From Move America Forward, whose representatives toured Gitmo.
Press release with more info here.
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According to Anne Thompson.
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Marc Ambinder: Liberals Ignore Real Health Care Anxiety At Their Peril.
Via @MattKLewis.
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R.S. McCain provides Gryphen with a brand new orifice.
UPDATE: Dan Riehl does too. Looks like Gryphen could have protected his own privacy a little better.
Pathetic case of hubris biting the hubristic on the ass. There was plenty of warning. Palin’s attorney made it quite clear weeks ago that this could happen. And that wasn’t a case of Palin trying to take away your right to free expression, people! First Amendment protections only apply to government censorship; and – besides – defamatory speech is not absolutely protected by the First Amendment.
So, as I and others mentioned back then, there was no reason to think that Palin couldn’t ever make a case for defamation.
Just an instance of people blinded by anger believing their own lies, I guess.
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So the White House is calling the video about Obama dreaming of a world without private health insurance “misdisinformation”.
I thought Douglass was supposed to be a cunning propagandist media-savvy professional. Remember this? If anyone is spreading this so-called “misinformation”, it’s Obama himself.
Same thing with the so-called “euthanasia for old people” thing. It’s Obama who brought up deathbed measures. How can that be a lie made-up by evil Republicans? Did they put it in his mouth?
Wait! Is Obama a Karl Rove puppet?????? The horror! (yuk, yuk)
UPDATE: How do they expect to sell Obamacare with a creepy logo like this one? What are those silhouttes in the background. Zombies? You know, the walking dead? (the result of healthcare rationing…yuk, yuk)
MORE: Great. The White House now wants healthcare “disinformation” informants to turn in authors of “inaccurate” e-mails or blogposts. Should we submit the President’s own statements about private health insurance and deathbed measures? I presume they already have those on file somewhere in the West Wing…
ANOTHER ONE: Powerline: Is this the best they can do?
AND ANOTHER ONE: Professor Douglas links. Thanks!
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The Corner: Department of Double Standards (Via Instapundit).
What a bunch of babies these liberals are. Conservatives put up with much worse in terms of offensive depictions of George W. Bush.
But then someone depicts Obama as The Joker and some people wanna go Gestapo on the artist. Too post-modern for you? Or just angry that Dear Leader is being mocked?
Why so Nazi?
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Tetra Vaal. An 80-second short directed by Neill Blomkamp, whose feature debut District 9 is opening August 14:
Via VSL.
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WSJ: Democrats show strain of heated battles.
And they will show even more after a few weeks of “Town Hells”.
Also, a warning:
Communications experts say it would be a mistake to demonize the [town hall] protesters.
“The more intelligent alternative is to take the extensive network the Obama campaign developed and send all of those people to town halls,” said University of Pennsylvania political scientist Kathleen Hall Jamieson. “If this comes down to vocal individuals, the Obama campaign ought to be able to always outnumber their opponent. And if they’re not, then that’s a problem.”
How’s that throat-stepping working out, by the way?
UPDATE: Marc Ambinder: August Slaughter?
Where Democrats have President Obama, principles, and a new argument about consumer protections, Republicans have an enthusiastic, self-contained base that is ready to work to defeat Obama’s signature initiative. (On some level, this isn’t _really_ about health care: it’s about anxiety and anger at government, and at the Obama administration.)
Democrats have principles? (yuk,yuk) But seriously now, sounds like Obama’s overall agenda is simply out-messaging Obamacare.
I mean, if West L.A. denizens (notoriously liberal) don’t like the idea of Obamacare, then how can you expect to sell it to Middle America?
MORE: White House not worried. Sure. Everything’s going flawlessly after all…
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Coincidentally listening to: Led Zeppelin – Nobody’s Fault But Mine
via FoxyTunessay it would be a mistake to demonize the protesters.“The more intelligent alternative is to take the extensive network the Obama campaign developed and send all of those people to town halls,” said University of Pennsylvania political scientist Kathleen Hall Jamieson. “If this comes down to vocal individuals, the Obama campaign ought to be able to always outnumber their opponent. And if they’re not, then that’s a problem.” -
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Haven’t run into this creepy anti-Obama street art yet.
