Earthquake Coverage
Check out this research from Media Matters: How Fox’s top three shows covered the earthquake in comparison to MSNBC's top three shows. Illuminating or just eh?
Check out this research from Media Matters: How Fox’s top three shows covered the earthquake in comparison to MSNBC's top three shows. Illuminating or just eh?
Who would have thought that we'd actually get a substantive conversation out of these two. Really it's fascinating. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Thomas A. Long
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6:19 PM
Labels: Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart
When I heard about this, I honestly felt a little sick. Corporations can give unlimited amounts of money to individual candidates. It is absolutely atrocious. Clearly conservatives don't believe in "judicial activism." Oh wait a minute. They do.
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Thomas A. Long
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9:33 PM
Labels: Supreme Court
Martha Coakley's loss of the late Senator Ted Kennedy's senate seat to Scott Brown is the best thing to happen to Democrats in a long time. Why? They have to adjust now. This is the scenerio that would have hit them in the midterm election anyway, but now they'll be able to adjust a year earlier, and prepare for life after the super majority.
The lesson is clear. The Dems first year focus is not what most Americans care about. Here's a question for you. Minus your most liberal friends, do you know anyone cares about the public option? I don't care about it and I can honestly say I only know three people in my immediate circle of friends, family, and coworkers who ever talk about it as an issue that is important to them. What they all talk about though, is the economy.
Coakley was a terrible candidate, but she was where liberal Democrats wanted her to be on all the big issues, and it didn't matter. Most Americans want solutions to problems, not ideology, and the sooner the Democrats realize that, the sooner they'll be able to get something done.
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Thomas A. Long
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9:25 PM
Labels: Democrats, Elections, Ted Kennedy
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Thomas A. Long
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5:55 PM
Labels: Bill Clinton, George Bush, Haiti
Developments in the continuing Tonight Show saga. Jimmy Kimmel weighs in and is delightfully ruthless. He's without ruth. I have to admit I enjoyed it. Too far?
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Thomas A. Long
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7:18 PM
Labels: Conan Obrien, Jay Leno
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Thomas A. Long
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7:19 AM
Labels: health care
I know I've had very little to say in the past few months. One of the reasons for this long silence has been my frustration with our government. Has anyone else been as frustrated as I have been? You know it's bad, when I don't even want to think about politics. Sure, I watch Hardball and 15 minutes of Morning Joe on most days. I still read a few newspapers regularly, but I haven't even wanted to talk politics. I have to admit I've wanted to escape from it all. I even started rereading Lord of the Rings.
Here's Why I'm Frustrated
One side comes into power after a big election and that side gets almost nothing done for eight years. Then, the American people get frustrated and elect a new group of politicians who get almost nothing done for eight years or four years if they are terrifically bad and the other side can make this case effectively.
I didn't like the direction our country was going in, under George Bush. And I was very happy to see the Bush era come to an end. The American people agreed with me and decided to elect Barack Obama and throw the Republicans out of the House and the Senate.
But the pattern repeats. The Democrats seem to not have learned from the mistakes of their Republican predecessors, in that their agenda does not reflect the will of the American people. I know very few people that are truly happy with what the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress are trying to spend their time on. I agree with the administration that health care is tremendously important, but from the beginning the process was flawed in that they did not address the main concerns of the American people.
We gotta get out of this place.
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Thomas A. Long
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8:14 PM
Labels: Democrats, Republicans
To filibuster or not, that is the question. Here's a good little article on the topic.
Do you think that the filibuster is a good or bad thing and what is it's purpose?
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Thomas A. Long
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4:02 PM
Labels: Congress, filibuster
I saw this on Hardball tonight and couldn't wait to post it for discussion. Kennedy's words are as true today as the day that he said them.
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Thomas A. Long
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7:49 PM
Labels: Chris Matthews, Kennedy, Religion
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