C&L's Late Night Music Club With Joe South

post from Crooks and Liars on 05 September 2012 11:00:20 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Title: You Need MeArtist: Joe South

R.I.P. Joe South

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WATCH: Sandra Fluke Explains The Republican War
On Women In 144 Seconds

post from ThinkProgress on 05 September 2012 11:00:04 PM. © ThinkProgress

Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student who was dragged into the national spotlight after Rush Limbaugh referred to her as a slut, said Wednesday it is time to choose between being “a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won.”

In a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., she warned:

Your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs. Who won’t stand up to the slurs, or to any of the extreme, bigoted voices in his own party. It would be an America in which you have a new vice president who co-sponsored a bill that would allow pregnant women to die preventable deaths in our emergency rooms. An America in which states humiliate women by forcing us to endure invasive ultrasounds that we don’t want and our doctors say we don’t need. An America in which access to birth control is controlled by people who will never use it; an America in which politicians redefine rape so survivors are victimized all over again; in which someone decides which domestic violence victims deserve access to services, and which don’t.

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Fluke contrasted that possibility with the supportive reception she received from a president who reached out to support her, strangers who lifted her up, and a convention that invited her to speak. She encouraged America to choose to be “a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom,” rather than “one where that freedom doesn’t apply to our bodies and our voices.”

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2012 Democratic convention live, #9

post from Daily Kos on 05 September 2012 10:47:48 PM. © Daily Kos

The Democratic National Convention 2012: We're winning Watch live video here and join the conversation as we live blog the 2012 Democratic convention

7:49 PM PT: Apparently President Clinton is speaking off-the-cuff now. Or at least without a TelePrompTer.

7:52 PM PT: "Did y'all watch their convention? I did." Laughter. "It went something like this. We left him a total, but he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in."

7:53 PM PT: "I like the argument for President Obama's reelection a heck of a lot better. Here it is: He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators."

7:53 PM PT: This gets the audience on its feet: "Are we where we want to be? No. Is the President satisfied? No. Are we better off than we were when he took office, with an economy in free fall, losing 750,000 jobs a month. The answer is YES."

7:54 PM PT:

Bill Clinton quotes Ronald Reagan. That one will leave a mark.
— @dailykos via TweetDeck

7:56 PM PT: With Clinton, Castro, Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and Deval Patrick, we've got five speeches so far in the DNC, all of which were better than any of the speeches in Tampa. Embarrassment of riches.

7:57 PM PT: So here's the jobs scorecard, Clinton says: President Obama?4.5 million. Congressional Republicans? Zero.

7:58 PM PT: "And I'll tell you something else, the automobile auto restructuring worked."

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2012 Democratic convention live, #8

post from Daily Kos on 05 September 2012 10:32:46 PM. © Daily Kos

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7:34 PM PT: President Clinton will take the stage soon, putting President Obama's name up for the Democratic Party's 2012 nomination.

7:34 PM PT: And here he comes, to Fleetwood Mac and "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow."

7:35 PM PT:

lets be sure to compare bill clinton's speech to george w. bush's. OH WAIT.
— @owillis via web

7:36 PM PT: "Fellow Democrats, we are here to nominate a president." Huge cheer. "And I've got one in mind."

7:36 PM PT: "A man who stopped a depression, and put us on the long road to recovery. ... I want to nominate a man who is cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside." Chills, listening to him speak.

7:37 PM PT: "And by the way, after last night, i want to nominate a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama." Brings down the house.

7:38 PM PT: "I want Barack Obama to the next president of the United States. And I proudly nominate him to be standard bearer of the Democratic Party."

7:38 PM PT: Good, he's good. That is all.

7:39 PM PT: About Republicans: They live in an "alternate universe." Quoting Bob Strauss, Clinton says Republicans want to convince everyone they were born in a log cabin they built with their hands. "But it ain't so."

7:39 PM PT: "We believe that we're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own."

7:40 PM PT: Since 1961, 28 years of Republican presidency, 24 years of Democratic. "So what's the score?" In those years: 24 million jobs created under GOP, 42 million under Democrats. "There's a reason for it."

7:41 PM PT: The reason? Caring about our fellow Americans, stopping poverty, feeding the hungry ? is also good economics.

7:42 PM PT: "I never learned to hate them," Clinton says, "the way the far right seems to hate our president." And just like they hated him, though he doesn't say that.

7:43 PM PT:

Yeah this was clearly a tragic mistake. Good call, Jen Rubin. #DNC2012
— @SimonMaloy via web 7:44 PM PT:

BREAKING: George W Bush just got more ovation than he did at the entire RNC
— @speechboy71 via Twitter for iPhone

7:45 PM PT: Clinton is in the process of dismantling the rampant Republican extremism and obstructionism.

7:46 PM PT: President Clinton salutes Joe Biden. Standing ovation.

7:47 PM PT: "President Obama apppointed several members of his cabinet even though they supported Hillary in the primary. Heck, he even appointed Hillary. I am very proud of her. I am proud the job she and the national security have done for America."

7:48 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.

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2012 Democratic convention live, #7

post from Daily Kos on 05 September 2012 10:15:41 PM. © Daily Kos

The Democratic National Convention 2012: We're winning Watch live video here and join the conversation as we live blog the 2012 Democratic convention

7:16 PM PT: Crowd goes nuts as Elizabeth Warren takes the stage.

7:19 PM PT: "I grew up in an America that invested in its kids and built a strong middle class ... an America that created Social Security and Medicare so that seniors could live with dignity."

7:20 PM PT: Donate to Elizabeth Warren.

7:21 PM PT: "We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged!"

7:25 PM PT: Bringing down the house. "No, Governor Romney, people are not corporations. ... We don't run this country for corporations. We run it for people."

7:26 PM PT:

A lot of slut jokes in my twitter feed, now replaced by Indian jokes.

? @JeffreyGoldberg via web7:27 PM PT:

For the record, my ideal ticket would be Elizabeth Warren-Elizabeth Warren.

? @SorensenJen via web7:28 PM PT:

BUT SCOTT BROWN HAS A TRUCK!

? @LOLGOP via TweetDeck 7:29 PM PT:

first image of Barack Obama at his reelection convention will be next to Bill Clinton. Did not see this coming. #2012DNC

? @rickklein via TweetDeckI'm not sure why pundits are confused about Bill Clinton and Barack Obama supporting each other, but they're confused.

7:30 PM PT:

Taught Sunday School! Put her on the same damn bus as the Nun!

? @emptywheel via TweetDeck 7:31 PM PT:

Per multiple campaign sources, Pres. Obama will join Pres. Clinton on stage just after Clinton's speech

? @chucktodd via Twitter for iPhone

7:32 PM PT: Warren is done.

7:33 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.

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Wednesday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 05 September 2012 10:12:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews (who has been kicking butt lately, for anyone who?s noticed) bring us a depressing, but important, history lesson concerning the awful 112th Congress (and something neither mentioned, which is just as bad, are the stalled judicial appointments)...

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

...and I don?t know how many other people besides me are going to say it today, so please allow me ? happy birthday to Al Stewart.

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Wild Bill's Night

Here's the lineup for this evening at the DNCC. You can watch along with us here. [...]

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Got A Weird One On Our Hands

This has been bubbling up in tech blog circles much of the day: claims by unknown persons on a website popular with hackers that they broke into an office of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Franklin, Tenn., accessed a computer, and stole the tax returns of[...]

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