I can’t say Republicans overall are race baiting. In fact, I refuse to. I won’t say the Tea Party overall is race baiting. In fact, I refuse to. But, I will say this … there is CLEARLY a pattern somewhere, which is what the NAACP was asking for when it asked for a denouncement of [...]
Target CEO Responds to MN Forward Donation Concerns
As a supplement to my Mediaite piece on the subject, here is Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel’s letter to his employees regarding the company’s donation to MN Forward: Dear Target Team, In the past week I’ve heard from some of you, including our GLBT team members, regarding your concerns with Target’s recent contributions to MN Forward, [...]
UPDATE: Remember when I had questions about vessel size and Coast Guard containment efforts?
Update 2: It appears NPR corrected the record. It was a barge, not a tugboat. Not sure who else has corrected themselves. Well, there was a reason for my questions, and while at the time it seemed to have been less important with relation to media than I thought, it WAS important with regard to [...]
Why did Wikileaks ‘leak’ data to press first?
So asked and answered Jay Rosen. “Ask yourself: Why didn’t Wikileaks just publish the Afghanistan war logs and let journalists ‘round the world have at them? Why hand them over to The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel first? Because as Julien Assange, founder of Wikileaks, explained last October, if a big story [...]
The Best of Bessa
My very closest human friend took his life on Monday. Here is what I remember: ● Embrace who you are and write it on your soul … or your body. ● Be kind, and be childlike in your approach to new things in life. ● Don’t yell. ● If you want to keep it, take [...]
Breitbart has a tell. A BIG tell
The proof is in not in the pseudo body language analysis that Bill O’ Reilly brings, but instead in ACTUAL body language. Also, who wants to talk about race when it’s hot outside and summertime? Andrew Breitbart revealed himself in the second half of a segment that Think Progress caught. At about the three minute [...]
NYT, WAPO and Politico all quote CNN, none use the telephone
Three MAJOR news media outlets declined to pick up a phone, Monday, to ask Shirley Sherrod about what she spoke about at a NAACP meeting. Still, bloggers, newsies, and Twitter alike continue to BLAME NAACP for not doing a fact check of more than 450,000 members of the organization to find out who owned the [...]
‘Mercy for Animals’ activist said to have participated in abuse
The animal rights activist who filmed the horrific abuse of dairy cows on the Conklin farm purportedly admitted he participated in abuse of the cows to remain undercover. Farm and Dairy online reports: “Smith reportedly told law enforcement that he did not witness any abuse by Conklin, and that Conklin did not know of the [...]
Maddow, Thursday, echoes Gen. McChrystal’s warnings
Rachel Maddow – Thursday – on her ever brilliant show on MSNBC, was spot on with regard to Afghanistan … but so was Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Rachel, in summation, was not really speaking of ‘humanitarian intervention’ but her ideas about what is really going on in this war were astoundingly correct, and had more to [...]
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