NOBODY BOILS down Republican extremism better than Patrick J. Buchanan. Quoting F.D.R., then twisting it into an example for maximum affect, the Southern strategy guru is reeling it out on Fox these days, after MSNBC kicked him to the curb. A writer who boiled down Bush’s Iraq war misadventurism better than most, Buchanan once offered [...]
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Jonah Goldberg on Elizabeth Warren: “What a charming squaw!”
“I sure never dreamed I’d be the warm-up act for President Bill Clinton.” – Elizabeth Warren THE PROGRESSIVES progressive has a different style. She’s earnest and grounded in purpose. No high-falutin rhetorical arcs for Warren, she speaks softly and carries a big cause that the people hear, because they’re living it. It’s been a long [...]
Tokenism in the 21st Century
Earlier in the day, during the roll call of the states, it was notable that several black delegates were given the honor of casting their state’s ballots while surrounded by crowds of white faces. It would be easy to dismiss this as tokenism and window dressing — which, of course, it is — but there [...]
Top Story: Chris Matthews Accuses Romney of Playing Race Card, Haley Barbour Returns Fire
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy WELL GOOD morning America. You’re a racist. No, you are. Welcome to the battle to the bottom, with the Republicans leading so far. With the multiple welfare ads from Team Romney being unloaded on battleground airwaves, including where I live in the Virginia [...]
MSNBC’s Touré Lowers Himself to Birther Level
**UPDATED** “I know it’s a heavy thing, I don’t say it lightly, but this is ‘niggerization.’ You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.” – Touré, MSNBC’s “The Cycle” [Mediaite] MSNBC HAS ALLOWED a lot of rhetoric on its station, but how far are [...]
Top Story: Voter I.D. Law Meant to Suppress the Vote in Pennsylvania Upheld
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A Pennsylvania judge has rejected claims that the state’s controversial voter-ID law disenfranchises poor, urban voters. As a result, the state’s 8.2 million registered voters will be required to present a state-approved voter ID when they head to the polls on November 6. [...]
Top Story: Romney Accuses Obama Campaign of ‘Hate’ After 3 Years of Birtherism
“Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago,” Romney said while campaigning in Ohio. [The Hill] “Well I think, if you look at the ads that have been described and the divisiveness based upon income, age, ethnicity and so forth, it’s designed to bring a sense of enmity and [...]
Top Story: Sikh Temple Shooter Identified in ‘Possible Act of Domestic Terrorism’
by Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE, via JSOnline: FBI: Seeking second ‘person of interest’ in Oak Creek Sikh temple shooting At a news conference at 10 a.m., authorities said they were attempting to identify another person, a white male, who they described as “a person of interest.” A man [...]
Mitt Romney Falls on his Face, Lands at the Feet of the Palestinians
“As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality.” – [...]
Team Romney’s Bizarre ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Remark
“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”. – Mitt Romney would restore ‘Anglo-Saxon’ relations between Britain and America OUR ‘SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP’ with Great Britain would be much more [...]
The Death of American Exceptionalism
WHATEVER AMERICA USED to represent it doesn’t any longer, with Rep. Michele Bachmann the leading poster propagandist representing why this is true, though she’s got company in her clan. It includes Mitt Romney’s booster John Sununu, a former governor of New Hampshire and George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff. Along with these Republicans you can [...]
SCOTUS Punts on Racial Profiling, Next Stop Lawsuits
The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status of people they stop. – Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law [Wall Street Journal] CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS jumped in to make the majority and avert a tie, due to Justice Kagan’s recusal, that would [...]
George Zimmerman Accused of “Bullying” Middle Eastern Man with “Achmed the terrorist” and Expletive
**updated** THE PROSECUTION DOCUMENT DUMP on Thursday released a lot of information. The audio clip via Think Progress, which is above, is an interview with a witness and reveals something that shows up in the Sanford Police Report and surfaces in multiple depictions of George Zimmerman. It goes back to his 46 calls to 911 [...]
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Sanford Police Report: Encounter ‘Ultimately Avoidable By Zimmerman’
The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman, if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited arrival of law enforcement, or conversely if he had identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and initiated dialog in an effort to dispel each person’s concern. – Sanford Police Department Report, [...]
Edward Klein’s Jeremiah Wright Interview Goes Wide with Swift-boating Proposal, and Sean Hannity’s Help
“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work [...]
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