Senator Bunning Not Running

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Bunning drops out.[...]

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The Day in 100 Seconds: Beer Run

post from Talking Points Memo on 27 July 2009 05:31:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

Full-size video at TPMtv.com.[...]

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GOP Senator Bunning of Kentucky To Retire

post from MyDD on 27 July 2009 05:30:06 PM. © MyDD

Republican Senator Jim Bunning, the junior Senator from Kentucky, has decided not to run for re-election next year and instead will retire. The story in the Louisville Courier Journal: Embattled U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has announced that he will not seek[...]

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Foreclosures: Looking Below the Surface

post from Everyday Citizen on 27 July 2009 05:29:30 PM. © Everyday Citizen

Think the sub-prime mortgage meltdown is something 'new'?Generally, our current crisis is compared[...]

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Jay Norris Video Commentary July 27, 2009

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s'posed to talk about racial profiling, really
wanna bitch about what authoritarian assholes cops R

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 27 July 2009 05:26:22 PM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

What's frustrating in the pseudo-discussion we're forced into 'having' by the mainstream propaganda machine is that at least some Americans want to say, "Back off, cops. You're our employees not our jailers."

When Mr. Gates continued shouting [update: he probly wasn't shouting] at the cop with his tired paranoid racial profiling rant, Mr. Crowley should've just taken it. Just taken it and still been civil and professional. You know, because that's what those of us in the service industry who don't have a right to tazer people do. We take it, and count it a good day when we've held our temper and survived to work another day. Cuz, unlike law enforcement, we'd get fired for going off on some asshole.

But, instead of that national conversation, we get to see cops closing ranks behind Mr. Crowley, acting like he was Mr. Standard Operating Procedure. And, yeah, they're right, but that SOP shit's the problem! Stop fucking with us, cops! We have a right to have a bad day, to be exhausted late in the afternoon, to be jet lagged like Gates was.

We even actually want to have a right to think what you're doing is wrong and, yeah, to shout about it. Don't we, America? (Recalling the applause for the officers fucking with the "Don't taze me bro" kid in Florida, is this another America, not the one I grew up in 30 years ago?)

But of course, instead . . .
. . . we'll be corporate-media bludgeoned with the unprovable and likely wrong paranoia that this particular incident was racial profiling. That is a real problem, and needs a real conversation, but it won't work in a context where it means that, without a shred of evidence, you're accusing Crowley of being a racist. I.e., in President Obama's words, it's stupid to have a conversation about racial profiling over this incident.

Anyway, fairleft here, over in Chicago working on my obsequious boot licking of authority skills, Amerika's future. And on strengthening my 'Germanic' sense of what's right and orderly too.

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Spozed to talk about racial profiling, really
wanna bitch about what authoritarian assholes cops R

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 27 July 2009 05:26:22 PM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

What's frustrating in the pseudo-discussion we're forced into 'having' by the mainstream propaganda machine is that at least some Americans want to say, "Back off, cops. You're our employees not our jailers."

When Mr. Gates continued shouting [update: he probly wasn't shouting] at the cop with his tired paranoid racial profiling rant, Mr. Crowley should've just taken it. Just taken it and still been civil and professional. You know, because that's what those of us in the service industry who don't have a right to tazer people do. We take it, and count it a good day when we've held our temper and survived to work another day. Cuz, unlike law enforcement, we'd get fired for going off on some asshole.

But, instead of that national conversation, we get to see cops closing ranks behind Mr. Crowley, acting like he was Mr. Standard Operating Procedure. And, yeah, they're right, but that SOP shit's the problem! Stop fucking with us, cops! We have a right to have a bad day, to be exhausted late in the afternoon, to be jet lagged like Gates was.

We even actually want to have a right to think what you're doing is wrong and, yeah, to shout about it. Don't we, America? (Recalling the applause for the officers fucking with the "Don't taze me bro" kid in Florida, is this another America, not the one I grew up in 30 years ago?)

