChevronTexaco, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Verizon, and Bill and Melinda Gates. It has partnered with the Ford Foundation and the World Health Organization. The Ford Foundation has a history of collaboration with the CIA. It is said that Soros has donated more than $5 million to the ACLU since 1998.
On Sunday, it was reported that a Soros-funded group with close links to the Obama administration has called for the FCC to investigate both talk radio and cable television news. “The organization, calling itself Free Press, claims media companies are engaging in “hate speech” because a disproportionate number of radio and cable-news networks are owned by non-minorities,” writes Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily.
“Hate has seemingly emerged as a profit-model for many radio programs syndicated throughout the country, because only a few companies own the majority of the radio stations nationally,” the group declares.
A San Francisco Chronicle blogger going by the name Zennie62 writes today that the suspected shooter in Oakland was a Tea Party sympathizer.
“Byron Williams… hated left-wing politicians and had on a bullet-proof vest. In other words, a Tea Party sympathizer,” he writes. “That he was on the Oakland stretch of I-580 may have been no accident, considering Oakland’s a hot bed of left-wing political activity. Byron Williams also reads (sic) like a Tea Party sympathizer, and not exactly the warm and fuzzy kind. More like the kind that wants to harm you if you disagree with him.” He then compares Williams to Joe Stack and Mark Williams of the Republican-dominated Tea Party Express. Zennie62 says Williams is a racist because he disagreed with the NAACP’s resolution calling the Tea Party movement racist.
The “GOP and the Tea Party, and its extremist expressions of hate for liberal politics are in a way responsible for encouraging the actions of i-580 Shooter (now he has a title) Byron Williams, and for Joe Stack too,” writes the San Francisco Chronicle blogger. “The GOP better look at itself and start being part of the solution, because it and Fox News are helping to produce domestic terrorists at an alarming rate. Republicans can’t just ignore the Tea Party Express, it must totally repudiate it, and the actions of its most hateful members.”
Obviously, Mr. Zennie62 has not done his homework. The Tea Party Express is closely aligned with the GOP Borg Collective. “The self-described grassroots activists in Tea Party Patriots and the American Liberty Alliance see the Tea Party Express as a sham organization, using the political heft of the movement to push a bland, partisan Republican agenda,” writes David Weigel for the Washington Independent.
According to Politico, the Tea Party Express is a creature of the establishment Republican consulting firm Russo Marsh + Rogers.It looks like the corporate media may soon use Byron Williams to demonize the Tea... more
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Twilf - Tweep I'd Like To Follow
Look the internet is full of dispute over the SuperNews! cartoon "Stupid Virus".
Conservative blogs are picking it up as an example of problems with the liberal media. Noel Sheppard from NewsBusters said:
"In the end, this was just a lot of conservative bashing in very bad taste, especially the shot of Palin's Twitter page and her astonishingly offensive screen name "Gun-Ho"
I want to take a moment and reach out to the Conservative media. I'm not speaking on behalf of SuperNews! or Current TV. These are just the words of one fine young American.
I do not, nor have I ever believed that Sarah Palin is a "Twilf." I'm throwing this out there, because Sarah Palin is not a "Tweep I'd like to follow".
Sure, I'm interested in what she had for breakfast. I'd love to know that she's just hanging out with her family. I'd die to find out which malls she'll be at on her book tour.
But frankly there is no way for me to find any of this out.
Sarah Palin has a Twitter account, she has 21k+ followers, but she hasn't even posted one goshdarn tweet.
Sarah, I know that you haven't completely shunned Web 2.0. You have a vibrant Facebook account. You've got more than a million friends on there, AND you update!
I just read your post on the "Obama Administration's Atrocious Decision." Look it was good, but it was WAAAAAAAAAY too wordy. That post used 1,683 more characters than it needed. It would have been a much easier read if it were a tweet.
Sarah Palin, I want to follow you. Please Sarah Palin, will you become a twilf? If not for me, do it for all the starving underprivileged kids, who want to know what it truly means to be "Going Rogue."
In this SuperNews! cartoon Sarah Palin is a Twilf.
Further reading on the controversy:
huffington post
newsbusters
newser
thrfeed
mashable
snarkfoodTwilf - Tweep I'd Like To Follow
Look the internet is full of dispute over the... more
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The article speaks for itself:
"As Media Matters has documented, during the Bush administration, the media consistently allowed conservatives to dominate their shows, booking them as guests far more often than progressives. The rationale was that Republicans were “in power.”
It appears that old habits die hard. Even though President Obama and his team are in control of the executive branch and Democrats are in the majority in Congress, the cable networks are still turning more often to Republicans and allowing them to set the agenda on major issues, most recently on the debate over the economic recovery package.
