By Denis Campbell
It was a Page 11 story. STILL racially segregated proms exist in the deep USA South. It barely rated a whisper. Perez Hilton getting punched by the Black Eyed Peas manager and the crisis in Iran led the news. All sides said in Georgia said the prom situation was “normal because their parents [...]
Tag | New York Times
Racially Segregated Proms… in 2009! Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
Posted on 24 June 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Deep South, Montgomery High School, New York Times, racism, segregated proms, The Telegraph, Voting Rights Act
Two Great Political Limericks from Sunday
Posted on 23 March 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: Bias, Biceps, Bloggers, Brent Bozell, Brit Hume, FOX, Irony, Maureen Dowd, Media, Media Research Center, Michelle Obama, MRC, New York Times, news, Op Eds, Oval Office, Partisanship, Sinewy Arms
by Madeleine Begun Kane
Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done [...]
Gutenberg The Last Print Innovator
Posted on 19 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: bleeding millions in cash weekly, book publishers, Boston Globe, Bush Administration, business model never changed, die off weekly by the dozens globally, fibre optic cable and hi-speed Internet access, Great Depression, Gutenberg, magazines, New York Times, newspapers, revisionist history, San Francisco Chronicle, The Last Print Innovator, The P-I (Post-Intelligencer) Seattle’s only daily newsp, The Rocky Mountain News, Tucson Arizona’s Citizen
What the Great Depression and two World Wars could not humble, we’re now supposed to believe has been brought to its knees by fibre optic cable and hi-speed Internet access? The former Bush Administration is not the only group guilty of revisionist history. Newspapers, magazines and book publishers die off weekly by the dozens globally [...]
Big ‘Hoorah!’ To The NYT’s Dexter Filkins
Posted on 02 January 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: both of which are profiting from opium smuggling, British, Charley James, Compared to what goes on daily throughout Afghanistan’s, Dexter Filkins, did much of his reporting simply standing in front of g, especially since thousands more American troops will be, European reporters based permanently in Kabul, Even if they want to know more they have to really go o, feudal war lords who’ve run the country for centuries, narco-state formerly known as Afghanistan, New York Times, No wonder Americans are so ill-informed about the world, or refused to do so, paying and receiving bribes, relatively few number of American, surging Taliban, talking to people coming out after they paid a bribe to, why did it take so long for any Western journalist to w, why did the Bush administration allow the situation to, Why has the news media been sleeping
by Charley James
In a devastatingly critical examination of the narco-state formerly known as Afghanistan, the New York Times’ Dexter Filkins today documents case after case of wide spread corruption on a massive scale in the Afghan government, including officials ranging from low-level, local bureaucrats right up to the brother of President Hamid Karzai. Filkins shows [...]
Chris Matthews Is Becoming The Left’s Bill O’Reilly
Posted on 21 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Bosnia, Chris Matthews, Christopher Hitchens, Dan Burton, David Gregory, Eric Boehlert, FOX News, Hardball, Indiana Representative, Jamison Foster, Keith Olbermann, Linda Tripp, Media Matters, Michelle Bernard, Mr. Orally, MSNBC, New York Times, New York Times Op-Ed piece, obama, Op-Ed, Peter Beinart, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Time magazine, Vanity Fair, Vince Foster
by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]
Gordon Brown in His Element
Posted on 14 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: a cratering economy, back-stabbing from within his own Cabinet, backlash for being a loyal Bush lapdog for years over I, bad luck, banker’s worst nightmare come true, Baroness Thatcher, being completely transparent and fully open, budding secessionist movements in Scotland (and Wales?), Carter Dougherty, Chancellor Alistar Darling, crisis of party confidence, cynics compared him to John Major, Denis Campbell, dividend payments, Gordon Brown, have 60 million shareholders, key shareholder in each bailed out bank, Labour, mostly missing in the USA bailout version, nasty backbiting comments his former boss, New York Times, oversaw a massive Tory defeat to Tony Blair, PM Brown, protections for the government, public Labour fatigue, quid pro quo, scathing report of how the UK and London in particular, series of dramatic pratfalls, stern and steady hand on the UK economic tiller, strict rules on executive compensation, sweeping bank rescue package, tide threatening to wash Mr Brown to sea, Time Magazine Europe edition, timing could not be worse, Tony Blair, “New Labour”
By Denis Campbell
Gordon Brown knows quid pro quo.
He sat quietly in waiting for 12-years as his would-be mentor Tony Blair stayed vainly in power much too long and frittered away Labour’s public standing in a series of dramatic pratfalls, the biggest being a huge backlash for being a loyal Bush lapdog for years over Iraq. [...]
