Archive for February 6, 2010
Ed Schultz Sells His Soul to MSNBC’s Roloxdex
Ed Schultz is anchoring MSNBC’s coverage of Sarah Palin’s speech to the Tea Party “convention” in Nashville tonight. His guests have thus far consisted of Bob Shrum and Neal Boortz. Oh, and now he’s got a guy on who’s identified as “Lionel – Radio Talk Show Host.”
Has Ed Schulz sold his soul to MSNBC? Does he have a say as to who his guests are? If so, he’s a #FAIL because his guests are the same people we’ve seen on teevee for 10, 20 years.
If MSNBC doesn’t own him, what the hell is he thinking? There are so many interesting people out there he could have on.
When I hear that Schultz is gonna do this-or-that on MSNBC, I ain’t gonna get all that excited anymore. I mean, when I can’t tell the difference between Ed Schultz and David Gregory, I know it’s time to turn the channel.
Sarah Palin’s Plan to Fight Terrorism
February 6, 2010 in her address to the Tea Party “convention” in Nashville, Tennessee:
“We win. You lose. That’s the bottom line.”
Why No Shots of the Audience During Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Speech?
Is it skimpy? Was that a condition of her appearance?
Just askin’.
Sarah Palin Uses Tried and True Republican Meme: Be Afaid
Watching Palin at the Tea Party “convention.” Be afraid. Terror. Terror. Terror.
Tea Partiers Whine About the Media Ignoring Them — What a Joke
Whoever sent this tweet
has no idea what he or she is talking about.
“Good luck getting our message out there”? You’ve got to be kidding. All three cable “news” networks have been covering the Tea Party convention live from Nashville all day. Live coverage of Sarah Palin’s “keynote address” is coming up on CNN, MSNBC and Fox. CNN aired “special reports” this week about the Tea Party “movement,” and Fox, of course, has been leading the pack for months and months. They’re getting an unbelievable amount of coverage even thought there are only 600 people at their “convention.”
I link back to this post about how the history of the United States started for Tea Partiers on January 20, 2009. Insofar as they have been in a coma all their lives, they don’t know that when one million people marched against the Iraq war in London, 15,000 to 25,000 marched in Seattle, and millions more marched around the world, there was virtually no mention of that in the “elite” media.
And the ignorant Tea Partiers think they’re being ignored. Get a freakin’ grip.
Human Trafficking…in the United States
If you watch the corporate media you know it occasionally (very, very occasionally) aires stories about human trafficking. They’re always done from or about a foreign country with an air of superiority, as if such a thing would never, ever happen in the United States.
Human Trafficking in Central PA:
Every hour of every day there is someone who is lured into the United States, forced to work with no pay or coerced into becoming a sex slave. Human trafficking is a horrifying experience and it is happening right here in Central Pennsylvania.
Anywhere from 14,000 to 16,000 people are trafficking into this country each year. It’s modern day slavery and it’s a billion dollar industry.
One Of the Problems I Have With Tea Partiers
One of the big problems I have with the Tea Partiers is that virtually every single one of them that I’ve seen interviewed on television or read about in the newspaper, on blogs or on tweets, began paying attention to politics sometime during the past year. And it’s not like they dabbled in it before then; they didn’t pay any attention. So as a result, they have no memory of what’s been going on for the last 10, 15, 30 years. They don’t know, for example, that when W. came into office the budget was balanced. They don’t know that Bush kept the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan off the books, and consciously decided to put them on the charge card so he wouldn’t have to deal with any backlash about that huge debt.
And now, in their rush to “educate” themselves, they’re reading by the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and David Horowitz, and they’re watching Fox and listening to Rush. And of course, all those people leave out mention of the disastrous Republican policies.
Democrats had better start shouting — and loudly — about how we got to where we are or we’re going to have a whole group of people — a potentially big group at that — whose only knowledge of history is the propaganda fed to it by radicals on the right. And that is a frightening thing to think about.
Mid-Air Crash Just Miles From My House
A private plane collided with the tow-line of a glider being towed by another small plane this afternoon over Boulder, Colorado — just a few miles from my house. The glider self-released and made its way back to the airport but at least one of the motorized planes crashed. Whether they both did isn’t clear yet. Four people are dead.
Here’s the chilling video from MSNBC.
Very sad. And what a nightmare of an experience for the glider pilot.
UPDATE: Local news stations say both of the motorized planes crashed, and from what they’re saying it sounds like they collided; the tow-line wasn’t involved. They also say three people are confirmed dead but as many as five people may have died given the total seating capacity both planes. Debris is spread out over a mile and a half.
Again, so sad. We see gliders being pulled up over our house and toward the Rockies all day long around here. They ride the thermal winds that rise up off the plains. The tow pilots are average guys/gals just trying to make a living.
Sarah Palin Taking Questions Tonight At Tea Party Convention
Per CNN, Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the Tea Party convention will last roughly 35 minutes. (I believe it is scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m. ET.) Afterward she will take some pre-submitted, pre-screened questions.
Politics aside, anyone who, for whatever reason (fear, insecurity), refuses to take spontaneous questions from a live audience has no business contemplating being president.
Haunting Photographs From India
The 2010 Commonwealth Games are scheduled to take place in New Delhi, India in October. In preparation, New Delhi is in the midst of roughly 100 new construction projects, everything from new stadiums to a new international airport terminal. Immigrant workers from all over India are providing the extra labor. Some laborers bring their children with them and often they are put to work too.
Here is a series of nine haunting photographs that give a glimpse into their unimaginably hard lives.
MSNBC: Only Three Things Happening in the Whole Wide World
Per what MSNBC has been reporting repeatedly for hours this morning, these three stories are the only things happening in the whole wide world today:
1) Snow in the northeast.
2) Security concerns at the Super Bowl.
3) The Tea Party convention in Nashville.