On Sunday, conservatives began an all-out assault on President Obama’s economic recovery plan, with House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) both announcing that they would vote against the plan as it stood. Despite Obama’s efforts at good faith outreach, congressional conservatives have continued to attack the stimulus plan with a series of false and disingenuous arguments.
The media have been aiding their efforts. In a new analysis, ThinkProgress has found that the five cable news networks — CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business and CNBC — have hosted more Republican lawmakers to discuss the plan than Democrats by a 2 to 1 ratio this week: (see graph)
In total, from 6 AM on Monday to 4 PM on Wednesday, the networks have hosted Republican lawmakers 51 times and Democratic lawmakers only 24 times. Surprisingly, Fox News came the closest to offering balance, hosting 8 Republicans and 6 Democrats. CNN had only one Democrat compared to 7 Republicans.
The drastically imbalanced coverage isn’t the first time that the news networks have effectively supported attacks on the recovery plans. As ThinkProgress reported on Monday, the cable networks, the Sunday shows and the network newscasts promoted a controversial CBO non-report 81 times before the actual CBO analysis of the stimulus plan was released.The article speaks for itself:
"As Media Matters has documented, during the... more
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A BBC poll of 22 countries found that Obama is preferred by a four-to-one margin over McCain to become the next US president. The 22,500 people surveyed, the most common view is that Obama will improve foreign relations, while McCain would keep things the same as they are under the current administration.
Interestingly, this poll was held prior to the national conventions and the media frenzy surrounding Sarah Palin's placement on the Republican ticket. I wonder if the results would stay the same if the same poll was taken now?A BBC poll of 22 countries found that Obama is preferred by a four-to-one margin over... more
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Sarah Palin's stump speeches have largely stuck to the same script (what the AP describes as "a greatest hits of her convention speech). However, one line that constantly shows up is that Palin said "thanks, but no thanks, to that 'bridge to nowhere.'" Palin's claim of opposing the 'bridge to nowhere' has been proven false, yet she refuses to drop the line. Watch Palin use this exact line in seven different stump speeches since the end of the...
(See link for story and video montage of speeches)Sarah Palin's stump speeches have largely stuck to the same script (what the AP... more
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Over the years, Republicans have used lots of tactics to win presidential elections. But here's one I never expected to see: running as Democrats.
That's the idea behind the latest TV spot for John McCain and Sarah Palin. It brags about things that are generally more congenial to Democratic voters than to Reaganites. McCain, it tells us, "took on the drug industry," while Palin "took on Big Oil." It goes on: "He battled Republicans and reformed Washington. She battled Republicans and reformed Alaska." Not a word about battling Democrats. If you didn't know better, you'd think they had just been nominated by the party of Roosevelt and Clinton.
This is just the latest feint in that direction. An earlier McCain ad said, "Washington is broken," and "We're worse off than we were four years ago"--neglecting to mention that his party has controlled the presidency for the last eight years and both houses of Congress for most of the last 14. Usually, when you say the country is worse off than it was four years ago, you're asking voters to evict the president's party.
That commercial, too, sounded themes shamelessly plagiarized from John Edwards: "Only McCain has taken on Big Tobacco, the drug companies . . . He'll reform Wall Street, battle Big Oil." Anti-capitalist populism may be dead in the Democratic party, but it seems to have found new life in the GOP.
Will this work? There's no telling, but if McCain and Palin think it's a good idea to impersonate Democrats, Barack Obama and Joe Biden might want to make sure voters know who the real Democrats are.
Over the years, Republicans have used lots of tactics to win presidential elections.... more
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Because fundamentalism is fundamentalism, no matter what you quote. Calls attention to the similarities between extreme views like Palin's and Islamic extremist views.Because fundamentalism is fundamentalism, no matter what you quote. Calls attention to... more
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MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" beat Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" in the key Adults 25-54 demographic for the first time ever last week.
"Countdown" averaged 477,000 viewers (A25-54) vs. O'Reilly's 472,000 (excluding Tuesday's primary coverage). This marks the first time that MSNBC has beaten Fox News in O'Reilly's 8pm time slot since June 2001.
MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" beat Fox News' "The... more
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In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political culture: The "Liberal Media":
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"If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. . . . In this case, the "liberal media" didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."
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Just consider how remarkable that is. George Bush's own Press Secretary criticizes the American media for being "too deferential" to the Government. He lays the blame for Bush's ability to propagandize the nation on the media's uncritical dissemination of the Republican administration's falsehoods. And most notably of all, McClellan actually uses cynical scare quotes when invoking the phrase which, in conventional political discourse, is deemed the most unassailable truth of all: The Liberal Media.In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott... more
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