Tuesday, December 31, 2013

EITHER/OR

The polarization of America

 http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/withdrawing-to-our-corners.html
Today, three-quarters of the states are controlled by either Republicans or Democrats, more than at any time in recent memory. Elected officials in these states are moving unencumbered to enact their party’s agenda. . . [read on]

More: http://theweek.com/article/index/254598/4-reasons-our-political-dysfunction-isnt-going-to-end-soon

 The NYT story on what really happened in Benghazi has triggered howls of outrage from the right: How dare the facts not support our narrative?

 http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/one-misguided-theory-deserves-another
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, on Monday accused the New York Times of using its investigation into the Benghazi attack as a way to boost a potential 2016 run for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. . . .

 http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gop-admits-benghazi-is-all-about.html

 More: http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/fox-news-freakout-over-ny-times-benghazi
Fox News Still Freaking Out Over NY Times Benghazi Story

 http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/year-later-we-finally-have-pretty-good-idea-what-happened-benghazi

 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/times-benghazi-story-wasnt-hillary-endorsement.html

 The big 2014 issue Democrats hope will raise their chances

 http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/12/30/democrats_build_2014_strategy_around_minimum_wage.html

 More: http://elections.firedoglake.com/2013/12/30/democrats-to-push-minimum-wage-ballot-initiatives/

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/minimum-wage-takes-center-stage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/30/how-obama-can-kick-off-the-minimum-wage-push/

 Will Obamacare hit its 7 million target?

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/30/obamacare-just-might-net-its-7-million-sign-ups/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd

 More: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/2013-comes-end-obamacare-starting-look-pretty-healthy

 More disclosures on what the NSA is doing

 http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/30/new-report-details-elite-nsa-hacking-unit/

 Ted Cruz looks like he's running for something

 http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ted-cruz-slow-learner
KARL: You have had a couple of months to think about this whole government shutdown strategy. Now that it’s over in hindsight, are you prepared to say that it was a mistake, it wasn’t the right tactic? . . . [read on]

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/31/ted-cruz-s-canadian-panic.html
The Texas senator’s vow to renounce his dual citizenship by year’s end is just a taste of all the zany good fun a Cruz White House bid promises. . .
The Phil Robertson screed gives national attention to a new trend: theocrats claiming religious freedom as a premise for their right to make bigoted comments

 http://justiceforall.firedoglake.com/2013/12/30/the-ugly-collusion-between-religious-faith-and-bigotry/

Some kind of trend: even fewer Republicans believe in evolution

 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/republican-belief-in-evolution-is-down.html
Bonus item: In case you've been wondering, what is a Bitcoin?

 http://my.firedoglake.com/zach/2013/12/30/jumping-into-the-bitcoin-bubble/

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Monday, December 30, 2013

IS WE LEARNING YET?

Climate change: it's getting worse 

http://tinyurl.com/p52cg8g

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/qotdecade.html

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

UP IN FLAMES

The New York Times does some real reporting about Benghazi and finds that, in fact, an anti-Muslim video DID cause the attack and Al Qaeda DIDN'T. This doesn't fit the right-wing narrative, and so the results are predictable . . . 

 http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/nyt-benghazi-bombshell-embassy-attack
Susan Rice was right. President Obama was right. Hillary Clinton was right . . .

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/please_proceed_republicans048400.php
Let’s go back to that infamous appearance that Susan Rice made on Meet the Press the Sunday following the Benghazi attacks . . .  

Fox World goes crazy: http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/fox-news-immediately-attempts-discredit
 
Theocracy watch: John Hagee says, if you don't believe in Christmas, you don't belong here

 http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/love-it-or-leave-it.html

 Marijuana has already been decriminalized . . . if you're white
The Sunday talk show line-ups

 http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/sunday-morning-bobblehead-thread-0
ABC's "This Week" — A look at game changers in 2013.  

NBC's "Meet the Press" — Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Joaquin Castro, D-Texas. Edward Snowden’s lead legal advisor, Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Panel: Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson; NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell; Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Elliott Abrams; Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Fellow Robin Wright; Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University, Dr. Peter Stearns.  

CBS' "Face the Nation" — Gen. Michael Hayden, Former National Security Agency Director; NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake. Barton Gellman of the Washington Post, Jesselyn Radack, a legal adviser to Edward Snowden. Year-end Panel: Jeffrey Kluger of TIME, James Fallows of The Atlantic, Laura Sydell of NPR and Seth Fletcher of Scientific American.  

MSNBC's "UP with Steve Kornacki" - Aisha Moodie-Mills, Center for American Progress; Rachael Bade, Politico; Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times; Jane Hall, American University; Josh Barro, Business Insider; Don McPherson, Fmr. NFL Player. 

 MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" - Dean Obeidallah, Comedian and Opinion Writer / Co-Director of “The Muslims Are Coming”; Judy Gold, Emmy Award Winning Actress and Comedian; Pia Glenn, Actress and Performer; Jamie Kilstein, Co-Host of Citizen Radio.  

MSNBC's "Disrupt with Karen Finney" - oe Madison, Sirius XM Radio; Jimmy Williams, MSNBC Contributor; Maria Teresa Kumar, Voto Latino; Perry Bacon, TheGrio.com; Farai Chideya, TheRoot.com; Dean Obeidallah, Political Comedian.  

CNN's "State of the Union" —Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, SE Cupp, Donna Brazile, Ana Navarro.  

CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" - "India at the Crossroads" GPS special.

 MOYERS & COMPANY: The Pope, Poverty and Poetry. Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms, and to Philip Levine, who explores how his years working on Detroit’s assembly lines inspired his poetry.

Phil Robertson To Be Honored In Republican-Sponsored Resolution



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Saturday, December 28, 2013

IN THE CORNER

The dumbest comments from 2013 (perhaps you will see a pattern)

 http://theweek.com/article/index/254576/the-13-craziest-and-most-offensive-things-said-by-politicians-in-2013

 http://www.salon.com/2013/12/27/2013_the_worst_tweets_of_the_year_2/

 GOPers are settling in to the realization that Obamacare is not going to be "repealed"

 http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-confronting-new-reality-healthcare

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/27/wonkbook-this-quote-shows-why-obamacare-is-here-to-stay/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd

 The latest ridiculous Obamacare "scandal"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/27/1257118/-Obamacare-controls-what-you-eat-By-giving-you-nutritional-data
How Obamacare Will Try to Control What You Eat . . .

Full Court press

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/nsa-phone-surveillance-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
A federal judge in New York on Friday ruled that the National Security Agency’s program that is systematically keeping phone records of all Americans is lawful, creating a conflict among lower courts and increasing the likelihood that the issue will be resolved by the Supreme Court.  . . .

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/27/utah-plans-to-take-its-gay-marriage-fight-to-the-supreme-court-soon/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd
After multiple failed attempts at temporarily blocking gay marriages in the state over the past week, the Utah attorney general plans to elevate the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court … soon.  . . 

 Congress is unpopular, but the Senate actually had a pretty good year

 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/27/1263099/-The-Senate-had-a-pretty-good-year

 15 wins for progressives in 2013

 http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/15-wins-progressive-movement-2013

 More on ALEC: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/27/1260644/-Not-just-a-bill-How-ALEC-tramples-on-democracy

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Friday, December 27, 2013

WORST. CONGRESS. EVER.

#1 story of the year

 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2013/12/26/americans-think-this-is-the-worst-congress-they-ever-witnessed/
People are going to be hurting without unemployment support

 http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/ad-targets-gop-over-13-million-americans
Meanwhile: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/paul-jobless-aid-weakens-us
Paul: jobless aid ‘weakens’ U.S.

While we were shopping . . .

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/26/holidays_marked_by_drone_strikes/
Holidays marked by drone strikes

 http://www.salon.com/2013/12/26/u_s_quietly_rushes_missiles_drones_to_iraq/
U.S. quietly rushes missiles, drones to Iraq 

 Chris Christie's toll booth problem: locals from NJ aren't surprised

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/david-wildstein-they-play-rough

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/no-one-likes-bully

 Best/worst of Fox World, semi-finals

 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/26/1265358/--Best-of-Fox-2013-Day-3

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/26/1265359/--Best-of-Fox-2013-Day-3

Salon gives its top five: http://www.salon.com/2013/12/26/fox_news_5_worst_moments_of_2013/ 
 
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS

I think most viewers know that the term "reality tv" is a joke. Between manipulative editing and "characters" competing for air time by giving the producers what they think they want, it's a simulacrum. But it turns out that good ol' folksy, down-home, rough and authentic "Duck Dynasty" is an even bigger fraud than that: it's partly SCRIPTED

 http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/08/14/reality-or-scripted-duck-dynasty-stars-explain-their-show-watch/
It is openly described by its producers as a “hybrid” reality show that combines elements of unscripted TV shows with the structure and storylines most people associate with scripted situation comedies.  

On “The Today Show” Wednesday morning, Matt Lauer asked the “Duck Dynasty” cast to ‘fess up: Is the show “real” or is it scripted? The answer: It’s a little bit of both. . . . [read on]

 More: http://likes.com/media/why-duck-dynasty-is-a-fraud
Bonus item: Yep, she said it

 http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/revealing-qotd.html
I don’t worry about gifts — I love that part of the tradition! When people wring their hands about the presents, I get it, though. It costs money and sometimes people aren’t as thankful as you think they should be when you spend your time and money on them. . . .

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

PRESENTS FOR EVERYONE!

