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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday July 28 - Got news or an update?
If you have news or an update, leave it in comments. . . .
102 comments:
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Let’s face it, Biden is a dunce. (five verbal missteps in the past three months)The press loves to drumbeat/echo every verbal misstep, right?? Oh, not gaffes by Dems! That seems a bit biased to me. Joe-Blow doesn’t have a clue about governing our nation. How did he get reelected all these years? ===== Biden's gaffes undercut Obama Washington Times by Jon Ward
The Obama White House's vaunted message machine has been thrown off-track with increasing regularity by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose five verbal missteps in the past three months have created obstacles at home and abroad. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was forced Sunday to correct publicly Mr. Biden's characterization of Russia as a crumbling country,….
Claim: Gannett plan punishes ex-employees for trying to find work
New York Times
Rather than pay severance, as it did in previous layoffs, Gannett is now paying what's called supplemental unemployment benefits, which allows the company to shift part of the cost onto the states. Under this plan, "if you take part-time work or freelance work, even for a week, you get nothing from Gannett," says former Arizona Republic staffer Dave Lumia. "It certainly doesn’t encourage me to go out and look for work." @Poynter Online
DEAR LEADER HEARTS COMMIES, (SO DOES McCLATCHY, Except when they sell funeral advertisements)
Obama-Backed Zelaya Linked to Marxist FARC Terror Group Gee, what a stunner.
Honduras officials today announced today that the FARC terror group is financing former ousted President Zelaya.
The ousted Leftist leader of Honduras is backed by Latin American Marxists Raul Castro, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez and American President Barack Obama.
Claim: Gannett plan punishes ex-employees for trying to find work
McClatchy would never do something like this, Never! I have it on good authority, wages go up in August, the company is back to profitability, and their stock is going to the moon. “Blue horseshoe loves McClatchy”
Muslim Woman Gets Caning for Drinking Beer (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
A Malaysian model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, was caught drinking beer in a hotel and sentenced by an Islamic court to six lashes with a rattan cane.
Why is it McClatchy says it's all for women’s rights, yet never prints or takes a position on this type of abhorrent behavior? Wait, I just figured it out.
Transfer Rosenberg to Malaysia!!
Rosenberg told the Malaysian Government official:
"Have you ever had a red hot poker shoved up your ass?
Have you ever had a broomstick shoved up your ass?
How would you know how it feels if it never happened to you?
Viacom's second-quarter profit tumbled 32 percent as revenue fell amid a weak advertising market, slower video game sales and fewer movie releases.
The media conglomerate controlled by billionaire Sumner Redstone earned $277 million, or 46 cents per share, compared with $407 million, or 65 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.
IS TRIBUNE Co. WAITING FOR THEIR AUGUST RAISES TOO?
Tribune Co. seeks extension of reorganization plan Bankrupt company cites complex nature of case, Cubs sale in its 'routine' request
Chicago-based Tribune Co. has asked the court in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to give management four additional months to file a reorganization plan.
The parent company of the Chicago Tribune is scheduled to deliver a plan Aug. 4 but wants to extend that deadline to Nov. 30.
Debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases have the exclusive right for 120 days from the date of filing to come up with a plan of reorganization. But for the first 18 months of a case, that right is often extended. Tribune Co., which filed its case in early December last year, already has won approval to extend the deadline once.
Declining Dollars: Belo, Media General Report Weak 2Q
Rounding out a quarter of very weak revenue figures for the newspaper business, A.H. Belo said that total publishing advertising revenues fell 30% in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2008, from $125.3 million to $87.5 million, while Media General reported a 26% drop, driving an overall revenue decline of 20% from $204.9 million to $163.8 million
China replaces US as India’s largest trade partner. (The Financial Express)
China has emerged as India's largest trading partner, replacing US in 2008-09. Apart from increasing trade engagement with the neighbouring country and weak demand for foreign goods in the US, which is reeling under recession contributed to this.
$20m holiday home at Blue Heron Farm suits Barack Obama to a tee. (London Times)
It might have been the golf tee that swung it for President Obama as he looked for a summer holiday retreat — but the 28 acres on Martha’s Vineyard, the swimming pool, private beach and basketball court may just have clinched it too.
Mr Obama and the First Family are planning to spend their summer break on a $20 million retreat on the wealthy playground island off Cape Cod and even seem undeterred that the property is owned by a Republican.
If a Republican President did this the media will be calling for his impeachment for being out of touch with the people during an economic crisis or even if it is during great economic times. But with Obama it is treated as a fairy tale per the media.
The hypocrisy of the liberal media is simply shocking.
HONOLULU – State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.
I guess that's one less thing for you miserable repukelicans to whine about.
Repukelicans...that's so funny. Hahahahahahaha. So original. So insightful. How DO you come up with such witty repartee. We bow before your rhetorical firepower in awe
Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Still believe in post-racial politics? Read the health care bill. It's affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.
President Obama is on the record as being officially opposed to reparations for slavery. But as with other issues, you have to sift through his eloquent rhetoric and go beyond the teleprompter to get at what he really means.
His opposition to reparations is based on the fact they don't go far enough. [snip] Under the Democrats' plans, if a medical school wants to receive contracts and grants from the federal government, it must operate under a quota system and be able to prove it. On Page 909, the House bill states: "In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the (HHS) secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."
Associated Press board approves 10 percent rate cuts in 2010 for local TV stations
NEW YORK — The board of directors of The Associated Press approved a 10 percent cut Thursday in the rates that local TV stations will pay in 2010 for text stories.
The amount of the reduction will vary from station to station depending on the level of services received.
Biden may be a dunce, but Obama ain't no Mensa man either. The bone-headed comments and out-and-out lies about health care in recent days have exposed him as a rank amateur. The polls show we're wising up.
The word is, the Bam’s original birth certificate was destroyed when Hawaii converted to an electronic system. That was certainly convenient. Anyone in the system could have manipulated his information on the present electronic form. And, please don’t say that is impossible. There is a lot at stake for the Great Pretender. The bullies and thugs in the Obama camp are legion. Speak softly but carry a big stick applies to the New Black Panthers now, doesn’t it? ACORN is raft with criminal activities. Why would anyone question the possibility of fraud in Hawaii? Why has Obama paid $1,000,000 for attorneys to squelch any information about his US citizenship? That is the operative question, and the press is not inquisitive in the least! We need these spineless journalists, we really need them???
