(Salon.com) Joan Walsh's blog: "Let's get Dick Cheney on Facebook!"
"Last week we named Cheney's dozens of attacks on Obama one of our top Bogus Stories of 2009. When he attacked Obama once, twice, three times, it was news, especially for a VP to hit a president so soon. After that it was a Dog Bites Man story. But Cheney stepped up his attack on Obama today in a way that was actually news. Of course, by merely releasing a statement to his friends at Politico, he ensures he can broadcast falsehoods to the media without being challenged, just the way Palin uses Facebook. Politico should be ashamed of merely broadcasting Cheney's lies, but I can't deny they're news this time. Still, I think Palin should teach Cheney to use Facebook so he can cut out the middlemen."
Here's my Hardball segment on Cheney's lies; text continues after video.
The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference led last night's "prayercast" co-sponsored by the Family Research Council.
In the "prayercast," Rodriguez prayed:
Heavenly father, righteous God, in this season as we celebrate birth of our savior, the one who came to give us life, everlasting life abundant, we come in His name to intercede for that very gift of life. Father, the same spirit of Herod who 2000 years ago attempted to exterminate the life of the Messiah today lives even America. ...
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EW 12-11-209: Sarah Palin made a surprise visit to The Tonight Show, proving she can read from a book at least as dramatically as William Shatner can. Conan O’Brien had Shatner on to do one of his periodic readings, this time from Palin’s bestseller Going Rogue. Then to the delighted screams of the audience, Palin came out and read excerpts from one of Shatner’s autobiographies, Up Till Now:
(Note: Although I may not agree with some of Mr. Taibbi's expressions, I will post a small portion of his article here, and add some links, so that everyone can read and draw their own conclusions. ~ roch20)
HuffingtonPost 12-11-2009:
This article originally appeared on my site Credit
Matt Taibbi is one of the few commentators in the mainstream media who is not worried about 'access' and has, therefore, been free to write much more critically about the economic crisis and reform efforts on Wall Street.
His first piece was a polemic against Goldman Sachs, which triggered a backlash against the venerated Wall Street firm due to its incestuous relationship with Washington. Afterwards, he took on health care reform. Now, he is taking on the Obama Administration and its status quo bias. I have an excerpt below and a link to the full article. But, first, let me say a few words.
As you probably know, I have been quite disappointed with this Administration's leadership on financial reform. While I think they 'get it,' it is plain they lack either the courage or conviction to put forward a set of ideas that gets at the heart of what caused this crisis.
It was clear to many by this time last year that the President may not have been serious about reform when he picked Tim Geithner and Larry Summers as the leaders of his economic team. As smart and qualified as these two are, they are rightfully seen as allied with Wall Street and the anti-regulatory movement.
At a minimum, the picks of Geithner and Summers were a signal to Wall Street that the Obama Administration would be friendly to their interests. It is sort of like Ronald Reagan going to Philadelphia, Mississippi as a first stop in the 1980 election campaign to let southerners know that he was friendly to their interests.
I reserved judgment because one has to judge based on actions. But last November I did ask Is Obama really "Change we can believe in?" because his Administration was being stacked with Washington insiders and agents of the status quo.
Since that time it is obvious that two things have occurred as a result of this 'Washington insider' bias. First, there has been no real reform. Insiders are likely to defend the status quo for the simple reason that they and those with whom they associate are the ones who represent the status quo in the first place. What happens when a company is nationalized or declared bankrupt is instructive; here, new management must be installed to prevent the old management from covering up past mistakes or perpetuating errors that led to the firms demise. The same is true in government.
That no 'real' reform was coming was obvious, even by June when I wrote a brief note on the fake reform agenda. It is even more obvious with the passage of time and the lack of any substantive reform in health care.
Second, Obama's stacking his administration with insiders has been very detrimental to his party. I imagine he did this as a way to overcome any worries about his own inexperience and to break with what was seen as a major factor in Bill Clinton's initial failings. While I am an independent, I still have enough political antennae to know that taking established politicians out of incumbent positions (Joe Biden, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Kathleen Sebelius or Tim Kaine) jeopardizes their seat. So, the strategy of stacking his administration has not only created a status quo bias, but it has also weakened his party.
That's it. I've said my piece. Here is the Taibbi excerpt now. I don't agree with everything Taibbi says and his tone is a lot more apoplectic than mine; but that is mostly stylistic. On the major point - that the Obama Administration is more of the same - he is right. Here he talks about the Citi bailout...
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P.S. The video is owned by Rolling Stone's website, I have no rights or permission to publish the video, neither for the original article published in the Huffington Post, I will not recommend to anyone the copying of any unauthorized material and in any case, I will respect the demands and remove the content if required by the owner, Thank You.
In a recent post on his Facebook, Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman said this week's President Barack Obama Afghanistan speech was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the "Peanuts" television Charlie Brown Christmas special.
Here is what Tennessee Mayor (buffoon) Russell "Wise"man (oh boy) have posted on his page:
"Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it....w...hen the answer should simply be 'yes'...."
