March 2012
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WatchAccording to Liz Trotta, black anchors and reporters should not share experiences of being profiled or discriminated against, since it “can only hurt their credibility.” After all, only white reporters and anchors have the credibility to objectively report on these issues without their “emotions getting in the way.”
If there was a time I wished a woman had balls so I could give...
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WatchIt almost happened. Not quite, but almost. Sooner or later, one of our favorite conservative darlings will forget themselves and really tell us how they feel about the president.
I only wonder if that’ll be eye-opening enough for those who can’t seem to comprehend how much these people hate that man for being in the Oval Office?
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I stumbled upon this comment over at Digby’s blog from one Graham Firchlis, and its an eye-opening one:
This compound ethic of religious fundamentalism, bigotry and an eagerness for self-abnegation is what drove poor whites in the Old South to fight and die for the Confederacy. It wasn’t because they were doing so much better than black slaves. They weren’t, by any measure...
Are Women Human?: Rekia Boyd, Black Woman Shot By... →
pearlfectchassi:
Source: Ben Bradley / ABC7Chicago.com
CHICAGO - A woman shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer on Wednesday morning died Thursday. Family members say she was an innocent bystander and are calling for an investigation into her death.
“How could this be justified?…
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In Aftermath of ICE Operation, Wyoming Woman Burns... →
cognitivedissonance:
There are no words. Please read and share.
En memoria de Erica y Miriam Delgado. Su historia no debe ser silenciada.
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The hits just keep coming for poor Rushbo:
Previously, ThinkProgress has reported that 50 companies requested their advertising be pulled from the Rush Limbaugh show following his sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke. The publication of the memo adds an additional 91 companies to the list of companies that have dropped Limbaugh…
Keeping the Think Progress correction in mind, that brings the...
A 24-year-old Michigan woman wins $1,000,000 from the state lotto. Not big news in itself, except for one thing:
A Michigan woman who won a $1-million lottery jackpot last fall admits she’s continued to collect $200 a month in public assistance. That’s not all: The 24-year-old also says she deserves the financial aid because she’s now saddled with expenses related to two...
This is how it works in A-merry-ca. At the end of the day, left or right, it doesn’t really matter; we are all just one big happy family. Frankly, it makes me want to puke.
The above is Field Negro wondering why the hell a guy like Bill Maher would go out of his way to give cover to Rush Limbaugh, of all people:
“Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking...
At presser, Obama gets questions from TV nets, not...
politico:
A full list of reporters who got questions and their news organizations follows:
Mike Viquiera, NBC News
Jake Tapper, ABC News
Jackie Calmes, New York Times
Ed Henry, Fox News
Aamer Madhani, USA Today
Jessica Yellin, CNN
Lori Montenegro, Telemundo
Norah O’Donnell, CBS News
Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Christi Parsons, Chicago Tribune
Science brings forth yet another disturbing piece of tech. First the microwave gun, now this:
The gun operates based on the concept of delayed auditory feedback. An attached microphone picks up the sound being made by the target and plays it back 0.2 seconds later. The effect is incredibly confusing to the human brain, making it all but impossible to talk or hold a conversation. The device...
More advertisers are backing away from the man with the golden EIB microphone:
AOL Tax Resolution Services Heart & Body Extract Bonobos Sears Allstate Sensa
Hell hath no fury than a shitload of people scorned. I only wished things were this way when the First Lady and Malia were getting slagged.
H/T Media Matters
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich turns down federal disaster aid:
The governor said Ohio can respond to the crisis without federal help and he would not ask federal authorities to declare the region a disaster area. “I believe that we can handle this,” Kasich said while visiting a shelter for storm victims at New Richmond High School. “We’ll have down here all the assets of the state.”
The county’s...
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“On his program Thursday, Fox News’ Sean Hannity spoke with Steve Bannon (producer of The Undefeated, among various other films) about a series of tapes Andrew Breitbart claimed to have about Barack Obama. Breitbart mentioned the tapesduring his recent CPAC speech, sharing that “[w]e are going to vet [Barack Obama] from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are...