Street art is very common on our streets, much of it not political at all. But I didn’t think this would happen in L.A. so soon into Obama’s term.
You can be sure the State Run Media won’t mention them at all; and that committed Obama supporters will tear them down or deface them where possible. Weeks ago I spotted a similar poster of Obama with Bozo hair (or some clown wig) on a telephone junction box torn to shreds, not far from Rhetorican Central, near Hollywood.
UPDATE: Of course he does! L.A. Weekly blogger wonders “where’s the noose?”
Yeah, because The Dark Knight
was such a racist film. (Via Jim Treacher)
MORE: Why so serious?
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(From an e-mail tip)
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Skepticrats: Cash for Clunkers program putting brand new SUV’s on the road.
Your tax money working hard “for marginal mileage increases”. Great.
Don’t expect such inefficiency from Obamacare. “Deathbed measures” means no marginal mileage increases for your body.
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AP: Two Obama officials say there’s no guarantee middle-class Americans won’t see tax hikes.
Another Obama promise with an expiration date. Who knew?
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OK. Now we know for sure:
Via @MattKLewis
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Does The Other McCain have the goods on Gryphen?
UPDATE: Confirmed! “CNN Bozo accidentally outs his source”.
I think it’s on, folks. Does it still look “odd” and “pointless” to you?
We’ll see…
MORE: Griffin might yet prevail in court if he’s actually sued, but I wouldn’t rely on any old dictionary – as he does here – for the definitions of legal terms of art. The legal definitions of “malice” and “defamatory” are not at all as described therein.
“Malice” for the purposes of public figure defamation liability consists simply of either (1) knowledge of falsity or (2) reckless disregard for the truth of a defamatory statement about the plaintiff.
“Defamatory” would be any false statement that would tend to injure the reputation of the plaintiff. It doesn’t have to tend to injure her reputation among the entire universe. It only has to tend to injure her reputation among a certain community…like the conservative Christian community. You know, the one which tends to frown upon divorce.
ANOTHER ONE: Keep an eye on Dan Riehl’s blog for more. He’s got the goods on Gryphen, too, from Palin’s own lawyer.
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Jake McNicholas: “I used a person’s race to initiate investigations and make subsequent arrests…We looked for white people.”
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The Hill: McCain and McCaskill to vote against more funding for Cash for Clunkers.
McCaskill for lower spending? Could it be? Hmm…
How’s all that liberal throat-stepping working out, by the way?
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Funny People not quite laughing all the way to the bank. Nikki Finke has the figures and analysis.
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Attack of the Borg Media: first it was Larry “Someone Has to Think for the Masses” King.
Now Andrea Mitchell expresses her own concern for the hive mind’s hegemony: Some Obamacare opponents “may not know what’s good for them”.
I guess I shouldn’t get so worked up. These are the people who made Obama, after all. There’s no room for individuals in the collective. What else would they believe?
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So the blog turns one year old today.
Never thought I’d be able to keep it going this long. Nice.
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Hot Air: “The Left is always on the attack, because the way it requires people to live is contrary to their normal tendencies.”
That would explain the throat-stepping threats.
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Professor Douglas: The “suds summit” represented a missed opportunity for President Obama to demonstrate post-racial leadership during the Gates arrest controversy.
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“Let me be clear.”
What does he mean when he says it? And why does the president who made “transparency” a national buzzword use it so often?
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Mediaite: Nobody wins, especially the viewers.
Glen Greenwald doesn’t like it either: “So here we have yet another example — perhaps the most glaring yet — of the corporations that own our largest media outlets controlling and censoring the content of their news organizations based on the unrelated interests of the parent corporation.”
I’ve only worked entertainment news. But it is a well-known fact that truly independent, non-profit driven, TV news divisions at the networks have been a thing of the past for some time. And they have never existed in cable news, so I’m not really surprised at any of this.
At any rate, both Olbermann and O’Reilly (and their respective staffs) have no choice but to answer to their corporate parents for the simple reason that they are their bosses. And if the bosses want them to stop talking about something or other, they can either quit or walk the company line.
That’s how it works, for better or worse. Greenwald and everyone else who thought they had been actually enjoying news content free of corporate involvement for all these years were right in a sense: corporate only gets involved when it has to.
