“As for the killing of Osama bin Laden, Mr. Obama did what virtually any commander in chief would have done in the same situation. Even President Bill Clinton says in the film “that’s the call I would have made.” For this to be portrayed as the epic achievement of the first term tells you how bare the White House cupboards are.”
What’s God got to do with it? He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure, Michael Shermer writes in an op-ed.
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“The president has more than a year to go before the next election, but Obama has stopped governing and has shifted entirely to campaign mode. This is what it looks like when a president quits.”
“By that time I had moved from the Op-Ed page into a job — executive editor — in which I was obliged to keep my opinions to myself lest they be mistaken for the newspaper’s agenda or influence our coverage. I’m pretty sure the reporters who have covered Iraq with such distinction in the ensuing years could not tell you whether I still believed the war was just or necessary. I’m not sure I knew myself at that point. It is the job of news to recount, clear-eyed, what is, and questions of what should be are an occupational distraction. In any case, I declined to participate in Slate’s collective examination of conscience.”
“Reagan believed that there were constitutional limits on federal power, yet he understood that constitutional arguments wouldn’t resonate with modern Americans, living in a highly mobile society defined by technological and social change. Perry and Paul are offering a federalism rooted in constitutional nostalgia. Reagan offered a federalism that looked to the future.”
(via thedailyfeed)
“Journalism just doesn’t feel comfortable with interpreting news or reporting or analyzing numbers, so the criteria for accurate science reporting have become limited to those facts that were clearly objective and understandable — did I quote Professor X accurately, get his title right, correctly report what his research says? Which means we end up with the perplexing situation that, even though there is nothing inaccurate with the media coverage of the addiction study, we’d be wrong to accept the coverage — or the authors’ policy recommendations — at face value.”
Opinion columnist Trevor Butterworth on the media’s inability to accurately report on science. (via thedailyfeed)
Oh, reporting on science.
(via thedailyfeed)
Now that the Anthony Weiner saga is behind us we can, as the media told us, move on to more important things. I for one, did not realize how important the Casey Anthony trial is. I better start following it.
I just realized, I AM disappointed in Anthony Weiner
Not because of anything he Tweeted or any of this OH MY GOD HE LIED, OH, THE HUMANITY. That’s between the congressman and his wife.
What I am disappointed in is that he apologized to Andrew Breitbart.
“Particularly for liberals, this is a defining moment in the Obama presidency. If he gives an inch on Medicare you will hear the roar in Washington and around the country.”
CNN Lets ‘You Decide’ About Trump’s ‘Birther’ Claims
What annoys me the most about this CNN segment is the fact that they’ve already done their own investigation on this topic, years ago. So, is CNN now saying that their reporting was shoddy? The CNN investigative report, which was brought to the attention of Donald Trump when he was recently interviewed on CNN, comes to the conclusion that the birther controversy is completely untrue.
So, once again CNN does it’s usual schtick, the one Jon Stewart points out all the time, they are not reporting the news, they are reporting the controversy as if it were the news. Hey CNN, if you stand by your investigative report the segment here should be called, “Why is Trump lying?” or maybe something like, “Keeping them honest.”
Yeah, I consider myself a liberal, a progressive or whatever those crazy kids call it nowadays. So, putting aside the whole Markos - MSNBC nonsense for now, I love that MSNBC tilts left. Cenk Uygur, of The Young Turks filling in for Dylan Ratigan and Lawrence O’Donnell joining their primetime lineup, well, this has to be considered the hay days for progressive voices on cable news thus far. But in order to be respected, and I am not talking balance, just fact based discussion and/or argument, then items like “Drone Attacks vs US Citizens” can’t be part of a graphic when debating, well, anything. With the exception, I guess, if you’re one of those “Truthers.” I mean, seriously, does anyone really believe that it is a conservative tenet to “Attack” US citizens? No matter the compromise, items like that give opponents ammunition to label MSNBC as the Fox News of or for the left. Not to mention fodder for the sharp minds over at The Daily Show. Come on MSNBC be above that, be better than that. Progressives need a network that is tough to impugn. Fox News seems to not care and in my opinion that is consistent with Republican policies. So please MSNBC, care.
Nick of Time: Out of Work, and Running for President
Hey everyone, I have a question… Who are the three front running Presidential candidates for the Republican Party, and what do they all have in common? Well if you guessed any combination of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin or Rudy Gulianni, I bet most of America would agree with that assessment. What do they all have in common? Like over 22.6 million people in the United States… THEY ARE ALL OUT OF WORK! (Sort of).
Brooklynmutt posted this picture on their site once again picking on poor FOX News for their poor math. But that’s not what got me… what got me is how the GOP is pushing candidates that not only lost BADLY to the democrats, but candidates who are out of office, not offering anything new to their resume except multiple appearances on FOX News. Sarah Palin quit her job two-thirds into her first term… Gulianni’s 2008 Presidential run was at best embarrassing… Mitt Romney has been non-existent since his 2008 “religiolous” flop, and Huckabee left after his first term in 2007 prior to running for President. What have they done for us lately? (On a side-note will anyone from the GOP admit that 9/11 happened under a Republican President… jeesh! )
But seriously, with Sarah Palin writing books and accepting a paid position from FOX News, Mike Huckabee who has had his own show for quite some time, along with Romney and Gulianni hitting the talk show circuits to talk about their political ambitions is completely symbolic of what has become the GOP. Pure and unadulterated laziness! They are not contributing anything to the on-going debate on healthcare, the environment, the economy, or even national security. All they are doing is critiquing the President for the sake of critiquing. Not one ounce of productivity is taking place on their part. They are literally TALKING a good game, but not taking part in it. Republicans should be looking to find that new candidate that can possibly restore order in the free market, while keeping it “free”, or a candidate that has ideas on how to better ourselves for a more secure future that does not feel the need to fear us with the same old tactics and superstitions. I know it may seem I am asking a lot, but right now… I want a working Republican to consider for the highest office… not out of work, egotistical glory seekers.
This is not a knock on Republicans, but a challenge. The only way the Democrats can deliver on their promises is when there are realistic challengers on the horizon. I’ll be frank… as in “Barney Frank”… if I was President Obama, I would easily cave on key issues knowing that the best and brightest of the Republican Party are not the best or the brightest, but the laziest.
Until next time…
by Brooklynmutt contributor Niko
I know there are plenty of people (yeah people, NOT FOLKS!) who think MSNBC is just the Left’s version of Fox News. Sure, Keith and Rachel have an obvious point of view, they express it nightly. So, without going on and on watch this segment and tell me whether or not Fox News would ever air anything close to this about a Republican Prez.
There is a huge difference between fundamentally agreeing with a basic political philosophy and being an out and out shill.
“[Keith] Olbermann cheapens discourse. He touts easy solutions. He speaks in truculent soundbites. His invective is hurting America!”
Bill George (who voted for Barack Obama), author, former Medtronic CEO, Harvard Business School professor, blogger, thinks Keith Olbermann is hurting America.
via tvnewser
