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Watch: It turns out that O'Reilly's moment of clarity was just another opportunity to slam Liberals...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=32276Watch: It turns out that O'Reilly's moment of clarity was just another... more
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Let's get this straight. In my opinion, Rush Limbaugh was wrong. He was wrong in calling a young woman a slut and prostitute. He was insincere, at best, in his multiple apologies. He was wrong - or deliberately lying - about salient information covering contraception. In short, the man is a dog rocket, but his oft repeated claim that Democrats are just as guilty at slinging the mud at him has some validity.Let's get this straight. In my opinion, Rush Limbaugh was wrong. He was wrong in... more
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Fox News has begun it's annual fear fest over a non-existent "war on Christmas" by those godless liberals, using the most ridiculous examples to frighten their misinformed audience that everyone but Republicans are out to kill Santa, stomp on baby Jesus, and ruin the holidays for everyone else. Jon Stewart took the airwaves on Tuesday to mock and debunk the anti-Christmas propaganda...
http://veracitystew.com/2011/12/07/jon-stewart-takes-on-fake-war-on-christmas-video/Fox News has begun it's annual fear fest over a non-existent "war on... more
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PCW House Show
Richmond Coliseum
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday July 20th, 2011
MATCH #1 Magnum PO’d (R) w/ Robyn Masters def. GreenPete w/ the Green World Order (D)
- after Magnum PO’d dominated the first half of the match, the Green World Order (‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee, Peta from PETA, and PeaceNick) ganged up on Magnum, and spent most of the match weakening him down. Eventually, Robyn Mastersi came in and cleaned house, and Magnum hit his finisher on one for the win.
After the match, Peta from PETA, already agitated about GreenPete losing the previous match, gets on the microphone to denounce former WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels’s new Outdoor Channel Show “Shawn Michaels MacMillan River Adventures.”
Peta said in response to the show: “Jeffrey Dahmer ate everything he killed, too, but that didn’t justify taking innocent lives.”
Michaels stuns onlookers by coming out and then referee shows up in the ring?
MATCH #2 Shawn Michaels vs. Peta from PETA w/the Green World Order
um…Peta rushes forward…Sweet Chin Music by Michaels. Michaels covers. Match is over.
Fresh off winning the PCW King of Extreme title, Keith Olbermann walks out holding the belt up high along with his FOK buddies David Shuster, Shannyn Moore, and Andrea Mitchell. Olbermann gloats about the party that Al Gore (D) threw for himself and his friends afterwards. Olbermann says the party tonight is in celebration of “me” as the world champion.
Then “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from the Les Miserables soundtrack interrupts Olbermann and out comes Charlie Blackwell (American Heartland) followed by 25 of his Les Miserables. Blackwell reiterates that no one is bigger than PCW, including Keith Olbermann’s big fat ego. There’s a Charlie Blackwell chant. Blackwell talks about how the current PCW budget impasse shouldn’t be about ego and party. He denounces the rich fat cats in both parties more concerned about protecting their seat and placating special interest groups than making the hard decisions that need to be made.
Olbermann is, predictably, quite irate with Blackwell’s interruption and taunts him with ‘at least I have a nightly cable TV show. How about you?’ Blackwell retorts that he could put together a show with wrestling finger puppets and pull the same rating Olbermann pulls at Current TV.
Blackwell then gets jumped by Triple R (D) and ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D) and then the Les Miserables get involved creating quite the scrum.
In the aftermath, guest ring announcer Jamie Chung announces that tonight’s main event will be Charlie Blackwell vs. Triple R.
MATCH #3 Joe Walsh (R-IL) vs. ‘Hardball’ Chris Matthews (D)
- Walsh and Matthews have huge issues with each other after Walsh’s contentious appearance on Matthews’s show. Matthews goes for the Biovator but Walsh blocks it and connects with the Freshmen Flush to get the win.
Backstage, Olbermann threatens Blackwell for attacking him and Triple R says he’s leaving on a stretcher. Triple R says he has a lot of aces in the hole, such as the ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism and his valets, The Skanky Rich Bimbos (Kim, Courtney, and Chloe).
