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Not a Legitimate News Anything

by: Dean Barker

Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 06:56:19 AM EST


Not a Legitimate News Channel:
Not a Legitimate Newspaper.

Not a Legitimate News Publisher.

But some good news!  Murdoch is so out of touch, he's going the way of the UL.

Dean Barker :: Not a Legitimate News Anything
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Dodd takes on the Fed (4.00 / 2)
This is big, if Dodd is serious about it (and he's usually quite serious).

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping regulatory reform bill that would strip the Federal Reserve of nearly all of its power to oversee banks, setting up a possible clash with the Obama administration, which has argued for the central bank to play a pivotal role in addressing financial threats.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...


Yeah - he's going further than (4.00 / 1)
the Comity Clubbers and Banksters would like, which is a good sign indeed.

Good.


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GOP: We Heart the Fed (0.00 / 0)
http://thehill.com/homenews/se...

I like how The Hill calls the Republicans "skeptical centrists."

And this quote is priceless.

"This is not like healthcare, and it's not like climate change," said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). "We all want to see a really good bill pass."


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Holy Crap! (0.00 / 0)
I just watched the Stewart clip.

Any comment on it, Mr. Tapper?


only the idiots (0.00 / 0)
who watch Fixed News would not notice that obvious doctoring.  It was clear to me before John Stewart pointed it out as I'm sure it was pretty clear to everyone else viewing the clip.  This "news" organization continues to show time and again how it does not care about facts but instead only cares about propagandizing for the far right.

Tip of the Iceberg (0.00 / 0)
According to Media Matters.

Fox news (0.00 / 0)
Fox uses the liberty valance approach to news when the myth looks better than the truth, tell the myth.  I am paraphrasing, but its close.

All bipartisanism is local (4.00 / 1)
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Republican leaders in a South Carolina county have censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on a climate bill and other legislation.

The Republican has often worked with Democrats in Congress, but Charleston County Chairwoman Lin Bennett says his work on climate legislation is the last straw.

http://www.philly.com/philly/w...

(Hat tip to Atrios)

Tangentially: Was the Inquirer always a rag? I seem to remember it having a good reputation.



Ugh - that awful trio. (0.00 / 0)
You'd think that the Lieberman-Graham-McCain trio, so often noxious to both parties, would be on to something by virtue of how often they anger both sides.

But really, they just come off as sanctimonious.  And do any of them do anything other than sit in front of TeeVee cameras?


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I dont see the equivalency (0.00 / 0)

Whatever his shortcomings, McCain is an authentic hero-- his refusal of early repatriation while a POW because he didnt want special favors showed true valor. His willingness to join John Kerry in leading the way to normalization of relations with their former Vietnamese foes (the same ones that had brutally tortured him) manifested a grace of character far beyond what most of us are ever asked to show; and his early and enduring efforts for campaign finance reform put him on the right side of the most critical battle for real democracy.

Lindsay Graham is cloying and annoying. But he also is one of the few Republican leaders to tell the birthers and the haters to 'cut the crap' and instead disagree  respectfully on honest policy policy differences. There are clear lines on things like torture and climate change that separate him from almost all GOP Senators.

And Joe Lieberman? Um... have to get back to you when I can come up with a redeeming quality.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  


Hannity apologizes, but keeps lying (0.00 / 0)
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/2...

He calls it an "inadvertent" mistake.

The notion that a TV show would confuse fresh footage with footage from months ago is, at best, a huge stretch.



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