Posts tagged media
Sarah Palin Stanislaus Speech: California University Will Allow Media at Palin event
Jun 19th
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After months of requests from reporters, a California university on Friday agreed to allow members of the media to attend a fundraiser next week featuring Sarah Palin.
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Loading ...Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [128] — Merry Bartonmas!
Jun 19th
Christmas has come in June for the Democratic Party. Republican Joe Barton just delivered a huge, nicely wrapped present to Democrats. The only question is whether they’ll open it and make use of it, or halfheartedly play with it once and then throw it in a corner (since the Democratic Party is kind of fickle about using such free gifts from Republicans, for no explicable reason whatsoever)
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Hillary Clinton Pushes Cuba To Release Alan Gross, U.S. Contractor Imprisoned Without Charge
Jun 18th
WASHINGTON AP) – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton renewed calls on Thursday for Cuba to release a U.S. government contractor it has held for more than six months without charge
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven Stamstad: Achieving Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Jun 18th
Closing arguments are due this week in the federal trial over California’s gay-marriage ban, 2008′s Proposition 8 that took away the right for same-sex couples to legally marry.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Koehler: Ancient Oceans
Jun 17th
“Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Associated Press Seeks White House Assistance To End BP Media Blockade
Jun 17th
So, is today the day that I’m going to get to happily report that reporters deployed to the Gulf of Mexico are finally free of the strenuous resistance that BP has thrown up in their faces , as they try to cover the oil spill clean up story? Hell no it’s not! Journalists covering the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been yelled at, kicked off public beaches and islands and threatened with arrest in the nearly three weeks since the government promised improved media access. Adm.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Will Marshall: The War on Oil?
Jun 16th
President Obama firmly took charge of the Gulf oil disaster last night. That was something he needed to do. But am I the only one who found his martial tone off-putting
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Rand Paul, DIY Ophthalmologist
Jun 16th
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rand Paul, the Republican senate candidate in Kentucky, is a freewheeling libertarian. Instead of getting some fancy board-certification as an ophthalmologist , Paul decided to “go Galt” and make up his own credentials. Paul founded the National Board of Ophthalmology, ostensibly to certify doctors as qualified eye specialists
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama’s Speech: Not The Turning Point He Had In Mind
Jun 16th
The most depressing thing about President Obama’s profoundly underwhelming speech Tuesday night was that the White House thought it would change everything, when there was no good reason to think it would change anything. White House aides had excitedly announced that the speech — his first from the Oval Office — would be an “inflection point,” somehow turning eight weeks of growing anxiety about the disaster in the Gulf and the government’s response in a positive new direction
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharron Angle Floated ’2nd Amendment Remedies’ As ‘Cure’ For ‘The Harry Reid Problems’
Jun 16th
Sharron Angle, the Tea Party candidate turned Republican primary winner in Nevada, has taken heat for a number of extreme affiliations and policy positions. One of the more outlandish was a statement she made during a radio interview last January in which she floated the idea that the public would bring down an out-of-control Congress with “Second Amendment remedies.” Since the clip surfaced, courtesy of the Plum Line’s Greg Sargent, there has been no comment from the Angle campaign.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama’s Oil Spill Speech: What Was The Point?
Jun 16th
President Barack Obama took to the Oval Office to address a nation worried to death over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a location used so much more often by Saturday Night Live than by actual presidents that my brain actually released a small dollop of dopamine in anticipation of comedic parody.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Adam Hanft: Obama Needs to Talk About the Second Broken Ecosystem Tonight
Jun 15th
It took President Obama 16 days after the arrest of Henry Louis Gates to sit down with him and Sergeant Crowley- the arresting cop – for their famous beer summit.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Janet Ritz: Where Is Dick Cheney During the Gulf Oil Spill?
Jun 15th
Former Vice President (and former Halliburton CEO) Dick Cheney, so vocal during the first year of President Obama’s administration in his attempt to scare us to death on national security, has been remarkably silent since the Gulf oil spill began its slow motion march into the nation’s consciousness. There was not a decision on war or energy the current president made that was not questioned, even ridiculed, by the former Bush Administration number one two. However, since the Deepwater Horizon began its slow motion process of turning the Gulf into a dead zone, Mr
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BP: Oil Spill Expert Volunteers Need Not Apply (VIDEO)
Jun 15th
A little over a week ago, we noted that one good way to ensure that you will be prevented from helping to clean up the oil-damaged beaches of America’s Gulf Coast is to show up for work with your own safety equipment , to protect your lungs from all the toxins associated with oil and poison washing ashore all over the place. As it turns out, another good way to guarantee that you won’t play a part in the clean-up effort is to have any expertise in the field of cleaning up oil at all! Via Brad Johnson , here’s MSNBC’s Chuck Todd interviewing Don Abrams of OilSpillVolunteers.com , who compiled a list “of nearly 8,000 volunteers in the first weeks after BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion” in an attempt to get BP some help.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Partial Owner Of Deepwater Horizon Declines To Testify, Receives ‘Executive Of The Year’ Award Instead
Jun 15th
Two of the four oil companies on the hook for the Gulf cleanup tab have rejected a Senate request to come testify about their efforts to make residents and businesses whole. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. The CEOs of Anadarko Petroleum and MOEX Offshore have cited scheduling conflicts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Paul Abrams: President’s Gulf Speech Is to his Presidency as Rev. Wright Speech Was to his Campaign
Jun 15th
This President has been dealt extraordinary challenges, and extraordinary opportunities to rally the nation behind fundamental reforms. He has the rhetorical and inspirational skills to rally not just ‘the base’, but larger numbers of young, and not-so-young, people who saw multi-layers of transformational power in his Presidency. As the first Earth Day showed, even craven politicians could be clubbed into submission by an active and aroused electorate–7 of the 12 first ‘dirty-dozen’ pro-polluter Congressmen were defeated in the first election following Earth Day, and pro-polluter President Richard Nixon was cowed into signing the key environmental laws (clean air, clean water, endangered species, marine mammal protection, and the creation of the EPA) of the post-World War II era
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