Glenn Beck praises SLAVERY! Ye Gods, man!

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 25 September 2009 09:28:04 AM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Crossposted at Daily Kos Beck's new book "Arguing on behalf of with Idiots" is a real gem, which includes this piece where Beck explains why SLAVERY is good and Uhmerican, just like the Founding Fathers wanted it. Provision[...]

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Coroner Confirms "Fed" Written On Sparkman's
Chest

post from TPMMuckraker on 25 September 2009 09:28:00 AM. © TPMMuckraker

The local coroner has confirmed that the word "Fed" had been written on Bill Sparkman's chest when he was found dead earlier this month.

Jim Trosper, the Clay County coroner, confirmed the information to TPMmuckraker moments ago, adding that the word appeared to have been written in felt tip marker. He declined to give additional details.

An anonymous source had told the AP earlier this week that the word had been written on Sparkman's chest, setting off speculation that the Census worker had been killed in an act of anti-government sentiment. But the FBI and state police had tried to put a damper on that notion yesterday, telling reporters that the AP story contained errors, and that Sparkman was touching the ground, not hanging, when found.

Authorities have said Sparkman died of asphyxiation, but have still not officially ruled his death a homicide.

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A simple agenda, with some simple answers

post from They gave us a republic... - Front Page on 25 September 2009 09:25:34 AM. © They gave us a republic... - Front Page

Cross posted from Show Me Progress

Our friends at Fired Up reminded us that there's a wingnut fest in St. Louis, Missouri this weekend. We thought we'd take a look at the agenda and save everyone the time and the price of admission:

How to stop abortions: a new approach

Uh, elect republican majorities in the House and Senate and a republican President then stand around while they loot the treasury and enrich their cronies as they ignore the people they mobilized with their wedge politics strategery. Oh, wait, you said "a new approach."

How to counter the homosexual extremist movement

Secede from the Union?

How to deal with global warming, cap and trade

Problem. Solution. No problem.

How to use New Media technology

Gingerly, with a top down strict hierarchical structure. We guarantee that this will encourage originality and innovation.

How to stop the entry of illegal aliens and drugs

That's a tough one. Let's ask shadow president John McCain when he's on Meet the Press.

How to stop government attacks on parents' rights

That's easy. Don't have kids.

How to deal with supremacist judges

Don't live in Alabama so you don't have to vote for them?

How Conservatives Can Use Media to Advance Our Cause

Buy your own cable new network. Oh, wait...

How to stop socialism in health care

Get rid of our military, the Veterans Administration, and Medicare.

How to defeat attacks on sovereignty by UN treaties

Buy your own fleet of black helicopters and fly them around in random places to confuse everybody.

How to activate your church

Enter the ten digit code that's printed on the inside of the CD cover.

How to use the Internet effectively

1. Possess critical thinking skills. 2. Chant "facts are our friends, facts are our friends, facts are out friends." 3. Lather. 4. Rinse. 5. Repeat.

How to deal with vote fraud, the Census, and ACORN

Defund the military industrial complex?

How to defend America vs. missile attack

Duck and cover.

How to lobby legislators

Roy Blunt (r - lobbyists) knows how that works!

How to bring youth into the conservative movement

Eviscerate funding for public education.

How to understand Islam

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?

How to defend traditional marriage and DOMA

Don't elect any republicans who've been divorced or hang out in airport bathroom stalls?

How the media can help us take back America

Tell Drudge and the rest of them will repeat it.

How to lobby federal legislation & policy

Ask Roy Blunt (r - lobbyists), he knows!

How to defeat Con Con, National Popular Vote, ERA

The same way we did with fluoridation?

How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists

Is it their brown shirts or the forced attendance for presidential addresses in our schools?

How to stop feminist and gay attacks on the military

Give a corporation [a] cost plus two hundred billion dollar contract to buy them all off?

How conservatives can win in 2010

Keep on doing what you're doing now. Please.

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White Shuffle on Gitmo

post from Talking Points Memo on 25 September 2009 09:24:00 AM. © Talking Points Memo

White House Counsel Gregory Craig is out as pointman for closing Gitmo.[...]

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White House Shuffle on Gitmo

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White House Counsel Gregory Craig is out as pointman for closing Gitmo.[...]

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Hannity, Breitbart lead conservative media
fundraising for activist videographers sued by ACORN

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 25 September 2009 09:22:07 AM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

On the heels of ACORN filing a lawsuit against conservative activists Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, and Breitbart.com LLC, Sean Hannity, Andrew Breitbart, HotAir.com's Allahpundit, and NewsBusters have offered to -- in the words of Hannity -- "put out the word" to "help" Giles and O'Keefe raise money for their legal defense. Conservative media figures -- led by Glenn Beck -- helped Breitbart strategically release and aggressively promote the undercover videos that sparked ACORN's lawsuit.

ACORN files lawsuit against O'Keefe, Giles, Breitbart.com

Suit filed after alleged "illegal videotaping" seeks "injunction against further distribution" of a hidden-camera tape. From a September 23 Washington Post "44" blog post:

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced Thursday it had filed a lawsuit against James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Breitbart.com LLC for what it alleged was "illegal videotaping" of ACORN employees in Baltimore.
The group filed its suit in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and is seeking "a preliminary and permanent injunction against further distribution" of a hidden-camera tape made by O'Keefe and Giles that aired on BigGovernment.com, a Web project of Andrew Breitbart's Breitbart.com company, along with compensatory and punitive damages. [WashingtonPost.com, 9/23/09]

