via RumpRoast Norah O’Donnell’s reporting of Sarah’s Going Rogue tour as it hit Michigan has created news. First, for what she said about the crowd, which I wrote about earlier this week. It was foreshadowing: “This is a line that stretches all the way back… another 1,000 people to see Sarah… It’s 9:00 o’clock in [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Justice American Style
TM NOTE: I interviewed Kristen Breitweiser back in Sept. 2006 when she wrote her book, the podcast still available among the “best of” section. So I was very interested to get her reaction to the news about A.G. Holder bringing the terrorists to justice. She wrote about it in the post below. No doubt an [...]
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The $2.7 Billion Woman
bumped The long, slow good-bye begins. So long show, hello OWN, aka the Oprah Winfrey Network. Phil Donahue came first, then Oprah took it to another level. Her exit, however, creates a network, syndication and daytime talk gulf that will allow all sorts of new voices to ring out. But you bet her exit also [...]
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ATTENTION: $500 Matching Fundraising Offer
As you know, I’ve been doing a fundraiser this week. Well, this is really something, but I’ve just received an amazing offer… If we can raise $500, this person will match it, dollar for dollar. Let’s do it! MONEY MATCH-SUPPORT TAYLOR! TM NOTE: I know we started this on Tuesday, so many have already given. [...]
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A Health Care Anecdote
updated below Honest to Christ, forgive me mother, but today I heard Rush Limbaugh making a more impassioned plea for women on the latest assault on women’s health care than I’ve heard from Democrats. That’s how bad this has gotten. Rush went on and on about this all being about “self defense” and “peace of [...]
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Senate Rejects Stupak But…
updated “… You know, holding hands out and beer on Friday nights in the White House and bowing down to every nutty right-wing proposal about health care, and saying on occasion that public options aren’t that important is doing a disservice to the Barack Obama I first met who was an ardent single-payer enthusiast himself. [...]
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Sarah Palin Quote of the Week
updated At least, so far, and it’s not from Palin, but about her and the devoted fans who now number one million on Facebook. It came from Norah O’Donnell this morning, and nothing has crystallized the sentiments of Sarah Palin fans more succinctly. “This is a line that stretches all the way back… another 1,000 [...]
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DAY TWO: Give $20, Afghan Institute of Learning Gets 10%
Bumped, with important note added. “The audience is there, the need has never been greater,” he added, saying his team planned to launch a new, independent publication. Douglas-Brown agreed, saying, “It’s a tremendous loss. … None of these publications have been shut down for a lack of stories.” – Gay publications close after bankruptcy TM [...]
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More Middle East Games
The 900 housing units are in Gilo, an area considered by Israel to be a neighborhood of Jerusalem and by the Palestinians and much of the world to be a settlement that violates international law. Israel claims sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, having annexed the eastern part after capturing it from Jordan in the 1967 [...]
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Is Newsweek Nuts?
updated, with expanded version at Huffington Post This has got to be the worst case of pictorial sexism aimed at political character assassination ever done by a traditional media outlet. Bent on destroying a prominent Republican political star, not on the basis of her politics, which I disagree with on every level, but by depicting [...]
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Oprah and Sarah
updated below on interview Palin and Oprah sit down later this afternoon. So, naturally, we’ve got dueling polls on Sarah Palin. Gallup: Still, just 18% of Republicans – and 26% of voters nationwide – see Palin as a divisive force within the GOP. A plurality believes Palin is representative of a new direction for the [...]
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Mika Brzezinski as Life Coach
Mrs. Brzezinski has a new book coming out, All Things at Once. If that title is any indication of what’s inside, I’d say it’s the reason in recent studies that women were found to be less happy than men. In her kick off posts at Huffington Post, Brzezinski focuses on one main aspect. The importance [...]
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Obama, Hillary and My Weird Emails
Catholics are rising. It’s 2004 all over again. Can holding back communion be far behind? That’s the talking point from Politico’s Jeanne Cummings today: “There could be political repercussions in the election. It could be harder for the Democrats to keep those Catholics voters they gained and they may put some of their members at [...]
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Stupak Goes or 2010 Mid-Term Strike Inevitable
It won’t even have to be organized. It will happen organically. Because this isn’t just political, it’s personal. Let us review the past week, since the Stupak amendment sent shock waves through the progressive tribe of the Democratic Party First, Democrats have an easy solution that’s been out there from the start. Reconciliation. Especially given [...]
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Sarah’s Rehabilitation Tour: Claws Out for Katie
via CBS News Okay, so it’s Friday. You know how it goes on Friday. Dump day in Washington, where uncomfortable news and people get politically whacked. See ya, Greg Craig. Thanks for everything, but man, you really screwed up over Gitmo, though that’s hardly you’re only boneheaded piece of advice, pal. So, it’s only fitting [...]
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