Truman's Take (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Will Hollywood say, "call me"? (Via Rex de City Paper) Rex was recently thumbing through his copy of the Hollywood Reporter and stumbled upon the news that Harold Ford Jr. was up for the job as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. For the last five years, former Kansas congressman and agriculture secretary Dan Glickman has held the post, and for nearly 40 years before that,...
Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Internet Innovation Alliance, a group of telecom firms and nonprofit groups pushing for broadband access and adoption, said Tuesday David Sutphen will be its co-chair along with Bruce Mehlman. Sutphen replaces Larry Irving, former head of the National Telecommunication and Information Administration, who left IIA recently to join Hewlett-Packard. IIA's members include telecom giants AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent...
Citizens Against ProObama Media Bia (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
October 19, 2009 Morning Joe” Harold Ford Jr, Maria Shriver, Joe, Willie, Mika What’s interesting about this is what barry is whining about: truth. He’s going on the attack because FOX is finally putting the truth out there and MSNBC/CNN is not spinning it for them. They’re mad their propaganda machine is breaking down. Almost makes you [...]
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Yesterday, Booker Rising highlighted that Dan Glickman, who has served as chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America for the past five years, will step down when his contract ends in September 2010. Harold Ford Jr. (pictured), the chair of the moderate-liberal Democratic Leadership Council and former Congressman, was mentioned as being on the short list. Well, our boy Harold is on...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line . What we know and what we're reading this Monday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES | AWARDS & EVENTS NEWSPAPERS NYT 's David Rohde is penning a five-part series on his captivity in Afghanistan and Pakistan and escape...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Dan Glickman, who has served as chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America for the past five years, will step down when his contract ends in September 2010. Harold Ford Jr. (pictured), the chair of the moderate-liberal Democratic Leadership Council and former Congressman, is on the rumored short list of replacements . Mr. Glickman’s departure has been the subject of rumors...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
You may remember Booker Rising highlighting controversy over Bill de Blasio's campaign literature for his Public Advocate campaign in New York City, which micro-targeted black neighborhoods using his black wife. Well, Politico.com highlights interracial relationships in the political landscape (hat tip: Christine Byington ). With U.S. President Barack Obama having rewritten the history of race relations...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
DOWNLOADS: (54) PLAYS: (121) (h/t Heather at Video Cafe ) Via Raw Story , Rachel Maddow points out that in a move to make himself the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, the so-called "sane, centrist, future of the Republican Party" Tim "Fear the Mullet" Pawlenty is putting together the usual assortment of Republican scum to run his political PAC: Minnesota Governor Tim...
The Essence of Politics (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Among the many lessons from a summer of passionate town hall meetings is that Americans are concerned about the country's growing debt. And rightly so. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal budget deficit will reach $1.6 trillion in 2010. After that, the situation is even worse. The agency projects the deficit could exceed $9 trillion over 10 years. Over the past year, the government...
SayUncle (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Harold Ford, Jr.: However, the actions taken over the past year have led to real and justified fears that such unprecedented government intervention will become the norm — that the government will just keep growing, with no way to pay for the increased spending.
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
The chairman of the moderate-liberal Democratic Leadership Council and former U.S. Congressman pens an op-ed for The Tennessean about fiscal responsibility : "President Obama is not responsible for the country's budget woes. The cost of the stimulus bill passed under his watch was a tiny fraction of the costs of decisions made during the previous administration, including providing tax cuts for...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Reading the story this morning that the Congressional Black Caucus had insisted on the reprimand of Rep. Joe Wilson got me to thinking about the whole issue of race-based caucuses in Congress. Why do they still exist? Why would Congress in this enlightened post-racial age allow segregated political units to continue? There's a Congressional Black Caucus, a Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a Congressional...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a City Council race here in DC in which an openly gay challenger- Clark Ray- is running as the "gay" candidate (but trying hard not to) against the most effective pro-LGBT ally on the Council, and straight ally, Phil Mendelson. I read a piece in the NYTimes yesterday that had echoes for me of the same rationale on which Ray is running. In TN-9, progressive Rep....
Jewish Atheist (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
CNN : Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high in a new national poll. Fifty-seven percent of Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say they oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, with 42 percent supporting the military mission. 57% of Americans oppose the war. 57% of Independents oppose the war. But that's not exactly the picture you get...
This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Harold Ford, Jr. is from the DLC mode, the mode out of power in the Democratic Party and not one of my favorite politicians. The notion that the left or progressives should just chalk it up, meaning drop the public option for the team is disastrous. The whip should have been on the Blue Dogs, why? Because you don't destroy the very BASE, i.e., progressives, your activists in this whole fiasco.
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