7:10 AM - Publishing a gaffe once is reporting, but continually citing the same gaffe over and over is drumbeat/echo. There are still references to President Bush being dumb because of a small mispronunciation he made years ago, but Obama makes serious national gaffes, and they die quickly. Where is the drumbeat/echo that Obama is dumb? Fair is fair, but don’t expect a lying reporter to make the distinction, they are too bent over to even see it, in their new dark hidey-hole.
The TelePrompTer Man is a dunce without TOTUS. The media had to know what a sham it was to credit him with soaring speeches, and women fainting on cue with programmed responses. The media abetted the Obama campaign with what amounted to thousands of dollars of free pro-Dem articles, while they tried to destroy the opposition. Soros funded millions into the campaigns for Secretary of State of Democrats in the battleground states. Why didn’t the press question that? Because it came in real handy, especially in states where hundreds of ballots were found in a car trunks, and later counted. Transparency doesn’t apply to journalism, they think anyway. Biased news reporting is the norm, and these corrupt people now look to taxpayers to save their lying hides. I might be willing to pay for the media funeral, but like Barry says, keeping has-beens on life-support is a waste of taxpayers dollars. We finally agree on something!
Which health care mouse out there will have the guts to bell the cat who is one of the most famous Parkinson's Disease sufferers in America?
Who is going to tell him that the treatments that are associated with Parkinson's -- drugs like Sinemet, Symmetrel, Eldepryl, Parlodel, Permax, Mirapex, Requip, and surgery with the quaint name "deep brain stimulation" -- are just no longer possible for Fox because, well, Mike, your QALY just isn't up to snuff, babe.
You have Parkinson's. You boozed (according to you). As a result, the government has decided treatment for you, Mike, lacks "appropriateness." The "outcome and effectiveness" of treating you -- which is to say the worth of your 47-year old life -- just isn't worth it for the rest of us.
“McCaskill's Office Locks Doors, Pull Blinds & Calls Cops on Tea Party Protesters. Staffer offers double-handed flip-off.” Lucianne.com --- McCaskill is the same lame Dem that demanded transparency from P. Bush, but her staff gives the finger to her constituents questioning Obamascare. The same office that gave comfort to other protesters. The worm turns!
Gates Will ‘Amend’ Charity’s IRS Form. Foundation to file amended ’07 IRS report (Globe Staff)
The Inkwell Foundation, a charity run by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., plans to file an amendment to a 2007 Internal Revenue Service report, after questions were raised about grants to staff members.
Gates, the black professor at the center of a national debate over race relations after he was arrested two weeks ago by a white Cambridge police officer, said last night that he mischaracterized $11,000 in compensation to staff members as research grants. Acknowledging a report by www.propublica.org that first questioned the grants, he called the mistake an accounting error.
I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog? If they are so unhappy with every opinion, it would seem to me they upset themselves needlessly. Liberals commenting on a conservative blog is so futile, but if it is all they have going for them, flail away. As Obama tanks, they will have less and less to say, and that is the reality of electing a sham president.
STRINGER AIDE RESIGNS AFTER CALLING PRESIDENT 'O-DUMB-A' (New York Post)
An aide to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has resigned after reportedly posting comments on her Facebook account defending racial profiling in the recent arrest of a Harvard professor and calling President Obama "O-dumb-a." Lee Landor, who had been Stringer's deputy press secretary since May, posted a series of comments on her Facebook page over the weekend criticizing Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the president, the weekly newspaper City Hall News reported on its Web site today.
Rosenberg told Gordon:
"Have you ever had a red hot poker shoved up your ass?
Have you ever had a broomstick shoved up your ass?
How would you know how it feels if it never happened to you?
Admit it, you liked it."
..."routinely labeled my colleagues in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Justice Department, as well as her peers in the press, as 'bitches,' 'stupid,' 'lazy,' 'incompetent,' 'Nazis,' 'Saddam Hussein-like,' etc."
//Sweetheart// - There you are, stamping your little feet, and demanding proof, using all your cute mannerisms. Let me introduce you to Google search. You can find out information for yourself, really you can. I have your back, if the meanies here get on your case.
I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog?
Why do some men like other men hammering their butt hole? Why do some people like to be beaten, tied up and punished? Self mutilators are common among liberals as is the criminal element. Almost all incarcerated felons relate themselves to democrats.
I just think it is a total lack of self control induced by high levels of drug activity requiring extreme forms of stimulation to even feel alive.
Besides, have you ever seen a group photo of a bunch of leftists? Not much going on in the dating scene there my friend.
"I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog? If they are so unhappy with every opinion, it would seem to me they upset themselves needlessly."
If right-wingers are so unhappy with every opinion posted by liberals, why don't they just ignore them or answer them logically instead of endlessly echoing each others' insults and GOP and conspiracy-lovers' talking points?
Only liberals watch that loud-mouth Chris Matthews. He's about as bad as it gets and has no credibility with thinking people. Whatever birth certificate he produced as to be suspect.
Arrested Harvard Prof Has 'Stupidly' Played the Race Card His Whole Life (humanevents.com)
In 1990 I served the federal court here in South Florida as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the obscenity trial that determined Miami rap group 2 Live Crew’s album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene and thus not protected by the First Amendment.
The verdict -- the first in world history that a sound recording was obscene -- was handed down by Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr., a liberal judge appointed by President Carter and who was hailed for his civil rights record by the ACLU and the rap group’s lawyer when the case was assigned to him.
Any successful effort to have the album declared not obscene had to rely upon the testimony of an expert brought in by the ACLU and the rap group’s lawyer. The expert’s name was...
...Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr...
..., the Harvard professor arrested this week in Cambridge, Mass., by police officers who President Obama last week at his press conference said, “acted stupidly.” Obama said this after he first said he didn't have all the facts.
Does this make you wonder what else he is giving opinions on without "all the facts?"
The Missouri constituents should have know an old lefty like McCaskill couldn’t care less what they think. One should have asked, “Don’t you know who I am?” and then start yelling discrimination, and racial profiling. As far as the staff flipping the bird, these are the people who tell McCaskill what is in a bill, not that it is important, she will vote as she is instructed to vote, and not even read the bill. She is just another brainless politician, IMO.
Why do libs come here? 1. To vent. 2. By venting they get all worked up and PEE their pants SO... 3. They read the posts and get their panties all twisted in order to wring out all that hateful PEE.
So Gates is a tax cheat too? Who would that surprise? Just making every Democrat pay their taxes looks like a lucrative new tax source, to me. Silly me, they are not the rich people Obama plans to scalp. Skippy and Barry are friends, how sweet. They vacation at Martha’s Vineyard together. Life’s a beach, ain’t it Bros?