MATCH #4 The California Teacher’s Union (D) (“Foul Pole” Andy Golatta and Malibu Dusty) w/pet Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) vs. Rough Justice (R) (D.B. Ruff and Connor Justice- two former police officers fired because of their extreme brand of law enforcement)
-The CTU is trying to angle themselves back into the Tag Team title picture. Rough Justice is better known for being hired muscle or enforcers than for their wrestling. Rough Justice puts up a valiant fight but Andy Golatta’s ‘Foul Pole’ low blows turn the tide. Malibu Dusty gets the pin for the CTU with a simple roll up of Ruff.
In the lobby, there’s a pie throwing boot. People are lined up and down the lobby waiting for their shot. A woman, face covered in white Kool-Whip, leaves the the back of the booth.
Rupert Murdoch walks in. “Where do I stand?”
MATCH #5 Average Joe (Tea Party) w/Michele Bachmann vs. James the Jeep Worker (D) w/ Big Labor and the CTU
- Average Joe tries to bring the Tea Party a win over Democrat James the Jeep Worker. The match was just there at first until Bachmann came down with a migraine headache. Big Labor and the California Teacher’s Union then interfere and help James the Jeep Worker get over.
Backstage, PCW CEO Barack Obama, with PCW Champion Yamamoto Tanaka beside him, is talking with the ‘Gang of Six.’ Then he walks to the podium.
Obama: We now are seeing the potential for a bipartisan consensus. The proposal by the Gang of Six is “broadly consistent” with what I have sought.”
Eric Cantor, The Tea Party, and Grover Norquist: “NO NEW TAXES!”
Nancy Pelosi, AFL/CIO President Richard Trumka, and Bernie Sanders: “NO CUTS IN ENTITLEMENTS.
Obama: This proposal from the bipartisan group is “good news” in the ongoing showdown over the debt limit, and may signal a path to compromise and “a very significant step forward.”
Eric Cantor, The Tea Party, and Grover Norquist: “NO NEW TAXES!”
Nancy Pelosi, AFL/CIO President Richard Trumka, and Bernie Sanders: “NO CUTS IN ENTITLEMENTS.
Obama: We’re in the 11th hour and we don’t have a lot of time left. My team will study the plan and I would urge congressional leaders to start negotiating based on its framework.
Eric Cantor, The Tea Party, and Grover Norquist: “NO NEW TAXES!”
Nancy Pelosi, AFL/CIO President Richard Trumka, and Bernie Sanders: “NO CUTS IN ENTITLEMENTS.
MATCH #6 PCW Tag Team Champions The Schmidt Brothers (Jack and Joe) (R) w/Ron Paul and Jim Schmidt vs. The Bureaucrats (Jordan Metzger and Andy Riley) (D)
- It was what it was. The Schmidts easily handled their opponents early on. Then Metzger and Riley rallied for a bit before Jack came in and cleaned house. Stereo Schmidt-Bricks ended it.
Post match, the Schmidt’s Extreme German Schnauzer Hans Gruber chase The Bureaucrats to the back.
MAIN EVENT: Charlie Blackwell (AmHeart) w/Kenzie Blackwell and his Les Miserables vs. Triple R (D) w/Big Labor
- wild brawl that went all over the arena.
- Bill Maher and Ed Schultz came out and started taunting and saying derogatory things about Kenzie Blackwell. “The Queen of Political Extreme” Ann Coulter raced down and delivered a double clothesline to Maher and Schultz.
- then the Angry Left Wing Bloggers (Markos Moutilsas, Arianna Huffington, Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, and Katrina Vanden Heuvel of the Nation intervene.
- this brings down the Right Wing Brigadiers (Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh) and the match breaks down from there.PCW House Show
Richmond Coliseum
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday July 20th, 2011... more
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That’s right, Political Championship Wrestling will be in Midway, GA this Monday night for another politically extreme edition of PCW Extreme Political TV.
Midway, GA, of course, is known for their no nonsense, law and order attitude. Just look at this…
3 girls sitting just off the road selling lemonade. Suddenly, screeching tires can be heard down the road.