But of course, instead . . .
. . . we'll be corporate-media bludgeoned with the unprovable and likely wrong paranoia that this particular incident was racial profiling. That is a real problem, and needs a real conversation, but it won't work in a context where it means that, without a shred of evidence, you're accusing Crowley of being a racist. I.e., in President Obama's words, it's stupid to have a conversation about racial profiling over this incident.

Anyway, fairleft here, over in Chicago working on my obsequious boot licking of authority skills, Amerika's future. And on strengthening my 'Germanic' sense of what's right and orderly too.

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"Why are they arresting me? . . . What did I do? Don't taze me bro!"

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Waiting for a doctor's care; nothing new here

post from Everyday Citizen on 27 July 2009 05:24:30 PM. © Everyday Citizen

Forgive me for not being too sympathetic. But, I find the barrage of TV ads concerning the evil[...]

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Looking Past the End of the End of the Recession

crossposted from Daily Kos ... comments there after the "recent diary list" deadline has passed are also welcome.Bonddad has YERRD (yet another reclisted Rosenberg diary) up, on the issue of whether the recession is coming to an end, or the sky is[...]

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REPORT: Dobbs' immigration obsession out of step
with CNN's news coverage

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 27 July 2009 05:18:06 PM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

In yet another example of the degree to which CNN host Lou Dobbs is out of step with his network, a Media Matters for America analysis has found that since the beginning of the year, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight has devoted far more coverage to the topic of immigration than CNN news program and Dobbs lead-in The Situation Room. A study of Lou Dobbs Tonight and The Situation Room transcripts from the Nexis database reveals that from January 1 through July 23, Dobbs had more than three times as many broadcast hours that included briefs, segments, and panel discussions on immigration -- often focusing on undocumented immigrants -- as The Situation Room, which is three times as long as Dobbs. In word count, the difference is even starker, with Dobbs devoting about 528 words per hour to discussions of immigration -- 13 times more than The Situation Room's 40 words-per-hour average. These findings undermine CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein's claim reported in an April 26 New York Times article that Dobbs is "doing more of a straight newscast than he's ever done before."

As Media Matters has noted, Dobbs' coverage of immigration-related issues has been marked by discredited theories and wild claims. In recent days, Dobbs has also helped advance the repeatedly debunked myth that President Obama has yet to produce a valid birth certificate, resulting in criticism from his CNN colleagues and other media figures. An earlier Media Matters study found that significantly more Republicans and conservatives than Democrats and progressives appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight during the first four months of 2009 -- yet another finding that called attention to the danger Dobbs poses to CNN's credibility.

Media Matters' analysis of Dobbs' show found that from January 1 through July 23, the program has spent a total of approximately 74,000 words on discussions of immigration. In a total of 140 broadcast hours found on Nexis, Lou Dobbs Tonight has had 77 broadcast hours that included briefs, segments, and panel discussions on the topic of immigration. The show has devoted about 528 words per broadcast hour to the subject.

Meanwhile, The Situation Room has featured a total of approximately 17,800 words on immigration during that period. In a total of 441 broadcast hours, The Situation Room has aired 24 broadcast hours that included briefs, segments, and panel discussions on the subject, with an average of about 40 words per broadcast hour:

Methodology

Media Matters searched all Lou Dobbs Tonight and The Situation Room transcripts available on the Nexis database for the search terms "immigr! or alien or undocumented or amnesty." The date range for the search was January 1 through July 23. Only transcripts of weekday broadcasts were included. Every brief, segment, and panel discussion about immigration in those transcripts was included in the word count. For panel discussions, which can range over several topics, only portions that included a substantive exchange on immigration were included. Topics that are sometimes associated with immigration, such as drug violence along the Mexican border, were included only when they specifically invoked any of the search terms we used. Speaker identifiers and television directions in the transcript were also included in the word count. In-show teasers were not counted. For Lou Dobbs Tonight, viewer mail on immigration was not included in the word count. For The Situation Room, viewer mail on immigration during "The Cafferty File" segment was included. Word counts were calculated using Microsoft Word's word count function.