In last night’s debate, Rick Perry had a big gaffe while trying to name three federal agencies that he would flat-out cut if elected President. He was quick to name Education and Commerce, but couldn’t remember the third one over the course of over 50 seconds. The EPA was suggested to him by his colleagues [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Media'
Rick Perry’s real disaster
November 10th, 2011 · Comments Off
Tags: Republicans · The Media
Dahlia Lithwick on Occupy Wall Street & the Press
October 27th, 2011 · Comments Off
Dahlia Lithwick: I confess to being driven insane this past month by the spectacle of television pundits professing to be baffled by the meaning of Occupy Wall Street. Good grief. Isn’t the ability to read still a job requirement for a career in journalism? And as last week’s inane “What Do They Want?” meme morphs [...]
Tags: #OccupyWallStreet · The Media
Obama, Romney, & Reporting Wall St Money
October 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment
Yesterday there was a Washington Post story on how much money Obama and Romney have gotten from Wall Street which directly conflicted with a New York Times article earlier in the week. The Washington Post story reported that Obama has raised more money from Wall Street than all of the GOP candidates combined. The Times, [...]
Tags: Barack Obama · Elections · The Media
Sesame Street introduces poverty-stricken, hungry Muppet
October 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments
A sign of the times: A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of “Sesame Street”, the show said in a statement on Tuesday. Pink-faced Muppet Lily, whose family deals with food insecurity, will join Big Bird, Elmo and other favorites on a one-hour prime-time special featuring country star [...]
NYT editorial says Schneiderman shouldn’t go along with foreclosure settlement
August 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off
Originally posted at AMERICAblog This is big. The New York Times editorial board is saying that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman shouldn’t go along with the Obama administration’s, and Iowa AG Tom Miller’s, efforts to have a broad settlement of their ongoing foreclosure fraud investigation. (John reported on the administration’s efforts to push prosecutors [...]
Tags: Economy · Rule of Law · The Media
Rioting in the UK
August 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Originally via Baratunde Thurston, this video is both a good explanation of how and why the riots in the UK started. There’s profound economic distress, along with decades of racial tension and treatment of black Britons by the police as a suspect underclass. That dynamic plays out in the interview, between Darcus Howe and his [...]
Ezra’s World
August 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off
What world does Ezra Klein live in? To govern responsibly, Democrats cannot simply raise taxes on the rich and call it a day. That’s a world in which Republicans continuously force crises, refuse taxes, and extract deeper and deeper cuts. Already, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has called the GOP’s debt-ceiling brinksmanship “a new template” and [...]
Tags: Democrats · Republicans · The Media
Network, 2011
July 21st, 2011 · Comments Off
Cenk Uygur of MSNBC does his best Howard Beale impersonation, explaining to his audience why he turned down an offer from MSNBC that would have paid him more money to have a smaller role that prevented him from being as hard on the Obama administration and other Democrats as he currently is. As Cenk puts [...]
Tags: Progressive Infrastructure · The Media
Dick
June 30th, 2011 · Comments Off
In Morning Money this morning, Politico’s Ben White called out President Obama for being mean to big business yesterday in his news conference: HEAD SHAKER: BIZ BASHING RHETORIC RETURNS – Fairly or not, corporate America continues to disdain the Obama administration following two huge regulatory bills (health care reform and Dodd-Frank) that will increase compliance [...]
Tags: Barack Obama · The Media
The Wire v Dumb Drug Laws
June 10th, 2011 · Comments Off
Shot: I want to speak directly to [showrunners Ed] Burns and [David] Simon: Do another season of The Wire. –Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking at a Justice Department anti-child-abuse forum attended by Wire actors Wendell “Bunk” Pierce, Sonja “Kima” Sohn, and Jim “Prez” True-Frost. The Daily What. Chaser: “The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and [...]
Tags: Rule of Law · The Media
