A new report by the Congressional Budgeting Office finds the following: CBO finds that, between 1979 and 2007, income grew by: 275 percent for the top 1 percent of households, 65 percent for the next 19 percent, Just under 40 percent for the next 60 percent, and 18 percent for the bottom 20 percent. Actually […]
It takes a nation being in rubble, millions suffering and tens of thousands dead, but we finally get a Sunday talking heads line up absent John McCain and Joe Lieberman this week. The show to watch will be This Week when Jake Tapper talks to former presidents Bush and Clinton about their Haitian relief fund.
Steve Benen explains: I especially loved the “Exclusive!” with the exclamation point, as if this were a rare, special occurrence. For those keeping score at home, as of this weekend, there will have been 47 Sundays since President Obama’s inauguration in January. With this 16th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show this week, John […]
That is the new meme emerging following the two gubernatorial losses last night for Democrats. I seemed to have missed it where Obama was on the ballot, but that’s what all the talking heads want us to think. Let’s take a look at Creigh Deeds and the Virginia race. Actually have a look at Think […]
During the entire White House/Fox News feud FOX decided to bolster about their “soaring ratings”. This meme was then picked up by a lot of talking heads in the mainstream media. Media Matters decided to go to the data and see exactly what “soar” meant to FOX: No matter how many times reporters and pundits […]
Our nation received the following letter: Dear America; Your nations highways are a disgrace. Your bridges collapse anytime a car drives over them, and your roads are the equivalent to driving down railroad tracks. It’s truly amazing that you still have a population at all, let alone an auto industry. Perhaps you should look into […]
Yesterday the media was going on that we could hear the new unemployment numbers today and they very well could be above 10%, despite all the other signs of the contrary. Well take a look at this: WASHINGTON (AP) Payrolls drop by just 247,000; jobless rate falls to 9.4 percent, sign recession ending. The numbers […]
Watching Meet the Press I can’t help but think that these news organizations go out and hire the biggest flunkies from basic government classes. It’s that or they think that their viewers are total idiots. Let me explain. They are talking about Nancy Pelosi’s approval rating dropping, so that means she might not be reelected. […]
Not only is Jesse Ventura an ex-governor and ex-wrestler, but he is also a former Navy SEAL who went through SEAR training. Now he is one of the most outspoken opponents of torture. He has been on fire the past several days schooling numerous talking heads about waterboarding and saying that it is in fact […]
TBogg makes a very interesting and accurate point that Nancy Pelosi has become the next Lynndie England: Due to “process” reporting we have learned that the Torture Years were not the responsibility of the Administration who demanded them, the legal counsel who found legal justification for them, the medical personnel who stood by and watched, […]