Month: September 2010
On Message: GOP-Fox TV
GOP-Fox TV After years of speculation, the connection between Fox News and the Republican Party became public on Aug. 17, 2010, with the revelation that Fox’s owner, News Corp, had donated $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association. This move reverses a position taken four months earlier by News Corps CEO Rupert Murdoch, who, when asked if it was appropriate for Fox News to promote rallies sponsored by Republican operatives doing business as the “tea party,” said, “No, I don’t think we should be supporting the tea party or any party.” Now that the financial relationship between Fox and the Republican Party has been established, the network should no longer be described as a “news channel.” Editors should use “GOP-Fox TV” instead of “Fox News Channel” in all references.
Verbatim
They drove our economy into a ditch. And we got in there, and we put on our boots, and we pushed, and we shoved, we were sweating and these guys were standing, watching us, and sipping on a Slurpee, and they were pointing at us, saying “How come you’re not pushing harder? How come you’re not pushing faster?” And then when we finally got the car up – and it’s got a few dings and a few dents, it’s got some mud on it, we’re going to have to do some work on it – they point to everybody and say, “Look what these guys did to your car!” After we got it out of the ditch. And then they got the nerve to ask for the keys back. I don’t want to give ’em the keys back. They don’t know how to drive.
Pres. Barack Obama, purportedly going “off script” in a Labor Day speech, and sparking a hashtag frenzy on Twitter to place “Slurpees” in the trending topics list.
On Message: Billionaire Bailout
Billionaire Bailout Use instead of “Bush tax cuts” and “tax cuts for the wealthy.”
Petraeus Says Christian Extremists are Putting Troops at Risk
Plans by a tiny Gainesville, Fla. church to burn Qurans on Sept. 11 were condemned by a guy who knows how to act toward Islam. Gen. David Petraeus is pleading with the Christian extremists to tone it down or put American troops at risk.
“It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort,” Gen. Petraeus said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community.”
Hundreds of Afghans attended a demonstration in Kabul on Monday to protest the plans of Florida pastor Terry Jones, who has said he will burn the Quran on Sept. 11…
Military officials fear the protests are likely to spread beyond Kabul to other Afghan cities. In interviews with various media outlets, Mr. Jones has denied his protest will put troops in danger. Mr. Jones has been denied a permit for the demonstration but has said he plans to go forward with his protest anyway.
Meanwhile, people in Gainesville — home of the flagship University of Florida and its law school, and one of the few places in that part of the state that still elects Democrats — struggled to both condemn the 50-member church and to defend it.
This faux commercial for the event sums up the absurdity in Pastor Jones’ position.
Labor Day Special: Reagan Had It Right the First Time
Enjoy this audio of Ronald Reagan from 1948, when he was still married to Jane Wyman, president of the Screen Actors Guild who defended against the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act, and a Democrat.
Poll: Obama’s Approval Bumps Up 3 Points
The corporate media is sticking to its narrative as the midterms approach that everything related to Democrats and Pres. Obama is wrong and bad and awful, so they tend to ignore even modestly good news like this:
A new national poll indicates that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has edged up three points, and it appears that the war in Iraq is behind the bump. But according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, Americans are giving the president bad marks on the economy.
The survey, released Friday, indicates that 50 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama’s doing as president, up from 47 percent in last month, with 49 percent disapproving, down two points from August. And Obama’s approval on how he’s handling the conflict in Iraq now stands at 57 percent, an eight point jump from July.