"Kevin, are you proud of what your blog has become? Mostly, a place where Michael Savage type haters come to echo each other."
Why is it that lefties spew and spin, until they area outdone, then cry foul?
Earth to Lib Idiot, how about refuting some of the news articles posted here from your own biased media? CRICKETS! Instead, you simply pee in your pants and cry. How typical!
Then try this one on idiot. Aside from shutting it down, what is your utopian vision for this blog?
10:33 AM - You love us, or you would not be here. Come out of the closet, you don’t have to hide and pretend any longer. As the truth about Obama becomes known, you will need the kindly shoulders here to cry upon. ♫ Weep no more my lady I want to see your sunny smile! ♫
Hey Pruitt and the wrecking crew...look at Modesto and get rid of Vasche. You'll save a bunch of $$$. He started there when he was crapping his diapers and will retire crapping his diapers! It is the only thing he knows (how to screw up). Publisher Eric Johnston isn't much better. He was involved in starting the online media blitz and now it's turned around and is biting at his butt. Then head south to Merced and get rid of publisher Hank Vander Veen. He is a back stabbing, worthless piece of work. How did he get to that position after starting out working the docks at Modesto? He went behind everyone's back and figured out how to cut the whole production department at Modesto! How many layoffs have you seen at Merced? Hey Mark, Eric and Hank...What goes around...
I am not sure what a Michael Savage type is. I do know the media tries to destroy anyone coming close to exposing them. The more I read their hate about one person, like Rush Limbaugh for instance, the more I know that person is driving the liberals nuts. The truth about the liberal agenda is forbidden. I am guessing Savage exposes them for what they are. Most people are onto the lying media by now. I am not alone in realizing the more they rant on one person, the more frightened they are of the truth getting out to the little people.
This week they are visiting Israel to strong-arm the Jewish state into making poor decisions about her security. For Having to stand up for her survival not once, but four times the same week, Israel is who Obama is Bullying today. @YID With LID
Paging McClatchy's. Mz Rosenberg? Paging Mz Rosenberg. We have a story right up your alley. Paging Mz. Rosenberg.
Man caught on tape licking meth off jail floor. KXII - TV 12,
GRAYSON COUNTY, TX – Samuel Dewayne Delamast pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in jail for tampering with physical evidence last Thursday.
When police officers made the arrest, they noticed Delamast was acting strange, but they didn't realize how strange things would get.
When Delamast arrived at the jail he was searched for contraband. It was in the process of this search officers say they noticed a powdery substance on his pants.
The powder then spilled from the suspects pant legs pouring on to the floor.
Authorities say Delamast then dropped to the ground, and began licking the substance off the floor. Test results confirmed the substance he was licking was meth.
Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown says meth makes people do strange things, but he has never seen anything like this.
Kevin, you need to rename the blog "Moron Watch". Cause brother, the more I read this the more I realize you have about three idiots out there who do nothing but post nonsense all day long.
I bet they sit around in their dirty underwear, post their nonsense here then take a break at a porn site, then come back here to post more nonsense. Gimme a call when the site reverts back to one with information instead of three right wing masturbators who like to slobber on the keyboard. thanks
Skippy is an asshole? Iowahawk penned the most hilarious article I have read in a long time. “Harvard Faculty Asshole Studies” - “Douchebag Room at the Harvard Faculty Club” - How dare anyone speak so disrespectful of the elite douchebags! Read it and laugh. ----- Cambridge Police Profiling Still A Grim Reality for Harvard Faculty Assholes
Guest Opinion by Professor John Evans Evans-John Harvard School of Harvard Faculty Asshole Studies Harvard University
I just love the poster that writes, “Kevin” like he personally knows out blog host. Why do you come here? Obviously the posters here enjoy this blog. Is that what you cannot stand? Anyone with like opinions having even one place to communicate with each other? How very selfish you are. You don’t have to come here ever. To stereotype the posters, and play the bully, is so childish. You have no real idea how many people post here, NONE. Can’t you see how ridiculous you are? Of course you can’t. You voted for a teleprompter and now you want to blame us for your foolishness. I’ll take you at your word that you will stay away until further notice of your demands being met.
This is a rare blog where people can be honest about how they feel about McClatchy and its managerial staff. Those who don't like honesty can go read the guild sites or Howard Weaver's ridiculous postings.
Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has taken a job with the Obama administration, according to an email sent to a listserv of his classmates at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Re: “Michael Savage type haters”- And, that would be better or worse than the unhinged President Bush haters? One thing, the liberal loons can’t really say much after the eight years of their Bush bashing, that we now know was a phony election scheme from the get-go. Obama is fair game, and deserves no respect of office, no doubt about it, the precedent is set.
My cable system carries Faux, and my radio gets Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Savage, Beck, etc. No doubt that's the lying media you're talking about. But if you think they aren't lying, then watch/listen to them, and you won't have to worry about what others choose to watch/listen.
The polls just closed for the Sac Guild vote on vacation burn. Since they only have five members in good standing, the results should already be counted. Of course it will still take two weeks for the tally to be announced.
This story personifies McClatchy, and the lib liars here
Support For ObamaCare Decreases….MSM Blames The Ignorant American People
Support for Obama's socialized health care plan keeps dropping and who does our MSM blame for this? The stupidity of Americans:
While viewers may seize upon numbers that indicate the size and scope of reforming health care — 47million uninsured Americans or costs in the trillion-dollar range — most eyes glaze over when terms like “public option” or “bundled payments” get tossed around on the air.
“It’s not only not a cable TV-friendly story; it’s not a journalism-friendly story,” said John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC.
Harwood, also a political writer for The New York Times, explained that reporters need to first understand the intricacies and nuances of health care policy before they can then try getting the story across to viewers and readers. Last week, Harwood said, he was “trying to get [his] head around the issue of cost control” before penning a Times column.
“It’s incredibly complex to try and explain to people,” Harwood said.
“The problem with health care is that it’s so big and so complicated that the public is never really going to understand all the moving parts of this,” NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner said on air Wednesday.
“So the public is really always going to be sort of amenable, if you will, to demagoguery and arguments one way or the other that don’t necessarily link to what the substance is,” Rovner continued. “We saw this during the Clinton efforts.”
Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him Two Men at Center of Controversy Linked by Irish Heritage By NIALL O'DOWD IrishCentral.com Publisher
FNC's Ratings Continue to Climb, MSNBC's and Olbermann's Fall
While July has been another banner month for the Fox News Channel, the good folks at MSNBC might want to rethink their current lineup.
In the all important demographic group aged 25 to 54, FNC was up 48 percent in total daily viewers, and an astounding 70 percent in prime time compared to July 2008.