Sarah Palin’s Feminine Wiles Fall Short
Posted on 29 September 2008 by Sharon Kyle | Comments (0) | Tags: 14 points higher than women. Desperately Searching for, 62 percent of men have a favorable opinion of the Alask, a strictly professional exchange, addressed Gibson as “Charlie” no less than five times, adept at using her charm and beauty to distract from ot, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Alaskan Governor, attractive woman, average citizen is still left wondering — who is Sarah, Biden will be in a precarious position, Bob Herbert, campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, Charles Gibson of ABC, Christopher Beam, CNN, CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, compile and analyze what people are searching for on th, Couric didn’t seem to be biting, Couric seemed to rattle Palin, did not seem to work in Palin’s favor, earmarks investigation, enough is enough, Fareed Zakaria has asked that she step down, Feminine Wiles Fall Short, fifty-seven percent of male respondents said Palin was, gender gap, hard pressed to find a single report that looked favora, I trust that he’s up to the task, impossible to grasp the dialogue exchanged between Pali, it gives her an edge over her opponent that all attract, it is not all men. George Will, Jack Cafferty’s exasperation, Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, keywords “Sarah Palin legs”, looking directly and unwaveringly at Palin as she stumb, McCain avoided eye contact with Obama, moderated by veteran journalist Gwen Ifill, MSNBC, NBC believes what people search for says a lot about ho, NBC National Journal Reporter Carrie Dann asserts that, NBC News uses online research company Hitwise, New York Times, nine points higher than women, Palin is favored by men, Palin operating outside her comfort zone, Palin resembled a high-schooler trying to BS her way th, Palin searches caused web traffic to spike almost 30 ti, putting an unqualified pilot in the cockpit of a jetlin, reporters could not go into the meetings, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin knows where her strength lies, Sharon Kyle, she touched his arm, she’ll invite it, Slate, subtle gestures easily dismissed as personal style, the idea that the voters of the United States might ins, the reporter ban was a miscommunication, Thursday’s debate, volume fell almost as quickly as it rose, What’s important is that Palin feel comfortable enough, whether Palin is qualified to serve as president, Why else would the McCain campaign shield her from the, Within the first 7, zooming in on hard-hitting questions while staring with
by Sharon Kyle
Shortly after the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, a slew of reports hit the Internet assessing the VP candidate’s performance. Try as I might, I was hard pressed to find a single report that looked favorably on Palin’s delivery. Slate’s Christopher Beam said that Palin resembled, “a high-schooler trying to BS her way through [...]
Paulson, Bernanke, Try Hustling Congress
Posted on 24 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: "the market" is an alternate life form requiring no sup, a few members have read the fine print, And so it goes, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Bush Administration, Charley James, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Do you think Wall Street owes the American people an ap, everyone was responsible so no one is responsible, executive compensation, familiar administration tactic of hysteria, fight against "socialized medicine" wholeheartedly supp, Henry Paulson, Here we go again, Iraq War resolution, Linda Ellerby, Lubyanka, many people who made mistakes, many regulators who made mistakes, New York Times, not to fret, not to upset “marketplace forces”, not to worry, old Supreme Soviet, Patriot Act, Paulson, public ownership of bailed out institutions, Senator Dodd, show him the money today, spent today trying to hustle Congress, There’s a lot of blame to go around, tomorrow he’ll talk with Congress about nettlesome issu, Try Hustling Congress, Wall Street is an abstraction
by Charley James
Here we go again.
As the Bush administration did with the Patriot Act and Iraq War resolution, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke spent today trying to hustle Congress into new territory using the familiar administration tactic of hysteria. Fortunately, this time it looks as if more than a few members have read the fine [...]
From A Dog Named Checkers To The Wholesale Looting Of America.
Posted on 23 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: $35-million a year man, 1952, balking at some of the restrictions Sen. Chris Dodd, Bush the 21st century’s Herbert Hoover, Capitol Hill, chairmen of their respective banking committees, Charley James, closeness to Senator McCain, Congress, Congressional and regulatory oversight, Dwight Eisenhower, greedy minions, Hank Paulson, Home Ownership Alliance, homeowner relief and provisions such as controlling bon, insisting be written into the law, John McCain’s BFF Phil Gramm, K Street Project, made small fortunes from corporations seeking access to, managed, McCain-Palin campaign, New York Times, Nixon’s dog Checkers, nor any regulatory agency could override their decision, nor the courts, Pat Nixon, Ponzi scheme artists, Pres. Bush, received $5-million from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Rep. Barney Frank, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Rick Davis, run by K Street men, runs the US Treasury, staffed, the campaign’s manager, Today, Wholesale Looting Of America, “Checkers” speech
- by Charley James
On Today in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech. Appearing on flickering, black-and-white sets across America, his wife seated next to him like the stage prop she’d play for the rest of Nixon’s life, he denied allegations of [...]
Grandpa and the Beauty Queen
Posted on 30 August 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 18 months as governor of a state whose population is le, 20 years as a hockey mom, a few years as a semi-full time mayor of a tiny Alaskan, able to alter positions on a dime, Alaska, American women want to have the freedom of choice over, Anchorage Daily News, another version of the same old same old, ANWAR drilling, Beauty Queen, blatant pandering to women is an insult to their intell, Bridge to Nowhere, Bush White House, Charley James, claims climate change is a fiction, concerned about gun violence in cities, Concerned Women for America, creepy, day before Michael Jackson turned 50, depending on which way the political winds are blowing, dismissing her as a Dan Quayle joke, doesn’t think Polar Bears need protecting, experience, exposing facts about Palin and her lack of depth, far right group, Gail Collins, given us for eight years, Grandpa, Hail Mary pass, Hanoi Hilton residents, insist he did and said anything to get better treatment, insults from The White House and Republicans in Congres, Janice Shaw Crouse, knowledge, McCain, McCain turned 72, New York Times, not a fresh face, one issue evangelicals, Palin revealed her ugly side during the Troopergate sca, platform, remaining shards of integrity, Republican corruption, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin is not handling pressure well, schools, she brushes against it, short fuse, Social Security, straight out of the Bush mold, stubborn streak, the GOP, Underestimating her, understanding of the world, want the federal government to spend money on health ca, want to be paid the same as men, will overshadow emotion
By Charley James
Watching John McCain hug Sarah Palin yesterday was almost creepy: It was like seeing an old man not fit to be president copping a feel off a woman roughly half his age who’s not fit to be vice president. Eerily, it happened a few days after McCain turned 72 and the day before [...]
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