News Hounds (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Think Progress reports that in an interview with Sky News Australia last week, Rupert Murdoch not only defended Glenn Beck's outrageous comments calling President Obama a "racist," with a "deep-seated hatred for white people," Murdoch said Beck was "right." Now we know why Beck was not fired: The sentiments go all the way to the top. Think Progress also notes that Murdoch...
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The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) — a front group of big utilities and coal companies — is no stranger to fraud. During the summer’s House debate on cap-and-trade legislation, lobbyists working on behalf of the coal group sent forged letters to members of Congress, and lied under oath about it. Now, [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce. But instead of offering help, “Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron.” The reservist believed Marakis, who spoke limited English, was an Arab terrorist. Bruce [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reports today that a fired New York Post employee, Sandra Guzman, has filed a complaint against the Post, the paper’s parent company News Corp., and Post editor-in-chief Col Allan “alleging harassment as well as ‘unlawful employment practices and retaliation.’” Stein reports that Guzman “paints the Post newsroom as a male-dominated...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Last night on the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly brought on Marc Lamont Hill and Mary Katharine Hamm to talk about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He introduced Hamm as a “Fox News analyst” and called Hill — who was filling in for NPR reporter Juan Williams — a professor from Columbia University. What was interesting [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Hall of Famer and basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed this morning that he has been battling leukemia, a form of cancer that develops in blood tissue. Abdul-Jabbar appeared on CNN’s American Morning and fielded questions about his battle with the disease. During the conversation, CNN co-host Kiran Chetry asked Abdul-Jabbar if he was following the [...]
Monkeyfister (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
It always will be. Case in point: via Think Progress Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambassador to Baghdad, and Jay Garner, the retired general who led reconstruction efforts immediately after the war, are leading a new business push into Iraq. The two one-time senior officials are among a raft of former US soldiers and diplomats either leveraging their war...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
On the eve of Veterans Day, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School has released a study finding that an estimated 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they did not have health insurance. That “translates to six preventable deaths per day” and more than twice the number killed in [...]
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Last night on Fox News, host Bill O’Reilly and analyst Brit Hume discussed the prospects for the Senate passing a health care reform bill. After struggling with the terminology for the “public option,” O’Reilly ultimately concluded that “all the polls say” that “the folks don’t want it.” Hume, a regular Fox News misinformer, surprisingly corrected...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
In 2008, Tim Shorrock reported for Salon that while “working inside America’s ’shadow’ spy industry, George Tenet, Richard Armitage, Cofer Black and others are cashing in big on Iraq and the war on terror.” Now, the Financial Times reports today that even more Bush administration officials are eyeing profits in Iraq: Senior Bush administration figures including [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
On Saturday, several Republican went wild and shouted down members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus on the House floor. As each woman stepped up to the microphone to give a brief statement about how the House health care legislation would benefit women, Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (GA) — repeatedly talked over [...]
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On Friday, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera warned against efforts to use the shooting at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan to “cast aspersion and negativity” on American Muslims as a whole. But that is exactly what some conservatives are doing. Dave Gaubatz, the controversial author of the controversial Muslim Mafia, called yesterday for “a [...]
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DOWNLOADS: (73) PLAYS: (203) From MSNBC's Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan talks to author and former managing director for Goldman Sachs Nomi Prins about this week's article in the UK Times I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs . Think Progress has more-- Goldman Sachs CEO says he’s ‘doing God’s work,’ rejects the idea that Goldman profits from gov’t support :...
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President Obama will be at Fort Hood today, speaking at a memorial service for the men and women who died in last week’s shooting. Around “3,000 spectators, as well as the families of the 12 soldiers and one civilian killed, are expected to attend.” Vice President Biden will be at Fort Lewis, WA to “speak [...]
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Oy. The picture says it all, but here’s the headline. Westboro Baptist Church Organizes Homophobic Anti-Obama Protest Outside Sasha And Malia’s School via Think Progress
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chakufor22@gmail.com | 08/19/2009
MRC Friend Bob Novak Passes Away; A Look at His Insights About the Media Huffington Post & Think Progress have the story posted about the man who brought the name Valerie Plame Wilson into the press and made Brewster Jennings public knowledge. Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is a hero and Novak's treason could have caused her death, and may have caused deaths of people that associated
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