Archive for February 1, 2010
And You Think Roger Ailes & Fox Aren’t In Control of Republicans?
Daily Kos will release a new poll of 2,000 Republicans within the next day or two. Meanwhile, Marcos Moulitsas, Kos’ founder, has tweeted about some of the astonishing results. Crazy stuff the Republicans believe but these findings track the topics Faux has been hammering and spinning for the past year (start reading at the bottom):
Money, the Congo and Goldman Sachs in Perspective
On Saturday Nicholas Kristof told the horrific story of a 9-year-old girl in the Congo named Chance. Last May, Hutu soldiers burst into her home.
They killed her parents in front of her. Chance ran away, but the soldiers seized her two sisters, ages 6 and 12, and carried them away into the forest, presumably to be turned into “wives” of soldiers. No one has seen Chance’s sisters since.
Chance moved in with her aunt and uncle and their two teenage daughters. Two months later, the same militia invaded the aunt’s house and held everyone at gunpoint. Chance says she recognized some of the soldiers as the same ones who had killed her parents.
This time, no one could escape. The soldiers first shot her uncle, and then, as the terrified family members sobbed, they pulled out a large knife.
“They sliced his belly so that the intestines fell out,” said his widow, Jeanne Birengenyi, 34, Chance’s aunt. “Then they cut his heart out and showed it to me.” The soldiers continued to mutilate the body, while others began to rape Jeanne.
“One takes a leg, one takes the other leg,” Jeanne said dully. “Others grab the arms while one just starts raping. They don’t care if children are watching.”
Chance added softly: “There were six who raped her. One raped me, too.”
The soldiers left Jeanne and Chance, tightly tied up, and marched off into the forest with Jeanne’s two daughters as prisoners. One daughter is 14, the other 16, and they have not been heard from since.
In August, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to the Congo,
[S]he is the first secretary of state to venture into the war zone here — to unveil a $17 million plan to fight Congo’s stunning levels of sexual violence, a problem she called “evil in its basest form.”
Today we learn that Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, “stands to collect [a] $100 million bonus.“ $100 million. As a bonus. A bonus that is four times the amount the United States of America has pledged to helping little girls like Chance in the Congo.
This is sinful no matter how you look at it.
How to Get Your Book on the New York Times’ Best Seller List
ABCNews is reporting that Sarah Palin spent more than $63,000 from her political action committee to buy copies of her own book, “Going Rogue.”
Tweet of the Morning — The “Elite Media”
A glimpse into the priorities of our “elite media,” from David Corn:
Guns
Shocking statistics from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
I knew the number of gun-related deaths in the United States was huge but I had no idea it was this bad.
Tim Tebow is the Next Ronald Reagan?
Oh my God, if this is any indication of what the week is going to be like I might as well go back to bed and set my alarm for next Monday: Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel thinks Tim Tebow — the football player who will be in that anti-abortion ad that will air during the Super Bowl on Sunday — could be the next Ronald Reagan. And I don’t mean as an actor. I mean as president:
All you Tebow-bashers better brace yourself.
If you got sick of him when he was the king of Gator Nation, just wait until he becomes president of American Nation.