A SWAT van and several police cars pull up to the lemonade stand.
A stream of SWAT personnel exit the back of the van and surround the stand.
Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar gets out of his police car with a bullhorn. “ATTENTION GIRLS OPERATING UNAUTHORIZED LEMONADE STAND.”
“We’re right here,” says one of the girls.
“YOU DO NOT HAVE A PROPER BUSINESS LICENSE OR THE REQUIRED PEDDLERS OR FOOD PERMITS TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS.”
“I mean, we’re right in front of you,” says another girl.
“WE DON’T KNOW HOW YOUR LEMONADE WAS MADE. WE DON’T KNOW WHO MADE THE LEMONADE OR WHAT’S IN IT.”
“Really, we’re right in front of you.”
“WE ARE CLOSING YOU DOWN, I REPEAT, CLOSING YOU DOWN.”
The SWAT team remove the girls, wraps yellow ‘police line do not cross’ tape around the stand…
…and drinks the rest of the lemonade.
Ga. Police Shut Down Lemonade Stand- CBS News
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Monday night, PCW crowns the new King of Extreme Title. The contestants:
Rush Limbaugh
Sean Hannity
Ann Coulter
Markos Moutilsas
Arianna Huffington
‘Hardball’ Chris Matthews
Glenn Beck
Laura Ingraham
Bill O’Reilly
Alan Grayson
Rachel Maddow
Keith Olbermann
Catch all the exciting action this Monday night on PCW.That’s right, Political Championship Wrestling will be in Midway, GA this Monday... more
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by Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger
Smart phones are hip, trendy, and loaded with user-friendly apps. But these devices also collect and store your personal information, leaving huge security gaps.
The prevalence of spyware in mobile technology and social networking sites has huge implications as a privacy issue, since users have no way of knowing who’s peeping, or for what purpose. New concerns over mobile and Internet privacy have been raised at the federal and state level, and there’s already push-back from some of the major players in the tech industry.
Privacy Please
As Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) writes for Care2, recent studies indicate smart phones and other mobile apps are being used as remote spyware. Franken, one of the leading advocates for Net Neutrality and other media policy issues on Capitol Hill, notes that researchers found that “both iPhones and Android phones were automatically collecting certain location information from users’ phones and sending it back to Apple and Google—even when people weren’t using location applications.”
One particularly disturbing aspect of these revelations is that location information could be used by cyberstalkers. Franken notes he’s been contacted by battered women’s organizations on this issue, but as the senator states, there are “a range of harms that can come from privacy breaches.”
Stronger federal law concerning mobile broadband security is needed, Franken argues.
“Right now, once the maker of a mobile app, a company like Apple or Google, or even your wireless company gets your location information, in many cases, under current federal law, these companies are free to disclose your location information and other sensitive information to almost anyone they please — without telling you. And then the companies they share your information with can share and sell it to yet others — again, without letting you know.”
Social Networking Privacy Bill Faces Opposition from Facebook and Twitter
The widespread popularity of social networking has also resulted in widespread concerns over privacy. Yet, as Truthout’s Nadia Prupis reports, “Facebook, Google, Skype, and Twitter have joined forces to oppose an online privacy bill in California that would prevent the companies from displaying users’ personal information without explicit permission.”
The bill in question is SB 242, a.k.a. the Social Networking Privacy Act. Introduced by California State Senator Ellen Corbett (D), the bill would create stronger privacy guidelines, and also require social networking sites to remove personal information, if the user requests, within 48 hours. A failure to do so would result in a $10,000 fine per instance.
Facebook and other sites say such privacy protections could harm their business. But legislators weren’t so sure. California’s Senate Judiciary Committee, which passed the measure on May 16, called the threat to privacy “serious,” adding, “[It] is unclear how requiring that default settings be set to private would unduly restrict the free expression of users who elect to disseminate their information.”
Tweeting Back at Comcast
Former FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell-Baker’s pending move to Comcast has been met with loud cries over conflict of interest. As Public News Service’s Mark Scheerer reports, more controversy has erupted, this time over Reel Grrls, a Seattle media training summer camp for young women, which sent out a tweet denouncing Attwell-Baker’s new job.