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/media-coverage-birth-jesus-christmas.html 
How the Media Would Have Covered the Birth of Jesus

 More Christmas links: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/christmas_eve_links048340.php
Interesting bit of history: the FBI once thought It’s a Wonderful Life was communist propaganda. . .  [read on!]

Sarah! never read the Phil Robertson comments she was defending

Bonus item: The 10 best segments from “The Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” this year
 
 
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

TURING TEST

You might not know who Alan Turing was: genius, logician, and World War II code-breaker. Also, victim of repressive gay laws and eventual suicide. Now he's been pardoned . . .sixty years too late

 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/queen-pardons-alan-turing-for-gay-conviction.html
Advocates welcomed the news, but said the other 75,000 men convicted under the law should be pardoned as well.  . . .

 More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Let's talk about long-term unemployment

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/10-reasons-long-term-unemployment-national-catastrophe  

Drip, drip, drip. . . .

 http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/assemblyman-says-christie-made-false-claim-about-traffic-jam-scandal
Assemblyman: Records Refute Christie's 'False' Claim About Traffic Jam Scandal

 Can Obama turn it around for 2014?

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/12/23/can_obama_turn_it_around.html

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/21/obama-2013_n_4482381.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

 It's that time of year: 2013 "top" lists

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/23/the-fixs-best-and-worst-of-2013/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd
The Fix’s best and worst of 2013

 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/least-inspiring-photos-of-2013.html
The Least Inspiring Photos of 2013

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/24/11-more-epic-anchor-flubs-video.html
11 More Epic Anchor Flubs

Of course, Fox World has a contest all to itself: weirdest "news" moment of the year

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/23/1264781/--Best-of-Fox-2013-Tourney-Day-1

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/23/1264790/--Best-of-Fox-2013-Tourney-Day-1

 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/23/1264789/--Best-of-Fox-2013-Tourney-Day-1

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/23/1264788/--Best-of-Fox-2013-Tourney-Day-1

Too late to qualify?

http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/van-susteren-attempts-explain-concept-free
You know things are bad when the incoherent babbling coming out of your mouth is even too much for Fox's Greta Van Susteren to take. Palin was back at it again, suggesting that Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson's right to "free speech" may have been violated following his suspension from the show.  

Van Susteren, who is actually a lawyer herself said... ahhh... maybe not Sarah. . .
 

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Monday, December 23, 2013

WHITE CHRISTMAS

Coal in the stocking for both parties: two polls

 GOP: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/12/23/backlash_against_cutting_unemployment_benefits.html
Backlash Against Cutting Unemployment Benefits

 Dems: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/12/23/support_for_obamacare_drops_to_new_low.html
Support for Obamacare Drops to New Low

 Chris Christie might be in real trouble

 http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/193821-dems-seek-to-puncture-christie-with-bridge-controversy

 This is almost a heartwarming story: Republican Jim Inhofe (OK) tells how the Democrats were more caring and responsive over the death of his son than his GOP colleagues were, and how this has changed his views on people

 http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/learning-empathy-before-they-die.html

 Watch: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032608/vp/53896808#53896848

 More on gay marriage in Utah. Utah!

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/federal-court-wont-stop-marriages-in-utah
 

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST

Looks like bigotry can be a smart career move: Phil Robertson and his theocratic supporters are going to force A&E to back down

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/20/showbiz/tv/duck-dynasty-boycott/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Network quiet amid petitions calling for boycott over 'Duck Dynasty' move

 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/your_mandatory_duck_dynasty_up048304.php
The Entertainment Weekly website is reporting that, to the surprise of absolutely no one, Phil Robertson, the Duck Dynasty patriarch who recently stirred controversy by making racist and homophobic remarks, will remain on the air in episodes to be broadcast in January . . 

 More: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/20/opinion/cupp-duck-dynasty/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
"Duck Dynasty" is a show about a Christian family. They pray at the end of every episode. They go to church, or school as Phil likes to call it. Phil's son Allen is an evangelical pastor. Phil quotes Scripture regularly on the show (and in real life.) They do not hide their Christianity, but rather they celebrate it. . . .

 http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/huckabee-most-christians-me-are-respectful
Fox's Mike Huckabee is very sad that everyone's picking on "good Christians" like himself and Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson. 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esq3m01DIEw
RWW News: Fischer Says America Needs "150 Million Phil Robertsons"

 Hmmm . . . so what do the Christians think of this?

 http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/duck-kerfuffle.html
Fluffer is also the name of a 2001 gay porn film that got a buzz because Blondie (Debbie Harry) was in it. But it will have a whole new life now because so was Scott Gurney, the creator of Duck Dynasty. . . . 

