Real Life has slowed things down a bit, along with some research for some upcoming posts.
A lot has happened since the last update and I hope to be a little more involved, depending on how real life goes on.
This is in response to the Paul Waldman’s extreme whining titled: Republicans are beginning to act as though Barack Obama isn’t even the president
Let’s examine what he says..
It’s safe to say that no president in modern times has had his legitimacy questioned by the opposition party as much as Barack Obama. But as his term in office enters its final phase, Republicans are embarking on an entirely new enterprise: They have decided that as long as he holds the office of the presidency, it’s no longer necessary to respect the office itself.
On twitter, the Blaze has this tweet:
Sharyl Attkisson posts this and quotes a story from NY Magazine. Here is the relevant portion (bold mine):
That October, Myers couldn’t get Williams to air a segment about how the White House knew as far back as 2010 that some people would lose their insurance policies under Obamacare. Frustrated, Myers posted the article on NBC’s website, where it immediately went viral. Williams relented and ran it the next night. “He didn’t want to put stories on the air that would be divisive,” a senior NBC journalist told me. According to a source, Myers wrote a series of scathing memos to then–NBC senior vice-president Antoine Sanfuentes documenting how Williams suppressed her stories.
I have been reading Attkisson’s stories for the past several months that document her struggles with CBS to attempt to get investigative reporting on the air. The major networks all deny that there is some bias, and even today, some journalists will look you square in the eye and deny it when you know they have their fingers crossed behind their backs. Continue reading
Starting off the week …
Lazy Sunday…
Pinup Saturday..
Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelley testifying before Congress
From the Slate:
But the big problem with the mocking argument put forth by Breitbart and the NRA (which did not return a call seeking comment) is that it misses the entire point of Giffords’ advocacy. She is not devoting herself to the cause of expanding background checks because that measure would have stopped Loughner, but because that measure is the one that police and criminal justice experts believe would have the biggest impact on reducing gun violence overall. The same was true of the families of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre: Universal background checks would not have stopped Adam Lanza, who got his guns from his mother, but the families wanted to push for whatever reform would limit shooting deaths, period. Making it harder for people with criminal records, histories of domestic violence, and adjudications for mental illness to obtain guns is one of the best measures at our disposal to do so.
Ready for the weekend..
I was reading the twitterz today and was surprised by some of the people in my feed, who “claim” to have some experience in IT, try to explain away that Hillary having an email server was not a big deal. In fact, one person was a little taken aback that a reporter thought having an email server in her own home was a big deal.
Incredibly, he called the entire thing bogus because the reporter was technically ignorant. His followers were quick to give him quite the backslap.
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