Rachael Maddow: Fox News has run with a few different stories this year that they really pushed all on their own. They weren’t mainstream news stories — they weren’t even news, really. They were Fox agenda items, all following a very, very similar narrative. There was the Van Jones controversy, with Fox morphing the president’s renewable-energy policy expert into an ex-con who served time after the Rodney King race riots — not true. The other great Fox News crusade of the past year was against ACORN, an almost all-minority community organizing group which Fox characterized as stealing...
Continue reading...July 2010
New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s is from Nicholas \”The Dark Crystal\” Kristof, who in his...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Thursday, 22 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Lindsay\’s in jail but getting special treatment. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama will sign into law today the Improper Payment Elimination Act, a bill designed to cut fraudulent spending and wasteful programs. The International Court of Justice will issue its verdict today on whether Kosovo\’s declaration of independence from Serbia was legal. Budget cuts in Newark force mayor Cory Booker to order the city to stop buying toilet paper. The president yesterday signed the financial reform bill into law. What\’s in it, and how does it work? William Saletan: The Lynching of Shirley...
Continue reading...In defense of an admittedly terrible argument
As you probably already heard from this post, Lady Blaga and I have a little wager going on concerning how many votes Elena Kagan’s nomination manages to wrangle in the Senate. Based on some pretty terrible and Friday-night-related maths, I predicted she’d be confirmed, and that it would be by the slimmest of margins: 60 votes. No more, no less. Of course, I didn’t quite expect Lindsey Graham to pull a…Lindsey Graham and not be a hypocrite. So, I’m changing my prediction to 63-64 (Lady Blaga predicts 65), but I do hold to my word and will...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s is from Tom \”Tommy Boy\” Friedman, who in his column...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Sarah\’s not going to Bristol\’s wedding. Now, your morning constitutional: USDA employee Shirley Sherrod resigned yesterday after it was revealed that she gave a racist speech to the NAACP. Oh, wait: turns out it was a speech about overcoming racism. This morning, President Obama will sign the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The U.S. has announced new sanctions against North Korea targeting the sale and purchase of arms and import of luxury goods. The Senate broke a Republican filibuster yesterday on a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to those...
Continue reading...Lindsey Graham's Mavericky Vote for Kagan
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Elena Kagan’s nomination, approving it in a 13-6 vote. Predictably, the vote went along party lines, with one notable exception. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham not only voted for Kagan, he explained at length why he did so, espousing his view of how the confirmation process ought to work: No one spent more time trying to beat President Obama than I did…But I understood we lost. President Obama won and I’ve got a lot of opportunity to disagree with him. But the Constitution in my view puts a requirement on me...
Continue reading...No Hipsters in China, Part 2
Via The New Yorker. Goo: Somewhere over the Pacific, Pabst Blue Ribbon began putting on airs. That reliably blue-collar Milwaukee lager, later adopted by unbearable hipsters on the coasts, has turned up in China. And P.B.R., best known in the U.S. for being the cheapest beer on the grocery-store shelf, has—like so many expatriates before it—taken the move as an opportunity to change its image. For a beer, that appears to involve an elegant glass bottle and a fantastically ridiculous price tag. One bottle: forty-four dollars.
Continue reading...Morning Consitutional – Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Elisabeth Hasselbeck doesn\’t like Kathy Griffin much at all. Now, your morning constitutional: The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court today. If she is approved by the committee, her nomination will go before the full Senate, who will likely vote on her before their August recess. The Senate will consider a bill today that would that would extend unemployment benefits for those who have been out of work for more than six months, a bill that has been blocked so far by Republicans. According to...
Continue reading...Super racist New Hampshire State House candidate Ryan Murdough is super racist
Holy crap, here’s a special specimen. In a letter to the Concord Monitor, Republican (probably in name only, since “they sold white people out”) Ryan Murdough writes: For far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something beneficial to their existence. Statistics prove that the opposite is true. New Hampshire residents must seek to preserve their racial identity if we want future generations to have to possibility to live in such a great state. Affirmative action, illegal and legal non-white immigration, anti-white public school systems, and an anti-white media have done much damage to...
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