By contrast, MSNBC's take of this demo was unchanged in prime time and down seven percent in total daily viewers.
The liberal network's top personality Keith Olbermann saw his July demo numbers decline to their lowest level since December 2007.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I call your attention to 11:35 anon.
This poor soul is typical of the lefties who post on this and other sites. Perhaps he is typical of lefties in general.
He seems to have two points: 1. No one should post on this blog because he disagrees with them. 2. He wants to speculate about people he does not know and present that speculation as a fact.
Now I know you are not taking this nonsense seriously, but he is instructive as an example of the left in general.
They love to limit debate to subjects and points of view they approve. Nothing else should ever be discussed by anyone. We see this in ridiculous silliness with 11:35 but we can see where it goes with the left in Stalin or Castro.
The left is also disconnected from the real world. Happy with speculation and innuendo in place of real research or analysis, the left is frequently unhinged from the natural limits of reality.
Also on display in 11:35 is a strange preoccupation with the sexual lives of others. I won't pretend to understand why, but history tells us that the lefties often display this strange preoccupation.
Far from being a useless, irrelevant prattling twit, our 11:35 is in fact an object lesson of some value to the observant.
Hey 5:10, I think 11:35 must have hit a nerve and you must be one of the 3 loons that constantly post hateful trash on here. Are you the famous Goebells guy? You know the one that mentions, Hitler, Goebells, Stalin, Castro, Marxist. Also loves to call people "sweetie" as well as post and then reply to himself. Your probably also the first one to scream about posting IP addresses, deleting comments or questioning the right of anyone to say anything. I'm sure that you consider censorship to be part of your game plan and no doubt you would have risen high in the nazi party in your younger days. What are you, about 60 or 70? Cheer up, every day above ground is a good day!!!!
I have a firm rule to disregard the comments of anyone who tells others "probably" who I am. Without fact or inkling you have determined a probability. Amazing? Or just stupid?
The polls just closed for the Sac Guild vote on vacation burn. Since they only have five members in good standing, the results should already be counted.
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Are you kidding? Five career leftists participating in a vote? Dude, that's 250,000 registrations that must be checked and 15,000 official ballots if you include hanging chads or disenfranchised voters, and 18,500 if any are affirmative action ballots.
They're going to have to call in management just for their fingers and toes. God help them if there is a recount.
I have a firm rule to disregard the comments of anyone who tells others "probably" who I am. Without fact or inkling you have determined a probability. Amazing? Or just stupid?
Or how about "correct"! You display the fact and or inkling in your post and the probability of me being correct about you is proved in your response. It's not really amazing and yes, you are stupid!!!!
Hope the head blog dude breaks out the Fox News ratings for July into a separate posting. I love it when MSNBC drops rating points and audience share!!!
Shouldn't be too hard. It is just about time for democrats and dirty propaganda outlets to start doing their best work. Under cover of darkness, while we sleep.
Simply put, "yes". They spend all their waking hours on here whining about how bad of a company they used to work for and whining about everything else in the world not completely dominated by the repukelicans.
102 comments:
Let’s face it, Biden is a dunce. (five verbal missteps in the past three months)The press loves to drumbeat/echo every verbal misstep, right?? Oh, not gaffes by Dems! That seems a bit biased to me. Joe-Blow doesn’t have a clue about governing our nation. How did he get reelected all these years?
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Biden's gaffes undercut Obama
Washington Times
by Jon Ward
The Obama White House's vaunted message machine has been thrown off-track with increasing regularity by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose five verbal missteps in the past three months have created obstacles at home and abroad. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was forced Sunday to correct publicly Mr. Biden's characterization of Russia as a crumbling country,….
Claim: Gannett plan punishes ex-employees for trying to find work
New York Times
Rather than pay severance, as it did in previous layoffs, Gannett is now paying what's called supplemental unemployment benefits, which allows the company to shift part of the cost onto the states. Under this plan, "if you take part-time work or freelance work, even for a week, you get nothing from Gannett," says former Arizona Republic staffer Dave Lumia. "It certainly doesn’t encourage me to go out and look for work."
@Poynter Online
DEAR LEADER HEARTS COMMIES, (SO DOES McCLATCHY, Except when they sell funeral advertisements)
Obama-Backed Zelaya Linked to Marxist FARC Terror Group
Gee, what a stunner.
Honduras officials today announced today that the FARC terror group is financing former ousted President Zelaya.
The ousted Leftist leader of Honduras is backed by Latin American Marxists Raul Castro, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez and American President Barack Obama.
"Let’s face it, Biden is a dunce."
I love waking up to a true and funny headline!
Claim: Gannett plan punishes ex-employees for trying to find work
McClatchy would never do something like this, Never! I have it on good authority, wages go up in August, the company is back to profitability, and their stock is going to the moon. “Blue horseshoe loves McClatchy”
Muslim Woman Gets Caning for Drinking Beer (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
A Malaysian model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, was caught drinking beer in a hotel and sentenced by an Islamic court to six lashes with a rattan cane.
Why is it McClatchy says it's all for women’s rights, yet never prints or takes a position on this type of abhorrent behavior? Wait, I just figured it out.
Transfer Rosenberg to Malaysia!!
Rosenberg told the Malaysian Government official:
"Have you ever had a red hot poker shoved up your ass?
Have you ever had a broomstick shoved up your ass?
How would you know how it feels if it never happened to you?
Admit it, you liked it."
Viacom's 2Q profit falls 32 percent (Yahoo Finance) [Shhhh, August, McClacthy to raise wages]
Viacom's second-quarter profit tumbled 32 percent as revenue fell amid a weak advertising market, slower video game sales and fewer movie releases.
The media conglomerate controlled by billionaire Sumner Redstone earned $277 million, or 46 cents per share, compared with $407 million, or 65 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.
Does the White House Plant ALL Questions?
Since when has any President before him done this? Worse, instead of pointing it out, McClatchy’s brings the donuts?
Presidents Bush, Clinton and Reagan all looked around the room and pointed to people and, sure, they'd pick out favorites.
But for years, the PLO's own Helen Thomas would get the first question.
Maybe in the future the TOTUS can both ask and answer the questions, and Obama can stay in the back and apologize to a pack of Marlboros,
The News & Observer Publishing Co. will eliminate another 10 positions as the media company continues to struggle with slumping ad sales.
IS TRIBUNE Co. WAITING FOR THEIR AUGUST RAISES TOO?
