Opening the Day: Fox Is Racist Goes Mainstream

by: Matt Stoller

Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 10:13

Last night, Stephen Colbert and Nas spent about half the show going over accusations that Fox News is racist and anti-Obama. It was a pivotal moment for the ongoing media accountability campaign that started in 2003 or so.

Stephen Colbert dedicated half his show to the Color of Change/Moveon petition delivered by Nas.
Wes Clark is really good at dealing with national security.
Jimmy Hoffa, the guy who runs the union for truckers, rejects drilling.
Comcast is of course screwing customers.
Harry Reid thinks Obama would revisit FISA if he were President.
Norm Coleman released this ad against Al Franken. Of course, most of the damning stuff - the taxes bit - is not true.
Obama was heckled by Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall.
Orthodox men interrupted their morning prayers to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator, reaching out to shake his hand as he passed them by. But not all were taken by the Democrat. One yelled out: "Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!" before Mr Obama was whisked away to his waiting plane.
Schwarzeneger is trying to cut state worker pay to the minimum wage in order to deal with a budget standoff. This is not really going to set him up well for a Senate run in 2010.
Oil is dropping as consumption drops.
The Pentagon buys as much oil as Greece.
The Obama campaign is full of Gephardt people.
Republicans have disavowed Heath Shuler's Republican opponent.

What are you reading?

Matt Stoller :: Opening the Day: Fox Is Racist Goes Mainstream

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Opening the Day: Fox Is Racist Goes Mainstream | 2 comments

Mukasey wants to violate the constitution... again (0.00 / 0)

Wow. Some replacement to Gonzales, and Ashcroft.
From ACLU Blog
http://blog.aclu.org/2008/07/2...

Mukasey offered a multi-part plan to violate the Constitution. He demanded that Congress declare a new "armed conflict" (which is Bush-speak for a new declaration of war) that would give a president worldwide power to declare anyone a terrorist and hold the person forever - without ever charging anyone with a crime. Mukasey also asked Congress to enact the Bush Administration's scheme for undermining the recent Supreme Court decision restoring constitutional habeas corpus protections to the detainees at Guantanamo. The main goal of the proposed new Bush rules restricting habeas rights is to try to block federal judges from ever learning the truth about the deliberate and widespread use of torture and abuse inflicted on detainees. Judges would not be allowed to see evidence of torture and abuse and would instead simply have to trust that a president is holding the right people as terrorists.

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by: bluethunder @ Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 15:53:23 PM UTC