Of course, A&E deserves exactly what it gets. They've been having it both ways with the Robertson clan from the very beginning. There was never any doubt about who these folks are and what their views really are -- but now A&E is shocked (shocked!) when they actually espouse them

 http://www.nationofchange.org/what-duck-dynasty-scandal-tells-us-about-race-homophobia-and-media-1387554439 
The most revealing thing about Robertson’s remarks about homosexuality in GQ is really the extent to which his comments about homosexuality are on-brand for A&E. Jase Robertson told Magary that the three things his family wanted their show to be about were “faith, betrayal of family members, and duck season.” As is clear in the profile in GQ, A&E has tried to walk a fine line between portraying the Robertsons as religious Christians without spotlighting the parts of their beliefs that have the potential to cause precisely the kind of firestorm that resulted yesterday. “There are more things Phil would like to say—’controversial’ things, as he puts it to me—that don’t make the cut,” Magary writes. This dilemma of wanting part of a reality television cast member’s personality, but only the parts that will make you money, is one that faced CBS’s Big Brother this year, too, after discovering that the ways in which a number of their controversial and colorful cast members were controversial and colorful was that they were enormously ignorant racists.  

I absolutely understand the desire to make money off of either evangelical Christianity or American backwardness, which has increasingly been one of the staples of reality television. There is clearly a market for an underserved audience of religious Christians who would like to see themselves reflected in popular media more frequently. And there is clearly a market for being horrified by other people’s behavior. But it is exceptionally difficult, in a reality television context, to separate out and wall off the part of someone’s personality that is attractive and media-friendly from the parts that are less palatable to a mass audience. . . . [read on]

 What Obama can do about inequality, without Congress

 http://www.salon.com/2013/12/21/how_to_beat_gop_on_inequality_key_reforms_that_dont_involve_congress/

PROOF: Obama is a communist!

 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/21/1263231/-Saturday-nutpick-a-palooza-Ironclad-proof-that-Obama-is-a-communist

 The Sunday talk show line-ups

 http://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2013/12/21/81497/
ABC’S THIS WEEK: NSA surveillance with House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO). Roundtable: Donna Brazile, Matthew Dowd, Bill Kristol, Steven Rattner, Greta Van Susteren. “Sunday Spotlight,” Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart. [see also Santa].  

CBS’ FACE THE NATION: Former acting director of the CIA Michael Morell. Books Roundtable: Rick Atkinson, author of “The Guns at Last Light,” Michael Connelly, author of “The Gods of Guilt,” Terry McMillan, author of “Who Asked You?” and George Saunders, author of “The Tenth of December.” Plus, 65th annual year-end report from CBS News correspondents Margaret Brennan, Nancy Cordes, Major Garrett and David Martin.  

CNN’S STATE OF THE UNION: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on “getting a budget deal out of Congress, the future of ObamaCare, the chances of passing gun legislation in the next term and what he thinks of his party’s leadership in the Senate.” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL), leaders of the Congressional Future Caucus. Book Roundtable: Dan Balz, Mark Leibovich, Mark Halperin, Newt Gingrich. “We’ll also be giving away autographed copies during the show.”  

MOYERS & COMPANY: Incarceration Nation. Bill Moyers speaks with activist Michelle Alexander about the key to unlocking our dehumanizing system of incarceration, and shares a clip from a film about an ex-convict who helps women get back on their feet after prison.  

NBC’S MEET THE PRESS: Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. Then, compromising with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Also, NSA stuff with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Peter King (R-NY). Plus, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on the loss of his son and changes in his relationships in the Senate, what he has learned. Roundtable: David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Robert Gibbs, Ana Navarro.

 http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/sunday-morning-bobblehead-thread-1
MSNBC's "UP with Steve Kornacki" - Donita Judge, The Advancement Project; Wendy Weiser, director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice; Christina Bellantoni, PBS Newshour; Richard Socarides, fmr. White House senior advisor during the Clinton Administration; Mike Pesca, NPR; Stuart Milk, LGBT Rights Advocate, Pres & Co-Founder, Harvey Milk Foundation; Nick Acocella, writer, editor, publisher PolitiFax; Kate Nocera, BuzzFeed.com; Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times. -

MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" - (Guest host: Joy Reid) Danielle Moodie-Mills, Co-Host of Politini / Advisor at the Center for American Progress; Aisha Moodie-Mills, Co-Host of Politini / Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress; Dave Zirin, Sports Editor at The Nation Magazine; Debbie Dooley, Co-Founder of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots; Michael Saltsman, Research Director at the Employment Policies Institute; Heather McGhee, VP of Policy and Outreach at DEMOS; Richard Kim, Executive Editor at TheNation.com; Marcus Mabry, New York Times Lede Blog Editor.  

MSNBC's "Disrupt with Karen Finney" - Victoria Soto, MSNBC Contributor; Margie Omero, Democratic pollster; Raul Reyes, NBCLatino contributor; Ryan Grim, Huffington Post; Lee Fang, The Nation; Joe Madison, Sirius XM radio


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