Tribune Co. seeks extension of reorganization plan
Bankrupt company cites complex nature of case, Cubs sale in its 'routine' request
Chicago-based Tribune Co. has asked the court in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to give management four additional months to file a reorganization plan.
The parent company of the Chicago Tribune is scheduled to deliver a plan Aug. 4 but wants to extend that deadline to Nov. 30.
Debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases have the exclusive right for 120 days from the date of filing to come up with a plan of reorganization. But for the first 18 months of a case, that right is often extended. Tribune Co., which filed its case in early December last year, already has won approval to extend the deadline once.
Declining Dollars: Belo, Media General Report Weak 2Q
Rounding out a quarter of very weak revenue figures for the newspaper business, A.H. Belo said that total publishing advertising revenues fell 30% in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2008, from $125.3 million to $87.5 million, while Media General reported a 26% drop, driving an overall revenue decline of 20% from $204.9 million to $163.8 million
WHERE ARE OUR JOBS DEAR LEADER?
China replaces US as India’s largest trade partner. (The Financial Express)
China has emerged as India's largest trading partner, replacing US in 2008-09. Apart from increasing trade engagement with the neighbouring country and weak demand for foreign goods in the US, which is reeling under recession contributed to this.
$20m holiday home at Blue Heron Farm suits Barack Obama to a tee. (London Times)
It might have been the golf tee that swung it for President Obama as he looked for a summer holiday retreat — but the 28 acres on Martha’s Vineyard, the swimming pool, private beach and basketball court may just have clinched it too.
Mr Obama and the First Family are planning to spend their summer break on a $20 million retreat on the wealthy playground island off Cape Cod and even seem undeterred that the property is owned by a Republican.
If a Republican President did this the media will be calling for his impeachment for being out of touch with the people during an economic crisis or even if it is during great economic times. But with Obama it is treated as a fairy tale per the media.
The hypocrisy of the liberal media is simply shocking.
HONOLULU – State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.
I guess that's one less thing for you miserable repukelicans to whine about.
Repukelicans...that's so funny. Hahahahahahaha. So original. So insightful. How DO you come up with such witty repartee. We bow before your rhetorical firepower in awe
I guess that's one less thing for you miserable repukelicans to whine about.
....and they posted it where? I didn't think so.
It's Sweetie's new tag line. And she's posted it about three times already.
Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Still believe in post-racial politics? Read the health care bill. It's affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.
President Obama is on the record as being officially opposed to reparations for slavery. But as with other issues, you have to sift through his eloquent rhetoric and go beyond the teleprompter to get at what he really means.
His opposition to reparations is based on the fact they don't go far enough. [snip] Under the Democrats' plans, if a medical school wants to receive contracts and grants from the federal government, it must operate under a quota system and be able to prove it. On Page 909, the House bill states: "In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the (HHS) secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."
Associated Press board approves 10 percent rate cuts in 2010 for local TV stations
NEW YORK — The board of directors of The Associated Press approved a 10 percent cut Thursday in the rates that local TV stations will pay in 2010 for text stories.
The amount of the reduction will vary from station to station depending on the level of services received.
Biden may be a dunce, but Obama ain't no Mensa man either. The bone-headed comments and out-and-out lies about health care in recent days have exposed him as a rank amateur. The polls show we're wising up.
The bone-headed comments and out-and-out lies about health care in recent days have exposed him as a rank amateur.
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It's cool. We have a solution for that. We're now censoring what Republican's can say in their emails back home to constituents.
haha, so far we're preventing them from quoting the messiah on his message to the elderly. Forget treatment, we'll give you pain pills instead.
Now one of those dirty Republicans tried to send a message out calling our plan, "Government Health Care" We shut his punk ass down!
...The press loves to drumbeat/echo every verbal misstep, right?? Oh, not gaffes by Dems!...
ROFL! 5:00 supports his accusation by quoting the media reporting what he accuses them of suppressing!
The word is, the Bam’s original birth certificate was destroyed when Hawaii converted to an electronic system. That was certainly convenient. Anyone in the system could have manipulated his information on the present electronic form. And, please don’t say that is impossible. There is a lot at stake for the Great Pretender. The bullies and thugs in the Obama camp are legion. Speak softly but carry a big stick applies to the New Black Panthers now, doesn’t it? ACORN is raft with criminal activities. Why would anyone question the possibility of fraud in Hawaii? Why has Obama paid $1,000,000 for attorneys to squelch any information about his US citizenship? That is the operative question, and the press is not inquisitive in the least! We need these spineless journalists, we really need them???
7:10 AM - Publishing a gaffe once is reporting, but continually citing the same gaffe over and over is drumbeat/echo. There are still references to President Bush being dumb because of a small mispronunciation he made years ago, but Obama makes serious national gaffes, and they die quickly. Where is the drumbeat/echo that Obama is dumb? Fair is fair, but don’t expect a lying reporter to make the distinction, they are too bent over to even see it, in their new dark hidey-hole.
Here is a story you will never hear in a McClatchy Paper about Professor Gates foundation.
http://www.propublica.org/article/foundation-run-by-harvards-gates-is-revising-tax-return-after-questions-727
Looks like it's all paying his buddies and cheating on his taxes.. Not much real help going on here.
I would call him a typical limousine liberal except that most people won't understand that label anymore.
What a fancy pants hypocrite!
The TelePrompTer Man is a dunce without TOTUS. The media had to know what a sham it was to credit him with soaring speeches, and women fainting on cue with programmed responses. The media abetted the Obama campaign with what amounted to thousands of dollars of free pro-Dem articles, while they tried to destroy the opposition. Soros funded millions into the campaigns for Secretary of State of Democrats in the battleground states. Why didn’t the press question that? Because it came in real handy, especially in states where hundreds of ballots were found in a car trunks, and later counted. Transparency doesn’t apply to journalism, they think anyway. Biased news reporting is the norm, and these corrupt people now look to taxpayers to save their lying hides. I might be willing to pay for the media funeral, but like Barry says, keeping has-beens on life-support is a waste of taxpayers dollars. We finally agree on something!
Anon 7:37's Spot on!
“Four Horsemen of the Obamaclypse”
The four names change each time Obama presents a new socialist program.
So. Who will tell Michael J. Fox he needs to die?
Which health care mouse out there will have the guts to bell the cat who is one of the most famous Parkinson's Disease sufferers in America?
Who is going to tell him that the treatments that are associated with Parkinson's -- drugs like Sinemet, Symmetrel, Eldepryl, Parlodel, Permax, Mirapex, Requip, and surgery with the quaint name "deep brain stimulation" -- are just no longer possible for Fox because, well, Mike, your QALY just isn't up to snuff, babe.
