The islamophobic fundamentalists in America are at it again: In protest of what it calls a religion “of the devil,” a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an “International Burn a Quran Day” on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the […]
Following Mark Williams highly racist blog post we have started seeing wingnuts run to his defense. For example, here is Ed Driscoll But I’m sure the NAACP will agree that once a group reaches a large enough size, there are bound to be the occasional radical fringe elements associated with it. Such as rabid anti-Semites […]
Well this should be an interesting combination: Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host a new hour long CNN primetime news program starting in the fall as the nation prepares for the 2010 midterm election, the network announced Wednesday morning. The yet-to-be-named “roundtable discussion” program will […]
What an absolutely horrible news story to start the week with: Police in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday expressed “profound sorrow” at the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl in a police raid. Aiyana Jones was shot and killed by police executing a search warrant as part of a homicide investigation, Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee said […]
If anyone wonders why CNN is in such a downward spiral, they only need to look at this article to get an idea of why: Oil slick awaits New Orleans’ 1st white mayor in decades The first white mayor of New Orleans in more than 30 years steps into his first challenge as soon as […]
CNN is asking if financial regulation will hurt the Democrats fundraising: They do well with Wall Street, but Democrats may now risk biting the hand that feeds many of them — as President Obama and top party leaders press for financial reform. And a key question arises: will there be a squeeze on the money […]
There are reports that David Shuster taped a pilot for a new CNN program It appears Shuster may be in the MSNBC doghouse again after reports he shot a CNN pilot recently, which apparently happened without his MSNBC bosses knowing. On Friday Shuster didn’t host his 3:00 show, but did host the 10am show, highlighting […]
Take a look at this story on CNN: Barely a month in office, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, is putting some muscle behind his independent image by twice voting against his own party and questioning the use of the filibuster. Brown took to the Senate floor Tuesday to announce he would vote for cloture, or to […]
At the annual Democratic Party meeting there should be a mandatory seminar on communication. Not properly communicating has cost the Democrats dearly. It was a big nail in the coffin on health care. People couldn’t understand things like “health exchanges” or “public option”. Even the one simple word left a bad feeling with voters – […]
A very grim assessment from the prime minister of Haiti: Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Haiti’s earthquake, the prime minister told CNN Wednesday. Haitian authorities said the powerful quake destroyed most of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. A top envoy called it a “major catastrophe.” Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported […]