The White Guy says this whole bru ha ha proves how out of touch the MSM is with the American people, and why.
Some people in the industry blame the decline of "traditional" media on the Internet. That's wrong. The decline of "traditional" media is because of their "tradition" of keeping their club predominantly white and male. Most of major media is pathetic now, flailing around; the major magazine publishers just recently got together to declare a digital standard for magazines. The problem is nobody cares anymore. And this folderol over the Super Bowl? Please. It's a LEADING INDICATOR, not an anomaly.
Planned Parenthood comes out swinging with their own ad posted on the Inter tubes, And The Women's' Media Center says Game On! You can sign their petition against the ad at not under the bus.com
"Game time is 6:30 on Sunday and the NFL is facing increased pressure to step in," says Spicuglia. "The last thing we need is CBS, the NFL, or their advertisers telling us when and how to have a family. It's not too late to send a letter in protest."
Rut Rho! ACORN fights back and prepare to sting the stinger. What's that saying about as you reap... And did you know that wanna be pimp James O'Keefe was playing dress up for the camera but not while inside the ACORN offices? Uh Huh.
But just imagine the years of outrage and endless repetition of the charges from the Right wing media and their acolytes --- folks like Crazy Andy --- that would accompany four operatives allied with the Democratic Party, perpetrating a scheme to dress up as phony telephone company employees in order to access and manipulate the phone system in the office of a sitting Republican U.S. Senator.
You know how the republicans love polls and the polling pollsters who poll them? Well, Daily Kos has polled the republican nation and it ain't pretty.
Ultimately, these results explain why it is impossible for elected Republicans to work with Democrats to improve our country. Their base are conspiracy mongers who don't believe Obama was born in the United States, that he is the second coming of Lenin, and that he is racist against white people. They already want to impeach him despite the glaringly obvious lack of high crimes or misdemeanors. If any Republican strays and decides to do the right thing and try to work in a bipartisan fashion, they suffer primaries and attacks. Even the Maine twins have quit cooperating out of fear of their homegrown teabaggers.
Chris Kromm of Facing South says the Kos poll illustrates the power of the red, republican, Confederate slave states. You think?
In short: The poll doesn't reflect a general shift to the right in the South. But it does show the growing hold of a certain form of far-right politics in Southern Republican circles, and a high level of receptivity among Republican Southerners to some of the conservative movement's most extreme views.
It's Black History Month so let's talk about Jim Crow Policing in New York City.
The New York City Police Department needs to be restrained. The nonstop humiliation of young black and Hispanic New Yorkers, including children, by police officers who feel no obligation to treat them fairly or with any respect at all is an abomination. That many of the officers engaged in the mistreatment are black or Latino themselves is shameful.
Say, have you seen my Democracy? I mean, really I want my Democracy back. Lawarence Lessig says if we want change we must change congress.
We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else. It was a moment rare in a democracy's history. The feeling was palpable--to supporters and opponents alike--that something important had happened. America had elected, the young candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and small-dollar contributions in a generation, the claim seemed credible, almost intoxicating, and just in time.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown
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