You have Parkinson's. You boozed (according to you). As a result, the government has decided treatment for you, Mike, lacks "appropriateness." The "outcome and effectiveness" of treating you -- which is to say the worth of your 47-year old life -- just isn't worth it for the rest of us.
“McCaskill's Office Locks Doors, Pull Blinds & Calls Cops on Tea Party Protesters. Staffer offers double-handed flip-off.”
Lucianne.com
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McCaskill is the same lame Dem that demanded transparency from P. Bush, but her staff gives the finger to her constituents questioning Obamascare. The same office that gave comfort to other protesters. The worm turns!
...but continually citing the same gaffe over and over is drumbeat/echo...
Doesn't that pretty much describe this blog?
...The TelePrompTer Man is a dunce without TOTUS. ..
Every president since Eisenhower used a teleprompter, including your beloved Reagan and George W. Bush.
Gates Will ‘Amend’ Charity’s IRS Form. Foundation to file amended ’07 IRS report (Globe Staff)
The Inkwell Foundation, a charity run by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., plans to file an amendment to a 2007 Internal Revenue Service report, after questions were raised about grants to staff members.
Gates, the black professor at the center of a national debate over race relations after he was arrested two weeks ago by a white Cambridge police officer, said last night that he mischaracterized $11,000 in compensation to staff members as research grants. Acknowledging a report by www.propublica.org that first questioned the grants, he called the mistake an accounting error.
Wrong Sluggo!
The TelePrompTer Man is a dunce without TOTUS. ..(TRUTH)
Every president since Eisenhower used a teleprompter, including your beloved Reagan and George W. Bush. (LIE)
//The word is, the Bam’s original birth certificate was destroyed when Hawaii converted to an electronic system.//
And what far-right conspiracy blogger dreamed that one up? How about a link so we can judge his/her credibility?
I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog? If they are so unhappy with every opinion, it would seem to me they upset themselves needlessly. Liberals commenting on a conservative blog is so futile, but if it is all they have going for them, flail away. As Obama tanks, they will have less and less to say, and that is the reality of electing a sham president.
How about just publicly producing and publishing/posting the damn birth certificate so everybody can check it out and analyze it's authenticity.
And what far-right conspiracy blogger dreamed that one up? How about a link so we can judge his/her credibility?
That was one of your excused dipshit. Check the dailykos.
Am I missing something here?
STRINGER AIDE RESIGNS AFTER CALLING PRESIDENT 'O-DUMB-A' (New York Post)
An aide to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has resigned after reportedly posting comments on her Facebook account defending racial profiling in the recent arrest of a Harvard professor and calling President Obama "O-dumb-a."
Lee Landor, who had been Stringer's deputy press secretary since May, posted a series of comments on her Facebook page over the weekend criticizing Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the president, the weekly newspaper City Hall News reported on its Web site today.
Rosenberg told Gordon:
"Have you ever had a red hot poker shoved up your ass?
Have you ever had a broomstick shoved up your ass?
How would you know how it feels if it never happened to you?
Admit it, you liked it."
..."routinely labeled my colleagues in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Justice Department, as well as her peers in the press, as 'bitches,' 'stupid,' 'lazy,' 'incompetent,' 'Nazis,' 'Saddam Hussein-like,' etc."
//Sweetheart// - There you are, stamping your little feet, and demanding proof, using all your cute mannerisms. Let me introduce you to Google search. You can find out information for yourself, really you can. I have your back, if the meanies here get on your case.
Funny, I don’t recall persons calling GW “Dumbya” and “Bushitler” and “Retard” losing their jobs over it. (or Rupukecrats)
It's "Sweetie"
♫ I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me tonight.
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real. ♫
...How about just publicly producing and publishing/posting the damn birth certificate so everybody can check it out and analyze it's authenticity....
It has been -- numerous times. Chris Mathews showed it on TV at least three times last week.
I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog?
Why do some men like other men hammering their butt hole? Why do some people like to be beaten, tied up and punished? Self mutilators are common among liberals as is the criminal element. Almost all incarcerated felons relate themselves to democrats.
I just think it is a total lack of self control induced by high levels of drug activity requiring extreme forms of stimulation to even feel alive.
Besides, have you ever seen a group photo of a bunch of leftists? Not much going on in the dating scene there my friend.
"I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog? If they are so unhappy with every opinion, it would seem to me they upset themselves needlessly."
If right-wingers are so unhappy with every opinion posted by liberals, why don't they just ignore them or answer them logically instead of endlessly echoing each others' insults and GOP and conspiracy-lovers' talking points?
I have to ask why liberals would come to this blog? If they are so unhappy with every opinion, it would seem to me they upset themselves needlessly.
She thinks she is committing vandalism. She'll go back to her lesbian blog and brag about how she stuck it to those birthers.
It is what they do and they think it makes them relevant.
Only liberals watch that loud-mouth Chris Matthews. He's about as bad as it gets and has no credibility with thinking people. Whatever birth certificate he produced as to be suspect.
Anon 8:56 Shhh! Now "Sweetie" will never leave! You got her all hot and bothered!
Anon 9:04 Sweetie, plays for the other team. See post Anon 8:56
I suppose every blog has its trolls. Why doe our troll have to be so feeble?
Arrested Harvard Prof Has 'Stupidly' Played the Race Card His Whole Life (humanevents.com)
In 1990 I served the federal court here in South Florida as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the obscenity trial that determined Miami rap group 2 Live Crew’s album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene and thus not protected by the First Amendment.
The verdict -- the first in world history that a sound recording was obscene -- was handed down by Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr., a liberal judge appointed by President Carter and who was hailed for his civil rights record by the ACLU and the rap group’s lawyer when the case was assigned to him.
Any successful effort to have the album declared not obscene had to rely upon the testimony of an expert brought in by the ACLU and the rap group’s lawyer. The expert’s name was...
...Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr...
..., the Harvard professor arrested this week in Cambridge, Mass., by police officers who President Obama last week at his press conference said, “acted stupidly.” Obama said this after he first said he didn't have all the facts.
Does this make you wonder what else he is giving opinions on without "all the facts?"
The Missouri constituents should have know an old lefty like McCaskill couldn’t care less what they think. One should have asked, “Don’t you know who I am?” and then start yelling discrimination, and racial profiling. As far as the staff flipping the bird, these are the people who tell McCaskill what is in a bill, not that it is important, she will vote as she is instructed to vote, and not even read the bill. She is just another brainless politician, IMO.
