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They retreat to their shell like a quivering scared baby turtle. Kerry on MSNBC yesterday, hitting Alex Witt with the proverbial sweet chin music, via HuffPo. More of this from everyone, please.
Randi's back on the XM bird Monday.
XM Radio announces the return of talk radio personality Randi Rhodes to the satcaster’s programming lineup on May 5. The new Randi Rhodes Show, which is syndicated by Nova M Radio, will air weekdays from 3-6 p.m. ET on Air America (XM 167), XM’s progressive political talk channel.
I remember the snark AAR doled out when they suspended Rhodes a few weeks ago for her blue San Fran stand-up act. "If we wanted to hire a comedian, we would have." So since her departure, they put on...Richard Belzer and Roseanne Barr as guest hosts. Oy. XM's audience probably had enough.
There are fewer and fewer shows on the XM "Air America" channel that actually come from the network now. Pacific time, AAR's Lionel is on 6-9am. Then the channel grabs Ed Schultz from the Jones network 9 to noon, followed by Nova M's Rhodes. At 3pm, they go back to AAR for the Rachel Maddow hodgepodge (sometimes it's her, sometimes it's the David Gregory simulcast, sometimes neither) followed by AAR's Thom Hartmann on tape delay, and Nova M's Mike Malloy.
If XM wasn't so busy dealing with the merger, they'd probably give a flip enough to change the name of the channel once and for all.
Facing prison for making Republican Sen. David Vitter's winkywank happy. the DC Madam commits suicide. She's dead, Vitter rolls on. An all-too-typically sad story of American justice.
We all are, Joe. We all are.
DNC Chairman Under Bill Clinton: Unite Behind Obama
A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton switched his allegiance to Barack Obama on Thursday and urged fellow Democrats to end the bruising nomination fight.
"This has got to come to an end," former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew told reporters in his hometown of Indianapolis just days before Tuesday's crucial state primary. He said he planned to call all the other superdelegates he knows and encourage them to back Obama.
"He has shown such mettle under fire," Andrew said in the interview. "The Jeremiah Wright controversy just reconfirmed for me, just as the gas tax controversy confirmed for me, that he is the right candidate for our party."
This is the best protest against the Iraq war so far - one that actually peacefully disrupts the norm. We salute these workers and give them our gratitude and support.
U.S. West Coast ports closed by worker protest
Ports along the U.S. West Coast, including the country's busiest port complex in Los Angeles, shut down on Thursday as some 10,000 dock workers went on a one-day strike to protest the war in Iraq, port and union officials said.
Twenty-nine ports from San Diego to Washington state that handle more than half of U.S waterborne trade ground to a halt, but shipping experts said the economic costs of the walk-out would be limited.
"We are hearing there is no activity taking place up and down the West Coast," said Steve Getzug, spokesman of the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents all 29 ports. "There is no unloading or loading."
At the Los Angeles-area port of Long Beach, a hub for trade with Asia, a Reuters reporter said the normally bustling area was unusually quiet and there were no signs of protesters.
Long Beach Port terminal operators expect union workers to return for the second shift beginning at 6:00 p.m. PDT (9:00 p.m. EDT/0100 GMT on Friday).
The San Diego Union-Trib, pandering big time to their GOP base, gives the news with this headline:
Port cargo workers take the day off to protest of Iraq War
Yup, yup, yup. Takin' the day off. Goin' fishin'. Not sacrificing in the least. Asshole "journalists."
And what's saddest of all, operatives will make sure America does what it did in 2004 - vote against their better interests and continue the same course...and many Americans will still believe them.
A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland added. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 66 percent disapproval in January 1952."
NewsBlues (subscription only) busts NBC's newsface. The link to C&L is included in the newsletter, Newsbluzette, which goes to newsrooms all over the country...so yeah. The blogs are making inroads.
Earlier this week, on his Daily Nightly blog, NBC's Brian Williams acknowledged a goof by producers who used file video of penguins to illustrate a report on the North Pole. There are no penguins in the northern hemisphere (except in zoos). "It was the visual equivalent of a kangaroo bouncing through Central Park," he admitted.
Williams also used his blog to trash the New York Times for covering petty and completely meaningless tabloid stories. Yet, the following night, Williams's "Tonightly News" aired a 2+ minute report on the latest “controversy” surrounding teen superstar Miley Cyrus and the pictures Annie Leibovitz took of her for Vanity Fair.
Coverage of the landmark Supreme Court decision on voter IDs, that same night, ran 1:20.