Conservative media rush to launch virtual telethon for O'Keefe, Giles

Hannity: "Hannah, if you get in trouble ... we can help you. We'll put out the word." After interviewing Giles and her attorney about the lawsuit, Sean Hannity stated, "Well, listen, Hannah, if you get in trouble and you need the lawyer, I'll tell you what, we can help you. We'll put out the word. I'm sure there's a lot of people that may want to help you with a legal defense fund. And if you get to that point, let us know, and we'll be glad to bring you back on." [Hannity, 9/24/09]

Breitbart on O'Reilly: "We will be advertising Hannah and James' legal defense fund." After Bill O'Reilly asked, "[D]o you have lawyers helping you with it because, you know, this is expensive," Breitbart stated, "We're -- we're working on that right now. And I want everybody to know that we will be advertising Hannah and James' legal defense fund at BigGovernment.com. The amount of -- the responses so far in e-mail form are overwhelming." [The O'Reilly Factor, 9/24/09]

HotAir's Allahpundit: "Dig deep: Hannah Giles defense fund launches." In a September 24 HotAir.com blog post titled, "Dig deep: Hannah Giles defense fund launches," Allahpundit wrote that Giles' father -- conservative activist Doug Giles -- "sent out a blast e-mail about it a little while ago and I'm told the link's posted on his Facebook page, so fire away. Not that she'll need the money: The lawsuit's weak, the jury will be on her side, and apparently Hannity's set to beam this link out to America on tonight's show, which means she'll be swimming in dough come morning." Allahpundit further promised, "I'll post the info for O'Keefe's defense fund once it's available." [HotAir.com, 9/24/09]

NewsBusters: Breitbart "Reveals Defense Fund Initiative." Promoting Breitbart's O'Reilly Factor appearance, NewsBusters quoted Breitbart's promotion of the legal defense fund and included a link to Breitbart's BigGovernment.com. [NewsBusters.com, 9/24/09]

Conservative media strategically leaked, aggressively promoted secretly recorded tapes

Breitbart, Beck distributed secretly taped ACORN videos. O'Keefe first posted his secretly recorded video on Breitbart's BigGovernment.com in an effort to engage in -- in the words of Breitbart -- "a multimedia, multiplatform strategy" that included Fox News. Fox News, led by Glenn Beck, went on to facilitate Breitbart's "strategy" of releasing the videos."

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

Big sale on end of week pontificating! 20% off the usual price!!

David Brooks:

Proponents of withdrawal often acknowledge the costs of defeat but argue that the cause is hopeless anyway. On this, let me note a certain pattern. When you interview people who know little about Afghanistan, they describe an anarchic place that is the graveyard of empires. When you interview people who live there or are experts, they think those stereotypes are rubbish. They usually take a hardened but guardedly optimistic view. Read Clare Lockhart’s Sept. 17 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to get a sense of the way many knowledgeable people view the situation.

"Many knowledgable people" = those that agree with Brooks. It certainly doesn't include all the DFH's who were right about Iraq when he was wrong. Let's revisit Winning In Iraq from 2005.

Today, public opinion is turning against the war not because people have given up on the goal of advancing freedom, but because they are not sure this war is winnable. Why should we sacrifice more American lives to a lost cause?

If President Bush is going to rebuild support for the war, he's going to have to explain specifically how it can be won, and for that he needs a strategy.

It's not hard to find. It's right there in Andy Krepinevich's essay, and in the annals of history.

Advancing freedom? Rebuild support for a President who lied us into being there? What a steaming load of "let me note a certain pattern", that pattern being "dismissive then, dismissive now".

Paul Krugman:

So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents?

If so, you’ll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change.

I can't wait.

NY Times on the G20:

The United States appears to have little appetite for more stimulus spending, even though unemployment is rising. The commitment to stimulus in Europe, particularly Germany, has long been too weak, putting undue pressure on economies that have been willing to do more to boost demand.

The time has passed for consensus for the sake of consensus. It’s time for reform.

WaPo:

Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party's harsh rhetoric about big business.

Think lukewarm support for a public option has anything to do with it?

EJ Dionne:

In naming Paul Kirk, the former Democratic National Committee chair, to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, Gov. Deval Patrick (D) of Massachusetts followed the cardinal rule of Hippocratic politics: First, do no harm.

Mike Madden:

Deal with it, liberals

Will Democrats make progressives accept a healthcare bill that doesn't include the public option?

Gerald Seib:

Who will determine the outcome of the great health debate? Well, a lot of senators and House members, obviously, but also a small slice of the public that has yet to decide what it thinks.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll goes a long way toward showing which Americans are in this crucial swing group. They make up about 20% of all Americans -- and they actually lean toward wanting to get something done this year, rather than letting the effort drop. In other words, they are within reach of President Barack Obama, and there are just enough of them to tip the balance of public opinion, but he's got some work to do to get them off the fence.

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They May Be Jerks -- But You Have to Be Nice to
Them Anyway

Greg Sargent catches one of those oddities that emerge from time to time in public opinion. In this case, nearly two-thirds of those surveyed in the new CBS/NYT poll think Republicans are opposing Obama on health care reform for political reasons -- but[...]

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Why Is Obama Trying to Crush Primaries That Would
Help Him Overcome His Legislative Obstacles

When I began writing my newspaper column this week, I thought I was going to write a piece on the[...]

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LIVE STREAM: Palestine's Hanan Ashrawi On
Pivoting Toward Final Status Negotiations

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Today, the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force is hosting PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi to offer a Palestinian perspective on how this week's trilateral meeting in New York might be leveraged to get at the core strategic issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Dr. Ashrawi's views are particularly important because the Executive Committee on which she sits will be ultimately responsible for carrying out final status negotiations with Israel.

This event will take place from 11:00am - 12:15pm at the New America Foundation and will STREAM LIVE here at The Washington Note.

Steve Clemons is still in New York and will be watching live from there as he is still at the Clinton Global Initiative. Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation wlll moderate today's meeting.

-- Ben Katcher

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