"Does this make you wonder what else he [Obooma] is giving opinions on without "all" the facts?"
Without TOTUS or programmed interviews, that would be everything. Obooma knows what the person pulling the strings wants him to know.
Why do libs come here?
1. To vent.
2. By venting they get all worked up and PEE their pants SO...
3. They read the posts and get their panties all twisted in order to wring out all that hateful PEE.
Kevin, are you proud of what your blog has become? Mostly, a place where Michael Savage type haters come to echo each other.
So Gates is a tax cheat too? Who would that surprise? Just making every Democrat pay their taxes looks like a lucrative new tax source, to me. Silly me, they are not the rich people Obama plans to scalp. Skippy and Barry are friends, how sweet. They vacation at Martha’s Vineyard together. Life’s a beach, ain’t it Bros?
Kevin, are you proud of what your blog has become?
A thorn in the socialist's side?
A collection point for all that McClatchy refuses to report?
A watchdog for the lies that McClatchy tells?
Another voice in airing the free speech that leftists attempt to squelch?
You betcha he is.
"Kevin, are you proud of what your blog has become? Mostly, a place where Michael Savage type haters come to echo each other."
Why is it that lefties spew and spin, until they area outdone, then cry foul?
Earth to Lib Idiot, how about refuting some of the news articles posted here from your own biased media? CRICKETS! Instead, you simply pee in your pants and cry. How typical!
Then try this one on idiot. Aside from shutting it down, what is your utopian vision for this blog?
10:33 AM Overwhelmed are you?
Can't counter, so I must tell. Maybe I can shame him into only allowing the leftist line. He MUST help us silence the truth.
10:33 AM - You love us, or you would not be here. Come out of the closet, you don’t have to hide and pretend any longer. As the truth about Obama becomes known, you will need the kindly shoulders here to cry upon.
♫ Weep no more my lady
I want to see your sunny smile! ♫
Hey Pruitt and the wrecking crew...look at Modesto and get rid of Vasche. You'll save a bunch of $$$. He started there when he was crapping his diapers and will retire crapping his diapers! It is the only thing he knows (how to screw up). Publisher Eric Johnston isn't much better. He was involved in starting the online media blitz and now it's turned around and is biting at his butt.
Then head south to Merced and get rid of publisher Hank Vander Veen. He is a back stabbing, worthless piece of work. How did he get to that position after starting out working the docks at Modesto? He went behind everyone's back and figured out how to cut the whole production department at Modesto! How many layoffs have you seen at Merced? Hey Mark, Eric and Hank...What goes around...
Anon 10:49
If you are the "author" of the much longer song that get's posted here, YOU are one funny person, and I thank you for making me laugh, like a LOT!
10:25 Sounds like a vicious cycle. Vent, read, pee, twist, rinse and repeat.
I am not sure what a Michael Savage type is. I do know the media tries to destroy anyone coming close to exposing them. The more I read their hate about one person, like Rush Limbaugh for instance, the more I know that person is driving the liberals nuts. The truth about the liberal agenda is forbidden. I am guessing Savage exposes them for what they are. Most people are onto the lying media by now. I am not alone in realizing the more they rant on one person, the more frightened they are of the truth getting out to the little people.
11:02/11:03 Sigh. Just two of the many reasons, I love this blog!
Who Is Obama Bullying Today? ISRAEL
This week they are visiting Israel to strong-arm the Jewish state into making poor decisions about her security. For Having to stand up for her survival not once, but four times the same week, Israel is who Obama is Bullying today.
@YID With LID
Paging McClatchy's. Mz Rosenberg? Paging Mz Rosenberg. We have a story right up your alley. Paging Mz. Rosenberg.
Man caught on tape licking meth off jail floor. KXII - TV 12,
GRAYSON COUNTY, TX – Samuel Dewayne Delamast pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in jail for tampering with physical evidence last Thursday.
When police officers made the arrest, they noticed Delamast was acting strange, but they didn't realize how strange things would get.
When Delamast arrived at the jail he was searched for contraband. It was in the process of this search officers say they noticed a powdery substance on his pants.
The powder then spilled from the suspects pant legs pouring on to the floor.
Authorities say Delamast then dropped to the ground, and began licking the substance off the floor. Test results confirmed the substance he was licking was meth.
Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown says meth makes people do strange things, but he has never seen anything like this.
I BEG YOUR PARDON, MY UNDERWEAR IS CLEAN SIR!
Kevin, you need to rename the blog "Moron Watch". Cause brother, the more I read this the more I realize you have about three idiots out there who do nothing but post nonsense all day long.
I bet they sit around in their dirty underwear, post their nonsense here then take a break at a porn site, then come back here to post more nonsense. Gimme a call when the site reverts back to one with information instead of three right wing masturbators who like to slobber on the keyboard. thanks
Skippy is an asshole? Iowahawk penned the most hilarious article I have read in a long time. “Harvard Faculty Asshole Studies” - “Douchebag Room at the Harvard Faculty Club” - How dare anyone speak so disrespectful of the elite douchebags! Read it and laugh.
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Cambridge Police Profiling Still A Grim Reality for Harvard Faculty Assholes
Guest Opinion
by Professor John Evans Evans-John
Harvard School of Harvard Faculty Asshole Studies
Harvard University
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/07/cambridge-police-profiling-still-a-grim-reality-for-harvard-faculty-assholes.html
Iowahark is very, very funny!
///Aside from shutting it down, what is your utopian vision for this blog?///
Who ever advocated shutting it down?
I just love the poster that writes, “Kevin” like he personally knows out blog host. Why do you come here? Obviously the posters here enjoy this blog. Is that what you cannot stand? Anyone with like opinions having even one place to communicate with each other? How very selfish you are. You don’t have to come here ever. To stereotype the posters, and play the bully, is so childish. You have no real idea how many people post here, NONE. Can’t you see how ridiculous you are? Of course you can’t. You voted for a teleprompter and now you want to blame us for your foolishness. I’ll take you at your word that you will stay away until further notice of your demands being met.
This is a rare blog where people can be honest about how they feel about McClatchy and its managerial staff. Those who don't like honesty can go read the guild sites or Howard Weaver's ridiculous postings.
Yup, it's amazing how many people come to this site every day to read all this awful stuff. LMAO!
JUST ANOTHER PHONY PUSSY, BIASED LIB
Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has taken a job with the Obama administration, according to an email sent to a listserv of his classmates at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Briscoe's just making it official. His comrades are all the Public Relations branch of the Obama Administration
Re: “Michael Savage type haters”- And, that would be better or worse than the unhinged President Bush haters? One thing, the liberal loons can’t really say much after the eight years of their Bush bashing, that we now know was a phony election scheme from the get-go. Obama is fair game, and deserves no respect of office, no doubt about it, the precedent is set.
