Stocks have closed sharply lower after investors sold stocks with abandon, convinced that the US and the world are headed for a new recession. The Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 527 points. (Sept. 22)
Continue reading …Chris Matthews: Obama Could Lose Because White Voters Have Higher Standards for Black Politicians
September 22, 2011 No Comment
Chris Matthews is bracing for a potential Obama defeat next November, and he's ready to lay the blame for an Obama loss on racist white voters who supposedly hold black politicians to a higher standard than white politicians. In a segment this afternoon with Michael Eric Dyson and James Peterson , the “Hardball” host laid out his theory that “some white voters” will often give a black politician just one term in office but refuse to vote for their reelection unless they do “really, really good” in office. [Video and transcript follow below, emphasis mine; MP3 audio here ] CHRIS MATTHEWS: Professor Peterson, let me ask you about white votes. Do you have a sense as you've looked at politics in America that there are some white voters who will vote for an African-American say once? And they will hold that person to a very rigorous standard. Perhaps a much higher standard than they would a white politician. And they'll give them one shot and then they'll dump them the next time. I look at this, I look at the Ed Brooke. I look at the senator from Illinois. I think about this– MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Carol Moseley Braun MATTHEWS: Yeah, Carol Moseley Braun. I wonder if this is a phenomenon you professors have looked at analytically at all, this sense of, okay, you've got your shot, but let's see you do it, if it isn't really, really good, you know, you're out of there.
Continue reading …Chris Matthews: Obama Could Lose Because White Voters Have Higher Standards for Black Politicians
September 22, 2011 No Comment
Chris Matthews is bracing for a potential Obama defeat next November, and he's ready to lay the blame for an Obama loss on racist white voters who supposedly hold black politicians to a higher standard than white politicians. In a segment this afternoon with Michael Eric Dyson and James Peterson , the “Hardball” host laid out his theory that “some white voters” will often give a black politician just one term in office but refuse to vote for their reelection unless they do “really, really good” in office. [Video and transcript follow below, emphasis mine; MP3 audio here ] CHRIS MATTHEWS: Professor Peterson, let me ask you about white votes. Do you have a sense as you've looked at politics in America that there are some white voters who will vote for an African-American say once? And they will hold that person to a very rigorous standard. Perhaps a much higher standard than they would a white politician. And they'll give them one shot and then they'll dump them the next time. I look at this, I look at the Ed Brooke. I look at the senator from Illinois. I think about this– MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Carol Moseley Braun MATTHEWS: Yeah, Carol Moseley Braun. I wonder if this is a phenomenon you professors have looked at analytically at all, this sense of, okay, you've got your shot, but let's see you do it, if it isn't really, really good, you know, you're out of there.
Continue reading …Chris Matthews: Obama Could Lose Because White Voters Have Higher Standards for Black Politicians
September 22, 2011 No CommentChris Matthews is bracing for a potential Obama defeat next November, and he's ready to lay the blame for an Obama loss on racist white voters who supposedly hold black politicians to a higher standard than white politicians. In a segment this afternoon with Michael Eric Dyson and James Peterson , the “Hardball” host laid out his theory that “some white voters” will often give a black politician just one term in office but refuse to vote for their reelection unless they do “really, really good” in office. [Video and transcript follow below, emphasis mine; MP3 audio here ] CHRIS MATTHEWS: Professor Peterson, let me ask you about white votes. Do you have a sense as you've looked at politics in America that there are some white voters who will vote for an African-American say once? And they will hold that person to a very rigorous standard. Perhaps a much higher standard than they would a white politician. And they'll give them one shot and then they'll dump them the next time. I look at this, I look at the Ed Brooke. I look at the senator from Illinois. I think about this– MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Carol Moseley Braun MATTHEWS: Yeah, Carol Moseley Braun. I wonder if this is a phenomenon you professors have looked at analytically at all, this sense of, okay, you've got your shot, but let's see you do it, if it isn't really, really good, you know, you're out of there.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner says there is no chance the federal government will run out of money next week after Republicans suffered a rare and embarrassing defeat on a temporary spending bill. (Sept. 22)
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A former biology professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings. (Sept. 22)
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Facebook has taken the wraps off upcoming features at the social media platform, including the ability to include audio content from Spotify, and video content from Netflix. (Sept. 22)
Continue reading …Joy Behar Asks McGinniss If He Has ‘Death Wish’ for Writing Book About Palins
September 22, 2011 No Comment
While CNN gave two tough interviews to Palin-bashing author Joe McGinniss, HLN's Joy Behar joked around with him on her Wednesday show. She referenced his newest tome on Sarah Palin and her family, full of nasty gossip and rumors, and jokingly asked “What, do you have a death wish, Joe?” In the previous segment, Behar had made fun of Rush Limbaugh's past drug abuse in her interview with Levi Johnston. “Your mother was selling Oxycontin?” she asked Johnston. “What's she – what's up with that? Does she know Rush Limbaugh?” Not finished with her fun, the HLN host had a laugh over McGinniss' creepy move into the house next door to the Palins. “Could you see Russia from that house?” Behar joked. In the interview, McGinniss charged Palin as a “blatant racist and a “religious extremist,” but Behar challenged only the latter accusation, remarking that Palin was barely a churchgoer – according to Levi Johnston, whom she used to fact-check McGinniss' book in the previous interview. Behar did press McGinniss over his radical stories against Palin and her family – but while treating him as a respectable reporter, not the author of a book filled with gossip and rumors. She also gave credence to the fringe conspiracy theory peddled by the Daily Beast, that prominent Republican figures are “Dominionists” and are pushing to end the separation of church and state in America. When McGinniss accused Palin of belonging to such a sect, Behar asked “how is she any different from, say, Rick Perry?” The “Rogue” author absurdly claimed that the media gave Palin a pass in 2008, saying that “the mainstream media paid no attention to her background, nobody did any homework on her in 2008, running for vice president.” Behar made no attempt to challenge his assumption, instead attempting to explain it. “Well, the media likes sort of a star. She's kind of a star.” [Video below. Click here for audio.]
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Stop-Motion Short of the Day: The history of Western Civilization as told through the changing hairstyles of women over time. [ buzzfeed .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 21/09/2011 16:42 Number of articles : 4
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As Demi Lovato was spiraling out of control, struggling with an eating disorder, self-mutilation and other issues, there were members of her team who knew that she was hurting herself, but did nothing to stop it. So, she fired them. (Sept. 22)
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