“Following Reel Grrls’ Twitter post,” Scheerer says, “a local Comcast vice-president immediately rescinded its annual $18,000 donation to the girls’ program. Comcast then apologized, calling it an action by an ‘unauthorized employee.’ By then, says Reel Grrls director Mallory Graham, the media had picked up the story and support came pouring in.”
The story goes on to note that non-profits like the Center For Media Justice (CMJ) helped to raise more than $14,000 for the program, allowing Reel Grrls to politely decline Comcast’s offer to restore the funding. The upshot of the whole episode: Reel Grrls’ will focus its summer program on free speech issues.
An Open Internet, Communities of Color, and Astroturf Orgs
Afro-Netizen recently picked up an op-ed by CMJ’s Malkia Cyril on digital diversity as it relates to Net Neutrality. Cyril writes:
In the fight over who will control the Internet, big companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast are hoping they will win a pass on FCC oversight and public interest protection leaving them free to make as much profit as they can even if the service they provide is gated and discriminatory. Some civil rights groups are legitimately concerned that protecting the public from discrimination online -especially the poor and people of color- from the proven abuses of Big Media companies will result in those companies refusing to build out high speed broadband to rural communities and poor urban communities.
She goes on to express her concern over media advocacy organization the Minority Media and Telecommunication Council (MMTC), calling it an “Astroturf” outfit whose positions on the open Internet issue happen to coincide with those of the telecommunication companies, while appearing to champion increased minority broadband access.
As Cyril points out, there’s a perplexing disconnect there. “What doesn’t make sense is that groups like MMTC would deny that the financial relationship between them and the same media companies that are blackmailing the communities MMTC claims to represent, has an impact on their position on open Internet protections.”
Who You Callin’ a Slut?
On May 24, MSNBC talk-show host Ed Schultz referred to conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham as a “right-wing slut.” Though Schultz was publicly rebuked and quickly suspended by MSNBC after his remark, Yana Walton of the Women’s Media Center blogged that sexism isn’t OK, even when it’s directed at someone whose politics you don’t agree with. Though Walton says Schultz has historically been a supporter of women’s issues, she also notes:
In a media climate where Talkers Magazine’s “Heavy Hundred” list of the top talk radio hosts only included 12 women with their own programs, (plus two women co-hosts), such comments dissuade women from entering into political talk radio careers. Thus, such comments widen gender disparities in media even further and contribute to a climate where half of America’s voices and priorities are not heard.
Walton also praised MSNBC for their handling of the issue, saying the cable network’s “decision to place the issue of media sexism front and center was commendable, and today they set the example for other networks who are often guilty of media sexism, yet aren’t even beginning to address the problem.”
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about media policy and media-related matters by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. To read more of the Wavelength, click here. You can also follow us on Twitter.by Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger
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Radio can be a rough business, but this is a stunner. The radio market the size of Los Angeles now has a conservative hole the size of the Grand Canyon.Radio can be a rough business, but this is a stunner. The radio market the size of Los... more
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NBC political director Chuck Todd, weighing in shortly after Sarah Palin's fiery speech before the Republican faithful, declared "Conservatives have found their Obama."
Right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham agreed, telling Fox's Greta Van Susteren that it was the "night conservatives have been waiting for."
Ingraham continued with high praise: "It's one of the best political speeches I have heard ever!"
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Talk radio superstar Laura Ingraham (the top-rated lady host on the airwaves!) finally got her own television show on Fox News after acting as Bill O'Reilly's official guest-host for 100 years. It lasted for three weeks! In part because she's strenuously unpleasant, as these ten minutes of her preparing for air demonstrate.
Once again, Harry Shearer's magical satellite dish captures off-air television gold. Watch as Laura requests that you don't come in her ear and complains of a strange Hispanic gentlemen showing up in her prompter. (Fun fact: she used to date Keith Olbermann like ten years ago!) Talk radio superstar Laura Ingraham (the top-rated lady host on the airwaves!) finally... more
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