...You voted for a teleprompter...
Every president since Eisenhower used a teleprompter.
"Most people are onto the lying media by now."
My cable system carries Faux, and my radio gets Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Savage, Beck, etc. No doubt that's the lying media you're talking about. But if you think they aren't lying, then watch/listen to them, and you won't have to worry about what others choose to watch/listen.
2:57 PM- Your radio gets the Coulter radio program? I want a radio like yours for sure! Cue: The Twilight Zone music.
The polls just closed for the Sac Guild vote on vacation burn. Since they only have five members in good standing, the results should already be counted. Of course it will still take two weeks for the tally to be announced.
...You voted for a teleprompter...
Every president since Eisenhower used a teleprompter.
Like McClatchy, you are a lying, blithering idiot.
This story personifies McClatchy, and the lib liars here
Support For ObamaCare Decreases….MSM Blames The Ignorant American People
Support for Obama's socialized health care plan keeps dropping and who does our MSM blame for this? The stupidity of Americans:
While viewers may seize upon numbers that indicate the size and scope of reforming health care — 47million uninsured Americans or costs in the trillion-dollar range — most eyes glaze over when terms like “public option” or “bundled payments” get tossed around on the air.
“It’s not only not a cable TV-friendly story; it’s not a journalism-friendly story,” said John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC.
Harwood, also a political writer for The New York Times, explained that reporters need to first understand the intricacies and nuances of health care policy before they can then try getting the story across to viewers and readers. Last week, Harwood said, he was “trying to get [his] head around the issue of cost control” before penning a Times column.
“It’s incredibly complex to try and explain to people,” Harwood said.
“The problem with health care is that it’s so big and so complicated that the public is never really going to understand all the moving parts of this,” NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner said on air Wednesday.
“So the public is really always going to be sort of amenable, if you will, to demagoguery and arguments one way or the other that don’t necessarily link to what the substance is,” Rovner continued. “We saw this during the Clinton efforts.”
BUT CAN HE DO A JIG?
Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him Two Men at Center of Controversy Linked by Irish Heritage By NIALL O'DOWD IrishCentral.com Publisher
Breaking: House to Adjourn Friday -NO Vote on Healthcare
Politico
BREAKING: The House will adjourn by Friday without voting on a health care bill, according to planning memo obtained by POLITICO.
FNC's Ratings Continue to Climb, MSNBC's and Olbermann's Fall
While July has been another banner month for the Fox News Channel, the good folks at MSNBC might want to rethink their current lineup.
In the all important demographic group aged 25 to 54, FNC was up 48 percent in total daily viewers, and an astounding 70 percent in prime time compared to July 2008.
By contrast, MSNBC's take of this demo was unchanged in prime time and down seven percent in total daily viewers.
The liberal network's top personality Keith Olbermann saw his July demo numbers decline to their lowest level since December 2007.
Doesn't Maddow has a higher sperm count than Olbermann?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I call your attention to 11:35 anon.
This poor soul is typical of the lefties who post on this and other sites. Perhaps he is typical of lefties in general.
He seems to have two points:
1. No one should post on this blog because he disagrees with them.
2. He wants to speculate about people he does not know and present that speculation as a fact.
Now I know you are not taking this nonsense seriously, but he is instructive as an example of the left in general.
They love to limit debate to subjects and points of view they approve. Nothing else should ever be discussed by anyone. We see this in ridiculous silliness with 11:35 but we can see where it goes with the left in Stalin or Castro.
The left is also disconnected from the real world. Happy with speculation and innuendo in place of real research or analysis, the left is frequently unhinged from the natural limits of reality.
Also on display in 11:35 is a strange preoccupation with the sexual lives of others. I won't pretend to understand why, but history tells us that the lefties often display this strange preoccupation.
Far from being a useless, irrelevant prattling twit, our 11:35 is in fact an object lesson of some value to the observant.
Hey 5:10, I think 11:35 must have hit a nerve and you must be one of the 3 loons that constantly post hateful trash on here. Are you the famous Goebells guy? You know the one that mentions, Hitler, Goebells, Stalin, Castro, Marxist. Also loves to call people "sweetie" as well as post and then reply to himself. Your probably also the first one to scream about posting IP addresses, deleting comments or questioning the right of anyone to say anything. I'm sure that you consider censorship to be part of your game plan and no doubt you would have risen high in the nazi party in your younger days. What are you, about 60 or 70? Cheer up, every day above ground is a good day!!!!
I have a firm rule to disregard the comments of anyone who tells others "probably" who I am. Without fact or inkling you have determined a probability. Amazing? Or just stupid?
The polls just closed for the Sac Guild vote on vacation burn. Since they only have five members in good standing, the results should already be counted.
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Are you kidding? Five career leftists participating in a vote? Dude, that's 250,000 registrations that must be checked and 15,000 official ballots if you include hanging chads or disenfranchised voters, and 18,500 if any are affirmative action ballots.
They're going to have to call in management just for their fingers and toes. God help them if there is a recount.
I have a firm rule to disregard the comments of anyone who tells others "probably" who I am. Without fact or inkling you have determined a probability. Amazing? Or just stupid?
Or how about "correct"! You display the fact and or inkling in your post and the probability of me being correct about you is proved in your response. It's not really amazing and yes, you are stupid!!!!
5:26 PM They're tearing you up hon. Better to cut your losses. Let em have their board.
5:54, You mean they, or I am tearing you up? What's a matter, can't take the heat? Goebells guy, is that you?
Hope the head blog dude breaks out the Fox News ratings for July into a separate posting. I love it when MSNBC drops rating points and audience share!!!
6:00 PM
It's pretty clear you're out of ammo. You've been reduced to echoing their arguments. You're done. They laugh at you now, not get mad.
Can we do 100 posts for a thread? I have never seen even this many posts here
Shouldn't be too hard. It is just about time for democrats and dirty propaganda outlets to start doing their best work. Under cover of darkness, while we sleep.
"Is there life for laid off McClatchy reporters?"
Simply put, "yes". They spend all their waking hours on here whining about how bad of a company they used to work for and whining about everything else in the world not completely dominated by the repukelicans.
///Every president since Eisenhower used a teleprompter.
Like McClatchy, you are a lying, blithering idiot.///
Prove it.
When the fire gets hot the democrats always turn to personal attack. Actual defense of MNI or of the liberals is just beyond them.
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